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2023.06.11 02:16 Trollygag Trollygag's Saved Issues Thread #3

A while back I started saving issues as I saw them pop up in the gun subs and if I remembered to.
This isn't a foolproof method of cataloguing because the threads can go away as accounts are closed from people leaving Reddit or getting banned, and it requires me to consciously remember to save the thread. I can recall several instances of these issues and if you read the comments, you may even find references to those issues observed around the same time as the saved ones but the original posts were lost. For example, I have 1 saved bolt failure from Aero, but I've seen this happen at least 3 other times with their C158 bolts.
Notable new entries in the list:
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But anyways, here are some issues I do have saved and can go through:

Aero/BA

Daniel Defense

Bear Creek Arsenal

Hornady/Frontier Ammo

Christensen Arms

LMT

Cabelas Brand Scopes

Cookie Cutter

Swampfox

Rise Armament Triggers

Toolcraft BCG

Radical Firearms

Remington

Remans

Ruger

Bergara

Wilson Combat

PSA

Faxon

Fake Harris Bipod

Fail Zero BCG

Superlative Arms

This one is extremely common with AGBs and I normally don't save threads about this. In a way, this is user error, but with a product that is easy to make your gun function unreliably.

Mossberg

Norma

PMC

Davidson Defense

Atheris

Chinesium

Q

BCM

Savage

KAC

B-Kings

Geissele

You can read about their performance, design, and customer service issues with triggers/handguards anywhere. netchemica has a good thread ripping into them

Anderson

I don't have a lot of threads saved though I have seen several out of spec issues.

FN

Rare breed

Sharps

Odin

Rosco

Swampfox

Tula

Crimson Trace

Arken

Franklin

Leupold

Winchester

Holosun

PVA

*Bad CS - from deltatrainer

Wilson Combat

Centurion Arms

PPU

SLR

ZRODELTA

Eotech

Trijicon

LaRue

TNTE Sales

Hodge

Lilja

Springfield

Proof

Colt

Amend 2

Wolf

Athlon

Monstrum

Sionics

McGowan

ARC

MPA

Scalarworks

Primary Arms

Strike industries

JP

Aimpoint

Freedom Munitions

S&B

Vortex

Woox

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2023.06.11 02:15 Trollygag Trollygag's Saved Issues Thread #3

A while back I started saving issues as I saw them pop up in the gun subs and if I remembered to.
This isn't a foolproof method of cataloguing because the threads can go away as accounts are closed from people leaving Reddit or getting banned, and it requires me to consciously remember to save the thread. I can recall several instances of these issues and if you read the comments, you may even find references to those issues observed around the same time as the saved ones but the original posts were lost. For example, I have 1 saved bolt failure from Aero, but I've seen this happen at least 3 other times with their C158 bolts.
Notable new entries in the list:
​
But anyways, here are some issues I do have saved and can go through:

Aero/BA

Daniel Defense

Bear Creek Arsenal

Hornady/Frontier Ammo

Christensen Arms

LMT

Cabelas Brand Scopes

Cookie Cutter

Swampfox

Rise Armament Triggers

Toolcraft BCG

Radical Firearms

Remington

Remans

Ruger

Bergara

Wilson Combat

PSA

Faxon

Fake Harris Bipod

Fail Zero BCG

Superlative Arms

This one is extremely common with AGBs and I normally don't save threads about this. In a way, this is user error, but with a product that is easy to make your gun function unreliably.

Mossberg

Norma

PMC

Davidson Defense

Atheris

Chinesium

Q

BCM

Savage

KAC

B-Kings

Geissele

You can read about their performance, design, and customer service issues with triggers/handguards anywhere. netchemica has a good thread ripping into them

Anderson

I don't have a lot of threads saved though I have seen several out of spec issues.

FN

Rare breed

Sharps

Odin

Rosco

Swampfox

Tula

Crimson Trace

Arken

Franklin

Leupold

Winchester

Holosun

PVA

*Bad CS - from deltatrainer

Wilson Combat

Centurion Arms

PPU

SLR

ZRODELTA

Eotech

Trijicon

LaRue

TNTE Sales

Hodge

Lilja

Springfield

Proof

Colt

Amend 2

Wolf

Athlon

Monstrum

Sionics

McGowan

ARC

MPA

Scalarworks

Primary Arms

Strike industries

JP

Aimpoint

Freedom Munitions

S&B

Vortex

Woox

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2023.06.11 02:04 speed7bump Pick 3 for food. (Hypothetically speaking, of course)

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2023.06.11 01:49 Patient_Evening_660 A Survival Sandbox in a "Liminal"/Empty Un-destroyed World

I hope I can explain this enough to make sense. I'm not sure if "liminal" is the right word...but this video explains what I mean and anyone who has played gmod back in the day probably knows that old creepy feeling. I think this is why there was this sense of relief when you went inside of a house or something in gmod/hl2 and barricaded the door... You didn't need to...but you felt like something was out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03yL_JCeQBI
Basically a survival sandbox kind of game where you are in some kind of world that is empty, but NOT destroyed. Something where things just feel... "off". No signs of life, yet no signs of WHY there are no life. You're just alone and don't know why... Imagine a world where everyone except for you, vanished without a single sign of distress almost as if you dropped out of time or something. Specifically this type of world but with challenging enemies or something "unnatural/strange" coming after you. Not cheap jump scare stuff...just generally something unsettling and specifically not over the top. A lot of survival games are either not-scary or take place in worlds that are destroyed so it makes sense for them to be easy...but I'm looking for something that makes you feel uncomfortable.
I played this interesting game called "urge" recently which does feel very off but also has a world that looks abandoned vs what I am talking about...
Does such a game exist?
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2023.06.11 00:49 CoachHuck When the girlfriend comes up clutch

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2023.06.11 00:36 MothmanThingy Look man, don't get me wrong but i both hate and love kind vultures, except i hate them more than i love.

King Vultures are bullshit, and that's their whole point. Actually, all creatures are purposely bullshit. Chimney Canopy as hunter made me almost have a breakdown, only reason i didn't rage is because i'm pretty chill about dying and i love challenge. King Vultures are an awesome enemy, the dodging the harpoons parts is honestly, really fun, that is if it wasn't in a gamemode where death is ridiculously punishing: Hunter mode. You are just chilling, tryna get from the SI gate to TW, and then you get ganged up by 420 King Vultures because CC as hunter is garbage. For you to have an idea, to get from the SI gate to TW gate, you only need to traverse 3 rooms, with 8 screens, simple, right? Nuh uh, hunter, you're gonna suffer, a lot. I spent 52 minutes in Chimney fucking Canopy because of them. Like yeah, they are supposed to be unfair because they don't give a shit about being balanced or fair, they just wanna nom the strawberry cat. But HOLY SHIT, Chimney Canopy has way too many King Vultures, so many in fact that it was ridiculous, i managed to get not 2, not 3, nor 4, neither 5, but 6 King Vultures in one single room (plus 1 normal Vulture, i like to call them Jerry :) ), that is absolutely nuts.
I love them, their design, their concept, their mechanics, but i think they are a little bit... you know.
(PS. I demasked the Vulture who killed me 7 times, yes, i counted, and watched them die horribly by their kin. L + Ratio. Also, i finally left the hellhole that is CC, hooray!)
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2023.06.11 00:35 RabideauPublishing Ambassador Laen

Chapter 1
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For decades, humans and a dozen other races expanded through local star systems, competing against each other but never gaining a significant enough advantage to allow one to dominate.
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This continued until the Dominion arrived. A massive ship flew through known space, indifferent to the calls of inhabitants. Making no attempt at first contact, the ship ignored all sentients in its path, passing through every battle line unscathed, and instead dropped a mining station in a white dwarf star. Shortly after, a Dominion base was established in an nearby uninhabited system.
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Confused, the humans and other races continued their attempts to communicate with the obviously vastly superior technology. Other Dominion ships came and went, often under military guard, but paid no attention to the line of ships outside their base and the sublight radio waves they were transmitting.
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Finally, the commander must have gotten tired of seeing ships milling around and built a radio to initiate contact. He didn’t say much other than introducing himself and his race, and that it was their right as Class Two species to have a Dominion ambassador if they requested one. Despite the differences between the assembled aliens, they unanimously agreed.
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A month later, Laen arrived from the Dominion.
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The ambassador from Ultrua waved his tentacles around excitedly in the drab room. On the other side, seated in a comfortable but equally drab couch, the Dominion’s representative sat trying to focus on the words coming from the translator and not the non-sensible tentacle waving.
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Laen nodded enthusiastically, trying to end the conversation. “Yes, ambassador, I agree completely. No, I can’t do that. Not even a little. Yes, as I previously mentioned—“
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His next sentence was a little more excited than she liked and she dodged a tentacle that seemed aimed at her, although the translator on her arm assured her it meant ‘slime accumulated between shower tiles.’
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“Ambassador, I realize Household Artificial Intelligence is your main export. No, I cannot authorize any trade of Dominion technology. Yes, I’m sure they’re very good machines—fine. I’ll take one.”
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She almost immediately regretted agreeing to purchase something, as the Ultruin’s gesticulations became even faster. Laen struggled to keep up with the translator.
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“Again, I can’t offer technology. How about…ah…umm…Gold! I’ll give you thirty tons of gold,” she said, suddenly remembering that the ambassador for the Achrans had promised that exact amount in exchange for a mineral survey of a nearby planet. She didn’t know what the market price for gold was in this sector, but she didn’t care. It was useless to the Dominion after they had moved to subspace quantum technologies centuries ago.
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Judging from the way the Utruin was moving its entire body now, Laen guessed he was getting the better side of this deal.
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“Yes sir, I agree. I’m happy we could come to an agreement. If you’ll excuse me, I have other duties to attend to.” She pointed to the door emphatically, and the ambassador reluctantly began oozing out of the room while continuing to jabber away in his native tongue. Or rather, tentacle.
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“Yes, I’m sure. Wait no, just one. No, one unit, not one shipment.” She slammed the door closed after checking to make sure no tentacles were still inside the doorframe.
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Laen fell on the couch, mildly hoping it would collapse and she would be seriously injured, just to bring some excitement to the day. She hated this. She had a promising career in a completely different field, and suddenly her life was turned around and sent to the darkest corner of the galaxy, just because some knuckle dragging squid who hadn’t figured out how to build nanoscopic singularities requested an ambassador.
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She recognized the flaw in her last thought just as her wrist computer buzzed again. Angrily, she slapped the button. “What?”
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The secretary recoiled on the screen, but remained professional. “Your next appointment is here.”
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Laen forced herself to calm down. It wasn’t the secretary’s fault. In fact, she probably didn’t want to be here any more than Laen did. “Already? Did my last appointment go long?”
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“I’m afraid so.” Laen wasn’t surprised. The Ultruin like to talk. Or punch. Whatever served as communication for his species.
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“Alright send him in. Or her. Or it. Whatever comes through the door.” She ended the call and leaned back on the couch again, silently willing the supports to fail.
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The door opened and a being two meters tall and relatively skinny stepped through. He seemed much more like what a proper sentient should look like. Her own race was not much different, except that she had blue skin. “You must be Laen. I am Bradley Cardot, the representative of the Human…” his voice trailed off as he saw the simple chair opposite the couch where Laen was seated, still covered in slime from the Utruin ambassador.
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“I’m so sorry! Let me get a new one.” She activated her wrist computer. “Gren, I’m sorry to bother you,” she said apologetically, hoping it would make up for her outburst earlier. “The gentleman from the Human…sorry, who are you representing again?”
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“The Human Confederation.”
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“Right. Of course. Anyway, the chair is soaked and we need a new one. Can you grab one from…somewhere?” Her voice dropped almost to pleading. She couldn’t think of words any more. If anything else went wrong, she silently swore she would abandon all attempts of diplomacy and spend the rest of the day in a hot bath.
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The secretary delivered a clean chair and dragged the soiled one out of the room, trails of slime following it. Laen suddenly had a horrible thought about where the ‘slime accumulated between shower tiles’ the Ultruins were so vehement about came from.
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Mister Cardot sat in the clean chair and opened his briefcase as the door shut. “Miss Laen—I’m sorry, how do you wish to be called?”
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“Laen is fine. It’s the only name I have, besides my social identifier number.”
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“Right. Thank you again for seeing me. On behalf of the Human Confederation I’d like to welcome you and extend—“
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“I cannot offer Dominion technology under any circumstances.” That was the first thing every diplomat asked for. Maybe she could save some time in this appointment and take a break before the next.
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“I wasn’t…I didn’t finish…” The ambassador trailed off. Laen wished he would hurry up and leave. Her professional demeanor failed and she felt her face scowl as she tried and failed to keep smiling.
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The human stared at her quizzically. “Are you okay?”
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Laen was not prepared for that. “I’m sorry, what?”
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“You don’t seem to be very happy right now. Is everything alright?”
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She stared back for a few seconds. “No, it’s ‘fine’. Everything’s just peachy,” she bit out sarcastically. “You want to know how ‘fine’ this is?”
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Bradley looked concerned, but she continued. The flood gates were open, and she was going to have her say.
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“I didn’t want to be an ambassador! I was never interested in diplomacy or politics or xenos or any of that! I’m an accountant! Do you want to know how I got here?”
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Bradley was silent.
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“I was meeting a colleague in the government center. I walked past the door to the Executive Director of External Affairs and Relations Regulations Committee’s Record Keeper’s Assistant’s office, and the Record Keeper was in there talking to his assistant and he came out and almost bumped into me and he shoved an envelope at me and said ‘there’s a ship leaving the galaxy from dock one twenty four in fifteen minutes be on it and here’s everything you need to know.’” She was almost crying as she babbled.
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The man had stayed perfectly still throughout her tirade. Laen hardly noticed as she launched into the next part. She had revealed too much, she thought. How would she fix this latest blunder? Hot tub for a day wouldn’t be enough. Not even a week. And what about Bradley Cardot? She didn’t even pause in telling him her deepest concerns. She couldn’t allow him to leave with that information. She would have to arrange an accident of some kind and get a new human ambassador. She had never killed or ordered anyone murdered before, and the thought made her stop mid-sentence.
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She would have to consider how to deal with Bradley later. While she had a captive audience, she may as well spill her feelings, even if she had to kill him later to cover it up.
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“Nobody cares. They never cared,” she said tiredly. “Do you know I had over a hundred coworkers? I was connected to the net during the whole trip. The only message I got the entire month I was traveling here was an automated mail to inform me of my job change.”
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She turned around and dug through her bag. “See this pamphlet?” She held it up for him. It was a folded paper with a pleasing yellow color, titled “So You’ve been Conscripted to be an Ambassador? How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself and the Dominion”. She tossed it to him and he broke his pose to catch it from the air. “That’s what they gave me to prepare me for this role. The Dominion doesn’t care about me enough to train me. They don’t care about you enough to send someone competent. There’s nothing you can offer them and they know it. I’m only here to satisfy some archaic rule somewhere.”
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Bradley was flipping through the pamphlet. “This says you can order a preemptive strike against Class two civilizations!”
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“Yeah, it does. Technically, beyond my presence and availability as a representative of the Dominion, you don’t have any rights at all. My contact at the Forms and Regulations for the Department of Ethical Treatment of Inferior Sentients and Species told me which forms to fill out to have any inhabited planet here glassed by the military with no questions asked, and no one back home would even blink. I could make myself the governor of all your planets and parade Dominion military ships around as long as I had the right documents to make the captains go where I wanted.”
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Bradley was oddly calm at the revelation, and continued to read the pamphlet unaware that she was still considering revoking his living privileges after the conversation.
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Laen sat in the couch and continued while he read. “Our technology is so much more advanced than yours. I’m not trying to be insulting, that’s just how it is. Our two civilizations don’t need any of the same materials. We’re only in this galaxy to mine white dwarf stars, and you’re still scraping asteroids for resources. If you didn’t try and make contact, we could have lived in the same sector for decades and never crossed paths.”
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The human ambassador nodded. “Our people have a theory called the Fermi Paradox. It’s basically what you just said, where an alien civilization is so advanced they have no interest in us, maliciously or otherwise.”
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Laen nodded. “Just a few minutes ago, I traded thirty tons of gold for a robot that changes the thermostat! I don’t want a robot! I’ll probably dump it out the airlock without opening it.”
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Bradley’s jaw dropped at the price of a House AI. “That’s quite a lot.” He closed the pamphlet. “Do you know what you need? A vacation.”
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She was about to ask what that was when he pulled his own computer from his pocket and turned it on. Although it looked similar, she was certain it was ancient technology compared to hers.
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“Check this out. This is a beach in the Bahamas.” He turned the screen to show her.
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Every hot bath she had ever had paled in comparison to the paradise in front of her. She could tell the temperature of the vista just by the reflection of the sunlight on the water, which stretched to the horizon. Never on all the city planets she had lived on could she have imagined so much wasted space.
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She could almost feel the water on her body, and had an intense urge to know what the sand would be like under her feet.
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“It’s beautiful.”
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“Come on. I’ll take you.”
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“I can’t. I have my duties to attend to, and I think I have to be impartial.”
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“Not at all. Like you said, the Dominion doesn’t care what you do. You can even accept bribes.”
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That made her pause. “Really?”
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“Yeah. It was in the manual. Page fourteen, I think.”
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“It explicitly said that?”
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“From ‘unenlightened civilizations with no relevance to the Dominion’, yes.” He opened the pamphlet and pointed to a paragraph.
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“Wow. I must have dozed off for that part. But you’ll still use this as leverage in negotiations, or something. How do I know I can trust you?”
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He looked at her with something she couldn’t quite understand. Maybe pity, or compassion. “You said no one cares about you, that you weren’t important. I’m telling you that you are important. To everyone in this sector, you are the most important person in the universe. You have the fates of billions in your hands, even if they belong to Class two civilizations. We have to trust you to do the best you can.”
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When she didn’t say anything he continued. “If you look upwards to the Dominion, you’ll find what you said is true. You and your job are completely irrelevant to them. But we, who you’ve been placed in charge of, care very much about you. Even if it’s only in our best interest.” He smiled. “I’ll make sure your trip isn’t interrupted with any diplomacy stuff. Unless you’d like some actual training.”
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She laughed. “That would give you a huge advantage against everyone else in the sector.”
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Bradley only smiled.
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Laen nodded. She knew he was just diplomatic, being nice to the person with big guns behind her, but right now she didn’t care. “Alright. Let’s go.”
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“Right now?”
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“Yeah.” She activated her wrist computer. “Gren? Cancel all my appointments for the next month. I’m going with Mister Cardot. And use my diplomatic credit to treat yourself to something.”
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One week later.
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Laen was sprawled on the beach, her knees soaking in the gentle waves while her back relaxed in the heat from the sand. She had made Bradley find the exact spot in the picture, and he assured her she was lying on the very grains of sand depicted.
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The beach was deserted aside from her, a waiter holding a half empty cooler full of beverages, and two dozen armed guards hiding out of view.
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She had no idea what day it was. Bradley had promised two weeks of uninterrupted relaxation, and true to his word no one was able to introduce themselves without going through both his bodyguards and hers. Just beyond the horizon, she was sure, swarms of boats still challenged the police blockade, but here it was completely peaceful.
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An annoying buzzing wafted over the breeze from her cabin. She had brought her wrist computer on the chance she might need it, but she hadn’t looked at it once since she got here. There was no need for any communication, as far as she was concerned. She had told her ship she would be back in touch and that she hadn’t been kidnapped and there would be no need for the Dominion to abduct another passerby to maintain headcount.
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It was nice here. She should leave the ship and set up shop on Earth. It would give the humans an unfair advantage but who cares?
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She did. She cared. Bradley was the only one who cared enough to ask if she was okay. She could care about them in return.
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Laen applied another layer of sunscreen purposefully designed for her blue skin and laid back on the sand, closing her eyes. She had almost fallen asleep when she suddenly bolted upright.
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“I forgot to give the Ultruins their gold!”
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Chapter 2
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Laen walked onto the cramped bridge of her Dominion-issued diplomatic shuttle to see the full force of the Ultruin battle fleet arrayed before her.
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The shuttle’s pilot, sitting in the chair on the left, greeted her with a wave before turning back to the controls with boredom. She couldn’t blame him. Nothing exciting was going to happen for a long time.
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She wondered what she was wearing, but couldn’t risk taking the time to look. The only thing worse than showing up in your pajamas to a diplomatic incident was showing up in pajamas and then appearing embarrassed about it.
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On screen, the Ultruin ambassador was gesticulating angrily, unaware that Laen had only now gotten up from her bed.
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It didn’t matter. The Ultruan language was usually fast and chaotic, with multiple tentacles making signs at the same time. But now the ambassador was using a very formal, very slow pattern. The movements took long enough to communicate anything that a few minutes of skimming the text logs was enough to catch up on his ramblings.
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Once she finished, she interrupted the Ultruin. “Thank you for that speech, ambassador, but there’s no need to declare war. I have your gold in an Achran bank. I will tell them to transfer it immediately.”
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She let her mind wander while the translation of the alien’s words crawled across the screen. There was a lot of movement for so little communication. It took about fifty separate gestures to form one word. Why was this language so inefficient? She glanced at the screen again and saw he was only half finished with his sentence.
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What was in the kitchen? The tiny shuttle boasted a one-square-meter kitchenette with all the amenities of a fourth-class restaurant in the middle of a random slum back home. There should be some leftover green paste, or was it the orange paste? If Gren ate all the green paste while Laen had been on vacation, she was going to have some harsh words for her.
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Her mind came back to the moment to see the Ultruin staring at her silently. After a look at the text logs, she forced her nicest diplomatic smile for the being threatening her life.
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“Again, I apologize for the delay, but surely if I add a late-payment fee to what I owe you we can leave as friends. It’s not as if you’ve delivered the AI either, right?”
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The shuttle pilot cleared his throat. Laen glanced over at him. He was pointing at a cardboard box sitting in the co-pilot’s seat across the aisle. It had Ultruin shipping labels plastered all over it like a hobo’s attempt at wallpaper. Laen briefly wondered what address they used to ship it to her shuttle in the middle of empty space.
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“Alright, so you have delivered the AI. But is thirty tons of gold really worth declaring war over?”
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The Ultruin gestured some more. Laen leaned over to the pilot. “When we’re done here, toss the box out the airlock,” she whispered. The pilot nodded.
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“Really? Wars of reimbursement are permitted for transactions over twenty thousand Konevs? And I suppose thirty tons of gold is more than twenty thousand?”
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More gesturing.
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“That’s great, but we surrender. We’re willing to hand over what we owe you. No need for hostilities, right?”
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Still more gesturing. Where had she seen those movements before? Suddenly she remembered and now she couldn’t get the memories out of her head. The Sushi place with Mark had been a disaster. First of all he was as generic as possible, without a single defining trait. And then the giant tentacle monster the chefs were about to serve somehow escaped and gobbled Mark up. At least he wasn’t able to ask for a second date, and when the Dominion army finally dealt with the monster the sushi was surprisingly good, though slightly singed. Laen watched the Ultruin and wondered if he had any distant relatives in her home galaxy.
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“Alright fine, have it your way.” She turned the viewscreen off and turned to the pilot. “In case you didn’t get that, the entire People’s Republic of Ultrua has declared war on me personally, and the Dominion by extension.”
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“I didn’t, thanks. Was I supposed to be paying attention?”
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“Nah. I was barely paying attention. So the Ultruins are just going to shoot at us for a while, and then maybe surrender. Tell me if something interesting happens.”
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The pilot smirked. “Will do. Class twos, am I right?”
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She stopped halfway through the hatch. “What is that supposed to mean?”
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He pulled his helmet off so he could turn to face her. “They’re just so dumb! I don’t know why we bother talking to them at all.”
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A wing of fighters blazed past the windows, peppering the skin of the craft with tiny kinetic slugs. Realizing the shuttle had no fighter defenses, the fighters slowly flew in front and emptied their magazines into the sitting shuttle. Inside the shuttle, of course, it was completely silent. Laen stepped back into the bridge to address the pilot.
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“There are some very nice class two people I met. Just because their civilizations aren’t as old or as advanced as ours doesn’t mean they as individuals aren’t every bit as intelligent as your or I.”
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“Ma’am, I don’t mean to insult you, but surely the Ultruins have spent more money on ammo in their little war than they could have made if they just took the gold.”
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“The Ultruins might be a special case, but this is still the action of one man. Even with the support of his government. All the others in the fleet are just following orders. You can’t apply a generalization of one individual to an entire group.”
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Megaton warheads splattered across the windshield like bugs. The glass automatically polarized to prevent ionizing radiation from reaching the passengers.
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“Alright, alright, I’m sorry I insulted your friends. Happy?”
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It was probably as good as she was going to get. “Close enough. And thank you for refraining from making that comment while the channel was open.”
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The pilot laughed. “No kidding. Do I look like a class two?” A horrified look crossed his face as he realized he made the same joke a second time. “No, I’m sorry. I just-“
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Laen smiled. “It’s fine.” She gestured to the light show outside. “Let me know when they get bored.”
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Walking back to her room, she stopped at the refresher station to check the mirror. She sighed contentedly. Sometimes, success was not showing up to a declaration of war wearing pajamas. Today’s definition of success meant forgetting to change into pajamas from yesterday’s clothing, and wearing that to a declaration of war instead.
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She would take whatever victory she could, especially because Gren had indeed eaten all the green paste and left Laen with the disgusting orange stuff.
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Bradley Cardot, the human ambassador looked surprised. “They just opened fire? Then what?”
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Laen shrugged and reached across the table for a pitcher of cool-aid. They were sitting in an empty room at a high-end human restaurant reserved for diplomatic events. Being able to order almost any drink known to humanity, Laen naturally chose cool-aid. “I grabbed a snack and went back to bed until they stopped.”
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“That’s it? How did it end?”
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“After a few hours, I had my pilot fire a warning shot through a small moon. They surrendered after that.”
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“What happened to the Household AI? And the thirty tons of gold?”
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“According to the document they signed, I returned the AI for a full refund. However, the whole thing started because I forgot to give them the gold, and the Ultruins don’t have thirty tons of their own. To process the whole transaction I have to pay them the original sum, without interest, and then they will refund it back to me.”
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Bradley was clearly questioning the mental capacities of the people involved in the surrender document.
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“It was seriously the only thing we could agree on. I was ready to give them both the AI and the gold just to get out of the talks a few hours early, but they wouldn’t have it.”
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“That does sound like them. It’s still troubling, though. You shouldn’t have been in battle. Doesn’t the Dominion have a military ship you could have called for backup?”
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“Well yeah, but I wasn’t in any danger. All Dominion ship hulls are statically placed.”
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“What does that mean?”
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Laen paused. “You seriously don’t know? As in Universal Static Positioning?”
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Bradley shook his head.
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“The molecules of the hull are in a form of stasis locked to relative ship position. Nothing except weaponry or tools designed to disrupt that stasis can damage it. Didn’t you already know that?”
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He shook his head again.
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Laen suddenly had a moment of clarity. “Oh! I keep forgetting you’re a class two, and USP is class seven tech. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to insult you-“
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“It’s fine. And I appreciate that you don’t think of us as technologically inferior. Even though we are.”
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“Please, don’t mention this to anyone. I’m embarrassed just telling you.”
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“Laen, It’s fine. I wasn’t insulted. And I won’t tell anyone.”
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The Dominion ambassador breathed easier. “Thanks. But seriously, don’t tell anyone about Static Positioning. I could get court martialed just for saying the name to a class two.”
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The Human smiled. “I won’t. Humanity will learn it the hard way when we become class seven. But for now, you can’t continue traveling through space in a shuttle, even with indestructible armor.”
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“What do you mean?”
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“The Ultruin’s thought they could win against you because all you had was a single shuttle.”
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“But there was a Dominion ship only ten minutes away, if I was actually in danger.”
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“They knew you weren’t in danger. They wanted to intimidate you. If they were actually declaring war on the Dominion, they would have gone to one of the Dominion bases.”
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“I suppose. What do you suggest?”
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Bradley smiled wide. “The Human Confederacy would like to offer you a diplomatic warship.”
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“A warship? What am I supposed to do with a warship? I don’t think even the Ultruin’s would hesitate to fight someone with one warship.”
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“Ah, but it’s not just one warship. It’s one Confederate warship, crewed by humans. If the Ultruins or anyone else open fire on you, they are not only declaring war on the Dominion, who couldn’t care less, but on the Human Confederacy as well. And we do care.”
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Laen nodded slowly. “And by riding in your fancy ship, I would also be officially endorsing you.”
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The man cocked his head to one side and smiled at her.
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She wasn’t sure what to say. Picking up her glass of cool-aid, she maintained eye contact and drank the contents while being intimidating as possible.
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Sensing her trepidation, Bradley continued. “I’m sure a Dominion equipped shuttle has every luxury Humans can’t imagine, but it must be extremely cramped on board. You can just park your ship in the hangar and take a stroll down the corridors once in a while-“
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Laen choked on the cool-aid and coughed all over the table, narrowly avoiding Bradley. She wiped the liquid running down her chin with her sleeve, abandoning her intimidating stance. “I’m sorry, did you say hangar?”
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“Yes. The ship I have in mind has a small hangar that would be more than enough-“
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“How big is the kitchen?”
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“I don’t know, probably about the size of this room?” He gestured at the walls. They were about ten meters by twelve.
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“Do they stock cool-aid?” She asked, while lifting the glass that contained what cool-aid she hadn’t spilled.
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“They…certainly can.”
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“And do they serve the food we just ate?” Bradley had treated himself to a pork roast, while Laen had consumed five consecutive grilled-cheese sandwiches.
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“Not exactly, but we can customize the menu to your liking. All on the Human Confederacy’s bill, of course.”
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“I’ll take it!”
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Bradley took a deep breath. “I’m glad we could be of service.”
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A day later, Laen was almost jumping up and down with excitement. She was trying not to actually jump, because if she had she would have knocked her head on the overhead. The Perseverance was a Human Confederacy heavy cruiser, which meant it was slower than a light cruiser and less armored then a dreadnought.
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The passageways were just as cramped as one her shuttle, they just went in straight much lines longer. But there were more open areas, like the gym, hangar, and galley. The bridge was another area with a lot of open space, but that was just to fit more viewscreens and buttons and switches.
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Her shuttle, which lacked a name, was parked quietly in one corner of the Perseverance’s hangar. The rest of her crew declined to step onto the “Human death trap” and preferred to stay in a ship that wouldn’t vent atmosphere if it hit a micrometeor going a mere quarter of the speed of light.
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The kitchen had been her first stop. It was filled with appliances and machines with functions she couldn’t even guess at, but she made the head chef promise not to start the next meal until she was there to watch. Being able to eat food with texture while being in space would be the ultimate luxury.
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Now, she was climbing through the many hatches to get to the bridge. Her first stop as commander of the vessel was the Dominion supply base, one of the two bases operated by the Dominion in this galaxy.
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“Have we arrived, captain?”
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Captain Williams turned to face her. “Aye, ma’am. We are within radio hailing distance.”
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“Open a channel!”
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She waited excitedly for something to happen. Nothing did.
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“No response.”
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“Why would they be ignoring me? Wait, did you say radio?”
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“Yes ma’am, our sublight communication is radio based.”
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“That’s why. The base doesn’t have radio equipment. Call my shuttle, please.”
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The main screen changed to show her shuttle pilot reading something with his feet on the console, ignoring the red lights that appeared whenever his foot bumped something. Seeing her on his own screen, he jumped and straightened his posture, hiding his reading material under his seat. “Yes ma’am. How may I help?”
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“Contact Commander Devrak, please, and route the call to the bridge of the Perseverance over the sublight comms.”
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“Right away.”
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A moment later, Commander Devrak appeared on the screen.
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“Yes ambassador Lon, what can I do for you?”
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“It’s Laen.”
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“My apologies, Lon. Why are you interrupting my day?”
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“Do you remember that piece-of-junk shuttle you gave me?”
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“I was ordered give you the Mark 25 model. Otherwise all you would have gotten was an oxygen mask and a pair of plastic angel wings.” Commander Devrak apparently wanted nothing to do with this conversation.
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“Haha, very funny. Well, I got a new ship! See it on your scanner?”
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“Nope.”
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“Of course you do. It’s the biggest thing around besides the station.”
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Devrak squinted at something off screen. “Oh, there it is, I mistook it for a garbage scow at first. No, it is a garbage scow. Does it even have USP?”
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Laen glanced around nervously. “Ah, no, these are class twos, Devrak. No USP for a while.”
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“Well, have fun. Somewhere far away, preferably.”
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“Wait wait wait. I haven’t even shown you the firepower I have.”
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Devrak sighed. “Whoever decided to give you firepower is clearly the worst tactician ever. Fine. What do you want to do?”
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“Just launch a training drone and watch!”
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The commander leaned back in his chair and spoke to someone before turning back to the camera. “Your drone’s launching now.”
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Laen turned to Captain Williams. “Do you have the drone in your sights?”
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“Bogey detected on our starboard bow, twenty five degrees by ten. Mass: eighteen thousand kilograms. Distance: eleven thousand meters.”
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Laen jumped up. “Main guns to starboard! Prepare a full broadside!” She didn’t know if that was proper military speak, but she had watched a dozen space pirate movies to prepare for this moment.
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The captain nodded to his crew. “Fire on my mark. Three, two one.”
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There was a loud reverberation throughout the ship as eighteen cannons fired simultaneously.
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After a few seconds, the tactical officer spoke. “Target impacted.”
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Commander Devrak, still on screen, looked bored. “Are you sure?” The drone doesn’t show any damage.”
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The tactical officer continued. “Sixteen of eighteen shells hit the target.”
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Devrak’s expression stayed the same. “The accelerometer doesn’t even show its course changed.”
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The captain turned to Laen. “Normally, against a target of that size we would use missiles or flak guns. The main guns are accurate to a thousand kilometers if we’re firing on ships our size.”
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“Thank you Captain. And you, Commander Devrak, for being a good host.”
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“Unwillingly. Good travels, ambassador. I’d hate to hear something bad happened and I had to rescue you.” Devrak closed the connection.
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Captain Williams ignored the commander. “Where to now, ma’am?”
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She pointed her finger forward. “To the edge of the universe!”
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Just then, her communicator buzzed. “Hello?”
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“Ma’am, it’s Chef Ganovich. We’re ready to prepare the next meal, if you’d still like to watch!”
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“Are we having cool-aid?”
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“Yes ma’am.”
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“With grilled cheese?”
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“As you requested.”
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“Don’t start without me!” Laen turned off the communicator and almost ran out of the bridge but turned back to Captain Williams. “Take us anywhere! I doubt Devrak wants to see us anymore!”
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The captain sighed. “Plot a course for Earth.” Under his breath, he muttered “I hate grilled cheese.”
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Chapter 3
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In a darkened room deep within the Perseverance, four crewmen conversed secretly.
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“She’s up to no good. We have to stop her.”
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“And you’ve seen how she treats the crew. She would do the same in our place.”
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There were muttered agreements as they plotted. Suddenly, the hatch slammed open and Captain Williams strode through, accompanied by Chef Ganovich.
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“What’s going on here?” The captain said angrily. “Gentlemen, are you conspiring?” The crewmen shrunk back.
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Williams raised his voice. “WITHOUT ME?”
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No one made eye contact.
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“I told you I would be five minutes late, and you’ve started without me! Were this on the record, you’d be reprimanded for failure to adhere to protocol!”
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Crewman Banes stepped forward. “We’re terribly sorry, captain. I take responsibility. We were waiting like you asked, and I just mentioned how eating macaroni and cheese a fourth time this week upset my stomach, and that started the conversation.”
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Williams nodded. “Apology accepted. Now, let’s get this started in an orderly fashion. I understand some of you have complaints about our guest. As your captain, I represent the crew to the higher ups, including Miss Laen. Crewman Banes, why don’t you start.”
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“Thank you, captain. As I mentioned earlier, we’ve been having nothing but grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese, and nachos with cheese all week. I understand our mission is diplomatic in nature, but must we suffer just because she never saw cheese before?”
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“That’s certainly a valid complaint, and one I share as well. Let’s hear Crewman Korenski.”
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Korenski looked up with an evil grin. “She didn’t sign any agreement with us, but here we are ferrying her around the sector. She’s no good, I say. You saw what she did to the Ultruins, and that’s what she’ll do to us.”
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The captain looked confused. “What, exactly, did she do to the Ultruins?”
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“You saw, in the news, with the rest of us. The battle of…of…what was the battle called?”
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Banes shrugged. “I don’t think they gave it a name. And it was in the middle of empty space, so there aren’t any planets to name it after.”
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“There was that moon. The one she gave a piercing to.”
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“Aye, though it wasn’t quite a moon. Moons orbit planets, and this object was sitting alone. It was more of a dwarf planet.”
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“Don’t planets necessarily orbit stars?”
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“Not necessarily. There are rogue planets between star systems.”
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“Really? I didn’t know that.” Korenski shook the surprise off his face and returned to scowling. “What was this rogue planet’s name then? We can name the battle off of that.”
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No one knew. Everyone took out their pocket computers and data pads to look it up.
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One of the crewmen who hadn’t spoken yet found it first. “KX-9404-&kpX_\5.”
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Korenski nodded slowly. “The battle of the rogue dwarf planet ‘kay ex dash nine four zero four dash ampersand, lowercase gee kay, uppercase ex, underscore backslash five’. It doesn’t really have a ring to it.”
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Captain Williams checked the time. “Regardless, you were saying?”
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“Right then. She dishonored the tenants of honorable warfare and humiliated everyone involved. The least she should have done is destroyed half their fleet in defense, and maybe painted some dents on her own hull to make it look like an actual battle. Instead the Ultruin commander surrendered without taking a single casualty!”
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“And you’re upset…why?”
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“It’s dishonorable. When I think about all those Ultruin sailors, returning to their homes unharmed when they should have been given honorable deaths, it makes me angry!”
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Someone in the back spoke up. “Don’t blame the squids for having better looking wives than you!”
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After a round of laughter, Banes joined in. “If you want an honorable death, Korenski, tell your wife what you tell us about her cooking!”
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Williams spoke up. “Alright, that’s enough. Korenski, the Human Confederation is not allied or affiliated with the People’s Republic of Ultrua in any way, and we do not care whether they were humiliated or not. She conducted warfare in an honorable manner as far as we are concerned, and that’s as far as you need to be concerned.”
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“Aye, captain.”
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“Chef Ganovich, do you have anything to add?”
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Ganovich cleared his throat. “As far as the food, Miss Laen appears to be a simple good hearted soul. All she cares about is watching all manner of meals involving cheese being made in ridiculous quantities. And maybe galactic domination. It’s hard to hear over the mixer. Regardless, she’s also a diplomat, and even if she demands the men stick to her meal choices, she will at least phrase it in a way that makes us feel better about it.”
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“My thoughts exactly. Does anyone else have a specific complaint?”
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Another crewman in the back spoke. “I’m responsible for cleaning her quarters. She leaves hairpins everywhere!”
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“I’m pretty sure all women do that. Anyone else?”
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The crewman wouldn’t be silenced. “And she has a dozen bottles of shampoo!”
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Williams grimaced. “That’s even less of a complaint. Is there anyone else?”
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No one spoke except the same crewman. “And you should see the shower drain!”
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“I will speak with Miss Laen about the food. The other issues are not at all relevant.” Without waiting for a reply, the captain turned and walked out the hatch.
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Williams met Laen in the executive conference room.
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“Miss Laen, thank you for coming.”
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The blue skinned ambassador was nervous. “Of course. What is this about?”
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“I’m sorry for alarming you. It’s nothing serious. I just wanted to discuss something in private.”
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Laen did not appear less nervous.
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Williams continued. “We are happy to provide whatever food you enjoy, however, the men are used to a more…traditional diet in the service.”
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“They don’t like cheese?”
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“They do, just usually in much smaller quantities. And I don’t know about your species, but humans can get constipated from eating too much.”
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Laen put a hand on her stomach. “Is that what that is? I’m sorry, I should have known you would object. Human space food is much more diverse than the Dominion’s. I was just so excited about being able to chew instead of just swallowing.”
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“I understand. You can still order whatever you want, but would you mind if the crew returned to their scheduled menus?”
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“Of course not. And there’s no need to treat me special. I’ll have what the crew is having.”
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Williams smiled. “I think you’ll enjoy it. And I know there’s cheesecake for desert.”
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CONTINUED IN COMMENTS
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2023.06.10 23:42 Metrixio_3D Another UK Import [Dodge Challenger] Does anyone know what trim?

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2023.06.10 22:47 dimdom507 Wood inheritance

Wood inheritance
Before this kind platform hopefully goes into oblivion, thanks to its management, one more question.
My father passed away recently. Only good memories. He had a well paid 7-5 job including commute. But to me, he was a woodworking magician. Nothing he could not do with wood. I still wanted to gift him a new table saw since his beast is going for about 30 years. Now this challenge seems to be made for myself. He was rather cheap on the tools. It took me years to convince him to buy a new cordless drill driver, not wanting to let go of his 25y old Makita. I loved him for this. He always made it work. His inheritance is countless pieces of benign furniture. Not my personal style. But perfectly executed. My time will come since he taught me all basics. There is time to develop my skills further, I hope. At the moment, kids need to grow a little more to give me more time besides the fact that I need to fix a run-down shed to make it into a workshop (overdue for 2 years).
The last 10 years he went a lot into woodturning (is this the correct English word? Not my first language). Amazing small and big pieces.
I gave up on most of the tools, mainly because I already own stuff that is of higher quality. Some custom made tools I will keep, even though I have at the moment no clue on what to do with them. Lol.
Sorry for the long prelude, I thought it is important.
Now my question:
I recently discovered some logs of wood he was "watering". They were sitting in a bassin, completely drained in water. I am definitely not a pro like he was. But I assume this was a long term woodturning prep. I always thought that the wood needs to be as dry as possible. Now I am confused. I don't know what kind of wood it is yet. Need to get my skills up here. But I want to preserve it.
Shall I water it further? Does this make sense? I guess so.. But I have no clue. How long should it be there?
Thanks a lot to all of you. I hope to post some pictures of my own work sometime in the future. Be it here, or somewhere else!
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2023.06.10 21:53 BrandonsBones I wanted to customize my hellcat already but now I have to, are these any good? Any places to recommend?

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2023.06.10 21:39 dragonfire0703 The Cohesive Sequel trilogy Part 3: The Rise of Skywalker

  1. TFA releases June 19th
  2. TLJ in June
  3. TROS somewhere later this year
Why later this year? This changelist is not final and can change, if you have feedback I would very much like to hear it, because it is a very difficult movie to get right. I am happy with how it is now, but its not great and many shots don't look good yet. I am also still trying to get certain changes to work, I began working on this one much later than TFA and TLJ and it is a slow process, that is why this one takes longer.
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I would like to say before you read the changelist that I kept the planet killing Star Destroyers. As much as I don’t like the concept, when removed the stakes fall flat. The second act does not feel very hopeless and everything that happens feels more like an inconvenience than a real threat. Also, going forward, everything that Star Wars will release in the future surrounding the rise of Skywalker will have the destroyers be planet killing weapons. You can already see this in the Darth Vader comics for example. We see that Palpatine's plan will be written so that it was his back up plan for years before his first death at the death star. So that is why it stays in this edit.
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Next up I have the changelist below, again, please give suggestions, tell me what you like and dislike, I will read all comments and consider everything and see if it works.
Here is my work in progress opening scene for anyone interested
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Added a new crawl, WORK IN PROGRESS, the original crawl is just awful
Added 6 new establishing shots for mustafar, slowing the opening scene down a bit, (Vaders castle, Two volcano eruptions, and Kylo Rens ship approaching) For the last shots Massive Thanks to Seize The Frame for sending me their original High Quality files, If you don’t know them, check out their amazing Fan Film here https://youtu.be/owrmLeX20CY
Added Vaders castle behind Kylo Ren as he holds the wayfinder
Changed Snoke clones to Palpatine clones
Moved the falcon scene to after the training
Moved the Leia and Luke fighting sequence to right after the Exegol scene extending it using deleted material from the documentary, this way the movie starts of ‘grander’ like the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga should, and it perfectly flows into the training scene with Rey and Leia, it also slows the start of the movie down a bit
Removed line “I’m gonna run the training course” and changed the order of the small dialogue, it feels more natural now
Removed Kylo Ren interfering with Rey’s training
Added a new vision for Rey, it is about Rey’s parents and her darkness, because that is her story this movie and this sets it up clearly
Added the falcon scene to after the training and before the falcon gets back to the base, it flows much better since they just talked about the falcon in the previous scene
Removed the chess scene, it is moved to the end of the movie
Added falcon leaving lightspeed
Removed Boolio
Removed line “Last shot maybe forever”, I honestly have no idea why Poe would say this, he is a good pilot and should be confident so if he is afraid to crash that is weird
Added a wipe to Rey reading the Jedi texts
Added a small scene showing the Falcon all in smoke, little bit less claustrophobic scene this way
Removed line “attacks start in 16 hours”, what happens in this movie can NOT happen in 1 day and it is weird to have the big final Skywalker movie play out in one day
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Removed line “It’s what you would do”, I feel like she says this because Carrie passed away, but for the sake of the movie IDK why she would say that
Added Kylo Ren’s vision to after the gang leaves the planet, this scene gives Kylo Ren a reason to rebuild his helmet, he feels guilty about killing han, he cant go back to leia, and rey refused him
Added Coruscant in the background of the First Order meeting
Removed lines “Well done and I like it” about Kylo Ren’s mask, it makes the first order less intimidating if they joke around
Removed line “That is an excellent name”, who says this??? She now immediately says Im Rey
Moved Kylo Ren finding out where Rey is to when they are in the vehicle with Lando, splits the scene up on a better point and thus slows the pace a bit
Removed Pryde looking suspicious to Kylo Ren, it only adds confusion to this cluttered movie, I want to keep is focused
Added pieces of the original much better speeder chase music
Colour graded some drone shots that look very different to other shots
Removed line “Ive seen that ship before”
Added instead two quick shots of young rey and the ship leaving
Removed line “Rey I need to tell you something”, it never pays off (I know Finn is force sensitive, but that is still hinted at without this line and removes confusion)
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Moved the joke with Leia to remove dialogue about the “I need to tell you something”
Removed line “I don’t like bones”, it sounds very childish
Added sith whispers to the dagger
Removed line “this dagger has done terrible things”, we can hear through the screams
Removed Poe wanting to shoot the snake, he should trust rey and not be dumb
Removed a shot in Ochi’s ship, because it is used later
Added voice lines to the Knights of Ren giving them a personality
Removed a shot of Kylo Ren’s approaching ship, this way it is a bit more obvious that Finn senses something instead of the audience already knowing, and it makes the “Reveal” of Kylo Ren’s ship more exiting during the extended sequence
Added trailer shots, extending the Rey Kylo face off as long as possible
Removed the explosion of Kylo Rens fighter, he can’t survive it unharmed
Added the ship leaving Pasaana as Kylo Ren watches, slowing the pace down a bit
Changed line from “And me” to “Me” after Finn asks who sits on the throne, because in the vision it is just rey
Removed the Chewie reveal, but left in the Hux and Pryde scene, Hux is otherwise barely in the movie and in this scene he shows his annoyance of Kylo Ren
Added a shot that was removed earlier of Poe flipping some switches, it makes the scene flow better
Removed Finn shouting “LETS DO THAT”, why would he say it so happily after 3PO saying it is something bad, Poe now just says “I know a black market droid smith”, and 3PO turns around
Added a transition going to Kijimi
Removed line “I want to see your brain in the snow”, silence works better
Removed lines “You were a …”, they are under fire and it is a tense moment, why is there room for banter?
Removed line “Don’t Jakanka”, it is not very funny and Poe has absolutely no authority, it also makes Rey a bit more aggressive
Moved Finn and Poe dodging Rey, now they are startled of Rey’s aggresion instead of it being a joke
Removed the interaction between Rey and Zorri, Rey now just reaches out with her hand offering peace, no cliché badass line of I think you’re okay
Added a voice line to a Knight of Ren, they look for Rey
Added a remix of the Cantina band from A New Hope to the Kijimi bar scene
MIGHT BE DELETED IN FINAL CUT Added an extended scene showing the bar on Kijimi
Removed lines about R2D2 making a backup, it is cluttering the scene for no reason removing any consequences from the movie even before the memory wipe has even happened
Removed line “Sad” from D-O, why say sad during a sad scene, we know how to feel as humans
Added a small scene with D-O and Rey and the squeaky wheel, it is one of the few moments in this movie where we slow down and are with the characters and their feelings, it is a nice scene
Changed the colour of Kylo Rens fighter from red to yellow indicating his other fighter being destroyed and this being a new one
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Removed lines “which way? I have no Idea follow me”, they now just shoot the two stormtroopers and it cuts to marching stormtroopers, they enter the destroyer with a big battle? Nobody else comes until Pryde sees the ship? Why follow Finn when he doesn’t know which way to go? It also builds a bit more rest in the movie when not every scene has a blaster fight or something like that
Rearranged the Chewie rescue to not have three people kill 20 or so stormtroopers
Removed line “Hey guys, and chewie laughing”, they are literally captured by 30 troopers and Poe was shot…
Moved Pryde telling to terminate Poe Finn and Chewie to before the Rey and dagger scene
Added Sith whispers from the dagger calling to Rey
Removed line “You are hard to get rid of”, Rey just ignores Kylo Ren now silence works better
Moved line “I never lied to you”. It’s a cheap retcon of TLJ, he now says it later in the scene and he seems more confident
Removed awkward stance after the first vision of rey during the duel
Removed line “rey, I know what happened to them” and added line “Rey, I never lied to you”, after Rey tells Kylo to stop talking
Removed the interruption of the Pryde and Poe and Finn and Chewie scene, we now have the focus on Rey and Kylo
Removed Kylo Ren asking Rey where she is again, and telling her she doesn’t know the story again
Removed line “she isn’t on Jakku”, its just dumb they didn’t find her after Rey’s mother says this
Cut a few frames to make Rey more aggressive after the second vision
Removed lines “you know why Palpatine wants you dead?”, instead Kylo ren says he has her now, Kylo Ren’s objective is to get Rey to join him so that is where his mind is at
Removed lines about Finn telling Rey something while under fire……….
Changed the colour of Kylo Ren’s starfighter to yellow
Reordered a few shots before Kylo tells Rey about Palpatine to not cross the 180 degree rule (This causes disorientation for the viewer)
Removed line “Why did he want to kill a child? Tell me”, the previous set up for this line was cut
Removed lines “you’re his granddaughter, and my mother was the daughter of Darth Vader”, we understand how bloodlines work and we are told three times in a few seconds Rey is Palpatine’s granddaughter
Added line “But”, to bridge Kylo Ren’s sentence
Removed line “and take the throne”, now Kylo Ren just offers Rey to kill Palpatine together, it’s a much more tempting offer to her now
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Removed lines “What is that? It’s the death star”, we can see that for ourselves
Added sith whispers to the dagger
Removed the dagger fitting on a place on the death star from where they are standing
Changed line “why is there never an R2 unit when you need one” instead of “Is every day like this to people like you? Madness”, we know 3PO’s memory is wiped, he doesn’t need to remind us like this, he can make a joke about R2 instead
Added more Sith whispers luring Rey to the dark side vault
Recut the Lightsaber fight, many little changes to fasten the pace, big changes are: Removed Rey and Kylo looking at the first wave while both having the opportunity to kill each other, Kylo Ren now instantly runs after Rey when she jumps, shortened Rey and Kylo looking at each other for a long time again, Removed Rey force blocking Kylo…….Most changes are to make Kylo Ren appear stronger and Rey more aggressive (thinking about adding music here)
Added the medal shot from the trailer
Moved line “I did want to take your hand, bens hand” to before healing, giving her the reason before and leaving Kylo Ren in silence after the healing
Changed Kylo Rens fighter colour from Red to yellow
Rearranged scenes to make it seem like there is more time passing instead of everything happening so fast
After Lando scene we go to ahch-to
We start at early morning on ahch-to and it slowly gets lighter indicating the passing of time
Added wipe and extra establishing shot with flying porgs, slows the pace down and shows porgs!!!
Added more Porg sounds than only one shot, now it feels like they live there again instead of being shown once
Added an extra establishing shot breaking the scene up between Luke catching the lightsaber and Rey and Luke talking
Luke’s hair is now thinner
Added another establishing shot slowing the pace down and indicating passing of time
Removed the flashback to Luke and Leia training, it is used at the beginning of the movie
The Finn and D-O scene is placed after the R2 and 3PO scene, now it feels like much time has passed
Removed Lines “Palpatine wanted Rey alive”, Palpatine wanted Rey dead the entire movie, even in TLJ Snoke wanted Rey dead, so it makes no sense to suddenly want her alive, he can change his plan now as he said to pryde, but he can not always have wanted Rey dead, now the big thing Finn wants to tell Poe is that they can get much information about Exegol through D-O
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Changed the colour of every bolt fired from a star destroyer throughout the battle from green to blue because Pride says to fire Ion cannons
Removed Finn seeing the signal transmitter before Rey enters the sith cave, now the resistance just enters Exegol first
Added Finn seeing the signal transmitter to after Rey entered the wall thing, now we have a set up and instantly go to the signal transmitter
Removed Pryde ordering to change the signal to their ship, now Finn discovers it with us at the same time suggesting his Force abilities better
Removed lines “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here”, same reasoning as before his original plan was not to want her alive in the movie and trilogy
Added voice lines to the Knights of Ren humiliating him
Cut some shots of Rey fighting the Red guards because the movie uses the exact same scene twice…
Added music during Palpatine discovering the Dyad of the Plagueis scene in Episode 3, as a callback
Made the Jedi voices louder
Added Jon h’s force ghosts during the final battle with Palpatine and Rey, now it is a conclusion to the Skywalker saga
Changed I am all the Jedi to I am a Jedi, and Recut the scene to not have it be the exact same as thanos vs iron man
Added coruscant to the victory montage
Zoomed the lesbian kiss in a bit, I feel like if you want to do it as Disney you also should have the balls to show it properly and not have it flash by far away in a shot
Added the chess scene to the Tatooine sequence, showing them moving on to the future together not just Rey
Added Ben Solo force ghosts, OF COURSE he should be there
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2023.06.10 21:16 Apprehensive_Diet_32 How to handle Strahd using his armor against the party?

I'm running CoS and we are starting to approach end game content. During the dinner, Strahd gifted his armor to the cleric, who took it without question and has happily been using it since. Strahd didn't make his disdain for clerics a secret, and during a private exchange during the dinner even compared her to his brother and vaguely threatened her (mentioned sending her to meet her God, who happens to be the God of death).
This armor has given our cleric an AC of 21. She has been absolutely thrilled with it and has been using it for dozens of sessions.
My party is extremely OP for where they should be so I've already had to beef everything up to pose a challenge for them just because I've given them so many cool dark gifts and items. I'm going to have to beef up Strahd as well, obviously.
I really want the battle with Strahd to be impactful, and I'm wondering how to handle him using the armor against the cleric. On one hand, I feel like she has gotten miles of use out of it and it would be fair play to basically take her out of the final battle and make her incapacitated. It would also be higher stakes for the rest of the party since she is the healer. They are all OP but to be honest she seems to be the most, so it would be a big hit for them and it would add a delicious layer of fear to the start of the battle.
On the other hand, it feels cheap to take her out of that battle completely without the opportunity for saving from it. How would you handle this? Would you make it take a certain number of rounds to remove the armor? Would you do a save after every turn? Have you tried something for this in the past and did it work well?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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2023.06.10 21:08 Hitch42 Audio-Drama.com links from June 4 to June 10, 2023

Audio-Drama.com links from June 4 to June 10, 2023
Audio-Drama.com is an online directory of audio drama and spoken word websites, with at least one new link added to it every day, and 100 or more new entries created each month. As of this post, there are 9,335 published articles. Here are the newest articles from the past week:
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  1. People Who Knew Me (Full Cast Drama Series) Emily Morris uses 9/11 to fake her own death and run away to start a new life in California as Connie Prynne. Fourteen years later, now with a teenage daughter by her side, Connie is diagnosed with breast cancer. She will be forced to confront her past so that her daughter will not be left on her own if she does not survive. She must decide how to explain her lies, her secrets, her selfish decisions -- and ultimately her 'widowed' husband. Everything she thought she had fled from when she pretended to die in New York.
  2. Cash Cakes and Crime (Full Cast Comedy Thriller Series) Join Addy and Rick as they delve into ancient mysteries (loosely defined) to try and find The Truth (even more loosely defined). A Fictional True Crime Podcast, starring Evan Gwen Davies as the enthusiastic crime podcaster Addy; and Hal Faux as Rick, her long suffering friend who simply doesn't want to be here.
  3. Underground Oracle Publishing (Narrated Fantasy Anthology) Fictional stories and actual plays set in the worlds of Underground Oracle Publishing.
  4. Orbital (Full Cast Science Fiction Mystery Series) In the future city of Prosperity, a technology hating Detective Shaun Tobias is partnered with an A.I. drone to solve a mystery.
  5. The Romulus V (Full Cast Science Fiction Mystery Series) When 16 year old Kourtney Truss discovers a conspiracy on the Romulus V Space Station, she and her friends must rally together to solve a decades long mystery, and save the future of humanity.
  6. Mortem Corp. (Full Cast Science Fiction Series) Mortem Corp is an anthology series written by the students in Rob Roznowskis script development class presented by Impact 89FM. Every episode exists in the same world of the "Mortem Corp. Lab" but each episode consists of different characters and is a different story.
  7. Shorthand Missile (Narrated Multigenre Anthology) An anthology series featuring short, punchy tales spiked with chapters from long form projects. A mix of noir and thrillers, mixed with the cruelties and loves of everyday life.
  8. Regina Prime (Full Cast Science Fiction Series) How much of yourself can you give away before there's nothing left to give? Regina Prime follows the search for a 21st Century urban explorer who stumbles onto a disturbing discovery while vlogging an abandoned scientific research facility. This centuries-spanning story explores the sacrifices people make in order to leave an imprint on the world, even if it means hurting others along the way.
  9. Cauterized (Full Cast Science Fiction Series) Welcome to the year 3000, a lot's changed and we live underwater. Things aren't looking good for the Galapagos Undursa following a catastrophic fire that incapacitated it 12 years prior. A band of scientists and their bio-engineered bodyguards venture out from their underwater base in hopes of finding help before something finds them. In a flooded, alien earth, they may be the only humans left. However, there's a surprising amount of music, if you know where to look.
  10. X-R-A-Y (Narrated Multigenre Anthology) Brighter than the skeleton in your body. Stories from our website read by their authors.
  11. Star Wars: Life & Death on the Rim (Full Cast Science Fiction Series) Amidst the stars of a distant galaxy, a new tale of daring and danger is set to take flight. Traversing the depths of the Expanded Universe, 40 years after the Battle of Yavin, join a cast of unlikely heroes as they embark on a journey of epic proportions, and face their greatest challenge yet. In this 7-part audio series, you'll follow our crew of privateers as they make their way across the galaxy far, far away.. Each episode features ambient sound, original soundtrack, a full-cast, and more. Strap on your headphones. It's time to take Star Wars to a whole new level.
  12. Cassettes (Full Cast Mystery Thriller Series) After her mother's death, Ana finds out her father has also passed away, and left her a country house and a bunch of cassettes. Soon, she will discover that you can't truly bury the past, and that there are legacies from which you cannot escape. Sonoro presents 'Cassettes', a psychological thriller about the ghosts that linger through generations of family trauma.
  13. The Last Echoes (Full Cast Science Fiction Series) A political science fiction podcast fueled by hope and finding meaning in ordinary moments. In the distant future, the leaders and thinkers of Kielash are offered entry into The Collected, the greatest power in the region. In search of information and hoping to make as informed a choice as possible, they enlist the help of an Archivist from The Collected Archives who guides them through a series of entries from lost and abandoned worlds in The Collected's past.
  14. The Second Storyteller (Narrated Multigenre Anthology) Stories have the magic to transport us out of our surroundings and into the wilds of our own imaginations. The Second Storyteller podcast invites listeners into a mysterious tower in the heart of a wood to listen to fantastic stories.
  15. Mind Palace Audios (Full Cast Multigenre Anthology) We make audio dramas.
  16. The Narthonia Chronicles (Narrated Fantasy Series) Welcome to the Narthonia Chronicles, [a] podcast in which you will follow the stories of 6 brave adventurers as they explore the vast world of Narthonia.
  17. Dungeon Mystery Theater (Role-Playing Fantasy Series) Let the Dungeons and the Dragons begin It's D&D Fighting' with the legends of yore
  18. Charisma Saving Show (Role-Playing Fantasy Series) Come aboard our ship as we set sail to explore the world of Ohmvelia in this Dungeon & Dragons actual-play, seafaring campaign. What tales await our chaotic party?
  19. Tabletops and Travelers (Role-Playing Fantasy Series) Join us on our quest to survive as we try to defeat dragons, delve into dungeons, and dodge death in this actual play DnD podcast, where it's 70% comedy, 30% seriousness, and 100% fun for everyone.
  20. The Storyteller Squad (Role-Playing Urban Fantasy Series) Welcome adventurers~! The Storyteller Squad is a tabletop roleplaying game actual play podcast. The cast uses the Monster of the Week game system for our first campaign. Join our group of heroic monster hunters, as they discover the magic, mystery, and fantastic characters who populate the supernatural world of our story.
  21. Candela Obscura (Role-Playing Horror Series) Candela Obscura follows an esoteric order of investigators as they use centuries of knowledge to fight back a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. The first chapter of Candela Obscura stars veteran voice actors Robbie Daymond, Laura Bailey, Anjali Bhimani, and Ashley Johnson and the story is led by Matthew Mercer.
  22. Zodiac Task Force: Lost Transmissions (Full Cast Science Fiction Fantasy Series) These are the transmissions that we're once lost to time, but have since been uncovered. What will these tales tell?
  23. Fableside (Narrated Multigenre Anthology) Come, join me by the fire, and listen to a tale... Fableside is a genre-spanning short fiction podcast delivering you stories that keep your eyes open a sliver late at night.
  24. Cat/Person (Full Cast Comedy Series) A brand new sitcom for Cat People everywhere. Cat/Person is about a broken man living under the thumb of Hobson, his relentlessly judgemental cat... Matthew is wading through his own, post-apocalyptic wasteland following a divorce so, to get him through the dark days, his friends recommended that he get himself an emotional support animal. Unfortunately, after a trip to the local Rescue Shelter, he chose a selfish, sarcastic, sociopathic cat.
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2023.06.10 20:47 ScratchGameDev BeVade VR! A new fast paced VR rhythm game

BeVade VR! A new fast paced VR rhythm game
This game is a VR game where the player had a chance to test their reflexes as they dodge flying beams in sync with music.
While the game does provide a fair amount of challenge to keep you engaged, it also ensures that players of varying skill levels can still have a great time!
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2023.06.10 20:21 UntoldTemple Patch's Cheap CHIMPS Challenge, my solution.

Patch's Cheap CHIMPS Challenge, my solution.
Etienne gives Camo-Detection. Embrittlement gives + Damage for the BAD. Maim MOAB stalling. Carrier Flagship (520) is main damage. First Strike ICBM for extra BAD destruction. MOAB Glue for obvious reasons. Jungle Drums for extra attack speed. I had $395 left to spend, and coulda got Regrow Blocker, but I didn't because I didn't want it.
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2023.06.10 20:06 LiseEclaire [Leveling up the World] - Academy Arc - Chapter 765

Out there - Patreon (for all those curious or wanting to support :))
At the Beginning
Adventure Arc - Arc 2
Wilderness Arc - Arc 3
Academy Arc - Arc 4
Previously on Leveling up the World…
 
PERSONAL AWAKENING
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Orange clouds floated on a purple sky. There had been a time when Dallion would have found such a sight breathtaking, or at the very least remarkable. Now, it was just another day in his realm. Sitting at the top of Onda’s tower, Dallion stared into the distance.
“Hey, old man!” the teen nymph shouted. “You’re messing up the look!”
If there was one person whose arrogance had grown along with Dallion’s it was Onda. The hammer guardian had always seen himself as a genius and, thanks to the Moonstone in the realm, his opinion of himself had grown even further.
“You’ve no idea how much time and skill it took to get it right!”
Funny. Up to today, Dallion hadn’t minded the attitude. In fact, he hadn’t even noticed it.
“I need some assistance,” he said, glancing down.
At the comment, the guardian froze. There was a spark of emotions within him that was quickly subdued.
“She said not to encourage you,” Onda whispered.
“Harp?” Dallion split into a few instances and looked around. “I won’t be doing anything reckless,” he said with a sigh. “It’s forging related.”
“Forging?” The guardian didn’t sound convinced.
“A while back, you said that there are more complicated things than crafting metals. I want to learn magic crafting.”
“Magic crafting?” Onda shivered slightly while saying the magic word.
“Whatever the proper term is. I know you can do it, so—”
“Can’t.” The guardian quickly interrupted. “She said no magic.”
“Seriously?” Dallion grumbled. “Harp!” he shouted in the direction of the harpsisword’s tower.
Other than a few waves, there was no reaction. Harp was determined not to meddle in his development, and that included not helping him with anything magic related, at least for the time being. After what had happened in Lanitol, Dallion would have thought that he’d be given a pass for reasonable requests. Apparently, that wasn’t the case.
In all honesty, his request wasn’t exactly safe or random. The thought of challenging the archduke’s son had made him remember the duel they’d had back in Nerosal, including the origami weapons the noble had used. Creating such a weapon would be very beneficial in more ways than one. For one thing, Dallion was considering upgrading Lux’s home. Having the firebird follow him about like a bladebow with kaleidervisto sights was starting to get bothersome.
“What about enchanting?” Dallion asked. “I’ve already done that many times.”
The nymph shook his head.
“That was temporary.”
Maintaining his calm exterior, Dallion waited for a short while longer, then left his realm. The first thing he felt was a wave of air hitting him in the face. Moments later, his senses returned to normal.
Normally, entering a realm while flying wasn’t the best of ideas, but it didn’t count while on a cloud fort. Initially, Dallion had wanted to avoid the fuss, but when the squad of furies within the cloud had offered to take them, the choice was made for him.
Aware of their emotions, he knew that the offer was extended mostly because of Diroh. While guard furies assisted mages, they rarely went out of their way to catch up to one mid flight. The rumors of her being royalty must have spread.
“You can rest a bit,” the fury told Dallion. He was a seasoned veteran who didn’t have time for all the rank bullshit. “We won’t reach the Academy till tomorrow.”
One additional day. If Dallion had continued flying on his own, he’d have been there by now.
“Any news?” he asked, suppressing a yawn.
“Where do I start? The Azures are gathering armies in the northeast. Mages too. I’m expecting a major clash in a month at most. The new archduke is also positioning her forces. Now that she’s been given the new spot, she can’t afford to mess up.”
It was tempting to crack a smile. It would be nice if Priscord got humiliated in the upcoming battle, but that was unlikely to happen. The emperor had picked her for the position, which meant that he’d back her up with some of his legions. Losing two archdukes in the same area wasn’t something that would look good.
“Lots of crimsons are also there,” the fury continued. “At least we get to enjoy the skies here for a while.”
Dallion nodded. He, too, was going to join them.
“A bunch of rogues formed a new enclave in the west. It’s out of the empire, so no one’s bothering for now. I told some of your lot that it’s a mistake. No one listened.”
“Someone will take care of them.”
The west, at least, was deprived of any presence. Only the Order was slowly spreading in that direction. No wonder the last Star had made his stronghold there.
“There’s been a few skirmishes in the southeast, but nothing major. The Alliance is keeping the Azures in check. Only minor kingdoms are poking about, trying to get themselves noticed by one of the powers.”
“Yes, everyone’s choosing sides.”
That was true and things were only going to get tougher. Settlements, cities, even small countries were quick to ally themselves to one of the three powers. Even before the war began, several of the minor players had made their intentions known. Most had allied to the empire. Now that its position was shaky, they were looking at the other options. It didn’t end with whole settlements either. Guilds and trade organizations had been moving about, going further to the heart of the empire or out of it. Even hunter dens weren’t immune.
Before leaving Lanitol, Dallion had flown by the structure out of a feeling of nostalgia. What he found was an empty lot. He had expected some of the hunters to have gone—there were many dwarves among them. Yet, the building was missing as well. A more optimistic person might have assumed that the hunters had found a way to take their den as they left the city. In reality, it had likely been absorbed by the overseer. Neutrality was a dangerous notion, especially if those proclaiming to be neutral were strong.
“Over a dozen ghost towns have formed on the border,” the fury said. “If they remain too long without a master, the wilderness will take them.”
“That’s how it usually works.”
The fury glanced at Dallion sideways, but didn’t add anything more. It was obvious he wanted to know more about the fury, just as it was obvious that Dallion had no intention of sharing. The moment of calm had given him a while to relax, and now that adrenalin had loosened its grip, less immediate concerns had resurfaced.
Prophecies, he said to himself. So far, he had heard two. The first had come from a nymph sheet acquired years ago. The dwarf hunter who had found it swore that an otherworlder would bring to the end to the world, or at the very least a substantial change. When combined with what Cleric had shared, the worst might have come to pass. It was Dallion who had made it possible for Adzorg to construct his device. If he found the final pieces, he might pop the barrier between worlds like a soap bubble, letting void creatures pour into reality unimpeded.
If there was nothing you could do, the Order wouldn’t have sent you, Gen said from Dallion’s realm. There’s no point in perfect prophecies.
There is if all you need to do is hide, Dallion replied mentally.
If you’re hiding, you’re not doing it very well.
Dallion smiled. His echo had a suitable sense of humor, even if it didn’t help particularly right now.
“What about vortex gleams?” Dallion asked.
“Vortex gleams,” the fury repeated. “There’s talk of a few out east. The crimsons will know more. They don’t tell the rest of us much.”
“Right.” Dallion leaned back in the sea iron mesh that served as a chair. “Wake me up when we get to the Academy. Don’t stop for anything until we get there, not even assists.”
“You’re the mage.”
If the flight was eventful, Dallion never got to learn about it. Over a day, he spent the time sleeping. To a large part, that was to diminish the fatigue that had stacked up in the last six months. More importantly, though, he was hoping to have a Moon dream. With the curse, he hadn’t been getting anything that might help. This time was no different, although it didn’t bring nightmares either. All it brought was a whole lot of blankness: Dallion closed his eyes one moment, then when he opened them again, he was a few hundred feet from the battle mage building. According to the armadil shield, they had been there for hours, but no one had dared wake him up.
How nice of them, Dallion thought and sat up.
The fury on guard was new—far younger than the previous one, tasked with keeping the cloud stable. Everyone else, Diroh included, was gone.
“Where’s everyone?” Dallion cracked his back. Sleeping on war clouds wasn’t as comfortable as people assumed it would be.
“Your novice was escorted into the building, battle apprentice,” the fury replied, using Dallion’s standard title. “All your things were moved to your room as well.”
“And the furies?”
“They were sent out on another cloud. Katka ordered that we leave you to sleep undisturbed, so—”
“I get the picture.”
Dallion cast a spell, rising up from the cloud. Without a word of thanks, he floated straight to Katka’s room on the upper floor of the building, then went inside. The magic symbols on the walls glowed brighter as he passed. Recognizing him as belonging here, they remained in their present state.
The moment he flew in, the room widened, increasing tenfold in size. This wasn’t normal. Katka wasn’t a fan of modifications, preferring to keep things as they were. Ironically, that made many of the Academy mages see her as a snob. In their eyes, illusions weren’t good enough for her, since she resorted to getting the actual physical thing and bringing it here.
The current modification spell had turned the room into a modern Earth corporate office. There was lots of space, full of desks, cheap plants, water coolers and a glass walled meeting room at the far side. Looking closely, Dallion saw four figures gathered there.
Just great, he thought.
The archmage was present along with Katka. The other two were silhouettes made of cloud matter and water, respectively. That meant that the entire Shimmering Circle had gathered to discuss something. Since Dallion had joined, there had been only one similar meeting. Back then, the “woman” Dallion had seen in Gassil’s memory fragment had also been there, even if no one had formally introduced her to him. There were a few more instances in which she had taken shape to discuss something with Katka. As for the last member, he remained completely unknown. Dallion was aware of his existence, but nothing more.
“Dal,” the archmage’s voice echoed throughout the room, as if he were using loudspeakers. “Join us.”
Taking a deep breath, Dallion made his way to the door of the meeting room and went inside. The conference table was large enough to hold eight people. The seat next to Katka was left free, indicating he was supposed to take it.
“This must be important.” Dallion said, using his magic vision in an attempt to see the people behind the constructs. He was able to see the magic threads connecting the forms to invisible portals, but not what lay beyond. “First time I see everyone gathered.”
The sharp look the archmage gave him quickly told Dallion to tone down the humor.
“We heard what happened down south,” the man said. “What are your dealings with the Order?”
“You know I can’t tell you that,” Dallion said calmly. “Moon vows and all that.”
“Convenient.”
“What I can say is that the Azures tried to take out the archduke.” There was a moment’s pause. “And myself.”
“You were targeted?” Katka asked, more surprised than intrigued.
“I guess Grym is still mad at me for last time. They managed to put echoes in a lot of the people at the banquet. Most of them were normies, but there were a few awakened… as well as the local mage.”
“We know,” the archmage said. “Would have been nice to bring one of them alive for questioning.”
“Wasn’t my fault. The archduke absorbed all the evidence. I did manage to get the mage’s robe, though. If there’s anything to be learned, I’ll find it.”
“Such a marvelous ability,” the cloud woman said. “Sometimes you make me envious.”
“That’s not why I called for this,” the archmage hissed. “A messenger arrived from the emperor himself. The vortex gleam that was spotted not too long ago wasn’t the only one. As it turns out, it’s only a drop in the bucket. There have been twenty-seven confirmed sightings, but unlike the last one, the levels are much higher.”
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2023.06.10 20:05 SimonBRUH8217 Predicting/booking the next 5 WWE World Heavyweight Champions!

Current Champion: Seth Rollins
1: Drew McIntyre(SummerSlam 2023)
After a successful defence against Finn Balor at MITB, Drew McIntyre finally returns to WWE seemingly to help Rollins fend off an attack by the Judgement Day... ONLY TO BLAST SETH WITH A CLAYMORE!!! Drew turns back to his psychopath heel persona, and proceeds to BRUTALIZE the Visionary with two more countdown-less Claymore kicks, and for even more vitriol, hits a cash in attempting LA Knight with a kick as well, leaving EVERYONE furious!
Drew explains his actions by saying that in his time away he nearly left WWE, but now he is on a mission to punish those that stole away his stardom and attention after he spent the entire pandemic carrying the Raw brand on his back as champion, and having his moment ripped away from him time and time again over the last three years. Rollins is emblematic of stealing the spotlight, and he needs to humble him to reclaim his spot as the Scottish Warrior. Seth goes into the feud playing up the mind games, claiming that Drew is lucky that his title run happened in front of no one cause all he has done since then is choke over and over again and proven that he couldn't handle it now. The mind games prove to harm Rollins in the end as Drew DEMOLISHES Seth in a very one sided affair minus some comeback spots from Seth. Drew hits a claymore, followed by a stomp of his own, and one more claymore to the back of the head and ends Rollins' run on top.
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2: LA Knight(YEAH!)(Royal Rumble 2024)
Drew maintains his grip over the Raw roster through his sadistic means of winning all the while reminding the crowd that he made a hypocrite out of Seth Rollins and sent him packing to Hollywood cause he couldn't handle the loss. He feuds with Sami Zayn, Matt Riddle, even Sheamus in an interbrand feud over the fall, heading into the new year with a fresh face in the now babyface and (hopefully) very over Damian Priest. Drew challenges Priest to remember the beast he had inside of him during his run with the Judgement Day, or else he'll be no different to the younger version of Drew.
At the Rumble, it looks as though Priest might just grit his way to becoming champion, so much so that it takes a kick below the belt preceding a Claymore for Drew to barely retain... But Priest ain't having that shit. He drags Drew outside of the ring and sends him South of Heaven straight through the announcers table! He rolls Drew back into the ring, kendo stick in hand, until WAIT, ITS LA KNIGHT!! Knight rushes down and clobbers Priest with his MITB briefcase, trash talking Drew as he announces his cash in, dodges a Claymore and plants Drew with the BFT to become the NEW CHAMPION, YEAH!!!
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3: Damian Priest(Backlash 2024)
Knight changes the pace to an insufferable trash talker heading up Raw, claiming that this year at WrestleMania he will get the "LA Knight moment" that he promised would happen at last year's event, and that there ain't a damn thing anyone can do to stop it... And he backs up his words! He barely escapes the Elimination Chamber with his title in tact, before retaining once again at WrestleMania in a Fatal 4 Way including McIntyre, Priest and the recently returned Seth Rollins after snagging a surefire pinfall victory for Priest and escaping once again.
After this, Priest confronts Knight saying that he's a new star, but his age is against him. He doesn't have as much time as he would like, and that he wants to make a new star making memory for himself. The only way to do that is to take the World Heavyweight Championship at Backlash, returning to Puerto Rico once again after last year's successful event, in a San Juan street fight. Knight agrees to the match stating that there isn't gonna be anything better than gifting Puerto Rico their own "LA Knight moment" at Damian's expense. After a wild match throughout the crowd, Knight tries to walk out on the match... AND BAD BUNNY MAKES A SURPRISE APPEARANCE!!! He nails a Canadian Destroyer on Knight on the outside of the ring, rolls him back into the ring stumbling directly into a South of Heaven through a table!! Priest pins Knight, becoming champion one year after a crushing defeat, and lives forever among his people.
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4: GUNTHER(SummerSlam 2024)
Priest is finally a world champion in WWE, and in becoming that he feels the need to up the ante on his matches. With each title defence he becomes more and more reckless, doing crazy spots that pop the crowd but slowly chip away at his physical health. He goes through brutal wars with Ciampa, Sikoa, Dunne, Waller, even his old Judgement Day compatriots in a triple threat ladder match at MITB, but after he is victorious he is confronted by the new rulers of Raw, IMPERIUM. After ending Brock Lesnar's career at WrestleMania and vacating the Intercontinental Championship after doing so, GUNTHER made a promise that before 2024 ends, all of IMPERIUM will be adorned with gold to prove that they are "saving" wrestling. Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci conquer DIY at WrestleMania to become tag team champions, and new member ILJA DRAGUNOV(who joined in fall 2023) takes vacated IC title after it is vacated, keeping it within the group. GUNTHER refers to Priest's antics in his matches as "childish and embarrassing" and that after SummerSlam, Raw will finally have a world champion that other athletes could aspire to have. Priest responds that no matter how broken his body might be, his need to keep living on as champion will push him to be the one to slay the general with an arrow to his heart.
However, GUNTHER proves to be too efficient, too good, and too unstoppable. He picks apart Damian's body as the match goes on, finally finishing him off with a flurry of powerbombs, before locking in a brutal Boston Crab which Priest taps out too. As the show goes off the air, all members stand at the top of the ramp... and Dragunov sneaks one glance at the world title just before the screen goes black.
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5: Ilja Dragunov(WrestleMania 41)
Over the next 8 months, the philosophy of GUNTHER and his stablemates slowly becomes more and more vicious. Given Dragunov's infatuation with pain, this is initially a match made in heaven... Until Dragunov loses the IC title to Bronson Reed. GUNTHER takes a peculiar interest to his old rival, and tries to "make him stronger" by dealing out beatings to Ilja every single time he loses a match. Ilja is struggling within himself, coming closer to bigger matches but always failing and having the "weakness" beaten out of him. All the while GUNTHER's over 2 year long unbeaten streak continues, as he goes on to conquer some of his old foes from NXT to make himself stronger like Tyler Bate, Tomasso Ciampa and Pete Dunne. Whenever asked about Ilja challenging, he brushes it off. In order to prove himself worthy, Ilja enters the 2025 men's Royal Rumble from number 1 in an attempt to recreate GUNTHER's incredible performance from 2023. He makes it damn near to the end, tossing out many, getting the crowd behind him... Before the rest of IMPERIUM finally betray him, dragging him over the top rope. The next night on Raw, GUNTHER berates Ilja for his "ego" getting in the way of everything HE has created and done for wrestling. He demands that Ilja take a beating as punishment, and goes to chop him... BUT ILJA CATCHES HIS HAND!! He blasts GUNTHER with a headbutt and attempts to fight back but is overwhelmed by Vinci and Kaiser and absolutely decimated by GUNTHER, to the point that even his comrades are baffled at the severity of it.
Ilja knows what he has to do, and he enters the Elimination Chamber match to get a shot at GUNTHER for WrestleMania, in an attempt to "reclaim his life" after he forgot who he was for so long. GUNTHER is "sickened" and sends Vinci into the chamber match to try and stop Ilja from winning, keeping Kaiser in his corner for his title defence against Dragon Lee! Ilja overcomes the odds and straight up Goldbergs the chamber, ending up eliminating EVERYONE in the match! GUNTHER retains his title and the match is finally set, the trilogy concluder nearly 4 years in the making, GUNTHER finally relents on the final Raw before Mania and says that his loss to Ilja has haunted him ever since it happened, and that his sadistic streak has been all to prepare for his chance to rectify his decisive loss to the man who may just have his number. He claims that he must send Ilja back to his family a broken man, or all his fighting will have been for nothing. Ilja claims he isn't going anywhere unless he takes GUNTHER down with him one last time, and that if he dies in the ring, he'll do it with the World Heavyweight title around his waist.
After a near 40 minute all time classic, both men beating the absolute shit out of each other for their own pride. Ilja climbs the mountain one last time, brutalizing GUNTHER until he can barely stand. He tells Ilja "COME ON, I'M READY FOR IT!" Before taking one last Torpedo Moscow, and Ilja finally defeats GUNTHER, celebrating with his family as the show goes off the air. LONG LIVE THE CZAR.
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2023.06.10 19:18 CFUsOrFuckOff Why Ukraine is the turning point for humanity and what must be done

This is not a political position, but a thermodynamic one. The world is heading from a time of excess to a time of scarcity. With more people enjoying fewer comforts, humanity is faced with the direction it takes for the rest of our species' future on this planet and others: we can't fight each other for what's left or we can share with each other what we need.
This isn't - or has never before been - a serious question because this world has never felt universal hardship before. In the past, when any major scarcity was faced (with the exception of 536) there was always a neighboring ally to buffer the loss or an enemy to subjugate; until now, there has always been more. Climate change is a global pressure on a globalized economy. There are no external economies that are thriving to prop up the luxuries we've come to feel entitled to. When that luxury can no longer be provided, people are trained to blame each other and ask for the boss to complain about our level of service.
This is the attitude fueling the shift to the right "all this liberal 'science' bullshit has turned my country into a place i dont recognize. Time to get my country in order!", but like how the long term side effects of COVID will be blamed on the vaccine rather than the virus, humans are apparently hardwired to look for a person or institution that's responsible for their problems, because they live in a world that's manifestly run by humanity. Politicians don't help with this because they promise change that a large bureaucracy isn't capable of... every time they step in front of a mic. Politicians feed the sense that the world is divided into teams and the team that's running things is doing harm. They are the anti-vax evangelists of a world simply running out of good time as a result of spending all the good time since the end of WWII.
Humanity cannot fly. That shouldn't be arguable. It's a fundamental limit of our physiology that cannot be overcome without shedding everything about us that makes us human; brains are heavy. When we get on a plane, we are not 'flying', we are taking a bus full of people, strapping a rocket engine to it, and firing it in a ballistic trajectory toward our destination. For all the celebration of progress in the tech age, we still can't figure out how to move something forward without throwing something out the back. That's not just why planes are absurd but why they cannot continue to be considered a good invention. Think of how much fuel would need to be burned to rocket yourself across a lawn, let alone through the sky; it's an insane amount of fuel and an absurd justification for burning it, especially virtually all domestic travel can be accomplished by rail or bus... which also use the same principle of throwing out enough exhaust gasses out the back to displace the weight of the thing that's burning the fuel. When this thing is on the ground, it burns much less fuel than pushing it through the sky.
Humanity assumes novelty is benign. Im not sure if this is one of the hidden rules about capitalism that we all follow as a culture "have you seen the new x!? It's amazing and works way better than x-1!", or if we're evolutionarily programmed to assume new is good and the direction we should be heading in. In either case, it has allowed us to adopt planetary destruction as a necessary aspect of each of our lives. It isn't anything we do consciously, it is the background of our lives that feeds big industry and steals time from the future. It's our commute, our food, our total acceptance that running a furnace is fine despite getting all worked up about oil spills and fires when we see them uncontained. The maze we all run was designed to have as much distance as possible between you and the cheese at the end so you would spend half or more of your cheese burning calories to get from the start to the finish and repeat all over. It is why people feel the problem is too big for them: there is nothing one person can change in the part of the life they control that will redirect the planetary system away from collapse because it is the pattern of our lives that is the destructive part.
Since our shared pattern is so destructive, it is self limiting. We are feeling the effects of that now with COVID (forests being pushed toward ecological breakdown leads animals to look for new territory and new food, leading to conflict with species already there and malnutrition from food with an incomplete nutrient balance), extreme weather doing damage to vital infrastructure and shipping losses.
Which brings us back to Ukraine. The world needs a beacon. A Western country with the courage to model a sustainable lifestyle through active change. I assumed that would have been Canada but I was wrong. Instead, with Ukraine being forced to rebuild in a time where supplies have never been more expensive, and in a state where its people have gotten used to living without luxury, it can either be an incubator for redesigning human life to restore the environment rather than destroy it.
There is no stronger people to take on such a challenge and the world that has been paying for weapons to defend. If we can send explosives to break, we must send hands, tools, and materials to rebuild. If we rebuild the same way, the world will fall into war since the causal push of all existing conflict is space and resources or their control, and we will continue to pretend that individual human choices are to blame for war. We will continue to refuse to look deeper and will soon find ourselves in a position where taking up arms seems like the only solution left to us. If, on the other hand, the rest of us find the courage to look one step deeper and ask "why is the world falling to war? What is driving conflict?", we will see it is the same thing driving our thirst for more luxury and, hopefully, realize that the only survivable path to the future is one where we change our behavior to relieve the force that's pushing us in that direction.
When more is never enough, less is a horrifying concept. Without a model for how to happily live as a human in a self sufficient community, there will be no "green transition", there will only be more disease, more scarcity, and more conflict on the edge of that scarcity. The more each of us takes, the more we contribute to conflict around the world.
There is no way to make a car "green", just like there is no way to make a compostable battery. The problem isnt the means of conveyance, it is the distance we need to cover to survive. Whether or not we change our habits to adapt to this reality is inconsequential to its eventuality, it just seems absurd to ignore the reality of hardship until you're being strangled by it simply to "enjoy the time you have left".
If the war in Ukraine ends and the world moves in to turn it into the first net zero country, there is hope for a future for our species. If we act like everything was fine until a mad man decided to invade a sovereign country, war will spread like a fog descending on the world. Demands will be met by force as a result of people pushing for impossibly cheap access to resources. Slavery will return as the foundation of the global economy and, in all this horror, we will be hastening and worsening our own conditions.
Like a train whose tracks go over the grand canyon, humanity needs one last train stop to see what it looks like to live somewhere other than a train at constantly increasing speed. We need a model for a future that is too nebulous to explain: it must be seen and experienced, how much living can be done as humans on and with the land. If nothing else but to illustrate that a train going over a cliff was not a predetermined consequence of "human progress", and that a choice has been made to define that progress with the inventions of a few men, all of which run by stealing energy from the past and stability from the future. It would allow us to see the train from the outside and force us to question the value of a murder-suicide pact.
For the demonstration to be compelling, there can be no or very little carbon footprint for the country. Structures must be built from salvaged (cheap) material, focusing on isolated but functional communities.
We have already lost the battle to save most of what we recognize in our world but we don't need to continue to burn it all down. Since there is no more track for this paradigm, there is no consequence for trying something new and certain death and misery by doing the same. This message can be shared in every possible way, but without a demonstration of what it looks like on a cultural level, we will never have the discussion that leads to the choice to keep going or get off the death train.
We are not the creations or technology we obsess over, we are an ape descended species on a planet we're stuck with and have killed 80% of in 50 years. We cannot survive on a lifeless world because we are alive and life feeds on life to survive. I have a hard time getting people to relate to the rest of the living world as a branch of the same tree we belong to because of how separated we are from other life. The more life that's lost, the less we'll care about it being gone and the more committed we will be to our preoccupations to avoid having to face reality.
The cowardice ive encountered when it comes to facing reality has been incredibly disappointing and disturbing. We will pass laws in our country to prevent poaching and hunting in other countries where our emissions and lifestyle -guided by our laws- are pushing the same animals to total extinction. We will talk about this from a position of moral superiority, only, and will take no responsibility for the conditions our behavior has already created. There is no "border crisis", there are people being pushed out of their homes by new weather that has made those homes incompatible with survival. I've heard lots of Americans talking about moving north in response to climate shifts as if that is something completely different from what is happening on their southern border or in Europe. No one leaves their ancestral home to cause problems in another country, but if that country is responsible for the force that pushed them out, they should either stop pushing people out of their homes or open their borders. To refuse either is to accept that you live a life of evil and as the person that will one day deny you shelter to protect what they have.
These a new times with new stakes and new bad guys. The only good thing about being the bad guy is you can choose to stop, while your victims can only beg you to stop and, eventually, resist/insist on a different course. It is up to each and all of us how the future plays out. The party is over. No one gets to sit this out.
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2023.06.10 17:52 Intelligent_Guest_74 Cheap dodge chargers

So I have been non stop scrolling on face book market place for dodge chargers across the country. Every time I search within the regions near Dallas, Detroit, Nashville, and Atlanta I find T’s that are under 20k and scats that are under 30k. Are these stolen or simply cheap because of the market in their state.
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2023.06.10 17:46 Gunther__Lauch Street View journey visiting every Premier League Football Stadium final part! (AFC Bournemouth - Fulham FC

Part 3:
Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth - St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton - American Express Community Stadium, Brighton and Hove - Selhurst Park Stadium, London - Stamford Bridge, London - Wembley Stadium, London - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London - London Stadium, London - Emirates Stadium, London
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AC Cobra 427 replica London, 2012
https://goo.gl/maps/KWJC16n6fYQeLKik9
Sick trailer with some foreign registered cars from Monaco, Italy etc! M23, 2015
Alfa Romeo Giulia GTV Junior - Citroen DS21 - Jaguar XK120 FHC - Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 - Maserati GranTurismo Sport
https://goo.gl/maps/vSDvjiMyoVEh4zheA
Alpina B3 S E46 M27, 2017
https://goo.gl/maps/oFbN6B6BgURL2H977
Aston Martin DBR2 replica with a DB4 GT gearbox & DB4 GTS specced engine!! M23, 2012
https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1957-aston-martin-dbr2-re-creation/
https://goo.gl/maps/DVHzPpU1wFWtsMNaA
Aston Martin DB7 Volante Southampton, 2017
https://goo.gl/maps/6g27GjtEeRE4RN5g7
Aston Martin DB9 Bournemouth, 2015
https://goo.gl/maps/5gvKbnAszaDQrVhb6
Aston Martin DB9 Brighton, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/8E9jRVHSHgT31vwz9
Aston Martin DB9 Volante London, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/8um9sNHawkipbZzC9
Aston Martin DB9 GT A31, 2021
https://goo.gl/maps/BdFEav95T9LeEKdt8
Aston Martin DB9 GT Volante A27, 2022
https://goo.gl/maps/MNRTXQchSmjQenD28
Aston Martin Vantage 2005 London, 2012
https://goo.gl/maps/qbT2tdQ3PxV5v7mj7
Aston Martin Vantage S Croydon, 2016
https://goo.gl/maps/n9LdmJPbpUvuEyob9
Aston Martin V12 Vantage S! London, 2020
https://goo.gl/maps/muguqih7JaK56RED6
Aston Martin Rapide S London, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/isbVyMaJmH2ejatv8
Audi R8 Typ 42 M27, 2015
https://goo.gl/maps/hgyzFgwMs2xujz8h6
Audi R8 Typ 42! Arundel, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/Xe7zFAznyGjhFwzU6
Audi R8 Typ 42 Spyder Southampton, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/oFhi7hG6EPLnDYCj6
Audi R8 Typ 42 V10 Croydon, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/BTX8TsPKsN9NAur69
Audi R8 V10 Plus 4S Brighton, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/wpUbDqp868gfMZCV6
Audi R8 V10 Spyder 4S Southampton, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/qLysxFhaLL8bvvK58
Tuned Audi RS6 C8 Bournemouth, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/MDivuR4LoJazu53DA
Bentley Continental GT II A23, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/YzBvHHHunShi94HG8
Bentley Continental GT ii A27, 2022
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Bentley Mulsanne A406, 2017
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BMW M4 G82 London, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/jdNe4hSwUMXQFZKA7
Corvette C3 Stingray London, 2022
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Corvette C5 Stingray Southampton, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/zFVAddnrXuTjwiEs7
Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody & Challenger R / T Widebody A40, 2022
https://goo.gl/maps/beFxj9GiBedi3hXA6
Ferrari F355 Berlinetta M27, 2017
https://goo.gl/maps/YVdXiaFS3dU9k6n98
Ferrari 458 Italia A406, 2015
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Ferrari 599 GTB! A406, 2017
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Ferrari 599 GTB! Bournemouth, 2020
https://goo.gl/maps/oxBLMtHJwvad4QoZ9
Ferrari 812 Superfast! A23, 2021
https://goo.gl/maps/UhwYuGQNivV4Spux9
Ford Mustang Fastback "Bullitt" 1967 A27, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/we6oNDVufUsTHAMeA
Jaguar F-Pace SVR Brighton, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/BUwdC9tLAUmQRX5LA
Lamborghini Aventador S & Aventador S Roadster LP740-4 combo! Croydon, 2020
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Lamborghini Hurac´án LP 610-4 London, 2015
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Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 Croydon, 2017
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Lamborghini Urus A27, 2019
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Lamborghini Urus Walberton, 2021
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Lamborghini Urus London, 2022
https://goo.gl/maps/dVZbkniQpZkdz3fC8
Lotus Elan M100 A338, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/MeMrDZCGFXYt2YET6
Lotus Elise S2 Brighton, 2018
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Lotus Evora M27, 2016
https://goo.gl/maps/BkfJ6uJrFUNhVDfs8
Lotus Exige Sport 350 S3 Chichester, 2021
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McLaren 570S Spider! A23, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/mu4apm1S1tLW5g2v7
McLaren 12C London, 2015
https://goo.gl/maps/Hs2G8YusbyH6QSPP6
Mercedes AMG GT C190 A406, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/nKwMR48jS8BU9mVG6
Mercedes AMG GT C190 London, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/x6J5vB2aDozkmBeG8
Mercedes S63 AMG A217 M271, 2017
https://goo.gl/maps/WCJaqMdUMRibUacf7
Nissan GT-R Nismo 2016! M27, 2020
https://goo.gl/maps/UiocumdgD3neVRoS9
Porsche 911 F-Modell A31, 2011
https://goo.gl/maps/hgkiuiTjrw9cJ76V9
Porsche 911 S 2.7 F-Modell M23, 2018
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Porsche 911 S 2.7 F-Modell! A31, 2021
https://goo.gl/maps/HupzozPQxqStu9jn8
Porsche 911 G-Modell M23, 2012
https://goo.gl/maps/1WZYugRnUPCLomCV7
Tuned Porsche 911 G-Modell A27, 2014
https://goo.gl/maps/3aAniM29bLhk6XNm9
Porsche 964 Cabrio Slantnose conversion! A40, 2014
https://goo.gl/maps/pXJMBi1WKJbVimF39
Porsche 911 Turbo 996.2 London, 2015
https://goo.gl/maps/s3ZpLMVDagi4QyhY6
Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS 991.2 Southampton, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/JVzCvuSETazp8jbV7
Porsche 911 GTS Cabrio 992.1 Croydon, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/TqwF87WmsqUyVQRy6
Porsche Cayman GT4 981! Clapham, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/qZZzxNFRKXFR1Qaz7
Porsche 968 Cabrio A27, 2021
https://goo.gl/maps/FHxCw5Mv4fmP9KS5A
Rolls Royce Cullinan Worthing, 2023
https://goo.gl/maps/MbB5R3Hz2wbmenSC8
Rolls Royce Cullinan Black Badge London, 2020
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Rolls Royce Phantom VII London, 2012
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Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II A338, 2018
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Rolls Royce Wraith Croydon, 2019
https://goo.gl/maps/cvZNJFxbFcw6WGtFA
Factory Pink Rolls Royce Wraith! A27, 2022
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Toyota Supra A80 A27, 2009
https://goo.gl/maps/VjYYBEwodC8EZj4s6
TVR Chimaera M27, 2012
https://goo.gl/maps/WY9P9LTRpc4m6F4PA
TVR Chimaera London, 2016
https://goo.gl/maps/dxqnSUA1AYZeJ9Bq6
TVR Tamora London, 2018
https://goo.gl/maps/7hWG83HgA2ig8SmV6
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The Stadiums:
St. Mary's Stadium - Southampton FC
https://goo.gl/maps/U69jrdkUZeCdkz5T8
American Express Community Stadium - Brighton and Hove Albion
https://goo.gl/maps/enWfMWnLgy9mt36s7
Selhurst Park Stadium - Crystal Palace
https://goo.gl/maps/zVA3BRkCdH97Gt8b9
Stamford Bridge - Chelsea FC
https://goo.gl/maps/1vWAzLdVxB565cUq7
Wembley Stadium - England National Stadium
https://goo.gl/maps/GJK6ngKonAxXQphP7
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Tottenham Hotspur
https://goo.gl/maps/2kyb7CzEXRSujnss6
London Stadium - West Ham United
https://goo.gl/maps/CYrZxz1YuBFy1Xht6
Emirates Stadium - Arsenal FC
https://goo.gl/maps/cLg4HwuYoUbMfAwP8
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The route I'm taking:
Fulham - Liverpool
Liverpool - West Ham
West Ham - Fulham
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Part 1
Part 2
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1571 km distance
300 spots
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2023.06.10 16:30 khoafraelich789 Off-Road Comparison: Ford Bronco Sasquatch vs Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Xtreme Recon

Off-Road Comparison: Ford Bronco Sasquatch vs Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Xtreme Recon
Jeep and Ford take different approaches to 35" off-road packages, each with specific strengths.
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Elle Alder: Jeepers creepers, look at that Bronco! We’ve got a mightily rubbered matchup today, mates. Before us are the Ford Bronco Badlands Sasquatch and the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Xtreme Recon 392. Riding 35” tires, big suspension, and uhh, ‘comparable power,’ these off-roaders represent quite nearly the most capable of their breed.
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Clayton Seams: Nearly, but we are short one carnivore: the Ford Bronco Raptor. The muscled-up Braptor was not available to pair up with the Wrangler 392, so we’re making do with the still-incredibly capable Ford Bronco Badlands Sasquatch. The ‘Squatch can’t match the big Raptor for high-speed off-roading or acceleration, but it’s a closer rival to the Jeep Rubicon — or it would be, were it not for the badge on the Jeep’s hood that says “392”. Those three little numbers make a very big difference.
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EA: Very big. Converted from cubic inches, the big Jeep’s V8 measures 6.4 litres displacement. It’s straight off-road muscle, but fortunately for Ford, this comparison is really about the platforms beneath. The arrival of the new Bronco has unquestionably challenged Jeep’s trailhead throne, and the big question is how the two match up on road and trail.
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Assessed as equals, these rigs offer similar but distinct skill sets at a similar price point. The V6-equipped 2023 Ford Bronco Sasquatch comes in from $72,189 with destination, or $74,289 as tested. A V6-powered 2023 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Xtreme Recon arrives from $67,480, from $78,495 configured with the good stuff, or a mighty $116,890 for the tested 392 V8 with one-touch power top and all of the goodies.
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CS: Mechanically, the largest difference between the two is the front suspension. Jeep famously hangs a solid front axle under the front of every Wrangler and Gladiator, while the Bronco uses an independent front suspension setup. Out back, both use burly live axles and coil springs. Both of these are real 4x4s built largely in the traditional way with body-on-frame construction, two-speed transfer cases, and are specced up with huge 35” tall tires. Underhood, the Bronco can be specced with a turbocharged 2.3-litre inline-four (the one to have), a 2.7-litre twin-turbo V6 like our tester, or the top-dog 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 that you only get in the Raptor version.
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EA: Jeep’s modern reputation was built on six naturally aspirated cylinders, and the available 3.6-litre Pentastar V6 — by no means a powerhouse — is plenty of power for the platform. Its 285 hp and 260 lb-ft bounce and crawl with a reputation for reliability and serviceability, making it an entirely respectable path. Standard today is a 2.0-litre turbo-four producing 270 hp and 295 lb-ft, an efficient commuter for the lifestyle crowd but perhaps not to the tastes of NA traditionalists. Manual transmissions are available in some Wrangler trims, but don’t expect to see many of them amid the usual ZF eight-speed automatic configurations.
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The 6.4-litre in the Wrangler 392 is the naturally aspirated gasoline powerplant seen in the Ram 2500 and Dodge Scat Packs, tuned here to deliver 470 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque. It’s a fun option with a silly sound and an expensive gasoline habit — and also entirely overkill. Accelerating in 4.5 seconds on solid axles and wobbly sidewalls is a skittery affair.
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Ford Canada hasn’t dared make any Bronco Raptors available for comparison with the 392, so in the interest of fairness we’ll overlook the Jeep’s obvious power advantage and treat it as a Rubicon Xtreme Recon — a comparatively priced suspension and goodie package available with everything you see here, less the 470-horsepower V8.
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CS: While you’re commanding that muscle-car V8 through the trails, you’re sitting in a 2023 cockpit like no other. The exposed door hinges mean the doors swing freely with no stops to easily keep them from hitting cars next to you. There’s more visible painted steel in this interior than a 1985 Toyota Starlet, and the windshield appears almost vertical in front of you. Sure it has Stellantis’s latest uConnect touchscreen system, Alpine premium nine-speaker audio, and heated front seats complete with fetching Rubicon embroidery. But even when compared to the equally rugged Bronco, the Wrangler interior feels like a throwback to an earlier time. The cabin is noticeably narrower than the Bronco, the dash is more vertical, and it still knocks your ankle with its long door harness. It is certainly a Jeep.
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Conversely, the Bronco interior manages all of the rugged off-road looks and sacrifices nothing in practicality over a ‘normal’ SUV on the inside. The cabin feels more modern, the touchscreen is much larger than that in the Jeep, and the quality of materials throughout the cabin is superior to the Jeep’s. Despite costing as much as a luxury sedan, both of these SUVs have rubber floors — not carpet — for easier washing after a muddy day on the trails. One gripe would be that the chunky grab handle is located on the dash and not higher on the A-pillar. This makes it easier for passengers to grab during “oh heck” moments, but less helpful for shorter people using it to hoist themselves into the cabin.
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EA: Fording is a loss for the Bronco. Ford says that the Sasquatch is good for the same 85-cm (33.5 in.) water crossings that the Jeep is rated for, but that V6 engine leaves its alternator low and vulnerable to rushing water. The Wrangler, meanwhile, mounts its alternators up high and clear of water, and an optional water-diverting intake provides further protection from overenthusiastic gulps — albeit at the compromise of a seriously hefty hood.
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That weight shouldn’t be surprising, however, for nothing about either of these rigs is in any way light. Exact figures vary depending on configuration, but equipped with V6s, the Bronco Sasquatch curbs around 5,100 lbs; the Wrangler Xtreme Recon at ~5,200 lbs.
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Similar as these curb weights are, the two SUVs carry their weight very differently. The Bronco’s independent front and overall construction feel lighter, whereas the unsprung mass of the Jeep’s solid Dana 210 front axle (an electronically modernized 44 variant) renders a more precarious highway drive and more heaving sensations on the trails. With that handling shortcoming comes confidence in durability, however, and I’d certainly rather have the option of running that solid axle up a log for a backwoods wheel swap than wince at the mercy of a mud-footed jack under the Bronco.
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Such weight doesn’t assure invulnerability, however. While both the Sasquatch and Xtreme Recon packages equip these SUVs with underbody shielding in vulnerable areas, it does leave a little to be desired. Hesitant gut impressions of the Bronco’s under-sump shielding and the Jeep’s fuel-tank cladding will hold most stock drivers to the side of caution.
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CS: But to get to those trails where fording depth, breakover angle, and tire height matter, you probably have to commute there on pavement. And in that asphalt environment where these vehicles will spend easily 90 per cent of their time, these SUVs are severely out of their element. To be fair, the 392 Wrangler is the first Wrangler that’s ever been fun to drive on the street, thanks specifically to its outrageous muscle-car power and NASCAR soundtrack. But the Wrangler is sketchy to drive at speeds in a way that no other modern ‘car’ is. Those huge meats and solid front axle make for a decidedly wobbly experience on pavement, and drivers must constantly steer a Jeep in its lane on the highway to keep it pointed between the lines. Wind noise is strong at speed, though it faces competition from the droning mud tires and the 392’s dual-exit exhaust. On the plus side, the steering wheel turns easily even with those massive tires, and the ride is cushy-smooth across rough pavement because, of course it is. And that’s before we talk about the fuel economy which is good only when compared to a TRX. Even with gentle driving, you can expect to average around 14 L/100 km at best, and you won’t get that number without a tailwind and some luck.
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Compared to the Jeep, the Bronco is a serene experience much in the way that skydiving would feel calm after going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The independent front suspension allows the Bronco to do novel things like track straight down a highway lane. Although the exhaust is markedly more subdued (granted, the V6 Wrangler is similarly tame), the Bronco’s seats are not as comfy as the Wrangler’s and the ride is a bit harsher over highway bumps. That said, I vastly prefer the Bronco’s stereo, and if I had to take one of these on a road trip, I’d choose the Bronco.
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EA: As a single vehicle to live with every day, I must reluctantly agree that the Ford takes it. The Bronco is significantly more ‘car’ than the Jeep, and carries itself along the commute with far shinier technological comforts as well. Nicely appointed and priced to compete directly with the Wrango-dango, it’s simply a better truck for the roads of today.
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Still, neither vehicle should be looked to as a commuter. These trucks are large, inefficient, and costly toys better suited to a multi-vehicle family. Relegated to a secondary role for off-road play days, the Jeep is doubtless the hardier, more trustworthy, more capable, and more customizable rig. The Bronco makes trails more accessible, but it’s no old-fashioned, hard-knockin’ Wrangler.
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Source: driving ca
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