Following the release of Patch 6.11 today, some questions about Chamber have arisen, fueled by the Valorant community. I have also taken interest as a Chamber main since his release, so here are my thoughts on the buffs and how CHamber can be improved.
They're decent. Not game-changing, not worthless.
The trip buff (+10m radius, -2s arm time) should allow for slightly more flexibility for Chamber to play around and away from it, but without the trip being global, Chambers will live in constant fear of being flanked after they've rotated and their trip is offline. Personally, I think that either removing the range restriction, reducing the cooldown on recall or even giving him two traps will significantly improve the agent in general and allow him to truly fulfil being a Sentinel.
In my opinion, the tp buff (0.7s weapon equip time > 0.0s) is nothing special. Yes, it will prevent Chamber from being run down after teleporting, but keep in mind the tp range is still small and distance can be covered quickly to eliminate him. It does open opportunities for Chamber players to use the teleport aggresively, but there's still a fairly large gap between teleporting and being able to shoot a gun (~1.3 seconds). I think boosting the range of the anchor or allowing it to be put on a cooldown after destruction is a solid way of systematically allow Chambers to be more flexible in a round.
As for the ult buff, it's alright. Just a 15% firing rate boost. It still technically has a slower fire rate as a normal Operator when scoped (Normal Operator is 0.75/sec, Tour de Force is 0.7/sec) which is pretty absurd. To put this into context, to get back to pre-nerf speeds, the Tour de Force would need its speed to be multiplied by 1.7. As an 8-orb ultimate with only 5 bullets, I would think the ult would need either a slow-field buff, 8>7 ult orbs needed or a fire rate to something like 1/sec. Its too little power for too high of a cost. Both Neon and Jett's ults are also weapon based, yet they cost only 7 ult orbs. Sure, you could argue they require more mechanical skill, but they both refresh on a kill, and Chamber's sluggish, overpriced sniper doesn't...
Overall, Chamber's in an okay position. He still requires some work, but with some more subtle buffs, I think he could overtake the Killjoy meta and find a good position in pickrates. Only time will tell...
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Lost your Snapchat account and missing the fun? Knowing how to recuperate Snapchat records enables you to once more start snapping.
Losing the snapchat account can specifically be frustrating for the teenagers. They use this simple, however awesome social networking, for sharing their moments being everyday. It pains really when you you will need to sign in in order to find that you will be rejected access. These could be as a result of reasons which can be numerous.
Maybe you have forgotten the password or became a sufferer of hacking. Whatever may be the cause one must know the real approaches to recuperate lost Snapchat account. This short article aims to provide you with insights on that together with making your bank account better.

Initial thing first

It is crucial, necessary, and vital to know the root cause associated with problem before you start to recuperate lost Snapchat account. Just then you can do something this is certainly proper regaining access. Let’s observe this is done.

• Just how to recuperate lost Snapchat account when the code is lost
• When you have forgotten the password and struggling to sign in, you’ll be able to restore usage of your Snapchat account by resetting the code through the measures which can be after.
• Launch the Snapchat account app on your click and smartphone login. Next, enter your username or mouse click and email regarding the ‘Forgot your password’.
• A box ‘Please this is certainly asking the manner in which you would you like to reset your code’ will pop up. Then enter your email ID from the next web page and click the ‘Submit’ button in the event that you choose e-mail.
• Snapchat shall give you an email containing a link for resetting the code. Click the link and enter the brand new code that is secure. If pressing just isn’t possible you may copy and paste that to the web browser.
• Just in case you choose for recovery by phone option, you have to enter your contact number and choose any person through the call and message choice. The message can be simpler to use.
• You shall get an OTP. Go into the OTP and your brand-new code that is secure complete the method.

You can also contact Snapchat for help

How exactly to recover lost Snapchat account for forgotten e-mail and login name ID

There is no denying that many of us have several records that are e-mail we also fiddle with usernames while starting a merchant account. This routine makes one prone to your investment details. Therefore, once we haven’t made use of Snapchat for a long time and trying to take the overall game, it becomes hard to access whenever we don’t remember the login name. The way in which is easy restore access is by using your email ID instead of the username.
Here is a solution how you can test to recover:
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IDs you have utilized for starting the account if you are not able to keep in mind which associated with mail. You must jot down all the mail IDs you have.
Next launch the application that is snapchat your Smartphone follow the data recovery through email process. Carry on entering all your valuable email IDs one after another. If the e-mail you joined just isn’t related to your Snapchat account, it’ll display an error ‘email this is certainly saying is invalid’.
Continue the procedure unless you find the email that’s right and then reset your code to recover your lost account.

How exactly to recover a snapchat account which is certainly hacked?

Maybe you have observed junk e-mail is delivered from your account or got an aware about logging from various unit or internet protocol address you ought to be apprehensive about your Snapchat account. You may require re-logging that is continuous or come across the addition of unknown associates, or observe an unauthorized improvement in the cellular number and/or current email address.
It could were affected in the event that you notice such dubious behavior along with your Snapchat account. As well as this valid reason, you have to know to recuperate lost Snapchat records when it is hacked. Recovering a snapchat that is hacked may not be simple. It all depends on just what changes the hacker designed to your account. You must replace the code at the earliest opportunity if you discover that your bank account info is released.
You then must follow the password reset approach to manage your bank account if the hacker has recently changed the code. The point that is worst takes place when the hacker changes your data recovery email address and phone number. In such cases, you ought to contact Snapchat support.

How to Secure Snapchat Account?

Snapchat displays an image for a seconds being few then it vanishes. However, it’s at risk of security threats. Understanding how to recoup lost Snapchat account doesn’t secure the account. It just allows you to cope with the situation if the tragedy hits. So, the way in which is the best to secure your Snapchat account will be remain one step forward. This can be done into the ways that are after.
Proceed with the code techniques being best: Although everybody knows the significance of passwords, few men and women make use of powerful passwords because of their Snapchat reports. The code must certainly be unique.It should contain at least 8 figures incorporating a combination that is random of, signs, and upper & lower case letters. Never use your individual information like name, day of beginning, mobile quantity, etc in passwords.
The password ought not to be used for just about any various other service. Validate your mail ID and telephone number: developing a account this is certainly snapchat effortless. You must enter your name, time of birth, cellular number, or email ID. This could also be done by making use of information this is certainly artificial.
But this turns devastating as soon as the details are forgot by you or the account is hacked. So, constantly available proper information to your snapchat account. Also, start the Snapchat options and confirm those every right time you utilize it. Use Two-Factor Authentication: allowing a two-factor identification to your snapchat account helps it be safe.
You can do this by starting the settings and clicking on ‘Two-factor Identification’ and checking out the process. You are able to make the assistance of Snapchat with this.
Conclusion
Now you understand how you could drop your Snapchat account and just how to recoup lost Snapchat account. Understand that making it safe is often a better way to have control over your Snapchat account.

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Hello. I posted on here a while ago for a similar predicament.
I tend to shoot myself in the foot a lot. What I mean by that is any time I am given the opportunity to succeed, I mess up.
I work in a field where great opportunities are few and far between where I live. Time and time again I screw up with emails, such as typos or putting the wrong name when addressing someone. Keep in mind, I try to triple check emails/projects for this. Also, someone tells me one thing when that isn’t the truth, then I’m the one who suffers and costs myself time and money because of these errors, leaving a person, or sometimes multiple people, upset with me. Grant it, I am new to this field but many of my peers strive with little to no instruction. I am someone who needs specifics, especially with direction, in order to strive.
This affects my social life, making me less confident in relationships, whether romantic or platonic, and makes people think I don’t like them because I am too shut in. It is at the point where I can’t be with people who are my friends and family for more than an hour because I get annoyed/bored. This is something that I recognize is my fault, but I am too busy worrying about what is going on with my job. Keep in mind, this is a job I am actually interested in and not a job I have to keep me in the wage cage.
I also tend to word things weirdly, whether it be when I talk or in writing. This may also affect the way people see me. I think people believe I am dumber than I actually am. At the very least, people know I am inexperienced but aren’t willing to train or be specific about what I need to do, which I understand why they feel that way because, once again, costing time and money.
In other cases, I think people think I don’t care enough. I tend to not respond to text or emails the second I get them, but usually get back within 5 minutes to an hour max. This, in turn, makes me look like I don’t care to people who do respond the second they get them.
As I kind of hinted at before, people will suggest ideas I know are dumb, but because I don’t have confidence in myself, I think that I what you are supposed to do. In turn, I get punished for it. This also leads to burned bridges. People talk in my field, which leads to less recommendations.
I don’t like upsetting people and I am not confrontational. What can I do better to succeed? How can I be healthier in social settings due to this? My job does require I am timely, but how timely is too timely, and vice versa?

Introduction
The following list gives an overview for the 31st mayor's pass season Fabulous Florida - Florida Summer Vibes, of Simcity Buildit, which runs for 6 weeks, starting on Wednesday 7th of June 2023. The mayor's pass has 42 tiers for the free and premium passes. The premium-plus pass, which was introduced during season 21, has 52 tiers.
A premium pass or a premium-plus pass can be bought at any moment during the season. When the season ends, the option to buy is closed at the same moment.
When buying a premium pass, the player has to choose between the 'basic" premium pass and the premium-plus pass. It is not possible to "upgrade" from a premium pass to a premium-plus pass once the premium pass has been bought.
Buying a premium pass or a premium-plus pass will immediately unlock all premium/plus rewards of the tiers that already have been finished at the moment of buying. The premium plus pass will also unlock the next 5 tiers (for more specific info: read the premium plus section).
The first 16 seasons were officially numbered. Uptil season 16 the reward items in the mayor's pass specialisation section were numbered according to their original seasons. Since the 17th season these numbers have disappeared. In stead of the season number the name of the season is now shown in the building information.
Rewards
The unique new reward buildings are indicated in bold in the rewards columns.
Most other rewards are the same as, or comparable to rewards from previous seasons. For a few seasons in a row now, the free pass rewards for tier 4 and tier 26 are swapped each new season, but this season it is the same as last season. This season the war cards rewards are the same as last season; usually the war cards change each season.
The number of unique new buildings from the free pass has steadily gone down since the mayor's passes were originally introduced.
The free pass gave 5 unique new buildings since season 3 (when the seasons were shortened from 12 to 6 weeks). But since season 7 the free pass only gave 4 unique new buildings. Since season 11, the number of unique new buildings for the free pass is further limited: now you only can get 3 unique new buildings.
Tier points
Starting in season 30 the points per tier were different from previous seasons. It is expected that this season the points per tier will be the same as in season 30.
The list contains the number of plumbob points that are needed for each tier and the rewards from the free pass, the premium pass and the premium-plus pass.
Double points week
In the previous mayor's pass seasons there was a "double points week" in the last week (which only lasts 5 days because the season ends when the 6th Contest of Mayors (CoM) week ends). During this week, the regular assignments as well as the milestone tasks give double points.
Lightning CoM week
During season 25 there was a "Lightning CoM week" in week 5 for the first time: each CoM lasted 48 hours, and there were 3 CoM's during this week. Each CoM had 20 tasks less than the usual amount, and the targets for the milestones were lower (as well as the points for the milestones). But adding those 3 CoM's together, there were more tasks to complete and more points from milestones to gain, than during a regular week.
The Lightning CoM week wasn't repeated during seasons 26, 28 and 30. Lightning CoM weeks did return in the 5th week during seasons 27 en 29, this time with 2 CoM's that each lasted 72 hours. In season 27 the second Lightning CoM had double points; probably due to a mistake by the developers.
Based on this pattern it is considered likely that there will be a lightning CoM week again in the 5th week of this season.
Free and premium pass
In the table below, "tier points" indicate the number of plumbob points needed to get to the indicated tier from the previous tier. "Total points" gives the number of plumbob points from start upto the indicated tier.
Calculation for the weekly average points: Taking the double points week into account, the "weekly av." number indicates what your average weekly plumbob points score should be during the first 5 weeks and double that amount in the final week, if you want to reach that tier by the end of the season. To get to tier 42 you will need 87k during the first 5 weeks and 175k in the final week.
Premium-plus pass
There is no weekly average calculated for the tiers of the premium-plus pass, because the average that you need depends on when you buy the premium-plus pass.
Buying it at the start of the season will let you advance the first 5 tiers (14,000 points). Buying the premium-plus pass at a later moment will let you advance 5 tiers from your position at the moment of buying.
Unfortunately this isn't the case at the end of the tier track. When you don't buy the pass when you have reached tier 42, you will still accumulate points but you no longer advance in tiers. Bying the premium-plus pass after reaching tier 42 will first advance you to tier 47. Then the extra points that you may have got after tier 42 will be taken into account and (if you have enough) will advance you further in the tiers.
Going from tier 42 to tier 47 will only save you 145k points. It is more profitable to buy the premium-plus pass when you have reached tier 37. That will bring you to tier 42, saving 194k points.
Taking the double points week into account in a six week season you need 136k weekly and 272k during the double points week to reach tier 52, when you buy the premium-plus pass at the start of the season. When you buy it immediately after having reached tier 37, you need 110k weekly and 221k during the double points week to finish tier 52.
Additional info
- Pictures of the new buildings in this season (31) and of new buildings from (design) events and limited time offers during this season can be found in our subreddit for pictures of limited time buildings: https://www.reddit.com/SCBI_Buildings/
- The new season was discussed in this topic.
- A video of the new buildings in this season (31) and other upcoming buildings can be found here
- An updated chart of the War Vu - pass tier points can be found here. The Vu-pass tiers were changed during Mayor's Pass season 28.
- The most likely future planning for upcoming seasons, design events and war vu-pass periods till the end of 2023 can be found here
The points in italics in the table are the new (changed) points for this season.

Tier	Tier points	Total points	Weekly av. (calculation includes double points week)	Free pass rewards	Premium and premium-plus pass rewards
1	2000	2000	<600	3000 simoleons	Oceanside Drive
2	3000	5000	715	Llamawood Urban Art	100 SimCash
3	3000	8000	1440		Deed: City Expansion
4	3000	11,000	1570	10 Temporary Storage Boost	5000 NeoSimoleons
5	3000	14,000	2000		20,000 Simoleons
6	3000	17,000	2430	3 different War Items	10 Temporary Storage Boost
7	4000	21,000	3000		20 Platinum Keys
8	4000	25,000	3570	20 SimCash	1000 Regional Simoleons
9	5000	30,000	4285		1500 War Simoleons
10	6000	36,000	5140		Sunscape Bridge
11	4000	40,000	5715	Lake (This was a new reward building uptil season 10)	4 Llama Speed-Up Tokens
12	4000	44,000	6285		10 Golden Tickets
13	5000	49,000	7000	Deed: Mountain Expansion	2 Lake
14	5000	54,000	7715		Deed: Beach Expansion
15	6000	60,000	8570	60% Sale on SimCash	5x3 Vu Items
16	6000	66,000	9430		20 Comic Hand War Cards
17	6000	72,000	10,285	Small Palm Tree Forest	20 Golden Keys
18	7000	79,000	11,285		3x3 City Storage Items
19	10,000	89,000	12,715		SimCar Racetrack
20	11,000	100,000	14,285	Cypress Swamp (this was a new reward building in the seasons 3 - 6 and has been since season 11)	10 Temporary Storage Boost
21	9,000	109,000	15,570		7 Cheetah Speed-Up Tokens
22	10,000	119,000	17,000	Silver War Chest	7000 NeoSimoleons
23	11,000	130,000	18,570		3x3 Mountain Items
24	12,000	142,000	20,285	Lake	1 of each War Item
25	13,000	155,000	22,145		20 Platinum Keys
26	14,000	169,000	24,145	3x3 Area Expansion Items	5x3 Area Expansion Items
27	15,000	184,000	26,285		60 Mellow Bellow War Cards
28	14,000	198,000	28,285	10 Golden Tickets	5x3 Beach Items
29	17,000	215,000	30,715		Fort Danielson
30	20,000	235,000	33,570	2 Small Palm Tree Forest (this was a new reward building uptil season 10)	3500 Regional Simoleons
31	18,000	253,000	36,145		2 Palm Tree Forest
32	20,000	273,000	39,000	10 Common War Cards	24,000 NeoSimoleons
33	23,000	296,000	42,285		15 Temporary Storage Boost
34	27,000	323,000	46,145	15 Golden Keys	80,000 Simoleons
35	30,000	353,000	50,430		5x3 City Storage Items
36	32,000	385,000	55,000		3x3 Area Expansion Items
37	32,000	417,000	59,570	50 Platinum Keys	15 Golden Tickets
38	33,000	450,000	64,285		50 Golden Keys
39	37,000	487,000	69,570		Adventure Kingdom
40	39,000	526,000	75,145	Sim West Quarter	50 Platinum Keys
41	37,000	563,000	80,430		13 Cheetah Speed-Up Tokens
42	48,000	611,000	87,285	1400 SimCash	10,000 War Simoleons
					Premium-plus pass extra rewards
43+	25,000	636,000			10 Golden Tickets
44+	25,000	661,000			10x3 Mountain Items
45+	30,000	691,000			10 Cheetah Speed-Up Tokens
46+	30,000	721,000			3500 Regional Simoleons
47+	35,000	756,000			10,000 NeoSimoleons
48+	35,000	791,000			5X3 Area Expansion Items
49+	40,000	831,000			30 Platinum Keys
50+	40,000	871,000			20 Hissy Fit War Cards
51+	45,000	916,000			30 Golden Keys
52+	50,000	966,000			10,000 War Simoleons

Hello. I posted on here a while ago for a similar predicament.
I tend to shoot myself in the foot a lot. What I mean by that is any time I am given the opportunity to succeed, I mess up.
I work in a field where great opportunities are few and far between where I live. Time and time again I screw up with emails, such as typos or putting the wrong name when addressing someone. Keep in mind, I try to triple check emails/projects for this. Also, someone tells me one thing when that isn’t the truth, then I’m the one who suffers and costs myself time and money because of these errors, leaving a person, or sometimes multiple people, upset with me. Grant it, I am new to this field but many of my peers strive with little to no instruction. I am someone who needs specifics, especially with direction, in order to strive.
This affects my social life, making me less confident in relationships, whether romantic or platonic, and makes people think I don’t like them because I am too shut in. It is at the point where I can’t be with people who are my friends and family for more than an hour because I get annoyed/bored. This is something that I recognize is my fault, but I am too busy worrying about what is going on with my job. Keep in mind, this is a job I am actually interested in and not a job I have to keep me in the wage cage.
I also tend to word things weirdly, whether it be when I talk or in writing. This may also affect the way people see me. I think people believe I am dumber than I actually am. At the very least, people know I am inexperienced but aren’t willing to train or be specific about what I need to do, which I understand why they feel that way because, once again, costing time and money.
In other cases, I think people think I don’t care enough. I tend to not respond to text or emails the second I get them, but usually get back within 5 minutes to an hour max. This, in turn, makes me look like I don’t care to people who do respond the second they get them.
As I kind of hinted at before, people will suggest ideas I know are dumb, but because I don’t have confidence in myself, I think that I what you are supposed to do. In turn, I get punished for it. This also leads to burned bridges. People talk in my field, which leads to less recommendations.
I don’t like upsetting people and I am not confrontational. What can I do better to succeed? How can I be healthier in social settings due to this? My job does require I am timely, but how timely is too timely, and vice versa?

It was a 5 hour Mental Health First Aid certification class—think CPR but for mental health. To begin with, 5 hours with only a few 15 minute breaks is pretty rough. Thankfully, the first part of the course was done online at home—it took me about 2.5 hours last week.
What’s cool is that it really solidified that understanding and providing peer-based mental health help is one of my special interests and abilities. I had a lot to contribute but was able to not over-share or info-dump. Yay me!
But imagine this sensory hell scape of a classroom…
A very white smallish room with 15 foot ceilings. 3/4 of the walls are floor-to-ceiling windows that look out on a very busy pedestrian and vehicle intersection. The morning was sunny and the bright light filled the room and bounced off the shiny white tabletops.
The size of the room didn’t allow anyone much personal space. Someone near me was either eating mints or they were quietly burping booze. The hand soap in the bathroom was so disgusting. It prompted me when I came home to order unscented “leaf”/“sheet” soap I can carry with me in my purse from now on.
The instructors asked us multiple times to do group exercises (dammit really?!) that required lots of reading out loud and discussion about crisis de-escalation across the tables. The acoustics were abominable! (Thankfully I had my Loops.) Even with my earplugs, I could hear so many vehicles and pedestrians passing by. And there were no window shades so I could see it all going on. Of course the garbage truck showed up, beeping it’s beep as it backed up the alley. As you can imagine, my ADHD really got into all those sounds and visual distractions!
Oi! Too much. Too much.
Needless to say, I’m spending my afternoon and evening decompressing.

At The MTC one of our Bishopbric was a Mormon Doctrine teacher at BYU. I don't remember his name but other missionaries revered him. On Sunday nights he would give us these "Meat" talks, where we would all eat up his deep dives into crazy doctrine.
As a way to keep us awake during the endowment we were taught that only what we saw and heard during the ceremony would be conveyed to the dead person's soul for whom we were a proxy. Like their spirit was actually connected to ours. If we fell asleep, the dead soul wouldn't get to see the video.
It is only years later thinking about these condemned spirits attaching themselves to me that I realize what happens in the temple is like a big seance. No wonder I got creepy vibes there even as a TBM.
Was anyone else taught this? Or other weird stuff from McConkie's "non-canon."

The forest is black. Pitch black.
I pound over the dirt trail, my feet turning the pedals like twin pistons. The bicycle bounces and jolts, shuddering as it rolls across the wooden bridge. There’s something in the air tonight. A chill.
But it isn’t the chill of autumn. No, this is the chill of unease. It crawls up my spine carrying the deep-rooted knowledge that something about these woods, something about this trail isn’t right. It’s the unmistakable dread of being watched.
Pursued.
I stand up and ride harder. My lungs burn with every push of the pedals but I can’t shake the feeling that I need to get out of these woods fast. The hospital is twenty minutes away. I just need to make it there.
I’m close.
So close.
WOMP
Bass rumbles behind me. It’s followed by a rush of wind, enough to throw me forward while ravishing the forest like a tempest. Trees groan. Their frames break and kneel, surrendering to the gale. Branches and leaves come loose. They ricochet through the air like shrapnel, cutting into my cheek and and I throw up an arm to keep myself from losing an eye.
This is insanity.
It’s lunacy.
I don’t know what’s happening, but I know I have to make it through this. I have to get out of these woods, get back to the hospital to see my sister before the heart monitor flatlines.
She’s not doing well. Are your mother and father home?
No, ma’am.
Can you get here to be with her? She doesn’t have long.
Yes ma’am. No matter what.
The distant bass nears, growing thunderous. It’s as though the whole world is shaking, like the Earth might split in two and swallow me whole. I grit my teeth. I let loose a defiant roar, sweat pouring down my temples as my legs tremble, willing my bike forward.
Faster, dammit!
Faster!
There’s a flash. Then another.
Lightning?
No.
I’m answered by an explosion of light, so violent and bright that I can’t see a damn thing. I holler. Scream. My body jerks forward as my front wheel collides with what feels like a fallen branch. Next thing I know, I’m flying over my handlebars.
What’s the phrase?
Ass-over-tea-kettle.
Yeah, that’s it.
I brace myself for a broken arm, maybe worse, but the pain never comes. Nothing comes. It’s as though I’m floating in limbo, like gravity’s unable to finish what it started. I can’t feel a thing– not the dirt beneath me, not my face pressed against the bark of a tree. For a little while, I think I’m dead. That I’m in purgatory.
But then my eyes adjust. The world comes into focus, beginning as a blurry smudge, but soon becoming a picture-perfect recreation of my worst nightmare.
I’m not in the forest anymore.
I’m above it.
I’m looking down at the mess of trees and I’m terrified at how small they are, how much smaller they’re getting with every passing second.
I’m floating into the sky, being carried by a narrow beam of light.
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That was a long time ago. Thirty years, give or take.
A lot’s changed since then, but one thing’s remained the same: the nightmares. I have them every night. I dream about that blinding light, that same low bass and that same gut-churning horror of being eaten by the sky.
I used to think they were a coping mechanism. I figured that since the dreams came shortly after my older sister passed, that maybe they were just how my eleven-year-old brain was dealing with the grief. My therapist seemed to agree.
“You’re quite right that there may be a link there,” she’d tell me, lowering her glasses and offering a medical-grade smile. “It’s very likely that these dreams are a form of abstract healing, a means to allow your mind to come to terms with its trauma.”
For a long time, I thought she was right. Or better put, I hoped she was. Now though? Well, I think maybe we were both wrong.
Shit.
Where are my manners?
I’m over here rambling about my childhood, and you’re wondering who the hell I am.
My name is Isaiah Mitchell. I’m a boogeyman, but not the cool kind. I don’t hide in closets or haunt old houses. I’m the type that your parents rant about while watching the evening news, the sort that tinfoil hats point to whenever things go wrong.
I’m what you might call a Man in Black.
The work I do is classified. It’s the sort of work that happens behind the scenes, with shadowy people in shadowy circles. So when I tell you that last night something catastrophic happened, I’m not talking about the stock market dipping a couple percentage points. I'm not talking about increased traffic on your morning commute.
I’m talking about trouble.
Lots of it.
It’s the kind of trouble that’s making me do something I don’t generally do, which is break rules. By the end of this, I might break all of them. But this is important, and in moments like these I find myself thinking about my late sister, Hope, and how she would have wanted me to do the right thing. It’s how she raised me, after all.
So here goes nothing.
This begins with a story, but it ends with a decision. The story is mine, and the decision is yours. When I’m finished, you get to choose whether you spend the time you have left a little wiser, or laugh this off as the ramblings of a lunatic.
Whatever you choose, I’ll have made my peace.
The story is a personal one. It’s about me, but it’s also about you– it’s about everything in the universe, right down to the last atom, and how all of us are facing a horror the likes of which we can’t begin to imagine.
It’s the story of the worst night of my life, and what might one day be the worst night of yours.
It goes like this.
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The beam of light sucks me up and spits me into absolute darkness. The sensory whiplash is enough to give me a headache, something like a migraine that pulses near my temples and feels like a bulldozer inside my skull.
It’s uncomfortable.
But not half as uncomfortable as the situation I’m in.
“Hello?” I mumble to the dark. I stumble to my feet, feeling around my environment blindly. It’s cold. Hard. It feels like I might be in a room full of metal, but I can’t imagine where that would be. A warehouse?
Footsteps echo in the distance. They’re closing in.
“Who’s there?” I sputter, and I think maybe I’ve been drugged. People don’t just up and float into the sky in the middle of the night. It isn’t a thing.
That means I’m hallucinating.
That means whoever kidnapped me knows a thing or two about stealing kids.
That means they’re a professional.
What’s the phrase?
Serial killer.
Yeah, that’s it.
WOOOOMP
I clap my hands to my ears. It’s that same bass from the forest, except now it’s reverberating all around me. Another bass joins it. This one is different… coming from a new direction, with a lower tone. It’s almost like they’re communicating– like morse code.
“Please,” I beg. “Just let me go. I swear I won’t tell anybody!”
Static crackles. It’s followed by a sharp squeal of microphone feedback, then the buzz of modulating frequency. “Communication calibrated,” a digital voice says. “Subject identified: homosapien. Geographic location: New Mexico. Language model: English.”
There’s a pause, it’s long and silent enough that I can hear my pulse rushing through my veins. I’m positive I’m going to die. These things don’t happen to people who live to tell the tale.
“Can you understand us, homosapien?” the voice asks.
Yes, I say.
Can you turn on the lights? I ask.
The only thing worse than being murdered is being murdered in the dark.
Yes, they say.
I’m blinded for the third time in as many minutes. I blink, my eyes adjusting to the green glow as it fills the chamber. Wherever I am, it’s strange. Alien. Tall vats of liquid are scattered around a large, circular room, each hosting tubes that extend outward to a central console. Everything is metallic. I can’t make out any labels– any sort of identification at all.
“Is this level of light sufficient?” another voice asks, this one right behind me.
I wheel around, and my breath catches in my chest. In front of me is something that doesn’t exist– can’t exist. It’s roughly ten feet tall, and it’s got sharp teeth, sharp claws, scaled skin, and a tail. It’s a monster. A living, breathing monster.
Fuck.
I scramble backward. My back collides with one of the vats, and blue liquid sloshes against the glass. “Thehellareyou?” I shout all at once.
“We are the Chosen,” says the first voice, approaching my other side. “We are lifeforms from many galaxies away, and we have come to save humanity.”
They stare at me through giant eyes, and each of those eyes are filled with dozens of pulsing pupils. Almost like ink blots.
“I’ve been abducted…” I sputter, hardly able to breathe. “By aliens. Aliens… are real… and I’ve been abducted…”
“Correct,” says one of the aliens. I realize this one has gray scales, while the other has teal. At least I can tell them apart.
Gray looks at his arm, and a digital screen comes to life. He taps at it with a crooked finger. “Readings indicate heightened levels of cortisol and increased adrenal flow. Source: Fight or flight response. Biologically rational, but devoid of purpose.” He looks at me, cocks his over-large head to the side. “You have neither the option to fight us or flee us, so it would be best to comply. Do you understand?”
My jaw hangs open. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. Are these aliens really standing there reading me my Miranda Rights? “Are you going to probe me?” I ask. “Like the movies?”
Teal blinks at me, his pupils dilating. “Negative.” He points to a vat. “We will break down your genetic tissue into usable material, harvesting your most compatible DNA strands while discarding the rest. It is for the greater good.”
I follow his finger to the tank, and now that I’m right up against it, I can see clearly what’s floating inside. My stomach twists into a knot. Inside of it is a human body. Everything from the man’s waist down has been dissolved, and what’s left of his intestines are dangling freely.
“Jesus Christ!”
“There is no cause for concern,” Teal says. He lumbers across the chamber to the metallic console that all the tubes are feeding into. “Your disappearance will be accounted for. A clone will be deployed to resume your life, preventing suspicion and avoiding social disruption.”
“Let me get this straight,” I say, trying to ignore how faint I’m starting to feel. “You’re going to kill me… to save humanity?”
“Correct.”
The room spins. My chest gets tight and my vision becomes a scrambled mess. My ears are ringing like church bells. I stumble, losing my sense of equilibrium and I think I taste vomit in my throat.
“No,” I mutter. “This isn’t happening… Can’t be happening…”
I steady myself against a vat, looking up to see a dead woman’s face staring back at me. Pieces of her skull have been eaten away. I can see the wrinkles of her brain underneath.
“Heart rate out of range,” Gray says, but I hardly hear him. He grabs my wrist, presses a device against the center of my hand.
I struggle. Fight. I try to use my teeth, but he’s strong, much stronger than me. A coldness pulses against my palm, almost like an ice cube, and soon that frigid sensation is traveling across my fingertips. Up my arm.
“What did you…” I mutter, but the sensation is rolling through the rest of my body. It’s soothing. My eyes find my palm and I see a strange shape seared into the skin, a scatter of dots surrounding a black square. Suddenly I can’t remember the thought I was trying to finish. Was any of this really worth panicking over?
It was just a few corpses in vats, after all.
“You have been administered a sedative,” Gray explains.
My heart rate slows. My ears stop ringing. The ghost of a smile sneaks across my face.
Gray’s staring at his display. “Cortisol levels reduced. Adrenal response suppressed. Biometric readings indicate subject has achieved a suitable level of suggestibility to proceed.”
“Affirmative,” says Teal, working the console.
I feel like I’m drifting through the lake on a warm summer day. My heart is full. I’m in absolute bliss, and all I can think is that Hope should get to experience this before she dies…
“Pulse is quickening,” Gray says with a frown.
Hope.
My sister.
My dying sister, alone in the hospital wondering why her little brother abandoned her.
“Sedation effect dropping,” Gray says. “98%. 94%. Emotional instability reaching unacceptable levels.”
“Hope,” I sputter, feeling like I’m coming out of a daze. “I have to get to the hospital– please! My sister is sick! She needs me!”
Gray presses the device against my other hand, and another pulse of relaxation courses through me. “Invalid concern,” he tells me. “Clone will be a perfect recreation of you, body and mind. It will retain all memories allowing it to continue your life uninterrupted. Conclusion: your expiring sibling will receive suitable emotional support prior to her decomposition.”
Fucking aliens. It takes everything I have to fight against the sedative, to make my case. “How?” I groan. “How is my DNA supposed to save humanity? What the hell is it saving us from anyway?”
Teal turns from the console to face us. His giant eyes are narrowed in a thoroughly displeased manner. “Invalid request. Information too critical to risk dissemination.”
“Rebuttal,” says Gray. “Clone’s memory can be modified. Current biometric readings indicate high levels of emotional discontent, placing likelihood of a compromised harvest at 34%. Solution: permit subject to understand purpose of sacrifice. Result: sense of closure and enhanced probability of project success.”
Teal turns back to the console. “Rebuttal accepted. Proceed.”
Gray looks at me. He places his scaly fingers against my head, and I squirm a little. “Brace yourself for disorientation,” he tells me. “You will experience physical unease and hyperstimulation. After, you will understand the horror that awaits your species in the dark.”
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For a long time, that’s as far as the nightmare gets. Gray prattles on that I’m about to see the truth, some twisted fate that justifies melting humans into sludge, but before he can deliver the goods, I wake up.
Every. Time.
Blue balls doesn’t begin to describe it.
Last night, it happens again. The nightmare, I mean. Same aliens, same tanks of human soup, but this time I wake up in a cold sweat. My phone is ringing on the bedside table. There’s a name on the screen that I hate to see.
“Whatisit?” I grumble.
“Jesus Christ, Mitchell. I’ve been calling for ten minutes!”
My boss. Lisa.
She goes off. The words are coming out like machine-gun fire, and from the background chatter I figure she’s speaking to more than just me. It sounds like there’s a crowd around her, like she’s briefing suits as she jogs down a hallway.
“Got all that?” she asks.
Something about a shitstorm. Something about an F35. The air force just shot down a UAP, which is how we say UFO these days to avoid getting laughed out of the room. Apparently it happened in New Mexico. My backyard.
This calls for a liter of coffee. Maybe two.
I stumble into the kitchen and put a pot on. I have some time while she holds the phone to her chest and barks orders at the drones around her. One cream. One sugar. My spoon clinks against the side of the mug as her voice blares through the speaker.
“Mitchell?” she says. “Still there?”
She says she’s got coordinates. I take a sip of scalding java. I’m dazed enough I barely feel it burn my tongue. My fingers punch the coordinates into my laptop, bringing up the location the supposed UAP was shot down.
I spit my coffee over my screen.
“The fuck?” I mutter, leaning forward and doing a double take at the map.
“What is it?” she’s asking.
“Nothing,” I’m saying.
But it’s a lie. The truth is, the coordinates are a dead match for the forest where I had my waltz with psychosis thirty years ago. They’re the coordinates from my dream. Right down to the rickety old bridge.
I ask her if she’s sure the numbers are correct.
“Am I sure?” she snaps. “Look, if you’re asking me if this is another Chinese spy balloon then the answer is go fuck yourself. I’ve been pulling my hair out for the past twenty minutes. This is the real deal, so suit up and get ready to go. I’ve got a bird on the way.”
The clock on my microwave reads 2:34 a.m. and my stomach is telling me to sort my life out. “Do I have time for breakfast?” I ask.
Click.
The line goes dead.
Twenty minutes later, a helicopter is landing on my lawn. I board it in a daze, and we take off in the direction of the crash like we’re trying to outrun a cruise missile. I’m watching the lights of the countryside drift by, and it occurs to me that from all the way up here, in the dead of night, they almost look like stars.
I wonder how long it’d take to snuff them out.
How long it’d take to burn a whole galaxy to ashes?
To crush a universe in the palm of your hand?
Things to consider.
The closer we get to the crash site, the worse my thoughts become. They’re bordering on obsessive. I’m tangoing with darkness. Radio chatter is coming through the com line, something about aliens and extraterrestrials, but all I’m thinking about is controlling my bladder.
I’m drowning in hypotheticals.
I’m wondering what happens if I lose my mind between here and the crash site, what the protocols are, where they’ll take me. Do I get the night off? The week?
“Everything okay, sir?”
It’s the co-pilot. She’s turning in her seat and looking at me like I’m having a medical emergency.
“You look a bit pale,” she tells me.
My muscles work overtime as I twist my mouth into a smile. “Never better,” I lie. “How far out are we?”
“Twenty miles,” she says with a reassuring grin. She turns back in her seat and I take the opportunity to let out an exhausted sigh.
I close my eyes. Take a dozen deep breaths.
Happy thoughts.
I try to ignore how dry my mouth is, how badly my hands are shaking. I try to ignore the fact that every time I look down at my palms, I see that same scatter of dots, that same faded square that no doctor has been able to explain. “I’ve never seen scars like that,” they tell me. “How’d you get them?”
I don’t know, I tell them.
I don’t know.
But I do.
I’ve known this entire time, probably, but I’ve just been too terrified to accept it. I’m not what I think I am– this world isn’t what I think it is either. It’s all of this that’s making me want to curl into a ball. It’s making me want to weep on the floor, to scream at the top of my lungs and pull my hair out with everything I have.
It’s making me want to throw open the helicopter door, take a breath of fresh air and then plunge head-first into the dirt like a human turnip. And if I thought it was that easy, I might just do it.
But somehow, I know it isn’t.
I know it won’t save me– won’t save us, from what’s coming.
See, last night I had the same dream I’ve had for the last thirty years. The same abduction. The same aliens. But last night, I got to see the director’s cut. The Extended Edition. Last night, when Gray told me he was going to show me just how fucked we all are, he actually came through.
Imagine that.
What I saw was everything.
I saw how all of this ends. How all of it began. What I saw is what’s waiting for us in the black infinity of space. And the more that I think about it, the more I think it might be driving me mad.
“Just up ahead,” says the pilot. “Ten minutes to touch down.”
Eight minutes.
Five.
“Jesus,” he says, at the three minute mark. “Are you two seeing this?”
And up ahead is a plume of smoke, rising into the night sky. There’s the faint flicker of fading fires, the haphazard glow of industrial lighting, and there, at the center of it all, is the unmistakable shape of something that shouldn’t exist.
“That… doesn’t look like it’s from this planet…” the co-pilot mutters over the com line.
“No,” the pilot replies, and his voice is shaking. “It doesn't.”
They’re right. They both are. What it looks like is something extra-terrestrial, something alien. It looks like something ripped straight from my worst nightmares.
And really, that’s just where I wish it had stayed.

Hiya folks of Reddit :)
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Preparing for the Worst

Should Peaceful Reunification become impossible, and should the Chinese leadership make the decision to retake the rebellious province of Chinese Taipei, it is highly likely that the United States of America and American allies in the region will seek to defeat the People’s Liberation Army on the battlefield. Due to China’s enormous and ever-growing investment into its military, it is highly likely that in a conventional conflict, the People’s Republic of China would come out on top - a result which will likely be completely unacceptable to the United States and the leadership in Washington. Therefore, it is to be expected that the US and its allies play dirty, by knocking out Chinese satellites for instance, or targeting sensitive communication nodes of China.
It is vital that even if the United States decides to engage in these activities, the People’s Liberation Army must be able to continue its ongoing military operations at a high pace and efficiency. Following several briefings by Chinese security experts and members of the PLA, the Central Military Commission has ordered for a program to be introduced, which will seek to harden critical nodes and potential targets for enemy strikes, with
Airbases and Ports
Ports and military airports are obvious targets for strikes, as they will be critical convergence points for supplies and hardware used in the military operations of the People’s Liberation Army. In order to increase protection of these sites, perimeter security will be increased, with fences, check points, video surveillance and regular aerial and maritime patrols being set up. All ports and air bases that are expected to be used in a potential conflict over Chinese Taipei will also seek heavier air defenses, which will have the ability to intercept large numbers of enemy precision-guided munitions without getting saturated. Cyber security will also be upped, to ensure that critical systems, such as power supplies, air traffic control and dockside communication networks, remain safe from unauthorized breaches.
Power Grid
Another tempting target for the Americans may be the Chinese power grid - knocking it out would wreak havoc within the Chinese public. This in turn would make conducting a massive and highly complex military operation all the more difficult, and raise the possibility of a potential defeat on the battlefield. Under orders from the Central Military Commission, the State Grid Corporation of China has been instructed to increase the resilience of the Chinese power grid against targeted cyber and conventional strikes. In order to achieve the level of resilience, the SGCC has begun to implement “Network Segmentation”, making it more difficult for hackers to gain access to critical systems, all the while restricting access to make unauthorized access much more difficult. Key nodes in the Chinese power grid will see an increase in protection, both in terms of physical security, such as fences, barbed wire, sensors, as well as personnel, with security guards being deployed on a much larger scale. During hostilities, plans have been drawn up for the deployment of anti-air defenses to critical systems within the Chinese power supply, such as large power plants. Furthermore, the SGCC will work to make the Chinese power grid more flexible, with many redundancies being worked into the system, additional back-up generators being planned and additional routing systems being designed. With all these measures, the Chinese power grid will make a much more difficult target than in the past.
Cyberspace
Targeting Chinese cyber infrastructure would cause huge economic, social and military damages, as much of Chinese society, as well as much of the People’s Liberation Army, relies on cyberspace for much of their daily lives and operations. In case of hostilities, a logical step would be to knock out the enemy cyberspace, weakening an enemy’s ability to engage in complex military operations. In order to minimize the risk of such an attack, the Central Military Commission has ordered that the defensive infrastructure be increased to fend off complex hacking attempts by enemy forces. In order to make this happen, regular security assessments have been announced, with changes to China’s defensive cyber infrastructure being made to hone its ability to defend Chinese cyber infrastructure. Additionally, access controls will be implemented, making it more for unauthorized users to gain access to the systems. Even if they do manage to gain access, the newly implemented “Network Segmentation” will help to make the damages of such an attack much less severe. Lastly, the People’s Republic of China will set up a center for monitoring Chinese cyberspace, ready to respond to any threats in real time. The Center, known as the “Cyberspace Defense Management Center”, will be comprised of China’s brightest minds in terms of cyber defense, sourced from the People’s Liberation Army, government institutions and China’s fledgling private sectors.
Satellites
On the modern battlefield, more systems than ever rely on satellites to function. Knocking out enemy military satellites would seriously degrade the ability of the opposing forces to communicate, as well as wreck much of the enemies military equipment, especially those which rely - at least to a degree - on satellite navigation or communication. In a conflict with the United States, it is therefore not unrealistic to see Satellites as a critical vulnerability of the People’s Liberation Army. In order to protect Chinese space assets, the China National Space Administration has been instructed to plan for hardened satellite designs - which will allow for the satellites to be engaged by ASATs, and enable the satellite to continue to operate - to a certain extent at least. Furthermore, cyber security will be massively increased, with the goal of making it virtually impossible to hack Chinese space assets and deactivate these.
However, this is not enough. If the Americans really put their mind to it, engage in a concerted effort with their allies and partner, they will be able to simply blow up Chinese satellites with enough anti-satellite munitions of various types. This is far from ideal, so the Central Military Commission has decided to push for redundancies to be developed which will allow the People’s Liberation Army to function completely without satellites.
In terms of secure communications, the People’s Liberation Army will begin to equip all units with redundant systems - which will frequently be used during exercises and training to familiarize soldiers with these systems should they ever be required. “Ad Hoc Mesh Nets” will be set up, allowing military hardware to communicate with each other without the need for satellites. Furthermore, the PLAAF will procure a sizable number of a “Airborne Communication Relay Platform”, with a variant of the Y-20 transport aircraft having been ordered, with these aircraft being designed to help combat forces communicate with each other and with commanders in the headquarters without the need of satellites. Wired Communication Infrastructure will begin to be implemented on all levels of the PLA, in order to make communication possible even in the toughest of situations, as well as making eavesdropping impossible without physical access.
Satellites are not only used by militaries to communicate, they also play a major role in helping forces position themselves and in most long-range military hardware. Global Navigation Satellite Systems are a critical capability in any conflict, and should these go offline, redundancies must be in place - lest the PLA intends to rout on the battlefield. Inertial navigation systems will be installed on all military hardware requiring it, giving the commanders a rough idea of where they are. In case of emergency, the PLA will have special “beacons” that emit signals at known locations, allowing for forces and hardware to roughly acquire their location.
Command and Control Centers
Command and Control Centers, especially those housing key military and political leadership, will be prime targets for the enemy. Attacks will likely come in the form of a mix of cyber- and electronic warfare, precision-guided munitions and infiltrations. If the enemy manages to take out a number of these centers, the People’s Liberation Army C2 capabilities may be permanently damaged for the period of the military campaign, something which could bring catastrophic consequences with it. Several state-of-the-art command and control centers will be built for the Eastern Theater Command, these will be deep underground and will come with heavy security measures - ranging from electrified fences to the deployment of surface-to-air missile batteries. Alternate locations and staff will be in place to immediately take over command of operational forces, should the existing infrastructure be compromised or be engaged. Major resources will be poured into making the communication systems more resilient to enemy interference.

i was on tiktok and i got an ad for a gift card claim for free and i was like why not and when i clicked on the website it opened but not in my browser just asa preview thing on tiktok. and it asked like three questions which were like how often do you go shopping and like online or in person shopping nothing where i needed to insert any of my information. and then it asked for my email and at this point i was kinda like suspicious so i put in like a different email i had when i was like younger and i still can still use it i just don’t and the email doesn’t even have my name or my real birthday linked to it. is my phone okay ? or are they tracking me now because i hit on the link. if anything is compromised what is it? and if i’m at risk of something bad what should i do ?

With Bandai Namco participating in summer game fest on june 8th. I did some digging out of curiosity and noticed a pattern regarding the DLC releases for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. After the first DLC arrived in Season 1, it took around 7 months for the next one to come out. It's been almost 7 months since the release of the first DLC. So, here's what I personally think: Bandai Namco will most likely announce a new DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot this week at the Summer Game Fest, which is happening on June 8th.
Now, don't take my word as gospel, but this DLC is all about the stories and might not actually be released exactly 7 months after. It's a bit bigger than "A New Power Awakens," but the time frames are still pretty similar. Let me break it down for you:
The first DLC, "A New Power Awakens - Part 1," was released on April 28, 2020. (This was a smaller dlc hence 3 months after release instead of 6 months) Then, the second DLC, "A New Power Awakens - Part 2," came out around 6 months and 20 days later. After that, we got the "Trunks: The Warrior of Hope DLC" after approximately 6 months and 24 days.
So, the pattern here seems to be roughly 7 months. This means it's quite likely that the new DLC will drop potentially in July or August. As for DLC 3 for Season Pass 2, I'm thinking it might come out in early 2024, maybe between January 20th and March. But hey, all of this is just speculation, right?
Oh, and here's an interesting tidbit: The Bardock DLC was actually announced three months before its release. So, if the plan is to release the new DLC in August, we should be hearing about it this month or next month. If everything goes according to this time gap for Season Pass 2, we could see DLC 2 hitting us in July or early August. But remember, none of this is set in stone. It's all up in the air, and I'm just putting the pieces together based on my observations.
So i think this will be released in August specifically august 3rd-7th, 2023
So, whether or not they announce it at the Summer Game Fest, I still have a hunch that the DLC will come out in July or August. Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement sometime this month. But again this is pure speculation and merely a likely outcome and not confirmed until it happens.

I'm a contributor to an online archive of books and essays called The Ted K Archive and I'm just interested in any and all arguments for changing up the website. I'm also open to arguments the archive should have just been a physical personal collection that I show other weird people at dinner parties.
Here's how the website is explained on the about page:

We, everyone who has contributed, have archived:
• A ton of primary source documents on Ted's life and ideas.
• Documents analyzing the effect he had on the public's understanding of radical environmentalists, anarchists, terrorists, criminals, the mentally ill & simple mental neurodivergence.
• Lots of great suggested reading on anarchism & other issues.
We, the librarians who bought the website domain, are pro-tech anarchists, but we just find his life story and impact really interesting.
So, we’re hoping the website can work to draw people in with similar politics to him and similar mental health issues frankly. Then for the cold hard reality of the primary source reading material, the epic-ness of the suggested reading material and the inviting discussion spaces connected to the website, to all have a deprogramming effect and be a mental health support.

And here's why the name of the website was chosen:

People who are curious about his life and impact are just the main audience we hope to draw in with this website.
Since we think he's going to be remembered as a true crime curiosity anyways, we might as well capitalize on that and use it as a space to promote critiques of people with similar politics to him and help with similar mental health issues to him.

Finally, here's a list of ethical steps taken by the project:

• We have a list of essays critiquing Ted’s politics & philosophy on the front page of the website.
• There are long critiques and disclaimers added to some texts and we aim to add more.
• When collecting together research on misanthropic groups and projects, we simply title the text ‘a text dump on ______’. That way for example we don’t dignify fictional stories terror groups weave when they write their own press releases and title them as communiqués.
• Anyone can join the debate over which texts should go up on the website, obviously if you join just to troll or spam though, you will be removed.
• A record will be kept of all texts that were rejected, whether for minor formatting reasons or deeply held political reasons.
• A record will also be kept of controversial texts that were approved, where for example there was a sizable disagreement.
• Ideally, in the future we will have popular sorting mechanisms directly under the main search box, such as a check box for 'only anarchist texts' that would exclude texts labelled 'not anarchist'.

I also recently archived a book on hunting with a bow and arrow that I think has valuable historical significance, but it did make me feel uncomfortable.
The book is called Hunting with the Bow & Arrow, and I simply found the book after researching the sad story of the 'last wild indian'.
But it does include horrible trophy hunting pictures of animals killed slowly by arrow shot.
Finally, here's a few other archival projects for comparison:
The Ted Kaczynski Papers - A University special collections archive which Ted K sends copies of all his letters to, the library is offline, but people can ask for scans of two folders per month.
UNABOM Collection - Another university one that is made up of donated scans by an FBI guy who worked on the UNABOM taskforce. Lots of the scans are online in downloadable pdfs.
I don't think either of the archives above even did anything to publicize their archives, which was potentially a conscious ethical choice, to not make it easier to find for zealots, so to attempt to mainly cater to academic researchers.
The Anarchist Library - Huge archive that includes some non- and ex-anarchist texts, to document the reasons why people left anarchism or came to the philosophy late. But, it means archiving some really asinine stuff, like primitivist terrorists 'communiques'. I think they're wrong to not include disclaimers at the top of texts and to not format some of the texts as text dumps, but their argument is that's simply not their job as archivists.

A Scottish Podcast follows two Scottish dudes named Lee and Douglas. Lee used to be a radio DJ, but he recently lost job. In his quest to not starve, Lee has stumbled across, what he thinks, will be a surefire path to success: starting a paranormal investigation podcast. Lee soon drags Douglas along for the ride, and the two set out to make the best paranormal investigation horror podcast set in Scotland.
I wouldn't so much call A Scottish Podcast a horror podcast. I'd say that it's more of a comedy/slice-of-life podcast that happens to include horror elements. The podcast primarily focuses on Lee and Douglas' day-to-day lives, and the various mundane aspects of running a podcast. Still, there's plenty of laughs to be had, and shout-out to other podcasts.
A Scottish Podcast is very much a character-driven show. There are plot threads that are set up at the start of the season, but it really is the characters, and the focus on their lives, that carries the show. Lee has a freewheeling devil-may-care personality. He's the type to jump in first and hammer out the details as he goes along. That pretty much describes how he created The Terror Files. By contrast, Douglas is more sensible and cautious. Well, he did agree to Lee's crazy idea, but otherwise he's pretty sensible. He's also got a bit of a chip on his shoulder due to the time he shit in his pants on live television.
Lovecraft was clearly a pretty big influence on the creators. Several of the strange things Lee and Douglas investigate have strong Lovecraftian undertones to them. For example, in season two they investigate a professor from Miskatonic University who conducted experiments for the British government during World War II. Also, apparently Miskatonic University is real in the world of A Scottish Podcast; albeit as a mundane university that is a bit annoyed that Lovecraft featured them in his works. Season one also featured Lovecraftian horrors lurking beneath Edinburgh, but also an undead cannibal warrior from the 10th century. A Scottish Podcast even did it's own adaption of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The set-up is that Douglas is traveling to England on holiday, and stays at the seaside town of Innsmouth. Ah, so that's how Lovecraft slipped that one under the radar. Everyone thought the reals Innsmouth was in New England, like the story, but it was actually in Old England all along. Thought, to be clear there is no Innsmouth on either side of the Atlantic in real life.
The voice cast in absolutely fantastic. Rob Cudmore and Matthew McLean play our two leads. Sarah Golding, a true gem of the audio drama community, plays Drunk Helen. Karim Kronfli plays Bruce the friendly and jovial, but still violent and murderous, local gangster.
In addition to the main show, A Scottish Podcast has had many fun special. They did a Burns Night Special, where the characters all read poetry, but it was all original works, rather than the poems of Robert Burns. They also did a special where the characters all read poems written by HP Lovecraft. This was framed as a poetry contest that Bruce was running to sponsor a butcher shop he owns.
Have you listened to A Scottish Podcast? If so, what did you think?
Link to the full review on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-audio-file-scottish-podcast.html?m=1

I bought a rattail cactus from a vendor and she threw in YAE (Yet Another Echeveria) and also what is obviously a dicrocaulon ramulosum cutting. I can't find much info about the latter, so I think I'm going to have to wing it.
It looks a lot like Monilaria moniliformis except it grows on long thin stems like a string of [whatever], and the bunny ear leaves are very sparkly in sunlight. What little I've been able to gather about it indicates that it grows in the same quartz fields of the Hardveldt in Namaqualand in South Africa as Monilaria moniliformis. But indications are that it is heat-loving and winter-dormant, which is exactly the opposite of Monilaria moniliformis.
Unless I hear otherwise I'm going to plant it in the same mesemb soil that my lithops, Gibbaeum, and split rock love. I'll probably water it a tiny bit more than them, though, because although its leaves are quite succulent its stems definitely are not.
I'd appreciate any advice, and especially any personal experiences, with growing this plant. And I'd love to know if it has a common name; the only common names I've seen for it are in Chinese. For now I'm probably going to continue calling it String of Bunny Ears.

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What the title says. I only started playing the game again a few weeks ago and all the regular cats have visited except for Peaches, who was last seen three years ago :(
I’ve been using this post as a guide but so far Peaches hasn’t shown up. Before that I was following articles covering all the toys Peaches likes but still no luck.
It’s been a couple days so should I just have more patience or do I need to change things up?
If anyone who’s had Peaches visit recently could give me some tips on what toys and food she likes, it’d be much appreciated!
P.S. it’s not thaaaaat important but I got my coworkers into neko atsume too and we’re all competing to be the first person to get a picture of Peaches and of course I’m hoping that person will be me :P

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TLDR: I don’t understand dating nor am I interested in it at all and I’m wondering if any other autistic people feel the same.
Hi! I'm 25f, not officially diagnosed but I largely suspect that I am autistic, and I'm working on getting an assessment soon. Anyway, something I have found about myself and I'm not sure if it's attributed to autism or something else is that I am not interested at all in dating. I know some autistic people are, but I personally am not. It's starting to really upset my parents and cause tension with them. They ask me, "don't you want to get married one day and have kids? If so, you need to start dating first." And my answer to that isn't exactly "no”; it's not that I'm one of those people who certainly DOESN'T want to get married or DOESN'T want kids, but it's more like when you ask a 5 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they say "a veterinarian" – they want it someday, but it's not like they're anywhere near ready for it right now and couldn’t possibly do it yet.
I feel like a child in many ways, and this is one of them. Yeah I'm 25 (admittedly I do look a lot younger and a lot of people think I’m a teen) but whereas girls my age were interested in dating 11 years ago when we were 14, I still haven't gotten that urge. I can admire that someone is cute but I never had the urge to date or have a boyfriend and I thought it would show up when I’m older but it still hasn’t. I know I am straight because I know I am attracted to men, but again, in the way that a child has a crush on a boy. It’s not that I never want to get married, but it’s that I don't have any interest in learning how to play that social dating game. The thought of putting yourself on display to be judged sounds incredibly weird and artificial to me, especially since I'm awful with small talk and have really niche interests and personality and I'm very picky with who I like (even as friends). I am honestly perfectly happy the way I am and don’t mind a single bit about being single, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m 25 and my family is worried that if I don’t start dating soon, then when will I ever start?
So my parents are heavily pressuring me to start "dating around". This sounds like absolute hell to me. Not to mention I have feelings for someone already, but even if I didn't, the dating scene sounds like HELL. They have forced-sent me to multiple "young adult social mingles" for my culture and I have left EVERY SINGLE ONE sobbing in tears because I felt awful during them (likely a meltdown due to sensory overload and social masking exhaustion). Not to mention that people there treat me like a poor child to be pitied because I clearly feel so anxious, so it’s not even productive at all to “meet a guy”. I suppose they're doing tough love and trying to push me to get me used to it, but I don't think it works that way in this case.
If I have to date (which I don't even care to do yet, but when I do), I'd rather meet online first, and even better, I'd rather do a dating app that isn't based on pictures because I don't want people to just judge me by a picture and mindlessly swipe. My parents don’t understand what I mean by that because I admittedly am conventionally pretty, and they think that the only people on those apps would only be there because they’re “ugly”. But that’s not my point; my point is, how am I supposed to judge someone based on their looks when I know nothing about them? And I don’t want anyone to judge me based on my looks without knowing me either. It feels so shallow and weird and artificial.
And then going on a date, small talk is the DEATH of me. My parents say “just ask them about work” and I’m like, okay and??? Where does that get me??? I don’t care about their job, so why do I have to ask about it? And the thought of going out specifically to be judged if they like you or not sounds awful. My RSD is so soooooo bad and causes shutdowns for me. This is why I prefer to be friends first and then organically grow into something else.
Also, on a side note, I'm not at all interested in kissing because I have horrible sensory sensitivities and saliva is a sensory nightmare for me. I've never had my first kiss and that's totally fine with me. Other forms of intimacy are fine – I'm even way more comfortable talking about literal sex than I am for kissing. I just have never wanted to press my LIPS against someone else's. Ew.
I’m not really looking for advice, I’m just genuinely wondering if any of you feel the same. Is dating incredibly confusing for you too? Do you have any desire to do it?
P.S. There has been one guy I have had a close relationship with and experienced mutual romantic feelings, but the difference is we started as friends first. That makes all the difference to me – we didn't meet on a dating app or go on multiple screening dates with people with the intention of finding a mate. We just met online as friends and eventually developed romantic feelings. Perfect, you say? Well no because 1. we are online and haven't met irl yet and 2. my parents also strongly disapprove of this because he didn’t go to college…yeah. So we aren't bf/gf.
Disclaimer: Not looking for a “you’re asexual!” response. I know I can feel attraction, as demonstrated by me and that guy. My point is, I didn’t meet him through “dating”; he was already my friend and it happened naturally. I’m not talking about attraction or lack thereof; I'm referring to the social confusion of traditional dating.