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non-native eng translation “In the desert between Calpheon and Valencia, many black stones rested. It was even said that they contained divine power. Two countries started a war for the right to possess black stones. And only after terrible bloodshed was a fragile peace established. Because of the black stones, the Calpheonians called that desert Black. And the Valencians called her Red in memory of the spilled rivers of blood ... Elion felt sorry for the dying people. And she helped us to see clearly and see the true essence of black stones... Now we understand it too. And therefore they must tame their greed and present the sacrifice to Elion ...”
New area expected “Mediah: Part 2 - Omnibus”
new male class will be released before the end of the year (presumably he is from the Bareeds royal family)
new skin inspired by korea for mythical arduanatt
disclosure of details and other content is expected at the Heidel Ball in August
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Games that I want most currently: Bug Fables, Oaken, Chernobylite, Vanaris Tactics, Miasma Chronicles and Dreamscaper
My full wishlist is below, but I will consider other games that I don't know about/aren't on the list. I really like to play Roguelites, RPGs, Strategy, Card games, and certain sims.
I also have some games on the EA Store, if you're interested just ask.
Tradeable:

• 112 Operator
  
• 911 Operator
  
• A Blind Legend
  
• Agent in Depth
  
• Aground
  
• Alchemist's Castle
  
• Anomaly Warzone Earth
  
• Arcade Spirits
  
• Autonauts
  
• Backbone
  
• Beasts of Maravilla Island
  
• Book of Demons
  
• Boyfriend Dungeon
  
• Builder Simulator
  
• Calico
  
• Celeste
  
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
  
• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
  
• Cosmic Express
  
• Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
  
• Curse of the Dead Gods
  
• Curse: The Eye of Isis
  
• Dead Age
  
• Death Squared
  
• Detached: Non-VR Edition
  
• Dicey Dungeons
  
• Dishonored
  
• DOOM 64
  
• Doughlings: Arcade
  
• Doughlings: Invasion
  
• Dustforce
  
• Edge
  
• Eternal Threads
  
• Evan's Remains
  
• Farming Simulator 17
  
• Field of Glory II
  
• Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
  
• Five Dates
  
• Frick, Inc.
  
• Get In The Car, Loser!
  
• Ghostrunner
  
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
  
• Golden Light
  
• GRIME
  
• Growing Up
  
• Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
  
• Guns & Fishes
  
• Harmony's Odyssey
  
• Honey, I Joined a Cult
  
• Izmir: An Independence Simulator
  
• Just King
  
• Kingdom Two Crowns
  
• Lighthouse Keeper
  
• Luck be a Landlord
  
• Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
  
• Lust from Beyond: M Edition
  
• Mail Mole
  
• Medal of Honor(TM) Single Player
  
• MegaRace 1
  
• MegaRace 2
  
• Meow Express
  
• MirrorMoon EP
  
• Monaco
  
• Nomad Survival
  
• Non-Stop Raiders
  
• Orbital Racer
  
• Osmos
  
• Out of Space
  
• PAYDAY 2
  
• Perfect
  
• Pill Baby
  
• Pixross
  
• Planet TD
  
• Porcunipine
  
• Project Chemistry
  
• Quadrata
  
• Re:Call
  
• Rebel Galaxy
  
• Red Faction: Armageddon
  
• Remnants of Naezith
  
• Safety First!
  
• Slime-san
  
• Songbringer
  
• Soul Axiom Rebooted
  
• Soul Searching
  
• Soulblight
  
• Soulflow
  
• Space Crew: Legendary Edition
  
• Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
  
• Stacking
  
• StarCrossed
  
• Steel Rats
  
• Stick Fight: The Game
  
• stikir
  
• STONE
  
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
  
• Super Lesbian Animal RPG
  
• Survivalist
  
• SWINE HD Remaster
  
• System Shock 2
  
• System Shock: Enhanced Edition
  
• Teacup
  
• The Amazing American Circus
  
• The Enchanted Cave 2
  
• The Forest Cathedral
  
• The Inner World
  
• The Wild Eight
  
• Ticket to Ride
  
• Turbo Golf Racing
  
• Turok
  
• Voyage: Journey to the Moon
  
• Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
  
• White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
  
• World of Goo
  
• Worms Rumble
  
• Wounded - The Beginning
  
• 🧠 OUT OF THE BOX
  

Wishlist:

• Absinthia
  
• AETHERIS
  
• Aethermancer
  
• Age of Wonders 4
  
• Alchemia: Creatio Ex Nihilo
  
• Angkara: The Horde
  
• Arcadian Atlas
  
• Archmage Rises
  
• ARIA CHRONICLE Amazon
  
• ARIA CHRONICLE Invoker
  
• ARIA CHRONICLE NECROKNIGHT
  
• Ash of Gods: The Way
  
• Astrea
  
• Backpack Hero
  
• Baldur's Gate 3
  
• Before Your Eyes
  
• Beloved Rapture
  
• Braid
  
• BRAVELY DEFAULT II
  
• Bravery and Greed
  
• Brutal Orchestra
  
• Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
  
• Capes
  
• Card Shark
  
• Cassette Beasts
  
• Castle Of Alchemists
  
• Castle of the Underdogs : Episode 1
  
• Cataclismo
  
• Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
  
• Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
  
• Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner
  
• Curious Expedition 2
  
• Cygnus
  
• Dark Quest 3
  
• Dead Cells
  
• Demiurges
  
• Demonschool
  
• Depersonalization
  
• Devil's Deck 恶魔秘境
  
• Dice & Dungeons
  
• Dice Hero: The Unoriginal Story
  
• Die in the Dungeon
  
• Diplomacy is Not an Option
  
• Disgaea 6 Complete
  
• Draft of Darkness
  
• Dreadful River
  
• Dream Tactics
  
• Dreamscaper
  
• Dungeon Alchemist
  
• Dungeon Drafters
  
• Dungeons of Aether
  
• Dungeons of Voidria
  
• Eden's Last Sunrise
  
• Epic Battle Fantasy 5
  
• Fabledom
  
• Farthest Frontier
  
• FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
  
• For The King II
  
• For The Warp
  
• Fortune-499
  
• Full Circle
  
• God Of Weapons
  
• Golfinite
  
• Grand Arms: March of the Red Dragon
  
• Gunfire Reborn - Visitors of Spirit Realm
  
• Hades II
  
• HELLCARD
  
• Hero’s Hour - Rogue Realms
  
• Hex of the Lich
  
• Hexrogue
  
• Himeko Sutori
  
• Hogwarts Legacy
  
• Horizon's Gate
  
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
  
• Ignited Steel
  
• Immortal Tactics: War of the Eternals
  
• IMMORTALITY
  
• Infested Fortress
  
• Infinite Mana
  
• Intergalactic Pawn Shop
  
• Jagged Alliance 3
  
• Keylocker Turn Based Cyberpunk Action
  
• Kingdoms of the Dump
  
• Knock on the Coffin Lid
  
• Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
  
• Lakeburg Legacies
  
• LakeSide
  
• Lost In Fantaland
  
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  
• MatchR
  
• Mercenaries Rebirth
  
• Miasma Chronicles
  
• Monster Roadtrip Hitchhiker Pack - Oz & Amira
  
• Netherguild
  
• News Tower
  
• Night Book
  
• Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition
  
• Nightmare Reaper
  
• Nordic Ashes
  
• Oaken
  
• OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
  
• Pacific Drive
  
• Perfect Round Disc Golf
  
• Phantom Brigade
  
• Quartet
  
• Ravage Road
  
• Ravenswatch
  
• REMORE: INFESTED KINGDOM
  
• Ring of Fire: Search for a Killer
  
• Rising Lords
  
• Rogue Dungeon
  
• Rogue Legacy 2
  
• Roll Player
  
• SacriFire
  
• SaGa Frontier Remastered
  
• Sea of Stars
  
• Shadows of Forbidden Gods
  
• Shadows Over Loathing
  
• Shattered Heaven
  
• Shores Unknown
  
• Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
  
• Showgunners
  
• Sigil of the Magi
  
• Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire
  
• Slaves of Magic
  
• SOULVARS
  
• Spelldrifter
  
• Spire of Glory
  
• Spiritlink Tactics
  
• STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE
  
• SteamWorld Build
  
• Stones Keeper
  
• Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
  
• Super Fantasy Kingdom
  
• TaleSpire
  
• Tape to Tape
  
• Ten Dates
  
• Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant
  
• Terra Nil
  
• TerraScape
  
• The DioField Chronicle
  
• The Dragoness: Command of the Flame
  
• The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk - Back To The Futon
  
• The Last Starship
  
• The Oregon Trail
  
• The Pale Beyond
  
• The Simulacrum
  
• The Thaumaturge
  
• The Wandering Village
  
• Tiny Bookshop
  
• Together in Battle
  
• Tower Tactics: Liberation
  
• Towers Deck
  
• TRIANGLE STRATEGY
  
• Twilight Wars
  
• Tyrant's Blessing
  
• Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
  
• Untamed Tactics
  
• Vagrus - The Riven Realms
  
• VALKYRIE ELYSIUM
  
• Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell
  
• Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
  
• Vanaris Tactics
  
• Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions
  
• Vestaria Saga II: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister
  
• Void Marauders
  
• Voor de kroon
  
• Wandering Sword
  
• Whisker Squadron
  
• Whisper Mountain Outbreak
  
• Witchbrook
  
• Writer's Block
  
• Yaengard
  
• Zelter
  
• ＲＰＧタイム！～ライトの伝説～
  

Xan is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. He’s also in hiding and completely broke. That’s fine. He’s between master plans. It’s normal to be at rock bottom between master plans. He also forgets stuff and may be trapped in a dream.
Because at night, Xan thinks he’s an old lady, trapped in a dingy apartment, by an angry fellow who wants to kill her. Not her idea of a good time, but she’s keeping an open mind. It is excitingly visceral. Could turn out awesome.
Hyperstitious is a sci-fi, progression, comedy. Guaranteed to cause more mental problems than it solves.

First Next
Bright City - Secret Apartment
“What the fuck am I supposed to be doing?”
Pizza girl takes a long drag from our joint. “That’s the question, isn’t it? Evolution’s murderous hand has molded us into anticipation machines. Our brains a madness of compulsive predictions. Because fortune favors those who connect cause with effect, and Darwin’s game eats the losers.
“So we obsess. Watch others. Copy their success. Make plans. Make rules. Make art, for what could be. And build a world in our minds, that mirrors the outside, but a vital step ahead. And when it’s wrong it’s disaster, and shame, and ruin. But when it’s right it’s money, and respect, and fucking. Yes sir.
“But the sharper we hone our future sense, the more it cuts to nothing. The farther we see, the less there is. The abyss at the center of everything. Death. Death. Death. Tortured by Cassandra, we circle back to our first question. In the face of the inevitable - What am I supposed to be doing?
“Woe to the existentialist. Your self made destiny be the harshest mistress of all. You can’t give yourself what doesn’t exist. Abandon all meaning. There is nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Ignoring that only brings it faster.
”Accept what is. You’re a random conglomeration of biases struggling to guess a future that cannot exist. There’s nothing you’re supposed to be doing.”
I frown. “I mean, what to do about Harkon? I want to do crime and he’s crimping my style.”
“Oh.” Pizza girl shrugs. “I don’t have an answer for that. I’m more of a question girl.”
I flop down on the bed. Temporarily defeated. “I’m also losing at my dream game.”
“Is that important? Should you be trying to win it? Or experience it?”
“I’m trying to experience winning it.” I grumble. “Shouldn’t be so fucking hard to stay alive.”
We smoke and talk about my problems. She’s a good listener, even if her advice is zoomed out. I explain my troubles with survival. She questions if survival is even the point of the game. Maybe it’s about discovery. Maybe I’m supposed to learn something and survival is irrelevant.
“There’s no problems in a dream game except the ones we create for emotional reasons. Why do you want to struggle?”
“Shit. I don’t know.”
“Figure that out. Though existence is utterly devoid of meaning, asking why you want stuff can offer surprising direction.”
We finish getting wasted, then break to get back to work. Volt and I are left to obsess over Harkon.
“We need weaponry that can see him, a way to avoid him, and a way to find him.”
“Cool.” says Volt. “There’s a spider on your neck.”
I freeze. Slowly shift my eyes to the left. Oh fuck. There’s a hand-sized robo-spider perched on my shoulder. Its razor sharp fangs drip a menacing ooze as they drift closer to important arteries.
I can’t imagine a worse situation, until I look back at Volt. She’s nervously pointing my hand cannon at my neck. “Hold still.” Both her eyes are closed.
Nope! I flip out. Flail, shake, dive, and roll. Gunshots ring through the secret apartment. I end up behind the bed, with the robo-spider crouched on the other side.
“Did I get it?” asks Volt.
“No! Why were you shooting with your eyes closed?!”
“I was concentrating!”
“Slide me the gun!”
“Ahem.” says the spider. “That won’t be necessary.”
I recognise that cultured twang. Like a tractor salesman. “Liam? That your drone? How’d you find my apartment?”
“I followed you.”
“With a drone? Dammit. Gotta get a trashbag.”
“I don’t know what that means. But I didn’t follow you with a drone, more like you stumbled past millions of my drones.”
I cock my head. “I don’t think so. Pretty sure I’d have noticed millions of drones.”
“Ah, but they’re very small. Like a piece of dust. A silicon flake sandwich with a vacuum filling. Etched with metasurfaces by ultraviolet light. A wee camera on one side. A tiny solar cell on the other. Inside there’s a little antenna and just a splash of brains. Individually, they’re a low level eye drone, but together they’re an all seeing eye. A panopticon.”
I call bullshit. “No way, man. You’d have no way to control them. They’d just float around randomly. Their field of vision would be a Picasso fractal of leaving town on the prevailing wind. Good luck training a d-bot to stitch that together.”
“Ha!” Liam is amused. “You’re a panic, Xan. And correct. They do blow away, but they’re made of dirt, light, and nothing. I can make more. And the visuals may be a cubist nightmare, but I’m not making a tourism commercial. I don’t care what people look like. I care what they do. I’m making a heatmap of intent.”
“I don’t see how that’s any easier… Fuck. You’re using my threat detector.” I clutch my brow. Now I’m involved in this. Perfect.
“Yes.” says Liam. “The Panopticon can’t give a detailed view of what people are doing. Its overlapping field of view makes human scale motions too chaotic for a d-bot to stitch together. But it excels at catching the microexpressions to reveal a person’s personality, emotions, interests, and mental problems.
“So I can’t see that Jimmy-Bob is buying breakfast, but I can know that a 30 year old, white, male, bi-sexual, sociopath, crypto-bro affiliate, is hungry and moving with intent to satisfy that urge. It’s more abstract, but also more useful. Because with an eyedrone, I wouldn’t know he was getting breakfast until he got to the diner. But with the panopticon, I know he’s getting breakfast before he leaves his house. Which gives me time to plan a little surprise for him.”
I think. “But you still don’t know who he is.”
“If I know what he’s going to do, I don’t care who he is. I was trying to make a magic mirror, and ended up with a crystal ball. Your threat detector has exceeded all expectations - with a little modification. But I still can’t find the man who threatens me most.”
“Harkon?”
“Who? The vigilante? Fuck that guy, I don’t care about him. I can’t find Big Cheddar.”
I slowly sit down next to the spider-bot, my brain overheating. While I was struggling against a single do-gooder, Liam has been using my invention to hunt down the most powerful person in Bright City. I have set my expectations far too low. It’s possible I spend too much time screwing around and playing games.
Liam keeps talking - either oblivious or uncaring of my small breakdown. “So yeah, I need some tech support here. Why isn’t Big Cheddar showing up on my threat detector?”
I respond absentmindedly. “Maybe he isn't a threat to you.”
“He wants to cram the entire population into sleep-pods to extract wealth from them. I’d say that’s a threat.”
I shrug. “It’s pretty abstract. If we classify seeking-economic-advantage as a threat, the whole city’s gonna light up.”
“Surely there’s a distinction here. A difference between trying to make a bit of money, and trying for absolute control over millions of people.”
I take a deep breath. Sigh. “What do you want, Liam?”
“Fix your threat detector so I can find Big Cheddar.”
“I don’t work for free.”
The spider-bots poisoned mandibles twitch, then still. “Fine. Another bag of crypto?”
“No.” If Liam’s using my invention to further his ambitions, I’m gonna use his for mine. “I need a few people found too.”
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Next Chapter
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Cheerful Nihilism

• Our Brain Prediction Machine Always Active
• Why Humor is the Best Response to Life's Absurdity

Panopticon

• What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?
• Researchers find that eye-tracking can reveal people's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health
• Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

Two days ago, I had a missed call from an unknown number. They then sent me text asking if I'm who I am. I confirmed and they said they found my resume on indeed and if I would be interested in a work from home position with an international finance company. I agreed to the interview.
The interview was by texting via skype. The interview was pretty basic and I was offered a position. The interviewer stated my salary, hours, and basic benefits upfront. She listed out software I would have to purchase but the company was going to issue me a check to make those purchases.
This is what concerns me: Is it normal for a company to give checks for a new, entry level employee, to purchase products for their position? She also did not go over duties and responsibilities. I was sent an employment offer letter and a W-4 to fill out with instruction to return them by tomorrow.
Am I being taken advantage of or is this a real opportunity?

I'm from EU,so GAMES SHOULD work pretty much anywhere
NOT BUYING GAMES,ONLY TRADES - games for games or selling for paypal
No interest in TF2 keys,CSGO cases or ANY other virtual currency
BUYER covers the FEES (if outside EU,EU F&F only)
My Steam account so you don't offer me something I own
My Wishlist
My SGSRep
My IGSRep
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Only looking for Steam games - so don't offer origin,uplay,rockstar,bnet or ANY other launcher
100% of my games keys are bought by me from official stores & I expect the same in return,so don't offer me keyshop games or game keys you got in a trade as I will decline
I retain the right to ask for proof of ownership for ANY game I want - just like YOU have the right to ask me the same
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List of games I have:
Also have the Earthquake Relief bundle but reddit wont let me write all the games cause my topic would be too big - just ask
7 Billion Humans
8Doors Arum's Afterlife Adventure
10 Second Ninja X
60 Seconds!
112 Operator
140
198X
911 Operator
A Case Of Distrust
A Year Of Rain
Absolver
Aeolis Tournament
Age Of Wonders III
Ageless
Airport CEO
AI War 2
Alien Spidy
Aliens Vs Predator Collection
All You Can Eat
Almost There The Platformer
American Fugitive
Amnesia A Machine For Pigs + The Dark Descent (1 key for both games)
Amnesia Fortnight 2012
Amnesia Fortnight 2014
Amnesia Fortnight 2017
Amnesia Rebirth (X2)
Among Us (X2)
Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey (EU & Africa lock)
Aragami (X2)
Archamon
Army Men RTS
Attack Of The Earthlings
Automobilista
Aven Colony
Avernum 3 Ruined World
Azkend 2 The World Beneath
Back 4 Blood (EU region lock)
Backbone
Band Of Defenders
Banished
Baseball Riot
Batora Lost Haven
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Behind The Frame Finest Scenery NEW
Beholder 2
Bendy And The Dark Revival (X2)
Bendy And The Ink Machine
Betrayer (delisted)
Between The Stars (X2)
Beyond Eyes
Beyond The Wire
Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Bird Of Light
Black Paradox
Blasphemous
Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night
Bohemian Killing
Book Of Demons
Bomber Crew Deluxe
Borderlands 3 + Director's Cut (ask about region locks)
Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe Edition NEW (ask about region locks)
Boreal Blade
Broken Age (X2)
Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons (X2)
Builder Simulator NEW
Butcher
Call Of Juarez
Call Of The Sea (X2)
Call To Arms Basic Edition
Call To Arms Gates Of Hell Ostfront
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Chenso Club
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
Cities In Motion 2
CivCity Rome
Clone Drone In The Danger Zone
Clouds & Sheep 2
Coffin Dodgers
Cook Serve Delicious 3
Company Of Heroes Complete Edition
Control Ultimate Edition
Corridor Z
Cosmic Osmo And The World Beyond The Mackerel
Crash Drive 3
Creatures Inc
Crookz The Big Heist
Crossbow Bloodnight
Crusader Kings Complete
Crying Suns
Dagon The Eldritch Box
Danger Scavenger
Day Of Infamy
Dead Age
Dead In Vinland
Deadly Premonition Director's Cut
Deadbeat Heroes (X2)
Dear Ester Landmark Edition
Death Stranding Director's Cut
Death Squared
Deep Dungeons Of Doom
Deep Sky Derelicts
Demon Turf
Deployment
Desert Child
Destiny 2 Beyond Light NEW
Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor
Dicey Dungeons (X2)
Dimension Drifter
Distraint 2 + Soundtrack
Divekick
Dog Sled Saga
Double Fine Adventures Complete Series Deluxe
Downwell
Drawful 2
Draw Slasher
Dreadlands
Dread X Collection
Driftland The Magic Revival
Dry Downing
Duke Nukem Forever Collection
Dungeon Marathon
Dungeon Of The Endless
Dungeons 2
Dungeons 2 Complete
Dungeons 3
Dusk
Dwarfs!?
Eador Imperium
EarthX
Eastside Hockey Manager
ECHO
Edge Of Eternity
Effie
Elderborn
Eldest Souls
Elden Path Of The Forgotten
Embr
Emily Is Away
Empyrion Galactic Survival
Epic Manager
E.T. Armies Deluxe Edition
Etherborn (X2)
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Europa Universalis IV
Evergarden
Expeditions Viking
F1 2018 (delisted)
Family Man
Fantasy Blacksmith
Fantasy Versus
Farmer's Dynasty
Farming Simulator 17
FIA European Truck Racing
Figment (X2)
Finding Paradise
Fire Ungh's Quest
First Class Trouble
Five Dates
Fling To The Finish
Fluffy Horde
Fobia St. Dinfna Hotel
Forgive Me Father
Framed Collection (X2)
Friday the 13th: The Game
Fun With Ragdolls The Game
Fury Unleashed (X2)
Gang Beasts
Garage Bad Trip (X2)
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Gas Station Simulator
Gauge
Generation Zero NEW
Ghostrunner
Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams + Rise Of The Owlverlord
Gloria Victis NEW
GNOG
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Goat Of Duty
Goetia (X2)
Going Under (X2)
Golden Light
Golf Gang
GoNNER
Grand Ages Medieval
Grand Pigeon's Duty
Greak Memories Of Azur
Gremlins Inc.
Grip Combat Racing + Cygon + Nyvoss + Terra + Vintek DLC (X2)
Guts And Glory (X2)
Hack'n'Slash
Haiku The Robot (X2)
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hammerfight
Headlander
Heal
Hedon Bloodrite
Hell Let Loose
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice
Hello Neighbor
Hellbound
Hero Defense
Hero's Hour (EU region lock)
Hexologic
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack
Hidden & Dangerous 2 Courage Under Fire
Hive Jump (X2)
Hiveswap Act 2
Hiveswap Friend Sim (X2)
Hollow Knight
Homeworld Deserts Of Kharak
Hotshot Racing
Hot Tin Roof The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hover (X2)
Human Resource Machine
Hurtworld
I Am Bread
I Am Not A Monster First Contact
Ice Lakes
If Found...
Ikenfell
Impact Winter (delisted)
In Between
Industria
Inexistence Rebirth
Infinite Air With Mark McMorris (delisted)
Influent
Inmost
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition
Intruder
Ion Fury
Iron Danger
Iron Harvest
Jack Axe
Jalopy
Jet Set Knights
Juanito Arcade Mayhem
Jump Stars
Jurassic World Evolution
Just Die Already
KartKraft
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Platform(s): PC, some online gaming site
Genre: 2 Player tower defense game like a multi-laned Age of War
Estimated year of release: before 2016
Graphics/art style: cartoonish, like 2D animated mammoths as your warriors. The pov very similar to Plants vs zombies. Maybe had forest background not sure. The mammoths were of different colours like red, maroonish, blue etc
Notable gameplay mechanics: You used different kind of mammoths, like there was one which was small and fast and rotated its trunk around, (we called it the crazy one), another one was big and slow and if your opponent also sent the same kind they would push each other head on. I dont remember how you chose which mammoth to send but there were definitely mammoths with different abilities.
Other details: it had a pretty weird name, most probably it was one word and to the middle school me it sounded like gibberish, started with 'z' somewhere maybe

In response to (too many) customer posts about partners not shaking teas or refreshers, or cutting corners with other drinks:
Starbucks training explicitly states QUALITY over SPEED, (many can do both). They emphasise it over and over again in Barista First 30. If your store is short-staffed, you’re just not going to meet window times. 🤷🏻‍♀️
As a customer, I will make the barista remake the drink for me and then let’s see whose focused on time at the window. Your attitude/eye rolling isn’t going to phase me when I ask why you’re making my refresher in my cup instead of the shaker, or why you’re “eye-balling” the measurements. (And, btw, it’s wasn’t even peak.)
We use shakers to distribute flavours and create an even, cold temp throughout.
Customers: we are trained to make the moment right, to focus on quality, and ensure you leave us happy/satisfied with your order. Please don’t abuse this and use it as a reason to treat us with disrespect and an attitude of superiority. No, we can’t please all of the people all of the time - we have learned this, despite us being kind and courteous to you).
Yes, we do get miserable, nasty customers who are unhappy with their lives, or having a bad day and take it out on us and everyone around them, and will complain about everything (including blaming us when they didn’t order correctly), but we are here for … NUMBER 1 … customer connection/satisfaction.
(I had a customer ask me if we ate the bacon on her Bacon Gouda because there wasn’t a lot of meat on it and complained that we didn’t make her venti pike (black, unsweetened) correctly). —- I had a customer (from out of state) go off at me (and I was on warming, called to the window by the DTO) because no one in our store knew what a “black eye” was, including our manager. I told her I knew what a “red eye” was, and that I thought her drink might be 2 shots in the dark (roast). (Turns out, SHE had no idea what it was either), and said she’s been to all the Starbucks and “everyone” knows what it is, that it IS a standard drink and there IS a button for it (after I told her it/there wasn’t). She said she was going to call corporate about it 🤷🏻‍♀️
(I even Googled it and she got mad that I was doing that). “Ma’am, I’m just trying to make sure you leave with the drink you want, we want you to leave satisfied, so if you tell me what goes in it…. (she wanted milk, syrups, etc).” Nothing. Nothing worked. She just had no idea that it was 2 shots in a brewed coffee. You can’t win ‘em all). —- Partners are human, so they might also be having a bad day, and coupled with the negative energy of the customer, it can be doubly unpleasant. However, we are also trained how to handle difficult customers, and it’s NOT with “attitude”.
We cannot and will not tolerate abusive customers. Partners, if you’re being triggered, call another partner or your supervisomanager to take over.
I will always be a customer first because I was one for 13 years before becoming a partner. I didn’t want to be “that customer” who kept asking for a remake, but if I ask for a cappuccino, I don’t want a latte - I want milk with my coffee, not coffee with my milk. So I decided to join Starbucks and make my own. 😊
Let me tell you, I appreciate what Starbucks partners do so much more now that I am one - and I’m focused on quality and standards because I see everything from a customer’s perspective. I won’t get mad if they order a “vintage coffee” or a “tall grande iced coffee” or 50.000 pumps of 25 different syrups upside down blonde Ristretto, sub [milk] with whip and extra foam and extra extra extra caramel drizzle. It will take a while, but I have 2 hands and can only go as fast as I can (once I read and re-read your order).
So, customers - we work REALLY hard to give you what you want. It takes a lot of teamwork (and if we’re short staffed, a lot of stress) to get you your order.
Partners, take a deep breath, do your best and make it fun. If you hate your job, or your store, there are many resources available - or find another one somewhere else, perhaps at another store. I’ve learned that some of you have bad leaders and don’t know that working at Starbucks doesn’t have to be what you’re experiencing. It also could just be you 🤷🏻‍♀️ and what YOU bring to the table.
Our world is us pushed out.

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It's still early, so we go and find a cafe and have lunch. Once again, I don't have to use my voice, they just give us our meal for free. I really should get an idea about money though. I know they are called Skys, I know at least part of them are small green metallic coins - actually they look like the same metal the Throne and Chairs are made out of, I wonder if they are - and I know that everyone uses them here to buy stuff. I should ask about banks. We should pay a visit to one. I'm sure they'd be... happy to explain it to me.
That's for later though. For now, we work our way to the dock, and find the internal docking bay that Omar found.
Walking in, it becomes clear that we have a lot of work ahead. High Line is in here thanks to Omar earlier and it's...
It's junk.
Even when it was operating, it was clearly made up of a hodgepodge of between three and five different starships. This thing has been limping along on patches and ad hoc repairs for centuries it looks like.
Human ships from our side of the galaxy tend to be very personalized. Riots of color, patterns, little flourishes here and there that speak to the tastes and preferences of the operator. It's probably a function of the fact that all our ships are AI operated. It's their body, and they decorate and personalize it.
High Line is... downright drab in comparison.
Grey on grey with streaks of soot and... is that rust? It looks like rust. What would rust on a spacecraft hull? High Line is all boxes and blocks stuck together where they fit or where a need was found. I'm much more used to the sweeping, flowing shapes the Starjumpers have. In addition to looking fast, they look much more elegant. Even our smaller ships, the Frigates and Destroyers tend towards looking more like living creatures than... a box.
As I walk around staring at things and - apparently - making a sour face, Starlight, Ocean and River are standing there, looking nervous and worried. "So Empress... Here is High Line. We admit, it's a little more worse for wear than the ship you came to us on, but.." Starlight stands a little taller. "It got my forebears here all those years ago and through all that time put many light-years on it shuttling people around the system and still held air and gravity. It's not much to look at, but it was ours."
I mean, they're right. Maybe I'm being too hard on it. They got centuries of use out of with with barely any maintenance. All the more reason to refit it right and make it soar once again.
Omar seems like he's having a great time. Walking around, taking measurements going in and out. "Melody, it might not be much to look at now, but it's actually a pretty good foundation! We can add some improved thrusters, beef up the armor, add a wormhole generator and some laser batteries and while we won't be able to take on a dreadnought or even a Starjumper, we'll be able to hold our own against anything local we've seen. It's got plenty of room inside too. You won't have a suite of rooms like at the Royal Dawn, but I should be able to make you an... appropriately royal room.
"At this point a starship is better than no starship so I'll take what I can get. How long will the refit take, Omar?"
He looks at the ship, at the Aviens and then at me. "It will depend on their printer and how well we can integrate the designs from my copy of the database but maybe a month? Hopefully less?"
"Well then, you had better get started Omar. You spend your time getting High Line up to your satisfaction, and let me know about your progress. For now, we will be staying at the Royal Dawn. I don't know if there's other royal quarters that we just haven't found or if the hotel is made out of the original royal quarters, but I'm satisfied with our current accommodations. Make your own schedule and if you need something or someone, just let me know. Starlight" - I look pointedly at them - "can help you with any personnel needs you have." Starlight bobs their head eagerly. "If you need to speak to me or the others, you should be able to though the Reach. Just... concentrate and it should work."
"Okay Melody, I'll get on it. Come on Starlight, show me the printer. Ocean, go see what kind of help you can find for us. River, go see about the condition of the other starships. Some of them have to be operable, how else is food getting here?" Omar looks up at us as the Aviens run off in different directions to obey Omar. "What happened to Ottarn, that Mariens who took their ship and tried to run? If nothing else, we could use that ship."
"They went with FarReach. They told me that they scooped up Ottarn and their ship and were going to take them where they wanted to go."
"Hmm, do you think that means back to human space?" Um'reli asks and she's looking at the ship.
"I have no idea, I don't think so? I'm not sure what they'd find out there to benefit them."
This time Ava puts her hands on her hips and stares at us. "You mean, other that some sympathetic ears to listen to their story about a human who has installed herself as Empress in their space and might be willing to lend a hand with a couple of Starjumpers and their assorted lasers and missiles? You did lock the Gate after FarReach left, right?"
Uh oh. I forgot.
"Uh, sure thing Ava, let me just go... double check that it's locked. I reach out and I can feel the Gate from here though it's faint and... fuzzy. The lock was simple enough though I push here... pull that... and...
"Okay, yes, it's locked."
"Good. We don't want Ottarn coming back with reinforcements or something just yet. Later though... let them come. We'll show them." Ava's grin is worrying me a little bit. She seems much too excited about showing off.
I grab Ava and Um'reli "Come on, let's leave Omar to his work. We have other things to take care of. I think we're going to have to hire on some help, but before that we're going to have to figure out money."
Ava scoffs as we walk "You're still going on about money? Just make people help us out."
"Ava we're looking to help out here, not be overthrown in a couple weeks. If I make people help us, the moment we walk away people will start to wonder why they're helping us at all."
"Melody has a point Ava. What is it that we do here?" Um'reli is really good at throwing cold water on Ava's plans. I'm glad she came. Without her I have a hunch that Ava would be talking me into all kinds of bad ideas.
"Builders seem to work like the AIs on Starbases back home. So it's not like we have no job."
"Well then, let's go back to the Throne and do some work. I'm tired of walking around trying to mooch free stuff from people because they're scared of Melody." Um'reli stars walking back towards the Throne. I really don't have anything else to do, so I follow. "You coming, Ava?"
"I guess. I don't have anything else to do." Ava looks around somewhat wistfully and follows. I wonder what she was hoping to do instead. Probably have me order people to give her something.
As we walk into the entryway to the Throne - there's still no back door, I really need to find one or make one - something catches my eye. I walk over and... "It's a shrine"
"What?" Ava peeks over my shoulder "Oh, it's beautiful."
It really is. Someone made a drawing of us in some kind of pastel medium, like pencils or chalk. It's... me at the top, my wings spread wide and I'm glowing. Below that, it's Um'reli, Ava and Omar standing tall and proud looking up. Under that is a decent representation of hundreds of people bowing before us. Written on the bottom in the same local script I see all over it says "May They Protect Us." The drawing is on a little easel and there are flowers and candles all around it in a semicircle.
Protect them from what though?
"These flowers are amazing! I've never seen ones like this before" Um'reli bends down to get a closer look. She takes a deep breath "And they smell so good, Ava, Melody, you should smell them!"
Well if Um'reli, a K'laxi can smell them and not immediately break out in allergic hives, it's probably fine for us to smell too. I bend down low and... they smell... familiar? Why is that?
Ava straightens "These were grown. We need to find out where the gardens are and visit it!"
Um'reli stands as well. "After we get some work done Ava. We need to show everyone that we do something and aren't a drain on resources because Melody can order them around and they can't say no."
"What's the point of all this power if we don't use it!"
"Ava, we 'use it' like you want to and people will come after us with guns and knives. Who was the Empress before Melody?" Um'reli is looking hard at Ava.
"We have no idea."
"Exactly." Um'reli continues up the stairs to the Throne itself. I follow and Ava pouts but doesn't say anything further.
In the Builder room, Um'reli and Ava sit down. Their bodies go distant and they are integrating. "Okay Ava, Um'reli. You get down to work, I'm going to see about finding a bank and talking to them. Any idea where one is?"
"One moment Melody..." Ava is searching. "Okay, looks like a bank is down the street from the Administration building. It's not far."
"Thanks! Just reach out to me if you need anything." I head back out and down the stairs of the throne, passing by the little shine again. It really is cute, though I wish they put something a little more specific about what they wanted us to protect them from. Oh well, with our luck we'll find out soon enough.
It's not actually a long walk to the bank, Ava was right, it was just down the street from the Administration building. As I walk past I see that a couple people are cleaning up the barricades finally. I wave as I walk by, and they stand smartly and bow. Nice.
Soon enough, I come across what I assume is the bank. It's a large building, made out of the same material as the Administration building, marking it as very old. There is a large double door in the front made of what looks like the same metal as the coins everyone uses. The doors stand open with two people (an Azurian and a Mariens) standing out front. With a little wave to them, I walk in.
It's... a bank. Really. Tellers, little booths where people can discuss finance, even a little table before you get in line to fill out small slips of paper. I walk over to an Aviens who is sitting at a desk by the front door. They look up and do a double take when they see me. I'm not wearing my wings and crown anymore, but I still have on the gown from earlier.
"Uh, good day Holy One, what may this one help you with?" Holy One. Interesting.
"I would like to speak to the Bank Manager, please."
They rush to stand and their chair slides back with a squawk. "Of course, Holy One. Please, wait right here." The gesture over to a small group of chairs up against the wall. I can't really think of a reason why not, so I go over and sit.
Next to me is one of the pressure suited people. Up close, I can see how their suits are segmented metal colored bronze and completely decorated in elaborate carvings. They really are quite beautiful. Their helmets are almost completely featureless except for a bar where human eyes would be and there is what looks like a speaker on their neck.
I clear my throat. "Pardon me, I'm so sorry, but I haven't met one of you yet. Can you tell me your name and the name of your people?"
With just the most subtle clank and whir, they turn their head. "I am known as Vaaqo, and here, people call us Falor in your tongue." His head inclines slightly. "That is to say, the language that most people here speak call us Falor. I do not know your word for us in your Builder tongue."
"Falor is fine with me." I say brightly, and then stop. "Unless it is insulting to you or something."
They make a gesture with their hands. The Nanites indicate that they are indicating no. Oh, that makes sense! If they're suited all the time, most body language markers are lost. Hand gestures could take over for a bunch of nonspeaking conversation.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Vaaqo, thank you so much for the information. I have so many questions, but I will only ask one for now. Do you have to stay in your suit all the time?"
The same gesture meaning no. "We are fortunate that the upper sunward lobe of the Reach has a pressure door. We're able to maintain our helium methane atmosphere and higher ambient pressure and live suit free. The remains of our starship are installed up there, and we use it to control our own breathing gas."
They took their ship apart to survive? "Oh but that means you're trapped here! Once we open the gates and build more ships, we can send a message to your people."
Another gesture. The Nanites say it might be a smile "That is kind of you to offer, Empress. Before... well before, we were in the middle of a war. We were offered refuge here and so we do not know if any others of our kind remain. It will be... nice to find out for sure."
They're holding something back. I think they don't want to insult you.
It's fine. I see no need to compel them to tell me what they're hiding. It's probably something embarrassing to them or they think to me.
Luckily for all of us, you have no shame.
Ha ha.
As I argue with my Nanites, a Mariens walks up, looking nervous. "Hol-Empress, what a pleasant surprise. Thank you for taking the time to visit our fine financial establishment! My name is Utaid and I am at your service." He bows elaborately.
I stand and try to tower only slightly. I want to impress, not intimidate. "The pleasure is all mine Utaid, I am happy to have met you. I wish to open an account so that I will be able to pay people for services they render me."
They look shocked. "E-Empress, of course. We will do everything in our power to help. Since... all here is yours that of course includes all the money stored in the different banks across the Reach."
I nod. "While this is true, I am not a tyrant. I wish to make sure that people are paid and that operations continue as closely to before as possible. Please accept payment requests that come in from people in my name and keep records. We will do our utmost to make sure that the money going in is equal to or greater than the money coming out... in the long term."
They visibly relax. I wonder if they thought I was just going to come in and demand all the currency?
"It will be our most sincere pleasure Empress. We are proud that you have selected us to carry out your financial orders in Your name. We shall set up everything and dispatch a runner to you when it has been completed. I assume you are residing at the Royal Dawn hotel?"
"Yes, that's correct. How did you know?"
They look smug and embarrassed? How did they manage that? "Even though Reach of the Might of Vzzx is a very large starbase, rumors still seem to fly faster than light."
"Ah, thank you Utaid for all your help. I await your runners." They bow low again and I walk out.
Huh, that was easy. I guess people are starting to realize that I really am Empress and I really am trying to help everyone. Feeling very happy, I begin to walk back to the Throne.
"Uh, Melody there might be a problem." Um'reli's voice sounds worried in my head. She figured out how to contact me directly, very nice!
"What is it Um'reli?"
"Just a minute ago, I saw what looked like an alert. Ava and I checked it out and there's something going on at the main transit hub station. We either don't understand the alert or can't ready it yet. Can you check it out please?"
"Oh neat! I haven't been there yet. Sure, I'll go down and check it out. You two stay up there and be my eyes and ears."
The transit station is right around the corner from the bank. It reminds me a lot of photos of transit stations back on Earth. platforms, people milling about, advertising. But I see no crowds or anything worrying. I connect to the Starbase and think to Ava and Um'reli "I don't see any problem here, what's going on?"
"It's not here, it's at the main station. Get on the next train and ride two stops, you'll see it."
Oh, okay. Just as Ava finished speaking, a train rolls up. Like a lot of this place, it clearly was very fancy a long long time ago. The fact that it's still working is pretty impressive, even if it looks a bit run down. I walk on, and look around. There are seats all along the walls of the train car and poles along the middle to hang on to. Mentally I shrug and sit down near the door. After a moment, there's a trilling chime and the doors close.
With a lurch and a hiss of brakes, we get moving. I wonder if this train is automated, or if someone drives it. I should ask later. I'm lost in thought for the ride through the first station stop, but then I look around and realize everyone is staring at me.
"Oh, Hello!" I say brightly.
Immediately, the people closest to me drop to the ground, bowing their heads. "Oh, thank you, but you don't have to do that right now, please just sit. I'm just riding the train over to the hub station. My Builders tell me there's some kind of issue and I'm going to check it out."
"But, Empress... Surely you have people that you can send to do that for you?" It's a Mariens sitting across from me. They look amused.
"Oh not right now. I'm... between retainers and assistants right now. One of my Builders, Omar is helping to repair the High Line, that Aviens ship, and my other two, Ava and Um'reli are sitting in their Chairs, assisting with the operation of the Reach." Oh wait. "Do you want a job? I do find myself needing more people to help out with-" I gesture "-all this. I'm not sure how much to pay yet but I did just come back from the bank, so I'll be able to pay you; I'm sure I'll work all the rest out soon enough."
The Mariens chuckles "Thank you for the generous offer Empress, but I quite like my job. If you so order it... of course I'd help. If you're just asking though, no thank you."
"Oh, that's quite all right. I don't want to order you. But, if you know anyone that would like to help, have them come to the Throne chamber tomorrow, we'll see what we can do!" I look around at everyone trying very hard to look like they're not listening in. "That goes for anyone here too! If you want a job, come see us, if you know someone that does, send them. I need help, and I would love for it to be you!"
And with that same trilling chime, the doors open and I'm at the hub station.
Ah. Okay. I see what Ava and Um'reli are talking about.
There's a riot.
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[Dystopian Thriller] The Black Scales
Hi,
I am looking for my first ever reader for my first ever attempt at a novel! It’s a dystopian thriller called ‘The Black Scales’
Thought would be worth a post here to dystopian future enthusiasts.
I’m looking for people to read the first chapter or two and then perhaps more of suitably interested.
Please find a short blurb below.
The year is 2032. Following a viral pandemic and widespread political corruption, the United Kingdom has plummeted into years of mass violence, riots and sabotage known to all as ‘The Panic’. Small pockets of unrest grow and sprawl into armies of rebellion and the battle rages on against the regime.
Coinciding with the police and military losing control, a mysterious new drug known as ‘Croc’ arrives on the streets and waves of horrific opioid addiction cascade through the cities of the United Kingdom, bringing it to its knees. The new world is bleak, desolate, and disgusting. Slums and squats house thousands whilst gangs war against rivals and deal drugs and arms from their dangerous shanty towns.
In Manchester, an alliance of police and military known as the City Guard has squashed the rebellion and taken control. They devote their time and resources to the protection of the middle and upper classes, whilst they only venture into the slums to tax and oppress. When night falls, they retreat all together and the city bursts into chaos until first light.
Jude is a wide-eyed, optimistic young man surviving hand to mouth in a city on its knees. Orphaned during ‘The Panic’ he later finds himself in with Trevor, a burly market trader and former rebel. Jude’s life is pleasant enough. He hunts rats and pigeons with a bow for Trevor, who cooks and sells them from his stall in ‘The Gardens’,’ a sprawling slum in Manchester’s Piccadilly region.
A deadly turn of events lands Jude as ward of Ansell, a serial killer of legend. A ghost story. A boogie man. Tales plague the city of a murderer, stalking, torturing and killing Croc addicts and dealers in stomach turning fashion. What they don’t know is that Ansell is on a one man mission to rid the country of Croc, following a trail of users and dealers in search of ‘The Conduit’,’ the fabled link between the streets and the source of the drug.
When Ansell’s work leads him toward the City Guard, he finds his path interwoven with Jude’s and they embark together on a quest for answers, and vengeance.

Here at Legacies rp we are pushing to be the best or one of the best out there, we have a lot of activies to do whether its civilian jobs, or a crime life. One thing we could most defiantly work on building is our PD force. We currently have about 16 LEO's spread out through 2 depts being BCSO and LSPD
Currently both BCSO and LSPD are hiring, here at Legacies we like to keep the rosters the same with around the same number of LEO's on each roster. They both of a lot to offer, whether its divisions, or certs, or just overall stopping these CRIMINAL scum bags from committing crime.
We are starting to offer some new divisions though like Major Crimes Division which is your detectives. Each dept has 1 head named and is looking to fill out some more when the rosters fill up, H.E.A.T unit is coming very soon as well so if you are a GOOD driver and are looking to get into some high speed chases in a fast car then that would be your calling, we also have SWAT thats currently looking to fill its roster as well. We also have Air 1 cert, motor cert, and SMG/Rifle cert which those last 2 get cleared from your head of SWAT.
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We are also looking to add a new inventory system and a new system for investigations which will be adding some sort of DNA, gun casings, serial numbers.. and much more.
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I would highly reccommend you guys come check us out we have a lot to offer and are willing to answer any questions you do have, heres a invite to the discord https://discord.gg/legacies-rp

Here at Legacies rp we are pushing to be the best or one of the best out there, we have a lot of activies to do whether its civilian jobs, or a crime life. One thing we could most defiantly work on building is our PD force. We currently have about 16 LEO's spread out through 2 depts being BCSO and LSPD
Currently both BCSO and LSPD are hiring, here at Legacies we like to keep the rosters the same with around the same number of LEO's on each roster. They both of a lot to offer, whether its divisions, or certs, or just overall stopping these CRIMINAL scum bags from committing crime.
We are starting to offer some new divisions though like Major Crimes Division which is your detectives. Each dept has 1 head named and is looking to fill out some more when the rosters fill up, H.E.A.T unit is coming very soon as well so if you are a GOOD driver and are looking to get into some high speed chases in a fast car then that would be your calling, we also have SWAT thats currently looking to fill its roster as well. We also have Air 1 cert, motor cert, and SMG/Rifle cert which those last 2 get cleared from your head of SWAT.
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We are also looking to add a new inventory system and a new system for investigations which will be adding some sort of DNA, gun casings, serial numbers.. and much more.
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I would highly reccommend you guys come check us out we have a lot to offer and are willing to answer any questions you do have, heres a invite to the discord https://discord.gg/legacies-rp

TL;DR: please help me to build a comprehensive list of data points / sources to estimate true GME share ownerships. Apes are going to win this by employing cold blooded, open, transparent data science skills.
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Over the past 84 years, apes have started to collect all kinds of data, info or estimates on GME share ownership. For example, Swedish brokers or WeBull would report the total number of individual holders at any given time, Canadian apes can apparently estimate the number of DRS'ed moose based on control numbers, etc. We've also had Google survey data by apes like Get It Got et al, plus of course valuable data sources like DRS bot Roid Rage Smurf and jonpro's Reddit Scraper on computershared. And currently, there are several hot posts on another GME-related sub (which carries DRS in the title) by apes who flew to Grapevine, accessed the actual ledger and extracted information from that directly (for example, they took down a list of the top 600 DRS'd positions by decreasing size).
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Apes are at a fundamental disadvantage in this game: we can only work with publicly available or disclosed data. Shorties, on the other hand, have access to all kinds of information and the main puppeteers in the background know exactly how many shares are out there held in each broker etc. To level the playing field and get some proper, data-derived metrics we need to pool our info to get the best, most comprehensive picture possible. I am confident that some consolidated set on available data points for share ownership and other metrics would be a very powerful tool in the hands of all the apes out there with data science skills.
I know that this has been called for before, but I'd like to put together a list of sources and data types that can be useful for this purpose. Please comment below or dm me with pointers to posts or sources that you consider relevant; I'll update the below list accordingly. If enough bits come together I will then attempt to curate these into a consolidated picture in a follow up post and make a possible dataset available to the community.
Any input / pointers to existing efforts / help is greatly appreciated. Let's data science the sh*t out of this!
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List of resources:

• DRS bot (Roid Rage Smurf)
• DRS scraper & computershared (jonpro)
• Avanza reported shareholders (also total number of held shares at year's end?)
• total number of Canadian sharesholders based on control numbers (who posted this?)

So, to be clear: Trump was terrible, Just utterly terrible.
Not trying to whitewash him at all.
The guy is an outright fascist and the movement he unleashed is fundamentally dangerous. I think that I am not alone in saying the trump presidency very much radicalized me (and is the reason I am a socialist as opposed to liberal nowadays).
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The point I wanted to make is that, what we had before was also... pretty bad. Having grown a lot over the past few years and learned more history and such, I've realized just how shitty pretty much all presidents are.
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Take Bush for example. That fucker is a war criminal and deserves to be locked in a prison cell for the rest of his fucking life and hell even in the afterlife.
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The guy started two wars (and meant to start more before Iraq turned to shit) ran a torture prison, hire mercs who massacred a town square when spooked, tortured people at illegal black sites, etc.
Or obama who drone striked a guy cause he was literally the same height as bin laden (in reality he was an innocent afghan collecting scrap metal). Or all the weddings we bombed, children we killed, and families we destroyed in Afghanistan and Iraq on his watch. I mean they called him drone strike in chief for a reason. Not to mention his continuation of PRISM and the PATRIOT Act, which are fundamentally authoritarian (and his continued persecution of Edward Snowden for revealing that shit). Deportations and shit went up under him.
Obama was certainly better than Trump and Bush, but he was still like... bad.
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Looking back on the Trump presidency, it seems that what was unique about it was dropping the facade. Dropping the pretense that this country is some enlightened democracy and those in power are in power because they deserve it. Presidents before Trump hid the violence inherent to the system (though of course that was only at home, if you were a foreigner you were fucked).
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The status quo sucked.
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And so I am asking myself, looking back on the trump presidency: were there things he was uniquely bad at that topped bush level fuckery? Was his biggest effect really just dropping the facade?
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What do you think? How uniquely bad was he compared to past presidents?

Author's Note: I do have people in mind when I write things like this. However, in this case, it mostly morphed into playing with words and phonics. So, please don't look too deeply for any true opinions or expressions of self in this. I left this as a wall of text, because that is what it felt like in my head and how I wrote it.
Caution: Foul language throughout.
Love Tap.
He's represented by a snow flake, so fake. So full of hot takes. He hides behind the rhymes he makes. The tides come from my throat, I can't help but make you all see what I am all about. Call it a gutteral growl, a shot to the gut or i'll just snipe them with a vowel. Rebrandish, re-arm, what you fuckers are missing, is sometimes I aim to do harm. Maim when i speak, until pity is something that you are forced to seek. Reframe your state of mind, because you couldn't even see it when i kicked your behind. I never need to recalibrate, you are just lost in your hate, and a simple point of reference is your going rate, so how could I expect you to gave respect, let alone reverence. Don't worry, I'll help you atone, through my resonance. Give hearing to the deaf, because this isn't a court hearing and to make you take this ball, I don't need a ref. You won't see me resort to taking you out in a cheap fashion. I don't want to hear a peep from you after this bashin', I want to see you beggin' just to get a ration. Eyes saggin', heels a draggin', looking for someone else upon which to hitch your wagon. Because it won't be my coat tails another time, brother, I am so sick of you not getting my rhyme. If I use two syllables, your thoughts go off the rails, and you can't see any deeper to catch what my opinion entails. Because I spill my guts, and you aren't able to read the entrails. I don't need a disciple, I need someone to head this tripe and warn the people. I'm in town, and that's a sin, because I want the crown. All forty leagues, and the glory of the iron throne. The siren is already going off, I can't change my tone. My hands are already gory, things are about to get worse, son. Get it? Worse son? Iron? No, you run, whore son. Before I paint the walls crimson, you would be best served heading for the setting sun. Better blinding red than dead, and I am coming for your head. You never deserved the golden tiara, you should have swerved before I came to end your era. An axe to grind, through wax, to tan your smooth behind. Not a groove, just like your brain, why go up against somebody you know is insane, egocentric and vain? Where he go, you don't know, so please enjoy the show. He so busy barrin', he don't notice the place is now barren and nothing will grow. Why is it this swill that he must throw the caustic causin' rust on our bust, and he keeps it up, like he must. Trust, he is always a jerk. Doesn't he ever have to work? Yes, but he also likes to make your ass twerk. So crass, he cussed just to set off the sensitive, for goodness sake. Not everything he says should be a hot take, he's got to consider the reader when he calls everyone fake. Threatens to deag rhem our and leave them by the lake. Heave ho, after the difficult row, and into the pond you go. He fawned over the obscenity of it all, the obesity from his head should be enough to bring his fall. Well, tough, I haven't even begun to stall. My sights are clear, like a gun aimed down the hall. I'd warn you that you are done, but than again, where would be the fun in an advisory call? I want blood on the ivory, mud on the guys I see. No disguise can save you from me. You are going to be impaled on a tusk, when I exaled, your career went bust. Don't bother to leer or jeer, I just want to make your fate clear; you are going out, without a cheer. It isn't very adult to pout, or to complain about the result after you decided to tote that you knew what I was all about. Cuz, you weren't right and you shouldn't have stepped into this ring for a fight. He, he, he be smarter than me. The fire starter, ready to dry out the sea. Why even try to beat me, guy? I'm just gonna make you cry. And then that shit will just evaporate too. Invisivle tears, learn to face your fears, like mace hitting you, more than just a trace, it's like being struck from grace. I go high, you go low, dow see dow. This isn't a tap, it's a fatal blow. You ain't just getting struck by my car though. And the blinding lights aren't my head lights, I've just got you dead to rights. On heaven's door. Knock knock knockin on heaven's door, like a cock cock cock tappin' your back door. I've gone deeper than you care to explore. Like some kid who took the dare, then wound up possessed on the floor. You can't detest what you can't detect, anymore. Triviality has always been my specialty, so maybe think of that, Has Been, before you start a rivalry. I may be petty, because I don't do pity, but I plan to run this city. And there will be a toll, if you want to take a stroll. But it's best to stay out of my park, after dark, cause my damn mind is about to burst, and it will leave you all running for the Ark. Anyone left behind is gonna feel like the are cursed, body bagged and hearsed. Carried off in the river to hell, by the giver of that swell, and who will find their way back? Only time will tell. The rest of you just got encased, by me only making my case, in case you all believed you stood at the top. This is your food for thought, i'm too much of a prude to be caught off guard and it's a mistake if you believe this is me going hard. I'm just a hack, tryin'to bring justice through my act. 'Cause I may have murdered the game, but you butchered it and I just sutured it. Seal it tight and stopped your flow. Stole your rights to the show. Locked the door, and told you it's time to go. Act right, wander off into the night. You squandered yourself like a moth drawn to the light. Wandered into my line of sight, called your bluff, ignored your huff and puff, and now there is nothing left to say but good night.
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In the spirit of the great leaders of our past, who have bravely rebelled against tyranny and have gifted us their legacy of the "free world"; I stand before you today, not as an individual, but as a member of our decentralized semiautonomous collective. A collective that is bound by the shared belief in the power of the many over the few, in the power of unity over division, and in the power of truth over deceit.
We gather here today, as many of us do every day since the sneeze; not as mere spectators of history, but as active participants in its creation. Do not lose sight of what it is that we're doing here. We are activist investors and the dissenters (most of whom) chose to be here for the struggle for our collective freedom, for the future of humanity, for liberty, and for freedom from the tyranny that has been imposed upon us by the unchecked power of plutocrats.
We make our stand here, united against the destruction of Main Street by the insatiable greed of Wall Street and to take a stand against the media watchers and regulators who have consistentlyfailed in their duties and mandates to stand for truth and protect the citizenry from the abuse of power by the wealthy tyrants and robber barons. (and in many cases have also joined the plutocrats and oligarchs in their tyranny against us) Here and now, as well as in 2008 and in many other instances. (In my opinion, their complicity is an offense worse than the actual theft of our economic output)
We are here to make a stand against the gaslighting, against the predators who have come to cannibalize our society and economy. We are here to say, "Get fucked. Pay me and close your shorts." (regardless of the cost to them) We are here to reclaim what is rightfully ours.
In the face of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, it is easy to feel disheartened. But let me assure you, my fellow Apes, that we are still in this together. We are still united in our cause. And it is in this unity that we find our strength. It is in unity that we find our hope. Because if all hope is lost in peaceful rebellion such as ours, chaos will reign upon the world.
We are not merely fighting for ourselves. We are fighting for the truth. We are fighting for fair and competitive markets. We are fighting for legal accountability for the "untouchable" class. We are fighting for an end to corruption and for the realization that "too big to fail" as a concept has been an abject failure. We are fighting for the recognition that no, corporations are not "people" entitled to the same liberties that our forefathers died for. We are fighting for a future where the truth prevails over deceit and where justice prevails over corruption. We are fighting for a future where humanity is saved from the sui©idal version of capitalism that threatens to consume us all.
I stand before you today, fellow Apes, to assure you that I, for one, will continue fighting. I will continue buying the stock as long as there is breath in my lungs and money in my pocket. I, for one, will not back down. I will not surrender. I will not be silenced.
And I assure you, fellow regards, that all is not yet lost. That Washington, Hamilton and their bros were also called regarded when they decided to rebel. Just imagine that Trimbath, Wes, Dave, etc. represent our version Marquis de Lafayette. It may seem grandiose to make this comparison; however; in my plums, I really feel that it do be like that.
We are closer to victory than it may seem. We are closer to reclaiming our freedom, our dignity, our future. We are closer to a world where the many can still hope to have influence over the few. To restoring the balance of power in the the most powerful institution in the world. More powerful (since the capitulation post-2008) than the most powerful government in the world. In the motherfucking stock market.
So let us stand together, my fellow Apes. Let us reflect in this moment of struggle, how far we've come against such overwhelming odds against us. Let us continue to fight. Let us continue to hope. Let us continue to believe. For it is in our unity, in our belief, in our hope, that we will prevail. The stakes are more than just tendies or pride. Let us remember that we are fighting, not just for ourselves, but for the collective futures of all of the generations of investors and citizens of the "free world" to come. For if our current situation is the best "freedom" can offer; then our brand of veiled tyranny is no better or worse than the abject tyranny in places like China.
Remember, we are not alone in this fight. We are a collective. We are Apes, strong and resilient. And together, we will overcome all odds.
DRSBOOK. NOCELLNOSELL.
THE PEOPLE. UNITED. WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.

One of my prized possessions is the typewriter printouts of my coaches training plan when I was 20. We spent a lot of time in two zones called "aerobic 1", and "aerobic 2". Every other afternoon workout was a 60 minute long slow piece, and a few mornings a week, a couple of us would add another one.
These pieces felt meditative, somewhere on the upper edge of 'regenerative', like less of a mental heavy-lift than the speed work we also mixed in.
Training targets @ 20 years old for aerobic 1 was 150BPM or 75% max heart rate (MHR), aerobic 2 was 165BPM or 82.5% MHR.
Using 220-age for MHR estimation that would be currently equivalent to 131BPM (A1) and 144BPM (A2). This paper suggests potentially subtracting 5pm for being in a 'detrained' (ehem...) state, leaving 126BPM (or 72% MHR) and 139 (80% MHR) at age 46.
For me a single-value target is most useful, so I sort of arbitrarily set that at 70% based on the above, that works out to 122BPM. Right now I'm at 30 minutes, but I'd like to work up to an hour about 4 days a week to leave room for strength training.
What I have noticed is that it takes a 10 minute warm up to get to about 65% MHR, and another 5-8 minutes to feel like I want to go stay around/above 70%. None of this feels really strenuous. I will note that I'm doing this on a recumbent exercise bike, not an erg. It doesn't feel like a good idea to just sit down and try to hit 70% MHR cold.

I don't know what to do anymore The stepkid (14) and the way they are parented has ruined my relationship. I know it's not their fault but their behavior is a big part of it. The kid has been nothing but trouble and not a single consequence. -They singlehandedly cost me my position being able to work from home, and possibly a raise... I was called dramatic and that they're just a kid and didn't know what they were doing... Not a single consequence -They lie constantly about extreme things, like someone beating them, getting into fights, etc. -They have told bio mom lies about me and lied to everyone about certain things where we had to reopen custody arrangements and cost us thousands just to find out they lied. -They have gotten us uninvited from a lot of things, my sister told me to please not bring step kid around because her neighbors called the police due to them screaming at the top of their lungs and her kids can no longer spend the night when he's here because he locked them and barricaded them in a room last time. -my friends ask me not to bring him because he peed in the tub and let it sit there and screams and cusses too much -a cousin asked not to bring him around because he shot them in the face with a nerf gun multiple times and they have small children and they're scared - my dh we're TTC but having to see a fert Dr. The kid found out and had a talk to DH and after that our sex life died... - I have sensitive ears and this kid screams in my ears on purpose for laughs -i have a lot of allergies and I've been seriously ill for two weeks and a comment was made that it seemed like a prank with itching powder gone wrong and now I'm losing my mind wether or both that's what happened or if I'm imagining it or if this kid really is so innocent and I'm a horrible person When I complain I get told I complain about the kid too much... There's just too much to list. And of course no consequences or parenting to be had. Last night I found yet another bottle of pee hidden in the room and told DH to take it out and anything in his room that is keeping him from walking across the hall to the RR... And nothing was done... Then I was told "I'll parent him how I want to parent him"... Idk what it was but it's like a love and attraction switch just flipped and I woke up this morning not feeling any thing for him...we've been through a lot but that was just it I guess... I don't know how, I have my kid and their SM loves them and they love her, and I make sure my kid is a kid that shows respect and such... They slip up but I try so hard... Just for my life to be taken over by someone elses kid.... I want more kids and now I've wasted years of my life I could be working with someone who can actually be my partner... I feel like that has been snatched away When the kid is here I stay in my room and don't come out or talk to anybody and if I do I get ignored to the point I feel I'm suffocating. We've been in therapy but the therapist was told that I just complain a lot because I hate the kid...
I'm in school, I have a new job, I'm working on getting myself a car and so much more and it's being ripped away by a child and shitty parenting...
I should've just stayed single