Book 1: Raraku

Epigraph

Another entry of Sayings of the Fool by Thenys Bule. I've wondered before what kind of Fool the title refers to; I'm now comfortable saying that these are sort of anti-proverbs, which are examples of folly that must be avoided in others. The fool swims across the desert sands, because he has "seen shells and the like//On this desert floor." Thus, he "swims this land's memory//Thus honoring its past." Curiously, the Fool recognizes the suicidal nature of the task, "For [he] shall drown long before//[he is] done." Also, he is not dying of dehydration, but specifically drowning. It is the past that shall kill him.
The Fool has prioritized honoring the past over his life, the present. Such seems to be our lesson, and given the following chapter (and I assume Book 1 as a whole) being filled with characters making drastic choices for the sake of the past, I feel like this is a most relevant, and thus ominous, warning.

Chapter 1

A new setting, a new cast. I'd known this before I'd started GotM, but it conceptually bothered me far less than it seems to bother others. You learned a new setting and cast in the first book, right? You'd be doing the same if you backed out for another series, right? Anyway, with longer scenes and samples, I can confidently say the prose, characterization, and dialogue are all much improved after a decade's training on Erikson's part. This all also feels very Dune-ish, as well. But without further ado...

Epigraph

A poem or excerpt of a poem titled The Path of Hands by Messremb (whom the Dramatis Personae tells us will make an appearance himself at some point) It ties rather closely with the opening scenes of the chapter, so I'll give my thoughts on this once we have some more context below.

The Chapter Itself

It is the next year, 1164 B.S. and what is locally called the Sixth of the Seven Years of Dryjhna, the Apocalyptic. We get some indication as to what this means later. Mappo Runt watches a rising plume of dust moving across the desert while informing his companion, Icarium, of what it is he sees. Flat-headed, long-necked, shaggy, and black with three legs, he judges it to be some creature known as an aptorian. He also berates Icarium for his running hairdye. Disguised as a Tanno, the seven-foot, Jaghut-blooded Icarium speculates that their passage has been marked by anyone caring or knowledgeable enough to guess who they are, but such could not be helped. The presence of the aptorian speaks to another impending convergence, one which Shadowthrone is inspecting. This particular creature, ranging wide of its pack, has seemingly fallen under the sway of Sha'ik. We get some slight information on who or what Sha'ik is, but not terribly much. They do hold an army out somewhere in the desert, by a watering hold the two aim to reach.
Icarium eyes his friend, a millennium old, and as a Trell, large with a shaggy mane down his neck and back, bearing long, sinuous arms. He recognizes reluctance in his friend, and calls it out. It seems the aptorian is a demon of sorts, and Mappo is reluctant to face such creatures. Icarium, in contrast, is driven by curiosity and would press forward. They pack up camp and enter the basin.
Later, by nightfall, the two continue into the desert, and we get some nice descriptions of the land and its fauna. resting in some ruins, the two prepare for tomorrow's search. Of note, the sand faintly glows to Mappo's eyes, so I assume Trells can see into infrared? We already knew his sight was much better from the previous scene, but this helps contextualize it. We get confirmation that the land is indeed littered with tels, as that's just how long-term civilization works, especially in a desert. Separated fairly evenly at fifty years apart, there was once a rich and powerful civilization that lived here. Many of the ruins tell of a swift and violent end, although the exact nature of this end is uncertain. From this time, legends of Dryjhna the Apocalyptic have formed, resurging once again across the Holy Desert Raraku.
Curiously, the ensuing thoughts of Mappo, despite their strangeness, are considered "familiar ruts" by the text. Thoughts that deny they can discover what occurred here, that they are "no closer" than they've ever been, and that he has no reason to doubt such thoughts. They're looking for something in the lost past, and the nature of that hunt has Mappo checking himself. In the courtyard, Icarium has found something. Tiny scratch marks along the base of a column, coordinated. Could these be the imprints of passage the Epigraph speaks of? This is enough to suggest to the two that there are D'ivers nearby, and we soon find out why. They even assume a specific D'iver, Gryllen. They anticipate more shapeshifters, and it is now that I should point out that all the characters of this storyline are designated as ON the Path of Hands, indicating that this is a literal path/route which is part of some ritual or ceremony. One which seems to attract many shapeshifters, which is described here as "the fever for which there is no cure." The references to Ascendancy both here and in the epigraphs seem to indicate that this path has some ties with that as well. They also reference gates (Deadhouse Gates?) which some believe offer Ascendancy.
Speculation Time:
The Path of Hands is a path that leads to an Azath. Not the Deadhouse but the Odhanhouse in Seven Cities. Namely, because they themselves are near Pan'potsun Odhn, and are, well, in Seven Cities, lol. There is a belief that entering the fickle gates of an Azath provides ascendancy. Considering Shadowthrone and the Rope entered the Deadhouse, and Shadowthrone is evidently interested in the goings on here, there likely isn't nothing to the idea, but Icarium and Mappo seem to be heading for it for some other reason. Namely, Icarium's eternal goal, which we receive some indication of.
Icarium has lived for centuries, possibly millennia,* yet cannot remember his own past (whether this is because of magic shenanigans is currently unknown, but immortals with a mundane/finite memory are one of my favorite niche tropes in fiction so I'm all in on this storyline. It may be that he inherited a Jaghut lifespan and a human/whatever memory, causing this, but the continual reference to a curse may very well be literal) and seems to be seeking a way to recover them for what seems are personal reasons. Mappo seems to regret something in his or Icarium's past, considering his friend's curse a gift.
*This also makes his question "how long have we been friends?" into a bit of fun foreshadowing rather than just the tired "catch the audience up" question. He's legitimately asking on top of the rhetorical device.
A pack of six wolves follows them into the ruins, betrayed by their scent to be shapeshifters, or rather, one shapeshifter in six bodies. D'ivers, it seems, change into groups of animals, be it a swarm of rats or a pack of wolves. Absolutely sick. They recognize the shapeshifter as Ryllandaras, but he does not recognize them. The Trell offers to open their discourse, calling him the brother of Treach (an ascendant himself, the "First Hero") whom thought him dead. The creature responds psychically, promising to kill them, but curious of their story. They seem to feign ignorance of one another, an alliance of convenience rather then friendship, boasting that they'd be able to take him on. They do soon give up the charade, calling one another by name as a final intimidation tactic, and this dissuades the pack from taking them on. We get the implication that Icarium resorting to violence would be a very bad thing for everyone involved, such that Mappo is sworn to prevent such an occurrence. The D'ivers does not seem to recognize Sha'ik, and seems to think killing it's aptorian is no big deal. We leave Mappo and Icarium for the chapter with their disagreeing with that diagnosis, but allowing Ryllandaras to pass regardless.
The next morning, the Imperial Harbor of Hissar is filled with a fresh transport of troops, surrounded by native tribesmen and women armed and shouting, building towards a riot. Such are the musings of Imperial Historian Duiker, the same man who defended Heboric in his trial. Meeting him is Mallick Rel, advisor to the local High Fist, also named as a jhistal priest of the Elder god of the seas. That he was merely greeted by the advisor was a calculated insult. Curiously, this adviser has quickly ascended the ranks to get where he is, inviting countless dark rumors of what he may hold over the High Fist, such that any who stood in Rel's way seemed to meet an accidental end. With the ship now unloading is the new Fist of the 7th, Cotaline of the Crow Clan. Although Duiker doubts his capacity to navigate the political web of the Empire, we shall soon see he is more than adept at cowing the locals.
Mallick Rel near immediately insults the man, his words smooth and insidious. The historian remembers his quick-formed dislike of the creature. Rel informs him that the Empress has no active machinations in Hissar, whatever his source. Duiker is here to observe the new batch of prisoners bound for the Otataral Mines. It doesn't seem like a stretch to assume this is the same ship that Felisin and co. were boarded onto. Mages were often used in the Otataral mines so that they may double as a containment facility. While the mages within often went mad, it is unkown if this was from Otatartal changes or Warren deprivation. With the new batch containing so many muggles, long-term Otataral exposure can be studied in depth.
The two are approached by two more, an unnamed rough-looking captain and the lone surviving Cadre mage of the 7th, Kulp. The two newcomers express significant distaste for their new Fist and the Wickan people as a whole. MR inserts himself into the conversation to note that Coltaine is an odd choice, given the tension between the two groups as well as the Wickan's status as formerly one of the Empire's strongest rivals. But Duiker comments that this is not at all strange, Coltaine was the one to unite the clans and establish a rebellion, one the Empire had a terrible time putting down. The Emperor, in his usual fashion, acquired Coltaine's loyalty through unknown means. While the man was placed in Quon Tali backwaters to rot after Laseen's coup, the degredation of events on Genebackis necessitates the maintenance of order on Seven Cities at all costs, hence, the skilled local Coltaine is placed back in command in the face of the prophesied rebellion.
The man himself approaches the seething mob, who had been continuously escalating their hostilities over the course of the above conversation. With a sheer undulating shout he manages to quell them; compelling them to fall in line and quietly move out. Admiring this show of skill, the four comment on it, with the captain mentioning how Coaltine's political savvy matches his savage people skills. Mallick Rel thanks him for the advice. I must admit, despite spending several paragraphs describing how loathsome the man is, that his directness and frankness, calibrated to match the new energy of the conversation such to drop everyone's defenses was very well done. I myself didn't note the Captains blunder until it was pointed out. He may be a schemer but his people and manipulation skills match.
Elsewhere, sailing down from the Skara isles, our Bridgeburner crew of Crokus, Apsalar, Fiddler, and Kalam continue their journey home-ish. Fiddler, for his part, is bored and seasick, internally lamenting his presence. Crokus and Moby attempt to comfort him, with minimal success. The monkey/demon, for his part, has adopted the sapper as many creatures do.* Fid's internal monologue is a delight to read BTW. He internally frets over their coming excursion in 7C, and all the danger the continent posses.
*While I mentioned this before, it is weird to me that Mammot's familiar is just hanging around after his death. There's something there.
Apsalar calls out a school of flying fish, running from something large. Kalam mentions that its odd the hunting fish would themselves be hunted round these parts, being apex predator's in the area. The dherabi of Seeker's Deep hunt them, but they never come out into water this shallow, or on the opposite side of the continent. Unfortunately, a dhenrabi, one who's scent betrays it as Soultaken, far more massive than any natural creature, appears and begins pursuing them. I will say, this is some excellent creature design. Sure, it's "just" a centipede sea serpent, but the added details of how it swims/sinks with filling/emptying it's caprice with air, along with how it uses this to hunt is the kind of creative and interesting detail that makes this stand out without devolving into an exposition dump.
Interestingly, the Soultaken uses the opportunity to out itself by communicating with them. Fiddler uses the opportunity to warn the creature not to approach. It ignores his warning, moving in for the kill, and promptly has it's head blown off by Fiddler using a munition. My guy is just wandering around a fantasy world with a backpack of thermite grenades while being vaguely unimpressed with all the wizard shenanigans he come across. What an excellent character. As an aside, I assume this particular Soultaken was heading much in the same direction the others were, for whatever reason. I also wonder if they survive the deaths of their animal forms. Hours later, they notice some ridders on the coast, a Malazan messenger and his guards. The two Bridgeburners comunicate through glances, one touch I like with this is how Kalam's messages, while clear, are in Fiddler's pattern of speech, as we're in his head.
I'll note the likely importance of whatever this messenger is hoping to convey, but not speculate as there's nothing to speculate about. Also, Blue Moranth are apparently a thing (although they may have received a passing mention in GotM, now that I think on it) and the route that Fiddler internaly lays out gives us a rough idea of some of the geography of this world. Crokus attempts to make small talk, giving the audience a peek into the Bridgeburner's last time on 7C. The time when Kalam and Quick Ben were on the opposing side, the T'lan Imass marched for the Emporor, and somehow, the two were folded into the Bridgeburners themselves. I'll also note the mention of the "Seven Holy Falah'dan" for later. Fiddler demands the boy be quiet, as "all wars are ugly, but that one was uglier than most." Kalam himself only revealed these details while drunk.
Crokus, thwarted from one line of communication, demands that the BBs explain why they're passing almost completely through the wrong continent on their way home. They explain that they intend to assassinate Empress Laseen. Apsalar takes to this well, muscle memory brining an old smirk of Sorry's to the forefront all the while. She remembers that Kalam himself was a master assassin, high ranking within both his time under a Falah'dan and in the Claw, and is thus confident in his skills. For whatever reason, their plans and preparations begin in 7C with the rebellion. Whatever it is they intend to do here is in accordance with Quick Ben's (who can apparently just warp wherever) scheme he was cooking up at the close of GotM. For the sake of Darujhistan, Crokus agrees to the plot; and so we leave them as they land upon the coast.
Well this has been one heck of a setup! Expanding the world while still being constrained to what's been referenced before. Shapeshifters are racing an immortal amnesiac down the Path of Hands, rebellion is closer than ever, and our good old Bridgeburners are scheming to take the Empire down from the head. I, for one, cannot wait to see how it all unfolds!

Whether befalled by his illness or going out in a hail of bullets, I always believed Red would die in the series finale.
All S10 Red's been behaving out of character, displaying a decidedly lack of regard for his own safety and the preservation of his vast, criminal empire.
Red's been crossing items off his bucklet list as such a rate, I expected any day for his own illness to rear its ugly head again.
But, after watching Red dismantle his own empire in Morgana Logistics Corporation episode, I wonder if instead he plans to give the Task Force an even bigger scalp? A dead Reddington.
As Hudson reminded us Ressler spent years trying to take out Reddington, the #4 on the FBI's Most Wanted Man. Could Ressler's story come full circle? Would he pull the trigger?
I really can't see Red going back to prison. I can see him ready to arranging for the Task Force to get credit for crossing off #4 from FBI's list.

Introduction

It's widely believed that Canada doesn't really need a comprehensive defence policy. However, recent have clearly demonstrated that Ottawa could no longer rely on the status quo, as an open hostile Russia has been completely but an increasingly aggressive China.
While avoiding direct conformation, the Government of Canada is announcing a compressive package of retaliatory measures that are sent to enter into force within the next 12 months. This invokes proportionate reduction in Chinese diplomatic presence in Canada, as well significantly increased stringency of security screening for Chinese companies operating in Canada.
Ottawa continues to stand its ground on the newly announced immigration measures. However, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada has also outlined a package of additional measures. This involve treating all Chinese nationals coming to Canada as de-facto asylum seekers in terms of security screening. While normally IRCC would do their best to cooperate with Chinese state authorises, when conduction background verifications, and security checks, now the Government of Canada shall suspend all current and future requests, as well as refuse to provide any information about Chinese nationals currently present in Canada or applying for Canadian Temporary or Permanent Residence Visas. Additionally, Canada shall cooperate with its allies to allow Chinese national visas in foil-less visas, as well as damaged or expired travel documents, so long an can provide a verifiable copy if their Chinese nationality.
Notably, current applicants for Permanent Residence in Canada will be eligible to apply for a Open Work and Study Permits in case their experiences in China may not be verified, to compensate for the loss of points on foreign experience with additional time in Canada.
Canada is also waiving quota of family reunification applicants for Chinese nationals, as well as removing income eligibility requirements, allowing Chinese nationality to bring their partners, parents, and grandparents, as well as dependents to Canada as temporary or permanent residents.
Additionally, Canada shall immediately declare a Chinese Ambassador Persona Non-Grata, as well as suspend Canadian non-diplomatic representation in China, including emergency evaluation of the IRCC office in Beijing, as well as a "stand-by" order for all Canadian diplomatic staff in China, eyeing possible retaliation by the PRC's government.
Canada shall also introduce major restrictions on Chinese investment into the country, requiring any investment coming from a Chinese national without TRV or PR status in Canada to be reviewed before approval, with identical requirements introduced for Chinese companies - incorporated in China or majority-Chinese owned - investing into Canada, including equity and public debt.
The Government of Canada also issues an "avoid all travel" advisory to Canadian citizens to the People's Republic, as well as its Special Administrative Regions. Global Affairs Canada is currently recruiting private companies for Canadian citizens and Permanent as well Temporary Residents to immediately return home.
Canadian companies are also advised to immediately suspend their operations in China, as well as disengage with their Chinese suppliers and customers for the fear of possible retaliation.
Furthermore, Ottawa is set to suspend security clearances of Chinese companies acting in the public procurement space, with an immediate revocation of all export permits for Canadian companies to sell to China, when it requires export authorisation. Canadian companies shall also be prohibited from holding or obtaining assets in China or Chinese companies.
Global Affairs Canada has also advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Canada shall considering introducing "external equivalence" when it comes to China and Russia. Any further escalation from the People's Republic shall be met by gradually increasing economic pressure on China, until the country shall face same resections currently experienced by the Russian Federation.
Canada shall also follow through with the Foreign Influence Registration & Monitoring - a document jointly composed by the Canadian Security & Intelligence Service, and FINTRAC - Canada's anti-laundering watchdog. FIRM aims to provide an open source database of foreign nationals an entities who've been suspected or proven to be interfering with Canadian domestic affairs or have employed illegal instruments to influence Canadian decision-makers. An entity or individual listed under FIRM shall be prohibited from acquiring Canadian assets, as well as using Canadian finical system anywhere in the world. Notably, while FIRM limitations kick in immediately when an entity or an individual entity the list, CSIS and FINTRAC still have to prove their case in court, with restrictions maintained until the court rules otherwise.
However, most importantly, Canada is announcing its desire to join AUKUS following closed negations with Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Under the terms of the brokered deal, Canada becomes an immediate member of the trilateral security agreement, with full access to AUKUS' non-nuclear Pillar II component, to foster greater technological and industrial cooperation. Access to Pillar I - pushing nuclear powered submarines - shall be temporary restricted for 2 years, allowing Canada and the original AUKUS members to negotiate both procurement and technology transfer with Canada.
CAUKUS would also see the Agreement's significant expansion of the agreement, including closer alignment of defence & procurement, as well as increased coordination of export controls and industrial strategy development.

Finance Canada has also declared Canada shall increase its defence spending immediately to exceed the 2 per cent target, with full indexing on unspent funds earmarked preciously.

Areas covered by C-AUKUS

The Agreement is largely focusing on allowing Member States to catch up with third countries in critical technologies, while straightening their existing lead in areas where either individual or combined competency of the Member Sates provides for a competitive advantage.
The agreement covers several technologies deemed to be critical for both national security of future competitiveness.
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GENERAL DEFENCE

Autonomous systems - systems that can perform assigned tasks with our the need for human interference that included uncrewed underwater vehicles, industrial robots, as well transpiration units and weapon systems.
Advanced undersea wireless communication - includes equipment and techniques that ensure underseas communication with low error rates across longer distances, that are often used by submarines and autonomous underwater vehicles. Specific technologies include extremely-low frequency (ELF) communications, as well as transmitting antennas, acoustic, laser, and LED communication, and maritime sound analysis.
Adversarial AI & reverse engineering - developing safeguards for excusing AI and neural networks for present their use by adversaries, including using original data clusters and utilising captured analysis techniques.
Air-independent propulsion - mainly through compact energy generation, mainly used ion underwater autonomous vehicles. Those include developments of hydrogen fuel cells and Stirling engines, to enable longer underwater operability.
Autonomous underwater vehicles that are able to operate over long distances, without human interference limited to basic route planning. Those vehicles are most widely used in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions in addition to anti-submarine warfare.
Electronic warfare utilise electromagnetic spectrum to deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, or destroy and adversary’s electronic systems or enable forces to operate in contested and degraded environments, such as electronic protection. This involves collection, analysis and processing of electromagnetic signals for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance to support targeting and operational planning . It also includes collection of foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT). Specific techniques GPS jamming, GPS spoofing, communication jamming, communication masking, and frequency-hopping communication.
Hypersonic detection, tracking, and characterisation for glide vehicles, including trajectory projection and early detection, with land, ship, air, and space-based sensors and algorithms for rapid trajectory analysis.
Sonar and acoustic sensors used to identify and locate underseas objects. Applications for sonar and acoustic sensors include monitoring marine wildlife, and threat detection, identification and targeting for defence.
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ADVANCED MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING

Additive manufacturing (including 3D printing) - which is manufacturing physical objects by depositing materials layer by layer according to a digital blueprint or 3D model, regardless of their size or metal structures. Applications for additive manufacturing include rapid prototyping and making custom or small quantity components.
Advanced composite materials include new materials created by combining two or more materials with different properties, without dissolving or blending them into each other. Examples include carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics and laminated materials. Applications include vehicle protection, signature reducing materials, construction materials and wind turbine components.
Advanced explosives and energetic materials - materials with large amounts of stored or potential energy that can produce an explosion. Applications for advanced explosives and energetic materials include mining, civil engineering, manufacturing and defence.
Advanced magnets and superconductors - strong permanent magnets that require no or few critical minerals. Applications include scientific research, smartphones, data storage, health care, power generation and electric motors. While superconductors are materials that have no electrical resistance, ideally at room temperature and pressure that create strong magnetic fields, used for medical imaging, transferring electricity without loss, and hardware for quantum computers.
Advanced protection clothing and equipment serve to protect defence, law enforcement and public safety personnel and defence platforms from physical injury and/or chemical or biological hazards. Such as helmets, fire-retardant fabrics, respirators, and body armour.
Continuous flow chemical synthesis produces fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals using continuous-flow processes, rather than batches. Flow chemistry can make chemicals and pharmaceuticals faster, more consistently and with less wast. Applications for continuous flow chemical synthesis include rapid analysis of chemical reactions, and manufacturing industrial chemicals, agrichemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Coatings Substances are substances applied to surfaces to add useful properties like preventing biofouling, repelling water, reducing visibility to radar, enhancing thermal efficiency - for example in hypersonics - and preventing corrosion.
Critical minerals extraction and processing systems and processes to extract and process critical minerals that includes mining, concentrating minerals, and manufacturing battery-grade chemicals.
High-specification machining processes involve cutting and shaping raw materials into precise components using advanced tools such as, lathes, laser cutting, and water jet cutting. Those are used in aerospace manufacturing and other industries for high-grade precise production.
Nanoscale materials and manufacturing nvolve materials with features smaller than 100 nanometers and the technologies used to produce them. Applications include various fields such as pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment, data storage, communications, semiconductors, carbon dioxide capture, and nanoscale tracking markers for important materials.
Novel meta-materials - new synthetic materials that have properties that do not occur naturally, such as the ability to bend light or radio waves backwards. Applications for novel metamaterials include energy capture and storage, radio antennae, and adaptive camouflage.
Smart materials that have properties that change in response to external pressures, such as shape memory alloys that change shape when heated and self-healing materials. Applications for smart materials include clothing, body armour, building materials and consumer electronics.
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AI, COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS

Advanced data analytics involves systems, processes, and techniques for analysing large volumes of data (known as 'big data') to extract valuable insights with minimal human involvement. It is used in medical diagnosis, acoustic analytics, regulatory compliance, insurance, climate monitoring, infrastructure forecasting, national security.
Advanced integrated circuit design and fabrication focus on creating complex integrated circuits using process nodes below 10 nanometres. This includes designing systems-on-chip (SoC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), stacked memory on chip, and specialised microprocessors for the defence industry.
Advanced optical communications utilise light to transfer information over optical fibre, such as air or the vacuum of space. Those employ laser technologies and other means to achieve faster, more reliable, efficient, and energy-efficient information transfer. Applications for advanced optical communications include high-speed Earth satellite communications, short-range visible light communications, narrow-beam laser communications, and multi-gigabit broadband and corporate networks.
Advanced radiofrequency communications (including 5G and 6G) use radio waves to transfer information through free space. They employ novel techniques, advanced antennas, and beamforming technologies to achieve faster, more reliable, efficient, and energy-saving communication. Applications include satellites, cellular networks, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sensor networks, connected vehicles, medical devices, and public safety services.
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and hardware accelerators perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as virtual assistants, process automation, virtual and augmented reality, creating realistic video game environments and characters, public transport planning and optimisation, crop and livestock management, and defence. AI hardware accelerators are specialised computer hardware designed to run optimised AI algorithms in smartphones, portable virtual and augmented reality systems, and low-power internet of things (IoT) sensors.
Distributed ledgers are systems that record transactions, contracts, across multiple systems or locations. They eliminate the need for a central authority, making transactions and records more secure against cyber-attacks and fraud. Blockchain is an example of a distributed ledger, and Bitcoin uses it for financial transactions. Applications for distributed ledgers include cryptocurrencies, supply chain verification, product provenance and emissions monitoring, tracking recyclable content, land records, and share trading.
High performance computing refers to computer systems such as supercomputers, that are significantly more powerful than consumer devices such as desktops and laptops that excel at processing large amounts of data and performing complex calculations that are beyond the capabilities of other devices, used in areas such as climate modelling, computational chemistry, and high-quality computer graphics for film and television.
Machine learning that included neural networks and deep learning. Applications for machine learning include computer vision, facial recognition, cybersecurity, media creation, virtual and augmented reality systems, media manipulation (e.g. deepfakes), content recommendation systems, and search engines.
Natural language processing includes speech and text recognition and analysis, refers to systems that enable computers to recognise, understand, and use written and/or spoken language in a manner similar to human communication. NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence. Applications for NLP include predictive text, language translation, virtual assistants and chatbots, summarizing lengthy documents, sentiment analysis, and enhancing the accessibility and inclusivity of technologies.
Protective cyber security include, algorithms and hardware that are designed to enable a cyber security enhancement. Applications of those technologies include but are not limited to: operational technology security, authentication infrastructures, protection of aggregated data sets, protection of AI systems and supply chain security.
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LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTHCARE

Biological manufacturing uses living cells to make useful chemicals or materials, especially in the pharmaceutical sector with fermentation products, biologic medicines such as antibodies and enzyme replacement therapies, and enzymes for environmental remediation and recycling plastics.
Synthetic biology creates biological systems and devices that have useful functions not found in nature. Applications for synthetic biology include creating microorganisms that can clean-up environmental pollutants and recycle plastics, manufacturing animal-free meat and dairy products, and biological computers.
Vaccines and medical countermeasures refer to technologies that allow quickly develop and manufacture vaccines, drugs, biologic products and devices used to diagnose and treat emerging infectious diseases and medical conditions caused by exposure to harmful chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear substances. Applications for vaccines and medical countermeasures include public health emergencies, industrial accidents and defence.
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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Biofuels include fuels produced from biological or organic sources. Examples include biogas and biodiesel derived from plant biomass, and bioethanol from crops such as corn and sugar cane.
Directed energy technologies transfer energy between two points in free space. Applications for directed energy technologies include powering consumer electronics, recharging electric vehicles, powering aerial drones, ground-space energy transfer, wireless sensor networks and internet of things devices, and advanced weapons.
Electric batteries utilise various materials and chemistries (e.g. lithium-ion (Li-ion), nickel metal hydride battery (Ni-MH)) and form factors (e.g. flow batteries for stationary grid storage, polymer electrolytes for vehicles and personal devices). Applications for electric batteries include electrified road and air transport, smartphones and personal electronic devices, medical devices and grid energy storage.
Green, Blue hydrogen and ammonia involve production, storage, distribution and use of hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) for heat and electricity generation. Hydrogen and ammonia are potential low or zero emission, zero-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels and electric batteries. Applications for hydrogen and ammonia include energy storage and as a fuel source for aviation and marine transport, long distance road transport and heating.
Nuclear energy, including cost-saving nuclear technologies and Small Modular Reactors. Applications include energy production for self-contained and/or remote uses, such as space travel, submarines, scientific research and medical isotope production.
Nuclear waste management aims safely dispose of, or reuse or reprocess radioactive waste products from medical, industrial and research practices, i.e. converting radioactive liquid waste into synthetic rock to minimise leeching, and reprocessing spent radioactive fuel for use in long-life, low-power batteries. Applications include environmental protection and extending the useful life of nuclear material.
Photovoltaics convert solar energy into electricity using layers of semiconductor materials. Applications for photovoltaics include low-emissions power stations, rooftop solar power, spacecraft and personal electronics.
Supercapacitors can store large amounts of energy in small volumes. Supercapacitors store less energy and for shorter durations than rechargeable batteries, but can accumulate and deliver charge much faster than rechargeable batteries, and tolerate many more charge and discharge cycles than rechargeable batteries before performance degrades. Applications for supercapacitors include regenerative braking, smartphones and personal electronic devices, grid energy storage and defence.
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QUANTUM & AI

Post-quantum cryptography is based on mathematical techniques for ensuring that information stays private, authentic, while resisting attacks by both quantum and non-quantum computers. The leading application for post-quantum cryptography is securing online communications against attacks using quantum computers. Because quantum computers can efficiently solve the ‘hard’ mathematical problems we currently rely on to protect online communications.
Quantum communications (including quantum key distribution) allow to communicate quantum information at a distance, including cryptographic keys. Applications for quantum communications include transferring information between quantum computers and sharing cryptographic keys (which are like secret passwords) between distant people in a way that means it is impossible for anyone else to copy.
Quantum computing deploys algorithms that depend directly on quantum mechanical properties and effects to perform computations to solve particular types of problems much faster than existing computers, including problems that are not practical to solve using even the most powerful classical computers imaginable. Applications for quantum computing accurately simulating chemical and biological processes, revealing secret communications, machine learning and efficiently optimising very complex systems.
Quantum sensors utilise quantum mechanical properties and effects for high precision and high sensitivity measurements. Applications for quantum sensors include enhanced imaging, passive navigation, remote sensing, quantum radar, and threat detection for defence.
Photonic sensors use light to detect changes in the environment or in materials. Applications for photonic sensors are broad, ranging from mainstream photography, through to sensors for environments where electrical or chemical based sensors are impractical or unreliable, such as laser based gas sensors to detect explosive materials or flexible photonic sensors embedded inside the human body to monitor bodily processes.
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SPACE, ROBOTICS, TRANSPORTATION

Advanced aircraft engines (including hypersonics) enable greater speed, range, and fuel-efficiency for aerial vehicles. Examples include hypersonic technologies such as ramjet and scramjet engines that allow aircraft and weapons to travel beyond Mach 5.
Advanced robotics are capable of performing complex manual tasks usually performed by humans, including by teaming with humans and/or self-assembling to adapt to new or changed environments, such as industry and manufacturing, defence and public safety, and healthcare and household tasks.
Civil autonomous systems technologies deliver machines that can independently perform tasks under limited direction or guidance by a human operator in passenger and freight transport, un crewed underwater vehicles, industrial robots, public safety and defence.
Drones, swarming and collaborative robots cover air, ground, surface and underwater vehicles and robots that can achieve goals with limited or no human direction, or collaborate to achieve common goals in a self-organising swarm. Applications for drones, swarming and collaborative robots include public safety, environmental monitoring, agriculture, logistics, and defence.
Small satellites are relatively low mass and size, usually mass under 500 kg and no larger than a domestic refrigerator or washing machine. Applications for small satellites include lower-cost earth observation constellations and wide area communications networks.
Space launch systems (including launch vehicles and supporting infrastructure) that are used transport payloads—such as satellites or spacecraft—from the surface of the Earth to space safely, reliably and cost-effectively. Applications for space launch systems include launching defence, commercial, and scientific and research payloads into earth orbit.
​

CHALLENGE-BASED INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION

However, some projects may not fall directly within the areas covered by the agreement, thus narrowing the impact of the deal. To ensure the funding streams remain available for the broader array of private and public sector actors, allowing preferential treatment of projects aimed to addressing shared concerns, even if formally falling outside of the scope of original agreement.

• Net Zero Stream - supports reproach, commercialisation, and diffusion for projects that may not necessarily develop new technologies, however result in sizeable reductions on greenhouse emissions, such as CO2 or methane.
• General Competition Consideration commits national governments to maintaining a more diverse of suppliers within the Alliance. This includes providing preferential treatment for procurement and business assistance programmes to companies to preserve more competitive domestic market or reduce market concentration.
• Critical Supply De-Risking mandates mandates governments to use subsidies, defence procurement, and other incentives to nurture within-the-block capacity to compete and effectively replace potentially risky suppliers, in areas that the government deems critical for national security, so long it remains in line with general non-discrimination treatment of supplies from other Member States. By Suppler Chain De-Risking applies to all industries covered by the agreement, as well as industrial equipment, intellectual property, food production, and healthcare.

Forging Closer Alignment

​

HARMONISED EXPORT CONTROLS REGIME

Since the agreement covers highly sensitive technologies and contains provisions pertaining to vital public services that may require export controls, the Member Sates agree to fully align their respective regimes. This necessaries a common information-sharing network between national security on trade bodies, with real-time flow of data and maximum transparency. Thus, no party shall grant and export permit to a legal entity for a product, asset - such as intellectual property - or service that have been explicitly denied a similar permit by another Member State, unless otherwise agreed by the parties concerned. All participating jurisdictions also oblige to notify all other Member Sates when issuing export permits, and suspending previously issued authorisations upon a request from another member country for further examination.
With a fully aligned exports regime, signature parties agree to suspend all limitations - unless otherwise agreed - for legal entities that may require a permit for a non third country, focusing on monitoring and sharing information about enemies, assets, products, and services concerned. Proper alignment also allows for for implied exchanges in human and intellectual capital, as well as accumulated expertise in the private sector across the Member Sate companies.
Notably, the export control alignment also applies to the movement of talent across Member States, committing national governments to maintaining a shared regime on both screening of potential human assets, as well as placing restrictions on the movement of potential persons or groups of interest.
This clause largely aims to alleging Member Countries with the United States' ban on American citizens working for Chinese semiconductor enterprises, while also helping member states to identify potential persons of interest in third countries.
​

PROCUREMENT COOPERATION

Despite committing to non-discrimination of foreign companies when it comes to public procurement, both Canada, the United Sates, and the United Kingdom have actively shilled their defence procurement and other sectors deemed important for national security.
However, as all Member States more closely align their export control regimes, the agreement also aims to level the playing filed, which would mainly intel accessing defence contracts and military procurement. Firstly, brings the principle of certification equivalence into play: a company that has obtained security clearance to participate in a defence or critical procurement project in one Member State can use that certificate for bids in all other countries, thus avoiding unnecessary duplication. Other member states however retain the right to request additional clearance or for the company to re-apply under their restive national procedure if the nature of the project involves is more sensitive, focuses on the field the company has not had clearance for, or if there's a reason to believe that company may pose higher security risk in different member state.
The parties also commit to prioritise applications and bids from Small & Medium Sized companies, and jointly support a diverse set of military contractors in every country through joint programmes and cross-border financing. The agreement also obliges defence procurement agencies to expelling security clearance and give the first priority to SMEs, defined as companies with less than 500 employees. National procurement agencies also commit to facilitating innovation delusion across the Member States, including through explicit authorisation for information and technology, as well as human capital sharing, among bidders for contracts.
All Member Sates also commit to facilitate scale-up funding and intellectual property acquisition when it comes to business assistance. Thus, national investment authorities, such as the British Business Bank, US Small Business Administration, Canada Growth Fund, and other business assistance bodies shall treat public investment projects into other Member States on par with their domestic markets, including equal access for companies operating in signature jurisdictions. The agreement also specifically outlines cooperation between the Advanced Research & Innovation Canada, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States, and Advanced Research and Invention Agency in the UK through permitting liberalised flow of human capital, intellectual property, and financial recourses, while committing those agencies to treating projects across member nations equally to their own domestic market.
The agreement also commits Member States at spend at least 5 per cent of their GDP on innovation policy, through public and defence procurement, business assistance, and tex credits.
​

R&D FRIEND-SHORING & SHARING

The proposal includes much closer cooperation between the parties when it comes to friend-shoring R&D, and reducing the block's dependence on both foreign expertise and technology. This would see Member Sates granting automatic domestic student status to anyone who is pursuing postgraduate eduction in one or more countries of the block, including the right to work in their field upon graduation in any member country, on the reciprocal basis. The Member Countries take it upon themselves to provide reciprocal access to postgraduate eduction and employment that is equivalent to that of their domestic students to anyone who has received their undergraduate eduction another member state, unless precluded by security concerns.
Additionally, each Member State shall mandate a certain percentage of their post-secondary support to be allocated for a new type of Partnership Scholarships & Grants. PSGs allow to for preferential treatment of research projects that are being conducted by individuals from several Member States jointly, including guaranteed full reimbursement of the research-affiliated costs and support for the cost of living. The programme also provides for funding whenever a postgraduate student decides to complete their eduction or research in more than one Member State. Notably, the programme also provides funding for research internships for current students and graduates, so long the internship takes place either with a company that operates outside of a Member State but remains incorporated within the alliance, or requires travelling to a different Member Sate, with respective costs covered by PSGs. Reattach institutions and private employers are free to apply for funding that shall cover up to 100 per cent of the cost of those kinds of internship, so long they hire a postgraduate student graduating from a Member Country, with the pay grade above the national poverty line. Employment authorisation requirements shall also be waived.
All signatories also guarantee an "immigration backstop" procedure, allowing those who participated in PSGs to obtain the right to remain in at least one the countries of the member states permanently.
PSGs also provide for the "domestic treatment" of research projects across Member Sates, allowing both individuals and research institutions seek funding through the Partnership Scholarships and Grants as well as other public funding channels. The agreement however, explicitly guarantees both researchers and institutions the right to be treated as domestic entries when submitting their applications regardless of which Member Sate they primary reside in.
​

SHARED INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES

The deal provides for a joint Technology Intelligence & Assessment Centre to be launched by Member States as own standalone institution dedicated to monitoring critical technology development in third countries. TIAC also focuses on developing new intelligence capabilities when it comes to assessing third countries' innovation capabilities, including their capacity for monopolising critical technology fields, as well as the potential for engaging into technological espionage. The Centre is tasked with not only developing offensive capabilities, but also boosting the Member States' ability to detect and remove potential vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and R&D.
The proposal also allows for a more structured approach to communication with the public, through Member Sates agencies directly learning from each other's engagement startles and communicating with both the private sector and individuals on the importance of critical technologies and assets. While also promoting open-source intelligence sharing through joint analytical programmes and cross-departmental collaboration.

Impact on Domestic Politics

Canadian federal politics have been fairly polarised recently, especially following the Liberals' third in the row victory without winning majority in the popular vote. Initial in-action of there government has cause further sliding in Liberal approval ratings, as Canada aimed to secretly negative its entry in AUKUS.
However, the House has seen a rare moment of unity, as the Government present their agreement with Canberra, London, and Washington, following by the foreign influence registry, as well as new defence spending targets. Surprisingly, the latter item has seen the left-leaning NDP also supporting the motion, as Liberals has committed to massively increase spending on veterans and humanitarian assistance.
Public reaction for far has been fairly mixed, as Canadians remain fairly sceptical of an idea of more defence spending, yet much more amenable. Notably, the government had to explicitly rule out the idea of new nuclear capabilities to be located in Quebec, citing the province's long-standing opposition to foreign nuclear deterrence among French Canadians.

Acknowledgements

• https://www.csis.org/analysis/canadian-membership-aukus-time-action
• https://www.csis.org/podcasts/35-west/more-subs-urgency-aukus-canada
• https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/aukus-flawed-by-design/
• https://www.cgai.ca/rethinking_canadas_security_strategy_how_canada_can_graduate_from_the_kids_table
• https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/170628_Obecny_USCanadianDefenseCoop_Web.pdf
• https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-three-partners-two-pillars-one-problem/

I made some significant changes to my contextual system. I apply a moving goalpost concept to my design method. That is to say, I address complaints, they complain about something else, I address those complaints, they complain about something else...until I eventually reach a point where any complaints are matters of pure taste and I can't meaningfully address them. Basically: force criticism to the individual level of subjectivity. For example, the loudest voices don't like crunch. Fuck 'em.
Anyway, here are the changes...

• Attack choice is direct
  
• Resolution is 1d6. 1 is crap and 6 offers a special technique. Sixes are typically fight finishers unless if they're thwarted
  
• Low skill levels will cause high numbers to flip to their inversion. High skill levels will cause low numbers to flip. 6 flips to 1, 5 to 2, 4 to 3, and vice versa. People seem to love this mechanic in various contexts and I do too so it's chiseled in stone as a "perfect mechanic"
  
• Defenses are based on the attack roll. I'm not a fan of opposed rolls. The range of defenses is based on your contextual position, such as a fighting stance. The better the attack roll, the less utility a defense has, although not necessarily less useful. If the attack roll is 1, that means you can freely choose your defense along the range of valid maneuvers
  
• Your contextual position will determine dominant actions. Dominant attacks take the best of two rolls. Dominant defenses allow for a complex response. Some fighting stances may offer a broad range of dominant direct actions and some
  
• A simplified combat scenario will look like this. First round, each combatant will typically use their action to move slightly outside attacking range and choose a stance. Second round, they may adjust their stance or maneuver, or choose a low risk assault. Meanwhile all other characters on the skirmish field are likely to do this unless if it's an ambush situation or some other chaotic event. Think of it like chess. Develop the pieces first, then launch an attack. Rounds are intended to go fast with the single action economy so this isn't a problem. Third round, they may settle on a stance, then commit to an aggressive attack or an attack that is intended to set-up the target for a finisher. Evenly skilled combatants with good armor are likely to have an attrition battle until someone gets outnumbered or lucky.
  

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

• Wilson Combat
• Centurion barrels
• Eotech
• Trijicon
• LaRue
• Hodge
• Proof
• Lilja
• Colt
• Scalarworks
• Vortex

​
But anyways, here are some issues I do have saved and can go through:

Aero/BA

• Bolt failure
• Super laundry list
• Bad P/W
• Index pin too long
• BA barrel muzzle damage
• Out of spec lower
• Handguard misaligned
• Rough machining
• BA chamber bur
• Soft bolt/bad heat treat 9310
• Aero Solus headspace issue caused by bolt production
• Gouged crown
• Lower drilling issues
• Multiple QC issues with BA barrels
• BCG burrs
• Aero 9310 bolt breakage at 3.5k rounds

Daniel Defense

• Bolt Failure
• Bad function x2
• Keyholing new barrel

Bear Creek Arsenal

• Ejection issues
• Extractor break
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy
• Wrong barrel with wrong markings in wrong upper (Neva been done befow)
• Illegal immigration scandal
• Bad Accuracy
• Bad headspace
• Multiple issues
• Function issues
• Trash accuracy
• Trash chamber
• Trash accuracy
• Out of spec chamber
• Worst possible accuracy ###* Bad accuracy, missing gas ports, gas port upside down, all kinds of stuff. Has a mini list of its own
• Extractor broke
• Bad performance and customer service
• Bad gas port
• Missing gas port
• Feed issues
• Eject issues
• parts issue, bad CS
• BCA bolt soft metal
• Bad function
• Bad extractor
• Extractor issues x3
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy
• Canted front sight
• FTF issues
• Precision issues/bad accuracy
• Bad gassing
• Bad mag catch
• Bad receiver fit
• dumb design

Hornady/Frontier Ammo

• Press Trashed
• Banana-peel gun
• Kaboom
• Kaboom
• List of Kabooms
• Kaboom
• Dramatic overpressure/deconstruction
• Frontier disassembly
• Frontier disassembly
  
• A-Tips self destructing x2
  
• Hornady dies bad x2
  
• Squished ammo
  
• Dented ammo
  
• broke bolt?
  

Christensen Arms

• Trash Accuracy x2
• Trash Accuracy
• Trash Accuracy?
• Trash Accuracy
• Trash accuracy
• Bad performance
• Messed up chamber
• Bad accuracy
• Bad performance
• Bad accuracy x2
• Bad accuracy
• Overpressure/chamber issues x2 - confirmed by Hornady
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy x2
• bad CS
• Bad accuracy

LMT

• Laundry list of issues
• Broken Forward Assist
• Bad machining
• BCG issues x3
• BCG issues
• Bolt heat treat issues

Cabelas Brand Scopes

• Reticle pop - I have seen this at least 4 times, but I only have threads saved for one.
• Wobble reticle

Cookie Cutter

• Broke

Swampfox

• Broke, didn't back product

Rise Armament Triggers

• Out of spec trigger
• Out of spec trigger
• Out of spec trigger x2
• Out of spec trigger
• Trigger reset issues x2
• Light Primer Strikes x2
• Unsafe function, burst fire
• Jiggle trigger
• Dead trigger

Toolcraft BCG

• Short gas ring life

Radical Firearms

• Messed up chamber

Remington

• Bad performance
• Bad QC
• Broken parts
• Rustington
• Crooked drilling
• Rustington

Remans

• Rifle detonation
• Cartridge deconstruction
• Ammo falls apart

Ruger

• Ejector issues
• Bad customer service
• Kaboom
• Sticky bolt

Bergara

• Loose barrel

Wilson Combat

• Ugly bore
• Bad performance

PSA

• Broken lugs
• Bad extraction
• Lots of issues
• Walking handguard

Faxon

• Crappy Customer Service
• Bad gas key fit

Fake Harris Bipod

• Pads ghosting

Fail Zero BCG

• No Holdback follows BCG
• Laundry list of issues

Superlative Arms

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

• Frustrated by gas block x2

Mossberg

• Crappy performance - this is a common problem in years past, only died down because people stopped buying them.

Norma

• Ammo overpressure
• Bad ammo
• Kaboom
• bad ammo
• kaboom

PMC

• Crushed ammo - I have personally had this happen with Federal as well.

Davidson Defense

• Bad reaming
• Bad headspace
• Loose barrel extension

Atheris

• Bad customer service - Atheris has had major issues this past year with getting products out and dodging customers, getting mad on social media. Avoid.

Chinesium

• Broke CH

Q

• Broken The Fix - This rifle line has had a ton of issues and the Q owner is an asshat.
• Multi-issue master list
• Bad function
• bad function

BCM

• Barrel Keyholes x2

Savage

• Bad performance
• Bad bore
• Rust bolt
• Rough bore
• Rough bore
• sticky bolt

KAC

• "Out of spec mag-well"

B-Kings

• Bad performance
• Broken extractor

Geissele

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

• Bad CS
• Bad finish
  
• Maybe not a real issue, bent bendy-bill rail
  
• Ashy finish
  
• Short chamber
  
• Gritty SSA-E
  
• Bad upper
  
• Bad Uppers
  
• Weird cam pin
  
• Missing parts
  

Anderson

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

• Out of spec lowers x3
• Junky Detents

FN

• Rough bore universal on their CHF barrels
• Dust cover latching issues

Rare breed

• Light primer strikes

Sharps

• Out of spec BCG?

Odin

• Bad performanhce
• Undersized gas port x2
• Kaboom

Rosco

• Barrel machining defects
• Burrs on feedramps

Swampfox

• Broken optic

Tula

• Glued in ammo
• Glued in ammo
• Soft cases
• Glued in ammo

Crimson Trace

• Reticle/glass issues

Arken

• Broken scope

Franklin

• Outrunning trigger - this is a common problem for this trigger.

Leupold

• Mk5 illum bleed
• MK5 tracking issues on snipershide
• Multiple reports of MK5 scopes failing in competition settings
• MK5 more tracking issues
• D-Pro optic failed
• Turret issues multiple
• delam illum on VX3

Winchester

• Primers issue

Holosun

• Dodgy Customer service
• Poor coating/glare issues/internal reflections
• Glue glare/internal reflections issue

PVA

*Bad CS - from deltatrainer

Wilson Combat

• burr in bore

Centurion Arms

• Weird cold bore/POI shift issues

PPU

• Sticky ammo x2
• No thread, but major recall on Grendel years ago due to overpressure kabooms

SLR

• Weird erosion issue

ZRODELTA

• Exploding flash hider

Eotech

• Delaminating glass - recurring issue

Trijicon

• Gritty/inconsistent turrets
• Canted crosshair
• Bad illumination

LaRue

• Broken Bolt
• Broken Bolt

TNTE Sales

• Bad P/W, bad CS

Hodge

• Damaged receiver

Lilja

• Bad barrel extension machining, bad gas port

Springfield

• Waypoint 2020 function
• Waypoint fail to eject
• Waypoint broke firing pin, multiple other issues x2

Proof

• Delaminating CFRP

Colt

• Bad heat treat receiver
• No thread - my own - Night sights pop out of 1911
• No thread - my own - canted installed barrel
• Cosmetic damage

Amend 2

• Multiple issues with polymer grendel mags

Wolf

• split grendel cases
• No thread, my own issues, 10% charge weight variation
• kaboom

Athlon

• Crud in glass

Monstrum

• Multiple issues with G2

Sionics

• NP3 Crack

McGowan

• Bad drilling

ARC

• too tight rings

MPA

• Exploding brake

Scalarworks

• unreliable mount
• Cracked mount
• ARFCOM multiple cracked mounts documented
• Cracked mount

Primary Arms

• Glass coating/anti reflective issue
• Contaminated glass

Strike industries

• Cookie cutter brake break - seen this several times

JP

• Broken bolt

Aimpoint

• Contaminated glass

Freedom Munitions

• Misfires
• Multiple issues

S&B

• shoulder splits

Vortex

• Broke turret

Woox

• Bad design

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

• Wilson Combat
• Centurion barrels
• Eotech
• Trijicon
• LaRue
• Hodge
• Proof
• Lilja
• Colt
• Scalarworks
• Vortex

​
But anyways, here are some issues I do have saved and can go through:

Aero/BA

• Bolt failure
• Super laundry list
• Bad P/W
• Index pin too long
• BA barrel muzzle damage
• Out of spec lower
• Handguard misaligned
• Rough machining
• BA chamber bur
• Soft bolt/bad heat treat 9310
• Aero Solus headspace issue caused by bolt production
• Gouged crown
• Lower drilling issues
• Multiple QC issues with BA barrels
• BCG burrs
• Aero 9310 bolt breakage at 3.5k rounds

Daniel Defense

• Bolt Failure
• Bad function x2
• Keyholing new barrel

Bear Creek Arsenal

• Ejection issues
• Extractor break
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy
• Wrong barrel with wrong markings in wrong upper (Neva been done befow)
• Illegal immigration scandal
• Bad Accuracy
• Bad headspace
• Multiple issues
• Function issues
• Trash accuracy
• Trash chamber
• Trash accuracy
• Out of spec chamber
• Worst possible accuracy ###* Bad accuracy, missing gas ports, gas port upside down, all kinds of stuff. Has a mini list of its own
• Extractor broke
• Bad performance and customer service
• Bad gas port
• Missing gas port
• Feed issues
• Eject issues
• parts issue, bad CS
• BCA bolt soft metal
• Bad function
• Bad extractor
• Extractor issues x3
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy
• Canted front sight
• FTF issues
• Precision issues/bad accuracy
• Bad gassing
• Bad mag catch
• Bad receiver fit
• dumb design

Hornady/Frontier Ammo

• Press Trashed
• Banana-peel gun
• Kaboom
• Kaboom
• List of Kabooms
• Kaboom
• Dramatic overpressure/deconstruction
• Frontier disassembly
• Frontier disassembly
  
• A-Tips self destructing x2
  
• Hornady dies bad x2
  
• Squished ammo
  
• Dented ammo
  
• broke bolt?
  

Christensen Arms

• Trash Accuracy x2
• Trash Accuracy
• Trash Accuracy?
• Trash Accuracy
• Trash accuracy
• Bad performance
• Messed up chamber
• Bad accuracy
• Bad performance
• Bad accuracy x2
• Bad accuracy
• Overpressure/chamber issues x2 - confirmed by Hornady
• Bad accuracy
• Bad accuracy x2
• bad CS
• Bad accuracy

LMT

• Laundry list of issues
• Broken Forward Assist
• Bad machining
• BCG issues x3
• BCG issues
• Bolt heat treat issues

Cabelas Brand Scopes

• Reticle pop - I have seen this at least 4 times, but I only have threads saved for one.
• Wobble reticle

Cookie Cutter

• Broke

Swampfox

• Broke, didn't back product

Rise Armament Triggers

• Out of spec trigger
• Out of spec trigger
• Out of spec trigger x2
• Out of spec trigger
• Trigger reset issues x2
• Light Primer Strikes x2
• Unsafe function, burst fire
• Jiggle trigger
• Dead trigger

Toolcraft BCG

• Short gas ring life

Radical Firearms

• Messed up chamber

Remington

• Bad performance
• Bad QC
• Broken parts
• Rustington
• Crooked drilling
• Rustington

Remans

• Rifle detonation
• Cartridge deconstruction
• Ammo falls apart

Ruger

• Ejector issues
• Bad customer service
• Kaboom
• Sticky bolt

Bergara

• Loose barrel

Wilson Combat

• Ugly bore
• Bad performance

PSA

• Broken lugs
• Bad extraction
• Lots of issues
• Walking handguard

Faxon

• Crappy Customer Service
• Bad gas key fit

Fake Harris Bipod

• Pads ghosting

Fail Zero BCG

• No Holdback follows BCG
• Laundry list of issues

Superlative Arms

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

• Frustrated by gas block x2

Mossberg

• Crappy performance - this is a common problem in years past, only died down because people stopped buying them.

Norma

• Ammo overpressure
• Bad ammo
• Kaboom
• bad ammo
• kaboom

PMC

• Crushed ammo - I have personally had this happen with Federal as well.

Davidson Defense

• Bad reaming
• Bad headspace
• Loose barrel extension

Atheris

• Bad customer service - Atheris has had major issues this past year with getting products out and dodging customers, getting mad on social media. Avoid.

Chinesium

• Broke CH

Q

• Broken The Fix - This rifle line has had a ton of issues and the Q owner is an asshat.
• Multi-issue master list
• Bad function
• bad function

BCM

• Barrel Keyholes x2

Savage

• Bad performance
• Bad bore
• Rust bolt
• Rough bore
• Rough bore
• sticky bolt

KAC

• "Out of spec mag-well"

B-Kings

• Bad performance
• Broken extractor

Geissele

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

• Bad CS
• Bad finish
  
• Maybe not a real issue, bent bendy-bill rail
  
• Ashy finish
  
• Short chamber
  
• Gritty SSA-E
  
• Bad upper
  
• Bad Uppers
  
• Weird cam pin
  
• Missing parts
  

Anderson

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

• Out of spec lowers x3
• Junky Detents

FN

• Rough bore universal on their CHF barrels
• Dust cover latching issues

Rare breed

• Light primer strikes

Sharps

• Out of spec BCG?

Odin

• Bad performanhce
• Undersized gas port x2
• Kaboom

Rosco

• Barrel machining defects
• Burrs on feedramps

Swampfox

• Broken optic

Tula

• Glued in ammo
• Glued in ammo
• Soft cases
• Glued in ammo

Crimson Trace

• Reticle/glass issues

Arken

• Broken scope

Franklin

• Outrunning trigger - this is a common problem for this trigger.

Leupold

• Mk5 illum bleed
• MK5 tracking issues on snipershide
• Multiple reports of MK5 scopes failing in competition settings
• MK5 more tracking issues
• D-Pro optic failed
• Turret issues multiple
• delam illum on VX3

Winchester

• Primers issue

Holosun

• Dodgy Customer service
• Poor coating/glare issues/internal reflections
• Glue glare/internal reflections issue

PVA

*Bad CS - from deltatrainer

Wilson Combat

• burr in bore

Centurion Arms

• Weird cold bore/POI shift issues

PPU

• Sticky ammo x2
• No thread, but major recall on Grendel years ago due to overpressure kabooms

SLR

• Weird erosion issue

ZRODELTA

• Exploding flash hider

Eotech

• Delaminating glass - recurring issue

Trijicon

• Gritty/inconsistent turrets
• Canted crosshair
• Bad illumination

LaRue

• Broken Bolt
• Broken Bolt

TNTE Sales

• Bad P/W, bad CS

Hodge

• Damaged receiver

Lilja

• Bad barrel extension machining, bad gas port

Springfield

• Waypoint 2020 function
• Waypoint fail to eject
• Waypoint broke firing pin, multiple other issues x2

Proof

• Delaminating CFRP

Colt

• Bad heat treat receiver
• No thread - my own - Night sights pop out of 1911
• No thread - my own - canted installed barrel
• Cosmetic damage

Amend 2

• Multiple issues with polymer grendel mags

Wolf

• split grendel cases
• No thread, my own issues, 10% charge weight variation
• kaboom

Athlon

• Crud in glass

Monstrum

• Multiple issues with G2

Sionics

• NP3 Crack

McGowan

• Bad drilling

ARC

• too tight rings

MPA

• Exploding brake

Scalarworks

• unreliable mount
• Cracked mount
• ARFCOM multiple cracked mounts documented
• Cracked mount

Primary Arms

• Glass coating/anti reflective issue
• Contaminated glass

Strike industries

• Cookie cutter brake break - seen this several times

JP

• Broken bolt

Aimpoint

• Contaminated glass

Freedom Munitions

• Misfires
• Multiple issues

S&B

• shoulder splits

Vortex

• Broke turret

Woox

• Bad design

Please see Thread 1 and Thread 2 for above 5k due to text limit.

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There are so many similarities between Harpocrates and Miquella that I’d find it hard to believe that FromSoftware didn’t take any inspiration from this god. So I decided to examine this deity to see if I could find anything interesting. All screenshots shown in this post in the Haligtree and Elphael were taken in-game without freecam, though many were in first-person with the FPS mod^[1], which was done to get a closer look at some of the symbols and iconography. I know not all of FromSoftware’s assets aren’t entirely original for dev purposes of course (Path of Exile assets reused for example) so I won’t be scrutinizing every symbol except for the more elaborate and relevant iconography.
Harpocrates is the Greek translation for “Horus The Child” (the Egyptian Hor-Pa-Khered)^[2], the famed Egyptian son of Isis and Osiris. In Plutarch’s (Greek philosopher) account of the couple, Isis “gave birth to Harpocrates, imperfect and premature…”, further described as “prematurely delivered and weak in his lower limbs”. To the Greeks, Harpocrates and Horus were not two separate deities, but “two degrees of evolution of the same god.” Very interestingly, Plutarch mentions Isis as “...the female principle of Nature, and is receptive of every form of generation, in accord with which she is called by Plato, the gentle nurse and the all-receptive…"
I believe we can make some parallels to Marika. Mention of generation and other female qualities bring to mind the role of an Empyrean, one who is capable of birthing new progeny as potential successors to the next age. The principle of Nature itself could be applied to the metaphysical laws of the Elden Ring in-game in my opinion.
Miquella was born malformed and is a savior figure for albinaurics and demi-humans who embarked on a pilgrimage to his Haligtree. Harpocrates was favored by the rich as a god of plenty, but was also loved by the masses. In Elphael we can see wheat, a symbol of abundance scattered throughout the area when exploring.
Harpocrates is commonly depicted standing or striding on an animal (such as a goose or a horse), with side locks^[3]. I was curious to see if Miquella is ever depicted with side locks but from the art of his kidnapping by Mohg and the teaser imager for the Shadow of the Erdtree, I’m not sure. The statues of Miquella at the Haligtree (by himself and with Malenia) don’t appear to depict him with any. It’s not really important, but it’d be cool if he did have them I feel. Miquella is shown in the dlc teaser riding Torrent so maybe his connection to our trusty steed was intentional by FromSoft if inspired by Harpocrates.
Terracotta figurines of Harpocrates often depict the young sun god emerging from a lotus flower, and according to this overview of a figurine, “The cornucopia, representing fertility and prosperity, is a Greek motif; however, the association of child-gods with agricultural bounty has Egyptian parallels as well."^[4] It’s interesting to me that the lotus flower is associated with Harpocrates, since we can immediately draw parallels between Malenia and her scarlet blooms. According to Plutarch, “...they portray the rising of the sun in this manner to indicate allegorically the enkindling of the sun from the waters.” when they speak of the sun rising as a new-born babe from the lotus. He is a god of the rising sun, represented seated on a lotus capsule.^[2]
In Egyptian mythology, the lotus is a symbol of life, the fecundative (fertile, or producing new offspring or growth) power of the Nile river, and was a source of food for not only Egypt, but the deltas of China and India (hence Brahma seated on a lotus) too. “By night it closes its leaves and submerges so deep under the water, that the hand cannot reach it. At dawn it directs itself eastwards to the light, and raises itself above the water and opens again.”^[5] Thus the lotus is a symbol for the birth and rebirth of the sun. “It is then one of the ways of introducing the dead to the divine life in the rebirth by the lotus, so that men after death can be reborn from the lotus as the gods.”^[5] From decay and death comes new life that bursts forth from the Scarlet Rot, and Malenia blooms as the goddess of rot at the roots of the Haligtree in a dramatic fashion.
Malenia’s name seems to mean “heir to the sun”^[6], which is very fitting seeing as the Golden Order’s gold has associations with it in my opinion.
“Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by the sun. It has seen better days. Much like the wear upon the shield, the Seat of the Sun is long faded away.” - Sun Realm Shield
These shields can be found from the beastmen skeletons in Farum Azula, though they are also found elsewhere in the Lands Between. Farum may very well have been the seat of the sun in ancient times. With Godrick also referring to a dragon as a “true-born heir”, I don’t feel the notion of the Greater Will being the sun is outlandish at all. We see a great light on the horizon while fighting the Elden Beast, and other celestial objects such as the moon are great powers in their own right.
He is depicted with his finger to his lips (a gesture to keep quiet about Sarapis being only human) and as such, was later called a god of silence. According to Plutarch though, the motion is actually little Harpocrates suckling his finger, as the motion in Egyptian means “eat” or “speak” and “Isis, in order to nourish him, puts the finger in his mouth instead of the breast.” Later depictions of Harpocrates as a deity of silence are Greaco-Roman, not Egyptian.^[5]
I didn't see a connection between Miquella and the later role of silence attributed to Harpocrates until I learned of the deity being associated with Mercury in the Renaissance-era. "The theme of silence is not just a Christian one: the association of wisdom with silence goes back to classical times, to writers such as Pindar, Euripides and Plutarch'."^[7] This is immediately significant, as not only have others put forward arguments of Miquella and Mercury in the alchemical sense, but Euripides' play The Bacchae in my opinion^[8], was the basis for the tragedy of Miquella, and the myths of Plutarch are a heavy focus in this post.
"During the Greek period, however, a mistaken interpretation of this gesture arose, namely that by it, Harpocrates commanded silence concerning divine mysteries. Renaissance mythographers and humanists accepted this explanation and Harpocrates appears as the god of silence in, amongst others, Gyraldus, Cartari and Valerian."^[7]
"Sometimes in Renaissance writing, the god Harpocrates was conflated with Hermes or Mercury, god of Eloquence, for a play on the rhetorical commonplace of eloquent silence."^[7]
As I have only recently stumbled upon this Renaissance-era connection, I will have to explore Mercury and the Cymbalum Mundi at a later time, since Plutarch's connections to sleep and dreams are another avenue I need to explore further in relation to Miquella, and putting both in this post would bloat it.
In Egypt, Horus the god was represented by a winged solar disc, symbol of the sun, which later gave rise to the cosmic “clipeus”, or world circle with its cosmocrater (ruler of the world) inside of it during Graeco-Roman times.^[5] Throughout Elphael and especially near the roots in the Haligtree, we find this symbol of two griffin-like figures underneath the Haligtree inside of a circle. It seems to me this visual was directly inspired by this depiction of Harpocrates inside of a solar disc (surrounded by an ouroboros), accompanied by two Agathodaemones, “noble spirits”, representing Isis and Osiris^[5]. Furthermore, in Elphael we can find more similar “noble spirits” depicted upside down. With this in mind, I’m comfortable with interpreting the symbol of the Haligtree over two Agathodaemones as Miquella, god of the world depicted inside, shown with his parents Radagon and Marika.
Very interesting that this imagery is seen when Miquella is inside his bloody cocoon. Note the pelvic bones that look similar to the “Agathodaemones” at the Haligtree, with the Empyrean literally inside of a new circle. In my last Miquella post arguing his tragedy mirrors The Bacchae^[8] , just as Pentheus’ gruesome demise seems a cosmic joke to Dionysus, Miquella’s aspirations of godhood have been turned on his head, becoming a literal surrogate to another god entirely. All of this symbolism at the Haligtree seems more thematic than indicative of some sort of convoluted plot by the Empyrean to let himself be Mohgnapped while having placed clues beforehand just for fun.
Later depictions of Harpocrates with Isis and Osiris according to El-Khachab^[5] seem to be Gnostic, “for in the mode of the Kabbalah, the two arms of God or the first cause, the infinite light, the Ensoph symbolize the second triad of the sephiroth, since the right arm is love, Chesed, and the left one is justice or strength, geburah. The former, Chesed, is the life-begetting principle, while the left arm represents might and from the union of the two comes tifereth, beauty or rather mercy, rachamzm, which is the eminent quality and principle of the Christian teaching,' and the assurance of the moral order of the world.”^[5]
“The first triad of the ten sephiroth, which are the qualities or the agencies serving as the media for the manifestations of God in the finite, represents Him as the Thinker of the universe. The second triad interprets Him as the moral power of the universe, and the third one represents the material universe;”^[5]
I’ve spoken of “Sophia” before in my Bacchae post, where I argued Sophia the archetype is present in-game as Marika, but also as the moral term; the self-knowledge of one’s place in the world, knowing the limits that compose human fate, and the assurance of moral order shown by El-Khachab relates to this idea, as the Order in-game is dictated by the Elden Ring. Every pistis Sophia (relating to the god) seems to have its own Horus, as shown in this image with the name Harpocrates at the bottom-left, only strengthening the notion that the Sophia and Harpocrates archetypes are represented in-game as Marika and Miquella in my opinion.
Back to Plutarch’s account of Isis and Osiris, I wonder if partial inspiration for the shadows in-game are from Isis finding the child of her deceased husband Osiris and sister Nephthys: “And when the child had been found, after great toil and trouble, with the help of dogs which led Isis to it, it was brought up and became her guardian and attendant, receiving the name of Anubis, and it is said to protect the gods just as dogs protect men." Plutarch also mentions the special Dog-star of Isis: Cyon (Sirius).
Another interesting tidbit are the mentions of the sisters Isis and Nephthys as “...the face of Isis on one side, and on the other the face of Nephthys [bottom of the circumference of the sistrum]. By these faces they symbolize birth and death, for these are the changes and movements of the elements.” This is in regards to the world as a sistrum (rattle of a snake), where all things in existence need to be shaken, rattled, never to cease their motion, but woken up and agitated when they grow drowsy and torpid.
I’ve argued before^[9] that Miquella’s unalloyed gold is immutable (unchanging) in a world that is fundamentally one of vicissitude (change between opposites), and the world described as a sistrum by Plutarch where things never cease their motion fits in quite nicely in my opinion. The sisters Isis and Nephthys being a dualism of life and death to me, bring to mind the Empyreans Marika The Eternal and the Gloam-Eyed Queen, life and death, in opposition. This doesn’t suddenly mean the GEQ is Marika’s sister, but I had always thought she was at least a Numen, since their longevity seems to make them good candidates for hosting the Elden Ring.
Plutarch also assigns Isis to Earth and Love to Osiris. For me personally, I assign Earth to Marika as the Elden Ring within her is “the wellspring of all joy” in the words of Enia and once bore fruit in the Age of Plenty, relating to Sophia. Radagon and Love are inseparable in my view, as he loved the perfection he sought above all else, and may have always loved Rennala even after leaving her in my opinion^[10] (though there's still much to debate about that in fairness). Overall, I strongly believe inspiration was taken from these myths.
As for Horus-the-Child, he is neither eternal, unaffected, or imperishable but “being ever reborn, contrives to remain always young and never subject to destruction in the changes and cycles of events.”^[5] (the sun that renews itself daily)
Most interestingly, Plutarch mentions the reason that Harpocrates was born frail, referencing Plato’s Symposium in regards to Love being the child of Plenty and Poverty. In the Symposium, Diotima showed Socrates “that Love was neither, but in a mean between fair and foul, good and evil, and not a god at all, but only a great demon or intermediate power... who conveys to the gods the prayers of men, and to men the commands of the gods.”^[11] This intermediate power in neoplatonic thought would be a demi-god. Miquella’s name seems to be “a variation of Miguella, itself a feminine version of Miguel, a name of Hebrew origin meaning ‘who is like God.’”^[6] The name fits his demi-god status quite well, but what of being born of Poverty and Plenty?
Diotima notes that Love, as the son of both, partakes of their natures and is full and starved by turn. “Like his mother he is poor and squalid, lying on mats at doors (compare the speech of Pausanias); like his father he is bold and strong, and full of arts and resources. Further, he is in a mean between ignorance and knowledge:—in this he resembles the philosopher who is also in a mean between the wise and the ignorant.”^[11] Plutarch says of the duo that “Poverty, wishing for children, insinuated herself beside Plenty while he was asleep, and having become pregnant by him, gave birth to Love, who is of a mixed and utterly variable nature.”^[2] He also speaks on their natures similarly since “...the son of a father who is good and wise and self-sufficient in all things, but of a mother who is helpless and without means and because of want always clinging close to another and always importunate over another. For Plenty is none other than the first beloved and desired, the perfect and self-sufficient; and Plato calls raw material Poverty, utterly lacking of herself in the Good, but being filled from him and always yearning for him and sharing with him.”^[2]
In Pausanias’ speech on Love in the same Symposium, he says there are two kinds; the first is noble, concerning the intelligence of man, “without wantonness or lust”, while the second is a more vulgar love, a love of the body rather than the soul, and of power and wealth.
Malenia is bold and strong like Radagon, while Miquella has inherited his father's talents for arts and resources. They are also afflicted with crippling weaknesses in turn.
I’d like to be very speculative right now about the true nature of the twins’ maladies, so feel free to disregard this next theory as mostly speculation. What if there’s another reason the twins were born malformed that has to do with their parents’ character rather than their relation (incest)? Radagon embodies Plenty in my opinion, through his journey of Golden Order Fundamentalism, mastering sorceries and incantations in his journey to be complete, having skills in crafts like sewing, and founding a school of thought that studies the Elden Ring through scholarly means. The love he practices seems to be a nobler one according to Pausanias, involving the intelligence of man in his journey for perfection.
I’ve argued before that Radagon represents the Intellect that comes into conflict with the Soul.^[10] Marika, the archetype of Sophia (who embodies the Soul) on the other hand, was chosen to be an Empyrean, having godhood thrust upon her because of her physical attributes (Numen, able to bear successors). She, like Poverty, clung close to another, Godfrey, relying on his strength to conquer the Lands Between, and dismissed him to serve her own ends. The love she pursued was more vulgar, loving the power that Hoarah Loux’s bodily strength brought her, not his mind, which is one of extreme amathia^[8] (self-ignorance resulting in cruel violence, barbarism). His love for Marika may have also been of the low kind, because I can't imagine any other reason his cave-man brain would choose Marika. The twins were born quite a while after her Age of Plenty (during Godfrey’s reign) ended, and her Erdtree was sick with sprouts afflicting it^[12], furthering her character as one of Poverty.
Elden Ring’s world is fundamentally one of vicissitude in my opinion^[9], (change between opposites and contraries) and I posit that the twins were subject to these forces when they were born because of their parent’s divine natures, with Miquella forever young (too little entropy, which could relate to the Law of Causality) due to the reasons Diotima and Plutarch said of Harpocrates, and due to what I choose to dub “The Law of Vicissitudes”: One cannot exist without the other, and as all things have their opposites and contraries, his twin Malenia was born with too much entropy in turn, afflicted by the influence of the Goddess of Rot.
Since this theory of Plenty and Poverty is very speculative, the fact of the matter is that the simplest explanation for the malformed twins is the self-incest of Radagon/Marika. At the very least, I believe it is still appropriate to view the Plenty/Poverty dynamic as thematically relevant in Elden Ring.
SOURCES:
[1] First Person Souls – Full Game Conversion
[2] Isis and Osiris by Plutarch
[3] Harpocrates and Other Child Deities in Ancient Egyptian Sculpture
[4] Harpocrates Plague and Figurine
[5] Some Gem-Amulets Depicting Harpocrates Seated on a Lotus Flower: To the Memory of My Great Friend Dr. Alexandre Piankoff
[6] The names, terms and language of Elden Ring (etymology/nomenclature study)
[7] SILENCE, HARPOCRATES, AND THE CYMBALUM MUNDI
[8] Miquella's story is based on the Greek tragedy "The Bacchae", and the "Sophia" that permeates Elden Ring
[9] Why the Flame of Frenzy can only be quelled in Placidusax's arena & the nature of unalloyed gold
[10] The Heroic Frenzy of Radagon
[11] Symposium, by Plato
[12] Misbegotten, Omens, and Grafting: An Origin Story

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Demographics:
Gender: Genderqueer (Masc) [would be listed as other or specify]
race/ethnicity: white
state: nj
type of school: charter school for performing arts
hooks (URM, first generation, legacy, athlete, etc.): LGBTQIA+ (URM?), first gen, low income, great grandfather went to UPenn (legacy?), from really small town (<5,000), child of single mother who is paying for 2 kids college at time of applying
Intended Majors): archeology, geography, musical theatre
ACT/SAT/SAT I: 1310 (applying test opt to schools it will hurt me)
UW/W GPA: 4.0UW/ 4.4W
Rank: 1/91
Coursework: AP/B/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/ 1B scores, etc: 18 Honors, 3 AP (max allowed) [AP Gov, AP psych, AP Lit]
Awards: teen arts state finalist 4x, semi-finalist in national poetry contest, high honor roll 4x, perfect attendance, excellent conduct
Extracurriculars: Dance- Interned as a dance assistant at my studio (10th, 11th); participated in 20+ charities; State Finalist for Teen Arts Festival for Dance Ensemble
Musical Theatre- Participated in 9 shows of various genres and time periods; won two State awards at Teen Arts for musical theatre performance (9th, 10th); Dance Captain (9th, 11th); Student Director (10th)
Artist Council/Student Government- Vice President (9th); Spirit Committee Chairman (10th); Treasurer (11th); Created spirit week schedules; organized hallways decorating contests (3rd in 9th grade, 4th in 10th); created raffle basket for events raising 25k+; organized and promoted fundraisers that paid for proms
Spartan TV (School Broadcasting program) - Created a State winning comedy film for Teen Arts Festival (9th); created episodes that raised 1.1k+ views on YouTube alone; created a promotional ad for an Open House that received 500+ views; created ad for Holy Spirit’s giving day which reached thousands of people, and raised $75k+
Vocal choir - Performed as a background singer for an International touring band; performed masterwork Jubilate Deo at Carnegie Hall
Instrumental/ pep band -Drum Captain (10th); Percussion Leader (9th, 10th)
Mock trial -Leading Attorney for the Defense (10th); competed at the County level
Interact - Organized a canned food drive that raised ~$500
GSA- Attended meeting; engaged in pridefest; promoted a safe space for all students; handed out pride stickers and pins
Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.
I transferred to a new school this year but here are my predictions on how these letters will go
Guidance Counselor (10/10) she loves me to death and nominated me to apply for voices for tufts
Physics teacher (10/10) considers me a strong working kid and great leader
History teacher (9/10) he’s a silly goofball and pretends to hate me (prolly because I ask for so many rev letters from him lol)
Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc
ED1 - UPenn
ED2 - Dartmouth
EA - Macalester, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA
RD - American, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Brown, Bucknell, Colby, Columbia, Cornell, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, George Washington, Hamilton, Harvard, Haverford , John Hopkins, Middlebury, Montclair (already accepted by Early Bird program), Princeton, Rowan, Skidmore, Stockton, Swarthmore, Syracuse, Tufts, Vanderbuilt, WashU, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale

Barry Allen, Wally West, Bart Allen, Jay Garrick etc. It doesn't really matter. The speedsters from the DCU. I've been perusing battle boards, and it seems like they can do anything. The Flash's greatest power doesn't seem to be that he can run really fast, but that he gets to defy the laws of physics (more than most superheroes rooted in science... even if it's comic book science). He can perceive things in an attosecond, run trillions of times faster than the speed of light, run in space, phase out peoples organs (apparently), time travel, dimension hop, steal speed, lend speed, can outrun teleportation, hit hard enough to one shot Superman with IMP's and even make clothing out of the speedforce.
Often times, you hear about how Superman is boring and OP, but he has nothing on the Flash characters. At least not after the Silver Age. Having characters that powerful, generally don't work as main heroes unless you create greater threats, but how could anyone realistically threaten the speedsters unless they're another speedster or maybe a cosmic entity (although I've heard that Wally West beat the anti-monitor and outperformed most of DC's heavy hitters). You'll often see him get matched up with people like the Silver Surfer, Thanos (with or without the Infinity Gauntlet), Odin, Celestials, Galactus and even the Living Tribunal with people saying that he beats all of these great cosmic powers.
Typically, a character operating at that power level can't operate there for long. Rune King Thor came and went as an example. Or in Kingdom Come, I believe that the Flash was moving so fast that he was basically everywhere at once in Central City. He was basically omnipresent in that one area, but we didn't see much of him. If the Flash was constantly operating at that godly level, how would there be any real stakes in his story? With comic book characters... especially the more prominent ones, you can usually find at least one or two times a character was overpowered for a story arc or two, but then they went back to somethin reasonable. The Flash characters seem to constantly be operating at this level. This could happen with most characters. In theory, if you take the basic main superpower of a character and play it up to it's highest extent, they can get ridiculously OP. Like Aquaman controlling bacteria. But usually
Or take the Hulk as an example. He's a character a lot like the Flash. He's one of the most important superheroes and he has one main physical power. The Flash has super speed. The Hulk has super strength. Now let's say the Hulk is so strong, that he has super breath. We could even give him freeze breath like Superman. Enough to blow out stars. Let's say that his voice is loud enough to shatter planets (like Superman or Uvogin from HxH on steroids). Let's say that he can fly by kicking the air like a Rokushiki user in One Piece or Might Guy in Naruto. Hell, let's say he can push himself through space by creating shockwaves with his feet like Saitama. Let's say that he can lend strength or steal strength. Lets say that he can increase his durability to the point where he can tank the destruction of universes or weaken the bonds between atoms to disintegrate things and people, so that no one can get close to him. What? This is bad science? Well... just give him the strength force!
I've heard that DC writers have said that Flash characters are the hardest to write, because they constantly have to be dumbed down for other characters to matter in the narrative. How Captain Cold (yes... I know he can slow them down a bit), the Rouges and Gorilla Grodd ever chalange them I'll never know. I have read Flash stories before. Against other speedsters like Reverse Flash. I've also consumed outside Flash media... movies, tv shows and video games. The DCAU gave him consequences though. When the Flash was fighting Lex LuthoBrainiac, he nearly got sucked into the speed force. It was made clear that running at that speed wasn't something he could do whenever he wanted. There were consequences and it was awesome. To be clear, I don't hate these character. In almost everything I've seen them in, they've been likable. But Pre-Crisis Superman was likable too. They could get away with it, because at the time, comic books were mostly marketed towards children. Now, most of the readers are adults. I just don't see how there are any real stakes in their stories when they're constantly at the peak of their powers.

"hi guys welcome back to another video hi" - Foodie Beauty starts off with her usual lackluster greeting.
"um so you're gonna hear some beezing or whatever" - She acknowledges her annoying habits right from the start.
"you guys I know I'm weird but I love ketchup on my pizza" - Foodie Beauty's strange pizza preferences are questionable at best.
"I don't want the camera over please thank you okay okay honey" - She rudely interrupts the viewers' experience with unnecessary camera adjustments.
"um by the way as you can see from the title we're celebrating because we got a new car" - Foodie Beauty shamelessly uses her mukbang to boast about her material possessions.
"they put a large cheese" - She struggles to articulate her thoughts, making her words even less engaging.
"you guys will definitely see some of the inside when we drive around in videos" - She teasingly mentions future content while failing to provide any real excitement.
"I'm also going to be getting henna done on my hands" - Foodie Beauty digresses into irrelevant topics like henna tattoos.
"so I'm very grateful and I'm not bragging" - Despite her claims, she proceeds to list all the things she's supposedly grateful for, coming across as insincere.
"maybe I could start like a diet group on Facebook" - Foodie Beauty's delusions of starting a diet group showcase her disconnected understanding of healthy living.
"so yeah I'm not exploiting my cat for views" - She defensively denies exploiting her cat for views, despite using it as a constant prop in her videos.
"some people just need to get a life what else is new" - She resorts to petty insults and fails to address valid criticism.
"so anyways spicy Algerian sauce yeah so I learned how to count to seven" - Foodie Beauty goes off on a random tangent about counting in Arabic, completely unrelated to the mukbang.
"I'm full look I always destroy Pizza like this" - Her unappetizing eating habits and lack of table manners further diminish the enjoyment of the mukbang.
"I want to go save kittens from a burning building just to see what people are gonna say about it" - Her sarcastic remark highlights her attention-seeking behavior and disregard for genuine concern.
"to all my supporters and the positive people who are always here and kind I love you guys" - Foodie Beauty attempts to end on a positive note, but it feels insincere given her overall demeanor throughout the mukbang.
In summary, Foodie Beauty's "NEW CAR PIZZA MUKBANG" lacks substance and fails to captivate viewers. Her disjointed ramblings, unnecessary tangents, and defensive attitude make for a disparaging and unappealing video experience.

Hi. So I started to mod again and I copied a performance boost mod list from a YouTube video. When checking in game, interior FPS is running 48-55 but exterior is anywhere from 28-38. Can you tell if there is a mod I used that affects my exterior FPS?
My PC specs are: AMD A8 7650k, 8GB Ram, AMD R9 290x
Here is the mod list:
"SkyUI"
"Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch"
"A Quality World Map"
"Address Library for SKSE Plugins"
"SSE Engine Fixes (skse64 plugin)"
"powerofthree's Tweaks"
"Papyrus Tweaks NG"
"Recursion Monitor"
"SSE Display Tweaks"
"Skyrim Priority SE AE - skse plugin"
"Lightened Skyrim"
"Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes"
"Static Mesh Improvement Mod"
"Ambiance - A Vanilla+ Ambient Lighting Overhaul"
"eFPS - Exterior FPS boost"
"Skyrim Project Optimization SE"
"Shadow Boost"
"Less Vanilla Trees"
"Insignificant Object Remover"
"Remove Useless Plants"
"SE - Enhanced Saturation - Vibrant Colors (For PC low-end)"
"Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul"
"Immersive Patrols SE AE"
"SkyUI SE - Flashing Savegames Fix"
"Cutting Room Floor - SSE"
"Realistic Lighting Overhaul (RLO) SSE All-In-One Installer"
"Unofficial Skyrim Creation Club Content Patch"
"Realistic Water Two SE"
"A Matter of Time - A HUD clock widget"
"FileAccess Interface for Skyrim SE Scripts - FISSES"
"Less Intrusive HUD II SE"
"SkyHUD"
"Customizable UI Replacer SkyHUD SE"
"MCM Helper"
"Floating Healthbars"
"NPC Dialogue Audio Enhancer"
"Cleaned Skyrim SE Textures"
"Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - RDO SE"
"Animation Motion Revolution"
"Project New Reign - Nemesis Unlimited Behavior Engine"
"Nemesis Output"
"Precision"
"SKSE Override"
"Alternate Start - Live Another Life - SSE"
"JK's Skyrim"
"JK's Skyrim No light patch"
"JK's Skyrim Arthmoor P"
"JK's Skyrim Water Patch"
"Obsidian Weathers and Seasons"
"Total Character Makeover"
Edit: Tried to run vanilla skyrim and it runs stable 50fps. Removed JK Skyrim and it runs 35-40 fps
Appreciate your wisdom!

Hello fellow pen lovers! :-) This batch features pens from last weeks sale in addition to 5 new awesome vintage pens and 1 new modern pen! There are a couple budget friendly flexible stub nib options available here too(my favorite nib type). All of these are superb writing, beautiful pens that would serve anyone well. Thanks so much for looking🙏
Verification and photos: https://imgur.com/a/q3G5Igs Please note: there may be ink on the nibs(and on my fingers lol) in the photos as a result of my testing them. Rest assured, all nibs are in great shape
-All sub rules in effect. PayPal G&S is the only acceptable form of payment! -Please post on this listing first, then PM with your PayPal email and I’ll get an invoice sent out ASAP. Users that indicate firm intention through messaging to purchase a pen will get priority for a given pen, irrespective of “pm” order in the thread.
-The cost of shipping is higher than ever. All packages ship with full value insurance-absolutely no exceptions. Shipping will be a flat rate of $10. I’m happy to combine shipping if you purchase multiple items.
On to the pens!
[D for vintage] Platinum Pocket Pen w/18k factory Music nib! $200+shipping
This pen is quite unusual in that you definitely don’t see them everyday. While I’m not an expert on Platinum as a brand, I do know these pens are few and far between. In fact, this is the only one I’ve ever seen available and I paid a pretty penny for it. I’m sure there are others out there, but they rarely come up for sale. This is a must have for any Platinum collectors! The 18k music nib writes absolutely beautifully and has a bit of spring. The pen is also in really good shape and is ready to write your sweet, sweet music! If you’re a Platinum collector(or a traveling composer), this is a must have pen for you ;-)
[D for vintage] Parker Vacumatic in Gray Pearl Shadow-Wave w/14k Med. flexible nib $125+shipping
Up next is a fantastic user grade Vac that would be perfect for someone who’s either just getting into vintage, or for the person who wants a vintage pen to carry with them daily without having to worry about losing an uber expensive pen. The pen presents very nicely indeed, but is user grade with brassing to the trim and a mark or 2 on the body. The nib is awesome though, and has rare flexibility to add plenty of character to your writing. It is not easy to find a Vac with flexibility at this price point!
[D for vintage] Wahl full length slender pen in Jade celluloid w/14k Fine flexible nib $125+shipping
Those that know me here know that I collect Wahl as a primary focus. This pen was an early acquisition and is perfect for getting into vintage. The Jade celluloid has discoloring, as do most pens made of this material. The color on this pen is a lot better than some however. The nib is awesome! A fine with flexibility to take your writing to the next level! The nib writes really, really well! I’ve traded up to a similar pen that has better coloring, so this pen must go. Discover why I love Wahl so much! I guarantee you would not be disappointed with this pen if you purchased it! I still didn’t take a picture of this pens awesome nib… UPDATE: pictures added
[D for vintage] Ingersoll all metal pen w/14k Med. Stub Italic nib $105+shipping
This pen is great for somebody who wants to experience vintage stub flex without breaking the bank. While still a stunning pen, the exterior does have some wear, however it’s a very old pen! This is a twist filler, requiring that one simply remove the blind cap, insert the nib in ink, and twist the metal piece to “deflate” the sac. After releasing the metal piece and allowing the sac to fill with ink, boom, the pen is filled! The nib is what makes this pen special! A #2 Ingersoll, it is a truly flexible, italic like MF nib. There is some feedback when writing, however this pen is a whole lot of fun to write with! If you’ve never experienced a flexible stub, here’s your chance to do so in a relatively inexpensive manner!
[D for vintage] Unbranded Blue Oversized Flat top pen w/14k #8 F stubby nib $120+shipping~~
This is an extremely good quality, unbranded oversize vintage pen. The large 14k Warranted #8 stubby nib writes extremely well. Great pen for EDC due to its budget conscious price :-) The thing is, you don’t give up anything with this pen! It writes splendidly with line variation due to having a bit of springiness and the stub like nature of the nib. Very nice pen that would be a great starter vintage pen too! If you’re looking for a wallet friendly, ergonomically ideal, oversize vintage pen that not wallet busting expensive, there is no better option than this! Larger pens were not common back in the day so this is a very nice departure from the normally relatively small vintage pens. You can feel the quality of the pen as you cap it, it’s solid! Great pen!!
[D for vintage] Blackbird pen w/14k Fine Flexible nib $150+shipping~~
I have a thing for Blackbird pens. While in user grade condition, this pen sports a really special nib. The 14k Fine nib on this Blackbird is ready to take you on all kinds of flexy adventures! The trim is brassed and there are a few light scratches from careful use over the years but personally, I find that’s part of the charm with these old pens. You can tell that its previous owner loved it and used it faithfully. The nib is in perfect condition and is nice and luxuriously soft! In this pens case, it’s all about this wonderful nib! Try truly upper echelon vintage flex at a relatively affordable price!
[D for vintage] Parker Duofold aerometric filling pen w/14k F nib $95+shipping~~
Next up is a trusty Duofold! I continue making cuts of duplicate pens. I may be selling this pen, but it’s a great example of one of Parker’s most vaunted models! The Newhaven factory nib writes with the perfect wetness, is smooth, and has a bit of flex. A quintessential vintage pen, no collection is complete without one! This pen has micro scratches consistent with careful usage though the passing of time. Trim looks very nice for its age. Overall, a very nice example of this model and a great writer!
D for vintage] Parker Duofold AF w/14k F nib $115+shipping~~
Another Duofold, this one an AF(aluminum-filler) model! Matching its brother above, this is a reliable, excellent writing pen that is ready to write for many more decades! I love Duofolds and have quite a few different models. You can’t go wrong with these pens as they make excellent everyday writers! This particular example is in nice condition with only a bit of brassing to the cap band and fine microscratching as a result of use throughout its life. Again, this is a Parker you simply must have in the collection!
[D for vintage]Good Service Pen Co. Oversized Mottled Red and Black Hard Rubber Flat top w/#8 Med Stub Flex nib (MRBHR) $130+shipping
This is a really special one here and really, probably one I shouldn’t sell….This is a large, oversized, beautiful mottled red and black hard rubber(MRBHR) pen! MRBHR mesmerizes me! I mean the color absolutely POPS on this pen! I love looking at it and can get lost just staring at the patterns :-) This is a nice example of one of the most beautiful materials of all time to make a pen out of, imho of course. There is some brassing to the trim, a personalization(small and very difficult to see due to the pattern in the material), and a singular scrape in the body, but is a drop dead gorgeous pen! Take a look in the gallery….the pen is absolutely stunning! This is another pen where the nib is grand!. This pen has a ridiculously soft #8 flexible stub nib that exhibits perfect flow! The tipping is very worn but it is incredibly smooth and fun to write with! This nib is so soft that it’s quite easy to touch the feed against the paper if you’re not paying attention….a good problem to have lol, and a minor price to pay for jaw dropping writing imo….a great writing experience!
Modern pens below!
[B+] Lamy Accent Briarwood w/14k Med nib $110+shipping
Lamy’s Accent is a great way to enjoy Lamy’s gold nibs. This pen is customizable in that you can purchase additional barrel inserts and swap them out if you wanted. The Medium nib writes beautifully and is exactly what one would expect from a Lamy nib. This pen is in really good shape and needs a new owner who will actually use it!
[B+] Lamy Studio Palladium w/14k Fine nib $120+shipping
There’s probably not a whole lot I can say about the Lamy Studio that hasn’t already been said and they are indeed, great pens! This one is in great condition and also writes beautifully. I’ve always liked the way Lamy gold nibs feel against paper. I also really like the ergonomics of this pen. For my hands they’re extremely comfortable to hold, and quite grippy given the texture on the section. I’m primarily a vintage guy and don’t use this pen nearly enough to justify owning it.
[B+]Platinum PTL-5000a w/14k Fine nib $80+shipping
This Platinum model was discontinued several years ago. While it’s a great pen that writes wet and smooth for a Japanese fine, I just don’t use it. These pens gained an almost cult like following and were known to have nibs with flexibility. This example is no different. Great pen in great condition and with a great nib!
[Parts due to no nib, otherwise B+] Gravitas Pocket pen-Aluminum NO NIB $65+shipping~~
Gravitas pens are very popular right now! It’s no wonder as you can feel the quality of workmanship as soon as you pick one of these pens up. This pen has no sign that it’s ever been used really, and is in very nice condition. It doesn’t come with a nib but will accept any #6 Jowo you’d like to put in it! Grab this pen at a discount and without the wait of shipping across the pond.
SOLD BEFORE LISTING[D due to nib swap but otherwise A2] Pelikan M200 w/SS Med. nib

Hello all. Back for another round. All games are original prints (black label) and include case and manual unless stated otherwise. Prices listed DO NOT include shipping unless stated. Shipping will vary with purchase but I usually split the cost with buyers. Feel free to make reasonable offers. Ask any questions you might have. Pics will be provided if requested. I work night shift and have a rough schedule so please be patient. I'd prefer PayPal fnf, but will do gns if you insist.
New in box Limited Edition Animal Crossing New Horizons Switch console..... $315 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/A96ZMlB

 PS2 

Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana...... $40.00
ATV Quad Power Racing 2 ...... $6.00
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance ...... $15.00
Burnout Dominator ...... $10.00
Champions Return to Arms ...... $45.00
Eve of Extinction ...... $15.00
Final Fantasy X ..... $7.50
Final Fantasy X-2 ...... $7.50
Final Fantasy XII w/collector's edition strategy guide ...... $25.00
Grand Theft Auto III (part of a set) ...... $8.00
Hack Infection ...... $25.00
Hack Mutation ...... $45.00
Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff ...... $10.00
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun ...... $5.00
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun w/strategy guide ...... $10.00
Mercenaries 2 ...... $7.00
Pitfall the Lost Expedition ...... $9.00
Run Like Hell ...... $12.00
Star Ocean Till the End of Time ...... $16.00
Tak and the Power of Juju ...... $10.00
Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams ..... $7.00
Turok Evolution ...... $11.00
V- Rally 3 ...... $8.00
Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo ...... $10.00

 Sealed, Special, and Others 

Resident Evil Bundle -- includes: 5th Anniversary Code Veronica X--cib, Resident Evil Dead Aim-- cib, Outbreak File #1 -- cib, Outbreak File #2 -- cib, R.E 4 -- cib. Also includes 3 strategy guides. * Bundle price -- $200 shipped.
https://imgur.com/a/wJt59XD
Shaun White Snowboarding sealed ...... $10.00
Blowout sealed ...... $15.00
Alter Echo sealed (small rip with tape) .. $25.00
Headhunter Redemption sealed ...... $30.00
Need for Speed Collector's Series (underground, underground 2, most wanted) fully sealed .. $250
Resident Evil the Essentials (Code Veronica X [cib], Outbreak [sealed], R.E. 4 [sealed] .. $140
https://imgur.com/a/o0V6DMS
Hitman Trilogy (Blood Money, Silent Assassin, Contracts, all cib with outer sleeve ... $20.00
Socom U.S. Navy Seals; big box with headset(bad foam) and strategy guide .. $30.00
Star Ocean Till the End of Time with outer sleeve and strategy guide ..... $35.00
Hitman 2 Silent Assassin GH ...... $5.00
Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legend GH ... $9.00
Ratchet and Clank GH ...... $13.00
Ratchet and Clank Going Commando GH ... $14.00
*new addition--- Shadow Hearts From The New World, cib ... $70
https://imgur.com/a/loTgEoR

 XBOX 360 GAMES 

Assassin's Creed ...... $10.00
Assassin's Creed 2 ...... $7.00
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood ..... $7.00
Assassin's Creed Revelations SEALED .... $15.00
Assassin's Creed 3 SEALED ..... $15.00
Assassin's Creed Rogue Limited Edition SEALED with strategy guide ..... $30.00
Battlefield 3 ...... $5.00
Battlefield 4 ...... $5.00
Borderlands 2 ...... $5.00
Burnout Revenge ...... $11.00
Burnout Paradise ...... $10.00
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare ..... $6.00
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 ...... $6.00
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 ...... $6.00
Call of Duty Black Ops ...... $7.50
Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 Steelbook.... $25.00
Dante's Inferno ...... $11.00
Dark Star One: Broken Alliance ..... $7.00
Dead Island ...... $7.00
Destiny ...... $5.00
Duke Nukem Forever SEALED ...... $15.00
Diablo 3 ...... $7.00
Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition .... $20.00
Enchanted Arm ...... $10.00
Eternal Sonata ...... $10.00
Fable 2 Limited Edition (missing sleeve) with strategy guide ...... $30.00
Halo 3 ...... $5.00
Halo Wars ...... $7.00
Halo 3 ODST ...... $7.00
Halo Reach ...... $10.00
Ice Age Continental Drift Artic Games SEALED .... $15.00
Legendary ...... $10.00
Lost Planet Extreme Condition steelbook missing sleeve ...... $15.00
Mass Effect 3 ..... $7.00
Need For Speed Most Wanted Limited Edition .. $10.00
Pure --Walmart Exclusive with bonus DVD... $15.00
Rabbids Alive and Kicking SEALED ..... $7.50
Rage SEALED ..... $10.00
Shadowrun ..... $5.00
Singularity ...... $10.00
Sniper Elite V2 ...... $10.00
Tomb Raider ...... $7.50
Tomb Raider Underworld SEALED ..... $25.00
T.C. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 ..... $7.00
T.C. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 ... $7.00
T.C. Ghost Recon Future Soldier Signature Edition ...... $5.00
Too Human ...... $7.00
Two Worls Collectors Edition missing outer sleeve ..... $15.00
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion GOTY Edition SEALED ..... $20.00
Star Trek Legacy -- no manual ..... $10.00
Minecraft Story Mode season pass disc .. $6.00
Kinect Adventures ..... $5.00
Prince of Persia ...... $7.00
Rayman Origins ...... $6.00
Red Dead Redemption GOTY Edition (broken center holder, no map) ..... $12.00

 Wii games 

https://imgur.com/a/U721hc9
Pac-man Party --cib ...... $12.00
Zelda Twilight Princess -- no manual .... $15.00
DragonBall Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 --cib ....$30.00
Donkey Kong Country Returns --cib ..... $15.00
Red Steel --cib ...... $8.00
Bundle all for $70 shipped

 Nintendo ds/3ds games 

https://imgur.com/a/QaorDBf
Super Mario 64 ds, cib .... $30
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team, cib .... $35
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, cib w/ar cards .... $45
Pokemon Ultra Sun ...... $35
** Bundle all for $135 shipped**
I'm sure I'll have more to add in my next post. I'm still going through my collection and deciding what to get rid of.