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Half Moon Bay, CA
2012.05.14 09:21 Half Moon Bay, CA
A place to discuss all things related to life in Half Moon Bay on the San Mateo county coast of Northern California.
2016.02.09 23:49 loonling Titans of Mavericks Big Wave Surf Competition - Half Moon Bay, CA
Titans of Mavericks Big Wave Surf Competition - Half Moon Bay, CA
2016.01.28 01:09 loonling El Granada, California, on the San Mateo county coast
El Granada, California, on the San Mateo county coast
2023.03.27 03:36 JeanDropEmOff Thoughts (PG 6'6) ?
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2023.03.27 03:35 JugheadJack 20 [M4F] [Relationship] The Story of How A Man Un-broke himself
This is the part where I tell you about me.
In older posts, the top paragraph here, would be about my first love. Not anymore. I’m Jack. I’m 20 years old and I’m looking for my soulmate, my other half, the one thing that can make me whole.
I know some people would say twenty is a bit young to be looking for your soulmate. Cool. I don’t care. I’ve been looking for her, since I was twelve.
As for me as a person, I’m incredibly romantic and affectionate and I want the same back in a romantic partner. I’m hugely sentimental.
When I’m into someone, I’m not joking when I say that person will become my everything. They become the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep (I know how cheesy that sounds). They become the thing I care most about. They become the thing I want most in the world. They become my heart and my soul, my sky and my stars, my moon and my sun.
They become everything to me.
I’m searching for my soulmate, not just on Reddit other places too. I’m looking for the Rose to my Jack (I know Jack dies in Titanic, breaks my fucking heart every time I watch the film), the Claire to my Phil (Modern Family reference), the Rose to my Ten (except we don’t get separated like they did in Series 2 Episode 13 “Doomsday”).
I know I post a lot, and I know it annoys a lot of you. I’m not doing it to annoy you, I’m not a creep and I’m not an incel. I’m a guy who happens to be a gigantic hopeless romantic, a guy who already knows how he wants to propose. I just need the girl to complete the puzzle.
And yeah, I’m a little intense with my feelings and I know how f**king determined I am. One day, I’m gonna show her all these posts because I want to her know how hard and long I looked for her and that now that I have her, she will never be alone again, I will always be there for her. That she will always feel loved and special and wanted and cherished.
I haven’t even met her yet, and she’s already the best thing that ever happened to me.
I haven’t even met her yet and she’s already my whole world.
I don’t mind older women. Not at all. Anywhere up to seven years older is fine. My parents are seven years apart, and they’ve been together for over twenty years now.
So any older women (up to seven years older) who read this and think “I might be a bit old”, you’re not. I’d love to get to know you.
I’m not gonna stop looking, I’m not gonna rest until she’s in my arms and when she is, I’ll never let go.
Because, to put it simply…
She is the key.
She is the dream.
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In older posts, the top paragraph here, would be about my first love. Not anymore. I’m Jack. I’m 20 years old and I’m looking for my soulmate, my other half, the one thing that can make me whole.
I know some people would say twenty is a bit young to be looking for your soulmate. Cool. I don’t care. I’ve been looking for her, since I was twelve.
As for me as a person, I’m incredibly romantic and affectionate and I want the same back in a romantic partner. I’m hugely sentimental.
When I’m into someone, I’m not joking when I say that person will become my everything. They become the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep (I know how cheesy that sounds). They become the thing I care most about. They become the thing I want most in the world. They become my heart and my soul, my sky and my stars, my moon and my sun.
They become everything to me.
I’m searching for my soulmate, not just on Reddit other places too. I’m looking for the Rose to my Jack (I know Jack dies in Titanic, breaks my fucking heart every time I watch the film), the Claire to my Phil (Modern Family reference), the Rose to my Ten (except we don’t get separated like they did in Series 2 Episode 13 “Doomsday”).
I know I post a lot, and I know it annoys a lot of you. I’m not doing it to annoy you, I’m not a creep and I’m not an incel. I’m a guy who happens to be a gigantic hopeless romantic, a guy who already knows how he wants to propose. I just need the girl to complete the puzzle.
And yeah, I’m a little intense with my feelings and I know how f**king determined I am. One day, I’m gonna show her all these posts because I want to her know how hard and long I looked for her and that now that I have her, she will never be alone again, I will always be there for her. That she will always feel loved and special and wanted and cherished.
I haven’t even met her yet, and she’s already the best thing that ever happened to me.
I haven’t even met her yet and she’s already my whole world.
I don’t mind older women. Not at all. Anywhere up to seven years older is fine. My parents are seven years apart, and they’ve been together for over twenty years now.
So any older women (up to seven years older) who read this and think “I might be a bit old”, you’re not. I’d love to get to know you.
I’m not gonna stop looking, I’m not gonna rest until she’s in my arms and when she is, I’ll never let go.
Because, to put it simply…
She is the key.
She is the dream.
2023.03.27 03:34 JugheadJack 20 [M4F] [Relationship] The Story of How A Man Un-broke himself Part III How The Man Finds His Way Home
This is the part where I tell you about me.
In older posts, the top paragraph here, would be about my first love. Not anymore. I’m Jack. I’m 20 years old and I’m looking for my soulmate, my other half, the one thing that can make me whole.
I know some people would say twenty is a bit young to be looking for your soulmate. Cool. I don’t care. I’ve been looking for her, since I was twelve.
As for me as a person, I’m incredibly romantic and affectionate and I want the same back in a romantic partner. I’m hugely sentimental.
When I’m into someone, I’m not joking when I say that person will become my everything. They become the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep (I know how cheesy that sounds). They become the thing I care most about. They become the thing I want most in the world. They become my heart and my soul, my sky and my stars, my moon and my sun.
They become everything to me.
I’m searching for my soulmate, not just on Reddit other places too. I’m looking for the Rose to my Jack (I know Jack dies in Titanic, breaks my fucking heart every time I watch the film), the Claire to my Phil (Modern Family reference), the Rose to my Ten (except we don’t get separated like they did in Series 2 Episode 13 “Doomsday”).
I know I post a lot, and I know it annoys a lot of you. I’m not doing it to annoy you, I’m not a creep and I’m not an incel. I’m a guy who happens to be a gigantic hopeless romantic, a guy who already knows how he wants to propose. I just need the girl to complete the puzzle.
And yeah, I’m a little intense with my feelings and I know how f**king determined I am. One day, I’m gonna show her all these posts because I want to her know how hard and long I looked for her and that now that I have her, she will never be alone again, I will always be there for her. That she will always feel loved and special and wanted and cherished.
I haven’t even met her yet, and she’s already the best thing that ever happened to me.
I haven’t even met her yet and she’s already my whole world.
I don’t mind older women. Not at all. Anywhere up to seven years older is fine. My parents are seven years apart, and they’ve been together for over twenty years now.
So any older women (up to seven years older) who read this and think “I might be a bit old”, you’re not. I’d love to get to know you.
I’m not gonna stop looking, I’m not gonna rest until she’s in my arms and when she is, I’ll never let go.
Because, to put it simply…
She is the key.
She is the dream.
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In older posts, the top paragraph here, would be about my first love. Not anymore. I’m Jack. I’m 20 years old and I’m looking for my soulmate, my other half, the one thing that can make me whole.
I know some people would say twenty is a bit young to be looking for your soulmate. Cool. I don’t care. I’ve been looking for her, since I was twelve.
As for me as a person, I’m incredibly romantic and affectionate and I want the same back in a romantic partner. I’m hugely sentimental.
When I’m into someone, I’m not joking when I say that person will become my everything. They become the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep (I know how cheesy that sounds). They become the thing I care most about. They become the thing I want most in the world. They become my heart and my soul, my sky and my stars, my moon and my sun.
They become everything to me.
I’m searching for my soulmate, not just on Reddit other places too. I’m looking for the Rose to my Jack (I know Jack dies in Titanic, breaks my fucking heart every time I watch the film), the Claire to my Phil (Modern Family reference), the Rose to my Ten (except we don’t get separated like they did in Series 2 Episode 13 “Doomsday”).
I know I post a lot, and I know it annoys a lot of you. I’m not doing it to annoy you, I’m not a creep and I’m not an incel. I’m a guy who happens to be a gigantic hopeless romantic, a guy who already knows how he wants to propose. I just need the girl to complete the puzzle.
And yeah, I’m a little intense with my feelings and I know how f**king determined I am. One day, I’m gonna show her all these posts because I want to her know how hard and long I looked for her and that now that I have her, she will never be alone again, I will always be there for her. That she will always feel loved and special and wanted and cherished.
I haven’t even met her yet, and she’s already the best thing that ever happened to me.
I haven’t even met her yet and she’s already my whole world.
I don’t mind older women. Not at all. Anywhere up to seven years older is fine. My parents are seven years apart, and they’ve been together for over twenty years now.
So any older women (up to seven years older) who read this and think “I might be a bit old”, you’re not. I’d love to get to know you.
I’m not gonna stop looking, I’m not gonna rest until she’s in my arms and when she is, I’ll never let go.
Because, to put it simply…
She is the key.
She is the dream.
2023.03.27 03:33 Thetrader2896 Haven't found ina job in awhile, when will I? Plus when I get married life is dark and lonely for me
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2023.03.27 03:33 hugefanoftrash Unable to file taxes for free when I was able to last year— nothing has changed.
I pay into 401k retirement at my job. Neither turbo tax or H&R Block will let me file for free without completing savers credit(?) SOLELY because I am able to apply. I am not able to decline.
I have never withdrawn from my retirement.
Both are asking me to pay over $100 for each application’s deluxe package.
I had no issues filing for free last year.
My brother, step dad and uncle both work for the same company and have never had to do this.
Thank you in advance.
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I have never withdrawn from my retirement.
Both are asking me to pay over $100 for each application’s deluxe package.
I had no issues filing for free last year.
My brother, step dad and uncle both work for the same company and have never had to do this.
Thank you in advance.
2023.03.27 03:33 Help-mee-pls Am I (23f) the AH for my boyfriend (24m) cutting of his female best friend?
My boyfriend (24m) and I (23f) have been together for almost five years. Since the beginning of our relationship his female best friend has always been around (24f). We can call her Abby.
She was initially always very nice to me and we got on well. I’m not the kind of person who does confrontation when things go wrong and I was quite naive in the beginning, However, there would be little moments which would make me feel uneasy at times but I always pushed them to the back of my mind since it was never overwhelmingly negative. There were moments were she would talk about how everyone at school thought her and my boyfriend were together since “they are so close”. (They went to the same school which is how they met). She would also talk about my boyfriends ex girlfriend in front of me and make jokes about how “crazy” she is.
One day a fake account starting messaging me on Instagram about things they have done with my boyfriend, and that my boyfriend is only with me because “I’m good for the family”. And at the beginning of my relationship Abby actually told me that my boyfriend told her I’m the kind of girl that is perfect for his mum. My boyfriend knew about the fake account but shrugged it off and I didn’t mention any suspicions, I too eventually shrugged it off.
After some time the unease started to grow on me. He attended a dinner with her and another friend of theirs without inviting me, which I know it’s not really an issue but I was also friends with her, so I kinda thought it was strange. And my boyfriend did not invite me either. It had been a long time of us dating, perhaps over a year and half when I finally felt some confidence to speak to my boyfriend about the uneasiness.
I told him I don’t feel comfortable with him going without me and he got really mad at me and said he won’t go but he made me feel guilty for what I felt. I realised that if he didn’t think it was appropriate himself he wouldn’t have gone so why should I stop him? So I told him he should go and he did, knowing how I felt about it. Abby is very touchy feely with him so that was at the back of my mind and again, I am very non confrontational so I didn’t do anything about it which is also my fault. What hurt me most is how my boyfriend reacted when I expressed my concerns and still went.
Fast forward months later we had another arguement about it because I tried to express my concerns about the friendship again. And this time he got so mad at me that he messaged Abby telling her he’s cutting her off because of me but I didn’t ever ask him to cut off her at all. I tried to fix it by talking to Abby but she said “listen, (bf) tells me everything about you and we are best friends and there’s nothing you can do about it” I was confused about that statement but I was still so nice and told her I will fix everything and I apologised. Since then she never spoke to me and my boyfriend told me she was cutoff although I never told him to.
A few months later my family and I caught covid and we lost my father. I am the eldest of three siblings (youngest only 6) So I had a lot of responsibilities and I feel like I didn’t get to grieve properly With what followed.
My boyfriend and I were logged into on each other’s IG account. One day shortly after my fathers death I saw messages from a woman to my boyfriend which were quite affectionate. I met him to talk about it in person. He put his head low and didn’t say anything, he just had his head in his lap as if he didn’t know what to do but I still comforted him and politely asked to see his phone for the first time in our relationship. I didn’t want to ever be that person, but I recently lost my father and I had the mindset that nothing could make me feel worse than that feeling.
My heart sank when I saw the contents of his phone. Since the beginning of the relationship he told me how sending red hearts ❤️ to the opposite gender means more than friendship and it’s very intimate. This is because I once commented 😍 on a males artwork on Instagram (which was of a female render). And since then I never commented any hearts on any male page etc.
I saw lots of messages between him and girls he were friends with which were quite affectionate and in fact included these hearts he said I could not send to males. The most hurtful messages were between him and Abby. I went back to the night that everything blew up and he “cut her off”. He in fact sent the message explaining how he is cutting her off because of me, but instantly said to her “she’s going on and on crying to me about us” but I was upset because of his reaction and how he got raging mad when I tried to communicate my feelings. They were saying very horrible things about me including saying I’m ungrateful and Abby told him he should leave me. And he replied “Yeah I’ve given her enough chances” which hurt to my core, because I never did anything to hurt him. I don’t have any male friends and I’m very conservative. He had access to my social media from the beginning even before I saw any of his, because he had trust issues from his past relationship. They continued talking to each other long after that, saying every detail of our relationship including any arguements we had. And he had plenty of hearts ❤️ there too which only bothered me because he said it means more than friends etc.
I was devastated and was ready to leave. I tried walking away and he physically blocked my path to walk and wouldn’t let go. I went back to the car and he physically begged me not to leave him. I told him I will give him one more chance but have still since then been let down by finding other messages to girls.
He said he did all this because he “had a moment of weakness” and was going through a lot when I lost my father. Since then lots of time has past but I can’t seem to move forward and trust him. He still gets mad when I try to talk about it and I feel very alone. One time we had an arguement and he kept repeating how he “cut people off for me” which makes me feel terrible. I just want to move past it and stop feeling hurt about what he did to me. He says he was there for me when I lost my dad but I felt so lonely with everything he did to me at that time too.
Am I the AH and do you have any tips to get through this? Thank you and sorry if my English is bad.
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She was initially always very nice to me and we got on well. I’m not the kind of person who does confrontation when things go wrong and I was quite naive in the beginning, However, there would be little moments which would make me feel uneasy at times but I always pushed them to the back of my mind since it was never overwhelmingly negative. There were moments were she would talk about how everyone at school thought her and my boyfriend were together since “they are so close”. (They went to the same school which is how they met). She would also talk about my boyfriends ex girlfriend in front of me and make jokes about how “crazy” she is.
One day a fake account starting messaging me on Instagram about things they have done with my boyfriend, and that my boyfriend is only with me because “I’m good for the family”. And at the beginning of my relationship Abby actually told me that my boyfriend told her I’m the kind of girl that is perfect for his mum. My boyfriend knew about the fake account but shrugged it off and I didn’t mention any suspicions, I too eventually shrugged it off.
After some time the unease started to grow on me. He attended a dinner with her and another friend of theirs without inviting me, which I know it’s not really an issue but I was also friends with her, so I kinda thought it was strange. And my boyfriend did not invite me either. It had been a long time of us dating, perhaps over a year and half when I finally felt some confidence to speak to my boyfriend about the uneasiness.
I told him I don’t feel comfortable with him going without me and he got really mad at me and said he won’t go but he made me feel guilty for what I felt. I realised that if he didn’t think it was appropriate himself he wouldn’t have gone so why should I stop him? So I told him he should go and he did, knowing how I felt about it. Abby is very touchy feely with him so that was at the back of my mind and again, I am very non confrontational so I didn’t do anything about it which is also my fault. What hurt me most is how my boyfriend reacted when I expressed my concerns and still went.
Fast forward months later we had another arguement about it because I tried to express my concerns about the friendship again. And this time he got so mad at me that he messaged Abby telling her he’s cutting her off because of me but I didn’t ever ask him to cut off her at all. I tried to fix it by talking to Abby but she said “listen, (bf) tells me everything about you and we are best friends and there’s nothing you can do about it” I was confused about that statement but I was still so nice and told her I will fix everything and I apologised. Since then she never spoke to me and my boyfriend told me she was cutoff although I never told him to.
A few months later my family and I caught covid and we lost my father. I am the eldest of three siblings (youngest only 6) So I had a lot of responsibilities and I feel like I didn’t get to grieve properly With what followed.
My boyfriend and I were logged into on each other’s IG account. One day shortly after my fathers death I saw messages from a woman to my boyfriend which were quite affectionate. I met him to talk about it in person. He put his head low and didn’t say anything, he just had his head in his lap as if he didn’t know what to do but I still comforted him and politely asked to see his phone for the first time in our relationship. I didn’t want to ever be that person, but I recently lost my father and I had the mindset that nothing could make me feel worse than that feeling.
My heart sank when I saw the contents of his phone. Since the beginning of the relationship he told me how sending red hearts ❤️ to the opposite gender means more than friendship and it’s very intimate. This is because I once commented 😍 on a males artwork on Instagram (which was of a female render). And since then I never commented any hearts on any male page etc.
I saw lots of messages between him and girls he were friends with which were quite affectionate and in fact included these hearts he said I could not send to males. The most hurtful messages were between him and Abby. I went back to the night that everything blew up and he “cut her off”. He in fact sent the message explaining how he is cutting her off because of me, but instantly said to her “she’s going on and on crying to me about us” but I was upset because of his reaction and how he got raging mad when I tried to communicate my feelings. They were saying very horrible things about me including saying I’m ungrateful and Abby told him he should leave me. And he replied “Yeah I’ve given her enough chances” which hurt to my core, because I never did anything to hurt him. I don’t have any male friends and I’m very conservative. He had access to my social media from the beginning even before I saw any of his, because he had trust issues from his past relationship. They continued talking to each other long after that, saying every detail of our relationship including any arguements we had. And he had plenty of hearts ❤️ there too which only bothered me because he said it means more than friends etc.
I was devastated and was ready to leave. I tried walking away and he physically blocked my path to walk and wouldn’t let go. I went back to the car and he physically begged me not to leave him. I told him I will give him one more chance but have still since then been let down by finding other messages to girls.
He said he did all this because he “had a moment of weakness” and was going through a lot when I lost my father. Since then lots of time has past but I can’t seem to move forward and trust him. He still gets mad when I try to talk about it and I feel very alone. One time we had an arguement and he kept repeating how he “cut people off for me” which makes me feel terrible. I just want to move past it and stop feeling hurt about what he did to me. He says he was there for me when I lost my dad but I felt so lonely with everything he did to me at that time too.
Am I the AH and do you have any tips to get through this? Thank you and sorry if my English is bad.
2023.03.27 03:31 trickmagic How could Chiron in the 11th interact with NN in the 10th house? A wound around groups and community yet a NN concerned with public image and reputation?
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2023.03.27 03:29 hugefanoftrash Need help with taxes…
I pay into retirement at my job. Neither turbo tax or H&R Block will let me file for free without completing savers credit SOLELY because I am able to apply. I am not able to decline.
I have never withdrawn from my retirement.
Both are asking me to pay over $100 for each application’s deluxe package.
I had no issues filing for free last year.
Any parents out there who can help me file for free?
My brother, step dad and uncle both work for the same company and have never had to do this.
Thank you in advance.
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I have never withdrawn from my retirement.
Both are asking me to pay over $100 for each application’s deluxe package.
I had no issues filing for free last year.
Any parents out there who can help me file for free?
My brother, step dad and uncle both work for the same company and have never had to do this.
Thank you in advance.
2023.03.27 03:23 ThrowRA9026 My 18f boyfriend 19m of four years was texting another girl and I don’t know what to do...
I’m sorry this is long and probably not well written I tried my best, the bolded section is the incident for which I seek guidance the rest is context.
I (female 18) and my boyfriend N (male 19) have been dating for what will be 4 years at the end of April. About 6 months ago after we graduated high school he asked me to move in to his dads house with him I agreed with some apprehension. We were good friends before we started dating freshman year, we both had friends but didn’t hang out with them much and primarily hung out with each other while we were in school. When I moved in with him I moved an hour away from my family friends and everything else, I’ve become really isolated socially I haven’t really made any friends where we live although I go to college and work. My social isolation led him to feel suffocated and as though I don’t exist without him, which to an extent has become true I’ve been leaning on him a lot. he asked for space and expressed concern that he doesn’t know if he loves me or just loves the idea of having me around. Is worried they because neither of us have been with anyone else sexually or emotionally that he may be missing out on something better. I told him I wanted to take time apart and revisit if we both felt that we wanted to reconnect (I would move out). He insisted he wanted to be with me and we agreed to work on it and I have been trying to find hobbies I enjoy as well as make friends. N has gone out with his dad and dads friends (let’s call him T) a few times recently. T has now encouraged a girl to ask N out (well aware of our relationship) to which he says he declined and told her he was with me. Well last night they went out again, I stayed in and was planning to go to bed early as I had an early shift. N tells me when I get home that last night T was super drunk and made friends with a family including girl 22 who was making eyes at N, sitting near them across the bar. T was going to pay family’s tab (apparently about $200) but forgot his wallet and asked N’s dad to pay and T would venmo him for it. Ns dad agrees only for T to tell N if he doesn’t get girl 22s number he won’t pay him back. N agrees to “help his dad out” and gets her number the lot of them hang out the rest of the night. N tells me this story today. Half an hour later he gets a text saying “I just took a fat nap” from an unknown number with our area code. I asked him who it was and he said “no idea” I forget about it until he gets a call from T and he gets up from next to me I thought that was strange but whatever. He went upstairs and left his phone (not really a clear boundary set against or for this but we know each others passwords) so I looked at his messages nothing there I recovered the deleted text thread (we have iPhones) and seen he and said number had sent 200 ish messages. I read through them he clearly gave her the wrong impression (no mention he’s not single) and was kind of flirty but nothing inherently making a move. He blocked her number and deleted the thread after the text I saw as far as I know he doesn’t know how to recover messages. Do I bring it up if so how? Is this cheating? If I hadn’t seen the text would he have deleted the thread? I don’t know what to do I know I invaded his privacy but with everything else we’ve been going through I had to know. Please help. Thank you for bearing with me and getting to the end ❤️
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I (female 18) and my boyfriend N (male 19) have been dating for what will be 4 years at the end of April. About 6 months ago after we graduated high school he asked me to move in to his dads house with him I agreed with some apprehension. We were good friends before we started dating freshman year, we both had friends but didn’t hang out with them much and primarily hung out with each other while we were in school. When I moved in with him I moved an hour away from my family friends and everything else, I’ve become really isolated socially I haven’t really made any friends where we live although I go to college and work. My social isolation led him to feel suffocated and as though I don’t exist without him, which to an extent has become true I’ve been leaning on him a lot. he asked for space and expressed concern that he doesn’t know if he loves me or just loves the idea of having me around. Is worried they because neither of us have been with anyone else sexually or emotionally that he may be missing out on something better. I told him I wanted to take time apart and revisit if we both felt that we wanted to reconnect (I would move out). He insisted he wanted to be with me and we agreed to work on it and I have been trying to find hobbies I enjoy as well as make friends. N has gone out with his dad and dads friends (let’s call him T) a few times recently. T has now encouraged a girl to ask N out (well aware of our relationship) to which he says he declined and told her he was with me. Well last night they went out again, I stayed in and was planning to go to bed early as I had an early shift. N tells me when I get home that last night T was super drunk and made friends with a family including girl 22 who was making eyes at N, sitting near them across the bar. T was going to pay family’s tab (apparently about $200) but forgot his wallet and asked N’s dad to pay and T would venmo him for it. Ns dad agrees only for T to tell N if he doesn’t get girl 22s number he won’t pay him back. N agrees to “help his dad out” and gets her number the lot of them hang out the rest of the night. N tells me this story today. Half an hour later he gets a text saying “I just took a fat nap” from an unknown number with our area code. I asked him who it was and he said “no idea” I forget about it until he gets a call from T and he gets up from next to me I thought that was strange but whatever. He went upstairs and left his phone (not really a clear boundary set against or for this but we know each others passwords) so I looked at his messages nothing there I recovered the deleted text thread (we have iPhones) and seen he and said number had sent 200 ish messages. I read through them he clearly gave her the wrong impression (no mention he’s not single) and was kind of flirty but nothing inherently making a move. He blocked her number and deleted the thread after the text I saw as far as I know he doesn’t know how to recover messages. Do I bring it up if so how? Is this cheating? If I hadn’t seen the text would he have deleted the thread? I don’t know what to do I know I invaded his privacy but with everything else we’ve been going through I had to know. Please help. Thank you for bearing with me and getting to the end ❤️
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2023.03.27 03:18 Mr_Smigs Tales from the Game Table - Felt I could share my session notes as fiction
Figured I'd get people's opinion on if they're good notes... basically I'm keeping record of the sessions from NPC members of the platoon who were there for the sessions... that way I'm not putting thoughts in my players heads in the flashbacks/reviews for each session...Let me know what ya'll think._______________________________________________
D-10 … Orbital Palace Sarai
“So… It’s a dunghole?.... Sir.” Leutenent Falkirk was still getting used to his new position on the command staff.
“Which is saying a lot, coming from a man whose home world is so toxic he grew up wearing a mask…” Commisar Karrik was a fairly stoic fellow, unphased by the young officers lack of decorum. Clearing his throat he continued the briefing…
“As I was explaining,” Karrik made a sweeping gesture across the strategium making the globe on the surface spin wildly. “Kroma III, is a former deathworld. Exterminatus of the mega-flora would risk damaging the raw promethum found on the planet. So the knight house Tardif, support the Unrelenting Duty, last of the warlord titans dropped planetside to burn the planet clear. Their burns make the habitable zone covered in ash storms most of the year.“ Palm to the surface, the globe stopped spinning. On the display the two major northern continents were each partially visible… a red trail tracing east-west along the tropic where they joined in a narrow land bridge. Karrik traced his finger along the line, emphasizing it to the other staff at the table.“This treeline is the hold out of the native plantlife. It takes a year for the Unrelenting Duty to march the length pushing it back with plasma burns while the knights clean up and scour the land. We can expect no support from the titans as they insure everything south of this line stays ash..”
With a harsh stab ,Karrik selected one of the red dots on the continent, zooming in to show an expanded view. The strategium screen split to show a dual top, and side cut-away view of the hive city turned mine. The deep bowl in the earth was shown, centered around a set of 8 Hellbore Pylons. Archaeo-tech of the lost age cutting kilometers into the crust, and serving as great geothermal pumps.
“The cities are capped with durasteel branching out from these core pylons. Winds on the ash plains are too strong to allow any building more than 8 meters to stand for long. Ash harvesters clear the cap on a regular basis. We will not be able to land directly in any city. “
Marking out zones northeast and southwest of the main bowl, he zoomed in to the gateways on the upper level.
“The six major cities cut 20 to 30 levels deep, accessible by 8 gateways around the city. The Lord Castellan has decided we will drop 2 battalions on either side of each city at the minor gateways to breach and make access. Once inside you will be supported by local PDF to then make contact. You will be restricted to planetside vox systems once you land and will have to assess the local comms network once you establish control.”
A cough to his left bright a tight lipped grimace to Karriks jaw as his gaze to Falkirk again. The boy was rapidly scrolling though his data slate and the words came out without thinking, “We’re always in contact with command, that’s standard operations.”
“No.” Karrik growled it more than spoke. “The ash storms will black out all vox for more than a few hundred kilometers. Orbital communications are blocked whenever there is a storm. On the opening drops, each city will fire a volley from their macro-lance batteries to clear the cloud cover before we come in, and to send data bursts to the orbital palace. Once the coverage wraps, you’ll be on your own until you can link up with command. The division astropath will similarly be hampered. We don’t know why, but warn them before the drop, Harris.” Karrik fixed his stare on Captain Harris. The grizzled sack of flesh tried to meet his look for a moment before making a quick nod and a big gesture of adding a note to his data slate. Why a man who openly hated anything to do with psykers was assigned the battalion’s wyrdvane detachment is anyone’s guess. They probably wouldn’t survive this deployment.
“What of the enemy? What kind of resistance will they present?” Again with Falkirk’s questioning. Karrik took a moment to remind himself, snapping at the Lord Castellan’s grandson is no way to start a deployment.
“Mono, Deux, Tretia, and Quard are all under the control of the local PDF. This will not be a hot landing. We are dealing with cultists, not a reinforced battalion with artillery support.”
….
That was it. That was the moment Karrik “volunteered” himself for this damnable position. Orgryn management on the spearhead battalion. “If it was a simple drop into allied territory, he wouldn’t mind taking the first drop ship down.” Since the forward breachers always had the ogryn, it gave a fine opportunity to show how those Alpha Dragoon command skills could be put to use.
The whimper to his side shook the commissar out of his thoughts. A valkyrie of scion troopers could drop at twice this speed from near orbit without a whisper of doubt, but the three bullgryn chained to the wall in the chimera couldn’t help but make noise. The division tech priest had suggested a electroprod, and now it seemed like a better idea than Karrik’s usual chainsword.
The second jolt threw him against the belts and set the brutes whimpering again. The airway was supposed to be clear. With a quick tap, Karrik brought up coms to hear the flight squad report.
It was silent.
Heavy landers aren’t known for their graceful touch downs, but bone rattling collisions with the ground are not the norm. In the main bay tanks were blessed by the techpriest and signaled to start. As the landing ramp began to lower, fog thick ash clouds forced their way in. Then the bombardment began. Shelling rocking the lander hard.
“FORWARD” The digitized voice of Theta-Gamma cracked over coms, spurring the front unit of battle tanks on. With the implacable grip of a servo claw, the tech priest pulled himself to ride atop the last of the hellhound scout tanks.
The landing ramp was jammed halfway down after the last barrage, but was no resistance to the heft of the Leman Russ trio at the lead of the column. Over the coms, a binaric prayer to the machine spirits for forgiveness mimicked the scream of the front ramp collapsing. Forward into the clouds pushed the parade of armoured transports.
“Artillery barrage, sir. They seem to have zeroed in on the LZ.” Bryce watched as the command bridge of the lander crumpled under the explosive punishment. “Air retraction is no longer possible.”
“Earthshakers!” It was rumored that Lieutenant Haddon’s support specialist could tell the forgeworld of a cannon just by the sound it made while firing. From the beating the lander was taking, it sounded like Faedra was right.
Karrik listened patiently, there was nothing else he could do. It would take time to extricate the whole column, and Haddon had mere seconds to make the decision. In his head, Karrik poured over the limited map they had been given by the governor. Shifting ash made the trench-mines south an option, but would leave them isolated. Pushing forward to the city meant the risk that the enemy artillery might continue pounding them. When did the enemy get artillery, that wasn’t in the reports.
“FORWARD! To the city!” Haddon’s command was unsurprising to say the least. Karrik could even hear his driver pushing his engine to keep up with the headlong rush. This Razak Mobile infantry took their title with zeal that would make imperial priests jealous. “First into the Fire” indeed.
The barrage continued as the column moved forward. Through the lasarray viewers, Karrik saw one of the rearguard sentinels take a direct hit. In the middle of its loping stride, the gangly walker’s cockpit detonated in a brilliant fireball. For a brief moment, Karrik could see the grim faces of his ogryn guards clear as daylight, then nothing but a wad of smoke and steel crashed to the ground.
Still, the Razak line pushed on. Earth and ash churning under the weight of steel treads. The column was planned to aim north to the road, then follow its ramp down into the city… with a clack of his jaw may have cracked a tooth, Karrik felt the chimera drop steeply. Ramp-be-damned as the battalion took the two meter drop at full clip to get entrenched out of fire.
The coms net picked up again, full of static, but Haddon’s commands coming over the vox. Pacing spread out to avoid mixed hits from shells, and the loss of two sentinel walkers reported. When the squad sergeant was hit, one of the others missed the turn off and had fled the column. He reported the barrage had stopped when the battalion made the road, but was still being reprimanded for his flight. Another pilot would be assigned who was more reliable.
Curious, Karrik released his restraints to open the top hatch and take the observer position. Greeted with a steel-grey sky that churned like the sea overhead, the weight of the situation locked in. Mono’s service highway was cut like a ramp into the earth leading down. Already it towered six meters or so on either side and barely wide enough for two tanks to ride side by side. Thick, rough, ash had settled on the walls and road. It dusted the tanks that left black pressed trails behind. Like a pencil on a sheet of vellum, they’ll know right where we went.
Not that there were any choices where to go now.
Ahead, the gates to the city, if they could be called that, began to loom. The great durasteel disk that was the roof of the city, came to a sharp end. Girders gapped with mesh stood bare to the elements. They spanned the width of the road channel in a criss-crossed web of construction making a rough arch two stories tall. White hard sodium style lamps ran the channel and either side of the arch making everything sharp, and gray. No doors stood to block the road as a hive-city would have, instead the dust and ash everywhere whipped back in long slow bursts. Karrik raised his arm to block the sudden wind as his ride got within the blast zone, feeling the warmth coming from the city push through his jacket. As the ash that had settled along the roof of the chimera blew away, he had to wonder if this was an intentional design of the city, or a happy accident of the thermals produced by the great steel beast.
With a jerk, the column came to a halt. Over the microbead in his helm, Haddon sent out the order to spread and disembark, there was trouble ahead the tanks couldn’t deal with.
In the dark of the gate, flashes of light started to repeat back and forth. Hearing the ogryn sigh as they pushed to get out the rear gate, Karrik fished for his monocular to get a better look.Theta-gamma, his red robes billowing in the breath of the city, had taken point with first squad. Faedra was rushing to the rear, setting the hellhounds on her flanks for rear watch. Even the Lieutenant and his squad were on watch at the front, giving Karrik excuse enough to dismount and bring his boys at a brisk trot to catch up.
The problem became clear as Karrik made it to the command squad. Some kind of improvised trip mines had been strung across the roadway just at the end of the entry ramp inside the city proper. From the top of the ramp, the ruins were visible, heavy damage crumbled and shattered every wall in sight. Rooftops burned still in the distance, and only the same awful, pale light of the city street lights gave any illumination under the durasteel cap. Again those flashes of light danced in the distance and Karrik brought up his monocular. Las-fire trace between buildings ahead toward the city center.
Raising his hand to grab the Lieutenant’s attention, Karrik was suddenly pushed aside…“And Lo, Do I Strike at the Heretic!” The quarter ton of muscle and bone that made Gregori the rightful bodyguard of company command, slammed forward into the rear of First Squad, knocking two men aside. There was a pause as everyone looked to where he was pointing, before thunder struck.
Kra-KOOM!
Fire and smoke poured from the ruins left of the road, the flash casting silhouettes thrown by ogryns frag grenade. With a whine, white hot pain lanced across Karrik’s vision before the goggles photo filters kicked in to protect him from the multilaser’s firing. Without warning, the command chimera opened a door in the ruins of the second floor revealing the remains of a surprised pair of snipers, leaving them to clatter down the wrecked wall to the floor below.
Then came the chaos. With a howl and a cry “For the Lord of Stars!” auto-gun fire pelted the First Squad, even disrupting Gama-Theta from his work dismantling the road mines.
“Maveriks! TO THE WINDOWS!” Again, Karrik was surprised by Haddon’s aggression. While brutes formed up around the commisar, locking shields, the surprised First Squad found their feet quickly pushing straight at the enemy. Wild las-fire suppressed the windows while mono-knives found flesh as soldiers chipped and bleeding from the hail of enemy fire called in response, “TO THE WALLS!”
Karrik watched as the warmachine of the imperium took their ambushers to task. Theta-Gamma followed the call and set the pace of the advance. Kackling in binary, the tech-priest’s servo claw punched through ferrocrete wall and cultists alike. Gore erupted from the warrior’s remains like a ration tube, trapped beneath a tank tread. Still the Maveriks fought on. Las fire ceased as they put men to the knife. Heavy fire from the leading battletanks shredded potential sniper positions to reveal naught but the dead. The viciousness of the attack set the enemy on their heel, many began to panic and try to flee while caught, and crushed by ogrun and man alike.
“Maveriks! Occupy and Defend!” Haddon’s call caught Karrik’s attention, the Lieutenant was watching the opposite side of the street now. With the cultists in route, Karrik saw a few last flashes of lasfire from the building while First Squad quickly reversed stances, taking cover behind the very walls they had just purified in heretic blood.
Following Hadron’s gaze to the other side of the street, Karrik finally pushed past the ogryn wall. There, half crouched, and slack jawed, stood men of the Kroma Light. “Whitecaps” the locals called them, according to reports. Now the Maveriks saw why. Where the Razak Mobile donned somber colors, black for the mourning of the 198th, green for the new beginning of the 199th, the Kroma Light was a parade of color. Polished gold pauldrons shining on sky blue jackets were accented with white webbing and almost luminescent kepi caps. The Kroma’s sergeant signaled his men to stand down with a wave of his sword, making them stand at attention, but not shoulder their weapons.
“Kroma Light?” Lieutenant Hadron had pulled his mask to be heard clearly, “We are the 199th Razak Mobile, your reinforcements. We need billeting, and a place to check our hardware.”
… D + 1.
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D-10 … Orbital Palace Sarai
“So… It’s a dunghole?.... Sir.” Leutenent Falkirk was still getting used to his new position on the command staff.
“Which is saying a lot, coming from a man whose home world is so toxic he grew up wearing a mask…” Commisar Karrik was a fairly stoic fellow, unphased by the young officers lack of decorum. Clearing his throat he continued the briefing…
“As I was explaining,” Karrik made a sweeping gesture across the strategium making the globe on the surface spin wildly. “Kroma III, is a former deathworld. Exterminatus of the mega-flora would risk damaging the raw promethum found on the planet. So the knight house Tardif, support the Unrelenting Duty, last of the warlord titans dropped planetside to burn the planet clear. Their burns make the habitable zone covered in ash storms most of the year.“ Palm to the surface, the globe stopped spinning. On the display the two major northern continents were each partially visible… a red trail tracing east-west along the tropic where they joined in a narrow land bridge. Karrik traced his finger along the line, emphasizing it to the other staff at the table.“This treeline is the hold out of the native plantlife. It takes a year for the Unrelenting Duty to march the length pushing it back with plasma burns while the knights clean up and scour the land. We can expect no support from the titans as they insure everything south of this line stays ash..”
With a harsh stab ,Karrik selected one of the red dots on the continent, zooming in to show an expanded view. The strategium screen split to show a dual top, and side cut-away view of the hive city turned mine. The deep bowl in the earth was shown, centered around a set of 8 Hellbore Pylons. Archaeo-tech of the lost age cutting kilometers into the crust, and serving as great geothermal pumps.
“The cities are capped with durasteel branching out from these core pylons. Winds on the ash plains are too strong to allow any building more than 8 meters to stand for long. Ash harvesters clear the cap on a regular basis. We will not be able to land directly in any city. “
Marking out zones northeast and southwest of the main bowl, he zoomed in to the gateways on the upper level.
“The six major cities cut 20 to 30 levels deep, accessible by 8 gateways around the city. The Lord Castellan has decided we will drop 2 battalions on either side of each city at the minor gateways to breach and make access. Once inside you will be supported by local PDF to then make contact. You will be restricted to planetside vox systems once you land and will have to assess the local comms network once you establish control.”
A cough to his left bright a tight lipped grimace to Karriks jaw as his gaze to Falkirk again. The boy was rapidly scrolling though his data slate and the words came out without thinking, “We’re always in contact with command, that’s standard operations.”
“No.” Karrik growled it more than spoke. “The ash storms will black out all vox for more than a few hundred kilometers. Orbital communications are blocked whenever there is a storm. On the opening drops, each city will fire a volley from their macro-lance batteries to clear the cloud cover before we come in, and to send data bursts to the orbital palace. Once the coverage wraps, you’ll be on your own until you can link up with command. The division astropath will similarly be hampered. We don’t know why, but warn them before the drop, Harris.” Karrik fixed his stare on Captain Harris. The grizzled sack of flesh tried to meet his look for a moment before making a quick nod and a big gesture of adding a note to his data slate. Why a man who openly hated anything to do with psykers was assigned the battalion’s wyrdvane detachment is anyone’s guess. They probably wouldn’t survive this deployment.
“What of the enemy? What kind of resistance will they present?” Again with Falkirk’s questioning. Karrik took a moment to remind himself, snapping at the Lord Castellan’s grandson is no way to start a deployment.
“Mono, Deux, Tretia, and Quard are all under the control of the local PDF. This will not be a hot landing. We are dealing with cultists, not a reinforced battalion with artillery support.”
….
That was it. That was the moment Karrik “volunteered” himself for this damnable position. Orgryn management on the spearhead battalion. “If it was a simple drop into allied territory, he wouldn’t mind taking the first drop ship down.” Since the forward breachers always had the ogryn, it gave a fine opportunity to show how those Alpha Dragoon command skills could be put to use.
The whimper to his side shook the commissar out of his thoughts. A valkyrie of scion troopers could drop at twice this speed from near orbit without a whisper of doubt, but the three bullgryn chained to the wall in the chimera couldn’t help but make noise. The division tech priest had suggested a electroprod, and now it seemed like a better idea than Karrik’s usual chainsword.
The second jolt threw him against the belts and set the brutes whimpering again. The airway was supposed to be clear. With a quick tap, Karrik brought up coms to hear the flight squad report.
It was silent.
Heavy landers aren’t known for their graceful touch downs, but bone rattling collisions with the ground are not the norm. In the main bay tanks were blessed by the techpriest and signaled to start. As the landing ramp began to lower, fog thick ash clouds forced their way in. Then the bombardment began. Shelling rocking the lander hard.
“FORWARD” The digitized voice of Theta-Gamma cracked over coms, spurring the front unit of battle tanks on. With the implacable grip of a servo claw, the tech priest pulled himself to ride atop the last of the hellhound scout tanks.
The landing ramp was jammed halfway down after the last barrage, but was no resistance to the heft of the Leman Russ trio at the lead of the column. Over the coms, a binaric prayer to the machine spirits for forgiveness mimicked the scream of the front ramp collapsing. Forward into the clouds pushed the parade of armoured transports.
“Artillery barrage, sir. They seem to have zeroed in on the LZ.” Bryce watched as the command bridge of the lander crumpled under the explosive punishment. “Air retraction is no longer possible.”
“Earthshakers!” It was rumored that Lieutenant Haddon’s support specialist could tell the forgeworld of a cannon just by the sound it made while firing. From the beating the lander was taking, it sounded like Faedra was right.
Karrik listened patiently, there was nothing else he could do. It would take time to extricate the whole column, and Haddon had mere seconds to make the decision. In his head, Karrik poured over the limited map they had been given by the governor. Shifting ash made the trench-mines south an option, but would leave them isolated. Pushing forward to the city meant the risk that the enemy artillery might continue pounding them. When did the enemy get artillery, that wasn’t in the reports.
“FORWARD! To the city!” Haddon’s command was unsurprising to say the least. Karrik could even hear his driver pushing his engine to keep up with the headlong rush. This Razak Mobile infantry took their title with zeal that would make imperial priests jealous. “First into the Fire” indeed.
The barrage continued as the column moved forward. Through the lasarray viewers, Karrik saw one of the rearguard sentinels take a direct hit. In the middle of its loping stride, the gangly walker’s cockpit detonated in a brilliant fireball. For a brief moment, Karrik could see the grim faces of his ogryn guards clear as daylight, then nothing but a wad of smoke and steel crashed to the ground.
Still, the Razak line pushed on. Earth and ash churning under the weight of steel treads. The column was planned to aim north to the road, then follow its ramp down into the city… with a clack of his jaw may have cracked a tooth, Karrik felt the chimera drop steeply. Ramp-be-damned as the battalion took the two meter drop at full clip to get entrenched out of fire.
The coms net picked up again, full of static, but Haddon’s commands coming over the vox. Pacing spread out to avoid mixed hits from shells, and the loss of two sentinel walkers reported. When the squad sergeant was hit, one of the others missed the turn off and had fled the column. He reported the barrage had stopped when the battalion made the road, but was still being reprimanded for his flight. Another pilot would be assigned who was more reliable.
Curious, Karrik released his restraints to open the top hatch and take the observer position. Greeted with a steel-grey sky that churned like the sea overhead, the weight of the situation locked in. Mono’s service highway was cut like a ramp into the earth leading down. Already it towered six meters or so on either side and barely wide enough for two tanks to ride side by side. Thick, rough, ash had settled on the walls and road. It dusted the tanks that left black pressed trails behind. Like a pencil on a sheet of vellum, they’ll know right where we went.
Not that there were any choices where to go now.
Ahead, the gates to the city, if they could be called that, began to loom. The great durasteel disk that was the roof of the city, came to a sharp end. Girders gapped with mesh stood bare to the elements. They spanned the width of the road channel in a criss-crossed web of construction making a rough arch two stories tall. White hard sodium style lamps ran the channel and either side of the arch making everything sharp, and gray. No doors stood to block the road as a hive-city would have, instead the dust and ash everywhere whipped back in long slow bursts. Karrik raised his arm to block the sudden wind as his ride got within the blast zone, feeling the warmth coming from the city push through his jacket. As the ash that had settled along the roof of the chimera blew away, he had to wonder if this was an intentional design of the city, or a happy accident of the thermals produced by the great steel beast.
With a jerk, the column came to a halt. Over the microbead in his helm, Haddon sent out the order to spread and disembark, there was trouble ahead the tanks couldn’t deal with.
In the dark of the gate, flashes of light started to repeat back and forth. Hearing the ogryn sigh as they pushed to get out the rear gate, Karrik fished for his monocular to get a better look.Theta-gamma, his red robes billowing in the breath of the city, had taken point with first squad. Faedra was rushing to the rear, setting the hellhounds on her flanks for rear watch. Even the Lieutenant and his squad were on watch at the front, giving Karrik excuse enough to dismount and bring his boys at a brisk trot to catch up.
The problem became clear as Karrik made it to the command squad. Some kind of improvised trip mines had been strung across the roadway just at the end of the entry ramp inside the city proper. From the top of the ramp, the ruins were visible, heavy damage crumbled and shattered every wall in sight. Rooftops burned still in the distance, and only the same awful, pale light of the city street lights gave any illumination under the durasteel cap. Again those flashes of light danced in the distance and Karrik brought up his monocular. Las-fire trace between buildings ahead toward the city center.
Raising his hand to grab the Lieutenant’s attention, Karrik was suddenly pushed aside…“And Lo, Do I Strike at the Heretic!” The quarter ton of muscle and bone that made Gregori the rightful bodyguard of company command, slammed forward into the rear of First Squad, knocking two men aside. There was a pause as everyone looked to where he was pointing, before thunder struck.
Kra-KOOM!
Fire and smoke poured from the ruins left of the road, the flash casting silhouettes thrown by ogryns frag grenade. With a whine, white hot pain lanced across Karrik’s vision before the goggles photo filters kicked in to protect him from the multilaser’s firing. Without warning, the command chimera opened a door in the ruins of the second floor revealing the remains of a surprised pair of snipers, leaving them to clatter down the wrecked wall to the floor below.
Then came the chaos. With a howl and a cry “For the Lord of Stars!” auto-gun fire pelted the First Squad, even disrupting Gama-Theta from his work dismantling the road mines.
“Maveriks! TO THE WINDOWS!” Again, Karrik was surprised by Haddon’s aggression. While brutes formed up around the commisar, locking shields, the surprised First Squad found their feet quickly pushing straight at the enemy. Wild las-fire suppressed the windows while mono-knives found flesh as soldiers chipped and bleeding from the hail of enemy fire called in response, “TO THE WALLS!”
Karrik watched as the warmachine of the imperium took their ambushers to task. Theta-Gamma followed the call and set the pace of the advance. Kackling in binary, the tech-priest’s servo claw punched through ferrocrete wall and cultists alike. Gore erupted from the warrior’s remains like a ration tube, trapped beneath a tank tread. Still the Maveriks fought on. Las fire ceased as they put men to the knife. Heavy fire from the leading battletanks shredded potential sniper positions to reveal naught but the dead. The viciousness of the attack set the enemy on their heel, many began to panic and try to flee while caught, and crushed by ogrun and man alike.
“Maveriks! Occupy and Defend!” Haddon’s call caught Karrik’s attention, the Lieutenant was watching the opposite side of the street now. With the cultists in route, Karrik saw a few last flashes of lasfire from the building while First Squad quickly reversed stances, taking cover behind the very walls they had just purified in heretic blood.
Following Hadron’s gaze to the other side of the street, Karrik finally pushed past the ogryn wall. There, half crouched, and slack jawed, stood men of the Kroma Light. “Whitecaps” the locals called them, according to reports. Now the Maveriks saw why. Where the Razak Mobile donned somber colors, black for the mourning of the 198th, green for the new beginning of the 199th, the Kroma Light was a parade of color. Polished gold pauldrons shining on sky blue jackets were accented with white webbing and almost luminescent kepi caps. The Kroma’s sergeant signaled his men to stand down with a wave of his sword, making them stand at attention, but not shoulder their weapons.
“Kroma Light?” Lieutenant Hadron had pulled his mask to be heard clearly, “We are the 199th Razak Mobile, your reinforcements. We need billeting, and a place to check our hardware.”
… D + 1.
2023.03.27 03:10 chlomatic US taxes as a grad student
Hello! I'm wondering if anyone could help me understand the process of filing US taxes for a grad student in Korea. I received a scholarship from my school that covers my tuition and additionally I am given a monthly stipend.
I'm a little lost on if I need to report both and which forms to use. I already plan to file for an extension as my taxes in Korea will not be ready until May. I called H&R Block but they weren't very knowledgeable on this topic so I'm wondering if anyone here has any insight. Thanks!
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I'm a little lost on if I need to report both and which forms to use. I already plan to file for an extension as my taxes in Korea will not be ready until May. I called H&R Block but they weren't very knowledgeable on this topic so I'm wondering if anyone here has any insight. Thanks!
2023.03.27 03:06 Dawn_at_station I’m new to western astrology so I can’t read my chart very well, I’m mainly interested in finding out about my career and possibly my love life; be as blunt as possible, I don’t need any filters; thanks!
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2023.03.27 03:06 Paesana I (21 F) think someone (25 M) I know is either being abused or lying abuse being abused. What do I do?
So throughout college, there was always this guy in my classes who everyone thought was a little weird. We’ll call him Oliver. Now, Oliver is clearly developmentally disabled but I am not sure what exactly his condition is. He always smells bad, he’s awkward, he asks invasive questions (especially about people’s romantic lives), he’s not great with personal space and this will make me sound like a jerk, but he looks like he has a chromosome missing (think very short, with claw-like hands and a very oddly shaped face). He also does not wear clothes that fit, and frequently walks around with half of his butt hanging out, and becomes very depressed, dejected, and offended when people point it out to him, even when they do so discreetly and gently. Because of how awkward he is, many girls think he’s creepy, and he has trouble making friends, beyond people who feel bad for him.
I got to know this guy a little better because we both hang out in the commuter space at our college (he is a commuter, and many of my friends are commuters) and we both TA for the same professor. Now, he considers me a friend, but to be quite honest, I find him very annoying. It’s a very awkward situation, but I don’t have the heart to tell him that I think our relationship is very one-sided. Basically, he treats me and other people as a therapist. He started confiding in us about his personal struggles. These include:
· Health issues. He told us that he has a brain injury from accidently taking too much medication to help his sleeping disorder. I do believe that he has health issues since he took a year off of college, but I am unsure as to the extent of them, since he has always been very vague.
· Girl issues. These vary but I’ll try to sum it up here.
o He alleges that another guy spread a rumor that he was creep his freshman year, because they were both interested in the same girl.
o A girl reported him to student life for being creepy. He says that he just asked he a question and sat next to her in a class, but I’m not entirely sure about that after talking to people who know him.
o He is absolutely obsessed with getting a girlfriend, and thinks that he is worthless (his words, not mine), if he does not get one.
o He claims that many women have rejected him because of his height (he is under 5’) and frequently rants about how this is a petty and unreasonable criteria.
· School issues. He is very smart and does well in all of his classes except for math. This is because he claims that the brain injury affected the part of his brain that help with understanding calculations. But he also has terrible test anxiety and tells us that he thinks he is going to flunk out of college before every test.
· Family issues. Here is where things really get messed up. He alleges a variety of stories about his family, each one stranger than the last.
o His mom allegedly told him that she thought he was a demon when he was born.
o His mom would get into fights with him as a small child over innocuous things like if he missed a question on a quiz, and then call him the spawn of Satan.
o His dad and he would get into physical fights as a small child.
o His mom told him that he will be the next Hitler.
o His mom told him that he has megalomaniac tendencies (this guy is one of the most timid people I know).
o His mom told him that God is punishing him for not reading the Bible enough through his health issues.
o His mom told his grandparents that she considered having him castrated as a young boy.
o His mom forced him to give his car to the church when he couldn’t afford insurance.
o His mom said she would not let him date until he was forty.
o When he considered asking out a girl, his mom told him that she would contact said girl and tell her he was an abuser. She also gave him books on purity at this time.
o He claims that his dad left his mom around the time he had the brain injury for a much younger woman in another state. His stepmom apparently does not let him live with them, because she thinks he is a downer.
o His mom once called the police on him during an argument. When the police arrived, he says that he talked back to them, which resulted in a disorderly conduct charge, which he says will make it hard for him to get a job later.
o He claims that his mom has a mental disorder (I can’t remember what it’s called) but she never takes her medication.
o He claims that his mom told him that God will not heal him from his health issues until he trusts in him.
o His grandparents think he is a disappointment for not making the dean’s list one semester.
o His mom is in the process of finishing an online masters’ degree and says that he will need to move away with her for her new job.
Naturally, this is a lot of information to take in, and he revealed this to me and my friends all over the course of a year. I’m sure that I’m missing plenty of information that he has told me at some point, but I think this gives a general idea as to his personal struggles.
Now, even though he gets on my nerves, when he told me about his problems, I wanted to do the right thing. This might make me sound sanctimonious, but I am religious, and I have been thinking a lot about what it means to treat “the least of these” as we treat Christ. If Oliver counts as the least of these, then I should be trying to help him. Here is what I have already done:
· I tutored him in a stats class because he was struggling.
· I tried to politely point out the pants issue as well as some other awkward things he does but have since given up because he always responds so negatively.
· I (and many other people) suggested that he take advantage of the counseling services here on campus. He refused because he tried going to a therapist ~2 years ago because it “didn’t work.”
· I routinely reassure him that his mom is crazy for the things she says and does, and his dad is a piece of shit for abandoning him with an unstable person. Moreover, I stress to him that his mother is abusive and what she says and does is wrong and harmful.
· I encouraged Oliver to 1) block a bullying student 2) seek advice from a trusted professor during an incident where a student harassed him and tried to manipulate him into recording another professor without his consent. Oliver refused to go to student life during this incident, because he was fearful that they would not believe him, from that incident where the girl reported him.
· Finally, I researched safe house and found one about 5 hours away from our college that admits men and disabled adults. I sent this to him, and offered to drive him there either right now, or after he graduates, whichever he thought was best.
Many other people, especially my friends, have offered to help him, and gave him similar advice over the years. But, we have noticed a couple of things which make us doubt his integrity somewhat.
· Firstly, we do not think that he is completely innocent in his girl problems. We spoke to a couple of people who know Oliver, and it sounds like many girls told him instructions like “don’t stand so close to me,” which he then did not follow. Also, he apparently became angry at some girls for finding girlfriends. From here, we have concluded that he is not a reliable narrator, especially when it comes to girls.
· He REALLY likes attention, and always finds a way to bring any conversation with him back to him and his problems, to the point where he will interrupt other people’s conversations to talk about his problems. For example, my friend Matt was joking with me about a bad date from years ago, and the conversation went something like this:
Matt: So I was an idiot when I was 16. I asked a girl out, and then took her to split a fry at McDonald’s.
Me: Jeez, if you wanted to be cheap, why didn’t you just take her to coffee?
Matt: Ha! I have no idea. And then I got seriously offended when she didn’t want a second date!
Me: Dude, splitting a fry is something you do AFTER a date as an excuse to hang out more!
*laughter*
Oliver (jumping in): My mom said that I’m going to hell on the way to school!
Over time, his interruptions have gotten progressively more and more invasive and awkward and shocking, and he always seems to revel in our shock by smiling and jumping up and down.
· His stories about his family have gotten progressively more and more insane (for example, telling us about his stepmom first, waiting until we believe him, and then telling us about the castration story), and likewise, he seems to enjoy our shock and condemnation of his family members.
· Occasionally, Oliver will go off on unhinged rants about how he wants to ban dating or get revenge on the girls who have rejected him. He never says that he wants to do anything violent to them, just “get revenge.” He also responds negatively when people try to deescalate him during these vents by ranting about how they do not understand.
· If anyone says anything positive about a person that Oliver thinks has wronged him (i.e. girls who have rejected him), even if it’s something as innocuous as “Ella was really good at running the environmental club, too bad she graduated early,” he will immediately rant about how horrible she is because she rejected him.
· He admitted that he does not actually think he is going to flunk out of college, but tells us he thinks he will fail, because he wants us to pay attention to him.
· When I sent him the information about the safehouse, he refused to take me up on it. Moreover, he made excuses about his health problems, his disorderly conduct charge and the fact that he wants to go to grad school someday (he has not even applied to grad school). I had done a thorough job researching, even contacting the safe house to ask a couple of questions. It turns out that the safe house would still take him, as long as he was transparent about his health issues and criminal record. He still refused and shut down the conversation.
· Oliver is originally from a state in the American South, but our college is in the north-east. When he came to college, his mother moved along with him, which is why he is a commuter and lives off campus. He tried living in the dorms for one semester but gave up on that since it was bad for his sleeping disorder. However, it doesn’t make sense to me that an abusive mother would uproot her life and career to accommodate her disabled son.
· I have never seen bruises, cuts, or any other physical injuries on Oliver. Nor does he appear to be suffering from malnutrition – if anything, he’s rather overweight. The only physical evidence of abuse I can see is 1) the constant smell and 2) his clothes are constantly covered in food. However, he comes to
· I have never met his mom, nor has anyone I know. She could be absolutely insane or completely normal for all I know. As for the religious fanaticism, Oliver has told us the name of the church he goes to. From looking on their website, they seem normal, and not the religious fundamentalist types.
Now, I have no background training in abuse, mental illness or anything of that sort. Thus, my concerns that Oliver is lying could be absolutely false – I literally don’t know. Does anyone have any advice for me to either 1) find out the truth or 2) help him (beyond what I have done) if there is actually abuse going on in his life? I really want to do the right thing, but I’m mainly concerned that I may be being lied to.
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I got to know this guy a little better because we both hang out in the commuter space at our college (he is a commuter, and many of my friends are commuters) and we both TA for the same professor. Now, he considers me a friend, but to be quite honest, I find him very annoying. It’s a very awkward situation, but I don’t have the heart to tell him that I think our relationship is very one-sided. Basically, he treats me and other people as a therapist. He started confiding in us about his personal struggles. These include:
· Health issues. He told us that he has a brain injury from accidently taking too much medication to help his sleeping disorder. I do believe that he has health issues since he took a year off of college, but I am unsure as to the extent of them, since he has always been very vague.
· Girl issues. These vary but I’ll try to sum it up here.
o He alleges that another guy spread a rumor that he was creep his freshman year, because they were both interested in the same girl.
o A girl reported him to student life for being creepy. He says that he just asked he a question and sat next to her in a class, but I’m not entirely sure about that after talking to people who know him.
o He is absolutely obsessed with getting a girlfriend, and thinks that he is worthless (his words, not mine), if he does not get one.
o He claims that many women have rejected him because of his height (he is under 5’) and frequently rants about how this is a petty and unreasonable criteria.
· School issues. He is very smart and does well in all of his classes except for math. This is because he claims that the brain injury affected the part of his brain that help with understanding calculations. But he also has terrible test anxiety and tells us that he thinks he is going to flunk out of college before every test.
· Family issues. Here is where things really get messed up. He alleges a variety of stories about his family, each one stranger than the last.
o His mom allegedly told him that she thought he was a demon when he was born.
o His mom would get into fights with him as a small child over innocuous things like if he missed a question on a quiz, and then call him the spawn of Satan.
o His dad and he would get into physical fights as a small child.
o His mom told him that he will be the next Hitler.
o His mom told him that he has megalomaniac tendencies (this guy is one of the most timid people I know).
o His mom told him that God is punishing him for not reading the Bible enough through his health issues.
o His mom told his grandparents that she considered having him castrated as a young boy.
o His mom forced him to give his car to the church when he couldn’t afford insurance.
o His mom said she would not let him date until he was forty.
o When he considered asking out a girl, his mom told him that she would contact said girl and tell her he was an abuser. She also gave him books on purity at this time.
o He claims that his dad left his mom around the time he had the brain injury for a much younger woman in another state. His stepmom apparently does not let him live with them, because she thinks he is a downer.
o His mom once called the police on him during an argument. When the police arrived, he says that he talked back to them, which resulted in a disorderly conduct charge, which he says will make it hard for him to get a job later.
o He claims that his mom has a mental disorder (I can’t remember what it’s called) but she never takes her medication.
o He claims that his mom told him that God will not heal him from his health issues until he trusts in him.
o His grandparents think he is a disappointment for not making the dean’s list one semester.
o His mom is in the process of finishing an online masters’ degree and says that he will need to move away with her for her new job.
Naturally, this is a lot of information to take in, and he revealed this to me and my friends all over the course of a year. I’m sure that I’m missing plenty of information that he has told me at some point, but I think this gives a general idea as to his personal struggles.
Now, even though he gets on my nerves, when he told me about his problems, I wanted to do the right thing. This might make me sound sanctimonious, but I am religious, and I have been thinking a lot about what it means to treat “the least of these” as we treat Christ. If Oliver counts as the least of these, then I should be trying to help him. Here is what I have already done:
· I tutored him in a stats class because he was struggling.
· I tried to politely point out the pants issue as well as some other awkward things he does but have since given up because he always responds so negatively.
· I (and many other people) suggested that he take advantage of the counseling services here on campus. He refused because he tried going to a therapist ~2 years ago because it “didn’t work.”
· I routinely reassure him that his mom is crazy for the things she says and does, and his dad is a piece of shit for abandoning him with an unstable person. Moreover, I stress to him that his mother is abusive and what she says and does is wrong and harmful.
· I encouraged Oliver to 1) block a bullying student 2) seek advice from a trusted professor during an incident where a student harassed him and tried to manipulate him into recording another professor without his consent. Oliver refused to go to student life during this incident, because he was fearful that they would not believe him, from that incident where the girl reported him.
· Finally, I researched safe house and found one about 5 hours away from our college that admits men and disabled adults. I sent this to him, and offered to drive him there either right now, or after he graduates, whichever he thought was best.
Many other people, especially my friends, have offered to help him, and gave him similar advice over the years. But, we have noticed a couple of things which make us doubt his integrity somewhat.
· Firstly, we do not think that he is completely innocent in his girl problems. We spoke to a couple of people who know Oliver, and it sounds like many girls told him instructions like “don’t stand so close to me,” which he then did not follow. Also, he apparently became angry at some girls for finding girlfriends. From here, we have concluded that he is not a reliable narrator, especially when it comes to girls.
· He REALLY likes attention, and always finds a way to bring any conversation with him back to him and his problems, to the point where he will interrupt other people’s conversations to talk about his problems. For example, my friend Matt was joking with me about a bad date from years ago, and the conversation went something like this:
Matt: So I was an idiot when I was 16. I asked a girl out, and then took her to split a fry at McDonald’s.
Me: Jeez, if you wanted to be cheap, why didn’t you just take her to coffee?
Matt: Ha! I have no idea. And then I got seriously offended when she didn’t want a second date!
Me: Dude, splitting a fry is something you do AFTER a date as an excuse to hang out more!
*laughter*
Oliver (jumping in): My mom said that I’m going to hell on the way to school!
Over time, his interruptions have gotten progressively more and more invasive and awkward and shocking, and he always seems to revel in our shock by smiling and jumping up and down.
· His stories about his family have gotten progressively more and more insane (for example, telling us about his stepmom first, waiting until we believe him, and then telling us about the castration story), and likewise, he seems to enjoy our shock and condemnation of his family members.
· Occasionally, Oliver will go off on unhinged rants about how he wants to ban dating or get revenge on the girls who have rejected him. He never says that he wants to do anything violent to them, just “get revenge.” He also responds negatively when people try to deescalate him during these vents by ranting about how they do not understand.
· If anyone says anything positive about a person that Oliver thinks has wronged him (i.e. girls who have rejected him), even if it’s something as innocuous as “Ella was really good at running the environmental club, too bad she graduated early,” he will immediately rant about how horrible she is because she rejected him.
· He admitted that he does not actually think he is going to flunk out of college, but tells us he thinks he will fail, because he wants us to pay attention to him.
· When I sent him the information about the safehouse, he refused to take me up on it. Moreover, he made excuses about his health problems, his disorderly conduct charge and the fact that he wants to go to grad school someday (he has not even applied to grad school). I had done a thorough job researching, even contacting the safe house to ask a couple of questions. It turns out that the safe house would still take him, as long as he was transparent about his health issues and criminal record. He still refused and shut down the conversation.
· Oliver is originally from a state in the American South, but our college is in the north-east. When he came to college, his mother moved along with him, which is why he is a commuter and lives off campus. He tried living in the dorms for one semester but gave up on that since it was bad for his sleeping disorder. However, it doesn’t make sense to me that an abusive mother would uproot her life and career to accommodate her disabled son.
· I have never seen bruises, cuts, or any other physical injuries on Oliver. Nor does he appear to be suffering from malnutrition – if anything, he’s rather overweight. The only physical evidence of abuse I can see is 1) the constant smell and 2) his clothes are constantly covered in food. However, he comes to
· I have never met his mom, nor has anyone I know. She could be absolutely insane or completely normal for all I know. As for the religious fanaticism, Oliver has told us the name of the church he goes to. From looking on their website, they seem normal, and not the religious fundamentalist types.
Now, I have no background training in abuse, mental illness or anything of that sort. Thus, my concerns that Oliver is lying could be absolutely false – I literally don’t know. Does anyone have any advice for me to either 1) find out the truth or 2) help him (beyond what I have done) if there is actually abuse going on in his life? I really want to do the right thing, but I’m mainly concerned that I may be being lied to.
2023.03.27 03:06 Mental_Equilibrium Paid into 401a and not Social Security and now owe money to government?
Hello all,
I was doing my wife and I's taxes when I was her W-2 states she paid no social security taxes. When I contacted her workplace, they said they are a governmental organization and had her pay into a 401a and not social security.
As of now, H&R Block says we owe almost 2k, about how much should have been paid to social security and exactly how much was put into her 401a.
How does this work? Do I somehow apply the 401a towards paying the social security tax or are we stuck paying both the social security tax and into her 401a? Pretty confused on all this and could find anything when google searching.
Thanks!
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I was doing my wife and I's taxes when I was her W-2 states she paid no social security taxes. When I contacted her workplace, they said they are a governmental organization and had her pay into a 401a and not social security.
As of now, H&R Block says we owe almost 2k, about how much should have been paid to social security and exactly how much was put into her 401a.
How does this work? Do I somehow apply the 401a towards paying the social security tax or are we stuck paying both the social security tax and into her 401a? Pretty confused on all this and could find anything when google searching.
Thanks!
2023.03.27 02:48 reallilducki This year my husband and I plan on a lot of big life changes, such as moving across the country, buying a house, job changes, and planning to try for a baby soon. Would appreciate any insight to things I should be considering or preparing myself for during this time!
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2023.03.27 02:44 reallilducki Would love to hear if anything pops out about my chart!
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2023.03.27 02:43 Taylor-Swifty A4A Hey, You’re Looking For An RP Partner? Well I Want To RP With You!
[possible fandoms: Transformers, Disney, TMNT, Street Sharks, Pixar, Star Wars, G. I. Joe, Nintendo, Marvel, DC, possibly more!]
I am 18+ and all participants and characters must be 18+.
Hey there! Most people call me Desi. I am a role player, obviously! I usually spend my time indoors every day with a mild excursion here and there to the store, movies, or beach. I adore writing, but that's obvious.
I am very versatile on genre, I have major preference for romance, drama, slice of life, mysteries, action and adventure, Hallmark-esque plots, and anything else we might conjure up! I do have tons of canons and OCs! I’m sure you can find one you like. I can write from a paragraph to novella.
I am looking for any gender of partner and character, I have so many unique characters and ideas for each one!
Ideas:
your character replaces Sam/Charlie in the Transformers franchise while fixing various mistakes made by Michael Bay. I have the characters set up on my server, with alternate designs for Jazz, Sideswipe, and Hot Rod.
I also have a ton of Disney characters, I’ve been dying to play out a ripple in the space time continuum where one or a group of them get sent to the real world.
My character is a Spanish heiress, who lives a life of luxury, only her father is murdered, and the people who did it, are now after her. She runs away in search of a bodyguard to help her get back what was stolen from her.
The next idea I have is for a relationship that is on the rocks, and the two are left trying to navigate their lives past the honeymoon phase and learn how to adapt to living together.
This is specific to my character but she was a championship surfer, and she got injured at the top of her game. I really want to play out her becoming a mentor, teaching someone how to become the next champion.
One of my characters goes undercover to try and expose a illegal ring, this would play out like a suspense or thriller, could play male or female.
An emotionally damaged stripper who is abused by staff spends her days trying to get by, until the day comes where she meets someone who could help her pursue her true dreams of running her own operation.
A Russian woman who was stolen from her family as a little girl and tormented into becoming a living weapon is hired to bring your character to them. On the way, she finds out that the people who hired her are working for the militia that made her the way she is, and so, she decides to take a stand, and wipe them out.
This is only a third of my ideas, not even that, a fraction! Come check out my characters, let’s discuss something!
I have men, women, young and mature, thieves, business owners, single mothers, wayward young adults, college students and staff, bounty hunters, detectives, police officers, victims, patients, crooked therapists, strippers, so many unique stories to tell! I guarantee one of them will strike your fancy!
I am looking for a romantic role play as one of my many OC characters, drama or major events will happen depending on the character you select, and I have 300+ so far.
I also have many canon characters I would love to play as, such as Legolas, Transformers, Marvel and DC , Avatar and Disney.
I have many ideas depending on who you choose!
I am a very affectionate person, I love to make people happy, so I am always open to adjusting characters or role plays.
I don't like role plays with action asterisks, Sorry! I also don't like to role play without proper punctuation and grammar. I usually write at least one paragraph. 25 being my record.
I am a firm believer in conversation so I most likely will text you OOC for any reason, I also prefer to keep things adult, meaning I don't take part in petty or childish arguments.
I don't ghost either, so Ill probably rip the bandage off and tell you why I don't want to role play anymore.
I also love having friends! I used to get bullied quite a lot for many, many reasons, so I haven't had many friends in my 20 years of living. Lets chat, get to know one another!, I've been role playing for a long time, about 6-8 years give or take? I typically enjoy modern role plays with real life basing.
I enjoy stories of the romantic genre as well as action and adventure. My characters are original with face claims, some are canon characters from Marvel and DC. Characters like Barney, Captain America, Superman, just really selfless characters have always been my inspiration.
I always try to write my characters with loving aspects if I can. Life is broken and many people suffer, life isnt perfect so I usually write some darkness for a character if I feel it.
I don't use random face claims, I use actors or media icons I feel fit the character, I mentally put myself in the position of director, my role play is a movie, and I am casting the character, that is how I usually go about it, and if you don’t like it I am not the partner for you.
I definitely want a partner who can be a friend, who can be detailed yet tame, someone who can give me something to reply to, I am not very picky. I don't like people who are judgmental though, I prefer good vibes only.
Replies from me are vary. Sometimes I cant write as much as Id like because I get a writers block.
Sometimes I can reply 5 times a day, but sometimes I cant reply for a day maybe even two or three. But usually I update OOC. I look for people who aren't looking for perfection, I don't like role players who are too arrogant about their skill. I wouldn't say I'm the best role player out there, so if we don't mesh I completely understand.
I keep my characters location/job vague so that I can work them into a plot better. They are pieces to the puzzle, and I keep them so they can fit better into any story we choose!
I will only be role playing on discord partly just to be able to show you my original character portfolio server, which has channels with their backgrounds, age, and their galleries.
Simply DM me for my tag and we can get things started.
Sexuality wise all my characters are adjustable.
Reply wise, this will be fairly advanced. I strive to keep things above a paragraph but I can go lower depending on the plot. I write a maximum of 10 paragraphs but my usual is 3-4.
my character portfolio will be the main key to our discussion, so you will be viewing it upon your interest. I have 100+ characters. I can also role play over email or reddit chat, that way I can just copy the bios and send the photos.
That being said our characters will have romance, and adult content will be ahead If desired. All my characters are adults.I am looking for action, adventure, romance of course is my favorite, mystery, drama, anything is up for debate!
I am looking for both male or female characters to partner my own with, as well as trans or non binary as well, all are welcome.
I hope we can have a fun role play together!
submitted by Taylor-Swifty to roleplaying [link] [comments]
I am 18+ and all participants and characters must be 18+.
Hey there! Most people call me Desi. I am a role player, obviously! I usually spend my time indoors every day with a mild excursion here and there to the store, movies, or beach. I adore writing, but that's obvious.
I am very versatile on genre, I have major preference for romance, drama, slice of life, mysteries, action and adventure, Hallmark-esque plots, and anything else we might conjure up! I do have tons of canons and OCs! I’m sure you can find one you like. I can write from a paragraph to novella.
I am looking for any gender of partner and character, I have so many unique characters and ideas for each one!
Ideas:
your character replaces Sam/Charlie in the Transformers franchise while fixing various mistakes made by Michael Bay. I have the characters set up on my server, with alternate designs for Jazz, Sideswipe, and Hot Rod.
I also have a ton of Disney characters, I’ve been dying to play out a ripple in the space time continuum where one or a group of them get sent to the real world.
My character is a Spanish heiress, who lives a life of luxury, only her father is murdered, and the people who did it, are now after her. She runs away in search of a bodyguard to help her get back what was stolen from her.
The next idea I have is for a relationship that is on the rocks, and the two are left trying to navigate their lives past the honeymoon phase and learn how to adapt to living together.
This is specific to my character but she was a championship surfer, and she got injured at the top of her game. I really want to play out her becoming a mentor, teaching someone how to become the next champion.
One of my characters goes undercover to try and expose a illegal ring, this would play out like a suspense or thriller, could play male or female.
An emotionally damaged stripper who is abused by staff spends her days trying to get by, until the day comes where she meets someone who could help her pursue her true dreams of running her own operation.
A Russian woman who was stolen from her family as a little girl and tormented into becoming a living weapon is hired to bring your character to them. On the way, she finds out that the people who hired her are working for the militia that made her the way she is, and so, she decides to take a stand, and wipe them out.
This is only a third of my ideas, not even that, a fraction! Come check out my characters, let’s discuss something!
I have men, women, young and mature, thieves, business owners, single mothers, wayward young adults, college students and staff, bounty hunters, detectives, police officers, victims, patients, crooked therapists, strippers, so many unique stories to tell! I guarantee one of them will strike your fancy!
I am looking for a romantic role play as one of my many OC characters, drama or major events will happen depending on the character you select, and I have 300+ so far.
I also have many canon characters I would love to play as, such as Legolas, Transformers, Marvel and DC , Avatar and Disney.
I have many ideas depending on who you choose!
I am a very affectionate person, I love to make people happy, so I am always open to adjusting characters or role plays.
I don't like role plays with action asterisks, Sorry! I also don't like to role play without proper punctuation and grammar. I usually write at least one paragraph. 25 being my record.
I am a firm believer in conversation so I most likely will text you OOC for any reason, I also prefer to keep things adult, meaning I don't take part in petty or childish arguments.
I don't ghost either, so Ill probably rip the bandage off and tell you why I don't want to role play anymore.
I also love having friends! I used to get bullied quite a lot for many, many reasons, so I haven't had many friends in my 20 years of living. Lets chat, get to know one another!, I've been role playing for a long time, about 6-8 years give or take? I typically enjoy modern role plays with real life basing.
I enjoy stories of the romantic genre as well as action and adventure. My characters are original with face claims, some are canon characters from Marvel and DC. Characters like Barney, Captain America, Superman, just really selfless characters have always been my inspiration.
I always try to write my characters with loving aspects if I can. Life is broken and many people suffer, life isnt perfect so I usually write some darkness for a character if I feel it.
I don't use random face claims, I use actors or media icons I feel fit the character, I mentally put myself in the position of director, my role play is a movie, and I am casting the character, that is how I usually go about it, and if you don’t like it I am not the partner for you.
I definitely want a partner who can be a friend, who can be detailed yet tame, someone who can give me something to reply to, I am not very picky. I don't like people who are judgmental though, I prefer good vibes only.
Replies from me are vary. Sometimes I cant write as much as Id like because I get a writers block.
Sometimes I can reply 5 times a day, but sometimes I cant reply for a day maybe even two or three. But usually I update OOC. I look for people who aren't looking for perfection, I don't like role players who are too arrogant about their skill. I wouldn't say I'm the best role player out there, so if we don't mesh I completely understand.
I keep my characters location/job vague so that I can work them into a plot better. They are pieces to the puzzle, and I keep them so they can fit better into any story we choose!
I will only be role playing on discord partly just to be able to show you my original character portfolio server, which has channels with their backgrounds, age, and their galleries.
Simply DM me for my tag and we can get things started.
Sexuality wise all my characters are adjustable.
Reply wise, this will be fairly advanced. I strive to keep things above a paragraph but I can go lower depending on the plot. I write a maximum of 10 paragraphs but my usual is 3-4.
my character portfolio will be the main key to our discussion, so you will be viewing it upon your interest. I have 100+ characters. I can also role play over email or reddit chat, that way I can just copy the bios and send the photos.
That being said our characters will have romance, and adult content will be ahead If desired. All my characters are adults.I am looking for action, adventure, romance of course is my favorite, mystery, drama, anything is up for debate!
I am looking for both male or female characters to partner my own with, as well as trans or non binary as well, all are welcome.
I hope we can have a fun role play together!
2023.03.27 02:43 Asphaltjungle33 Cavs twin towers tonight in a win: Evan Mobley-19 pts/8 reb/5 ast/5 blks/68%FG. Jarrett Allen-24 pts/14 reb/ 3 blks/ 2 stl/ 67% FG
The cavs twin towers dominated on both ends tonight. Mobley crushed the rockets in the first half and Allen took over in the 2nd. It really is refreshing to watch two big bounce so we’ll off of each other. The cavs clinched tonight also
EDIT: it was actually 3 blocks. I swear it said 5 blocks originally.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401469272
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EDIT: it was actually 3 blocks. I swear it said 5 blocks originally.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401469272
2023.03.27 02:36 Taylor-Swifty A4A Hey, You’re Looking For An RP Partner? Well I Want To RP With You!
[possible fandoms: Transformers, Disney, TMNT, Street Sharks, Pixar, Star Wars, G. I. Joe, Nintendo, Marvel, DC, possibly more!]
I am 18+ and all participants and characters must be 18+.
Hey there! Most people call me Desi. I am a role player, obviously! I usually spend my time indoors every day with a mild excursion here and there to the store, movies, or beach. I adore writing, but that's obvious.
I am very versatile on genre, I have major preference for romance, drama, slice of life, mysteries, action and adventure, Hallmark-esque plots, and anything else we might conjure up! I do have tons of canons and OCs! I’m sure you can find one you like. I can write from a paragraph to novella.
I am looking for any gender of partner and character, I have so many unique characters and ideas for each one!
Ideas:
your character replaces Sam/Charlie in the Transformers franchise while fixing various mistakes made by Michael Bay. I have the characters set up on my server, with alternate designs for Jazz, Sideswipe, and Hot Rod.
I also have a ton of Disney characters, I’ve been dying to play out a ripple in the space time continuum where one or a group of them get sent to the real world.
My character is a Spanish heiress, who lives a life of luxury, only her father is murdered, and the people who did it, are now after her. She runs away in search of a bodyguard to help her get back what was stolen from her.
The next idea I have is for a relationship that is on the rocks, and the two are left trying to navigate their lives past the honeymoon phase and learn how to adapt to living together.
This is specific to my character but she was a championship surfer, and she got injured at the top of her game. I really want to play out her becoming a mentor, teaching someone how to become the next champion.
One of my characters goes undercover to try and expose a illegal ring, this would play out like a suspense or thriller, could play male or female.
An emotionally damaged stripper who is abused by staff spends her days trying to get by, until the day comes where she meets someone who could help her pursue her true dreams of running her own operation.
A Russian woman who was stolen from her family as a little girl and tormented into becoming a living weapon is hired to bring your character to them. On the way, she finds out that the people who hired her are working for the militia that made her the way she is, and so, she decides to take a stand, and wipe them out.
This is only a third of my ideas, not even that, a fraction! Come check out my characters, let’s discuss something!
I have men, women, young and mature, thieves, business owners, single mothers, wayward young adults, college students and staff, bounty hunters, detectives, police officers, victims, patients, crooked therapists, strippers, so many unique stories to tell! I guarantee one of them will strike your fancy!
I am looking for a romantic role play as one of my many OC characters, drama or major events will happen depending on the character you select, and I have 300+ so far.
I also have many canon characters I would love to play as, such as Legolas, Transformers, Marvel and DC , Avatar and Disney.
I have many ideas depending on who you choose!
I am a very affectionate person, I love to make people happy, so I am always open to adjusting characters or role plays.
I don't like role plays with action asterisks, Sorry! I also don't like to role play without proper punctuation and grammar. I usually write at least one paragraph. 25 being my record.
I am a firm believer in conversation so I most likely will text you OOC for any reason, I also prefer to keep things adult, meaning I don't take part in petty or childish arguments.
I don't ghost either, so Ill probably rip the bandage off and tell you why I don't want to role play anymore.
I also love having friends! I used to get bullied quite a lot for many, many reasons, so I haven't had many friends in my 20 years of living. Lets chat, get to know one another!, I've been role playing for a long time, about 6-8 years give or take? I typically enjoy modern role plays with real life basing.
I enjoy stories of the romantic genre as well as action and adventure. My characters are original with face claims, some are canon characters from Marvel and DC. Characters like Barney, Captain America, Superman, just really selfless characters have always been my inspiration.
I always try to write my characters with loving aspects if I can. Life is broken and many people suffer, life isnt perfect so I usually write some darkness for a character if I feel it.
I don't use random face claims, I use actors or media icons I feel fit the character, I mentally put myself in the position of director, my role play is a movie, and I am casting the character, that is how I usually go about it, and if you don’t like it I am not the partner for you.
I definitely want a partner who can be a friend, who can be detailed yet tame, someone who can give me something to reply to, I am not very picky. I don't like people who are judgmental though, I prefer good vibes only.
Replies from me are vary. Sometimes I cant write as much as Id like because I get a writers block.
Sometimes I can reply 5 times a day, but sometimes I cant reply for a day maybe even two or three. But usually I update OOC. I look for people who aren't looking for perfection, I don't like role players who are too arrogant about their skill. I wouldn't say I'm the best role player out there, so if we don't mesh I completely understand.
I keep my characters location/job vague so that I can work them into a plot better. They are pieces to the puzzle, and I keep them so they can fit better into any story we choose!
I will only be role playing on discord partly just to be able to show you my original character portfolio server, which has channels with their backgrounds, age, and their galleries.
Simply DM me for my tag and we can get things started.
Sexuality wise all my characters are adjustable.
Reply wise, this will be fairly advanced. I strive to keep things above a paragraph but I can go lower depending on the plot. I write a maximum of 10 paragraphs but my usual is 3-4.
my character portfolio will be the main key to our discussion, so you will be viewing it upon your interest. I have 100+ characters. I can also role play over email or reddit chat, that way I can just copy the bios and send the photos.
That being said our characters will have romance, and adult content will be ahead If desired. All my characters are adults.I am looking for action, adventure, romance of course is my favorite, mystery, drama, anything is up for debate!
I am looking for both male or female characters to partner my own with, as well as trans or non binary as well, all are welcome.
I hope we can have a fun role play together!
submitted by Taylor-Swifty to RoleplayPartnerSearch [link] [comments]
I am 18+ and all participants and characters must be 18+.
Hey there! Most people call me Desi. I am a role player, obviously! I usually spend my time indoors every day with a mild excursion here and there to the store, movies, or beach. I adore writing, but that's obvious.
I am very versatile on genre, I have major preference for romance, drama, slice of life, mysteries, action and adventure, Hallmark-esque plots, and anything else we might conjure up! I do have tons of canons and OCs! I’m sure you can find one you like. I can write from a paragraph to novella.
I am looking for any gender of partner and character, I have so many unique characters and ideas for each one!
Ideas:
your character replaces Sam/Charlie in the Transformers franchise while fixing various mistakes made by Michael Bay. I have the characters set up on my server, with alternate designs for Jazz, Sideswipe, and Hot Rod.
I also have a ton of Disney characters, I’ve been dying to play out a ripple in the space time continuum where one or a group of them get sent to the real world.
My character is a Spanish heiress, who lives a life of luxury, only her father is murdered, and the people who did it, are now after her. She runs away in search of a bodyguard to help her get back what was stolen from her.
The next idea I have is for a relationship that is on the rocks, and the two are left trying to navigate their lives past the honeymoon phase and learn how to adapt to living together.
This is specific to my character but she was a championship surfer, and she got injured at the top of her game. I really want to play out her becoming a mentor, teaching someone how to become the next champion.
One of my characters goes undercover to try and expose a illegal ring, this would play out like a suspense or thriller, could play male or female.
An emotionally damaged stripper who is abused by staff spends her days trying to get by, until the day comes where she meets someone who could help her pursue her true dreams of running her own operation.
A Russian woman who was stolen from her family as a little girl and tormented into becoming a living weapon is hired to bring your character to them. On the way, she finds out that the people who hired her are working for the militia that made her the way she is, and so, she decides to take a stand, and wipe them out.
This is only a third of my ideas, not even that, a fraction! Come check out my characters, let’s discuss something!
I have men, women, young and mature, thieves, business owners, single mothers, wayward young adults, college students and staff, bounty hunters, detectives, police officers, victims, patients, crooked therapists, strippers, so many unique stories to tell! I guarantee one of them will strike your fancy!
I am looking for a romantic role play as one of my many OC characters, drama or major events will happen depending on the character you select, and I have 300+ so far.
I also have many canon characters I would love to play as, such as Legolas, Transformers, Marvel and DC , Avatar and Disney.
I have many ideas depending on who you choose!
I am a very affectionate person, I love to make people happy, so I am always open to adjusting characters or role plays.
I don't like role plays with action asterisks, Sorry! I also don't like to role play without proper punctuation and grammar. I usually write at least one paragraph. 25 being my record.
I am a firm believer in conversation so I most likely will text you OOC for any reason, I also prefer to keep things adult, meaning I don't take part in petty or childish arguments.
I don't ghost either, so Ill probably rip the bandage off and tell you why I don't want to role play anymore.
I also love having friends! I used to get bullied quite a lot for many, many reasons, so I haven't had many friends in my 20 years of living. Lets chat, get to know one another!, I've been role playing for a long time, about 6-8 years give or take? I typically enjoy modern role plays with real life basing.
I enjoy stories of the romantic genre as well as action and adventure. My characters are original with face claims, some are canon characters from Marvel and DC. Characters like Barney, Captain America, Superman, just really selfless characters have always been my inspiration.
I always try to write my characters with loving aspects if I can. Life is broken and many people suffer, life isnt perfect so I usually write some darkness for a character if I feel it.
I don't use random face claims, I use actors or media icons I feel fit the character, I mentally put myself in the position of director, my role play is a movie, and I am casting the character, that is how I usually go about it, and if you don’t like it I am not the partner for you.
I definitely want a partner who can be a friend, who can be detailed yet tame, someone who can give me something to reply to, I am not very picky. I don't like people who are judgmental though, I prefer good vibes only.
Replies from me are vary. Sometimes I cant write as much as Id like because I get a writers block.
Sometimes I can reply 5 times a day, but sometimes I cant reply for a day maybe even two or three. But usually I update OOC. I look for people who aren't looking for perfection, I don't like role players who are too arrogant about their skill. I wouldn't say I'm the best role player out there, so if we don't mesh I completely understand.
I keep my characters location/job vague so that I can work them into a plot better. They are pieces to the puzzle, and I keep them so they can fit better into any story we choose!
I will only be role playing on discord partly just to be able to show you my original character portfolio server, which has channels with their backgrounds, age, and their galleries.
Simply DM me for my tag and we can get things started.
Sexuality wise all my characters are adjustable.
Reply wise, this will be fairly advanced. I strive to keep things above a paragraph but I can go lower depending on the plot. I write a maximum of 10 paragraphs but my usual is 3-4.
my character portfolio will be the main key to our discussion, so you will be viewing it upon your interest. I have 100+ characters. I can also role play over email or reddit chat, that way I can just copy the bios and send the photos.
That being said our characters will have romance, and adult content will be ahead If desired. All my characters are adults.I am looking for action, adventure, romance of course is my favorite, mystery, drama, anything is up for debate!
I am looking for both male or female characters to partner my own with, as well as trans or non binary as well, all are welcome.
I hope we can have a fun role play together!
2023.03.27 02:36 medschoolproblems18 Best fall west coast races for Sub Elites
Basically as the title says, moving to the West coast (Bay Area) and hoping to come up with a good slate of races for the fall. Ideally looking for anywhere from 5k-half (will do CIM as only marathon) and would love races with good fields and fast courses. I've been in the midwest and east coast in the past and have found good races, but have had a tough time online finding much out west.
For pace reference, targeting ~1:07 half, 14:45 5k and similar for other distances.
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For pace reference, targeting ~1:07 half, 14:45 5k and similar for other distances.
2023.03.27 02:35 Jaxswat How I made the BioShock Infinite VR Map
 | submitted by Jaxswat to u/Jaxswat [link] [comments] Battleship Bay in SteamVR Steam Workshop URL: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails?id=2952477736 I haven't documented this anywhere, so might as well do it here. What you see in the video is a complete handmade remake inside the Source 2 engine using SteamVR Home. Every single model was carefully searched for, re-exported through blender, had its materials exported and tuned for use in Source 2. Everything was positioned in the level by hand. People have played Infinite before in VR using VorpX, but it's not at all the same experience as this. This is a true VR experience where you can move your head around and pick up objects. The start of the processFirst thing I had to do was determine what scale to use when importing the models into SteamVR. This is a VR application and therefore I don't want to be the size of an ant, nor do I want to be a giant. A few models had unit names at the end such as "something_512", but those didn't line up even in blender. Infinite was made in Unreal Engine 3, and none of the scaling factors I tried seemed to make things fit.So my solution to this was to find something that has a known height... such as Elizabeth! "How cool would it be to see Elizabeth with accurate height in VR?" I thought. So I went to the wiki and saw that her height was listed as 5'6" (1.68m). I then loaded her model in blender and measured head to toe how high the top vertex of her skull (not hair) was. After rounding an unnoticeable fraction off for convenience, the factor that I got for loading models into Source 2 was 0.26. (This does not include the 0.01 m->cm factor that gets used by the .PSK file imported in blender) To confirm this I also tested back and forth with a 1.68m block in Source 2 and saw that everything looked correct. So basically, the entire world was scaled to make sure Elizabeth looks correct. While some rooms are large, the rest of the models make sense at this scale too. Finding modelsAll things considered, this part is actually pretty easy if you know how to use Gildor's UE Viewer tool. There's a GUI you open and point to your game files, and it returns a bunch of packages for you to search through. Most of the time I was able to find the relevant models by simply looking for the level's prefix S_BW_Enter_*. This will let you export a .PSK file that can be imported into blender with a plugin.After loading the model in blender, I swap the shading type from flat to smooth and then export it as an fbx using the 0.26 factor from earlier. Some models had to have their origin corrected so that they're easier to place in-game. I think the only model I made myself was the ocean water, all of the other ones I found by scrolling through packages. Some of the existing models had to be edited though. Finding materialsTo get the material, I press M on the keyboard in UE Viewer while viewing the model I want and then follow the trail of texture names. SOME of which are not even in the same package. For example, some of them pointed me to the DLC packages even though the model was in the base game.Most of the materials are easy to figure out, usually with suffixes like _diff, _norm, and (sometimes) _mask. Normals had to be inverted for Source 2 (DirectX vs OpenGL style.) Source 2 wants OpenGL, and so they have a checkbox that lets you invert these in the material editor under a checkbox that says something like "Invert legacy Source 1 normals" The mask files are not always immediately usable though. I never looked into it enough to know for sure, but it looks like they use different color channels for different data. Purple for specular, blue for emission, green for roughness (although this isn't always consistent). Source 2 doesn't know what to do with these, so I would extract these manually by using a black/white filter in Photoshop and messing with the channels until they looked correct. I then had to move the sliders further in the editor to make sure they look correct in the game. Some maps didn't exist at all and I had to create them from scratch. The umbrellas on the beach have a _wind map that I had to draw myself. (near impossible) AnimationsI don't know what kind of corporate espionage occurred for this to happen, but someone on the Gildor forums years ago was able to decode Morpheme animations into SMD files (which are usually used in Source Filmmaker.)After inspecting/decompiling the .exe they shared, I saw that it was an innocent C# program that converts the binary format (.MorphemeAnimSequence and .MorphemeAnimSet) and saves the output file (.smd). I have no idea where this person learned the binary structure for these files. There's absolutely nothing in those files to indicate where the bones/keyframes are. The bone names are readable, but all of the raw integefloat data isn't. If I had to guess, it was perhaps taken and modified from Mass Effect 3's modding community? Who knows. What mattered is that it actually WORKED. There's one catch to this program though: since these animations were from UE3, they had to be "mirrored" in your 3d program of choice. After much trial and error, I was able to write a JavaScript that corrected the .SMD file by mirroring the bone names and scaling the positions down. To make this easier to do, I made a batch file that combined the exe and my script. After importing the SMD into blender and pairing it with a mesh, everything worked (almost) correctly. I say almost because the animations are still flipped. If I imported an animation of Elizabeth touching the thimble on her finger, it would be on the wrong hand. There were also some severe interpolation issues with her dancing animation. Because she rotates 360 degrees, blender was trying to interpolate a full rotation within 2 frames. I ended up having to add some keyframes to correct this. I also had to correct her legs clipping on her dress. Source 2 supports cloth simulation (like they used in the original game), but there's not much documentation on how to add it. Also the Source 2 model editor will crash randomly while working with the cloth/collision parameters. Hopefully someday Valve will update SteamVR's version of the engine to include the new ModelDoc that S&Box, Alyx, and CS2 have. This process worked both for Elizabeth's model as well as the NPCs. Face animationsInfinite used UE3's integration for FaceFX, but I have not yet been able to get those imported. I believe it relies on shape keys too, which are not present on any of the .PSKs I imported. Some of Elizabeth's animations included face posing, so I took part of that one and used it for the dancing and idle animations. I also had to animate the eyes for the dancing so they were less creepy.Custom animationsSome other small things I had to manually animate include: the waving flags, the ocean water, the background crowds, the airship, and the floating islands.SoundsThere's two places to find sounds in the original game. Some are sound effects, which are inside the packages, and others are the more localized sounds such as music and voice lines. The localized sounds are in a fat 200+ mb package somewhere in the game files, and I was able to extract all of those using a batch file from this GitHub repository called Wwise-unpackerSound was probably the easiest asset type to extract, and it was fun hearing all of the voice lines isolated from the game. I found some background ambient sounds/music to use for the soundscapes, and began converting them from .ogg to .wav. If the files need to loop (such as music/ambience), I ran them through a free program called Wavosaur to add "loop markers", which is how Source engine knows to loop a sound. Again, if SteamVR had a newer version of Source 2, I don't believe this would be necessary. In S&Box's tools, there's a GUI for adding sounds that lets you toggle looping. After making sounds, I added them to the engine by making a JSON-like file that defines the volume and radius of how far it can be heard. Soundscapes (such as the ocean and crowd chatter) were added in a different but similar file. (Both of these sound types are documented on the Valve developer wiki) It took a bit of play-testing to get a decent mix, but I think it sounds good enough for now. Custom soundsThe only two sounds I had to mix/edit myself were the tears. To make the level feel more alive/familiar, I wanted to hear lines of dialogue from the original game. I couldn't just play these on their own though, I wanted to make it more BioShock-y and have the sounds play as if they were coming from a tear.To make a tear sound, I started with a tear sound from the game files. I then took some of Elizabeth/Booker's voice lines and cut them together to be played at a faster pace than they are in-game. After mixing it a bit, and sprinkling on some chorus/reverb effects, I got a sound that sounded like a tear. Hopefully adding to the multidimensional theme of the game. As a final step for these, I added some triggers in the game so the player hears them when walking into a certain area. SkyboxTo capture the skybox, I spun around in one place and captured a 360 view panorama, which is made up of about 60 screenshots. Nvidia's Shadowplay overlay saves them as .EXR files, which I then stitched together in PTGui. I had to do this from multiple areas in order to see around all the buildings. Most of the buildings were masked out while stitching, but that left a bunch of blank areas on the image. To cover up the blank areas where the buildings were, I opened it in Photoshop and clone stamped all of the ugly seams. The result is a high resolution image that drops into Source 2 without any further effort.I actually made a bunch of panoramas for Infinite + DLC a month or two ago, so I was able to re-use that experience. Here's my post on that. I think there's 21 total now in the Google Drive folder. How to position all of this in the level?No I was not able to rip the positions of the assets in the level.While I do believe this data is somewhere in the game files, I don't know where to find it, and I don't think it would carry over to Source 2 as easily. And I would have to convert the scaling/positions anyway. If someone who is familiar with UE3's game file structure knows where that data is, let me know, because I think it would be cool to automate the object placement. Alas, without any of that information I had to resort to walking around in-game and staring at the objects. Pointing at my screen counting the planks and scratches until everything was as pixel-perfect as possible. I wasn't brave enough to install Cheat Engine to enable noclip, so I was only able to reach areas that the player can reach. I would get so focused on lining stuff up that I keep having to tell myself "don't sweat the pixels", even though I totally did for some objects. It was necessary, because if a big object was offset by enough, it would throw off the layout for the rest of the map. I definitely sped through some other parts though, like when placing a barrel or something, which is not nearly as critical as the sand/boardwalk alignment for example. The further the geometry was from my view, the less aligned it is. You'll notice that the larger background models are either not present, or very poorly aligned simply because I couldn't see them. Manually positioning all of the objects has some benefits though. There were a ton of gaps and flaws in the original game that I corrected in my version. ConclusionI started poking around the game files around 5 months ago, and only started this VR project earlier this year. Usually taking time to do it on the weekends since I'm really busy at my day job during the week. I do have prior experience working with both Source Engine (1 and 2), Unreal Engine, and general game development / 3D knowledge, which is why it was fairly quick to develop.It also helps when literally EVERY asset is already developed for you (aside from re-importing). There's this ghostly feeling where I see the struggles of the original game's level designers. I can easily see now where they copy pasted an object, or the reason why they stretched a model a certain way. I have a much greater appreciation now for how much effort and detail went into these levels, even 10 years ago. As much as I would have liked to work on Infinite with the original team back then, it's not possible, but remaking a level in a different engine is probably the closest anyone can get to that now. It would be really cool if one of the original developers, or at least Ken Levine saw it. I would also enjoy hearing insight from one of the level designers about what it was like to make the original. If anyone has any more questions/suggestions/tips let me know! Enjoy! |