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2023.05.28 09:00 Mootsy101 People Enjoying the Game!!!
I am reposting this, because it sums up my thoughts so far on the game from my own experiences, but i am enjoying the game now, and feel bad about all those low reviews they got at launch week, even though it sorta made sense. I made a nice review of the game on the JB website today, as i think a fair chunk of people are actually fond of Big Ant because a lot of people enjoyed AFL Live in 2011 and all the cricket games they made and want to see them do well. So think it'd be good to have a thread where people are having fun with the game :)
"My hot take, and everyone is different in regarding their thoughts on a game, any game.
So, it's up to patch 1.19 and it's far better than launch day week. It's really getting there and would say as it stands now, is sort of like a Fifa 21 style AFL game, so it's good. But it got hammered by reviews and negativity in that first two week period, and look, probably rightly so, Remember that they uploaded a game that broke on install/upload, it stripped the coding, and they had to slowly fix it, so it wasn't the game they intended to release, but anyway, as for right now, The positives:
At launch: my rating would be 1/10(broken), right now a glowing 7/10 with the negatives i mentioned to be worked on, potentially an 8/10 sports game on par with the Fifa 16-21 series games and can only improve from here with regular updates.
Also, one thing people might be missing in all this, is that Big Ant are the premiere sporting game design company in the southern hemisphere, they have made Don Bradman, Ashes cricket, Cricket 17/19/22/24, AO Tennis, Rugby League Live 1/2/3/4, Lacrosse 18, and now they've returned to AFL, they made AFL Live in 2011 for those who have forgotten, and i think they are the company you want making a sports game for your sporting code, even though the AFL23 launch was a disaster, they've really worked hard at fixing things quickly. That aside. It's a point i wanted to make.
Unless EA, Ubisoft or 2K are willing to do it. Then you won't get a lot better than Big Ant doing it, for a league that only exists in one country and is dominated by 2 states. Obviously you just need to be a little patient with the updates rolling in, and they are rolling in daily."....
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"My hot take, and everyone is different in regarding their thoughts on a game, any game.
So, it's up to patch 1.19 and it's far better than launch day week. It's really getting there and would say as it stands now, is sort of like a Fifa 21 style AFL game, so it's good. But it got hammered by reviews and negativity in that first two week period, and look, probably rightly so, Remember that they uploaded a game that broke on install/upload, it stripped the coding, and they had to slowly fix it, so it wasn't the game they intended to release, but anyway, as for right now, The positives:
- Graphics are smooth, players, stadiums, grass, crowd, signage etc..very good!
- Gameplay is way better now. Handballs have a good 360 degree/circle disposal arch now and go where you want it to. Mostly.
- Kicking, short kicks using (x) is good, have no issues and it's enjoyable finding the open player that you are aiming for. Long kicks are fine, allows for a simple grab on the lead, push (L2) + (Triangle) and you can take a speccy, just need to time your run to the pack.
- Goal kicking animation bar has been improved with wind direction graphics and feels more satisfying.
- Snap kicks on the boundary look and feel great.
- Spoiling is really satisfying, time your run and press spoil and it's another satisfying option to try.
- The player animations, movements are improved and look smooth/fluid. I think they will add more to this over time.
- Centre bounces are fun, push (R2) and tap it out further to advantage.
- Community option in menu allows you to download custom made stadiums and jumpers, so Tassie Devils, Waverly Park, Suniaco Oval, The Bat-Cave.
- The commentary is really well edited in, and that is hard to explain until you play it, meaning the comments are usually pretty precise, relevant and have an element of realism and flow that's better than past games have ever achieved.
- Use (Ball-Trail) in settings, in-game. It's a tail/trail that hangs off the ball and allows you to see ball direction with more scope and accuracy, highly recommend this feature being turned on.
- I recommend (side-normal) camera angle. Looks like a TV broadcast side angle and is my favourite, but you may prefer other angles.
- Hard can be really tricky, but it might just need a lot of practice to master i guess. Easy is sometimes too easy, but it's usually against a much lower rated side.
- I think they are tweaking around with the easy/medium/hard modes, as it's difficult to get right for an AFL game.
- Management mode needs some work
- Tactics is still being worked on to be included
- Am assuming sliders will arrive at some point
- still some bugs, such as, when lining up for goal, the player walks through a defender standing on the mark, like a ghost. Another would be a random hand-handball travelling 50 metres. But overall, it's good, mostly. Also, when your player is on the mark in defence sometimes they are locked into that position for too long before running off the mark(in my opinion). Also, sometimes there feels like a circle/barrier surrounding the opposing player, where you can't run to them right away, like a two second delay to run for a tackle or spoil, not always, but at certain moments.
- The crashes are far less frequent, i've had 1 blue screen in the last week, where as in the first week it was crashing every game.
- players, goal umpires sometimes look like they are sliding and not walking, definitely something to look at fixing.
At launch: my rating would be 1/10(broken), right now a glowing 7/10 with the negatives i mentioned to be worked on, potentially an 8/10 sports game on par with the Fifa 16-21 series games and can only improve from here with regular updates.
Also, one thing people might be missing in all this, is that Big Ant are the premiere sporting game design company in the southern hemisphere, they have made Don Bradman, Ashes cricket, Cricket 17/19/22/24, AO Tennis, Rugby League Live 1/2/3/4, Lacrosse 18, and now they've returned to AFL, they made AFL Live in 2011 for those who have forgotten, and i think they are the company you want making a sports game for your sporting code, even though the AFL23 launch was a disaster, they've really worked hard at fixing things quickly. That aside. It's a point i wanted to make.
Unless EA, Ubisoft or 2K are willing to do it. Then you won't get a lot better than Big Ant doing it, for a league that only exists in one country and is dominated by 2 states. Obviously you just need to be a little patient with the updates rolling in, and they are rolling in daily."....
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2023.05.28 08:57 Fine-Willow-1639 I’m homeless and I don’t know what to do….
I (18f) have been living with my mother (49f) and my brother; let’s just call him Steve (20m) just the 3 of us for the last 6 years.
We’ve lived in a small farming community for a while now and we have hated it the whole time. We’ve wanted to move for years, in fact at one point Steve went to live with our deadbeat dad (49m) for 2 years and then with our older brother Mark (32m) for a year. He dropped out of high school and only had a job for about 2 years before he just quit. I struggled really hard throughout school my whole life and barely graduated high school last summer and haven’t gotten around to getting a job yet, which is 100% completely utterly my fault.
I’m an adult and have never had a job, and I don’t have a car or my license, because I haven’t “gotten around to it”. My mom had been working at a place I will not name for our privacy for about 4 years now, but sometime last year she had a mental health downfall… she started going to doctor after doctor and they kept pushing her meds when she told them she didn’t like how they made her feel. Eventually she got put on disability and stopped going to work. That was 10 months ago…. She made significantly less on disability than she did when she went to work.
In October of last year we got a notice on our door saying we had 30 days to pay rent or we would be evicted. At that point we hadn’t paid rent since August, because money was super tight. After the 30 days we never got anything in the mail or anything so we just shrugged it off and basically squatted in our house. Around that time was when Steve moved back from our brother Mark’s house.
The rental office never acted on evicting us, until last week on Wednesday. They sent the sheriff to our door and he said we had 7 days to get out. So over the week we packed up everything we owned and put it all in a storage unit. My best friend, let’s call her Jess, was the only one outside of us that knew we were evicted. I got in trouble with my mom for even telling her in the first place but in the end she helped us move our stuff into the unit. I’m forever grateful for Jess 🩷.
During that 7 days we had gone to every housing crisis place we could think of; we applied for the section 8 waitlist, temporary housing, Salvation Army, etc. but we never qualified for anything because my mom makes $5 over the qualification for cash aid, which cash aid was one of the things that would have gotten us into 9 out of 10 places we applied for. We’re homeless but not poor enough to qualify for any type of help. What kind of bs is that?
Day 7 after the sheriff came, we were packing the rest of our lives into cardboard boxes when he came back and changed our locks. We had an hour to get our pets and the rest of our belongings.
My mom refused to let Steve and I tell our older brother Mark and Jack about anything that was going on because she didn’t want their money, she believed we had everything under control. We didn’t…
After we finally got the rest of our things out of the house and into the unit or our tiny Chevy impala… we drove around for a few hours until we ended up at a truck stop to sleep at for the night..
We lived in our car for 3 days with 2 cats and 3 small dogs… on day 3 Steve finally told our oldest brother, Jack, what was going on because he was tired of lying. Jack lives across the country from us, so he told our other brother Mark and now we’re currently staying at his house. He wasn’t mad that we lost our house, he was just upset he didn’t know….
Mark wants Steve and i to stay here, but in 4 days I’m supposed to go back across state, back to where I used to live, because I’m having a surgery. I would love to stay here and be a permanent babysitter for my niece and my nephews, but Mark is allergic to cats. My cat got me out of a really really rough spot in my life, and I don’t think I can handle leaving him behind… especially after I just lost the place I call my home. Mark and his wife Emma say that if they were in my situation they would kick the cat to the curb….
I don’t know… this kinda just turned into rambling because I’m a little drunk and there’s tears running down my face.
Basically, I’m that person who can’t fucking catch a break….. someone please tell me what to do….
Do I stay homeless and wait for my mom to get on the section 8 list and keep my cat, or do I do what Marcus said and get rid of him and come live here and get a job, license and my own apartment (eventually).
(Also; I’ve tried for days to find a foster for my baby until I can get a place by myself, but none of my friends can do it and I don’t want to to send him to someone one who wants to keep him permanently… I need my baby.
Backstory for the cat: I got him 2 months after Covid-19 caused everything to shut down. Around that time, I had a really bad falling out with my dad, and I was very close to committing…. alivn’t… I found him under my patio furniture, covered in feces and spiderwebs, he was only like three weeks old. He needed me because he was very small. I thought he was gonna die because he needed his mom and she left him (I sat outside with him for hours, waiting to see if his mother would come back and she didn’t.), so I was very determined to bring him back to health, so he wouldn’t die. In the end, he kept me alive more than I did him. He’s my best friend, my whole heart, I cannot leave him anywhere with anyone that I don’t trust, and I don’t trust very many people….
(TLDR: I got evicted and have the option to live with my brother if I get rid of the cat that kept me from suicide for the last 3 years)
Someone please help me…… Tell me what to do… I don’t know what to do….
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We’ve lived in a small farming community for a while now and we have hated it the whole time. We’ve wanted to move for years, in fact at one point Steve went to live with our deadbeat dad (49m) for 2 years and then with our older brother Mark (32m) for a year. He dropped out of high school and only had a job for about 2 years before he just quit. I struggled really hard throughout school my whole life and barely graduated high school last summer and haven’t gotten around to getting a job yet, which is 100% completely utterly my fault.
I’m an adult and have never had a job, and I don’t have a car or my license, because I haven’t “gotten around to it”. My mom had been working at a place I will not name for our privacy for about 4 years now, but sometime last year she had a mental health downfall… she started going to doctor after doctor and they kept pushing her meds when she told them she didn’t like how they made her feel. Eventually she got put on disability and stopped going to work. That was 10 months ago…. She made significantly less on disability than she did when she went to work.
In October of last year we got a notice on our door saying we had 30 days to pay rent or we would be evicted. At that point we hadn’t paid rent since August, because money was super tight. After the 30 days we never got anything in the mail or anything so we just shrugged it off and basically squatted in our house. Around that time was when Steve moved back from our brother Mark’s house.
The rental office never acted on evicting us, until last week on Wednesday. They sent the sheriff to our door and he said we had 7 days to get out. So over the week we packed up everything we owned and put it all in a storage unit. My best friend, let’s call her Jess, was the only one outside of us that knew we were evicted. I got in trouble with my mom for even telling her in the first place but in the end she helped us move our stuff into the unit. I’m forever grateful for Jess 🩷.
During that 7 days we had gone to every housing crisis place we could think of; we applied for the section 8 waitlist, temporary housing, Salvation Army, etc. but we never qualified for anything because my mom makes $5 over the qualification for cash aid, which cash aid was one of the things that would have gotten us into 9 out of 10 places we applied for. We’re homeless but not poor enough to qualify for any type of help. What kind of bs is that?
Day 7 after the sheriff came, we were packing the rest of our lives into cardboard boxes when he came back and changed our locks. We had an hour to get our pets and the rest of our belongings.
My mom refused to let Steve and I tell our older brother Mark and Jack about anything that was going on because she didn’t want their money, she believed we had everything under control. We didn’t…
After we finally got the rest of our things out of the house and into the unit or our tiny Chevy impala… we drove around for a few hours until we ended up at a truck stop to sleep at for the night..
We lived in our car for 3 days with 2 cats and 3 small dogs… on day 3 Steve finally told our oldest brother, Jack, what was going on because he was tired of lying. Jack lives across the country from us, so he told our other brother Mark and now we’re currently staying at his house. He wasn’t mad that we lost our house, he was just upset he didn’t know….
Mark wants Steve and i to stay here, but in 4 days I’m supposed to go back across state, back to where I used to live, because I’m having a surgery. I would love to stay here and be a permanent babysitter for my niece and my nephews, but Mark is allergic to cats. My cat got me out of a really really rough spot in my life, and I don’t think I can handle leaving him behind… especially after I just lost the place I call my home. Mark and his wife Emma say that if they were in my situation they would kick the cat to the curb….
I don’t know… this kinda just turned into rambling because I’m a little drunk and there’s tears running down my face.
Basically, I’m that person who can’t fucking catch a break….. someone please tell me what to do….
Do I stay homeless and wait for my mom to get on the section 8 list and keep my cat, or do I do what Marcus said and get rid of him and come live here and get a job, license and my own apartment (eventually).
(Also; I’ve tried for days to find a foster for my baby until I can get a place by myself, but none of my friends can do it and I don’t want to to send him to someone one who wants to keep him permanently… I need my baby.
Backstory for the cat: I got him 2 months after Covid-19 caused everything to shut down. Around that time, I had a really bad falling out with my dad, and I was very close to committing…. alivn’t… I found him under my patio furniture, covered in feces and spiderwebs, he was only like three weeks old. He needed me because he was very small. I thought he was gonna die because he needed his mom and she left him (I sat outside with him for hours, waiting to see if his mother would come back and she didn’t.), so I was very determined to bring him back to health, so he wouldn’t die. In the end, he kept me alive more than I did him. He’s my best friend, my whole heart, I cannot leave him anywhere with anyone that I don’t trust, and I don’t trust very many people….
(TLDR: I got evicted and have the option to live with my brother if I get rid of the cat that kept me from suicide for the last 3 years)
Someone please help me…… Tell me what to do… I don’t know what to do….
2023.05.28 08:50 SpacefaringFerret Saves Backup + Yuzu AutoRun script (Windows Batch)
The fun part!
Make sure all paths point to the relevant locations on your system or else the script won't work.
Detailed explanation below.
stay_a_while_and_listen.mp3
This script was born out of my desire to rid myself from the problem of corrupted saves.
After having read posts that some folks have lost dozens of hours of game progress, I've decided to share this script.
What exactly does this script do?
It creates "chronologically sorted" backup's of (ALL of) your Yuzu saves and then runs Yuzu right after for your convenience. Less headaches and more time for gaming! Yay!
What do I mean by chronologically sorted?
Well, it creates two folders using your current DATE and TIME as their folder names and copies a backup of your saves to that location.
The expected default backup path will look similar to the example below.
C:\YuzuSavesBackup\28052023\610\save\AllSaveFiles
Where 28052023 stands for 28/05/2023 and 610 stands for 6:10am for instance.
If you run the script again at 6:20am, the 28052023 folder will now contain another folder named 620 with all your saves in it.
The backup's can be initiated a minimum of 1 minute plus 1 second apart from oneanother. If you try to back up twice in <1 minute, you'll be prompted to overwrite the most recent backup.
If you do not wish to run Yuzu every time after making a backup, put :: before "start" so it looks like
::start "" "C:\Users\%UserName%\PathToYour\Yuzu.exe"
Disclaimer: This script cannot harm your system.
I will be posting a slightly edited version of this script to the Ryujinx community, taking Ryujinx specific file paths into account, so they can benefit from this script as well.
Hope this helps!
submitted by SpacefaringFerret to yuzu [link] [comments]
Make sure all paths point to the relevant locations on your system or else the script won't work.
Detailed explanation below.
xcopy /s "C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\yuzu\nand\user\save" "C:\YuzuSavesBackup\%date:/=%\%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%\save\" start "" "C:\Users\%UserName%\PathToYour\Yuzu.exe"
stay_a_while_and_listen.mp3
This script was born out of my desire to rid myself from the problem of corrupted saves.
After having read posts that some folks have lost dozens of hours of game progress, I've decided to share this script.
What exactly does this script do?
It creates "chronologically sorted" backup's of (ALL of) your Yuzu saves and then runs Yuzu right after for your convenience. Less headaches and more time for gaming! Yay!
What do I mean by chronologically sorted?
Well, it creates two folders using your current DATE and TIME as their folder names and copies a backup of your saves to that location.
The expected default backup path will look similar to the example below.
C:\YuzuSavesBackup\28052023\610\save\AllSaveFiles
Where 28052023 stands for 28/05/2023 and 610 stands for 6:10am for instance.
If you run the script again at 6:20am, the 28052023 folder will now contain another folder named 620 with all your saves in it.
The backup's can be initiated a minimum of 1 minute plus 1 second apart from oneanother. If you try to back up twice in <1 minute, you'll be prompted to overwrite the most recent backup.
If you do not wish to run Yuzu every time after making a backup, put :: before "start" so it looks like
::start "" "C:\Users\%UserName%\PathToYour\Yuzu.exe"
Disclaimer: This script cannot harm your system.
I will be posting a slightly edited version of this script to the Ryujinx community, taking Ryujinx specific file paths into account, so they can benefit from this script as well.
Hope this helps!
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im not sure where to post or what to say without sounding like im having an identity crisis.
for the longest time, ive considered myself to be straight. i dated and only slept with men, cis-men i suppose to be specific (is that okay/important?) and it was a running joke in my old friend group that i was the “token straight friend” as all my friends identified as queer. my old coworkers joked that i was a “fruit fly”. i just went along with it because i never had experiences with women and since my old friends were so insistent i couldn’t be attracted to women, i never bothered addressing it. i stayed as the “token straight friend” and took their jokes about me being straight, supported their coming out stories, one of them began performing in drag and i supported them as much as i could. i rallied next to them at protests and made more conscious decisions to shop from businesses owned/operated by the LGBTQ2IA+ community.
one year, i really wanted to go with them to pride, i had never been to pride in a bigger city and they were so excited to go (i had recently moved to a smaller, more conservative town and had not been able to fully hang out with my old friends for quite some time) and i was excited to be able to see my friends and be able to hang out with them and celebrate them they way they wanted to during pride month. but a week before they told me that i wasnt able to go, and said there wasnt enough room in the car going down (this was found out to be a lie) and that pride was THEIR thing, for them as queer people to be themselves and not for straight people to invade.
i didn’t want to overstep; i know only a fraction of struggles the LGBTQ2IA+ community has faced over the decades, and i didnt want to cause a fight or any tension. so i said okay and stay at home and just liked their instagram pics and complimented their pride outfits in the group chat. ngl my heart hurt back then but i figured i didnt really have a reason to be upset because it ultimately wasnt about me.
but ive always had this feeling. i dont know how to explain it, maybe im just weird or a creep but ive always found myself interested in women’s bodies, and their curves. i feel like i would always stare a little bit longer than probably appropriate, i was always interested in porn that focused more on the woman’s experience. i hope this isnt cheesy or cringey, but there was that tingle when i thought about girls or women that looked really pretty to me, or that i thought had a really nice body. i just brushed it off as me wanting to support other women and if they felt confident, it must have been rubbing off on me. sometimes i’d see a really hot girl and wonder what she was like in bed, what would turn her on, or if she would turn me on.
lately more and more ive found that i’ve daydreamed about being intimate with women, or at the very least feeling like id be more open. i wont lie and say i havent been consuming more spicy content that only starred women, or focused only on the woman. ive found myself feeling the same sort of turned on feeling thinking about a woman that i would get when i would think about my boyfriend or be intimate with him. i love my boyfriend dearly, i have no intention on leaving him, or exploring these feelings without addressing everything i feel and ensuring theres consent from him (if it ever comes to it). i still feel a strong attraction to men, it just feels like over the past year and a half, ive felt a similar attraction to women.
im wasnt sure if it was a product of my environment, the whole “you live in england long enough you start to get a british accent” kind of deal. since so many of my old friends were queer, and some of my current friends are queer, i just kinda figured i thought i was because i was always hanging out with them. but i havent spoken to my old friend group in 3 years, and only talking off and on to one of them every few months or so. and when i sat down and started reflecting and addressing these feelings, i realized i had them since before i knew my old friends.
the last thing i want to do is come across as that straight girl who thinks shes bi to be part of the crowd, i feel like i probably overcompensate to really avoid coming across that way. i know bi erasure is a very real thing so thats why i tell myself if i feel like this may be a possibility, i should address is and allow myself to accept whatever i feel. but i also know that i have come from a privileged environment, and never had to go through the coming out struggles like so many have. i have been trying to discuss this with my therapist but we only just began exploring this a few sessions ago.
am i just delusional? i dont mean to trauma dump or come across as patronizing but im not sure how to address these sort of feelings. i know that if these are genuine and i am truly attracted to women as well as men, my boyfriend and friends would be supportive and accepting. i know my family would be as well and that nothing would change these.
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for the longest time, ive considered myself to be straight. i dated and only slept with men, cis-men i suppose to be specific (is that okay/important?) and it was a running joke in my old friend group that i was the “token straight friend” as all my friends identified as queer. my old coworkers joked that i was a “fruit fly”. i just went along with it because i never had experiences with women and since my old friends were so insistent i couldn’t be attracted to women, i never bothered addressing it. i stayed as the “token straight friend” and took their jokes about me being straight, supported their coming out stories, one of them began performing in drag and i supported them as much as i could. i rallied next to them at protests and made more conscious decisions to shop from businesses owned/operated by the LGBTQ2IA+ community.
one year, i really wanted to go with them to pride, i had never been to pride in a bigger city and they were so excited to go (i had recently moved to a smaller, more conservative town and had not been able to fully hang out with my old friends for quite some time) and i was excited to be able to see my friends and be able to hang out with them and celebrate them they way they wanted to during pride month. but a week before they told me that i wasnt able to go, and said there wasnt enough room in the car going down (this was found out to be a lie) and that pride was THEIR thing, for them as queer people to be themselves and not for straight people to invade.
i didn’t want to overstep; i know only a fraction of struggles the LGBTQ2IA+ community has faced over the decades, and i didnt want to cause a fight or any tension. so i said okay and stay at home and just liked their instagram pics and complimented their pride outfits in the group chat. ngl my heart hurt back then but i figured i didnt really have a reason to be upset because it ultimately wasnt about me.
but ive always had this feeling. i dont know how to explain it, maybe im just weird or a creep but ive always found myself interested in women’s bodies, and their curves. i feel like i would always stare a little bit longer than probably appropriate, i was always interested in porn that focused more on the woman’s experience. i hope this isnt cheesy or cringey, but there was that tingle when i thought about girls or women that looked really pretty to me, or that i thought had a really nice body. i just brushed it off as me wanting to support other women and if they felt confident, it must have been rubbing off on me. sometimes i’d see a really hot girl and wonder what she was like in bed, what would turn her on, or if she would turn me on.
lately more and more ive found that i’ve daydreamed about being intimate with women, or at the very least feeling like id be more open. i wont lie and say i havent been consuming more spicy content that only starred women, or focused only on the woman. ive found myself feeling the same sort of turned on feeling thinking about a woman that i would get when i would think about my boyfriend or be intimate with him. i love my boyfriend dearly, i have no intention on leaving him, or exploring these feelings without addressing everything i feel and ensuring theres consent from him (if it ever comes to it). i still feel a strong attraction to men, it just feels like over the past year and a half, ive felt a similar attraction to women.
im wasnt sure if it was a product of my environment, the whole “you live in england long enough you start to get a british accent” kind of deal. since so many of my old friends were queer, and some of my current friends are queer, i just kinda figured i thought i was because i was always hanging out with them. but i havent spoken to my old friend group in 3 years, and only talking off and on to one of them every few months or so. and when i sat down and started reflecting and addressing these feelings, i realized i had them since before i knew my old friends.
the last thing i want to do is come across as that straight girl who thinks shes bi to be part of the crowd, i feel like i probably overcompensate to really avoid coming across that way. i know bi erasure is a very real thing so thats why i tell myself if i feel like this may be a possibility, i should address is and allow myself to accept whatever i feel. but i also know that i have come from a privileged environment, and never had to go through the coming out struggles like so many have. i have been trying to discuss this with my therapist but we only just began exploring this a few sessions ago.
am i just delusional? i dont mean to trauma dump or come across as patronizing but im not sure how to address these sort of feelings. i know that if these are genuine and i am truly attracted to women as well as men, my boyfriend and friends would be supportive and accepting. i know my family would be as well and that nothing would change these.
2023.05.28 08:14 Visible-Rutabaga9268 To The Heat: From The Heart
I’m a first-generation immigrant who arrived stateside as a child, when my family fled economic & political devastation in Latin America.
Before relocating to South Florida, we originally settled in a rural part of the state where the linguistic & cultural barriers seemed impossible to overcome for a short, shy, Spanish-speaking boy surrounded by intolerant American neighbors.
Basketball broke barriers my broken English never imagined possible.
I desperately clung onto the sport as a means of assimilating into America and the Miami Heat eventually became my refuge, offering newfound community through shared fandom.
Now I’m certainly not the only immigrant to endure hardship and, frankly, my experiences are far from unique. However, throughout my life sports has not only served as a unifying medium, but also as a timestamp, capturing moments meant to be cherished forever.
I have lived through every Heat championship. But in 2006, I was too young to grasp the sport and in 2012 & 2013, I was too naive to appreciate our talent.
Last year was supposed to be our year. And this time I was ready for it. But a failed Game 7 comeback against Boston later, and suddenly it wasn’t. I was crushed. I’m sure many of you were too.
Personally, I wanted the Heat to validate my growth, celebrating the passage of time through a championship run. When we fell short in 2022, I wasn’t sure when we would find ourselves in that position again.
Yet here we are.
Against all odds.
Game 7.
Just like y’all, I want this badly. It hurts watching our 3-0 lead evaporate, especially against this particular Boston team. I’m angry and disappointed and at times outright numb.
Our frenzied fans, who nationally get a bad rap, showed up tonight and deserved a trip to the Finals. Terrible star play proved otherwise. Even a frantic, last-minute rally could not overcome largely lethargic efforts from Butler and Bam. Fuck Derrick White.
But as an avid fan who owes so much to the Miami Heat, I choose to believe.
I choose to believe our Cinderella 8-seed run isn’t over. I choose to believe Butler & Spo won’t oversee the first blown 3-0 lead in NBA history. I choose to believe Miami will channel buzzer-beating heartbreak into a hard-fought win on Boston’s parquet court come Monday night.
Feel free to let me know if you choose to believe too.
Let’s Go Heat!
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Before relocating to South Florida, we originally settled in a rural part of the state where the linguistic & cultural barriers seemed impossible to overcome for a short, shy, Spanish-speaking boy surrounded by intolerant American neighbors.
Basketball broke barriers my broken English never imagined possible.
I desperately clung onto the sport as a means of assimilating into America and the Miami Heat eventually became my refuge, offering newfound community through shared fandom.
Now I’m certainly not the only immigrant to endure hardship and, frankly, my experiences are far from unique. However, throughout my life sports has not only served as a unifying medium, but also as a timestamp, capturing moments meant to be cherished forever.
I have lived through every Heat championship. But in 2006, I was too young to grasp the sport and in 2012 & 2013, I was too naive to appreciate our talent.
Last year was supposed to be our year. And this time I was ready for it. But a failed Game 7 comeback against Boston later, and suddenly it wasn’t. I was crushed. I’m sure many of you were too.
Personally, I wanted the Heat to validate my growth, celebrating the passage of time through a championship run. When we fell short in 2022, I wasn’t sure when we would find ourselves in that position again.
Yet here we are.
Against all odds.
Game 7.
Just like y’all, I want this badly. It hurts watching our 3-0 lead evaporate, especially against this particular Boston team. I’m angry and disappointed and at times outright numb.
Our frenzied fans, who nationally get a bad rap, showed up tonight and deserved a trip to the Finals. Terrible star play proved otherwise. Even a frantic, last-minute rally could not overcome largely lethargic efforts from Butler and Bam. Fuck Derrick White.
But as an avid fan who owes so much to the Miami Heat, I choose to believe.
I choose to believe our Cinderella 8-seed run isn’t over. I choose to believe Butler & Spo won’t oversee the first blown 3-0 lead in NBA history. I choose to believe Miami will channel buzzer-beating heartbreak into a hard-fought win on Boston’s parquet court come Monday night.
Feel free to let me know if you choose to believe too.
Let’s Go Heat!
2023.05.28 07:37 Mantis_Shrimp47 Blackberries in an Open Grave
My grandmother, Ida, loves to talk. She'll tell stories for days, but she only told me this story once, and never spoke about it again.
There’s an abandoned steel skeleton on the other side of the cemetery where Ida grew up. It used to be a cell tower, or maybe it was for power lines; there’s no way to tell now. The blackberry plants are still there, though. They twist around the places where the metal still disappears into the dirt, the beams sunk deep into the ground despite the way the whole structure has fallen sideways into the grass. The graves are in almost the same state of disrepair, with most of the names scrubbed away by the rain and the wind. But there’s one heads tone that still gleams like it did on the day it was made, the marble cast with shifting shadows from the sugar-maple tree that looms over it. Charlotte Telor is etched into it, along with beloved.
Charlotte’s mother, Ida, is eighty-three now. She can barely walk from all the cancers that have left her body weak, and she hobbles along with one hand on her husband's shoulder and one hand on mine. She kneels in front of Sharon’s tomb and prays over it, then puts down new flowers to replace the old ones. She comes here so often that the previous flowers still look almost fresh. When Ina gets up, she has a stinging nettle rash on her right knee and an oak gall stuck to her sweater.
They’d pick the blackberries, Charlotte and Ida, back when the tower was still standing proud over the cemetery. Charlotte loved to gather up a handful of berries and put one at the foot of every grave, with a pause between each to eat one herself, of course. She thought that each patch of dirt contained an angel, and she could gain their favor by feeding them. She picked up bits of tombstones and tried to fit the puzzle pieces back together, even when the graves looked like nothing more than a bare patch of dirt.
Ida goes to church every Sunday and puts her whole heart into it, singing as loud as her throat can manage, even when it hurts her. She bakes bread once a month to share at the community dinners, donates candles for Christmas service, and is generally a pillar of the Spartanburg community.
“They all came over when Charlotte died,” Ida told me. “All of my friends, every single one of them.” She didn’t spend a moment alone, and she didn’t have to cook for herself for a month. There was a collection sent around, the following Sunday, to pay for Charlotte's medical bills.
It started when Charlotte started walking around hunched over, her arms wrapped tight around her stomach. When she started vomiting and didn’t stop, Ida took her to the emergency room in their old car, rattling over the potholes at seventy miles an hour. They were sent away at the emergency room, though, because Charlotte wasn’t crying and it was busy. Another day passed. Charlotte grew more and more sick. They went back to the emergency room, and finally talked to a doctor.
The doctor looked her over, pressed on her belly, and then went silent. He picked her up and took her into the next room without a single word, except to brush off the secretary.
“They need to sign in,” the secretary said.
“No time,” the doctor answered, his voice still deathly quiet.
Ida doesn’t remember what happened after that. It’s lost to her in a haze of grief and people running. All she knows is that her baby died from a burst appendix because she was sent away the first time they went to the doctor. Charlotte was two years old. She was buried in the same cemetery that she used to hunt for blackberries in.
“She didn’t cry,” Ida said. “The whole time, she didn’t cry. The doctors told me that she must have had such a massive tolerance for pain.”
But my grandmother tells me something different.
"I saw them take her," Ida says. "The demons. They crawled out of the graves and killed Charlotte's blackberry angels."
According to Ida, she didn't cry because the demons had stuffed their claim into her mouth, gagged her on their rotting flesh and planted their poison in her.
“The God that I know is a loving God,” Ina said. "I don't know how he could let that happen. It just slipped by his notice, I guess."
She is eighty-three years old and losing a child is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her. Her confession to me, in an ashamed whisper, is that she can only keep going because she knows that she will see Charlotte again, one way or another. She's been catching glimpses of the demons out of the corners of her eyes for decades.
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There’s an abandoned steel skeleton on the other side of the cemetery where Ida grew up. It used to be a cell tower, or maybe it was for power lines; there’s no way to tell now. The blackberry plants are still there, though. They twist around the places where the metal still disappears into the dirt, the beams sunk deep into the ground despite the way the whole structure has fallen sideways into the grass. The graves are in almost the same state of disrepair, with most of the names scrubbed away by the rain and the wind. But there’s one heads tone that still gleams like it did on the day it was made, the marble cast with shifting shadows from the sugar-maple tree that looms over it. Charlotte Telor is etched into it, along with beloved.
Charlotte’s mother, Ida, is eighty-three now. She can barely walk from all the cancers that have left her body weak, and she hobbles along with one hand on her husband's shoulder and one hand on mine. She kneels in front of Sharon’s tomb and prays over it, then puts down new flowers to replace the old ones. She comes here so often that the previous flowers still look almost fresh. When Ina gets up, she has a stinging nettle rash on her right knee and an oak gall stuck to her sweater.
They’d pick the blackberries, Charlotte and Ida, back when the tower was still standing proud over the cemetery. Charlotte loved to gather up a handful of berries and put one at the foot of every grave, with a pause between each to eat one herself, of course. She thought that each patch of dirt contained an angel, and she could gain their favor by feeding them. She picked up bits of tombstones and tried to fit the puzzle pieces back together, even when the graves looked like nothing more than a bare patch of dirt.
Ida goes to church every Sunday and puts her whole heart into it, singing as loud as her throat can manage, even when it hurts her. She bakes bread once a month to share at the community dinners, donates candles for Christmas service, and is generally a pillar of the Spartanburg community.
“They all came over when Charlotte died,” Ida told me. “All of my friends, every single one of them.” She didn’t spend a moment alone, and she didn’t have to cook for herself for a month. There was a collection sent around, the following Sunday, to pay for Charlotte's medical bills.
It started when Charlotte started walking around hunched over, her arms wrapped tight around her stomach. When she started vomiting and didn’t stop, Ida took her to the emergency room in their old car, rattling over the potholes at seventy miles an hour. They were sent away at the emergency room, though, because Charlotte wasn’t crying and it was busy. Another day passed. Charlotte grew more and more sick. They went back to the emergency room, and finally talked to a doctor.
The doctor looked her over, pressed on her belly, and then went silent. He picked her up and took her into the next room without a single word, except to brush off the secretary.
“They need to sign in,” the secretary said.
“No time,” the doctor answered, his voice still deathly quiet.
Ida doesn’t remember what happened after that. It’s lost to her in a haze of grief and people running. All she knows is that her baby died from a burst appendix because she was sent away the first time they went to the doctor. Charlotte was two years old. She was buried in the same cemetery that she used to hunt for blackberries in.
“She didn’t cry,” Ida said. “The whole time, she didn’t cry. The doctors told me that she must have had such a massive tolerance for pain.”
But my grandmother tells me something different.
"I saw them take her," Ida says. "The demons. They crawled out of the graves and killed Charlotte's blackberry angels."
According to Ida, she didn't cry because the demons had stuffed their claim into her mouth, gagged her on their rotting flesh and planted their poison in her.
“The God that I know is a loving God,” Ina said. "I don't know how he could let that happen. It just slipped by his notice, I guess."
She is eighty-three years old and losing a child is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her. Her confession to me, in an ashamed whisper, is that she can only keep going because she knows that she will see Charlotte again, one way or another. She's been catching glimpses of the demons out of the corners of her eyes for decades.
2023.05.28 07:36 Mantis_Shrimp47 Blackberries in an Open Grave
There’s an abandoned steel skeleton on the other side of the cemetery. It used to be a cell tower, or maybe it was for power lines; there’s no way to tell now. The blackberry plants are still there, though. They twist around the places where the metal still disappears into the dirt, the beams sunk deep into the ground despite the way the whole structure has fallen sideways into the grass. The graves are in almost the same state of disrepair, with most of the names scrubbed away by the rain and the wind. But there’s one heads tone that still gleams like it did on the day it was made, the marble cast with shifting shadows from the sugar-maple tree that looms over it. Charlotte Telor is etched into it, along with beloved.
Charlotte’s mother, Ida, my grandmother, is eighty-three now. She can barely walk from all the cancers that have left her body weak, and she hobbles along with one hand on her husband's shoulder and one hand on mine. She kneels in front of Sharon’s tomb and prays over it, then puts down new flowers to replace the old ones. She comes here so often that the previous flowers still look almost fresh. When Ina gets up, she has a stinging nettle rash on her right knee and an oak gall stuck to her sweater.
They’d pick the blackberries, Charlotte and Ida, back when the tower was still standing proud over the cemetery. Charlotte loved to gather up a handful of berries and put one at the foot of every grave, with a pause between each to eat one herself, of course. She thought that each patch of dirt contained an angel, and she could gain their favor by feeding them. She picked up bits of tombstones and tried to fit the puzzle pieces back together, even when the graves looked like nothing more than a bare patch of dirt.
Ida goes to church every Sunday and puts her whole heart into it, singing as loud as her throat can manage, even when it hurts her. She bakes bread once a month to share at the community dinners, donates candles for Christmas service, and is generally a pillar of the Spartanburg community.
“They all came over when Charlotte died,” Ida told me. “All of my friends, every single one of them.” She didn’t spend a moment alone, and she didn’t have to cook for herself for a month. There was a collection sent around, the following Sunday, to pay for Charlotte's medical bills.
It started when Charlotte started walking around hunched over, her arms wrapped tight around her stomach. When she started vomiting and didn’t stop, Ida took her to the emergency room in their old car, rattling over the potholes at seventy miles an hour. They were sent away at the emergency room, though, because Charlotte wasn’t crying and it was busy. Another day passed. Charlotte grew more and more sick. They went back to the emergency room, and finally talked to a doctor.
The doctor looked her over, pressed on her belly, and then went silent. He picked her up and took her into the next room without a single word, except to brush off the secretary.
“They need to sign in,” the secretary said.
“No time,” the doctor answered, his voice still deathly quiet.
Ida doesn’t remember what happened after that. It’s lost to her in a haze of grief and people running. All she knows is that her baby died from a burst appendix because she was sent away the first time they went to the doctor. Charlotte was two years old. She was buried in the same cemetery that she used to hunt for blackberries in.
“She didn’t cry,” Ida said. “The whole time, she didn’t cry. The doctors told me that she must have had such a massive tolerance for pain.”
But my grandmother tells me something different. "I saw them take her," Ida says. "The demons. They crawled out of the graves and killed Charlotte's blackberry angels."
According to Ida, she didn't cry because the demons had stuffed their claim into her mouth, gagged her on their rotting flesh and planted their poison in her.
“The God that I know is a loving God,” Ina said. "I don't know how he could let that happen."
She is eighty-three years old and losing a child is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her. Her confession to me, in an ashamed whisper, is that she can only keep going because she knows that she will see Charlotte again, one way or another. She's been catching glimpses of the demons out of the corners of her eyes for decades.
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Charlotte’s mother, Ida, my grandmother, is eighty-three now. She can barely walk from all the cancers that have left her body weak, and she hobbles along with one hand on her husband's shoulder and one hand on mine. She kneels in front of Sharon’s tomb and prays over it, then puts down new flowers to replace the old ones. She comes here so often that the previous flowers still look almost fresh. When Ina gets up, she has a stinging nettle rash on her right knee and an oak gall stuck to her sweater.
They’d pick the blackberries, Charlotte and Ida, back when the tower was still standing proud over the cemetery. Charlotte loved to gather up a handful of berries and put one at the foot of every grave, with a pause between each to eat one herself, of course. She thought that each patch of dirt contained an angel, and she could gain their favor by feeding them. She picked up bits of tombstones and tried to fit the puzzle pieces back together, even when the graves looked like nothing more than a bare patch of dirt.
Ida goes to church every Sunday and puts her whole heart into it, singing as loud as her throat can manage, even when it hurts her. She bakes bread once a month to share at the community dinners, donates candles for Christmas service, and is generally a pillar of the Spartanburg community.
“They all came over when Charlotte died,” Ida told me. “All of my friends, every single one of them.” She didn’t spend a moment alone, and she didn’t have to cook for herself for a month. There was a collection sent around, the following Sunday, to pay for Charlotte's medical bills.
It started when Charlotte started walking around hunched over, her arms wrapped tight around her stomach. When she started vomiting and didn’t stop, Ida took her to the emergency room in their old car, rattling over the potholes at seventy miles an hour. They were sent away at the emergency room, though, because Charlotte wasn’t crying and it was busy. Another day passed. Charlotte grew more and more sick. They went back to the emergency room, and finally talked to a doctor.
The doctor looked her over, pressed on her belly, and then went silent. He picked her up and took her into the next room without a single word, except to brush off the secretary.
“They need to sign in,” the secretary said.
“No time,” the doctor answered, his voice still deathly quiet.
Ida doesn’t remember what happened after that. It’s lost to her in a haze of grief and people running. All she knows is that her baby died from a burst appendix because she was sent away the first time they went to the doctor. Charlotte was two years old. She was buried in the same cemetery that she used to hunt for blackberries in.
“She didn’t cry,” Ida said. “The whole time, she didn’t cry. The doctors told me that she must have had such a massive tolerance for pain.”
But my grandmother tells me something different. "I saw them take her," Ida says. "The demons. They crawled out of the graves and killed Charlotte's blackberry angels."
According to Ida, she didn't cry because the demons had stuffed their claim into her mouth, gagged her on their rotting flesh and planted their poison in her.
“The God that I know is a loving God,” Ina said. "I don't know how he could let that happen."
She is eighty-three years old and losing a child is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her. Her confession to me, in an ashamed whisper, is that she can only keep going because she knows that she will see Charlotte again, one way or another. She's been catching glimpses of the demons out of the corners of her eyes for decades.
2023.05.28 07:32 likeeyedid I moved to a neighborhood where the people are too welcoming
It wasn't simply normal in the beginning, it was fantastic. I knew it as soon as the bus reached the neighborhood, as we passed all the roads with the coffee shops and streets so narrow I thought we might get stuck.
The apartment I looked at was rather small but enough for me and most importantly cheap. My workplace was only a twenty-minute bike ride away but I would never go there. Everything seemed right and I immediately signed the contract, I moved in a week later.
The best argument was that it felt like home. I'd recently gone through a rough breakup and some other stuff, I needed a fresh start and this was the perfect place for it.
This city had around a million residents but the neighborhood made you feel like you were in a small town or village even. Very rustic and charming. And with all sorts of quaint traditions that my neighbor Linda would teach me.
--
The apartment came furnished so I only had to carry in some boxes which I decided to do on my own. I knew it was time for me to become independent.
Linda greeted me as I walked in and took the box I was holding from my hands.
"Oh, you don't need to do that! I got it," I smiled at the old lady.
"Nonsense! We are neighbors and neighbors help each other. I'm not rotten yet, dear."
"Oh no, I didn't mean-," I paused and smiled instead. If she wanted to help, I'd let her help. Having a good relationship with your neighbors is always important as they can make your life hell if they want to.
Besides, she stopped helping after the first box. She sat down at my kitchen table and watched me carry the rest in. After I brought in the kitchen boxes, I made us some tea. Moving my boxes to the second floor took me less than an hour so I sat with her and chatted some more. That's when she told me about the first thing I had to do in the new neighborhood.
"Alright, listen dear. After you've settled in a bit, you get a long branch from a tree. You can buy it in one of our flower shops or get a fallen one from a real tree. After you remove all the leaves, you write your name on it and glue the branch to the door. The neighbors who wish to do so will write you little letters or glue small presents to the branch."
I'd never heard of anything like it but it sounded sweet.
--
After walking through the streets for a day, finding a grocery store, a pharmacy, and of course the flower shop, I noticed a few things.
For example, many of the houses had at least one window with black glass. It made little sense to me, why not simply use a curtain? But I would ask Linda about it later.
Everyone was insanely friendly. People waved at me and smiled as soon as they saw me. A young woman with a little boy in her arm even came up to me and asked if I'd put up my branch yet as she had a present for me.
"How do you know-" I started asking and she immediately interrupted me.
"Oh, I'm a friend of Linda's and, well, word travels fast here."
I smiled.
"Well, you don't need to get me anything, I already feel very welcome, everyone is so nice. My name is Maria, by the way."
I extended my arm to shake her hand.
"I know," she looked at my open hand for a moment but didn't reach for it. "You know, we have another new neighbor just on this street. A young gentleman named Julian," she pointed at an old, narrow house across from us with a branch taped to its door.
"I should get going. My other son is home alone. It was lovely to meet you, Maira. Welcome, again."
--
I decided to have a look at the new guy's branch, to get an idea of what I was to expect.
People had glued some notes on it. Some said "welcome", or "nice to have you hear", others were more strange.
"Count yourself lucky."
"Welcome to hell."
I reached for some of the presents when my hands touched something weird and slimy.
When I saw what it was, I instinctively jumped back.
An eye.
I can't say if it was human or from an animal as I'd never seen one out of its socket but it definitely looked real.
No matter how much I rubbed my hands against my pants, I couldn't get the feeling off.
That's when I noticed a guy watching me from a window next to the door.
He said something which I couldn't hear through the window but he looked angry. I got ready to leave quickly when the door opened.
"Wait!"
When he passed the branch he looked at it with disgust in his face.
"Are you Julian?" I asked.
He nodded and came dangerously close. I couldn't help but notice that his eyes had the same brown color as the one I'd just touched.
"You're new," he said.
"Yes."
I looked around and tried to think of a reason to leave. While he looked normal, nice even, he was giving me an off vibe.
He came even closer and started whispering in my ear.
"It's too late for me but you should try and leave."
I stepped back.
"Yes, I was just about to. See you-"
"No, leave this neighborhood. Try and see if you can. Most of us get stuck here."
Now I was getting really nervous.
"Listen, buddy, I really gotta go and-"
"Do you remember your life before coming here?"
I laughed.
"What kind of weird question is that? Of course, I remember."
"That's good. I guess."
He got a pack of cigarettes out of his back pocket and offered one to me.
I shook my head. From the things he was saying felt as if he was scared of something but he spoke in such a calm way.
"Do you see the window above mine here? With the black paint? They have someone trapped in there. He cries all night long. The other day I went up to check on the people there. I really shouldn't have."
"Why?" Now I was really asking out of curiosity.
"It's hard to explain to normal people. They are broken humans, or something like that."
He was talking like a crazy person but the weird thing is that he seemed really genuine. Maybe a little traumatized.
"Okay listen," I was speaking with a really loud voice now and people started looking out of their windows.
"No, you listen," Julian interrupted me again. "Is there an attic in your house? Or a basement? If there is, you might wanna look at it. Or not. Might be better to stay delusional, makes it easier."
--
I'd just moved here and had already met three eccentric neighbors. Still, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to discover.
The following afternoon, I went down to the basement of my house.
The door was locked but one of my keys fit the lock which eased my mind a little. There couldn't be anything that bad waiting for me if I was allowed down there.
In reality, though, it was absolutely horrific. Linda simply didn't care if I saw it.
When I opened the door, I looked into the darkness but quickly found a light switch at the top of the stairs. Still, the light was quite dim and it took my eyes a bit to get used to the light.
The basement was one surprisingly big room. Twice the size of my apartment.
And filled with at least a dozen fridges. The big ones that you see at the supermarket with glass tops.
And inside of them were organs.
I almost wished that this was about organ trafficking but it got so much worse. I walked up to one of them and inspected it. There was a heart inside which I swear was beating. And yes, I realize that's impossible.
But that's not even the worst part. The heart had all these flesh lumps, some small and some really big.
My stomach started turning and my brain was shouting to get the hell out when I heard someone coming down the stairs.
"Not everyone comes to live here, some come to die," I heard Linda say.
She laughed when she saw my frightened face.
"Oh, not you dear. You belong here."
I was freezing and sweating at the same time.
"What are- I don't understand. Why... are they growing?"
"Well humans sometimes die and when they are still fresh, we take whatever we can from them. We can make new ones out of the individual parts," she grinned like a proud child.
"New ones?"
"New humans."
My stomach kept turning, I wouldn't be able to keep it in for long but I also didn't want to puke in the room of growing organs. I had to look away.
"But how?"
She frowned.
"There are many different ways to make a human, it's not all sex or science. We make sure all conditions are right and then we pray. We do it our way, the way we were taught."
I swallowed.
"Taught by whom?"
She rolled her eyes as if I just asked the stupidest of questions.
"The one who takes care of all of us. He is our leader and the leader of many more communities. Don't worry, you'll meet him soon enough."
That's the last thing I wanted. This was entirely and absolutely absurd but she seemed so sure. This woman was insane, she probably killed people and experimented with their organs. Of course, no humans grew out of that. I knew I needed to get out of here but I couldn't let her see how freaked out I was, so I kept asking questions.
"But how does it make sense? You kill one person and make a new one out of them? Why not use existing people and-"
"This way we can make more. A brain makes a new one. A heart makes a new one. And so on. The more substance we have, the more different creatures we can create. They all serve different purposes. You see that by their looks. Some look just like you and me, others are far more uncanny. Usually, the one made out of hearts or livers, don't ask me why. But don't worry, we keep them hidden."
She shrugged.
"Anyway, you don't need to know every single detail. You know, I almost feel like you're using me. Pressing information out of me because you know I am lonely and like to chat. It is very cheeky and manipulative, I don't like it one bit. Being used."
"No! I'm just curious, that's all. I believe you are a very important part of this community."
"Sure as hell I am," she looked away but I could tell that she was slightly flattered. "You know you don't need to act all high and mighty just because you forgot."
"Forgot what?"
Linda smirked.
"That you came to life here, grew out of a magnificent brain. One that our leader brought us himself. You are one of our most excellent copies, Maira. And we are so glad you found your way home."
I stayed silent.
"You can go now, girl. I can tell that you're too much of a princess to help with my work."
--
I didn't need to hear more. I jumped up the stairs and went through the door. As soon as I stepped out, I started running.
Out of the neighborhood, I thought but I didn't even try. Instead, I ended up at Julian's doorstep.
He saw the look on my face and knew immediately.
"You can't leave. Not as long as they don't want you to."
"Yeah, figured that one out." I bit my lip and looked around. I almost didn't dare to say those next words.
"Is it odd that I don't feel bad about that? I mean, I kept trying to get out but when I couldn't, I wasn't really disappointed. It's like I belong-"
"I know," he interrupted me. "I feel the same way."
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The apartment I looked at was rather small but enough for me and most importantly cheap. My workplace was only a twenty-minute bike ride away but I would never go there. Everything seemed right and I immediately signed the contract, I moved in a week later.
The best argument was that it felt like home. I'd recently gone through a rough breakup and some other stuff, I needed a fresh start and this was the perfect place for it.
This city had around a million residents but the neighborhood made you feel like you were in a small town or village even. Very rustic and charming. And with all sorts of quaint traditions that my neighbor Linda would teach me.
--
The apartment came furnished so I only had to carry in some boxes which I decided to do on my own. I knew it was time for me to become independent.
Linda greeted me as I walked in and took the box I was holding from my hands.
"Oh, you don't need to do that! I got it," I smiled at the old lady.
"Nonsense! We are neighbors and neighbors help each other. I'm not rotten yet, dear."
"Oh no, I didn't mean-," I paused and smiled instead. If she wanted to help, I'd let her help. Having a good relationship with your neighbors is always important as they can make your life hell if they want to.
Besides, she stopped helping after the first box. She sat down at my kitchen table and watched me carry the rest in. After I brought in the kitchen boxes, I made us some tea. Moving my boxes to the second floor took me less than an hour so I sat with her and chatted some more. That's when she told me about the first thing I had to do in the new neighborhood.
"Alright, listen dear. After you've settled in a bit, you get a long branch from a tree. You can buy it in one of our flower shops or get a fallen one from a real tree. After you remove all the leaves, you write your name on it and glue the branch to the door. The neighbors who wish to do so will write you little letters or glue small presents to the branch."
I'd never heard of anything like it but it sounded sweet.
--
After walking through the streets for a day, finding a grocery store, a pharmacy, and of course the flower shop, I noticed a few things.
For example, many of the houses had at least one window with black glass. It made little sense to me, why not simply use a curtain? But I would ask Linda about it later.
Everyone was insanely friendly. People waved at me and smiled as soon as they saw me. A young woman with a little boy in her arm even came up to me and asked if I'd put up my branch yet as she had a present for me.
"How do you know-" I started asking and she immediately interrupted me.
"Oh, I'm a friend of Linda's and, well, word travels fast here."
I smiled.
"Well, you don't need to get me anything, I already feel very welcome, everyone is so nice. My name is Maria, by the way."
I extended my arm to shake her hand.
"I know," she looked at my open hand for a moment but didn't reach for it. "You know, we have another new neighbor just on this street. A young gentleman named Julian," she pointed at an old, narrow house across from us with a branch taped to its door.
"I should get going. My other son is home alone. It was lovely to meet you, Maira. Welcome, again."
--
I decided to have a look at the new guy's branch, to get an idea of what I was to expect.
People had glued some notes on it. Some said "welcome", or "nice to have you hear", others were more strange.
"Count yourself lucky."
"Welcome to hell."
I reached for some of the presents when my hands touched something weird and slimy.
When I saw what it was, I instinctively jumped back.
An eye.
I can't say if it was human or from an animal as I'd never seen one out of its socket but it definitely looked real.
No matter how much I rubbed my hands against my pants, I couldn't get the feeling off.
That's when I noticed a guy watching me from a window next to the door.
He said something which I couldn't hear through the window but he looked angry. I got ready to leave quickly when the door opened.
"Wait!"
When he passed the branch he looked at it with disgust in his face.
"Are you Julian?" I asked.
He nodded and came dangerously close. I couldn't help but notice that his eyes had the same brown color as the one I'd just touched.
"You're new," he said.
"Yes."
I looked around and tried to think of a reason to leave. While he looked normal, nice even, he was giving me an off vibe.
He came even closer and started whispering in my ear.
"It's too late for me but you should try and leave."
I stepped back.
"Yes, I was just about to. See you-"
"No, leave this neighborhood. Try and see if you can. Most of us get stuck here."
Now I was getting really nervous.
"Listen, buddy, I really gotta go and-"
"Do you remember your life before coming here?"
I laughed.
"What kind of weird question is that? Of course, I remember."
"That's good. I guess."
He got a pack of cigarettes out of his back pocket and offered one to me.
I shook my head. From the things he was saying felt as if he was scared of something but he spoke in such a calm way.
"Do you see the window above mine here? With the black paint? They have someone trapped in there. He cries all night long. The other day I went up to check on the people there. I really shouldn't have."
"Why?" Now I was really asking out of curiosity.
"It's hard to explain to normal people. They are broken humans, or something like that."
He was talking like a crazy person but the weird thing is that he seemed really genuine. Maybe a little traumatized.
"Okay listen," I was speaking with a really loud voice now and people started looking out of their windows.
"No, you listen," Julian interrupted me again. "Is there an attic in your house? Or a basement? If there is, you might wanna look at it. Or not. Might be better to stay delusional, makes it easier."
--
I'd just moved here and had already met three eccentric neighbors. Still, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to discover.
The following afternoon, I went down to the basement of my house.
The door was locked but one of my keys fit the lock which eased my mind a little. There couldn't be anything that bad waiting for me if I was allowed down there.
In reality, though, it was absolutely horrific. Linda simply didn't care if I saw it.
When I opened the door, I looked into the darkness but quickly found a light switch at the top of the stairs. Still, the light was quite dim and it took my eyes a bit to get used to the light.
The basement was one surprisingly big room. Twice the size of my apartment.
And filled with at least a dozen fridges. The big ones that you see at the supermarket with glass tops.
And inside of them were organs.
I almost wished that this was about organ trafficking but it got so much worse. I walked up to one of them and inspected it. There was a heart inside which I swear was beating. And yes, I realize that's impossible.
But that's not even the worst part. The heart had all these flesh lumps, some small and some really big.
My stomach started turning and my brain was shouting to get the hell out when I heard someone coming down the stairs.
"Not everyone comes to live here, some come to die," I heard Linda say.
She laughed when she saw my frightened face.
"Oh, not you dear. You belong here."
I was freezing and sweating at the same time.
"What are- I don't understand. Why... are they growing?"
"Well humans sometimes die and when they are still fresh, we take whatever we can from them. We can make new ones out of the individual parts," she grinned like a proud child.
"New ones?"
"New humans."
My stomach kept turning, I wouldn't be able to keep it in for long but I also didn't want to puke in the room of growing organs. I had to look away.
"But how?"
She frowned.
"There are many different ways to make a human, it's not all sex or science. We make sure all conditions are right and then we pray. We do it our way, the way we were taught."
I swallowed.
"Taught by whom?"
She rolled her eyes as if I just asked the stupidest of questions.
"The one who takes care of all of us. He is our leader and the leader of many more communities. Don't worry, you'll meet him soon enough."
That's the last thing I wanted. This was entirely and absolutely absurd but she seemed so sure. This woman was insane, she probably killed people and experimented with their organs. Of course, no humans grew out of that. I knew I needed to get out of here but I couldn't let her see how freaked out I was, so I kept asking questions.
"But how does it make sense? You kill one person and make a new one out of them? Why not use existing people and-"
"This way we can make more. A brain makes a new one. A heart makes a new one. And so on. The more substance we have, the more different creatures we can create. They all serve different purposes. You see that by their looks. Some look just like you and me, others are far more uncanny. Usually, the one made out of hearts or livers, don't ask me why. But don't worry, we keep them hidden."
She shrugged.
"Anyway, you don't need to know every single detail. You know, I almost feel like you're using me. Pressing information out of me because you know I am lonely and like to chat. It is very cheeky and manipulative, I don't like it one bit. Being used."
"No! I'm just curious, that's all. I believe you are a very important part of this community."
"Sure as hell I am," she looked away but I could tell that she was slightly flattered. "You know you don't need to act all high and mighty just because you forgot."
"Forgot what?"
Linda smirked.
"That you came to life here, grew out of a magnificent brain. One that our leader brought us himself. You are one of our most excellent copies, Maira. And we are so glad you found your way home."
I stayed silent.
"You can go now, girl. I can tell that you're too much of a princess to help with my work."
--
I didn't need to hear more. I jumped up the stairs and went through the door. As soon as I stepped out, I started running.
Out of the neighborhood, I thought but I didn't even try. Instead, I ended up at Julian's doorstep.
He saw the look on my face and knew immediately.
"You can't leave. Not as long as they don't want you to."
"Yeah, figured that one out." I bit my lip and looked around. I almost didn't dare to say those next words.
"Is it odd that I don't feel bad about that? I mean, I kept trying to get out but when I couldn't, I wasn't really disappointed. It's like I belong-"
"I know," he interrupted me. "I feel the same way."
2023.05.28 07:30 SL13PNIR Cardano Daily Discussion - May 28, 2023
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2023.05.28 07:04 Fictionarious Quick overview of the ProRights position (and of its compatibility with Reddit's content policy)
Today (well, a few days ago, anyway) marks the second time that polite explanation/defense of the ProRights position on reproductive rights (abortion necessarily included, of course) has been maliciously reported by "pro-choice" users and subsequently censored by mods over on abortiondebate (this time with the assistance of some Reddit admin or another, evidently not doing their due diligence in reviewing the position, any statement I have ever made pertaining to it, and/or Reddit's own policies). In honor of this occasion, it may be warranted to provide a brief restatement of the position, review its general compatibility with Reddit terms of service, and observe its obvious relevance to the aforementioned debate in any (unbiased or free) public forum.
The morally-incidental fact that humans are a viviparous species presents a notable (but not remotely insurmountable) practical challenge to this effort. As a technologically advanced civilization, we have the ability to provide both of the following improvements to justice "according to (or under) nature":
As a morally advanced society striving to establish a reasonable combination of freedom and justice in a Rawlsian sense (or, justice "over nature"), we have the obligation to provide both of these improvements, to members of both biological sexes where appropriate.
The first of these improvements, of course, runs afoul of the common notion that fetuses and/or neonates should be considered legal persons with their own intrinsic right-to-life. The ProRights position explicitly rejects and refutes this misapprehension, on the basis that neither of these undeniably human entities possess (or have ever possessed) an identified sense of self, of the sort that would allow them to function as a member of any society on even a basic level (use language, form autobiographical memories, self-regulate one's behavior in relation to others, etc).
That is, we recognize that legal rights (including the right-to-life) are a social construct formed via some hypothetically-collaborative estimation of justice, and propose that these rights be formulated with the express purpose of benefiting/protecting present-and-former members of society proper (ie, not exclusively-prospective ones).
We therefore propose that, in practice, it is most reasonable (practical) to ascribe general right-to-life as beginning with the second month of life after birth, to all those fetuses/neonates which have likely reached a level of "situational" self-awareness that necessarily precedes (by a year or more) the emergence of any identified self.
Perhaps we should click on the link elaborating on this matter:
This is because a conceptus only becomes less vulnerable with the passage of time (it is most vulnerable immediately after it begins to exist, according to the statistics) and both are equivalently helpless/vulnerable from the practical perspective of an adult human being, or even a six-year-old child.
Which of these two groups is most popularly marginalized? Given that the most commonly-occurring debate involves the contested personhood/right-to-life of the fetus (with the right-to-life of neonates being near-universally assumed) the fetus is the human entity subject to the most explicit marginalization (or, dehumanization, in the moral sense of the term humanity).
So, if we are being at all reasonable in our estimation of whether neonates younger than 28 days old qualify as a marginalized or vulnerable group of people, we might look to see whether or not unborn fetuses so qualify (as either marginalized, vulnerable, or people, strictly speaking). The continued existence of both prochoice and of abortiondebate provides a rather clear and unambiguous statement that it is within the scope of the Reddit content policy to discuss and even "promote" the deliberate killing of fetuses, by whatever justification. In light of the aforementioned fact that fetuses have a monotonically-decreasing level of both vulnerability and popular marginalization, we can conclude, by elimination of factors, that an honest questioning (and answering) of whether neonates are people in the first place (of the kind that should be regarded as possessing an intrinsic legal right-to-life, and on the basis of the presence/absence of morally-substantive criterion commonly cited by moral philosophers, such as sentience, sense-of-self, consciousness, viability, etc.) is also within the scope of the Reddit content policy.
If a serious philosophical defense of filicide/infanticide is good enough for Peter Singer and Mary Anne Warren, then it is good enough for the rest of us.
As its founder (myself) has discussed elsewhere, the generating impetus for the debate surrounding abortion is fetal personhood. If there were no pro-lifers (that is, nobody that believed fetuses were people deserving of the right to life), there would be no more debate. The debate itself lives or dies on the fundamental contested question of when it is most reasonable to infer that this personhood and associated right-to-life emerges, exactly.
Some assert that it should emerge at conception.
Some assert that it should emerge at birth.
ProRights advocates assert that personhood emerges continuously but in recognizable stages over the course of months and years of early childhood development and socialization. We put forward the conservative stance that the "right-to-life line" should be drawn approximately one month (28 days) after birth, as a extremely cautious lower boundary and gross under-estimate of the actual time required to develop any appreciable identified self, and so as to facilitate the provision of equal reproductive rights (veto power) to the biological mother and biological father, either of which may express dissent to the outcome of remaining a parent to some extant child (for any reason, and in whatever sense).
It is simply the provision of a different (wildly ahead-of-its-time, apparently) answer to the same essential question.
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What are the motivations for and intended consequences of the ProRights position?
As ProRights advocates, we believe that nobody should be forced to become/remain a parent to any child (in any capacity) against their present will. They should not be forced into parenthood by the government. They should not be forced into parenthood by their partner. They should not be forced into parenthood by some act of conspiracy between the two. Likewise and therefore, there is no basis for forcing them to undergo or remain in any of the biological processes that typically or necessarily precede parenthood (coitus, impregnation, gestation, or delivery). The compulsion of the initiation or of the perpetuation of any of these conditions/events, either by force or by fraud, is categorically a moral wrong, and the best-of-all-possible-societies are those that adopt reasonable and effective policies specifically to discourage and prevent the occurrence of these varieties of reproductive coercion.The morally-incidental fact that humans are a viviparous species presents a notable (but not remotely insurmountable) practical challenge to this effort. As a technologically advanced civilization, we have the ability to provide both of the following improvements to justice "according to (or under) nature":
- Medicine (drugs and/or surgery) to allow the pregnancy-capable partner to safely and humanely abort/end the life of their child at any point in its gestational development, or, if ultimately justified, to allow either partner to safely/humanely end that life sometime shortly after its delivery.
- Cheap and effective tests to verify the claimed or assumed paternity of the pregnancy-incapable partner.
As a morally advanced society striving to establish a reasonable combination of freedom and justice in a Rawlsian sense (or, justice "over nature"), we have the obligation to provide both of these improvements, to members of both biological sexes where appropriate.
The first of these improvements, of course, runs afoul of the common notion that fetuses and/or neonates should be considered legal persons with their own intrinsic right-to-life. The ProRights position explicitly rejects and refutes this misapprehension, on the basis that neither of these undeniably human entities possess (or have ever possessed) an identified sense of self, of the sort that would allow them to function as a member of any society on even a basic level (use language, form autobiographical memories, self-regulate one's behavior in relation to others, etc).
That is, we recognize that legal rights (including the right-to-life) are a social construct formed via some hypothetically-collaborative estimation of justice, and propose that these rights be formulated with the express purpose of benefiting/protecting present-and-former members of society proper (ie, not exclusively-prospective ones).
We therefore propose that, in practice, it is most reasonable (practical) to ascribe general right-to-life as beginning with the second month of life after birth, to all those fetuses/neonates which have likely reached a level of "situational" self-awareness that necessarily precedes (by a year or more) the emergence of any identified self.
Does ProRights advocacy violate Reddit content policy?
Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.It warrants our explicit consideration: does formally arguing against the general right-to-life of zygotes, embryos, fetuses, or neonates younger than 28 days, constitute an attack on a marginalized or vulnerable group of people? Does it constitute harassment? Is it a threat of violence?
Perhaps we should click on the link elaborating on this matter:
Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.For each of the examples of marginalized or vulnerable groups cited, the group is distinguished by the configuration of some obviously morally-superficial characteristic. Is sense-of-self such a morally-superficial characteristic? Since this list is not exhaustive, it is hard to state with complete certainty that fetuses and neonates younger than 28 days old are not on it. What we can state, with categorically greater certainty, is that both of these (fetuses and neonates) would reasonably be on this list (or not on it) together.
This is because a conceptus only becomes less vulnerable with the passage of time (it is most vulnerable immediately after it begins to exist, according to the statistics) and both are equivalently helpless/vulnerable from the practical perspective of an adult human being, or even a six-year-old child.
Which of these two groups is most popularly marginalized? Given that the most commonly-occurring debate involves the contested personhood/right-to-life of the fetus (with the right-to-life of neonates being near-universally assumed) the fetus is the human entity subject to the most explicit marginalization (or, dehumanization, in the moral sense of the term humanity).
So, if we are being at all reasonable in our estimation of whether neonates younger than 28 days old qualify as a marginalized or vulnerable group of people, we might look to see whether or not unborn fetuses so qualify (as either marginalized, vulnerable, or people, strictly speaking). The continued existence of both prochoice and of abortiondebate provides a rather clear and unambiguous statement that it is within the scope of the Reddit content policy to discuss and even "promote" the deliberate killing of fetuses, by whatever justification. In light of the aforementioned fact that fetuses have a monotonically-decreasing level of both vulnerability and popular marginalization, we can conclude, by elimination of factors, that an honest questioning (and answering) of whether neonates are people in the first place (of the kind that should be regarded as possessing an intrinsic legal right-to-life, and on the basis of the presence/absence of morally-substantive criterion commonly cited by moral philosophers, such as sentience, sense-of-self, consciousness, viability, etc.) is also within the scope of the Reddit content policy.
If a serious philosophical defense of filicide/infanticide is good enough for Peter Singer and Mary Anne Warren, then it is good enough for the rest of us.
Is ProRights advocacy obviously relevant to the debate surrounding abortion, specifically?
Yes, although we can state this a bit more strongly. The ProRights stance represents a kind of Hegelian synthesis of the extant stances/arguments on the ideal reproductive rights of sexually-mature human beings with functional sense of self (the pro-choice and pro-life stances, respectively). We acknowledge that children younger than 28 days old do not exhibit any of the requisite features/capacities of personhood that would merit any associated right-to-life, and that it is impossible for them to be considered a member of society in any honest or simple descriptive sense. Subsequently, we recognize the prior moral imperative to equalize the naturally-unequal distributions of burdens and boons associated with pregnancy-capability (all of them), via a rising tide that lifts all boats.As its founder (myself) has discussed elsewhere, the generating impetus for the debate surrounding abortion is fetal personhood. If there were no pro-lifers (that is, nobody that believed fetuses were people deserving of the right to life), there would be no more debate. The debate itself lives or dies on the fundamental contested question of when it is most reasonable to infer that this personhood and associated right-to-life emerges, exactly.
Some assert that it should emerge at conception.
Some assert that it should emerge at birth.
ProRights advocates assert that personhood emerges continuously but in recognizable stages over the course of months and years of early childhood development and socialization. We put forward the conservative stance that the "right-to-life line" should be drawn approximately one month (28 days) after birth, as a extremely cautious lower boundary and gross under-estimate of the actual time required to develop any appreciable identified self, and so as to facilitate the provision of equal reproductive rights (veto power) to the biological mother and biological father, either of which may express dissent to the outcome of remaining a parent to some extant child (for any reason, and in whatever sense).
It is simply the provision of a different (wildly ahead-of-its-time, apparently) answer to the same essential question.
2023.05.28 06:57 Da_boss_babie360 Chance Me!
Ok so I finished my sophomore year, and am looking to dip my feet into the college admissions process more. Was wondering if y'all had any advice to improve, and overall just what your thoughts are.
I'll be putting my projected GPA for 11th and 12th grade, and will be going more conservative in that regard. So I'm going to assume B's in smth like AP Lang or French IV, for example.
So the website I'm using is "https://gpacalculator.net/high-school-gpa-calculato" to calculate my unweighted and weighted gpa. Each semester represents a year. And yes, I'm expecting 12th grade to have such high gpa, since it's all gonna be lab sciences (except for 1 which is an advanced humanities course, i put a B+ for that once even though it's prob an easy A, incase it's a hard class)
I believe for an A+ the calculator gives 4.33, and for honors courses it gives +.5 instead of +1. Whatever tho.
Gender: Male
Race: Indian
School: competitive to highly competitive private school
State: CA
Income: a lot - don't know how much though since money talk banned at our house. But definitely enough where I won't be taking any loans or don't need any financial aid.
Intended Major(s): Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Comp Sci, etc. (I initially was deciding between med and comp sci, but i kinda vibing with comp sci more both personally and in aptitude, etc.)
SAT: I'm taking it next year junior year. 1480 on PSAT (750 M / 730 EW). Based on practice tests on SAT, planning to hit on the 1550-1600 ballpark
UW/W GPA and Rank: (No rank at my school)
Year 1 : 4.08/3.46 (Bad year lol)
Year 2: 4.42/3.67 (Bit better this year, humanities subjs so hard , but I have great teachers helpin out tho)
Year 3: 4.58/3.83
Year 4: 5.08/4.08 (All weighted college level courses)
Cumulative: 4.54/3.76
(Our GPA is not inflated. Our teachers are hard - the 11th graders only have 1 person who has a 4.0 UW GPA..., idk about my grade but I believe no one has)
Coursework: 9 Honors, (Counting Phys C as 1 course:) 10 AP Courses, 6 Post-AP courses (Multivar, Linear Algebra, Data Structures and Algorithms, some english thing idk, Modern Physics,)
Tests: (15 total tests)
APCSA - 5, AP US Gov - 4
Projected Test Scores for courses I took this year: AP Bio - 5, AP Phys 1 - 5, APUSH - 4, AP CSP - 5, AP Calc AB - 5 and possibly a perfect score ngl.
Projected Test Scores for next 2 years: AP Phys 2 - 5, AP Phys C MEM - 5 & 5, AP World - 3, AP Stats - 5, AP Lang - 4, AP Calc BC - 5, AP Chem - 4
Awards (* Projected Awards): Don't wanna doxx myself so ima be vague
Oracle Certified Associate for Java, and Oracle Certified Programmer I (II this summer)Dell Boomi Certified too (this summer)
* USAPhO Silver at least, if not Gold
* National Merit (Have to wait till junior year)
* Grade 8 ABRSM, probably DipAB after
School Grand Integrator (Calc AB division)
* School Grand Integrator (Calc BC division)
(Graduated Kumon in 8th grade? Prob not gonna put this, but I consistently got rank <50. I mean idk if thats good tbh but hey its something)
[Probably will have more awards like other physics competitions, hackathons, etc. This is all I can think of rn tho]
ECs (* Projected ECs):
Martial Arts for about 10 years. No I'm not a black belt, it's damn hard to get one. But the journey is so worth it. Killer essay about it ngl. (* belt before black by application season)
Paid intern at internationally recognized software company and will work on cool stuff (mama ima be famous)
Essentially started my school student council, led it for the past 2 years, definitely gonna hold the spot for the next cycles. Organized lots of events, and working to spread us on a more inter-school level. (Spent over 20 thousand dollars to make small children eat pizza. Fun. me and my schoolmates the small children btw. School events are fun, especially when you head them)- This takes a lot of my time, but I think the payout will be huge : D
Started the STEM Tutoring Club. Regularly lead and teach there
* Starting an organization for student-student teaching.
* Also starting an organization for students to more easily volunteer for the community, making volunteering more accessible
< ^ Definitely going to continue these orgs even after high school>
* Research Paper on taking an IB final project topic from 2009-2010 that was used as our AP Calc Final Project, and expanding it using software to simulate stuff. Very cool. Teacher connecting me to researchers interested... o.o
Do cool hardware/software project and will write a paper on it. I don't really want to say too much on that, but it'll be hella cool.
Hooks: Anti-hook - I'm indian.
LOR: Old Math Teacher and future physics wrote a killer one (I heard) for my internship. Current Math Teacher taught for longer than my life, 3 times over, and said I was one of her brightest students. She gave a great one apperantly for internship as well. One of our admins who heads Clubs and Activities is a lso a very holistic person, and I can confidently say the letter she can write to colleges (like she already did, again, to the internship) will be comprehensive and stuff. Confident they'll write pog things for college.
I also have an interesting relationship with my english teacher. Taught me since 7th garde, knows how I've grown in an area I'm pretty bad in. And he's an english teacher.
Chancing LORs aren't rlly reliable tho, so i'll give my chancing for LOR as "above average"
List: T25, Georgia Tech as an out-of-state, UC Berkely/LA, yk the usual. UCLA would be pretty fun to get into. UT Austin is also on the table definitely since I like the place.
Idk I don't like spending my life running on the tails of colleges, I want to develop as a person and have a strong connection with my fam. So I probably won't do crazy things that take too much of my time. Most of my effort is gonna be martial arts, the fam, me and the boys, and learning to cook lol.
Essays: Probably will write em well. I have some unique ideas with my crazy life experiences lol. Drafted some and have good feedback.
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I'll be putting my projected GPA for 11th and 12th grade, and will be going more conservative in that regard. So I'm going to assume B's in smth like AP Lang or French IV, for example.
So the website I'm using is "https://gpacalculator.net/high-school-gpa-calculato" to calculate my unweighted and weighted gpa. Each semester represents a year. And yes, I'm expecting 12th grade to have such high gpa, since it's all gonna be lab sciences (except for 1 which is an advanced humanities course, i put a B+ for that once even though it's prob an easy A, incase it's a hard class)
I believe for an A+ the calculator gives 4.33, and for honors courses it gives +.5 instead of +1. Whatever tho.
Gender: Male
Race: Indian
School: competitive to highly competitive private school
State: CA
Income: a lot - don't know how much though since money talk banned at our house. But definitely enough where I won't be taking any loans or don't need any financial aid.
Intended Major(s): Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Comp Sci, etc. (I initially was deciding between med and comp sci, but i kinda vibing with comp sci more both personally and in aptitude, etc.)
SAT: I'm taking it next year junior year. 1480 on PSAT (750 M / 730 EW). Based on practice tests on SAT, planning to hit on the 1550-1600 ballpark
UW/W GPA and Rank: (No rank at my school)
Year 1 : 4.08/3.46 (Bad year lol)
Year 2: 4.42/3.67 (Bit better this year, humanities subjs so hard , but I have great teachers helpin out tho)
Year 3: 4.58/3.83
Year 4: 5.08/4.08 (All weighted college level courses)
Cumulative: 4.54/3.76
(Our GPA is not inflated. Our teachers are hard - the 11th graders only have 1 person who has a 4.0 UW GPA..., idk about my grade but I believe no one has)
Coursework: 9 Honors, (Counting Phys C as 1 course:) 10 AP Courses, 6 Post-AP courses (Multivar, Linear Algebra, Data Structures and Algorithms, some english thing idk, Modern Physics,
Tests: (15 total tests)
APCSA - 5, AP US Gov - 4
Projected Test Scores for courses I took this year: AP Bio - 5, AP Phys 1 - 5, APUSH - 4, AP CSP - 5, AP Calc AB - 5 and possibly a perfect score ngl.
Projected Test Scores for next 2 years: AP Phys 2 - 5, AP Phys C MEM - 5 & 5, AP World - 3, AP Stats - 5, AP Lang - 4, AP Calc BC - 5, AP Chem - 4
Awards (* Projected Awards): Don't wanna doxx myself so ima be vague
Oracle Certified Associate for Java, and Oracle Certified Programmer I (II this summer)Dell Boomi Certified too (this summer)
* USAPhO Silver at least, if not Gold
* National Merit (Have to wait till junior year)
* Grade 8 ABRSM, probably DipAB after
School Grand Integrator (Calc AB division)
* School Grand Integrator (Calc BC division)
(Graduated Kumon in 8th grade? Prob not gonna put this, but I consistently got rank <50. I mean idk if thats good tbh but hey its something)
[Probably will have more awards like other physics competitions, hackathons, etc. This is all I can think of rn tho]
ECs (* Projected ECs):
Martial Arts for about 10 years. No I'm not a black belt, it's damn hard to get one. But the journey is so worth it. Killer essay about it ngl. (* belt before black by application season)
Paid intern at internationally recognized software company and will work on cool stuff (mama ima be famous)
Essentially started my school student council, led it for the past 2 years, definitely gonna hold the spot for the next cycles. Organized lots of events, and working to spread us on a more inter-school level. (Spent over 20 thousand dollars to make small children eat pizza. Fun. me and my schoolmates the small children btw. School events are fun, especially when you head them)- This takes a lot of my time, but I think the payout will be huge : D
Started the STEM Tutoring Club. Regularly lead and teach there
* Starting an organization for student-student teaching.
* Also starting an organization for students to more easily volunteer for the community, making volunteering more accessible
< ^ Definitely going to continue these orgs even after high school>
* Research Paper on taking an IB final project topic from 2009-2010 that was used as our AP Calc Final Project, and expanding it using software to simulate stuff. Very cool. Teacher connecting me to researchers interested... o.o
Do cool hardware/software project and will write a paper on it. I don't really want to say too much on that, but it'll be hella cool.
Hooks: Anti-hook - I'm indian.
LOR: Old Math Teacher and future physics wrote a killer one (I heard) for my internship. Current Math Teacher taught for longer than my life, 3 times over, and said I was one of her brightest students. She gave a great one apperantly for internship as well. One of our admins who heads Clubs and Activities is a lso a very holistic person, and I can confidently say the letter she can write to colleges (like she already did, again, to the internship) will be comprehensive and stuff. Confident they'll write pog things for college.
I also have an interesting relationship with my english teacher. Taught me since 7th garde, knows how I've grown in an area I'm pretty bad in. And he's an english teacher.
Chancing LORs aren't rlly reliable tho, so i'll give my chancing for LOR as "above average"
List: T25, Georgia Tech as an out-of-state, UC Berkely/LA, yk the usual. UCLA would be pretty fun to get into. UT Austin is also on the table definitely since I like the place.
Idk I don't like spending my life running on the tails of colleges, I want to develop as a person and have a strong connection with my fam. So I probably won't do crazy things that take too much of my time. Most of my effort is gonna be martial arts, the fam, me and the boys, and learning to cook lol.
Essays: Probably will write em well. I have some unique ideas with my crazy life experiences lol. Drafted some and have good feedback.
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- Preload Date: nothing announced yet.
- Collectors Edition: does NOT INCLUDE the Game (neither a physical copy, nor a code), only physical collectible items! The game has to be bought separately.
- Beta Progress: Character Progress will NOT transfer over to the Game once it is launched, but Cosmetic Rewards from participating in the Beta will transfer.
- System Requirements: See image here <-- for official information on D4's System Requirement.
- General Suggestions to make the game run better: the game may run better for some people on lower settings. Remember that you can also choose to download lower texture pack, which reduces the amount of disk space you may need to have available.
- Ultrawide Screen Support? Yes
- Offline Mode: No Offline Mode. Online-only, including for Consoles (so unlike D3 on consoles, no offline mode for consoles with D4).
- Local Co-op / Couch Co-op / Console Co-op: No couch co-op on PC. Yes on consoles, but only for up to 2 Players (same for all Home Consoles).
- Crossplay: is available across all platforms.
- Is progress, cosmetics, etc shared between PC, Xbox, PS5, etc? Your Progress, Cosmetics, etc are saved on your Battle.net account, so yes, they are shared between your PC, Xbox, PS, etc copies of the game you may have, provided you are logged in on the same Battle.net account.
- Do I need to buy a copy for each platform separately to play it? Yes. In order to play the game on PC, you need a PC copy. To play it on console, you need a copy for the particular console.
- Controller Support for PC? Yes
- WASD Movement Support for PC Keyboards? No, but maybe later down the road in the future.
- Start of the 1st Season: A few weeks after launch, but the exact time is unknown at the moment.
- How Dark is Diablo 4? Yes.
- Cow Level: there is no Cow Level.
- Infos on the Battle Pass: There is a Free Battle Pass and two Tiers of a Premium Battle Pass. Premium BP (Tier 1) cost 10$, gives access to unlock cosmetics only and Premium BP (Tier 2) costs 25$ and gives accelerated access to the cosmetic of the Tier 1 Premium BP + additional Cosmetics. The Free & the Premium BP's last for one season (one season lasts ~3 months) and all of them will take ~75 hours to complete.
- Is D4's Premium Battle Pass pay2win? Short Answer: NO!
- Is D4's Premium Battle Pass pay2win? Long Answer: The Premium Battle Pass does NOT give an XP Boost. There is an XP Boost in the FREE Battle Pass. Buying the Premium Battle Pass does NOT unlock or accelerate the pace at which you get the XP Boost of the Free Battle Pass. XP Boosts only apply to your OTHER seasonal Characters, AFTER one of them has fulfilled certain requirements, like reaching a certain Character Level (evtl. Max Character Level ?), so it will only make it faster to level seasonal Alts, not your seasonal Main Char. (based on currently publicly available information).
- D4's ingame Shop: only sells cosmetic via Premium Currency, but not power (based on currently publicly available information). Premium Currency can also be gained by playing the game.
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- ... a Skill Tree? Yes.
- ... Skill Points? Yes, D4 has Skill Points (these are shared by Active and Passive Skills)
- ... Skill Runes like in D3? No, but there are ways to modify Active Skills further (both via Items and via the Skill Tree)
- ...a Paragon System? Yes, but it is very different than Paragon from D3. Unlike D3's Paragon, D4's Paragon is NOT account-wide and you do NOT have unlimited Points for it (gained from Level 50 to 100 + via some other objectives). It is "Paragon in Name-only" so to speak.
- ... Respecs? Yes, but they cost Gold. You can respec individual Skill Points. Due to the Gold Costs for respecs increasing with Character Level, you can't respec High Level Characters too much each day.
- ... Trading? Yes, but only Normal, Magic and Rare Items (+ Gems, Gold & Elixirs) can be traded, but not Legendaries or Uniques. Rare Items can be enchanted further, but then can no longer be traded.
- ... an Auction House like D3? No Auction House in D4.
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2023.05.28 05:46 hautecoutorn The sunicadesign website, piggybacking off jfashion? AI?? Misinformation??? Stolen photos???
So while I was looking up articles, I came across this article surrounding the jirai kei trend by a website called sunicadesign and I found the tone of the article a bit odd. While i know a lot of articles surrounding jirai culture tend to brush off or just not mention the serious issues, this article felt different from even those ones. My first suspicion was when they said that "no brands exclusively focus on jirai kei fashion" because there are plenty of girly brands that have been labeled as jirai now, and many brands have changed their whole image to cater to the jirai trend. My first actual red flag was when they listed both Metamorphose temps de fille and Baby the Stars Shine Bright as "jirai kei brands". It just kept getting weirder and weirder from there when I read their other jfashion blogposts, their ouji post has Bodyline listed as a "reputable ouji brand" that has "stores outside of Japan" when Bodyline only has physical stores in Japan, as well as claiming that Bodyline has participated in Tokyo Fashion Week Angelic Pretty produces furniture, and that Lolita Wardrobe is a brand. Besides all the misinformation, some of their other Japanese fashion blogposts feel almost fetishistic to me (in one post, they greet the readers as "fashionistas and japanophiles").They also seem to use either AI art and sometimes even uncredited stolen photos in their article as seen in their fairy kei post where they claim AI-generated images are from "an anonymous artist". In the creator's about me, they claim to be an illustrator but it's very clear from their example works that they just use AI, so now I'm wondering if the blog articles themselves could also be AI-generated. This website makes me so confused and frustrated so my only question I just want to know what's up with it. I definitely feel like even if it's not AI, it's still run by a person who does not interact with any jfashion community up close and does not care about the jfashions their writing about enough to spend more than 5 seconds on whatever jfashion wiki they're ripping this info from.
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2023.05.28 05:10 gluebyte Weekly Top Shortcuts on RoutineHub
Previous week
Every week I collect info from new and updated shortcuts on RoutineHub, up to 60 pages each (about 1700 latest shortcuts combined). Then I compare this week’s numbers with last week’s and come up with these charts. Please let me know if you have suggestions.
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Weekly Downloads
| Name | Author | Downloads | Likes | Days Since Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Yas Download | Yas8p | 1181 | 1 | 18 | Download from social media |
| 2 R⤓Download - iOS 13, 14, 15, 16 | r07qxo | 190 | 5 | 306 | #Best Shortcut - Download Videos, Photos and Stories From Anywhere - 100 Million? Check Description |
| 3 All Media Downloader | 1MrNewton | 58 | 8 | 5 | This shortcut helps you download content from social media apps. |
| 4 DTikTok | heismauri | 48 | 0 | 156 | A standalone downloader for TikTok without watermark |
| 5 SGswiftOS | theswiftcoder | 48 | 0 | 3 | SGswiftOS is a Virtual Operating System. |
| 6 Instagram Download | u/gluebyte | 37 | 1 | 16 | Public or private posts, stories, highlights, reels, profile – up to 1080x1920 60fps |
| 7 QR Register | u/159K | 36 | 1 | 1 | Full potential of QR codes. |
| 8 SwiftOS | FlyBoyAce2 | 31 | 0 | 1 | Global Version of SwiftOS, a Virtual Operating System created in Singapore |
| 9 Spotify to MP3 | u/wintercome | 28 | 0 | 2 | Download Spotify tracks to MP3. |
| 10 DTwitter | heismauri | 25 | 0 | 35 | Download photos, videos and HQ GIFs from a public tweet |
| 11 Battery Checker | thetheorier | 25 | 0 | 85 | Displays the number of charge cycles and battery life of the iPhone from the analysis data. |
| 12 Tera | Meatly_Shortcuts | 24 | 1 | 6 | A assistant capable of many things. |
| 13 GPT-Translator | iampinyuan | 24 | 0 | 7 | Powered by OpenAI. Translate any text or voice message into your desired language. |
| 14 Paid Apps in Free | Unique_Gaming | 22 | 1 | 6 | [ No Jailbreak ] Paid Apps/Games in Free |
| 15 Instagram Media Saver | u/mvan231 | 22 | 0 | 103 | Save photos, videos, stories, and reels |
| 16 Just Another YouTube Downloader | Mncfre | 21 | 0 | 51 | Download YouTube videos or audio |
| 17 AutoDown All | manhnk | 20 | 2 | 6 | Download ALL IN ONE - Tải xuống TẤT CẢ TRONG MỘT |
| 18 YouTube to Mp3 | erikaluis | 19 | 1 | 4 | MP3 Juice Downloader is a free video and audio downloader that can be used to download videos. |
| 19 R⤓Updater (SUPPORT Alphabetical Versions) | r07qxo | 19 | 0 | 273 | Update,Embed,Publish Updates,Check For Updates Without Running Your Shortcuts! (Supports Any Server) |
| 20 SW-DLT | net00 | 18 | 0 | 48 | A Shortcuts front end for yt-dlp and gallery-dl |
Weekly Likes
| Name | Author | Downloads | Likes | Days Since Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 All Media Downloader | 1MrNewton | 58 | 8 | 5 | This shortcut helps you download content from social media apps. |
| 2 R⤓Download - iOS 13, 14, 15, 16 | r07qxo | 190 | 5 | 306 | #Best Shortcut - Download Videos, Photos and Stories From Anywhere - 100 Million? Check Description |
| 3 Music Player | WhyYouNeed | 17 | 3 | 6 | Does the iMPOSIBBLE Plays music (also when gami) like YouTube Premium (but without the subscription) |
Total Downloads
Available on RoutineHub: https://routinehub.co/shortcuts/?sort=topTotal Likes
| Name | Author | Downloads | Likes | Days Since Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 R⤓Download - iOS 13, 14, 15, 16 | r07qxo | 109756 | 381 | 306 | #Best Shortcut - Download Videos, Photos and Stories From Anywhere - 100 Million? Check Description |
| 2 Instagram Download | u/gluebyte | 19151 | 169 | 16 | Public or private posts, stories, highlights, reels, profile – up to 1080x1920 60fps |
| 3 Icon Themer | alexiaa | 15253 | 144 | 207 | Create custom home screen icons that launch your apps directly |
| 4 RoutinePub | u/MikeBeas | 10716 | 112 | 251 | Publish your Shortcuts to RoutineHub directly from your iOS device. |
| 5 Instagram Media Saver | u/mvan231 | 39156 | 112 | 103 | Save photos, videos, stories, and reels |
| 6 SW-DLT | net00 | 9475 | 97 | 48 | A Shortcuts front end for yt-dlp and gallery-dl |
| 7 Pritam Download (For iOS 14 and 15) | jaglion | 18083 | 96 | 286 | The most advanced download tool to download any media from any social platforms. |
| 8 Just Another YouTube Downloader | Mncfre | 47197 | 96 | 51 | Download YouTube videos or audio |
| 9 Auto Message | Bingobucketster | 48938 | 96 | 128 | Schedule messages to be sent later |
| 10 DTikTok | heismauri | 32307 | 89 | 156 | A standalone downloader for TikTok without watermark |
| 11 Swing Updater | u/D3W10 | 21526 | 86 | 142 | Update your shortcuts like no other |
| 12 DTwitter | heismauri | 52877 | 68 | 35 | Download photos, videos and HQ GIFs from a public tweet |
| 13 Dictionary Action Builder | u/gluebyte | 3731 | 58 | 44 | JSON ⇐⇒ dictionary action conversion tool |
| 14 R⤓Updater (SUPPORT Alphabetical Versions) | r07qxo | 25843 | 56 | 273 | Update,Embed,Publish Updates,Check For Updates Without Running Your Shortcuts! (Supports Any Server) |
| 15 HiRes Twitter | u/gluebyte | 8012 | 54 | 23 | Download public/private/community/circle media at highest quality, save to Photos/Files or share |
| 16 All Media Downloader | 1MrNewton | 2112 | 50 | 5 | This shortcut helps you download content from social media apps. |
| 17 QuickUpdate | u/zachary7829 | 14147 | 48 | 313 | Quickly Update Your Shortcuts! |
| 18 Shortcut Source Tool | u/gluebyte | 3176 | 47 | 28 | View, convert, save source in plist or json, edit and import back to Shortcuts, review in browser |
| 19 Google Translate | brechtbakker | 11971 | 44 | 356 | Quickly translate using the Google Translate API |
| 20 Get Sauce | u/MMP0 | 10255 | 43 | 66 | Reverse Image Search for Manga, Anime, CGs, etc. with 10 Different Search Engines |
2023.05.28 04:56 Imaginary_Apricot288 Bayshore Marathon Report
Race Information
Name: Bayshore Marathon
Date: May 27th, 2023
Distance: 26.2 miles
Location: Traverse City, MI
Time: 2:53:21
Goals: (1) Sub 3:10 (2)Sub 3:07 (PR) (3) Sub 3/BQ
Splits
1 6:45 2 6:50 3 6:45 4 6:46 5 7:03 6 6:31 7 6:43 8 6:52 9 6:47 10 6:48 11 6:48 12 6:44 13 6:40 14 6:34 15 6:25 16 6:35 17 6:34 18 6:35 19 6:27 20 6:29 21 6:26 22 6:22 23 6:16 24 6:29 25 6:30 26 6:40
Background
Took up running at an early age, running throughout middle school. My father was very big (and still is) into marathons when I was this age. Together between the ages of 12 and 17 we ran ~15 different races together where I would run the half marathons and he would do the fulls. PB was 1:15:xx ran on two separate occasion at age 17. High school PBs were decent (2:01 - 800; 4:29 - 1600; 9:49 - 3200; 16:20 5k). Ran one year in college. Throughout my high school and into college careers I struggled with a pretty serious eating disorder requiring hospitalization 3 separate times, the worst/last being during my freshman year (2017). I needed to drop out to seek treatment and never ran again competitively. I had a love-hate relationship with running due to my issues with eating, but I truly did love the sport at heart. It brought me an incredibly deep relationship with my father, taught me incredible life lessons that carried over into all aspects of my life, helped me build lasting friendships, and brought me overwhelming joy most of the time. Once I recovered fully from the eating disorder (late 2020), I never thought running would be a part of my life it again, both due to the physical effects of the disorder and some lingering mental struggles. When it was healthy, in early 2021 I got the itch again and decided to lace the shoes back up. The first mile I ran was over 11 minutes if I remember, and that was all I could run. Slowly, however, I was able to make running a routine again and I ran 4 marathons in 2021, the first with my father 4:30+ time, and the next three in 3:12, 3:07, and 3:15. Throughout this time, I struggled with binging. Eventually, my desire to run fast again and some other desires led me to seriously train again. In 2022, due to starting working full time night shift, it was hard to keep a consistent training schedule, but I ran on average 30-40 miles a week. I helped a buddy train for his first marathon and we ran it in 3:50 (would have been 3:30 if he hadn’t collapsed 200m from the finish line). In late 2022/early 2023, I completed a very unstructured marathon training block in hopes of running Bayshore. I was out of commission almost all of January/February/early March but averaged 50-60 miles in April/May. Workouts/times hit were: 18 @ 6:50, 14 @ 6:38; 12 @ 6:31.
Race
Out and back course. Incredibly perfect weather in all aspects, 47 degrees at start 55 at finish. Flat with a few rolling hills. Ran along the shoreline of Lake Michigan with a breeze off the lake at 5-10 we ran into on the way out and had at our backs coming back. Sunny but most of the course had ample shade. Great spectator vibes and organization; aid stations at least every 2 miles with gu and Gatorade at every one after mile 4.
Went out with the plan of sticking with 6:55-7:10 for first 5-10 miles. Every half/marathon I’ve ran has had sometime of positive slip disaster along the way. Got caught up in some early congestion miles 1-2 but eventually caught up with the three hour pace group. Never usually run with the groups, but thought what the heck. We ended up clipping off 6:48s for the next 8 miles (now at mile 10). Felt easy, light, still very solid. Ended up taking gu’s every 4 miles from mile 4 on and alternated Gatorade/water at aid stations. Nutrition has always been an issue for me (especially in my eating disordered days where I would run half’s with 0 nutrition during and very poor before/after hours).
Moved up the the front of the group and even 2-5 seconds ahead. Stayed there until the half mark. Still felt incredible and started to pick up the pace. Was a little nervous in doing so, but I’ll my other disaster blow ups have been when I push the pace 6-8 miles in and by 15-30 seconds per mile. Started to push 5-10 seconds and held there for a couple. Ran with some smaller packs of 5-10 runners, but they all ended up fading at some point. By mile 18, I upped the pace again and still knew I had a lot left. Breeze was at the back, sun out of the eyes, great spectator part of the course, and mostly downhill. Held it in the 6:20s until mile 23.
Hit a mini wall, but never dropped too much, legs just got heavier and heavier but still smooth. Came through the half at 108 place and finished in 63rd…most of the passing came these last three miles. Last mile was a little brutal with legs trying to lock up but was able to sprint-jog once the finish line came into view. I knew I’d be under 2:56 from my in-race/tired brain calculations and was thrilled to see 2:53 on the clock. Had my amazing girlfriend cheering me on to 2:53:21, a 14 minute PR, BQ qualifying time, and having run one of the strategically best races of my life.
Reflection
Truly did not think I was capable of this time, or even sub 3 with my lackluster training. A lot of things aligned and went right though. Nutrition felt on point, couldn’t have asked for better weather, course was exactly 26.2, and I wasn’t over ambitious the first half but pushed when I knew I could. It was a very emotional race and finish for me, coming back from my forced hiatus before which I never knew if I would run/race again. It felt amazing to run fully fueled and to run for fun & myself instead of obligation and others as often happened in HS/college.
Not sure whether I will actually run Boston, but having the time and BQ’ing feels amazing. Both my father and grandfather’s PR’s are in 2:53:xx range. Incredibly grateful for the support of my family, girlfriend, and community. I believe their support and prayers made a lot of difference today as well.
submitted by Imaginary_Apricot288 to AdvancedRunning [link] [comments]
Name: Bayshore Marathon
Date: May 27th, 2023
Distance: 26.2 miles
Location: Traverse City, MI
Time: 2:53:21
Goals: (1) Sub 3:10 (2)Sub 3:07 (PR) (3) Sub 3/BQ
Splits
1 6:45 2 6:50 3 6:45 4 6:46 5 7:03 6 6:31 7 6:43 8 6:52 9 6:47 10 6:48 11 6:48 12 6:44 13 6:40 14 6:34 15 6:25 16 6:35 17 6:34 18 6:35 19 6:27 20 6:29 21 6:26 22 6:22 23 6:16 24 6:29 25 6:30 26 6:40
Background
Took up running at an early age, running throughout middle school. My father was very big (and still is) into marathons when I was this age. Together between the ages of 12 and 17 we ran ~15 different races together where I would run the half marathons and he would do the fulls. PB was 1:15:xx ran on two separate occasion at age 17. High school PBs were decent (2:01 - 800; 4:29 - 1600; 9:49 - 3200; 16:20 5k). Ran one year in college. Throughout my high school and into college careers I struggled with a pretty serious eating disorder requiring hospitalization 3 separate times, the worst/last being during my freshman year (2017). I needed to drop out to seek treatment and never ran again competitively. I had a love-hate relationship with running due to my issues with eating, but I truly did love the sport at heart. It brought me an incredibly deep relationship with my father, taught me incredible life lessons that carried over into all aspects of my life, helped me build lasting friendships, and brought me overwhelming joy most of the time. Once I recovered fully from the eating disorder (late 2020), I never thought running would be a part of my life it again, both due to the physical effects of the disorder and some lingering mental struggles. When it was healthy, in early 2021 I got the itch again and decided to lace the shoes back up. The first mile I ran was over 11 minutes if I remember, and that was all I could run. Slowly, however, I was able to make running a routine again and I ran 4 marathons in 2021, the first with my father 4:30+ time, and the next three in 3:12, 3:07, and 3:15. Throughout this time, I struggled with binging. Eventually, my desire to run fast again and some other desires led me to seriously train again. In 2022, due to starting working full time night shift, it was hard to keep a consistent training schedule, but I ran on average 30-40 miles a week. I helped a buddy train for his first marathon and we ran it in 3:50 (would have been 3:30 if he hadn’t collapsed 200m from the finish line). In late 2022/early 2023, I completed a very unstructured marathon training block in hopes of running Bayshore. I was out of commission almost all of January/February/early March but averaged 50-60 miles in April/May. Workouts/times hit were: 18 @ 6:50, 14 @ 6:38; 12 @ 6:31.
Race
Out and back course. Incredibly perfect weather in all aspects, 47 degrees at start 55 at finish. Flat with a few rolling hills. Ran along the shoreline of Lake Michigan with a breeze off the lake at 5-10 we ran into on the way out and had at our backs coming back. Sunny but most of the course had ample shade. Great spectator vibes and organization; aid stations at least every 2 miles with gu and Gatorade at every one after mile 4.
Went out with the plan of sticking with 6:55-7:10 for first 5-10 miles. Every half/marathon I’ve ran has had sometime of positive slip disaster along the way. Got caught up in some early congestion miles 1-2 but eventually caught up with the three hour pace group. Never usually run with the groups, but thought what the heck. We ended up clipping off 6:48s for the next 8 miles (now at mile 10). Felt easy, light, still very solid. Ended up taking gu’s every 4 miles from mile 4 on and alternated Gatorade/water at aid stations. Nutrition has always been an issue for me (especially in my eating disordered days where I would run half’s with 0 nutrition during and very poor before/after hours).
Moved up the the front of the group and even 2-5 seconds ahead. Stayed there until the half mark. Still felt incredible and started to pick up the pace. Was a little nervous in doing so, but I’ll my other disaster blow ups have been when I push the pace 6-8 miles in and by 15-30 seconds per mile. Started to push 5-10 seconds and held there for a couple. Ran with some smaller packs of 5-10 runners, but they all ended up fading at some point. By mile 18, I upped the pace again and still knew I had a lot left. Breeze was at the back, sun out of the eyes, great spectator part of the course, and mostly downhill. Held it in the 6:20s until mile 23.
Hit a mini wall, but never dropped too much, legs just got heavier and heavier but still smooth. Came through the half at 108 place and finished in 63rd…most of the passing came these last three miles. Last mile was a little brutal with legs trying to lock up but was able to sprint-jog once the finish line came into view. I knew I’d be under 2:56 from my in-race/tired brain calculations and was thrilled to see 2:53 on the clock. Had my amazing girlfriend cheering me on to 2:53:21, a 14 minute PR, BQ qualifying time, and having run one of the strategically best races of my life.
Reflection
Truly did not think I was capable of this time, or even sub 3 with my lackluster training. A lot of things aligned and went right though. Nutrition felt on point, couldn’t have asked for better weather, course was exactly 26.2, and I wasn’t over ambitious the first half but pushed when I knew I could. It was a very emotional race and finish for me, coming back from my forced hiatus before which I never knew if I would run/race again. It felt amazing to run fully fueled and to run for fun & myself instead of obligation and others as often happened in HS/college.
Not sure whether I will actually run Boston, but having the time and BQ’ing feels amazing. Both my father and grandfather’s PR’s are in 2:53:xx range. Incredibly grateful for the support of my family, girlfriend, and community. I believe their support and prayers made a lot of difference today as well.
2023.05.28 04:55 dontlookdonttell In this case I actually am selfish for wanting to give up
mostly just a vent, advice if you have any? not expecting any though, I just need to vent also not proofread, sorry
the following is very long, tldr I am incredibly lucky and well off and have every reason to be happy but I'm a shitty selfish person who wants easy instant gratification more than to improve and I can't get myself to care about anything enough to try hard enough
I have grown up in an upper middle class family, my parents are cheap because they grew up poorer then dirt but I have never felt insecure about money or that my needs and wants weren't met financially. my parents have some issues, products of traumatizing childhoods they treated with alcohol when they were younger and now they try and ignore, but they are certainly not awful. My dad can irrationally angry and yell, my mom will flip from being the most loving adoring person to seemingly despising me over the exact same thing, but I have in no way ever been physically abused and at worst maybe got a couple overly harsh words... well paragraphs (she does not know when to stop talking even when she's just digging a deeper hole for herself) from my mom. their worst attribute is probably just the gaslighting that fights never happened or went differently then I remembered but it's not that big of a deal and to be fair I have god awful recall so maybe they are right???
I have a wonderful boyfriend, he lives across the US from me right now because his dad is in the coast guard but we spent a very nice couple months together and are still going very strong. he is the most kind, loving, and supportive person in the world, I love him more than I knew I could love anything.
I don't have many friends because I either pushed them away directly or indirectly because I am a shut-in online college student and will forget to respond to text messages for weeks sometimes, but I have a couple who still try even despite how god awful of a friend I am.
I am not doing the greatest in college, but I am not doing terrible either, my state has the Running Start program where you can take partially school-funded college classes from the local community college to count as high school credits junior and senior year, I've been doing that the last 2 years. I am graduating from highschool next month and from college with a business associates next year in March hopefully. I also skipped kindergarten, meaning I am very far ahead in things.
I am in discussion with a local CPA accounting firm about a part-time junior accountant position which is an incredible opportunity in the accounting field as is regardless of how young and relatively inexperienced I am to be having these conversations. It's one of the few things I'm actually good at (at least so far) that I don't despise AND makes good money, I am very excited for it.
I am a trans guy, took me a while to realize it because I tried so hard to convince myself I just needed to "be a girl better" and that's why I hated myself, literally made my own "girl-bootcamp" where I tried to teach myself to be a girl in the most toxic feminity misogynistic way possible like a fool. I'm out of it now though! I am dressing the way I want, I go by a preferred name now, I was out in my highschool's theatre program and everyone was chill with it, I am not working right now so I'm not stuck getting dead named and misgendered all day anymore, and I just had my first appointment with the best gender clinic in my state and I'm supposed to start testosterone in a month. I should be happier then I've ever been.
but in the last month I almost killed myself 3 times, I had only gotten that close to an attempt once before. I've gained this sickening awareness, now that I've met all the imaginary conditions for happiness and success, that I am not getting any better, and it's because I don't want to.
As a kid I daydreamed so hard about the future, so sure the future would make everything better for me, that I became a maladaptive daydreamer and I am still no better about that to this day. eventually I stopped being able to imagine having a future at all, any event planned to happen past this afternoon doesn't feel real until it's occuring. I got out of toxic friendgroups, got in a relationship, got out of it, did therapy, got ADHD meds, did more therapy, got antidepressants, did virtual intensive outpatient therapy, did more therapy after that. I got good grades, I discovered myself, I got a job, I dropped the job to focus on school and myself, I fell in love, I make planner after planner after planner trying to organize my life, I try everything I can to find things I enjoy doing that make my happy and might give me motivation, I have did everything I was supposed to and I am the same trash I was at the start.
I take a shower maybe once a month I brush my teeth maybe once every couple months I eat average 2 meals a day, often just one I stay up late into the night, sleep long into the morning, or fall asleep a 6pm and wake up at 6am, I fall asleep all the time randomly and fatigue clings to me like plastic film I pace for hours and hours daydreaming, or ranting out loud to myself when I'm home alone I doomscroll until my eye sockets feel hollow I play stupid games I know are wasting my time when there are urgent things to be done I rot. I lay in my bed in rot. I sit on the couch and rot. I pace in the kitchen and rot. I sit on my phone and rot.
I can not control myself, I only care about self-fulfilling instant gratification and nothing else. eating is hard and I don't like it, won't do it. showering is hard and I don't feel like it, won't do it. brushing my teeth is hard and I am tired, won't do it. going outside is hard and I know secretly they can't help but judge my stupid girly voice the moment I open my stupid fucking mouth, won't do it studying is hard and I am too stupid for this shit anyways, won't do it
I am not getting better, I am only getting worse. I am at the highest dose of ADHD meds I can comfortably take before the side effects start to bug me, I take a pretty high dose of anti depressants. I know I am chemically better than before, it's not raw exhaustion and disinterest and misery, I get very happy and excited and energetic, but only if does something for me NOW. I get excited about dandelions and weird bugs and Hank green tiktoks and playing Stardew valley and city bus rides and zoos, but only in the moment and once it is gone I am hollow. if something is at all out of reach, no matter how good it is, how much ecstatic euphoric joy it brings me in the moment, I will not fight for it. no matter how miserable I am, if improving the situation is perceived as even slightly more uncomfortable for the tiniest moment, I won't do it. I sometimes have... bladder control issues, absolutely not fucking fun. I used to be so ashamed and proactive about it, and I still feel awful and disgusting and ashamed, but if it's the usual small amount where I can convince myself "it'll dry", I'll literally rot in my own filth for a week or so. it's disgusting, I am disgusting. I have been trying so hard to do better but it's never enough because I can't put my full heart in it, I just want my simple easy pleasure and then die. I am still trying to keep up with things, but I am continuing to worsen. the same cycle happened to me with both jobs I worked, I'd start out a star employee, learning really fast, showing up early, being very responsible, then I'd progressively show up a little later, just barely on time, a minute or two late, 5 minutes late, 10, 20, I call out "sick" an hour before my shift, I do this a couple times, I put in my two weeks/quit. I make up some excuse, usually some mysteriously serious and private family matters, and rot in bed because I fell behind on work or just couldn't find the energy to go and then I realized I'm a shitty employee and leave. I am at the "realizing I'm a shitty employee and leaving" stage in my life as a whole, but that's not allowed. Giving up is a terrible sad tragedy, but the only cure to sadness is to want to be happy. The only way to get better is to want to improve and push through the hard times and work hard and someday things will be easy and good. There's no cure to being the selfish asshole who cares more about not having to brush my teeth then living for my loved ones. I don't want to fight anymore, I am tired, the fighting isn't making me better, my ADHD and depression and arfid all keep from doing the things to fight my ADHD and depression and arfid enough as is, simply not having the will to fight is the final nail. I'm so tired, I want to take off from school and ignore the job opportunity and ignore any needs or responsibilities or meals and just play games and watch science videos and walk around town solely just to walk and look at things in stores I'll never buy and make weird clothes and pick flowers and impulse buy that Amtrak ticket to Monterey so I can visit the aquarium and sleep outside because I'm too young to book and stay in a hotel room alone and catch a bus going somewhere I don't know just to see where I end up and walk through the woods behind my house and try to find animal bones or a snake or something, I want to scream and cry and tear myself to shreds and laugh until I can't breath and spend every second and those awful unproductive dangerous stupid expensive waste-of-time wonderful perfect soul-filling tiny tiny little moments and then just drop dead. no more responsibility to anyone, certainly not myself, just ecstasy and permanent sleep.
it's not fair, I don't deserve that at all, it's selfish to want it when every person in my life has been through so much worse and are doing a thousand times better, I'll hurt people, life isn't that hard, ADHD and depression and common and executive dysfunction happens to people all the time and they do incredible amazing things and all I'm asked is to eat my dinner, take my 2 online college classes, and not fucking kill myself and I am failing at all 3 and I don't deserve to be getting away with this, even if I live but keep up tis behavior I will hurt people and ruin myself, but I just don't care enough to try because at night when I'm standing in front of the bathroom door, more than enough energy to brush my teeth for two minutes, knowing I should, knowing it's easy and fine and good for me and I need to I really need to, I still turn my head and walk into my room. I yell at the people trying to help me, I shove everyone away, and ruin my own life again and again and again and I'm never going to stop because I don't want to. I am shitty selfish person and I don't fucking care and I want to care but I just can't fucking care.
submitted by dontlookdonttell to MentalHealthPH [link] [comments]
the following is very long, tldr I am incredibly lucky and well off and have every reason to be happy but I'm a shitty selfish person who wants easy instant gratification more than to improve and I can't get myself to care about anything enough to try hard enough
I have grown up in an upper middle class family, my parents are cheap because they grew up poorer then dirt but I have never felt insecure about money or that my needs and wants weren't met financially. my parents have some issues, products of traumatizing childhoods they treated with alcohol when they were younger and now they try and ignore, but they are certainly not awful. My dad can irrationally angry and yell, my mom will flip from being the most loving adoring person to seemingly despising me over the exact same thing, but I have in no way ever been physically abused and at worst maybe got a couple overly harsh words... well paragraphs (she does not know when to stop talking even when she's just digging a deeper hole for herself) from my mom. their worst attribute is probably just the gaslighting that fights never happened or went differently then I remembered but it's not that big of a deal and to be fair I have god awful recall so maybe they are right???
I have a wonderful boyfriend, he lives across the US from me right now because his dad is in the coast guard but we spent a very nice couple months together and are still going very strong. he is the most kind, loving, and supportive person in the world, I love him more than I knew I could love anything.
I don't have many friends because I either pushed them away directly or indirectly because I am a shut-in online college student and will forget to respond to text messages for weeks sometimes, but I have a couple who still try even despite how god awful of a friend I am.
I am not doing the greatest in college, but I am not doing terrible either, my state has the Running Start program where you can take partially school-funded college classes from the local community college to count as high school credits junior and senior year, I've been doing that the last 2 years. I am graduating from highschool next month and from college with a business associates next year in March hopefully. I also skipped kindergarten, meaning I am very far ahead in things.
I am in discussion with a local CPA accounting firm about a part-time junior accountant position which is an incredible opportunity in the accounting field as is regardless of how young and relatively inexperienced I am to be having these conversations. It's one of the few things I'm actually good at (at least so far) that I don't despise AND makes good money, I am very excited for it.
I am a trans guy, took me a while to realize it because I tried so hard to convince myself I just needed to "be a girl better" and that's why I hated myself, literally made my own "girl-bootcamp" where I tried to teach myself to be a girl in the most toxic feminity misogynistic way possible like a fool. I'm out of it now though! I am dressing the way I want, I go by a preferred name now, I was out in my highschool's theatre program and everyone was chill with it, I am not working right now so I'm not stuck getting dead named and misgendered all day anymore, and I just had my first appointment with the best gender clinic in my state and I'm supposed to start testosterone in a month. I should be happier then I've ever been.
but in the last month I almost killed myself 3 times, I had only gotten that close to an attempt once before. I've gained this sickening awareness, now that I've met all the imaginary conditions for happiness and success, that I am not getting any better, and it's because I don't want to.
As a kid I daydreamed so hard about the future, so sure the future would make everything better for me, that I became a maladaptive daydreamer and I am still no better about that to this day. eventually I stopped being able to imagine having a future at all, any event planned to happen past this afternoon doesn't feel real until it's occuring. I got out of toxic friendgroups, got in a relationship, got out of it, did therapy, got ADHD meds, did more therapy, got antidepressants, did virtual intensive outpatient therapy, did more therapy after that. I got good grades, I discovered myself, I got a job, I dropped the job to focus on school and myself, I fell in love, I make planner after planner after planner trying to organize my life, I try everything I can to find things I enjoy doing that make my happy and might give me motivation, I have did everything I was supposed to and I am the same trash I was at the start.
I take a shower maybe once a month I brush my teeth maybe once every couple months I eat average 2 meals a day, often just one I stay up late into the night, sleep long into the morning, or fall asleep a 6pm and wake up at 6am, I fall asleep all the time randomly and fatigue clings to me like plastic film I pace for hours and hours daydreaming, or ranting out loud to myself when I'm home alone I doomscroll until my eye sockets feel hollow I play stupid games I know are wasting my time when there are urgent things to be done I rot. I lay in my bed in rot. I sit on the couch and rot. I pace in the kitchen and rot. I sit on my phone and rot.
I can not control myself, I only care about self-fulfilling instant gratification and nothing else. eating is hard and I don't like it, won't do it. showering is hard and I don't feel like it, won't do it. brushing my teeth is hard and I am tired, won't do it. going outside is hard and I know secretly they can't help but judge my stupid girly voice the moment I open my stupid fucking mouth, won't do it studying is hard and I am too stupid for this shit anyways, won't do it
I am not getting better, I am only getting worse. I am at the highest dose of ADHD meds I can comfortably take before the side effects start to bug me, I take a pretty high dose of anti depressants. I know I am chemically better than before, it's not raw exhaustion and disinterest and misery, I get very happy and excited and energetic, but only if does something for me NOW. I get excited about dandelions and weird bugs and Hank green tiktoks and playing Stardew valley and city bus rides and zoos, but only in the moment and once it is gone I am hollow. if something is at all out of reach, no matter how good it is, how much ecstatic euphoric joy it brings me in the moment, I will not fight for it. no matter how miserable I am, if improving the situation is perceived as even slightly more uncomfortable for the tiniest moment, I won't do it. I sometimes have... bladder control issues, absolutely not fucking fun. I used to be so ashamed and proactive about it, and I still feel awful and disgusting and ashamed, but if it's the usual small amount where I can convince myself "it'll dry", I'll literally rot in my own filth for a week or so. it's disgusting, I am disgusting. I have been trying so hard to do better but it's never enough because I can't put my full heart in it, I just want my simple easy pleasure and then die. I am still trying to keep up with things, but I am continuing to worsen. the same cycle happened to me with both jobs I worked, I'd start out a star employee, learning really fast, showing up early, being very responsible, then I'd progressively show up a little later, just barely on time, a minute or two late, 5 minutes late, 10, 20, I call out "sick" an hour before my shift, I do this a couple times, I put in my two weeks/quit. I make up some excuse, usually some mysteriously serious and private family matters, and rot in bed because I fell behind on work or just couldn't find the energy to go and then I realized I'm a shitty employee and leave. I am at the "realizing I'm a shitty employee and leaving" stage in my life as a whole, but that's not allowed. Giving up is a terrible sad tragedy, but the only cure to sadness is to want to be happy. The only way to get better is to want to improve and push through the hard times and work hard and someday things will be easy and good. There's no cure to being the selfish asshole who cares more about not having to brush my teeth then living for my loved ones. I don't want to fight anymore, I am tired, the fighting isn't making me better, my ADHD and depression and arfid all keep from doing the things to fight my ADHD and depression and arfid enough as is, simply not having the will to fight is the final nail. I'm so tired, I want to take off from school and ignore the job opportunity and ignore any needs or responsibilities or meals and just play games and watch science videos and walk around town solely just to walk and look at things in stores I'll never buy and make weird clothes and pick flowers and impulse buy that Amtrak ticket to Monterey so I can visit the aquarium and sleep outside because I'm too young to book and stay in a hotel room alone and catch a bus going somewhere I don't know just to see where I end up and walk through the woods behind my house and try to find animal bones or a snake or something, I want to scream and cry and tear myself to shreds and laugh until I can't breath and spend every second and those awful unproductive dangerous stupid expensive waste-of-time wonderful perfect soul-filling tiny tiny little moments and then just drop dead. no more responsibility to anyone, certainly not myself, just ecstasy and permanent sleep.
it's not fair, I don't deserve that at all, it's selfish to want it when every person in my life has been through so much worse and are doing a thousand times better, I'll hurt people, life isn't that hard, ADHD and depression and common and executive dysfunction happens to people all the time and they do incredible amazing things and all I'm asked is to eat my dinner, take my 2 online college classes, and not fucking kill myself and I am failing at all 3 and I don't deserve to be getting away with this, even if I live but keep up tis behavior I will hurt people and ruin myself, but I just don't care enough to try because at night when I'm standing in front of the bathroom door, more than enough energy to brush my teeth for two minutes, knowing I should, knowing it's easy and fine and good for me and I need to I really need to, I still turn my head and walk into my room. I yell at the people trying to help me, I shove everyone away, and ruin my own life again and again and again and I'm never going to stop because I don't want to. I am shitty selfish person and I don't fucking care and I want to care but I just can't fucking care.
2023.05.28 04:27 CDocwra A Tale of Two Moddies: TNO in The Campaign Trail
Something that I’ve really enjoyed on this subreddit recently has been the new wave of longform mod analysis. A shoutout goes to an excellent analysis of the sub’s current dead horse, 1948: IW by u/Tom1923. Whenever the question is asked “What is the worst mod on the mod loader” there’s a few often given answers. 2000N, which is perfectly functional, interesting and, for its sins, does have something to say. No, that’s not the worst mod. What about 1948: IW? Well I’m not touching that with a ten foot pole. No, the worst mods, in my opinion, are the TNO duology.
Now before I go any further I want to actually give a shout out to the devs behind the TNO mods because they quite clearly love the source material, they made two mods out of it after all, and they very clearly have interesting ideas they want to convey. The issues with TNO 64 and TNO 68 are not, really, super bad issues. Compared to recent controversies there’s no racism, there’s no stupidly broken coding and there’s no issues with the soundtrack. Instead they’re just, frankly, a bit naff.
Part 1: The Last Days of Europe
To begin, let's talk about TNO a bit to give some context and also to reveal a bit of why the mods fall flat, particularly when compared to the source material. The two TNO mods are set in the world of the Hearts of Iron IV mod: ‘The New Order: The Last Days of Europe’. The mod puts the player in a world where Nazi Germany won World War Two. The details of how it won are not the point of the mod but instead the mod deconstructs what the victory of the most evil and vile ideology in the history of humankind would mean for the rest of the world. For the United States, which is what’s most important for understanding the two mods we’re talking about, this is represented in the destruction of the American Party system as the American people grapple with the fundamental question on whether or not the world of the day demands the utter destruction of politics as normal. This dynamic is brought to bear in the mod through the conflict between the Republican-Democrats (RDs) and the National Progressive Party(NPP).
The RDs are a big tent establishmentarian party who believe in slow and steady reform and the protection of the American Sphere of Influence. The NPP are an even bigger tent party who believe in anti-establishment politics, uniting the radical progressives and dixiecrats into one party, who want to avenge the American defeat in World War Two and bring the full might of the American state to bear against America’s enemies, be they Nazis, Poverty, Racism, or ‘Big Government Tyranny’.
Part 2: On the Railroad
So the first of the two mods is 1964 TNO and is, in my opinion, probably the worst individual mod on the mod loader. Again, no offence to the modmakers who, particularly in the writing department, have clearly put a lot of effort in but it commits what is, in my opinion, the single biggest cardinal sin of any TCT scenario, railroading.
This is, admittedly, something that the community has only recently gotten really good at avoiding. Many classic scenarios, including many by Dan Bryan himself, are slowly being re-evaluated and being judged a bit, deservedly, harsher today because the paths to victory are often very narrow or the election results are all really similar. Some of the best mods in recent months have been ones that have allowed the player a lot of space to make their own path to victory and the total spectrum of results have been incredibly wide. In this regard, 1964 TNO completely falls flat.
On top of that the scenario has a massive problem with railroading, which obviously links to the issue of the narrow breadth of results. No matter what you do the electoral map is always going to look really similar and those similarities are, frankly, bizarre. Without a George Wallace side being added it's technically a bit difficult to definitively say what the exact campaign of Wallace in this mod is but, basing his campaign on what information we are given in the LBJ side and what information we get from TNO itself, Wallace runs a very unabashedly racist and sectarian campaign. In light of this, the fact that Wallace, before the scandals around the Nixon administration even come out, sits as the frontrunner in the race, even if by a narrow margin, is nonsensical. This is not particularly reflective of TNO where Wallace is the hardest candidate to elect in 1964 and instead is a slightly baffling decision on the part of the mod makers. It is entirely possible, within the confines of the mod, to have the entire progressive/northern faction of the NPP to defect over to the player but for Wallace to still sweep the midwest and this brings me onto the next topic.
The way the scenario is set up, with the player able to so easily win over many of the big players in the NPP, only makes it more confusing to new players and TNO veterans. The Party system of TNO is already one of the more convoluted and contrived areas of TNO’s lore and so to add in the additional complication of people criss crossing over the party system every question only raises the question of what the hell even is the party system.
These are the big problems with 1964 TNO, the scenario stretches the issues existing in the source material to breaking point by only further complicating the already convoluted party system and the actual gameplay loop leaves the player feeling like they are having no impact on the election whatsoever in spite of the fact that, according to the information they’re being given, they should be doing better than they are.
To give some credit alongside all the critiques I do want to actually commend the way some of the questions are set up. Touching on issues like the war in Guyana, the Nazi victory in the Space Race and the South African War are nice ways of showing off some defining moments of TNO in TCT. The problem is that they are often dropped in with little context and the context is what is so important. The reason TNO is so compelling is because you can see the effect that the Nazi victory has had across the world. Every aspect of society across the world is touched and changed and it really makes the world feel alive and interconnected. 1964 TNO, on the other hand, feels stale on a second playthrough and the neglect of important information and some interesting features of TNO like the Organisation of Free Nations (the NATO analogue) is a real shame.
Part 3: America’s First Jewish President
I have titled the section of this ramble on 1968 TNO ‘America’s First Jewish President’ because it is a piece of writing from this mod that really sticks in my mind. Goldwater, for the avoidance of any doubt, was not Jewish. He had, fairly substantial, Jewish ancestry but only rarely identified himself as Jewish and in those instances, as far as I can tell, usually only did so in order to make light of the fact that a western conservative Republican had such unexpectedly strong Jewish roots. I bring all this up because I used to be a member of the TNO dev team and before then was a member of the community. This mod completely unironically ruined Barry Goldwater discourse in the TNO community when it came out.
1968 TNO came out not long into TNO’s existence and it was a really cool thing to see come along and celebrate the mod’s world and unique characters. It was, therefore, understandable that it had a lot of influence. What was less understandable was the fact that a new wave of Goldwater stans were calling him, and this is a direct quote, the “red, white and blue Jew.”
Now, have I made an essay length rant on the TNO mods entirely to talk about that time a piece of unfortunate writing in a TCT mod prompted a community to begin stanning a deeply problematic man with a record of doctrinaire conservatism as a patriotic hero of the Jewish community? No, but also that’s probably a pretty big reason why these mods have stuck in my mind.
I think that piece of unfortunate writing also sums up the mod as a whole. Unlike 1964 the actual gameplay is not bad at all and the coding seems to me, a non-coding pleb, to be solid. It's just that the writing is so sure of itself and declaratory in a way that it does not in any way need to be. Things like calling the three leading members of the Progressive wing of the NPP the ‘troika’. Things like calling Eugene McCarthy a “some sorta leftist Goldwater”. Stuff that just sort of shows that the mod makers really loved TNO and really loved an idea of a TNO mod but just did not want to spend time fleshing it out.
One sentence questions lead to one sentence answers and that’s really the big flaw of the mod, in my view. It introduces the player to perhaps one of the most interesting scenarios TNO can produce. The aftermath of the assassination of President RFK and Vice President Humphrey has led to a nation divided between the most doctrinaire of conservatives and a Democratic Socialist and each has a perfectly reasonable chance of winning. It's a fascinating contest that you will never see anywhere else and instead of really diving into what that means for America or how this situation came about the mod just moves along in a sort of “nothing to see here” fashion. Instead of really digging into the fact that a Socialist and Academic has a real shot at the Presidency and exploring that idea throughout the campaign the mod instead goes “Huh, that’s neat isn’t it, and hey here’s this other thing…”
To call it immature writing sounds harsh but I think that describes it in a very literal sense. The writing hasn’t matured, the situation hasn’t matured. Instead of really digging into the scenario instead it feels like the whole mod is on a speedrun to get through things that could happen in this scenario as quickly as possible. It's a bunch of ideas thrown at a wall and then it puts up a new wall to throw new things at. Sometimes the walls actually look interesting and it sure is impressive that someone put up all these walls but if you actually spent time decorating them you’d have a work of art and not a dishevelled mess. I may be stretching the metaphor.
Part 4: The Laster Days of Europe
Like many I’ve been delighted by the golden age of TCT mods and one of the latest announcements of the golden age has been 1972 TCT which pits Neo-Nazi Francis Yockey against the most unobjectionable man alive George Romney. In true TNO mod fashion it exists completely separate from the other two mods already on the loader (which is probably confusing to hell to people outside TNO) and risks repeating all the many failings of 1964 TNO, 1968 TNO and recent controversies like 1948: IW. This is less a warning and more just a look back at truly two of the mods of all time and asking where they’ve fallen, why I think they stand out as some of the weakest mods of all time and venting my frustration about one tiny line from a TCT mod that has lived rent free in my head for longer than I care to admit.
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Now before I go any further I want to actually give a shout out to the devs behind the TNO mods because they quite clearly love the source material, they made two mods out of it after all, and they very clearly have interesting ideas they want to convey. The issues with TNO 64 and TNO 68 are not, really, super bad issues. Compared to recent controversies there’s no racism, there’s no stupidly broken coding and there’s no issues with the soundtrack. Instead they’re just, frankly, a bit naff.
Part 1: The Last Days of Europe
To begin, let's talk about TNO a bit to give some context and also to reveal a bit of why the mods fall flat, particularly when compared to the source material. The two TNO mods are set in the world of the Hearts of Iron IV mod: ‘The New Order: The Last Days of Europe’. The mod puts the player in a world where Nazi Germany won World War Two. The details of how it won are not the point of the mod but instead the mod deconstructs what the victory of the most evil and vile ideology in the history of humankind would mean for the rest of the world. For the United States, which is what’s most important for understanding the two mods we’re talking about, this is represented in the destruction of the American Party system as the American people grapple with the fundamental question on whether or not the world of the day demands the utter destruction of politics as normal. This dynamic is brought to bear in the mod through the conflict between the Republican-Democrats (RDs) and the National Progressive Party(NPP).
The RDs are a big tent establishmentarian party who believe in slow and steady reform and the protection of the American Sphere of Influence. The NPP are an even bigger tent party who believe in anti-establishment politics, uniting the radical progressives and dixiecrats into one party, who want to avenge the American defeat in World War Two and bring the full might of the American state to bear against America’s enemies, be they Nazis, Poverty, Racism, or ‘Big Government Tyranny’.
Part 2: On the Railroad
So the first of the two mods is 1964 TNO and is, in my opinion, probably the worst individual mod on the mod loader. Again, no offence to the modmakers who, particularly in the writing department, have clearly put a lot of effort in but it commits what is, in my opinion, the single biggest cardinal sin of any TCT scenario, railroading.
This is, admittedly, something that the community has only recently gotten really good at avoiding. Many classic scenarios, including many by Dan Bryan himself, are slowly being re-evaluated and being judged a bit, deservedly, harsher today because the paths to victory are often very narrow or the election results are all really similar. Some of the best mods in recent months have been ones that have allowed the player a lot of space to make their own path to victory and the total spectrum of results have been incredibly wide. In this regard, 1964 TNO completely falls flat.
On top of that the scenario has a massive problem with railroading, which obviously links to the issue of the narrow breadth of results. No matter what you do the electoral map is always going to look really similar and those similarities are, frankly, bizarre. Without a George Wallace side being added it's technically a bit difficult to definitively say what the exact campaign of Wallace in this mod is but, basing his campaign on what information we are given in the LBJ side and what information we get from TNO itself, Wallace runs a very unabashedly racist and sectarian campaign. In light of this, the fact that Wallace, before the scandals around the Nixon administration even come out, sits as the frontrunner in the race, even if by a narrow margin, is nonsensical. This is not particularly reflective of TNO where Wallace is the hardest candidate to elect in 1964 and instead is a slightly baffling decision on the part of the mod makers. It is entirely possible, within the confines of the mod, to have the entire progressive/northern faction of the NPP to defect over to the player but for Wallace to still sweep the midwest and this brings me onto the next topic.
The way the scenario is set up, with the player able to so easily win over many of the big players in the NPP, only makes it more confusing to new players and TNO veterans. The Party system of TNO is already one of the more convoluted and contrived areas of TNO’s lore and so to add in the additional complication of people criss crossing over the party system every question only raises the question of what the hell even is the party system.
These are the big problems with 1964 TNO, the scenario stretches the issues existing in the source material to breaking point by only further complicating the already convoluted party system and the actual gameplay loop leaves the player feeling like they are having no impact on the election whatsoever in spite of the fact that, according to the information they’re being given, they should be doing better than they are.
To give some credit alongside all the critiques I do want to actually commend the way some of the questions are set up. Touching on issues like the war in Guyana, the Nazi victory in the Space Race and the South African War are nice ways of showing off some defining moments of TNO in TCT. The problem is that they are often dropped in with little context and the context is what is so important. The reason TNO is so compelling is because you can see the effect that the Nazi victory has had across the world. Every aspect of society across the world is touched and changed and it really makes the world feel alive and interconnected. 1964 TNO, on the other hand, feels stale on a second playthrough and the neglect of important information and some interesting features of TNO like the Organisation of Free Nations (the NATO analogue) is a real shame.
Part 3: America’s First Jewish President
I have titled the section of this ramble on 1968 TNO ‘America’s First Jewish President’ because it is a piece of writing from this mod that really sticks in my mind. Goldwater, for the avoidance of any doubt, was not Jewish. He had, fairly substantial, Jewish ancestry but only rarely identified himself as Jewish and in those instances, as far as I can tell, usually only did so in order to make light of the fact that a western conservative Republican had such unexpectedly strong Jewish roots. I bring all this up because I used to be a member of the TNO dev team and before then was a member of the community. This mod completely unironically ruined Barry Goldwater discourse in the TNO community when it came out.
1968 TNO came out not long into TNO’s existence and it was a really cool thing to see come along and celebrate the mod’s world and unique characters. It was, therefore, understandable that it had a lot of influence. What was less understandable was the fact that a new wave of Goldwater stans were calling him, and this is a direct quote, the “red, white and blue Jew.”
Now, have I made an essay length rant on the TNO mods entirely to talk about that time a piece of unfortunate writing in a TCT mod prompted a community to begin stanning a deeply problematic man with a record of doctrinaire conservatism as a patriotic hero of the Jewish community? No, but also that’s probably a pretty big reason why these mods have stuck in my mind.
I think that piece of unfortunate writing also sums up the mod as a whole. Unlike 1964 the actual gameplay is not bad at all and the coding seems to me, a non-coding pleb, to be solid. It's just that the writing is so sure of itself and declaratory in a way that it does not in any way need to be. Things like calling the three leading members of the Progressive wing of the NPP the ‘troika’. Things like calling Eugene McCarthy a “some sorta leftist Goldwater”. Stuff that just sort of shows that the mod makers really loved TNO and really loved an idea of a TNO mod but just did not want to spend time fleshing it out.
One sentence questions lead to one sentence answers and that’s really the big flaw of the mod, in my view. It introduces the player to perhaps one of the most interesting scenarios TNO can produce. The aftermath of the assassination of President RFK and Vice President Humphrey has led to a nation divided between the most doctrinaire of conservatives and a Democratic Socialist and each has a perfectly reasonable chance of winning. It's a fascinating contest that you will never see anywhere else and instead of really diving into what that means for America or how this situation came about the mod just moves along in a sort of “nothing to see here” fashion. Instead of really digging into the fact that a Socialist and Academic has a real shot at the Presidency and exploring that idea throughout the campaign the mod instead goes “Huh, that’s neat isn’t it, and hey here’s this other thing…”
To call it immature writing sounds harsh but I think that describes it in a very literal sense. The writing hasn’t matured, the situation hasn’t matured. Instead of really digging into the scenario instead it feels like the whole mod is on a speedrun to get through things that could happen in this scenario as quickly as possible. It's a bunch of ideas thrown at a wall and then it puts up a new wall to throw new things at. Sometimes the walls actually look interesting and it sure is impressive that someone put up all these walls but if you actually spent time decorating them you’d have a work of art and not a dishevelled mess. I may be stretching the metaphor.
Part 4: The Laster Days of Europe
Like many I’ve been delighted by the golden age of TCT mods and one of the latest announcements of the golden age has been 1972 TCT which pits Neo-Nazi Francis Yockey against the most unobjectionable man alive George Romney. In true TNO mod fashion it exists completely separate from the other two mods already on the loader (which is probably confusing to hell to people outside TNO) and risks repeating all the many failings of 1964 TNO, 1968 TNO and recent controversies like 1948: IW. This is less a warning and more just a look back at truly two of the mods of all time and asking where they’ve fallen, why I think they stand out as some of the weakest mods of all time and venting my frustration about one tiny line from a TCT mod that has lived rent free in my head for longer than I care to admit.
2023.05.28 04:26 UN_M Trusted (up to date) video tutorials?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but apparently rentry.org is the trusted guide for modding a switch and keeping it up to date? What about gbatemp and switch.homebrew.guide?
I managed to follow some random youtube tutorial a while back and got some basic functionality up and running (BOTW), but the experience was very convoluted and impossible for me to know what I did, or which bits require maintenance etc.
Fast forward to now and tried to follow guides re: updating Atmosphere (and firmware somehow) etc for TOTK, and have a thousand questions that I can't find easy answers to, especially as updating seems to have ruined the installs I had there already. This is very precarious as big games like BOTW etc take ages to play through, and losing progress like that is not very nice.
I asked for an idiot-proof guide earlier, and got yelled at (downvoted to oblivion) for not being specific enough in my questions, though I thought that a thousand specific questions would be way more annoying than asking for a solid super-easy set of instructions or videos.
Case in point, the much-hyped release of the automatic sigpatches updater by TotalJustice; sounds great, well done etc. I followed the links to github, downloaded a zip, and none of the files in there look like any other app and I have no idea where to put them. Additionally, the readme doesn't address this, yet the whole community on there seems to carry on like a hive-mind where everyone else knows what to do, like it's obvious.
For the mere mortals, and the others too scared to ask dumb questions, I'd love it if someone could recommend a video that covers these things. I don't know my fusee from my hekate, my CFW from my EmuNAND or how to even use this little blue and red jig thing I ordered from Amazon.
Will this always be a fiddly intricate process or will it one day be self-contained on the switch and not require all this card-removal, unzipping, github navigating whirlwind?
Am in admiration of all your work and contributions, and hope to one day have a clue about some of it. Thanks.
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I managed to follow some random youtube tutorial a while back and got some basic functionality up and running (BOTW), but the experience was very convoluted and impossible for me to know what I did, or which bits require maintenance etc.
Fast forward to now and tried to follow guides re: updating Atmosphere (and firmware somehow) etc for TOTK, and have a thousand questions that I can't find easy answers to, especially as updating seems to have ruined the installs I had there already. This is very precarious as big games like BOTW etc take ages to play through, and losing progress like that is not very nice.
I asked for an idiot-proof guide earlier, and got yelled at (downvoted to oblivion) for not being specific enough in my questions, though I thought that a thousand specific questions would be way more annoying than asking for a solid super-easy set of instructions or videos.
Case in point, the much-hyped release of the automatic sigpatches updater by TotalJustice; sounds great, well done etc. I followed the links to github, downloaded a zip, and none of the files in there look like any other app and I have no idea where to put them. Additionally, the readme doesn't address this, yet the whole community on there seems to carry on like a hive-mind where everyone else knows what to do, like it's obvious.
For the mere mortals, and the others too scared to ask dumb questions, I'd love it if someone could recommend a video that covers these things. I don't know my fusee from my hekate, my CFW from my EmuNAND or how to even use this little blue and red jig thing I ordered from Amazon.
Will this always be a fiddly intricate process or will it one day be self-contained on the switch and not require all this card-removal, unzipping, github navigating whirlwind?
Am in admiration of all your work and contributions, and hope to one day have a clue about some of it. Thanks.
2023.05.28 04:24 ContestChamp Personal Thoughts on iiRcade
I recently bought an iiRcade back when the "limited time" Retromania sale started. I have spent some time with it and looked around online and these are my thoughts on it. I understand there are fan boys who are going to be upset based on other comments I have made and replies I received but I am not a fan boy of any particular home arcade. This is just my opinion.
Strengths:
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Strengths:
- Build Quality - The build quality of this system is great to me. It's not perfect but it's much better than A1UP. Could be a little more sturdy and have better controls.
- Game Library - The ability to pick from a large selection of games and maintain multiple games on one system with no modding needed is a huge advantage. With the new A1UP softmods this advantage is less than it used to be but if they can get some top tier titles it would be a huge plus for them.
- Ease of Assembly - Putting this thing together was fast and easy. Compared to A1UP it's no contest. I had no frustration or moments of panic when assembling this at all. The instructions were clear and concise and the steps were simple. This is one of the biggest pluses to me.
- Height - I feel like this cabinet is a great height right out of the box.
- Looks - I personally do like the art on this cab, my wife doesn't. But obviously the shape is something many people don't find attractive and the lack of a marquee is just bad. The new Gold cabinets look great but they also cost a pretty penny. The marquees and artwork on the A1UPs are generally better than these.
- Licensing - Obviously this is one they need to get a handle on. They really need to work on securing licenses from Capcom and Konami as well as some of the older games. When I think of arcade games these are what I think of and these are what many of my cohorts think of. Getting these licenses would give much more mass appeal to this cabinet.
- Community - There are some dedicated people but they are the few and the loud. Very little quality Youtube content. Very little conversation on reddit. This product has a small group of owners. Many are happy with their purchase but it is likely not enough to keep the company afloat long term.
- Support - I had an issue where the Retromania character was moving all by himself when the game started running in one or two directions. I was able to fix this on their recommendation of moving the 2P joystick in the direction he was running but I will note this line from them "RetroMania shouldn't have that issue in the latest version but if it occurs, the way to resolve it would be to press the right joystick in the direction the player is going as well once then it would work normally." Ok well it does have that issue. Saying something like it shouldn't have that issue is just ignoring that it does have that issue and it needs to be fixed.
- Stock - They are out of stock on all of their gold cabinets and most of their regular cabinets besides Retromania. Those are all potential missed sales. There would only be a few reasons for this. 1) There isn't enough demand to support another production run. 2) Their lead times are big and their planning is bad and they don't know how many to tell their manufacturer to produce. 3) They don't have enough cash to afford the raw materials and/or production. No matter what the reason is, a healthy company can deliver all of their product lines to meet customer demand. So either they are already doing that and demand is so bad they don't need to make more or they are not healthy enough to supply the demand.
- Funding - Looking at the LinkedIn page for the CEO of the company his name on LinkedIn is "Jong Shin - RAISING SERIES-A" Series-A funding is funding for a start up that is still trying to gain market share. According to Crunchbase they announced a Series-A round in late 2020 and in Mid-2021. I feel like having the "Raising Series-A" in his name really smacks of desperation as LinkedIn is nowhere near the first source of finding investors when you have a profitable business and a good business plan. I would guess cash doesn't look good for these guys. Going back to the last point I think they are burning a lot as many start ups do but not proving enough profitability and demand to attract further investors. With demand for home arcades falling after the lockdowns were lifted and people returned to their regular lives it is inevitable that some participants will be squeezed out of the market and iiRcade is looking like one of the first to go. As I stated I purchased my machine during the Retromania sale that was supposed to end May 7th. The sale is still going on, all of the signage still says May 7th. To me this says one of a few things. 1) They need cash so they are having a fire sale to generate revenue by lowering the price and increasing the quantity demanded or 2) They have no staff to end the sale and change the signage.