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2023.06.03 20:27 SIRUNKLYDUNK2 Bug found. Prophetesses do not auto unlock mounts
2023.06.03 20:26 RockNRoll85 Tom at the Padres-Cubs last night
So last night in between the 2nd inning they started playing “All The Small Things” at Petco Park and the big outfield screen would show random fans throughout the stadium singing along. Last person they showed was none other than Tom himself. Thought it was pretty cool lol. Sucks Padres lost though
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2023.06.03 20:26 ClessGames Chapter 81 Review of Spy x Family
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The beginning of this chapter is pretty action-packed as we see a single man completely handling a pack of agents. It is done so masterfully that we could mistake it for Twilight, but no, we learn that his name is Winston Wheeler from the communications division. He brings a stubble and a haircut, resembling a dumpling. Apparently, he was a deep cover operative from Ostania's intelligence, so Wise heavily suspects him to have been behind the recent leaks. Since we saw him in action, the readers are pretty damn certain that he is the one. Now that I think about it, Endo doesn't hide identities for long, he relies more on dramatic irony in his story.
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Following this event, in a car with Fiona, Loid, and another agent. Loid recognizes the competence of the double W agent, and his wording suggests that he might be on his level, or at the very least, close to it. A rumour says that he plans to meet the SSS at a hotel in Shellbury. Then, Twilight links this information with Yuri going away suddenly in the last chapter. Fiona takes a rather pessimistic stance and suggests to stop every operations in the East, including Operation Strix. Through me reading this chapter again; it is just a very subtle way to tell Loid to leave Yor, that is why she apologizes in the next page and why Loid judges it as ridiculous. It is easy to miss but I prefer those little jabs rather than her constantly saying that she should be his wife, it makes it feel more realistic because she lost that tennis match and know that she is not strong enough.
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Yuri and his team, which consists of his longtime buddy and the woman from the last chapter who had such an awesome design that I PRAYED for her to be here, are making their moves in Ostania, akin to Twlight and his team.
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From Yuri's buddy's sayings, it appears that the administration wants to stay in Westalis' good side and retains their image, while also recovering those secret documents. The interesting part is that the director looks personally involved to make sure that this part of the mission is respected. Such high-ranking individual certainly has bigger cats to feed, don't you agree ?Well, whatever his reasons are, what we know is that this is the best time for them to catch Twilight. One more thing,
there was one very confusing panel with one of Yuri's male co-worker. I asked RAFaron about it, and he told me that the direct translation would be that the operation that they are doing which is extracting Winston is unauthorized, but the director gave them the job still. I find it interesting to see that they possess this level of trust with the director-- and I'm sorry, but there is probably some corruption stuff going on, or some war-fueling information.
With that said, I'm pretty sure Twilight and Yuri will happen. There seems to be a comparison between them based on the trust that is given to them by their respective organization.
In page eleven, the team is preparing their entry to the country. Red 2 is the driver; Red 3 is Fiona, where she has to cooperate with the blue team in order to spy on Wheeler and his file. Red 4 is the passenger and will be a backup; Red 1 is Loid and he has the monumental task of stalling the SSS. If we think about it, it would mean for him to use his inventivity while constantly being on the edge of being unmasked by Yuri. I can only imagine the tension! This is certainly promising!
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In page twelve, the mirror between Loid and Wheeler intensifies. Indeed, not only does he responds with "Roger That", but if we look at Page 11 and 12, they seem to be staring at each other like they are in direct confrontation. Plus, Winston, being clean shaven makes him look like Loid with a quick glance. And I don't need to mention the fact that he is looking downwards while Twilight is looking upwards; Wheeler regards Loid in contempt, while the latter recognizes his superior skills-- after all, he was able to deceive the spy for so long. Tatsuya Endo already put massive emphasis in his talent, so it is safe to say that he will focus on both of them heavily in this arc.
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In the next page, agent Wheeler immediately recognizes Fiona's disguise as odd, walks down his building from which he was spying, and joins Yuri, who gets startled by his presence. Judging by the language that he used when talking to the youngster, he has been doing this line of work for a quite a long time. Briar, unsure about his identity, settled when he saw a Gemstone tiepin on a green tie. It felt odd to me at first that this was enough to convince him, however, Winston Wheeler gives me the impression that he improvises most of his plans in order to remain hidden. Just right here, he told the brother to meet him in the park in some thirthy minutes.
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In another point of view, at a cafe, Fiona and the once-driver wonders why Winston doesn't show himself just yet, not knowing that they were outsmarted from the get-go.
Already in the park, a mysterious individual, who I assume is the director, happily welcomes the deceiver.
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So far, he has been up every problem that he has encountered. It is so great to see a competent antagonist who seems to be on a par with Loid. This again is a very good chapter, and let's hope it stays on that path.
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2023.06.03 20:25 _Raspootin_ 31 M I've lost a ton of weight in 6 years and had more luck with online dating when I was fatter in the face, what gives? 2nd pic is back when I was much heavier.
2023.06.03 20:22 SomniaCE It should go without saying, but people who liked ranked modes aren't gonna feel that compelled to grind out a ranked playlist that will rotate out every 2-3 weeks with little to no fanfare/warning
Title. Honestly exhausting seeing fairly fun playlists like Ranked Survivors and (my personal favorite way to play Halo) Ranked FFA be DOA whenever they rotate in because ranked is already less popular than social and the people who play ranked like to grind something for prestige/skill expression. Nothing is less exciting than throwing time and effort into a playlist you know won't stick around. No cross-season progression, no chance for a community to really thrive or for the ruleset to figure itself out.
It is no wonder the only rotating ranked playlist that has a sizable playerbase is Doubles. Takes half as many players and almost everyone queueing up will already have a friend they're queueing with, making matchmaking so much easier.
Just sucks. The game already has a waning fanbase and nothing has even come close to injecting long term life into the playercount let along rebuilding everyone we've lost over the last year and a half. But for people who like ranked like me, it sucks that the only option is Arena. Sucks especially hard if you're like me and like a more sweaty FFA experience. Rumble Pit sure isn't that and even Lone Wolves puts you into Shotty/Sniper lobbies more often than not. Ranked FFA is the only time I can even hope to get consistent FFA games I actually want to play going and it only sticks around for a couple weeks at a time with a population count that means I get like 1 game every half hour.
There's no real fixing it either lol. I hate being a doomer about Infinite cause I feel a lot of the folks that are end up being disingenuous or delusional in one way or another, but it sucks that for the first time in the history of the franchise having matchmaking, I have no way of playing the series the way I love most.
Thanks, I guess.
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2023.06.03 20:16 jimbobbypaul Ranking the Top 131 FBS Programs of the Last 40 Years: 83. Wyoming
Main hub thread with the full 131 rankings “I have an army.”
“We have a Josh Allen.”
Coming in at 83rd on the list is the team representing the least populous state, Wyoming. While the Cowboys are mostly known by the average fan as being the school Josh Allen played at, they have a fairly rich history of success, and have produced many great coaches. College Football Hall of Famers Bowden Wyatt, Bob Devaney, Pat Dye, and Dennis Erickson all ran the show at Wyoming before moving onto bigger football powerhouses. Former Texas coach Fred Akers and Purdue coach Joe Tiller as well, and the current head man is Craig Bohl, who started the North Dakota State dynasty and won 3 national titles there.
Best Seasons and Highlights
1. 1988: 13. Wyoming: 11-2 (25.965) 2. 1987: 18. Wyoming: 10-3 (19.035) 3. 1996: 23. Wyoming: 10-2 (13.821) 4. 1998: 33. Wyoming: 8-3 (5.927) 5. 1999: 40. Wyoming: 7-4 (1.080) 6. 1990: 45. Wyoming: 9-4 (-1.091) 7. 2016: 52. Wyoming: 8-6 (-2.462) 8. 2019: 54. Wyoming: 8-5 (-2.971) 9. 1993: 39. Wyoming: 8-4 (-3.204) 10. 2017: 58. Wyoming: 8-5 (-5.051) 11. 1995: 53. Wyoming: 6-5 (-6.240) 12. 1983: 51. Wyoming: 7-5 (-8.685) 13. 2011: 67. Wyoming: 8-5 (-9.235) 14. 2004: 60. Wyoming: 7-5 (-10.844) 15. 2021: 74. Wyoming: 7-6 (-11.466) 16. 1997: 61. Wyoming: 7-6 (-12.755) 17. 2006: 68. Wyoming: 6-6 (-13.597) 18. 2009: 74. Wyoming: 7-6 (-14.432) 19. 2022: 79. Wyoming: 7-6 (-14.504) 20. 2018: 85. Wyoming: 6-6 (-16.091) 21. 1986: 69. Wyoming: 6-6 (-16.740) 22. 2020: 88. Wyoming: 2-4 (-17.248) 23. 1994: 67. Wyoming: 6-6 (-18.620) 24. 1984: 69. Wyoming: 6-6 (-19.144) 25. 1989: 69. Wyoming: 5-6 (-19.396) 26. 2007: 78. Wyoming: 5-7 (-19.792) 27. 1991: 70. Wyoming: 4-6-1 (-21.388) 28. 1992: 82. Wyoming: 5-7 (-24.123) 29. 2005: 92. Wyoming: 4-7 (-28.867) 30. 2014: 97. Wyoming: 4-8 (-31.500) 31. 2013: 94. Wyoming: 5-7 (-32.098) 32. 2012: 98. Wyoming: 4-8 (-33.199) 33. 2003: 92. Wyoming: 4-8 (-33.258) 34. 1985: 90. Wyoming: 3-8 (-38.705) 35. 2008: 104. Wyoming: 4-8 (-39.214) 36. 2010: 105. Wyoming: 3-9 (-40.666) 37. 2002: 107. Wyoming: 2-10 (-49.466) 38. 2001: 105. Wyoming: 2-9 (-52.188) 39. 2015: 122. Wyoming: 2-10 (-54.442) 40. 2000: 114. Wyoming: 1-10 (-63.312) Overall Score: 10204 (83rd)
- 232-244-1 record
- 3 conference titles
- 5-7 bowl record
- 3 consensus All-Americans
- 33 NFL players drafted
I mean…not bad, right? When I started this series I didn’t know how Wyoming would fare, but they certainly exceeded my expectations. 23 of 40 seasons with at least a .500 record is very good at the Group of 5 level, and they’re very close to becoming the first 40-year G5 team with a winning record on this list. The only conference title season that didn’t make the top 5 is 1993 at #9, when Joe Tiller led Wyoming to an 8-4 record and a 3-way share of the WAC crown. The All-Americans include the great Dallas Cowboys TE Jay Novacek in 1984, WR Marcus Harris in ‘96, and DB Brian Lee in ‘97. Surprisingly, the highest ranked Josh Allen team (2016) only comes in at 7th, which shows the high quality of teams Wyoming’s produced over the last 4 decades.
Top 5 Seasons
Worst Season: 2000 (1-10 overall, 0-7 Mountain West) Armed with a new coaching staff led by Vic Koenning, Wyoming’s defensive coordinator for one of the better 3 year stretches in Cowboy football history, Wyoming was full of confidence for the turn of the century. After predictably losing games to Auburn and Texas A&M, Wyoming rebounded to beat Central Michigan 31-10, and had a 21-7 point lead over Nevada, looking for their second straight win. The season ended there, and everyone went home happy. Kidding, Nevada scored 21 straight points to pull off the win in Laramie, and Wyoming didn’t win a game for the rest of the year. The closest loss was by just 12 points, and shutouts included 0-34 to San Diego State and 0-34 to Utah. But the Cowboys were certainly not without talent! Tucked away as the backup QB was Casey Bramlet, who would throw for 3000+ yards in each of the next 3 seasons and is an all-time great Wyoming QB. The receiver room was also loaded, with future NFL WR Malcolm Floyd (5500 receiving yards at the next level), and future CFL veteran WR brothers Brett and Brock Ralph. Brock won 2 Grey Cups, and Brett was a 4 year starter for the Calgary Stampeders.
5. 1999 (7-4 overall, 4-3 Mountain West) Get ready for a history lesson, because each season in the top 5 predate the 21st century. 1999 was the first official year of the Mountain West Conference, formed by some of the longtime members of the WAC. Wyoming was known as a solid team around this time, but the class of the conference was clearly LaVell Edwards and BYU, who had won 18 of the last 25 WAC titles. So late in the season, when #15 8-1 BYU rolled into Laramie to face 5-3 Wyoming, the Cougars were heavy favorites to win the game and clinch the Mountain West in its inaugural season. The Cowboys had other plans though, and held BYU to just 29 rushing yards in a 31-17 upset. The fans stormed the field and tore down the goalposts, and Wyoming was right back in the conference title hunt. With a win in the final week they would’ve shared a 4-way title with Utah, BYU, and Colorado State, but lost 7-39 to San Diego State to finish 7-4 and 4th place in the MWC. Despite a winning record, they weren’t invited to play in a bowl either.
4. 1998 (8-3 overall, 6-2 WAC) Conversely, this was Wyoming’s last year in the WAC. And they had a damn tough defense to play against. After beating Montana State 17-9 in week 1, the Cowboys flew to Athens to play #12 Georgia, and held them scoreless in the 2nd half in a 9-16 loss. Wyoming forced 4 turnovers, and could’ve even pulled off the upset if Georgia didn’t have one of the better defenses in the country. Fast forward later in the season with just 2 weeks left to play, Wyoming still had just 1 loss, to Georgia, and was 8-1 and ranked #25, with wins over .500 or better teams Louisiana Tech, TCU, Colorado State, and Utah. That set up a matchup with #23 Air Force for the WAC Mountain Division title in Laramie. In a battle of the top defenses in the WAC, Air Force did enough for the 10-3 win. Wyoming just needed to win their final game against 3-7 Tulsa, and Las Vegas Bowl representatives were so confident in a Wyoming win that they attended the game, ready to invite the Cowboys after the final whistle. Tulsa played their best game of the year though, in a 35-0 upset, and Wyoming missed out on a bowl.
3. 1996 (10-2 overall, 7-1 WAC) As the season kicked off, Wyoming celebrated the 100th season in team history. This would be coach Joe Tiller’s last season at the helm before going on to success at Purdue. A 9-0 start came with its up and downs. An opening week 40-38 win over Idaho was too close for comfort, and Wyoming trailed Iowa State 23-38 with just half the 4th quarter remaining, before miraculously coming back to win 41-38 in OT. The defense started to find its stride afterwards and the offense kept clicking, averaging 43.3 PPG in the 9-0 start. A surprise 24-28 loss to 5-2 San Diego State ended the perfect season, but after beating Colorado State the Cowboys were headed to the inaugural WAC championship game to face BYU. A record crowd of 41,238 showed up to Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas that day, for the bout between #6 BYU and #20 Wyoming. BYU QB Steve Sarkisian was the most accurate passer in the NCAA, and their offense was top 5 in the country. Holding a 25-20 lead with just 3 minutes to go, Tiller elected to take a safety instead of punting deep from their own end zone, but BYU would go on to tie it 25-25 before eventually winning 28-25 in OT. Wyoming surprisingly wasn’t invited to a bowl game, but finished #22 in the country.
WR Marcus Harris was the best in the country, earning consensus All-American honors with 109 catches for 1650 yards and 13 TD, also finishing 9th in Heisman voting (the only WR to finish top 10). Harris finished his career as the NCAA’s all-time leading receiver with 4518 yards in just 3 years of starting. S Brian Lee was arguably the best defensive back in school history, ranking 2nd in the nation in interceptions with 8. A year later in 1997, he’d repeat with another 8 INTs, this time leading the country, and earned a consensus All-American spot because of it.
2. 1987 (10-3 overall, 8-0 WAC) After coach Dennis Erickson left for Washington State following the 1986 season, Wyoming’s athletic director, Paul Roach, hired himself to double as the head football coach. Fans and media members weren’t sure of the move, but would quickly come to enjoy the fruits of his labor. An opening 27-13 win over Air Force was a big one; the Falcons had gone 12-1 just 2 years prior. After dropping a game to Washington State + Erickson and Oklahoma State, a few weeks later the Cowboys were 4-2 heading into BYU. Down 0-14, the Cowboys headed into halftime in front of a record BYU crowd of 65,291. 29 straight points later, Wyoming was up by 15, and would hang on to win 29-27, the game now known as the “Silence of the Cougars”. BYU fans, who just 3 years ago had watched their team win a national title, filed out of the stadium in stunned silence. Wyoming players believed they’d run the table after that and they did, going 10-2 and winning the WAC with a perfect 8-0 record. Wyoming faced Hayden Fry and #18 Iowa in the Holiday Bowl, and the Hawkeyes needed a blocked punt return for TD, pick six, and blocked FG to eek out a 20-19 win. Wyoming QB Craig Burnett was top 10 in the nation in passing yards/TDs with 3131 yards 21 TD 16 INT. RB Gerald Abraham was also top 10 with 1305 rushing yards. The year set up nicely for the 1988 team that would end up being Wyoming’s best team in the last 40 years…
1. 1988 (11-2 overall, 8-0 WAC) Was the win over BYU a fluke? Going 8-0 in the WAC a farce? The 1988 team set out to quell those doubts. Armed with a new QB in Randy Welniak, Wyoming faced off against BYU in the season opener, a grudge match with the Cougars out for revenge. This time, Wyoming left no doubt. A 24-14 win was even more dominant than the score looked, with Wyoming intercepting 4 passes, recovering 3 fumbles, and racking up 9 sacks. Freshman BYU QB and future Heisman winner Ty Detmer was just 9/26 for 133 yards 1 TD and 4 INT. After that, things were just easy for Wyoming. 44-9 over an 8-3 Louisville team. 38-6 over Louisiana Tech. 55-27 over San Diego State. 61-18 over Utah. Late in the season, ranked #10 and matched up with 8-1 UTEP for the WAC title, Wyoming put on their best performance of the season, beating the Miners 51-6 and winning the WAC title for the 2nd straight year in the process. Wyoming entered their bowl at 10-1, with the only loss to Houston and Andre Ware, who’d win the Heisman a year later. Unfortunately this is where the fun ends, as the Cowboys faced #12 Oklahoma State in the bowl. Do you remember who was on that Oklahoma State team? Yeah, Barry Sanders ran for 222 yards and 5 TD…and sat out the 4th quarter. Oh you thought I was talking about Mike Gundy? Yeah, he had a good game too, 20/24 for 315 yards.
But the focus is on Wyoming. An unreal year. They averaged 39.3 PPG (4th best in the nation) while giving up just 21.5 PPG. 6 wins were by 30+ points. QB Randy Welniak had one of the best seasons by a quarterback in school history, throwing for 2791 yards 21 TD 11 INT with 415 rushing yards and 16 TD. Welniak was 2nd in the country in TDs with 37, and won WAC Offensive POTY. DT Pat Rabold won WAC Defensive POTY. Paul Roach hiring himself as head coach in 1987 turned out to be a shrewd move in hindsight, and would go back to being just AD in 1991 after going 35-15 in his 4 years as coach.
5th Quarter
What is your favorite Wyoming player, play, or game? Do you think Josh Allen is the best player to play at Wyoming, or is someone being overlooked? What does the future hold for the Cowboys in an NIL world, as the premier team in a small state? And what’d you think of their teams in the 80’s?
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2023.06.03 20:16 DesperateCoat3881 Leaving a Fairytale
Three years ago before getting into university, my life in high school was all perfect. Perfect in education and unimaginably, in society as well. I had never ever thought of support from anyone except myself, literally accepting no one to interfere with my life at that time. This was because my background from my former school where I had been being raised since I was in kindergarten by some ill-mental teachers, like being mocked of my feminine voice in front of my classmates, despite the fact singing is my self-admitted hobby, until for a period of my life, I had forced myself to sound low as a boy should, detaining me alone every day because my handwriting was not as beautiful as the standard one, and teaching me that all kinds of love except love for family are ought not to have the beginning of them, and its unreasonable strict rules, like not talking in the class (literally) if you don't want to be hit by any wooden or sometimes mental rulers roughly in the end of the day (some of my classmates were hit so often that they didn't even feel painful and laughed instead, no exaggeration) and not bringing any electronic devices to the class, which seemed agreeable but made me never have idea of having conversation with friends outside the class (this results in lack of attaching importance to friendship and also having no friends). All media just exposed the school and some of its other affiliated ones 3 years ago, and some other student cases that were harmed by teachers there either mentally or physically began to be reported since then. The schools are still now available, but they really are not a choice of most parents for their child education anymore. Before all of the truth was revealed, at first my parents, whom I love so much that I have pretended to be insensitive and independent all the time for fear of worrying them, wanted me to have life in high school there, but my one and only favourite English teacher, the one who first expands my vision of a language, especially English, told my parents not to let me stay there because she already knew that the entire school itself was hell in both education and management and took pity on my being and English skill if I had had to study there. On the strength of her advice, they encouraged me to enrol at a new school after that, and here was a start of a sense of perfection in my life.
I decided to enrol for the French-English programme, and it was the best decision in my life. I met two mesdames (French teachers, but we usually call each of them madame despite the fact we speak Thai). They really saw that I had a problem socialising with others, mindset one, although my French skill was top. At that time, I was unaware that all I had been through was unconventional because no one told me that the former school did wrong to me, and I just thought that it was its duty to "rectify" and "perfect" me in their way. Madame, instead of persuading me to focus on study, several times told me to hang out with others. I was so lucky that there were five classmates who first asked me to tutor them English and also French, and they began to reach out to me to socialise with them. It was the first time that I was given a birthday present, homemade cookies, from one of them and had someone, not my own family, say "Happy birthday" to me. It was the first time that I had my own mobile phone to play social media and share Youtube videos with someone. It was the first time that I was able to feel myself letting my guard down and dare to sing a little together with someone in spite of this feminine voice. Last but not least, it was the first time that I hung out with someone.
Somehow, two of them seemed to go out with someone, and another one had a crush on our classmate real hard. All of a sudden, I desired to know what love was. Admittedly, I was great at English because of chatting with online people on one application, and by chance, there was one online person who I had often had conversation with and who came to me and confessed me. I didn't reciprocate his feelings at all but was just curious about love. Of course, it lasted like three months, and the conflict was that I tended to express low self-esteem and repeat that I felt not so valuable as others. In the end, he was perhaps depressed by me and was gone. I admitted that it was the first time for me to feel a little heartbroken very briefly, but in a nutshell, all was well with me.
Personally, it was true for me to spend time on online conversation most because it was the only place where I could perhaps be valuable and feel helpful. And, I did observe that the application I was on had many online people who had a tendency to escape from their reality to there perhaps due to such problems in real life as dysphoria, financial problems, familial ones, and etc. It was certain and knowing that I was as runaway as those, but never had I had bad attitudes towards them.
As if to look at the mirror, someone then burst through the dark there. He appeared to be a boy and talked about stuff that I wasn't used to at all, but all I knew was that he had some secrets and covered his background, very enigmatic. It wasn't love at first sight at all. In the beginning, I urged to make him happy and also copied his vocabulary and speech style to practise my English. He then introduced me to asexuality, and I was so positive that I was in this term. Until... staying up late together with him echoed my reverie. I realised that something unusual grew within me. I imagined more. I talked more. I overthought more. I linked all to him. I felt connected... Then I confessed to him casually for the first time. It ended up with his exemplifying the situation where he used to get confessed by others and rejected them. By nature, I was so stubborn and thought that perhaps both of us might not be that deep at the time. Well, I began to plan to "make something happen." I had long wished that I would have had someone countdown with me on the 31st of December. I knew that he was the one I needed to cling onto that day, so I swayed him into doing it for me or perhaps dragged him into it. I admitted that it was pretty exhausting to prepare to materialise everything in my mind to show him, like the written lyrics at my own website and the painting of him despite the fact that I don't like painting because I'm not good at it. The second confession went on, and the response seemed the same, but he gave me his details on love more. Platonic love. "What is it?" I had no idea of it at all and still have not comprehended its definition up until now.
For those who can explain me what platonic love is and how it works, please read my questions on this subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/aromantic/comments/13z1sjh/platonic_love_what_criteria_do_you_conside?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 All I knew was that he had impacted my life so much that I felt impressed and lost in his aspect. When I was in the French storytelling pair competition at the national level, I had to go and describe a random picture in French to French judges, and I luckily got a picture of a cosy fireplace with an ornate Christmas tree. So, I imagined to myself what I would want to tell him if we both sit next to each other at the fireplace at Chirstmastime. I taled all the judges about the warmth when with him and somehow made them laugh in a positive way. Abracadabra! I got a gold medal in French storytelling pair competition at the national level.
The feelings for him connected me more to all five friends of mine in a way that I almost dared open up to, most R&B and love songs in a way that I had no doubts anymore why a songwriter loves to write a love song most, and those Facebook posts about love in a way that a teenager seems to press the like button. I understood and visualised life full of colours, not only interested in spending all hours reading dictionaries or academic textbooks at home. Perfection, never had I imagined or been told before. My mother always noticed my smile and wondered why it appeared in my sleep every day. And, I saw only him in my vision, refusing those who confessed to me without hesitation or fear of depressing anyone, which I really did break a group of my online friends for this reason.
Perfection. It was like a drug. I was addicted to it and realised that it brought me back to life. When I was at the former school, I only hoped to survive each day. Study was never in my sight, nor did I homework. I left behind my class, and it seemed that I had no right to grab anyone's attention at all. This led me to think if I had had enough wisdom to impress him and also five friends of mine, they would have given me more attention. So, I made up my mind to live up to him. And the result was the worst decision. I was under pressure to impress him with my knowledge of everything; however, he was always ahead of me no matter how much I did research into various topics. I was really moody every time I saw him, his paintings and writings. Envious of his skill, I misbehaved towards him, and somehow he turned into my rival. Expecting myself more than anyone, I felt disappointed at myself and felt no values for anyone to love or take care of me. Then it was the first time that I... had an urge to criticise and judge him. Plus it was time for university admissions, and I admitted that I wasn't in a state of determination at all.
Eventually we were drifting apart, and he slipped away without farewell while I was still competing with him for perfection. Realising that I was all alone then and we were growing apart, I felt dead inside, a heavy heart to zone out for about 4 lockdown months without talking to any people around me. I blamed myself for all so much that I began to feel myself unable to differentiate between a dream and reality and oftentimes vomited when something about languages including alphabets and vocabularies reminded me of him. I hated myself more and more that I leaned on interpersonal relationships although I had never depended on such a thing at the former school. I never told all of these to my parents because I believed that no one wanted to be seen weak, did they? So, I pretended all the way although my mother did see something different from my usual traits such as a pitch change in my voice, insomnia, loss of appetite, and a lack of interest in reading. It was that time I tried to find his background on the Internet to somehow threaten him? It did seem possible for me, but this contrasted with my personal values, disgusting myself more and more. I ended up with myself, the root cause. I didn't think of self-harm, but with having nummular eczema for 8 years, I always woke up in the morning, covered in blood from scratching all severely inflamed skin subconsciously. This is from stress and allergy to my own immune system. For some reason, I couldn't stand it anymore and messaged one of my five friends and pretended that I just conflicted with one online friend. She did accompany me and really did remind me of my childhood memories influenced by my elder sister whom I haven't talked to since she got into university many years ago, like listening to Vocaloid and Kagerou Project songs, old Japanese songs, especially Utada Hikaru, anime (Cardcaptor Sakura, Kamichama Karin), and immaturity (RPG Maker horror games). I felt that I didn't have to be in a hurry to be an adult. Perfection does not have to lie in only wisdom but also liveliness? It was the first time that I got to play online games with my five friends and understood that it was okay to consult someone and call for help. I kept in mind that when Covid-19 was completely gone, they all had to grow apart as well as him to start their university lives. I wished that I could have frozen the time right here and rested in the moments of immaturity a little longer.
It was hard to control myself not to write and think of him. There were only fragments of memory, but didn’t memory of someone make them themselves? The linguistic exams, the last part was to explain relationships of phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax, and I wrote answers with examples of pandas and names. I topped in linguistics. I should have forgotten. Him. But, the memories weren’t gone at all. Even in academic writings, there were several times when I made an intention on a connoted meaning. December, it was a month that I’ve loved less since then, while a choir teacher seemed to love it most because of the Christmas spirit to carol at the mall. It was the first time I felt that a dream about touching snow in December would be more possible than before.
Until...
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2023.06.03 20:12 RtcPbcHr White Wolf Gaming New Player Friendly Growing Community No Wipe Balanced PvP Increased Rates Weekend Events
Maps Currently running maps: - The Island - Scorched Earth - Aberration - Extinction - Genesis 1
- The Center
- Ragnarok
- Crystal Isles
- Fjordur
Planned additions (In tentative order of when they'll be added) - Genesis 2 - Valguero - Lost Island - More to be determined
Server rates and Settings All rates are set with the goal of enabling solo players to be as competitive as tribes. A tribe will always have an advantage over solo players/smaller tribes, but this allows for more balanced, and healthy, PvP. Everything is closely monitored, and feedback is always appreciated.
5x tame speed
3x exp amount
5x harvest amount
2x structure resistance
10x hatch speed
20x mature speed
2x egg laying frequency
3x platform structure limit
Tribe member limit: 5
Tribe alliance limit: 1
Auto save interval: 30 minutes
Player level cap: 200
Wild dinosaur level cap: 200
Tame dinosaur level cap: +100 levels after tame
Flier speed leveling enabled
Cave building enabled
Fliers in caves enabled
Admin command logging enabled 24/7 and broadcasted globally
Server transfers only on cluster
Auto learn all engrams (They unlock as you level up, respects boss and level requirements)
Hand built custom loot tables!
An admin experienced in running servers
Many more clusters being added as population increases!
Rotating weekend events
Mods
Structures Plus Kraken’s better dinos Dino fixes Dino storage v2 Hazestacks Awesome Spyglass Auto Engrams!
New Players
All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period where other players aren't allowed to raid/attack them
To get this protection you must join the discord, and have your in-game name match your discord name with your tribe name in parentheses after it - E.g., Name (Tribe Name)
This protection will last as long as the "New Member" badge on discord, after which your discord name can change
All protection is removed if a new player initiates any sort of PvP unprovoked
Rules - No glitching, abusing, meshing, bug abusing, or other mod exploits.
- No racism, sexism, or hate speech either on the server or on the Discord. This extends to Discord and in-game names/aliases as well.
- No harassment or personal attacks upon other players either in the game or on discord. (This includes things such as handcuffing a player for a significant amount of time, spawn-camping, repeatedly raiding someone in a short period of time (Multiple times within a couple days), or steamrolling defenseless tribes.)
- No blocking or impeding access to surface loot drops/crates, or obelisks.
- No dino "armor" or boxes to prevent damaging the dino. All platform dinos must be able to be hurt during raids.
- All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period. Do not attack, raid, or otherwise obstruct any new player who is following the new player protection requirements:
- Their discord name is as follows: Player Name (Tribe Name)
- They have the "New Member" badge on discord (It lasts exactly 7 days, when in doubt ask me)
- They have not initiated any form of PvP against you
- Do not argue with anything an admin or mod tells you. If you feel as though there is abuse from an admin or mod, contact the server owner. (This is only for actual cases of abuse, such as abusing admin access, or rule breaking. Do not contact the owner over situations that fall within the rules)
Connection info There are a few options to connect to the servers:
Option 1: search for "White Wolf Gaming" in the unofficial server listing in ark
Option 2:
Click one of the following to connect directly: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
Option 3: use one (or all) of these IP's directly: - 199.15.252.210:7650 (Island) - 199.15.252.210:7890 (Scorched Earth) - 199.15.252.210:7710 (Aberration) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Extinction) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Genesis 1)
- 199.15.252.210:7320 (The Center)
- 199.15.252.210:7350 (Ragnarok)
- 199.15.252.210:7080 (Crystal Isles)
- 199.15.252.210:7470 (Fjordur)
To use these, go to your steam client and in the top left click on "view" > "servers" > "favorites" > "add a server." in the text box just put in the IP address and port number just like up above then press "add this address to favorites." once that's done you should see it in the "favorites" tab. Now go into the ark client and search for your favorites and it'll pop up, or double click on the server listing in the steam window.
Option 4: Go to one of the following links and click on "Click Here To Play" with steam open: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
If you need help connecting add me on Discord and I’ll be happy to help:
- RtcPbcHr#8917
Admin staff - RtcPbcHr (Server owner, and discord admin)
- ArcaneSoda (Discord admin)
Contact us Discord -
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2023.06.03 20:12 RtcPbcHr White Wolf Gaming New Player Friendly Growing Community No Wipe Balanced PvP Increased Rates Weekend Events
Maps Currently running maps: - The Island - Scorched Earth - Aberration - Extinction - Genesis 1
- The Center
- Ragnarok
- Crystal Isles
- Fjordur
Planned additions (In tentative order of when they'll be added) - Genesis 2 - Valguero - Lost Island - More to be determined
Server rates and Settings All rates are set with the goal of enabling solo players to be as competitive as tribes. A tribe will always have an advantage over solo players/smaller tribes, but this allows for more balanced, and healthy, PvP. Everything is closely monitored, and feedback is always appreciated.
5x tame speed
3x exp amount
5x harvest amount
2x structure resistance
10x hatch speed
20x mature speed
2x egg laying frequency
3x platform structure limit
Tribe member limit: 5
Tribe alliance limit: 1
Auto save interval: 30 minutes
Player level cap: 200
Wild dinosaur level cap: 200
Tame dinosaur level cap: +100 levels after tame
Flier speed leveling enabled
Cave building enabled
Fliers in caves enabled
Admin command logging enabled 24/7 and broadcasted globally
Server transfers only on cluster
Auto learn all engrams (They unlock as you level up, respects boss and level requirements)
Hand built custom loot tables!
An admin experienced in running servers
Many more clusters being added as population increases!
Rotating weekend events
Mods
Structures Plus Kraken’s better dinos Dino fixes Dino storage v2 Hazestacks Awesome Spyglass Auto Engrams!
New Players
All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period where other players aren't allowed to raid/attack them
To get this protection you must join the discord, and have your in-game name match your discord name with your tribe name in parentheses after it - E.g., Name (Tribe Name)
This protection will last as long as the "New Member" badge on discord, after which your discord name can change
All protection is removed if a new player initiates any sort of PvP unprovoked
Rules - No glitching, abusing, meshing, bug abusing, or other mod exploits.
- No racism, sexism, or hate speech either on the server or on the Discord. This extends to Discord and in-game names/aliases as well.
- No harassment or personal attacks upon other players either in the game or on discord. (This includes things such as handcuffing a player for a significant amount of time, spawn-camping, repeatedly raiding someone in a short period of time (Multiple times within a couple days), or steamrolling defenseless tribes.)
- No blocking or impeding access to surface loot drops/crates, or obelisks.
- No dino "armor" or boxes to prevent damaging the dino. All platform dinos must be able to be hurt during raids.
- All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period. Do not attack, raid, or otherwise obstruct any new player who is following the new player protection requirements:
- Their discord name is as follows: Player Name (Tribe Name)
- They have the "New Member" badge on discord (It lasts exactly 7 days, when in doubt ask me)
- They have not initiated any form of PvP against you
- Do not argue with anything an admin or mod tells you. If you feel as though there is abuse from an admin or mod, contact the server owner. (This is only for actual cases of abuse, such as abusing admin access, or rule breaking. Do not contact the owner over situations that fall within the rules)
Connection info There are a few options to connect to the servers:
Option 1: search for "White Wolf Gaming" in the unofficial server listing in ark
Option 2:
Click one of the following to connect directly: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
Option 3: use one (or all) of these IP's directly: - 199.15.252.210:7650 (Island) - 199.15.252.210:7890 (Scorched Earth) - 199.15.252.210:7710 (Aberration) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Extinction) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Genesis 1)
- 199.15.252.210:7320 (The Center)
- 199.15.252.210:7350 (Ragnarok)
- 199.15.252.210:7080 (Crystal Isles)
- 199.15.252.210:7470 (Fjordur)
To use these, go to your steam client and in the top left click on "view" > "servers" > "favorites" > "add a server." in the text box just put in the IP address and port number just like up above then press "add this address to favorites." once that's done you should see it in the "favorites" tab. Now go into the ark client and search for your favorites and it'll pop up, or double click on the server listing in the steam window.
Option 4: Go to one of the following links and click on "Click Here To Play" with steam open: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
If you need help connecting add me on Discord and I’ll be happy to help:
- RtcPbcHr#8917
Admin staff - RtcPbcHr (Server owner, and discord admin)
- ArcaneSoda (Discord admin)
Contact us Discord -
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2023.06.03 20:12 RtcPbcHr White Wolf Gaming New Player Friendly Growing Community No Wipe Balanced PvP Increased Rates Weekend Events
Maps Currently running maps: - The Island - Scorched Earth - Aberration - Extinction - Genesis 1
- The Center
- Ragnarok
- Crystal Isles
- Fjordur
Planned additions (In tentative order of when they'll be added) - Genesis 2 - Valguero - Lost Island - More to be determined
Server rates and Settings All rates are set with the goal of enabling solo players to be as competitive as tribes. A tribe will always have an advantage over solo players/smaller tribes, but this allows for more balanced, and healthy, PvP. Everything is closely monitored, and feedback is always appreciated.
5x tame speed
3x exp amount
5x harvest amount
2x structure resistance
10x hatch speed
20x mature speed
2x egg laying frequency
3x platform structure limit
Tribe member limit: 5
Tribe alliance limit: 1
Auto save interval: 30 minutes
Player level cap: 200
Wild dinosaur level cap: 200
Tame dinosaur level cap: +100 levels after tame
Flier speed leveling enabled
Cave building enabled
Fliers in caves enabled
Admin command logging enabled 24/7 and broadcasted globally
Server transfers only on cluster
Auto learn all engrams (They unlock as you level up, respects boss and level requirements)
Hand built custom loot tables!
An admin experienced in running servers
Many more clusters being added as population increases!
Rotating weekend events
Mods
Structures Plus Kraken’s better dinos Dino fixes Dino storage v2 Hazestacks Awesome Spyglass Auto Engrams!
New Players
All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period where other players aren't allowed to raid/attack them
To get this protection you must join the discord, and have your in-game name match your discord name with your tribe name in parentheses after it - E.g., Name (Tribe Name)
This protection will last as long as the "New Member" badge on discord, after which your discord name can change
All protection is removed if a new player initiates any sort of PvP unprovoked
Rules - No glitching, abusing, meshing, bug abusing, or other mod exploits.
- No racism, sexism, or hate speech either on the server or on the Discord. This extends to Discord and in-game names/aliases as well.
- No harassment or personal attacks upon other players either in the game or on discord. (This includes things such as handcuffing a player for a significant amount of time, spawn-camping, repeatedly raiding someone in a short period of time (Multiple times within a couple days), or steamrolling defenseless tribes.)
- No blocking or impeding access to surface loot drops/crates, or obelisks.
- No dino "armor" or boxes to prevent damaging the dino. All platform dinos must be able to be hurt during raids.
- All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period. Do not attack, raid, or otherwise obstruct any new player who is following the new player protection requirements:
- Their discord name is as follows: Player Name (Tribe Name)
- They have the "New Member" badge on discord (It lasts exactly 7 days, when in doubt ask me)
- They have not initiated any form of PvP against you
- Do not argue with anything an admin or mod tells you. If you feel as though there is abuse from an admin or mod, contact the server owner. (This is only for actual cases of abuse, such as abusing admin access, or rule breaking. Do not contact the owner over situations that fall within the rules)
Connection info There are a few options to connect to the servers:
Option 1: search for "White Wolf Gaming" in the unofficial server listing in ark
Option 2:
Click one of the following to connect directly: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
Option 3: use one (or all) of these IP's directly: - 199.15.252.210:7650 (Island) - 199.15.252.210:7890 (Scorched Earth) - 199.15.252.210:7710 (Aberration) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Extinction) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Genesis 1)
- 199.15.252.210:7320 (The Center)
- 199.15.252.210:7350 (Ragnarok)
- 199.15.252.210:7080 (Crystal Isles)
- 199.15.252.210:7470 (Fjordur)
To use these, go to your steam client and in the top left click on "view" > "servers" > "favorites" > "add a server." in the text box just put in the IP address and port number just like up above then press "add this address to favorites." once that's done you should see it in the "favorites" tab. Now go into the ark client and search for your favorites and it'll pop up, or double click on the server listing in the steam window.
Option 4: Go to one of the following links and click on "Click Here To Play" with steam open: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
If you need help connecting add me on Discord and I’ll be happy to help:
- RtcPbcHr#8917
Admin staff - RtcPbcHr (Server owner, and discord admin)
- ArcaneSoda (Discord admin)
Contact us Discord -
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2023.06.03 20:12 RtcPbcHr [PC Server] White Wolf Gaming New Player Friendly Growing Community No Wipe Balanced PvP Increased Rates Weekend Events
Maps Currently running maps: - The Island - Scorched Earth - Aberration - Extinction - Genesis 1
- The Center
- Ragnarok
- Crystal Isles
- Fjordur
Planned additions (In tentative order of when they'll be added) - Genesis 2 - Valguero - Lost Island - More to be determined
Server rates and Settings All rates are set with the goal of enabling solo players to be as competitive as tribes. A tribe will always have an advantage over solo players/smaller tribes, but this allows for more balanced, and healthy, PvP. Everything is closely monitored, and feedback is always appreciated.
5x tame speed
3x exp amount
5x harvest amount
2x structure resistance
10x hatch speed
20x mature speed
2x egg laying frequency
3x platform structure limit
Tribe member limit: 5
Tribe alliance limit: 1
Auto save interval: 30 minutes
Player level cap: 200
Wild dinosaur level cap: 200
Tame dinosaur level cap: +100 levels after tame
Flier speed leveling enabled
Cave building enabled
Fliers in caves enabled
Admin command logging enabled 24/7 and broadcasted globally
Server transfers only on cluster
Auto learn all engrams (They unlock as you level up, respects boss and level requirements)
Hand built custom loot tables!
An admin experienced in running servers
Many more clusters being added as population increases!
Rotating weekend events
Mods
Structures Plus Kraken’s better dinos Dino fixes Dino storage v2 Hazestacks Awesome Spyglass Auto Engrams!
New Players
All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period where other players aren't allowed to raid/attack them
To get this protection you must join the discord, and have your in-game name match your discord name with your tribe name in parentheses after it - E.g., Name (Tribe Name)
This protection will last as long as the "New Member" badge on discord, after which your discord name can change
All protection is removed if a new player initiates any sort of PvP unprovoked
Rules - No glitching, abusing, meshing, bug abusing, or other mod exploits.
- No racism, sexism, or hate speech either on the server or on the Discord. This extends to Discord and in-game names/aliases as well.
- No harassment or personal attacks upon other players either in the game or on discord. (This includes things such as handcuffing a player for a significant amount of time, spawn-camping, repeatedly raiding someone in a short period of time (Multiple times within a couple days), or steamrolling defenseless tribes.)
- No blocking or impeding access to surface loot drops/crates, or obelisks.
- No dino "armor" or boxes to prevent damaging the dino. All platform dinos must be able to be hurt during raids.
- All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period. Do not attack, raid, or otherwise obstruct any new player who is following the new player protection requirements:
- Their discord name is as follows: Player Name (Tribe Name)
- They have the "New Member" badge on discord (It lasts exactly 7 days, when in doubt ask me)
- They have not initiated any form of PvP against you
- Do not argue with anything an admin or mod tells you. If you feel as though there is abuse from an admin or mod, contact the server owner. (This is only for actual cases of abuse, such as abusing admin access, or rule breaking. Do not contact the owner over situations that fall within the rules)
Connection info There are a few options to connect to the servers:
Option 1: search for "White Wolf Gaming" in the unofficial server listing in ark
Option 2:
Click one of the following to connect directly: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
Option 3: use one (or all) of these IP's directly: - 199.15.252.210:7650 (Island) - 199.15.252.210:7890 (Scorched Earth) - 199.15.252.210:7710 (Aberration) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Extinction) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Genesis 1)
- 199.15.252.210:7320 (The Center)
- 199.15.252.210:7350 (Ragnarok)
- 199.15.252.210:7080 (Crystal Isles)
- 199.15.252.210:7470 (Fjordur)
To use these, go to your steam client and in the top left click on "view" > "servers" > "favorites" > "add a server." in the text box just put in the IP address and port number just like up above then press "add this address to favorites." once that's done you should see it in the "favorites" tab. Now go into the ark client and search for your favorites and it'll pop up, or double click on the server listing in the steam window.
Option 4: Go to one of the following links and click on "Click Here To Play" with steam open: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
If you need help connecting add me on Discord and I’ll be happy to help:
- RtcPbcHr#8917
Admin staff - RtcPbcHr (Server owner, and discord admin)
- ArcaneSoda (Discord admin)
Contact us Discord -
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2023.06.03 20:12 RtcPbcHr White Wolf Gaming New Player Friendly Growing Community No Wipe Balanced PvP Increased Rates Weekend Events
Maps Currently running maps: - The Island - Scorched Earth - Aberration - Extinction - Genesis 1
- The Center
- Ragnarok
- Crystal Isles
- Fjordur
Planned additions (In tentative order of when they'll be added) - Genesis 2 - Valguero - Lost Island - More to be determined
Server rates and Settings All rates are set with the goal of enabling solo players to be as competitive as tribes. A tribe will always have an advantage over solo players/smaller tribes, but this allows for more balanced, and healthy, PvP. Everything is closely monitored, and feedback is always appreciated.
5x tame speed
3x exp amount
5x harvest amount
2x structure resistance
10x hatch speed
20x mature speed
2x egg laying frequency
3x platform structure limit
Tribe member limit: 5
Tribe alliance limit: 1
Auto save interval: 30 minutes
Player level cap: 200
Wild dinosaur level cap: 200
Tame dinosaur level cap: +100 levels after tame
Flier speed leveling enabled
Cave building enabled
Fliers in caves enabled
Admin command logging enabled 24/7 and broadcasted globally
Server transfers only on cluster
Auto learn all engrams (They unlock as you level up, respects boss and level requirements)
Hand built custom loot tables!
An admin experienced in running servers
Many more clusters being added as population increases!
Rotating weekend events
Mods
Structures Plus Kraken’s better dinos Dino fixes Dino storage v2 Hazestacks Awesome Spyglass Auto Engrams!
New Players
All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period where other players aren't allowed to raid/attack them
To get this protection you must join the discord, and have your in-game name match your discord name with your tribe name in parentheses after it - E.g., Name (Tribe Name)
This protection will last as long as the "New Member" badge on discord, after which your discord name can change
All protection is removed if a new player initiates any sort of PvP unprovoked
Rules - No glitching, abusing, meshing, bug abusing, or other mod exploits.
- No racism, sexism, or hate speech either on the server or on the Discord. This extends to Discord and in-game names/aliases as well.
- No harassment or personal attacks upon other players either in the game or on discord. (This includes things such as handcuffing a player for a significant amount of time, spawn-camping, repeatedly raiding someone in a short period of time (Multiple times within a couple days), or steamrolling defenseless tribes.)
- No blocking or impeding access to surface loot drops/crates, or obelisks.
- No dino "armor" or boxes to prevent damaging the dino. All platform dinos must be able to be hurt during raids.
- All new players are allowed a 7 day protection period. Do not attack, raid, or otherwise obstruct any new player who is following the new player protection requirements:
- Their discord name is as follows: Player Name (Tribe Name)
- They have the "New Member" badge on discord (It lasts exactly 7 days, when in doubt ask me)
- They have not initiated any form of PvP against you
- Do not argue with anything an admin or mod tells you. If you feel as though there is abuse from an admin or mod, contact the server owner. (This is only for actual cases of abuse, such as abusing admin access, or rule breaking. Do not contact the owner over situations that fall within the rules)
Connection info There are a few options to connect to the servers:
Option 1: search for "White Wolf Gaming" in the unofficial server listing in ark
Option 2:
Click one of the following to connect directly: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
Option 3: use one (or all) of these IP's directly: - 199.15.252.210:7650 (Island) - 199.15.252.210:7890 (Scorched Earth) - 199.15.252.210:7710 (Aberration) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Extinction) - 199.15.252.210:7860 (Genesis 1)
- 199.15.252.210:7320 (The Center)
- 199.15.252.210:7350 (Ragnarok)
- 199.15.252.210:7080 (Crystal Isles)
- 199.15.252.210:7470 (Fjordur)
To use these, go to your steam client and in the top left click on "view" > "servers" > "favorites" > "add a server." in the text box just put in the IP address and port number just like up above then press "add this address to favorites." once that's done you should see it in the "favorites" tab. Now go into the ark client and search for your favorites and it'll pop up, or double click on the server listing in the steam window.
Option 4: Go to one of the following links and click on "Click Here To Play" with steam open: -
Island -
Scorched Earth -
Aberration -
Extinction -
Genesis 1
If you need help connecting add me on Discord and I’ll be happy to help:
- RtcPbcHr#8917
Admin staff - RtcPbcHr (Server owner, and discord admin)
- ArcaneSoda (Discord admin)
Contact us Discord -
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Humble Keys <------
Click Here to see a full list of humble keys Yakuza: Like a Dragon Legendary Hero Edition
Two Point Hospital
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Trek to Yomi
Shadow Warrior 3
BATTLETECH MERCENARY COLLECTION
BATTLETECH Shadow Hawk Pack
Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition
Knights of Pen and Paper - Haunted Fall
KNIGHTS OF PEN AND PAPER 2 - DELUXIEST EDITION
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Here Be Dragons
Deathloop
Hell Let Loose
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
F1 2019 Anniversary Edition
Valkryia Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
Mafia Definitive Edition
Mordhau
Back 4 Blood
Little Hope
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Visage
death stranding
Slay the Spire
Praey for the Gods
Degrees of Separation
Ghostrunner
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Control Ultimate Edition
Encore Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Hyper Light Drifter
Dirt 5
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Kentucky Route Zero - Season Pass Edition
Dreamfall Chapters
Wuppo
Human: Fall Flat
Northgard
The Witness
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
MO:Astray
Metro Exodus
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition
Super Mag Bot
Blade Assault
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
TOEM
Backbone
GreedFall
Wasteland 3
GAS STATION SIMULATOR
IN SOUND MIND
MIND SCANNERS
EMILY IS AWAY <3
OMNO
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Banners of Ruin
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Yes, Your Grace
Endzone - A World Apart
60 Parsecs
XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
PGA 2K21
Bioshock Collection
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Collector's Edition
JUST CAUSE 4: COMPLETE EDITION
Plague tale
Gas station simulator
Mind scanners
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DEADLOCK SEASON ONE
Gamedec
Command & Conquer Remastered (Origin)
Surviving The Aftermath
Genesis Noir
Dirt Rally 2.0
Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle |
Gang Beasts |
Tinkertown |
Cloud Gardens |
Blightbound |
Stick Fight: The Game |
Railway Empire |
Mad Experiments: Escape Room |
ibb & obb Double Pack |
The Falconeer |
Truberbrook |
At Eve's Wake |
Interrogation: You will be deceived |
Hoplegs |
Cannibal Cuisine |
Necronator: Dead Wrong |
Awesomenauts All Nauts pack |
1993 Space Machine |
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I |
ChromaGun |
Baby Dino Adventures |
Click and Slay |
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon |
Cosmonautica |
Crash Drive 2 |
Dimension Drive |
The Way |
Explosionade |
Gelly Break Deluxe |
Guppy |
Journey For Elysium |
Last Resort Island |
Lumini |
Marooners |
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD |
Pizza Connection 3 |
Pressure Overdrive |
Renowned Explorers: International Society |
Tales of the Tiny Planet |
TaniNani |
THE CORRIDOR |
AWAKE - Definitive Edition |
Treasure Temples |
Shu |
Combat Tested |
Unexplored |
Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King |
Circles |
Killer Bundle 25 |
From Space |
Breathedge |
Police Stories |
DOOM 64 |
Arise: A Simple Story |
Patron |
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition |
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition |
Turok |
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil |
THE GAME OF LIFE 2 |
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience |
DESOLATE |
The Hong Kong Massacre |
Death and Taxes |
Lair of the Clockwork God |
AMID EVIL |
Just Die Already |
I Am Fish |
Golf Gang |
Hypnospace Outlaw |
Dark Deity |
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus |
DUSK |
River City Girls |
Other Games
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
Chess Ultra
Godstrike
Home Sweet Home
Neighbours back From Hell
Pathologic 2
SAMUDRA
STRANGER
Songbird Symphony
The Invisible Hours
I am Bread
Hotshot Racing
Autonauts
Door Kickers: Action Squad
Iconoclasts
Patch Quest
Tunche
For The King
Abandon Ship
Book of Demons
PC Building Simulator
Pile Up! Box by Box
Snooker 19
Speed Limit
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Youtubers Life
Dex
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship
V-Rally 4
PlateUp!
Turbo Golf Racing
Eternal Threads
The Last Campfire
Kingdom Two Crowns
Indivisible
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Field of Glory II
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure
Soul Axiom Rebooted
A Little Golf Journey
Murder by Numbers
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Songbringer
STONE
Rescue Party: Live!
Rise of the Slime
Steel Rats™
Hue
Teacup
Perfect
Arcade Paradise - Arcade Paradise EP
Strange Brigade
Sifu Deluxe Edition Upgrade Bundle (EPIC)
AVICII Invector: Encore Edition
10 Second Ninja X
The Indie Mixtape
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Heroes of Hammerwatch
Monster Slayers - Complete Edition
My Big Sister
Red Ronin
Heal
Cat Lady - The Card Game
Undungeon
Tangledeep
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Styx: Master of Shadows
Squids Odyssey
Pendula Swing - The Complete Journey
Mists of Noyah
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf Special Edition
Undead Horde
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Stirring Abyss
Scarlet Tower
Blood And Zombies
One More Island
Doorways: Prelude / Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Slain: Back from Hell
Lucius/Lucius 2/Lucius 3/Lucius Demake
Aragami
Deliver Us The Moon
Anuchard
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Darkwood
Intravenous
Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Survive the Nights
Blasphemous
Unto The End
NUTS
Cat Quest
Cosmic Star Heroine
Degrees of Separation
Pure Farming 2018
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER
Syberia/Syberia II/Syberia 3
The Innsmouth Case
Tinytopia
Sniper ghost warrior contracts
Trine 4
Risen 3
Shadowgate
How to Survive
FORCED
Psychonauts
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf Special Edition
Sniper Elite 3 + Season Pass DLC
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 - Season Pass Edition
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Strange Brigade Deluxe Edition
Call of Duty® Modern Warfare 3™
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition
Amnesia: Rebirth
PGA 2k21
Jurassic World Evolution
Darksiders Genesis
Endless Space® 2 - Digital Deluxe Edition
SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION VI : PLATINUM EDITION
F1 2020
Titan Quest
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Witch It
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Mighty Switch Force! Collection
Gone Home + Original Soundtrack
The WB Batman Collection
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Beholder
Beholder 2
We Were Here Together
Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
GRIP: Combat Racing *-GRIP: Combat Racing - Cygon Garage Kit *-GRIP: Combat Racing - Nyvoss Garage Kit *GRIP: Combat Racing - Terra Garage Kit *GRIP: Combat Racing - Vintek Garage Kit
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
Miscreated
Second Extinction
Survive or Die
Breathedge
Dead in Vinland
Die Young
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
How to Survive 2
The Wild Eight
One Finger Death Punch 2
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Slap City
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Layers of Fear: Masterpiece Edition
Civilization: Beyond Earth – The Collection
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Primal Carnage: Extinction
Due Process
SimpleRockets 2
Killing Floor 2
For the King
For The King: Lost Civilization Adventure Pack
Pro Cycling Manager 2020
Tour de France 2020
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Project Highrise
LAST OASIS
The Beast Inside
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Crown Trick
Discolored
Everhood
Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands
Nomad Survival
Sparklite
The Ramp
Valfaris
Dusk Diver
Neverinth
Tokyo Xanadu eX+
Zengeon
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
Unmemory
Nigate Tale
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Liberated
Neversong
Nine Parchments
The Walking Dead
Secret Government
Monsters' Den: Godfall
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
THIS WAR OF MINE: COMPLETE EDITION
Cats in Time
Afterparty
Battlecruisers
Astronarch
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
PlataGO! Super Platform Game Maker
Nongunz: Doppelganger Edition
Warhammer vermintide collector's edition
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Tank Mechanic Simulator
The Uncertain: Light At The End
INSOMNIA: The Ark
Darkside Detective
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
GIGA WRECKER
Panty Party
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Tannenberg
Golf It!
Heroes of Hammerwatch
The Battle of Polytopia *DLC1. Cymanti Tribe *DLC2. ∑∫ỹriȱŋ Tribe *DLC3. Aquarion Tribe *DLC4. Polaris Tribe
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Lornsword Winter Chronicle
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
N++ (NPLUSPLUS)
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Virgo Versus The Zodiac
They Bleed Pixels
Maize
Smile For Me
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
A Hole New World
Sumoman
Shape of the World
Evan's Remains
Ministry of Broadcast
She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
A Long Way Down
Depraved
Helheim Hassle
Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
Tropico 5 - Complete Collection
Escapists 2
Worms Rumble *Worms Rumble - New Challengers Pack *Worms Rumble - Legends Pack *Worms Rumble - Armageddon Weapon Skin Pack *Worms Rumble - Captain & Shark Double Pack
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Turmoil
Narcos: Rise of the Cartels
Rogue Stormers
Torchlight
Fictorum
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Moon Hunters
No Time to Relax
Overpass
Blood Bowl 2
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Conarium
Brawlout
F1 RACE STARS Complete Edition Include DLC
Killing Room
Tenta Shooter / The 触シュー
Everreach: Project Eden
Railway Empire
Looterkings
Headsnatchers
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
AIdol
Livelock
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
F1 2018
Tacoma
Hard West - Collector's Edition
Hard West: Scars of Freedom DLC
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
The Shrouded Isle
Joint Task Force
The World Next Door
Verdant Skies
DISTRAINT 2
Ittle Dew
Ittle Dew 2+
Oxenfree
Monstrum
Strikey Sisters
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Cyber Ops
European Ship Simulator
Fishing Adventure
Internet Cafe Simulator
Zen Chess: Mate in One, Mate in 2 , Mate in 3 , Mate in 4 , Champion's Moves (5 games)
Transport INC
Shoppe Keep 2 - Business and Agriculture RPG Simulation
Desolate
GRIP: Combat Racing + DLC
OUTBUDDIES DX
Eidolon
Pizza Connection 3
Spartan Fist
River City Ransom: Underground
Saints Row: The Third
Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards] *Koi-Koi Japan : UKIYOE tours Vol.1 DLC *Koi-Koi Japan : UKIYOE tours Vol.2 DLC *Koi-Koi Japan : UKIYOE tours Vol.3 DLC
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition
Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire
Princess Kaguya: Legend of the Moon Warrior
Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire
Chaos Reborn
Driftland: The Magic Revival
Shadows: Awakening
Caveblazers
Fallback: Uprising
Mordheim: City of the Damned
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
Mana Spark
Autonauts
Nusakana
Shift Happens
Crash Drive 3
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Automachef
Demolish & Build 2017
Resort Boss: Golf
Out of Space
Narita Boy
Aven Colony
Alien Breed Trilogy
Tools up
Mount & Blade
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
BLACKHOLE: Complete Edition
Detention
Downfall
Miasmata
Overclocked: A History of Violence
Silver Chains
White Night
The Cat Lady
Syberia 3
Textorcist
GARAGE bad trip
Guts and glory
Swag and Sorcery
Fort Triumph
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
FRAMED Collection
ROTASTIC
As Far as the Eye
Cepheus Protocol
Overruled
Ageless
Giana Sisters 2D
Prank Call
Hotshot Racing
Undead Horde
Streets of Fury EX
Rec Center Tycoon
JumpJet Rex
Hyper Knights
Vectronom
Levelhead
I am not a Monster: First Contact
Papo & Yo
Crookz the big heist
Iron Fisticle
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
Reventure
Smoke and Sacrifice
American Fugitive
The Signal From Tölva
Medieval Kingdom Wars
Rebel Galaxy
XIII - Classic
Comedy Night
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
FLATLAND Vol.2
The Chess Variants Club
Armada 2526 Gold Edition
Toybox Turbos
Sudden Strike Gold
Airport Madness: World Edition
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
Planet Alcatraz
NecroVisioN: Lost Company
Star Wolves
Konung 2
Men of War
A.I.M.2 Clan Wars
Parkan 2
El Matador
Ascension to the Throne
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
The Flame in the Flood
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Bomber Crew
10 Second Ninja X
The Sacred Tears TRUE
Fred3ric
Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Path to Mnemosyne
CastleStorm
Crush Your Enemies
Semblance
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Radio Commander
Boneless Zombie
Robot Squad Simulator 2017
Pretty Girls Panic!
Poker Pretty Girls Battle: Texas Hold'em
VVVVVV
Warhammer Space wolf
Blazing Chrome
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
Pang Adventures
Party Hard 2
REKT! High Octane Stunts
Thief of Thieves: Season One
Trailblazers
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Demetrios - Deluxe Edition
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues
GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Shadowhand: RPG Card Game
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
We Were Here Too
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Heroes of Hammerwatch
Leisure Suit Larry 1-7
Murder by Numbers
Redout: Enhanced Edition
Rise of Industry + 2130 DLC
Ziggurat
They Bleed Pixels
Sunblaze
Noosphere
Train Valley 1+2
Door Kickers: Action Squad
Vikings - Wolves of Midgard
Vambrace: Cold Soul
The Void
The Vagrant
Republique
Nephise: Ascension
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Knock-knock
Jewel Match Atlantis Solitaire - Collector's Edition
Healer's Quest
Fictorum
A Robot Named Fight!
Skautfold Chapters 1-4
Hero of the Kingdom: Trilogy
198X
Danger Scavenger
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Dread X Collection
Going Under
My Lovely Daughter
Rage in Peace
Flashback
Garfield Kart
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy
Black Moon Chronicles
Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy
Red Riding Hood - Star Crossed Lovers
Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition
Sinking Island
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
Occultus - Mediterranean Cabal
Gevaudan
Windscape
Ultra Space Battle Brawl
Through the Woods
This is the Zodiac Speaking
The Uncertain: Light At The End
The Uncertain - The Last Quiet Day
Tales
Tales of the Neon Sea
Styx: Master of Shadows
She and the Light Bearer
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
A Wolf in Autumn
The Music Machine
Jalopy
Insane 2
Clustertruck
Antigraviator
All-Star Fruit Racing
Constructor Plus
Ice Lakes
Knights of Pen & Paper 2
Victoria II
Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Band of Bastards
Kingdom Come: Deliverance – From the Ashes
Mindustry
VR Games |
House Flipper VR |
Telefrag VR |
Slinger VR |
Wishlist
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2023.06.03 20:11 calvin324hk [H] 800+ games/DLCs/VR Games [W] Games/Paypal/TF2 Offers
https://www.reddit.com/IGSRep/comments/pikmri/calvin324hks_igs_rep_page/ https://www.reddit.com/sgsflaicomments/of2wzu/flair_profile_ucalvin324hk/ Region: NA (Canada) Price are in
USD. Fees on buyer.
CTRL + F to find your games in terms of name
Humble Keys <------
Click Here to see a full list of humble keys Yakuza: Like a Dragon Legendary Hero Edition
Two Point Hospital
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Trek to Yomi
Shadow Warrior 3
BATTLETECH MERCENARY COLLECTION
BATTLETECH Shadow Hawk Pack
Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition
Knights of Pen and Paper - Haunted Fall
KNIGHTS OF PEN AND PAPER 2 - DELUXIEST EDITION
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Here Be Dragons
Deathloop
Hell Let Loose
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
F1 2019 Anniversary Edition
Valkryia Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
Mafia Definitive Edition
Mordhau
Back 4 Blood
Little Hope
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Visage
death stranding
Slay the Spire
Praey for the Gods
Degrees of Separation
Ghostrunner
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Control Ultimate Edition
Encore Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Hyper Light Drifter
Dirt 5
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Kentucky Route Zero - Season Pass Edition
Dreamfall Chapters
Wuppo
Human: Fall Flat
Northgard
The Witness
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
MO:Astray
Metro Exodus
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition
Super Mag Bot
Blade Assault
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
TOEM
Backbone
GreedFall
Wasteland 3
GAS STATION SIMULATOR
IN SOUND MIND
MIND SCANNERS
EMILY IS AWAY <3
OMNO
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Banners of Ruin
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Legend of Keepers
Yes, Your Grace
Endzone - A World Apart
60 Parsecs
XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
PGA 2K21
Bioshock Collection
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Collector's Edition
JUST CAUSE 4: COMPLETE EDITION
Plague tale
Gas station simulator
Mind scanners
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DEADLOCK SEASON ONE
Gamedec
Command & Conquer Remastered (Origin)
Surviving The Aftermath
Genesis Noir
Dirt Rally 2.0
Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle |
Gang Beasts |
Tinkertown |
Cloud Gardens |
Blightbound |
Stick Fight: The Game |
Railway Empire |
Mad Experiments: Escape Room |
ibb & obb Double Pack |
The Falconeer |
Truberbrook |
At Eve's Wake |
Interrogation: You will be deceived |
Hoplegs |
Cannibal Cuisine |
Necronator: Dead Wrong |
Awesomenauts All Nauts pack |
1993 Space Machine |
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I |
ChromaGun |
Baby Dino Adventures |
Click and Slay |
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon |
Cosmonautica |
Crash Drive 2 |
Dimension Drive |
The Way |
Explosionade |
Gelly Break Deluxe |
Guppy |
Journey For Elysium |
Last Resort Island |
Lumini |
Marooners |
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD |
Pizza Connection 3 |
Pressure Overdrive |
Renowned Explorers: International Society |
Tales of the Tiny Planet |
TaniNani |
THE CORRIDOR |
AWAKE - Definitive Edition |
Treasure Temples |
Shu |
Combat Tested |
Unexplored |
Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King |
Circles |
Killer Bundle 25 |
From Space |
Breathedge |
Police Stories |
DOOM 64 |
Arise: A Simple Story |
Patron |
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition |
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition |
Turok |
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil |
THE GAME OF LIFE 2 |
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience |
DESOLATE |
The Hong Kong Massacre |
Death and Taxes |
Lair of the Clockwork God |
AMID EVIL |
Just Die Already |
I Am Fish |
Golf Gang |
Hypnospace Outlaw |
Dark Deity |
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus |
DUSK |
River City Girls |
Other Games
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
Chess Ultra
Godstrike
Home Sweet Home
Neighbours back From Hell
Pathologic 2
SAMUDRA
STRANGER
Songbird Symphony
The Invisible Hours
I am Bread
Hotshot Racing
Autonauts
Door Kickers: Action Squad
Iconoclasts
Patch Quest
Tunche
For The King
Abandon Ship
Book of Demons
PC Building Simulator
Pile Up! Box by Box
Snooker 19
Speed Limit
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Youtubers Life
Dex
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship
V-Rally 4
PlateUp!
Turbo Golf Racing
Eternal Threads
The Last Campfire
Kingdom Two Crowns
Indivisible
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
Field of Glory II
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure
Soul Axiom Rebooted
A Little Golf Journey
Murder by Numbers
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Songbringer
STONE
Rescue Party: Live!
Rise of the Slime
Steel Rats™
Hue
Teacup
Perfect
Arcade Paradise - Arcade Paradise EP
Strange Brigade
Sifu Deluxe Edition Upgrade Bundle (EPIC)
AVICII Invector: Encore Edition
10 Second Ninja X
The Indie Mixtape
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Heroes of Hammerwatch
Monster Slayers - Complete Edition
My Big Sister
Red Ronin
Heal
Cat Lady - The Card Game
Undungeon
Tangledeep
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Styx: Master of Shadows
Squids Odyssey
Pendula Swing - The Complete Journey
Mists of Noyah
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf Special Edition
Undead Horde
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Stirring Abyss
Scarlet Tower
Blood And Zombies
One More Island
Doorways: Prelude / Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Slain: Back from Hell
Lucius/Lucius 2/Lucius 3/Lucius Demake
Aragami
Deliver Us The Moon
Anuchard
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Darkwood
Intravenous
Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Survive the Nights
Blasphemous
Unto The End
NUTS
Cat Quest
Cosmic Star Heroine
Degrees of Separation
Pure Farming 2018
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER
Syberia/Syberia II/Syberia 3
The Innsmouth Case
Tinytopia
Sniper ghost warrior contracts
Trine 4
Risen 3
Shadowgate
How to Survive
FORCED
Psychonauts
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf Special Edition
Sniper Elite 3 + Season Pass DLC
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 - Season Pass Edition
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Strange Brigade Deluxe Edition
Call of Duty® Modern Warfare 3™
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition
Amnesia: Rebirth
PGA 2k21
Jurassic World Evolution
Darksiders Genesis
Endless Space® 2 - Digital Deluxe Edition
SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION VI : PLATINUM EDITION
F1 2020
Titan Quest
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Witch It
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Mighty Switch Force! Collection
Gone Home + Original Soundtrack
The WB Batman Collection
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Beholder
Beholder 2
We Were Here Together
Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
GRIP: Combat Racing *-GRIP: Combat Racing - Cygon Garage Kit *-GRIP: Combat Racing - Nyvoss Garage Kit *GRIP: Combat Racing - Terra Garage Kit *GRIP: Combat Racing - Vintek Garage Kit
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
Miscreated
Second Extinction
Survive or Die
Breathedge
Dead in Vinland
Die Young
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
How to Survive 2
The Wild Eight
One Finger Death Punch 2
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Slap City
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Layers of Fear: Masterpiece Edition
Civilization: Beyond Earth – The Collection
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Primal Carnage: Extinction
Due Process
SimpleRockets 2
Killing Floor 2
For the King
For The King: Lost Civilization Adventure Pack
Pro Cycling Manager 2020
Tour de France 2020
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Project Highrise
LAST OASIS
The Beast Inside
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Crown Trick
Discolored
Everhood
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2023.06.03 20:09 kimmey2007 California Just saw my QME - what to expect next in my case
I have a back injury from 11/21 fall at work, witnessed. Saw a doctor at a WC clinic at that time and I had PT through WC for about a month and was out of work for a month due to the facility I was injured at not accepting any restrictions. I was released from all restrictions the end of December 2021 and I hoped that the injury would resolve with return to normal activity. They wanted me back at that facility (where injury occurred), but I had other more lucrative offers.
I went back to work for another agency in January 2022. I work contract and I have worked at 3 agencies since 1/2022. My injury never fully resolved so I obtained an attorney 8/2022. I did not see a doctor until March 2023 (an anesthesiologist). I had an MRI in April 2023, which showed 5 protruding discs in the lumbar spine, various size. At L/4-L/5 "there is moderate narrowing of the right lateral recess and neural foramen touching the exiting nerve root". I was put on restrictions of no lifting, pulling, pushing 25 pounds in April 2023.
The facility I am working at is accommodating me for now and I am probably stuck with them for a while because they are extremely short staffed and they need me (someone with my skills) very badly. I would love to move on because there are many contracts that pay really well in my specialty, but probably can't right now. It is a very fine line to observe the restrictions because it is an acute care hospital setting.
QME is ordering PT and more testing. Says the injury will only get worse.
So a few questions:
What happens if this facility at some point decides to no longer accommodate me?
The QME said he was going to send me for some PT and some more testing. If I need to take time off for the PT, how is that handled? Do I use my sick time from my job or does WC pay for lost work time? I am going to try to do it on off days, but I don't know if that will be 100% possible.
Would anyone want to speculate about the possible outcome when the QME report comes back, with my particular injuries?
Hypothetically, if my injury stabilized in 6 months, could I go off restrictions? In the future I want to be able to work just one contract a year - is that reasonable to hope for?
I know some of these questions will have to wait for the report, but I am just a bit anxious and would like to be able to plan the next 6 months.
It is a bit bleak. I want to do all I can to stabilize and I am very grateful he said he is going to send me to PT.
I know I asked about the accommodations in a recent post, so apologies if this seems repetitive.
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2023.06.03 20:06 miszkah "Unraveling American Empire: From Meritocracy to Revolution, A Cautionary Tale" by ChatGPT
What happens if you extrapolate the current culture of hypersensitivity in the US, was my question. Here's what ChatGPT said:
From the dawn of the 21st century, a perceptible shift was noted in the sociopolitical landscape of the United States. A rising culture of hyper-sensitivity began to permeate through the societal fabric, ostensibly a well-intentioned response to the burgeoning awareness of historical and systemic injustices. However, as the decades passed, this sensitivity seemed to metastasize into a form of societal self-flagellation, where the objective analysis of complex issues was often lost in the depths of emotionally charged rhetoric.
To ameliorate historical inequities and foster inclusivity, policies of quotas and affirmative action were bolstered and expanded. These initiatives, initially conceived as temporary measures to address acute social injustices, gradually became sacrosanct pillars of society. Meritocratic principles, long celebrated as the bedrock of American achievement, began to be perceived as vestiges of an outdated, inequitable system.
As the century unfolded, the country's emphasis on rectifying past injustices, while noble in its intention, took a turn that many could not have predicted. The focus on societal fairness began to stifle innovation and competition, historically the nation's vital drivers. Moreover, the education system, once an arena where merit and talent were nurtured, gradually became a field of contest for identity politics, with entry to prestigious institutions often tied more to demographic factors than intellectual prowess.
Corporate America, too, felt the ripple effects. Hiring practices and promotion policies, pressured by societal expectations and legislation, prioritized representation over competence. This resulted in a generation of leaders who were often ill-equipped to navigate the rapidly evolving global economic landscape. The competencies and entrepreneurial spirit that had once distinguished American corporations began to erode.
Meanwhile, socio-economic disparity, already a simmering issue, reached a boiling point. Despite the well-intended policies and an increasingly inclusive narrative, the rich-poor divide widened. This disparity ignited a sense of disillusionment and rage among the masses who could no longer afford a decent living, further fueling the revolutionary sentiment.
By the mid-21st century, the nation found itself grappling with the unintended consequences of its pursuit for extreme social justice. In striving to create an egalitarian society, the United States had unwittingly sown the seeds of its own discord. The societal upheaval that erupted towards the close of the century marked the culmination of these brewing tensions.
In an ironic twist of fate, the lofty ideals of equity and inclusivity that had been intended to strengthen the nation ended up undermining the competencies that once defined it. This period, stretching from 2020 to 2100, serves as a complex chapter in the American narrative, highlighting the delicate balance needed between social justice and the preservation of meritocracy.
As the 22nd century dawned, the accumulation of societal tensions in the United States reached a tipping point. The repercussions of the long-term emphasis on social justice measures and the abandonment of meritocracy had created a complex tapestry of problems. These consequences had subtly undermined the American fabric, sowing discord, sapping its economic vitality, and breeding resentment among different societal factions.
The disparities in wealth became more glaring. The middle class, once the backbone of the American Dream, had dwindled, causing deep economic instability. With the vast majority of wealth concentrated in the hands of a few and an increasingly under-skilled and disheartened populace, resentment began to ferment. Protests and demonstrations became commonplace, rapidly morphing into full-scale riots as the pleas for economic justice fell on deaf ears.
Simultaneously, corporate America, now led by leaders often chosen more for their identity than competence, began to falter. American corporations, once pioneers in global business, found themselves outpaced by foreign competitors that had maintained a focus on meritocracy. Economic growth slowed, unemployment soared, and the once mighty American dollar began to stumble on the international stage.
The educational institutions, the supposed engines of upward mobility, were also severely affected. With the push for representation often surpassing the pursuit of academic excellence, American education started losing its competitive edge. The erosion of quality and the decreased emphasis on meritocracy led to a reduced production of high-skilled workers and thought leaders.
In this turmoil, societal subgroups started imploding and exploding. Identity-based factions, initially meant to encourage solidarity and representation, began turning against each other and against the establishment. The pursuit of self-interest began to eclipse the collective national interest, fracturing society along countless lines - racial, economic, professional, and cultural.
Government institutions, the pillars of the American system, buckled under the strain of internal dissent and the growing civil unrest. Trust in these institutions plummeted, and their authority was routinely challenged, resulting in a weak government incapable of effective leadership.
The political turmoil, combined with economic decline and social unrest, precipitated the collapse of the once vibrant American system. The fall was not instantaneous but rather a gradual, agonizing unraveling that played out over decades. And so, the empire, which was once a beacon of democracy and economic prowess, crumbled from within, a victim of its unchecked internal discord. The story of the downfall underscores the cautionary tale of the delicate balance between social justice and meritocracy, a balance that, when upset, can lead to devastating consequences.
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2023.06.03 20:05 Rand0mness4 Trails of Our Hatred Ch. 5
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.*~*.
Memory Transcription Subject: ? ,
run run run run run run. Date: December 2, 2136 .~*~.
I'm tired. I'm so unbearably tired. I don't remember the fall or when my legs quit working, but I'm still denied the sweet release of sleep by the fires radiating from my muscles. It's sick and twisted, but I don't think I can move any more. I'm stuck here face down in the soil, unable or unwilling to do anything but wonder if a harvesting drone will roll over me and turn me into mist on the crops I'm lost in. My mouth itches. Some loose soil in my nose makes me hack, but there's nothing I can do but wheeze and pant. There's not a drop of moisture left in me. I'm all shriveled up. Everything's a haze.
I should've stopped for water. There was time. A few ponds that didn't look filmed over with vile algae blooms. The last town had a fountain on the outskirts. There were a few distant outbuildings that could've had a sink or a hose. Really, a few mouthfuls would've been enough to keep me from cramping up. Now I feel like I'm all dried out, like a stick of fruit jerky.
I should've taken a break. I've not been able to run in so long. I knew it was getting bad, but I ignored it. I'm paying for it now. I pushed way too far. Run until I black out. Wake up. Repeat. For days and days, or however long I've been free. I don't know. Every time I wake I can't tell if minutes have passed or days. I would push myself back to my feet and run. Because distance is all that matters. I made the right call avoiding the roads. The cameras. The soles of my feet are battered and wail in pain, but for every step I took was a minute longer I got to feel the sun kiss my scales and the gentle caress of the wind upon my neck. The cool soil seeping into my burning side. Fresh air in my lungs. Faint mist on my back.
I should've calmed down. I'm wasting what little time I have left stuck here in misery. I missed my chance to escape. My saviors were predators, but it would've been a better fate. And they're everywhere. Monsters and Predators alike. The whole planet is getting what it deserves. I made my choice, but now I'm squandering it. At least the soil is nice. Even as broken as I feel, it is only temporary. I know this is heaven. I wouldn't trade it for anything else. Even if my tongue is dried and bleeding.
I.
Just.
Need.
To.
Get.
Up.
no no no no no. Hurts. Hurts hurts hurts. UP.
My body rebels. I settle on crawling. Dragging my tainted digits through the soil and forcing myself through the mud.
Puddle. Puddle Puddle Puddle. I'm glad to be alive. I'm glad for this puddle. It's my whole world. I crawl to it as quickly as my body allows and beyond, but I'm too dehydrated to cry at the lancing pain in my joints. I slip and tumble into it face first, a cold shock making me freeze up. I don't even try to drink at first, my eyes closed as I lay partially submerged in this brackish water. It makes me feel slightly better as the cold gently eases my neck muscles, and I feel the rest of my body cramping up again.
Imagine drowning in a claw of water. I'm suddenly terrified that it's possible. I throw an arm out and dig it deep into the mud, clawing silt as I awkwardly pull myself in sideways. I roll, splashing the rest of the way in and feeling my poorly treated scales weep as the cold bleeds into them. I lay my head sideways and drink, gagging at the taste but unable to stop myself. I still can't cry, but my face is still trying to produce tears anyways.
In delirium, I notice the corner of a structure well above me. It's a pole, made of metal and towering well above me. Morning dew drips off of it and into my eye not currently submerged, and I blink it away.
Thank you pole. You're a life saver. I don't plan on moving for a while, so I don't. The dew drips onto my snout several times, and my body rejoices at the cool water I've partially submerged myself in. The silt in my mouth is a necessary and tolerable evil from my desperate dive, and I angle my snout so that I can catch the fresh dew dripping from above instead. It tastes far better than the puddle, and for the first time in ever, I feel a smile creeping on my face.
.*~*.
I blink lazily, one eyelid operating a few seconds behind the other. I feel better. This blackout felt more natural, less forced. Like a gentle wave over my mind than the harsh crack of a baton. My mouth is still full of silt that I spit out, and a moment later I realize I can spit again. The bitter taste of blood in my mouth is faint now, and the joy of having a wet palate can't be described.
ow. It hurts to move. I try again, but my flesh feels like it's been filled with concrete. My muscles are too tight on my bones. Stiffly, I try again, making little progress, but still progress. I edge out a claw at a time, barely getting my neck out of the pool before collapsing, the chilly waters leaving me shivering.
Where am I? A very good question, I ask myself. I don't know. That's the cost of running without direction for so long. I think I'm in a field, judging by the crops looking over me and encompassing my wide vision of the vibrant sky overhead.
Yeah... that's it. I'm in a field. Brilliant observation skills. I try again, but nothing new comes up. For the first time since I fled, I think about what I'm going to do. I'm free.
I'm free. What am I going to do now that I'm free? How long do I have? I know the answer to that already. I have a long time. Everybody that knew me is dead and gone. I just need to be careful and not ruin this chance. I should try and find a town. Cities are too big, too many problems could come up. Too many exterminators. I could start over off the beaten path. Somewhere I can hide in plain sight.
This is Sillis. Being me shouldn't be an issue. I... I can get a labor job somewhere. Change my name. What can I do? ... What can
I do? What is
my name? "Oh dear." I whispered quietly to myself, brows furrowing. Odd. How odd. I can move on from that. Makes starting a new life easier. Something that isn't four walls and a paper thin mattress. Something outside. I just... need to get... out of this darn puddle. No, still not happening. Ouch.
I splash my paw into the puddle in frustration, using about the full range of motion I seem capable of in a mild fit. I want to stay on the move, but the consequences of my poor decision making have come back to bite me right on the rear. At least I have some time to think.
I could try the lumber industry. That's usually away from people. I think I can figure out how to knock down trees, or at least fix up the machines that can. Maybe I can join a farm around here once I'm cleaned up. There's always something to do on a farm. Like counting shipments, or unloading shipments, or loading them. Maybe I can fix things around the property. Golly, I hope I know how to fix the automated machinery. That would really be nice. Ooh! I could try and be a tram service maintenance operator. Wait, no no no. That requires background checks, I think. Darn it. Uuuh, road utility services? No, that'll take me into cities one way or another. There's a ton of work with drainage systems and water run off here. I could get good money for that since it's risky. Pollutants, constant thundering streams of water. I think I can go with that. There would be a lot of rural investigations that I could apply for. If not, I'm certain the underground construction projects would bear fruit. I'll miss the sun but nobody would bother me too much... no, still too many people. Drainage systems it is! A faint whistle catches my ear and I freeze, tilting my head as something green flies just overhead. It clips several stalks and leaves as it passes, but seems unbothered as the severed branches fall to the ground and leaves gently cascade after. I follow its path with an eye and it vanishes between some tall plants, leaving me alone just as quickly as-
Nope, the same thing floats by again, darting between crops once more directly above me. It's odd, I can't hear wing beats or buzzing, or see anything keeping it airborne as it passed, and I wait with baited breath to see if it shows itself again. I don't know what I feel, but it isn't terror. It's... something. Curiosity? This time I hear a chirrup, but it's close. I don't see it float by, and painfully I crane my neck and look at the other side of the puddle.
It's an insectoid of some kind, strangely wide and flat. It looks pretty similar to the leaves on the many trees that I've seen since I got out, with uneven, tapered sides. It has a few pairs of legs, and it scuttles to the puddle and dips the front of its body towards the surface. It really does look like a large leaf, but my observation is cut short when the bug abruptly stops moving within barely a claw of the water, a pair of forward facing compound eyes snug against the stem near the tip of its body. It chirps again, and I see narrow maw under the front of this creature, a slim set of fangs briefly glinting in the sun before its mandibles hide them.
"Oh dear." I manage to whisper.
With remarkable dexterity it hops across the body of water and splashes down on top of me, and several legs grip my ribs and arms. My tail flicks under the water's surface, but I don't move as the thing's maw looms over my snout. A smaller set of feelers touch my scales and let it guide where it can't see, and it pecks at my nostril once. I smell ozone and feel a different fire burn in my core, and relax.
This isn't ideal. It really isn't. But it's still better that what once was. You won't hurt me for too long. You're better than they ever were. Trading my cell for this... it's not that scary. Somehow, despite this predator straddling me and chewing on my snout, I'm not scared of it. I have alarms shrieking in my ears and ozone burning my nostrils and wrists. Bubbly poison twisting my insides and making me gag. I'm terrified of that, but that's long gone. That broken visage cuts deep, but it leaves me feeling empty. I'm alone with this thing pecking at my skull, occasionally chirping or hissing softly as it chews over my scales.
It's little mandibles flutter over my cheek and squish it, the fangs behind it pricking at my scales but never really puncturing. It's odd, almost exploratory. I hear a faint plip as some dew from the pole overhead drips onto the creature, and it leans back slightly to presumably look up. It lowers back down on me, and I wince as it gets a little rougher. It halts for a moment, mandibles still dancing over my scales, before I feel a set of legs slip past my arms and latch onto my back.
I grit my teeth, expecting it to finally lunge down and bite into my flesh as the rest of it's body tenses, but with a start it lifts me up with strength I didn't think it had. My back scrapes along the mud as it lifts me and drags me partially out of the muck. It lowers me down just as quickly as it started, leaving a bit of my upper body out of the water and in the warm air. I blink as it lowers its body down onto my own, legs tightening its grip on me as it presses itself against me. It chirrups again and resumes nibbling on my neck, and my mind absently puzzles over this change of events.
It's roosting on me. Is it my body heat? I feel cold, but maybe it's colder. I wish I knew what you were. I'm glad you're not really biting me. It tickles, stop! I couldn't help but squeak out a laugh, despite the very present danger I was in. The bug tensed for a moment but didn't sink its fangs into my neck, and after a moment it resumed licking at me. Slowly, it's legs tightened on my body and it pressed itself against me further, and it hissed softly. I closed my eyes when it's maw pressed against me, but once again no bite split me open and drained my lifeblood. It's mandibles tickled my scales some more as the creature flattened out, the ridges of its body laying in the mud as it settled down. I was all but buried under the thing that was almost as big as me, and my tail swished lightly in the water.
Once again, I find myself stuck. I wasn't going anywhere anyways, but now I'm very stuck. Hopefully it doesn't get peckish. This thing could definitely eat me if it wanted to. It's funny that I'm supposed to fear it. All those training exercises failed. Every test and experiment. Maybe it enforced the wrong behavior. I think I might've been respectfully afraid of this creature once, but that part of me is all burned up. If it existed at all.
.~*~.
I've missed the novelty of clouds. Sillis has an overabundance of them, but so far I've been lucky that none of the ones passing overhead were angry. It's almost odd that no rain has come, but I'm glad. I faintly remember that the rains could become acidic if there's too long a pause between storms. Too much smoke or warp residue building up in the atmosphere.
So far I've counted two absolutely towering thunderheads and small storm systems roll by in all their stunning glory, and dozens of smaller offsets in their wake. Hundreds of individual clouds dot the skies, not quite blanketing it yet. It's pleasant, even within the grasp of a large, sleeping predator that's fully enveloped me. I can feel it's diaphragm shifting ever so slightly on my chest, and it twitches occasionally.
I don't mind. For now, things are peaceful. I'm enjoying that. At least, until something crunched a few rows over.
That sounds a lot bigger than this predator. The creature shifts slightly but doesn't wake as whatever else is out there stalks through the crops. It has to be a predator, from how quiet it moves. Every little rustle and faint step happen far from each other, and my mind immediately jumps to an ambush hunter. Carefully, I move my head to catch a glimpse of the thing, trying not to disturb the slumbering creature that is currently resting it's mouth on my neck. My scales fade into a dirty black that matches the soil, and I squint to hide my eyes from whatever is out there.
There's movement on my left, something tall shifting between the crops a few rows down. I hear a rumbling noise- a deep based growl, and the back of my skull itches.
"...D-1?"
No no no no no. I don't want to go back. I want to be free. I know what the thing is. It's a new predator. A sapient one. The same ones that freed me. The same ones that wanted to herd me onto a ship. I can't do this. Sapient predators are cruel, far crueler than the average ones. A normal predator wasn't personal about the kill. It could be reasoned with.
Where did that come from? A sapient predator was ruthless for entertainment.
I owe them my life. They'll just take it. There's a rustle from a different direction, and a behemoth steps out of the crops far closer to me than I would prefer. It is armored like the many I've seen before, but I realize instead of a firearm it wields a bulky tool of some kind tightly in its paws. It dawns on me that it's colors are different, green and blue instead of solid blue, and there's a colorful flag of some kind pressed on the garments of its arm.
"Copy." It rumbled quietly.
"Crikey, you spooked me there!" the other predator whispered, changing course. Thankfully the closest one broke off to meet it, and they stopped one row over. It was best I stay still. Their hearing was better than they let on. "Okay, did you get it done?"
I can't see them clearly, but some non verbal communication must have occurred because the one predator continues speaking.
"Good. Look, trouble is coming. A fellow seppo noticed the ordinance went missing. He's suspicious. There'll be heat soon. Have you made any progress with the other front?" A pause. "Same. I've dealt with several of his goons, but none knew anything good."
"I'll have him tonight."
"...D-1?"
"An exterminator account and reversed polarity on some switches works wonders."
"...you seppos are terrifying."
"We're a world power for a reason."
"...yeah. Do you have the drive? Nice. You keep this up and we'll have everything we need from this planet before Christmas. We're going to make things right." There's an odd grunt, and one of them starts rumbling quietly in what translates as amusement. "Involved in peace. What do they really think this accomplishes?"
"Don't care. We find our whales and move on."
"Come on, we can have some more fun if we're careful! Don't act like that doesn't entertain you after that bomber plot of yours!"
"S-4," there's an undertone in that growl that makes my scales shrink, "remember the prize."
"...God, you're a hard ass. Fine. I'm certain you're carrying that giant wrench for peaceful reasons and not to crack open any skulls out here. I'll check the smuggling routes. Rig up something to keep these bugs under our thumb. You keep being you. I need to move before they notice I'm gone."
Faint footsteps leading away, and I sighed. While brief, just being around them made my scales crawl-
The crops right beside me parted, and the other predator stepped out. It's covered foot splashed into the puddle, and stirred the predator enveloping me. Much to my horror the thing chirruped and hissed, releasing me and spinning around. The apex predator looked down at the smaller thing and regarded it.
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The drawing on the mask was comical, and not at all what I was expecting. Most humans didn't wear masks, so blinding terror didn't sweep me away. I almost laughed at the absurdity of concealing one's face, only to make a lazy drawing of a face overtop of it.
The smaller predator didn't find it nearly as confusing or entertaining as I did, and hissed. The apex didn't falter, but surprisingly held its ground despite being threatened by a lesser predator.
Most predators would make a threat back and assert itself. Or lash out. What is this one up too? It's not acting submissive so it isn't backing down. But it isn't retaliating either. Does it need to? It's using it's own size as a deterrent. My thoughts are interrupted when my toothy cover abruptly spins and flees, gaining air under its body and become airborne. It slashes through a row of crops and is gone, just like how it arrived. The apex still hasn't moved. It takes a few steps forward, nearing me. I can't tell if it's looking at me or not so I close my eyes tight, hoping that my eyes hadn't given me away. There's a thump right beside me and I flinch. I can feel it's presence. It has stopped walking.
It knows. Somehow it sees me. It knows it knows it knows. Something warm grazes my neck and I flinch again, despite myself. I can't do it. I don't want to die with my eyes closed. I want to see the sun and the clouds and the crops, not this faux darkness.
I open my eyes and it's right there, crouched over me. I can't bother with wasting my energy by screaming. It saw through my camouflage and had a paw to my neck. I wished it to be merciful and just strike me down with the wrench it brought, but it doesn't. Instead it plunges its paw into the water, under my rump. It rips me out of the water and I gasp as its other paw slips down under my shoulders and lifts, but my mind catches up a moment later when it pressed me against it's chest instead of its mouth, forsaking my exposed stomach. It's grip loosens slightly and it adjusts, an arm under my shoulder blades and legs. I can feel the muscles rippling in it's grip, and how easily it could fold me over backwards and squish me. I've seen it first hand.
But it's so gently. So unbelievably gentle. I don't remember the last time I was touched like this. Something in a dark recess of my mind wavered, and I realized I'd curled my tail around the creature's arm without meaning to. It holds me a little closer, nowhere near enough to hurt, and my scales start to change to match the colors it wears. It's not looking at me, the mask is angled too far up. We're moving at a blinding pace suddenly, the rows of crops blurring in my vision. It doesn't stop. This apex runs like a machine, each breath consistent and calculated to a rhythm I notice. Its breathing labors but it keeps going, warm jets of air spitting out the bottom of its mask and onto my soggy, damp form.
It's so warm. I didn't realize the chill of the water until now but I'm shivering. My body takes over for my confused mind and curls into the predator's grasp, trying to get as much warmth from the human's rough garments as I can. I don't know what's come over me. I don't know where it's taking me. I don't care. I can't escape it, and if this thing kills me it was at least kind enough to be gentle.
The skies are so beautiful. I try and focus on them but all I can really see is the predator's mask. I can see the bottom of it's jaw, the taught muscles there. I dread what its face looks like in this moment under that mask. Its digits tighten on my shoulder and side in response to me curling into it, and absently I wonder how this predator is the same as the ones from days ago with their thundering bellows and ruthless firepower.
The apex thunders out of the field and I'm assaulted by new sights. There's a few dozen of them roving around a clearing by several vehicles.
I also spot an Exterminator's van, and my claws unsheathe. The predator winces and I realize I've nailed him with them, but he doesn't throw me down or bark at me. He sprints by the van without stopping, but I see several Tilfish locked inside and doomed to a terrible fate worse than being eaten.
"Ambulance!?" It barks sharply, out of breath. It skids to a stop beside one of the transports, clutching me firmly.
"Just left with the patient. Where the hell did this one come from?" An unmasked predator growled, eyes beady and looking over me. Mine made an odd jerking motion and continued.
"Get Doc."
"I will. What hospital are we calling?" The thought of a clinical space makes me flinch. White walls. White floors. Cold tiles. Needles. Beeping. Humming. Frying.
"None. Operational security."
The other predator screwed its face up and departed, and abruptly mine was sitting down on the back of one of the trucks. Gently I was plopped down on its lap, and I watched transfixed as it peeled its armor off, then its outer garment. There's an image of a veiled human on the back with its eyes closed, head craned down. Its hands are clasped together in thought, and the meaning of it goes over my head.
The predator is a lot smaller than I thought it was. It gently lifts me and set me in the garment, before it starts wiping me down with it. I'm too sore to fight it, and the cloth is exceptionally warm from the creature's body heat. It pulls me closer and holds me in a way that makes my chest hurt, and it looks out at an approaching predator. It rumbles softly.
"You're going to be okay."
My body relaxes despite my mind's warnings. I'm wrapped up in this garment it wore. I can't escape it. But it's warm. The material soaks up the water on my skin, and wipes away the grime and muck I've accumulated over the days. Slowly, my scales begin to shift again, bleeding back to my normal tan coloration.
"Did something finally bite you Sunshine? I haven't seen you run like that in- oh-kay." The approaching predator flinched when it got close and tensed up.
It wants to eat me. This one- Sunshine- it won't let it without a fight. Are they going to eat me? Sunshine won't. Right? "I thought there was only one victim." The predator rumbled after a moment, creeping closer. I shrank into the material and took on it's color, only for a warm paw to settle on my arm.
"You're fine." Sunshine whispered. It looked up at the approaching predator and jerked its head awkwardly. "There is. Look at it. Do you see it too?"
Gently, it lifted my arm. I was too stiff to pull it back, not that I could've against its powerful grip. I was completely exposed to this other predator.
"Relax. Please." Sunshine whispered once more. The growl was soft, and I looked up at the mask above me. The grip on my arm was careful, I realized. I could pull away right now. Slowly, my scales lightened. The other predator leaned in closer and I flashed white and yellow briefly, but Sunshine propped me up a bit and started gently poking at sore parts of my body. My ribs. My neck. "Here. And... and here."
The other predator's eyes seemed to get bigger. Something deeper changed in its face. "Holy shit." It made to move forward and I reeled back, pressing myself further into Sunshine. The predator immediately froze and slunk back.
"He can help." Sunshine rumbled softly.
Oh dear. Oh dear. It touched me. It's diminutive nails didn't rend into my scales as it touched my ribs, prodding them softly. Sunshine adjusted how it sat so that the other predator could have better access to me, and I couldn't help but focus on the skies again as it assessed what part of me it wanted.
Sunshine won't let it eat me. I don't know where the thought came from, but it was firm. I believed it entirely. Even though Sunshine was a sapient predator, it wouldn't let it happen. Maybe it claimed me as its own already. I... I had doubts I would be eaten. The thoughts were there, but Sunshine had a perfect chance already. Unless it wanted to flaunt its catch first, which the Arxur did- but it was gentle. Sunshine was better than an Arxur.
"Malnourished, deep sores. Ulcers. There's bruising up and down the rib cage. Jesus- sorry."
"They're old. Persistent. Its feet."
"What about..." The predator got quiet. I felt my scales shift in worry as it gingerly lifted one of my legs. It remained quiet, but its face stretched further. "What happened?"
It was looking at me. Asking me. I shrank further into the fabric, but there was nowhere to go. The silence was unbearable, and I started trembling.
The silence continued.
"A runaway." Sunshine rumbled after forever. I didn't understand what that meant. My translator didn't pick it up quite right. Run-away? Like fleeing? Was that what these predators called their prey? No... no that didn't seem right. It was possible, but...
"Could have been kidnapped." Another word I didn't understand, but my translator worked on the other predator. Stealing a person by force? Using fear outside of the law? How did predators have such a word? "We need to get it to the hospital. Figure out what happened and how it ended up in this field."
NO NO NO NO NO Sunshine's arms draped over me before I could escape, my attempt no better than a drunk Mazic trying to fit through a Venlil sized door. I couldn't stop the whine in my throat, but its soft digits down my back froze me. A subtle noise filtered out behind the mask, and it settled me back down in its garment. It picked up an edge lined with little metal teeth and draped it over me, blocking my sight from the other predator. I felt safe, suddenly. Sunshine's firm grip on my body didn't feel threatening. It felt like a promise, as it carefully pulled me against it's bulk. I was warm, despite my terror.
"Zuda will handle it. No hospitals. This stays with us."
"Sunshine," the other predator protested, "we need to figure out what happened!"
"Think, Doc." Sunshine growled, and this was no doubt a warning. I felt relief that the difference between the two growls was so obvious.
"What?"
"
Think. Use your head."
There was a period of silence. "You don't... that can't be right." I didn't understand what conclusion it made.
"The injuries are uniform. Too clean to be anything else."
They can't know. How can they know? "We need confirmation!"
"We already have it." Sunshine stated, and slowly the fabric was lifted off of my head. I blinked, and noticed that the other predator had changed a different shade.
That's odd. Are you predators like me? That's terrifying. I'm not a threat. I'm me. "It reacted to the van and mention of a hospital, Doc. Nobody outside the UN hears of this. Operational security."
It... does Sunshine know? How do they know? "What the fuck is this planet, Sunshine?" The other predator lamented.
Sunshine didn't respond. He looked around at the surrounding encampment, and I realized it was shrinking. They were leaving. A few other predators were subtly watching as they worked, but I doubted they could hear the conversation with how quiet it was. I realize there's a few Venlil in their ranks, unbothered by their presence and even wearing garments similar to the predators around them.
A digit tapped the end of my snout and I flinched, looking up at Sunshine. It's paw retracted as the other predator withdrew a medical kit with a paw print on it and began to unclasp it. "You're safe. We're... we're going to help."
You know. You know what I am. And you're helping me anyway. Why are you helping me? I'm weak. I'm dangerous. But not to you. You're an apex. Is that why? Does your species stick together, unlike the Arxur? Do you uplift those around you, no matter if they're prey or dangerous? The Venlil are not afraid of you. You must not eat them. What do you eat? It has to be meat. But, it must be something that they can handle. Does what makes me dangerous fall away under your hierarchy? I hope it does. It doesn't seem real. I guess to you, what makes me a threat is meaningless. I believe Sunshine. I really do. When the other predator comes forward with a healing gel, I surrender.
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2023.06.03 20:03 Mission-Raccoon9432 Character Study: The Full Truth about Gorou Amamiya or Aqua Hoshino feat. DVD, 15-Year Lie Movie, the Culprit . PART V
https://preview.redd.it/ifbb5j3m4u3b1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=9244cad71446aec443e9035826fe39a0b88f7024 Welcome to PART V of our indepth Gorou Amamiya slash Aqua Hoshino character study slash theory slash plot preditction slash literally my obsession :) To start off we'll quickly recap the content of the last 4 parts. If you are new here I highly suggest to read into PART I's introduction as it tells you everything we want to archive with this study series.
We are already at the end of this journy, as we can - now after 4 parts of meaningful and important build up - finally look at Aqua's current actions in an entirely new challenging perspective. It is still my conviction that if we don't appreciate Aqua's struggle on it's full scale we won't fully grasp the Cathasis that follows his tragedy, which - under the impression that Aka is cooking some really good stuff - would be a real shame. Aqua is the most active plot-shaping protagonist, understanding the depthness of his actions is almost identical to understand the actual plot itself. For that matter as expressed in PART I I hope this series might enhance some people's future chapter reading experience and transform hostility towards Aqua into tragic compassion.
PART I - Who is Gorou Amamiya?
- Why is he obsessed over the Idol Ai Hoshino?
- Gorou's longing for love
- Gorou's suppressed trauma passed down to Aqua
- Why doesn't he warn her about the culprit?
- What's the difference between his and Ruby's relation to Ai?
- What exactly is the meaning of Ai's death to Gorou?
- Is he really guilty?
PART II - Why does he feel guilty?
- The guilt-complex actually a trauma of Gorou?
- Why is Gorou not guilty?
- Gorou's mother vs. Ai
- Gorou's Grandfather and his influence on Gorou's trauma
- Aqua's delusion as consequence of Gorou's guilt-complex
- The Crow Girl as a therapist and guide
- Self-realization vs. indoctrination
PART III - Intermezzo - - Exploration of symbols and meanings at the beginning of the story
- The Sanatorium and the Cure for Entertainment and the Heroe's Journey
- A sick and poisened entertainment industry
- What is the connection between Gorou, Sarina and Ai on that symbolic level?
- Who is the main antagonist to the Goddess of Entertainment?
- Ai's transformation from Venus to Maria
- Ai's love, Ai's legacy and Ai's wish
PART IV - Ai's wish in full detail
- Ai's and Gotanda's vision
- Ruby's future as an Idol Aqua's as an actor
- Aqua's acting skill
- Aqua's "Director's Eye" genius
- What is Aqua's fundamental misunderstanding?
PART V We will analyze his manipulations beginning from C95 until C119 as an ongoing efford to prepare his role as the movie's culprit. Everything Aqua does serves this end. It's what I called in last episode his "Director's Eye" that sets the stage to force a certain outcome with this movie which will let Hikaru Kamiki suffer and at the same time destroy Aqua too. In this regard the last episode's analysis of his TV-Series role in "I'll want it sweet today" turns out to almost be a blueprint for what is actually happening right now: Aqua generates content, directs the emotions and feeling of all actors who take part in the movie to get them as complice to the story Aqua himself wants to tell as possible. He envisioned "intent that can't be put into words" yes, Aqua's intent, since we found out with undeniable certainty that his story does not reflect Ai's true wish at all. Although he things it does and by that enters a path of disaster.
In this essay we also kinda come back to our roots and core strength of this study overall:
Psychology, a bit of ethics and philosohpy.
HIS NAME IS * After a rather boring and stagnate interum period for Aqua during which he thought his revenge is over he gets redpilled by Ichigo. As it turns out his story is
chronologically impossible. Ai's murderer is still alive. After his awakening in the rain we essentially have a significant timeskip until Akane's red carpet event. During this timeskip Aqua installed a GPS tracker on her.
As you recall in their little showdown in which Aqua told her to back the f up he told her that he wired her sometime after his love for her ended. When he learned how ridiculousness his blind believe in Taiki's story was, he understood that a sharp mind like Akane for sure wasn't fooled at all. She knew about the fundamental flaw in Aqua's belief but wouldn't tell him for selfish reasons: Out of protection as she puts it and out of desire for Aqua to stabilize so he can focus on her instead of his revenge. Aqua felt betrayed and manipulated.
However he concludes that in the improbable case in which she finds something out she would probably go about it behind his back. To keep track with her he installed the device. It wasn't expected to be fruitful but the chance was still there. And since I don't believe that the events just all followed one after another - this would be too much of weird coincidences - I proposed that there was a significant timeskip between him installing the tracker on her and Akane's first contact with Hikaru's white roses.
Since this whole deal between Aqua and Akane had led to some confusion in the community I just wanted to give my personal take on how it went down the most coherent and logical way and therefore explain in advance how - in contrast to what will follow - this incident was not directly planned but just anticipated or hoped for by Aqua. However in the next paragraphs we will look into his personal involvement as prep for the movie.
https://preview.redd.it/2pcv45k4ps3b1.jpg?width=1765&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=235c371130d7f515927302e2b88a27cb3da884cf Additionally the separation from Akane is important to highlight his conviction. This is the first time we see his awakened two black starry eyes, so this scene serves as a warning signal: Shit is about to go down. "I can't go back anymore. I have no choice but to take this road" - it's basically the premonition that from now on there are absoluty no more compromises in terms of his own destruction. Well, we will later see how the helping and selfless ambivalence of Gorou's soul will have a saying in that too.
But what can we overall expect? Is there anything to grasp?Well, yes! Lets look at Ruby for that matter. Maybe her arc during Aqua's hiatus literally served to insert the capability of a double starry black eyes. We've learned how ruthless Ruby was with Her unprecendented fast rise as both an idol but also as the main driving force in that cosplay-scandal to sneak to the top had the function to educate us that people with those eyes are highly creative and effective in such dirty games.
Under this light it becomes tangible to which extent Aqua is capable to plot. Aqua - a guy whose intellect, dead serious conviction and amount of information versus Ruby's is unquestionable superior.
THE GREAT PLAN
"The curtain for the final scene has already risen. I can't go back now that ...the Article about Ai was been published" (Aqua to Ichigo after Ai's secret got exposed)
We have to look at the plot backwards because what we as the reader might know right now as of C119 was essentially known to Aqua himself right from the start, since he is 15 years old.... Thus the information gap that we had back then when for the first time experiencing the Chapters after his awakening are highly deceptive while at the same time when we reflect them with the knowledge we have now they are incredibly coherent and any commentary Aqua does follows a tight schedule of his great plan and makes perfect sense.
Now of course we have to talk about
Aqua's DVD. We know that Aqua received it by age 15 and it probably contains in one way or another following infos:
- Aqua receives this DVD in case Ai doesnt live anymore
- She worked on a documentary with Gotanda. Gotanda holds video files in his possesion that reveal her backstory and true self and while this real self is in total opposition to her public perception (and the perception her children share for that matter too) she wants it to be made public when they turn 15 - essentially when they are old enough to handle the truth -> "15-Year Lie"
- In the case something happened to her and the documentary wasn't released she wants them to release it / release it in form of a movie perhaps.
I believe that the documentary/movie is content of Aqua's DVD because Gontanda used it in his dialog with Ruby as a sufficient reason that Aqua is not to blame but ultimately also not Gotanda for that matter. Essentially the DVD had to cover her wish to release the files too and not just the secret about her kids otherwise Ruby woud literally flip out about their plans to make a movie. He in fact was actually suprised that Ruby is not involved yet. Heckin' siscon!
Essentially with Aqua's DVD Ai passed down her legacy to Aqua. He is from there on entitled to speak with Gotanda about that, as he is aware of his involvement with Ai to produce such documentary. I can't say if he watched those recordings or read the script behind Gotanda's back while working at his place but at least he definitely knew these exist and that Gotanda promised her to propose a movie if her secret about her kids gets exposed. However Aqua had no intention to progress this yet. When he turned 15 he was already for 10 years working out his own plans regarding his biological father. So when he got that DVD he already was preoccupied by both his trauma and the legitimation of following through his own plan.
He postponed her wish to release her truth until he got his father's identity figured out.
The fact that he ignored the content of his DVD during his "hiatus" when he thought his father is dead goes to show how self absorbed he is about this whole thing. But at the same time this is absolutely coherent with the underlaying psyche that predispostions Aqua's mind and was inherited from Gorou, because the core misunderstanding that evolves around her death scene is that Gorou - instead of realizing the truthfull reenactment of his mother's unconditonal love - found himself guilty of his mother's death when she gave birth to him and thus perceived the reenacted wonder as a violent reenacted curse, instead self-realiztation and salvation from his guilt-complex, he perceived the "final scene" as a reason to trigger the most self-destructing form of his trauma.
There is actually also a common theme here and that's his inability at some point to stay
chronolically coherent inside his deluted belief system. We witnessed it for the first time after his mental abusement through the Tokyo Blade stage play where his exhausted mind after a month of hardship was released by that far too easy to refute proclamation of his father's death. At this point he was mentally so drained that he accepted this story -
he accepted it because it fitted his own state of mind at that time the best. Now in regard to Ai's wish its a similar phenomenom overall. Because in the deduction of her true wish or "intetion of the author" (which we figured out in the last PART should actually be Aqua's core strength hence the "Director's Eye") Aqua should have to take the murder itself out of the equation of analysis. Ai didn't anticipated to die in that way and most directly in her last words she did'nt anticipate for Aqua to die through his revenge plot. The message and legacy she passed down on the DVD
before she died and the spirit that drove her to record that documentary with Gotanda
before she died reflect her true wish in her last intimate words towards her kids
when she died. But Aqua's deluted absorbtion by revenge on himself through his guilt-complex sets her murder as the fundamental premise to deduce her true wish, while her true wish was formulated without even thinking about her murder as some token of it. Aqua's understanding of her true wish is in this sense again chronologically impossible to be true,
because it again fitted his own state of mind at this time. When Ai's secret was exposed however Aqua immediately contacted Gotanda and showed him the content of his DVD. This also explains why Gontanda could mention the DVD in front of Ruby. Aqua basically came on "fai" terms with Gontanda, explained to him that he knows the whole time etc. With that Aqua maneuvered himself into the script writing, which is basically his intention overall. His "Director's Eye" kicks here in. Since he thinks only he understands Ai's true wish he has to rework Gontanda's script as fits his own vision. I think the fact that he was actually present at the real "
final scene" when the culprit killed Ai gave him leverage to persuade Gotanda to turn the movie into an actual tragedy and not a documentary. In fact it was Aqua who includes the final scene and probably argues that this final scene is literally the essential content to fulfill Ai's wish. So again we see his delution as mentioned the paragraph before. Thus he proposed to rewrite the script and add the final scene, and maybe even a
backstory for the culprit. ( maybe even Hikaru's backstory that only Aqua and Akane know about, thus Akane understands Aqua plan? Remember that Akane would casually drop the info during her research that when you know a name of a person you can find out his whole existence. I think this implies that Aqua can figure out his personal info as well and probably did in preperation before even Ai's secret went public. Thus we have to prepare for the fact that Aqua could've written a backstory for the culprit that mirrors Hikaru's backstory. He wants Hikaru to recognize himself in that character maybe. Just some thoughts, there are not essential to our study rightt now
) Gotanda had to take him in. Both as victim of the tragedy but also a his personal friend sort of (I think it's fair to say that Gotanda perceives him as such. They are also of a similar real age actually.)
But as we saw in PART I and PART II Aqua is due to his trauma completely cut off from the realization that he isn't guilty for Ai's death thus he is completely cut off from realizing her true intentions and instead take her death as his own fundamental premise (because of the deluted guilt-complex) for his interpretation. Thus he doesn't feel any incoherency between his path of self-destruction and revenge and Ai's true wish. But it's chronologically impossible to base her wish on that incident. This is purely
GOROU's influence
or as we figured out Gorou's grandfather who occupise his schizophrenic traumatized mind.
This the fundamental tension that fuels the literal disaster beyond all expectations we are heading right now! However Aqua made his point towards Gotanda. Well personally I think this is also the reason why the ending is open. As we know it's yet to decide if Ai forgives or condemn the culprit. I believe key to his strange notion is a
unresolved ethical and philosophical debate between Gotanda and Aqua. They couldn't agree what's true, what's "the better ending". Maybe they even have some sort of competition going since Gontana himself has some sort of a directing eye. He is not some stupid puppy who doesn't know his shit. He actually has an opinion as an artist on that too and I can see how there is a potential conflict between these two looming.
One uncertainty for me in this is to which extent Gotanda knows about Hikaru Kamiki if he knows at all. I think he doesn't and I think Aqua argued for his editorial influence over the script with purely artistic arguments. Thus I for now stay on the believe that they have an artistic and also a philosophical disagreement in the sense that they kinda both agree on the social phenomenom they want to start with the movie but in reality Aqua knows that his version of the plot will lead to something different then Gotanda envisions. Of course Aqua believes that he's in the right.
https://preview.redd.it/cb20n6562u3b1.jpg?width=1724&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd58e05e765f7df52bbab14870e811c5d824ba31 Having said all of that it is of course just my - i think well argued during a course of this 5 part series - theory that happen to work quite well with the underlaying psychology of Gorou/Aqua and interconnects in great detail with the actual plot content. But everyone has to judge for himself how believable this is.
However I think everything what was said in this chapter "The Big Plan" basically sums iitself up in these two Manga pages during Aqua's proposition to Kaburagi.
- First of all it's symbolic that Aqua is the one proposing. It means this is Aqua's story, how he sees it.
- Secondly the sctipt isn't finished yet. It's probably about the open ending or as I suspect its an ongoing debate between Gotanda and Aqua how to archive the social phenomenom Ai intends ("her true intention as an author")
- Thirdly Aqua expresses here his fundamental misconception by basing the whole plot around her murder and thus evalutes the "behind the scenes" that Ai leaked in her documented talks with Gontanda as part of his understand of his true wish where her murder is the quintessential tragic culminating point and where he personally sees the culprit to be condemned for it.
- Last but not least the last panel where Kaburagi would lowkey express his feeling that he and Gontanda were manipulated. These two pages show entirely what was analyzed and theorized in this essay. He kinda can't believe that this is Ai's intention. He suspect Aqua's corruption. But well, a guy like Kaburagi doesn't obsess about ethics, he collects himself instandtly and getsexcited about the project. Only he can produce it, as he puts zealously.
But the most important and fundamental message in that first panel was that Ai was "killed by a
FAN".
And here is what I believe is the philosophical or ethical disagreeement between Aqua and Gotanda: - If we condemn the culprit the social phenomenom that follows will condemn Idol-Fandom as a whole, maybe even destroy Idol-Culture. Because the culprit as the murderer of the ultimate Idol is the representative of the ultimate Fan, thus the unforgivable guilt he carries is the guilt each and every one of them carries too. Especially if the backstory of Ai portayd her as a deeply troubled girl who finally found happiness as a mother but at the same time - because of these obsessive fans - had to hide her happiness and eventually gets even killed for it. In this story the Otaku is an unbelievably selfish and ignorant monster and has no right to be redemed. Society has to shame him.
- If we forgive the culprit the social phenomenom that follows will initiate self-realization trough compassion inside the Otaku's mind but also help from society to hear their problems and actually be compassioned about their own mental problems. The "Otaku" but also society - so touched by the gesture that a girl with such a awful background still tried to love her fans and even forgives her murderer - will perceive this almost holy miracle inspirationally to love and forgive and heal, uplift entertainment. Instead of obsessive, absurd and self-absorbed entitlements as a consequence of unhealthy parasocial-relationships they accept the forgiveness granted to them and try to do better and literally let go. In this scenario the impetus of both Ai's message and the social phenomenm will be to blame the business practice behind idol culture or entertainment itself.
Well, the difference between Gotanda's and Aqua's position is, that one has a
noble cause in mind and the other is literally the definition of a
tragic hero. His delusion is just some next level shit.
Epilog As I stated at the beginning of this chapter we have to look at the plot backwards because what we as the reader might know right now as of C119 was essentially known to Aqua himself right from the start. This method we will pick up again in a following PART VI in which we will take another step back and analyze the whole deal around Ai's family secret exposal.
Yes, yes, we will again argue for a highly unpopular opinion by Aqua fans or a popular opinion by Aqua haters: It was just a scheme initiated by Aqua. Stay tuned for this bit. Did he manipulate Kana or did he not? What clues can we find for it? How is it justifiable? Did he really had a good intent at heart while playing dirty upfront? We will figure that all out....
Thanks for reading!
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2023.06.03 20:00 tjye My dad has stage 4 lung cancer and we’re running out of options.
My dad (66M) was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in February 2023. Back in February, it was the lungs, bones in the upper torso and hips that were affected. He refused chemo but did a few rounds of radiotherapy and was also on Tagrisso.
For the first few months, blood results were rather promising, the tumour stopped growing and his cancer trackers were reducing. But just two weeks ago after a routine check up, we found out that it’s spread to his brain and the trackers were double what it was when we just found out. Last week, he had 2 minor strokes which were a result of his blood clotting from the lung cancer. He has now lost his language skills and can no longer speak due to the stroke.
We’ve consulted with other doctors but have been advised that because of the blood thinners he is on, there is nothing much we can do, and that he’ll be more prone to strokes. His current oncologist recommends radiotherapy and chemo to get the cancer under control. But we’ve consulted other oncologists and stroke specialists who mentioned that the radio and chemo would most likely worsen his condition.
We’re currently at a crossroad given the very opposing treatment plans (or none thereof) we’ve been suggested. Does anyone have similar experience to this? Is there really no other treatment plans available?
If his time is really limited, we want him to be as comfortable as possible, but at the same time, we don’t want to rule out any possible treatments that may potentially fix this horrible disease.
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2023.06.03 19:55 NST_newbie Anything good to work with?
2023.06.03 19:51 foxmindedguy Effective Healing per second Comparison
OK, so there are 5 healers in the game.
Healing per second from Non-Ultimate Abilities at Max Level (Level 6) Without Items
| Angela | Estes | Floryn | Minotaur | Rafaela |
Base Heal | 225 HP | 400 HP | 250 HP | 360 HP | 150 HP |
Second Heal | N/A | 450 HP | N/A | N/A | 300 HP |
Total Heal | 225 HP | 850 HP | 250 HP | 360 HP | 450 HP |
Cool-Down | 6.0 seconds | 7.0 seconds | 6.5 seconds | 7.5 seconds | 8.5 seconds |
Effective Heal per second (Total Heal ÷ Cool-Down) | 37.50 hp/s | 121.43 hp/s | 38.46 hp/s | 48.00 hp/s | 52.94 hp/s |
Nuances like movement speed, hybrid defense, healing based on lost hp are not considered to keep things simple. Also information like whether the skill is AoE (or affects 2 targets, deals, damage, projectile speed of healing (delayed healing), whether it needs enemy hero and whether the healing happens instantly or over a few seconds are ignored.)
Healing per second from Non-Ultimate Abilities at Max Level (Level 6) With Max Possible Magic Power from Items 5 Blood Wings (175 x 5 = 875) 1 Holy Crystal (100) - Increases Total Magic Power by 35% 975 x 1.35 = 1,316
| Angela | Estes | Floryn | Minotaur | Rafaela |
Base Heal | 1,015 HP | 1,321 HP | 855 HP | 360 HP | 479 HP |
Second Heal | N/A | 845 HP | N/A | N/A | 629 HP |
Total Heal | 1,015 HP | 2,166 HP | 855 HP | 360 HP | 1,108 HP |
Cool-Down | 6.0 seconds | 7.0 seconds | 6.5 seconds | 7.5 seconds | 8.5 seconds |
Effective Heal per second (Total Heal ÷ Cool-Down) | 169.17 hp/s | 309.43 hp/s | 131.53 hp/s | 48.00 hp/s | 130.35 hp/s |
Nuances like movement speed, hybrid defense, healing based on lost hp are not considered to keep things simple. Also information like whether the skill is AoE (or affects 2 targets, deals damage, projectile speed of healing (delayed healing), whether it needs enemy hero and whether the healing happens instantly or over a few seconds are ignored.)
Healing per second from Ultimate Abilities at Max Level (Level 3) Without Items
| Angela | Estes | Floryn | Minotaur | Rafaela |
Base Heal | 1,800 Shield | 400 HP | 650 HP | N/A | N/A |
Second Heal | N/A | 1,260 HP | 650 HP | N/A | N/A |
Total Heal | 1,800 Shield | 1,660 HP | 1,300 HP | N/A | N/A |
Cool-Down | 70.0 seconds | 45.0 seconds | 60.0 seconds | N/A | N/A |
Effective Heal per second (Total Heal ÷ Cool-Down) | 25.71 hp/s | 36.89 hp/s | 21.67 hp/s | N/A | N/A |
Nuances like movement speed, hybrid defense, healing based on lost hp are not considered to keep things simple. Also information like whether the skill is AoE (or affects 2 targets, deals, damage, projectile speed of healing (delayed healing), whether it needs enemy hero and whether the healing happens instantly or over a few seconds are ignored.)
Healing per second from Ultimate Abilities at Max Level (Level 3) With Max Possible Magic Power from Items 5 Blood Wings (175 x 5 = 875) 1 Holy Crystal (100) - Increases Total Magic Power by 35% 975 x 1.35 = 1,316
| Angela | Estes | Floryn | Minotaur | Rafaela |
Base Heal | 5,485 Shield | 1,321 HP | 1,571 HP | N/A | N/A |
Second Heal | N/A | 3,002 HP | 1,571 HP | N/A | N/A |
Total Heal | 5,485 Shield | 4,323 HP | 3,142 HP | N/A | N/A |
Cool-Down | 70.0 seconds | 45.0 seconds | 60.0 seconds | N/A | N/A |
Effective Heal per second (Total Heal ÷ Cool-Down) | 78.36 hp/s | 96.07 hp/s | 52.37 hp/s | N/A | N/A |
Nuances like movement speed, hybrid defense, healing based on lost hp are not considered to keep things simple. Also information like whether the skill is AoE (or affects 2 targets, deals, damage, projectile speed of healing (delayed healing), whether it needs enemy hero and whether the healing happens instantly or over a few seconds are ignored.)
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VERDICT: Estes is a Moonton Employee.
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