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2024.05.15 02:01 Subject_Media_682 How it ended
How It Ended
by Ethan O’Driscoll
A thrilling Post apocalypse story
Intro
HRV-1
22 July 2024
Dr Olivia Warren Head of Biotech NARU
This is my latest report on the HRV-1 Virus we were instructed to design by the Russian Government.
The HRV-1 is an incredibly viral and infectious Retrovirus similar to HIV. Changes have been make on a genetic level to provide the request modes of transmission and symptoms.
Those symptoms are:
The infection vectors are:
Chapter 1
The Outbreak
1 January 2025
Dr Olivia Warren Head of Biotech NARU
I can’t believe the bastards used it. The first cases came in from Kiev in December from there it spread like a wild fire through Europe the death toll now sits at 65 millions. The hordes rampage through city after city by the millions. There is no way to stop this. What have I done.
NATO forces have established a quarantine of Europe but I can’t help but feel like its too little too late. My estimate is that all infected nations in Europe will be consumed within the next month or two. The Corporation has started the construction of a company safe haven for us higher ups. All we can do is hope the construction is complete before this thing breaks quarantine.
15 February 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
The world is ending. Europe is gone. The quarantine is broken. We’ve got cases in Asia, South America, Here at home in the US, Australia and Africa nowhere is safe. I did this.
Infection number right now:
The safe zone is complete at least we are planning on moving all operations and personal within the week. I don’t know how I’m going to live with myself. Dixie is my only saving grace and at least she’ll be safe. I pray for the soul of all those my creation has killed.
20 March 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
Dixie is at the Safe zone.
I can’t live with myself any more. 4 billion people dead
Chapter 2
A New World
My name is Dixie Warren. Daughter of Dr Olivia Warren. Not that I’ve seen her in 15 years. I remember like it was yesterday. She told me to get on that NARU helicopter that she’d meet me at the safe zone. Those were the last words she ever said to me. I was 8 when the world ended.
Its been 15 years since the Outbreak. There isn’t really anything left of the old world. NARU still exists and turns out they created the virus and my mom was the head of the department that did it. They sold it to the Russians hoping they wouldn’t use it but they did.
It was specifically designed to spread and destroy as fast as possible and it did. I left the safe zone 2 years ago after I learned this information. Now I just spend my time wandering from town to town. My training on the NARU security team helps. At least I know all the best places to shoot a Freaker. That's what we call the infected and for good reason. Most of the time you’ll find them wondering around in groups of 5 to 10 if the group gets too big they turn on each other and form a pile of bodies devouring each other. They moan and scream to communicate and once they see you they will hunt you till you kill every last on of them or you get far enough away. They can run and are abnormally strong if there bodies aren’t damaged they’re a bitch to kill but I’m pretty good at it.
Right now I’m outside Richmond I’ve been stuck here for a week waiting for a large horde to move through. I’m hoping to hunt some of the stragglers and re-up on some supplies. A big horde like this usually leave a few hundred behind. My new AR has been waiting for some fun, I’ve got a new red dot and laser so I should be able to pop headshot after headshot but for now I should go find something to eat.
I’ve made it to a small department store outside the town. It looks like the horde is almost gone. Tons of freaks roaming around though. I can hear a few in the store. I’m going to try getting in through the back and take them out.
Made it back home and wow that store was a gold mine. I got food, water, bullets and even some whiskey. I’m going to enjoy the night then its time to hunt some stragglers. Then I’m thinking of going further south maybe New Orleans heard there might be a small settlement out there from another traveller, might be able to get another courier job or at least I’ll be able to stock up on supplies properly after all these years there isn’t much left in the cities to scavenge.
I better get some rest got a long day of freak killing and walking tomorrow.
Chapter 3
The Road to Home
I left Richmond yesterday. It’s a long road to New Orleans I wished I lived in the days when cars worked. NARU are the only people with working vehicles left and they aren’t exactly the sharing type. Its so lonely out here its been weeks since I last saw another living person the only things you see out here in the ruins are freaks by the hundreds. Its hard to believe the whole world was reduced to nothing by something my mom created. I remember her being the kindest most caring person in the world to think that she could create something so destructive is unbelievable. I’ve still got a long way to go the first city I should have to go through is Raleigh.
I’ve been walking for about a day and I can see the ruins from here. Its always so surreal to see the cities now, so desolate so empty. I remember growing up in Seattle, the city lights, the noise it was always so alive and busy. Now they’re all empty husks or mostly empty at least can’t forget about the freaks. Must’ve killed a thousand of them on my way here almost got bitten when one jumped me under an overpass about 10 miles back. Luckily my machete seems to be as good as ever at cutting up freaks. I should make it to Raleigh within the day.
Made it to Raleigh and its a mess, thousands of freaks I could hear the moaning and screaming from a mile away. I’m going to try finding my way around the city no point in trying to fight my way through a wall of freaks.
Heard crying coming from a house I walked past I decided to check it out and I found a young boy name Richie hiding in a bathroom with what looked like his infected parents trying to break the door down. I took both of them down with a clean headshot. The look on his face when he saw them dead breaks my heart. He says they’ve been hiding out in this house for a month or two after there homestead was overrun by freaks. Its a sad story but it gives me hope that people are at least trying to survive and rebuilt. He’s only 16 yet he’s seen so much and has nowhere else to go so I asked him if he wanted to stick with me and he was elated so I guess I’ve got a sidekick now. I’m not complaining should make the long lonely road more interesting. He’s got no combat experience but he can shoot a pistol so I gave him one of my backups at least I always carry extra. We’ve decided to hunker down for the night and do some scavenging before we leave for Charlotte tomorrow. I’ll be nice to have company for once I’ve been alone for so long.
I woke up to a gunshot and Richie screaming in the other room. When I got there I found Richie pale as snow and a little girl that was clearly infected shot lying on the floor. When I asked Richie who it was he replied in a cold distant voice “My little sister”. It was a heart breaking moment in less than 24 hours Richie had lost everyone. That was a feeling I knew too well my mom was all I had my dad died when I was really young and all I knew after the Outbreak before I left the safe haven was NARU but that wasn’t the best place to build personal connections just a bunch of science types that destroyed the world. Not exactly the most social lot and the security forces were just a bunch of military types that didn’t like the fact that as a teenager I was doing better than them in every metric except raw physical strength but even in that I was better than a lot of them. It’s almost time for us to get going I should pack up and make sure Richie’s okay.
We decided to stop by the old gun store on our way out of Raleigh. Richie mentioned seeing it when him and his dad went out to scavenge one time. He says it looked all locked up meaning there’s a good chance that there might still be something left to take. When we arrived there Richie was right it was locked tight it looked like there might be a way in from the roof so we decided to climb up when I got up there I was jumped by a freak that was just waiting but this one was different smarter in a way it heard me climbing up but instead of screaming and jumping off to get me it decided to hide and wait. In my years of freak killing I’ve never seen one that waits and ambushes. I hope this isn’t a sign that the infected are getting smarter. Anyway Richie popped it in the head and we got in to the gun store and what a find it was. I managed to get a brand new Glock 9 with a torch attachment and extended mag to replace the pistol I gave Richie. Speaking of Richie he decided on a 12 gauge pump with a tube extension and a AR-15 with a suppressor, extended mag and front grip. We also found enough ammo to keep us stocked even if we have to shoot our way to Charlotte now that we’re locked and loaded its time to leave this shit hole and start walking to the next shit hole at least for once I won’t be alone.
Chapter 4
The Road to Charlotte
We’d been walking for 60 miles before we were jumped by a gang of thugs. I caught a round to the leg before I knew what was happening Richie was more awake than me and managed to put a round through the bastards chest before his friends jumped out from behind two cars in front of us we managed to take cover behind a ruined car and we returned fire. I could see the thugs had no skill they just fired randomly in our direction while we were in cover I waited till they had to reload and tossed a molotov at one of them burning the bastard to a crisp. Richie rushed the other and unloaded some buckshot into his head. My leg hurts like a bitch. Richie bandaged it up for me he’s really starting to get used to life on the road. Looking at our map it looks like there is a gas station about 10 miles away so I guess I’ll limp my way there so we can hunker down while me leg heals. I still can’t believe I let the bastard catch me lacking but it won’t happen again
We made it too the gas station. The place looks almost perfectly preserved except the group of freaks that were shuffling around outside nothing that we couldn’t deal with. There is a lot of food and water here and we should be safe here while my leg heals. I hope we don’t run into any more problems till then. I trust Richie but he’s still learning and I’m not sure he’d be able to deal with any major problem on his own.
Its been 4 weeks since I took that shot to my leg and I’m feeling a lot better. Richie managed to find some painkiller so he was able to get the round out and everything healed nicely. He really is an amazing guy young and naive but he really is a good person. I don’t know how I did it without him for so long. It nice not being alone any more. I think I’m ready to get moving again we have about another 100 miles left to go before we get to Charlotte so we better get moving.
We’re about 20 miles from Charlotte, the roads been peaceful we ran into a group of survivors living on a pretty well fortified farm about 25 miles back. They were having issues with some freaks hanging around their water pumping station so we dealt with them for them in exchange for some antibiotics to help with an infection Richie got in his leg where he cut himself jumping a fence while a freak chased him before I could dome it. Only god knows how I didn’t get an infection in my leg after getting shot but he did from cutting himself on a rusty fence guess I’m just lucky. After helping them back we continued on our way. Nothing else interesting happened and Richie is looking a lot better and his cut is basically healed. We should get to Charlotte within the day but I want to stop on a hill on the Outskirts to set up base and get a look at the situation in the city because the farmers mentioned that a horde had passed through recently and they usually get held up in cities they should have moved on by now but better safe than sorry
Chapter 5
Charlotte
We made it to the hill outside Charlotte and the place is infested millions of freaks. I’ve never seen so many of them in one place and I think I know why. In the middle of the city is an old NARU emergency treatment centre. A place where all of the cities first infected were sent. A good plan till there were to many of them and quarantine was broken then all it was was a collection of infected right in the middle of the city which lead to the whole thing being infected much faster. I’m guessing this caused most of the freaks to pile and the smell was attracting more. Oh I forgot to mention the smell imagine a pile of thousands of rotting corpses that’s the smell I’m talking about. There’s no chance we’ll be able to get through the city but I need to get to that NARU site. There might be some old documents or something about my mom I need to find out what happened to her. I’ve spoken to Richie and we both agree that we should try and divert the horde away so we can have time to get to the NARU centre.
Richie has volunteered to draw the hordes attention away while I get to the NARU building. The plan is he triggers an explosion at an old gas station on the other side of town while I get to the building and look for information about the virus and what happened to my mom. All I know is that my mom created the virus while working for NARU. I need to find out what happened to her. I hate putting Richie at risk but it needs to be done.
I just heard the explosion and it works thousands of freaks started moving like a tidal wave of flesh towards the sound I hope Richie is on his way to the meeting place at the abandoned NARU checkpoint on the south side of town but I don’t have time to think about it now I’m almost at the NARU centre I need to be as fast as possible
I made it to the NARU centre and it’s covered in bodies there’s no way I can get in it looks more like a pile of living human corpses than a building I’m guessing the freaks all turned on and consumed each other till they were all stuck and fused together. I’m making my way to the NARU checkpoint I hope Richie is already there and safe.
I made it to the NARU checkpoint and reunited with Richie. He was covered in blood and gore. He had to kill hundreds of freaks to make it here. He says he was almost bitten a few times. I can’t believe I risked his life for nothing. I’ll never do it again. While exploring the place I found this.
20 March 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
Dixie is at the Safe zone.
I can’t live with myself any more. 4 billion people dead
The final communication between my mom and NARU it turns out she couldn’t live with the guilt and decided to kill herself. I can’t blame her I would probably do the same if I was the reason the world ended and killed billions of people but it still breaks my heart. I am happy to know she’s dead and not infected lumbering around somewhere.
Richie is exhausted and so am I were going to take a brake here and continue on to Atlanta tomorrow.
Everything is packed up and we’re ready to go. Last night was rough I kept watch while Richie slept I hate to admit it but I think I’m falling in love with him. I never really had a first love I live for 13 years at NARU but I was the oldest kid there by far by the time any of the boys were close to my age I was already jaded and thinking about leaving so I didn’t pay any attention to them but Richie is different when I found him he was so helpless and lost now he’s strong, confident and he’s so loyal to me. I don’t want to speak to soon by I think he might feel the same way I guess time will tell we still have a long road to walk together. Speaking of walking Atlanta here we come.
Chapter 6
Road to Atlanta
We ran into a group of survivors hiding in a shed on the outskirts of Charlotte on our way home two parents and a little girl they were all bitten and waiting to turn they begged us to put them down before they turned so I did but I think it took a toll on Richie. He’s been almost silent since it must’ve reminded him of his parents and little sister I hope the day never comes that one of us get bitten and the other one has to decide whether or not to do it but if it does I hope Richie has what it takes to put me down if not I hope I get to do it myself before I turn but I shouldn’t be thinking about things like that. Thinking about your own death is a pretty sure-fire way to make it happen.
We ran into a pretty large group of infected must’ve been about 20 of them but all of them behaved the same as the one that jumped me on the roof of the gun store back in Raleigh. I guess that confirms that it wasn’t a once off thing but I still wonder what causes it maybe I’ll find out one day. We took them all down and continued on I hate to admit it but I really enjoy killing freaks call it therapy I guess. Richie is running low on ammo for his 12 gauge. There should be a gun store in about 30 miles so we should be able to restock there. My ammo supplies are also running a bit low only got about a hundred rounds per gun left. I know that sounds like a lot but with all the freaks on the roads it barely enough after Raleigh I had about a 500 per gun. Lets hope we don’t run into any large hordes till we get to the gun store.
We made it to the gun store just to find it controlled by 2 less than friendly guys. They opened fire as soon as they same us. We returned fire and we’re about to enter the store. Richie kicked the door down and I rushed in I let of two shots taking down the one guy the other was a second away from filling me with bullets from his Uzi but luckily Richie put a round through his chest and another through his right eye before he could. Thank god. I don’t know what I would do without him. We’ve decided to rest tonight and continue tomorrow morning.
Dixie: “Hey Richie”
Richie: “Hey Dixie”
Dixie: ”How you feeling buddy”
Richie: ”Oh you know always OK”
Dixie: ”That’s good buddy”
Richie: “Hey Dixie thank you for everything you really are the best thing that ever happened to me”
Dixie: ”Don’t mention it buddy I love you”
We’re almost 20 miles away from Atlanta and I’m not hopeful judging by smell. I’m guessing its going to be a lot worse than Charlotte but we’ll have to wait and see.
We’ve made it to the outskirts of Atlanta and its as bad as I thought there are hundreds of body piles almost the size of buildings. The living freaks move around the city streets like blood through the veins of the body. Some of them are engaged in massive fights with other groups ripping each other apart.
We’re going in tomorrow but for now Richie’s hunting while I scope out the area. I hope he brings some venison anything but rabbit. I’m sick of rabbit meat. When he comes back I want to try and cuddle up to him and see what happens
Richie and I have eaten and we’re getting ready to sleep. I asked Richie if I could sleep in his sleeping bag with him. He looked at me like I was crazy but once I insisted I was serious I could see the joy on his face so we cuddled up for the night and went to sleep
Wow it felt so amazing sleeping in Richie’s arms and today everything feels different but in a good way everything just feels more intimate we had an amazing conversation about life this morning and it feels like our bond is on a whole new level. Its time to go explore Atlanta there should be an old NARU field hospital on the North-side of town but we’ve got a whole city to get through before that.
Chapter 7
Atlanta
Atlanta is a nightmare right now we’re stuck in a pharmacy bunch of freaks trying to get to us. I’m busy wiring up a pipe bomb while Richie holds the door then when I’m done BOOM
Richie Move....
BOOM....
Well that’s one way to deal with freaks. Always hate being covered in gore though. We’re near the city centre now and its as bad as we thought the place is infested with freaks every building, street and alley we’ve been fighting for every mile we’ve been moving basically carving our way through the city leaving streets flooded in blood but its worth it I can see the NARU hospital and it looks like I might be able to get in this time.
We’re Exploring the NARU hospital and its a goldmine I found a bunch of old documentation on the virus and even some reports of small towns keeping quarantine for years after the Fall. There’s also apparently an old supply and weapons depot nearby so were going there next.
Richie has been opening up a lot his little sister was out playing when a freak got her. Her parents couldn’t put her down so she turned and bit them he hid in the bathroom for 2 days before I got there and put then out of the misery. I wish I could understand how he feels because I never had anyone except my mom and I lost her so young so it never really affected me. I love him so much. This would be so difficult without him.
We made it to the NARU supply depot and it basically empty I mean it make sense Atlanta was one of the first city to fall due to vast number of infected that moved in from the nearby NARU detention camp. That was a bright idea locking up a bunch infected in one place and expecting the place to last. So the city fell to chaos pretty quickly and NARU withdrew most likely taking everything with them that or it was looted after the city fell doesn’t matter now its almost night and we should get some rest we’re going to camp on a nearby rooftop.
Sitting on the roof with Richie and a fire I can’t help but feel like life isn’t that bad yeah its not what it used to be but I mean I have food and freedom and someone I love what more could someone want from life. Looking out at the desolate streets full of freaks well except the streets we pushed through I see the death of the old world and the birth of a new one.
I should get to sleep we got a long road to Birmingham tomorrow. Its so warm and cosy pressed up against Richie.
Chapter 8
The Road To Birmingham
On our way out of Atlanta we ran into a huge freak and I mean a huge motherfucker must’ve been at least 10 feet tall and covered in muscle it looked like it was made of at least 5 other freaks. He tossed Richie against a car and knocked him out I managed to chop one of its arms off before it threw me 10 feat in the air and I crashed down on my back and passed out when I woke up Richie was putting round after round in the things chest and it still wouldn’t go down to I ran jumped on its back and used my machete to chop the freaks head off and burnt the body with a molotov just to be sure the thing was dead
Richie was pretty beat up and I’m not going to lie so was I my back hurts like a bitch but we keep on going no matter what because we still have each other. Still I wonder how those freaks got combined into that thing. Maybe that’s why they pile the way they do so they can combine into something bigger I remember something in one of the NARU document mentioning the virus being able to cause “cellular recombination” so I wonder if that’s not maybe what happened and if it is it means things are about to get a lot worse and a lot more dangerous.
We’re about 50 miles always from Birmingham now. The road has been pretty quite only the occasional group of freaks and the group of raiders we ran into outside a gas station awhile back but this time we got the drop on them and not the other way round gave all three of them a new hole in the head Richie was worried that they might be survivors till we found Sandra tied up in the gas station bathroom turns out the bastards grabbed her from her family farm during the night a few days ago and have been taking turns on her over and over since then. We agreed to take her home its the least we could do after everything that happened to her. When we got her home we found the place burnt down and her family butchered outside. I’m guessing after they grabbed her the bastards came back to finish the job. She’s decided to stick with us she’s a lot older than me and Richie. She used to be a nurse before the Outbreak she dealt with some of the first infected until NARU took over the hospitals. When things really started to go bad she moved back to Alabama to her old family farm to live with her parents they managed to set everything up before the Fall and have been living there since well till recently. She’s pretty shook about the whole situation but she should be okay in a day or two. We’ve all lost something in this new world.
We’ve made it to the outskirts of Birmingham and the place is a fortress looks like remnants of the US military and NARU have fortified the place they have watch towers, auto-turrents and armed patrols. Also looks like they have a lot of military hardware. I know better than to approach the main gate NARU has a shoot on site order for all there quarantine zones no reason to assume this place would be any different. Still I have to get a look inside. Tonight while Richie and Sandra set up camp I’m going to look around and see if I can find a way in. I have to know what’s going on here.
I’ve taken a look around and I’ve found a way in through an old sewer pipe running into an old factory from there I should be able to sneak into the city and have a look around maybe they have some new information on the virus or at least I should be able to find some weapons for Sandra
Chapter 9
Birmingham
Richie and Sandra are waiting for me back at camp while I go explore the city. I left most of my kit behind except my Glock and combat knife. I’m not planning on getting into any fights and if I do I want the finished as quickly as possible. I’ve made it to the sewer pipe it should lead me to the sewer grate I saw on the other side of the fence from there I should have free reign over the city as long as I avoid the NARU patrols and don’t draw to much attention to myself.
I’ve made it into the city and it looks like something out of a George Orwell novel. Security cameras on every street, I’ve seen security forces beat a man to death and another group drag a young women kicking and screaming into an abandoned building. I hate to say it but I think life is better outside with the freaks than in here. Can’t say I’m surprised there’s a reason I left the NARU security forces and the safe zone. Lets just say civilian life and happiness has never been on their priority list. I can see a NARU supply depot I should be able to get a uniform and standard load out last I remember NARU doesn’t have a way of removing employees from the database so my security id number should still work.
I was right NARU never changes I just used my id to get a brand new NARU-P-2a NARU's home grown assault rifle basically its everything the AR-15 is but better its literally a gun made for killing freaks and you can feel it. I always wished I stole one when I left but I guess better late than never I also scanned through a few of the latest security reports and it seems like big guys like we fought back in Atlanta are becoming more common as well as a new faster infected with razor sharp claws that hunt and ambush their victims. We haven’t ran into one of those yet and I hope we don’t any time soon. I hope Richie and Sandra are okay, they should be we have no shortage of fire-power but I still worry. I’m going to keep taking a look around and maybe find out how they’ve maintained quarantine for so long
Well I got my answer and its not a good one. The NARU higher ups here basically outlawed being sick. Anyone with any symptoms that might be HRV-1 are immediately executed and burnt without exception I guess that’s one way to maintain quarantine but I can’t help but wonder how many thousands of innocent people have died to maintain it.
I think its about time I get out of here and back to Richie and Sandra.
I made it back to camp. I’m so happy to be back with Richie. He went out hunting and brought back a nice fat wild pig for dinner. Sandra is looking a lot better as well she still has that distant look in her eye but that should go away soon
Next stop Montgomery Alabama.
Chapter 10
The Road to Montgomery
I still can’t get it out of my head. The freaks are changing getting more dangerous, if I understand correctly the longer they are infected the more unstable the virus gets leading to mutations. I hope this doesn’t mean that the longer we survive the harder its going to get but there’s no point in worrying about whether or not the freaks are going to be stronger in the future as long as we make sure we get stronger too it should work out just fine. Richie and I are doing really well our love kinda makes everything a lot easier. Gives us a reason if that makes sense Sandra on the other hand is kinda dead weight if I’m being honest but its not her fault. She’s been through a lot Richie and I do our best to look out for her and take care of her. I just wish she’d start to adjust to life out here she still winches every time we take out a group of freaks or thugs and she’s a bleeding heart. Yesterday as we were going past a little abandoned convenience store we heard a little girl crying when we asked what was wrong she said they were trapped and needed help. It was obviously a trap we could see the store was fortified and the little girl looked too happy for a kid whose parents were stuck and dying but Sandra insisted we go in and help and what do you know the kids parents are perfectly healthy and holding us at gun point luckily I’m pretty quick on the draw and managed to put two rounds through the fathers chest and Richie tackled the mom. I walked up to the big dude and put one through the head to make sure the mom learns her lesson. We agreed to let her and her daughter live as long as the promised to stop robbing travellers. Sandra couldn’t handle the fact that I finished the dad off even though I think that was better than leaving his family to watch him bleed out because there was no way he would have survive I shot him through both of his lungs they would have filled up with blood and he would have chocked to death I did him a favour by putting him down but she didn’t see it that way even threatened to go it on her own until Richie and I told her to go ahead if she really thought it was the best thing for her. She then decided to stick with us
We’re nearly at the outskirts of Montgomery, we just passed the old civil rights monument. The roads been a bit too still I have a bad feeling about what we’re going to find when we get there
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by Ethan O’Driscoll
A thrilling Post apocalypse story
Intro
HRV-1
22 July 2024
Dr Olivia Warren Head of Biotech NARU
This is my latest report on the HRV-1 Virus we were instructed to design by the Russian Government.
The HRV-1 is an incredibly viral and infectious Retrovirus similar to HIV. Changes have been make on a genetic level to provide the request modes of transmission and symptoms.
Those symptoms are:
- Profuse bleeding from the mouth, eyes, lips, gums and pores of the skin
- Confusion
- Coma
- Total organ failure leading to death
- Reanimation after death and post-mortem hypo-aggression
The infection vectors are:
- bodily fluids
- contaminated area
- ANYTHING that has come in contact with infected bodily fluids
- airborne droplets
Chapter 1
The Outbreak
1 January 2025
Dr Olivia Warren Head of Biotech NARU
I can’t believe the bastards used it. The first cases came in from Kiev in December from there it spread like a wild fire through Europe the death toll now sits at 65 millions. The hordes rampage through city after city by the millions. There is no way to stop this. What have I done.
NATO forces have established a quarantine of Europe but I can’t help but feel like its too little too late. My estimate is that all infected nations in Europe will be consumed within the next month or two. The Corporation has started the construction of a company safe haven for us higher ups. All we can do is hope the construction is complete before this thing breaks quarantine.
15 February 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
The world is ending. Europe is gone. The quarantine is broken. We’ve got cases in Asia, South America, Here at home in the US, Australia and Africa nowhere is safe. I did this.
Infection number right now:
- Africa 100 Million
- Europe 890 Million
- Asia 250 Million
- North America 250 Thousand
- South America 120 Million
- Australia 24 Million
The safe zone is complete at least we are planning on moving all operations and personal within the week. I don’t know how I’m going to live with myself. Dixie is my only saving grace and at least she’ll be safe. I pray for the soul of all those my creation has killed.
20 March 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
Dixie is at the Safe zone.
I can’t live with myself any more. 4 billion people dead
Chapter 2
A New World
My name is Dixie Warren. Daughter of Dr Olivia Warren. Not that I’ve seen her in 15 years. I remember like it was yesterday. She told me to get on that NARU helicopter that she’d meet me at the safe zone. Those were the last words she ever said to me. I was 8 when the world ended.
Its been 15 years since the Outbreak. There isn’t really anything left of the old world. NARU still exists and turns out they created the virus and my mom was the head of the department that did it. They sold it to the Russians hoping they wouldn’t use it but they did.
It was specifically designed to spread and destroy as fast as possible and it did. I left the safe zone 2 years ago after I learned this information. Now I just spend my time wandering from town to town. My training on the NARU security team helps. At least I know all the best places to shoot a Freaker. That's what we call the infected and for good reason. Most of the time you’ll find them wondering around in groups of 5 to 10 if the group gets too big they turn on each other and form a pile of bodies devouring each other. They moan and scream to communicate and once they see you they will hunt you till you kill every last on of them or you get far enough away. They can run and are abnormally strong if there bodies aren’t damaged they’re a bitch to kill but I’m pretty good at it.
Right now I’m outside Richmond I’ve been stuck here for a week waiting for a large horde to move through. I’m hoping to hunt some of the stragglers and re-up on some supplies. A big horde like this usually leave a few hundred behind. My new AR has been waiting for some fun, I’ve got a new red dot and laser so I should be able to pop headshot after headshot but for now I should go find something to eat.
I’ve made it to a small department store outside the town. It looks like the horde is almost gone. Tons of freaks roaming around though. I can hear a few in the store. I’m going to try getting in through the back and take them out.
Made it back home and wow that store was a gold mine. I got food, water, bullets and even some whiskey. I’m going to enjoy the night then its time to hunt some stragglers. Then I’m thinking of going further south maybe New Orleans heard there might be a small settlement out there from another traveller, might be able to get another courier job or at least I’ll be able to stock up on supplies properly after all these years there isn’t much left in the cities to scavenge.
I better get some rest got a long day of freak killing and walking tomorrow.
Chapter 3
The Road to Home
I left Richmond yesterday. It’s a long road to New Orleans I wished I lived in the days when cars worked. NARU are the only people with working vehicles left and they aren’t exactly the sharing type. Its so lonely out here its been weeks since I last saw another living person the only things you see out here in the ruins are freaks by the hundreds. Its hard to believe the whole world was reduced to nothing by something my mom created. I remember her being the kindest most caring person in the world to think that she could create something so destructive is unbelievable. I’ve still got a long way to go the first city I should have to go through is Raleigh.
I’ve been walking for about a day and I can see the ruins from here. Its always so surreal to see the cities now, so desolate so empty. I remember growing up in Seattle, the city lights, the noise it was always so alive and busy. Now they’re all empty husks or mostly empty at least can’t forget about the freaks. Must’ve killed a thousand of them on my way here almost got bitten when one jumped me under an overpass about 10 miles back. Luckily my machete seems to be as good as ever at cutting up freaks. I should make it to Raleigh within the day.
Made it to Raleigh and its a mess, thousands of freaks I could hear the moaning and screaming from a mile away. I’m going to try finding my way around the city no point in trying to fight my way through a wall of freaks.
Heard crying coming from a house I walked past I decided to check it out and I found a young boy name Richie hiding in a bathroom with what looked like his infected parents trying to break the door down. I took both of them down with a clean headshot. The look on his face when he saw them dead breaks my heart. He says they’ve been hiding out in this house for a month or two after there homestead was overrun by freaks. Its a sad story but it gives me hope that people are at least trying to survive and rebuilt. He’s only 16 yet he’s seen so much and has nowhere else to go so I asked him if he wanted to stick with me and he was elated so I guess I’ve got a sidekick now. I’m not complaining should make the long lonely road more interesting. He’s got no combat experience but he can shoot a pistol so I gave him one of my backups at least I always carry extra. We’ve decided to hunker down for the night and do some scavenging before we leave for Charlotte tomorrow. I’ll be nice to have company for once I’ve been alone for so long.
I woke up to a gunshot and Richie screaming in the other room. When I got there I found Richie pale as snow and a little girl that was clearly infected shot lying on the floor. When I asked Richie who it was he replied in a cold distant voice “My little sister”. It was a heart breaking moment in less than 24 hours Richie had lost everyone. That was a feeling I knew too well my mom was all I had my dad died when I was really young and all I knew after the Outbreak before I left the safe haven was NARU but that wasn’t the best place to build personal connections just a bunch of science types that destroyed the world. Not exactly the most social lot and the security forces were just a bunch of military types that didn’t like the fact that as a teenager I was doing better than them in every metric except raw physical strength but even in that I was better than a lot of them. It’s almost time for us to get going I should pack up and make sure Richie’s okay.
We decided to stop by the old gun store on our way out of Raleigh. Richie mentioned seeing it when him and his dad went out to scavenge one time. He says it looked all locked up meaning there’s a good chance that there might still be something left to take. When we arrived there Richie was right it was locked tight it looked like there might be a way in from the roof so we decided to climb up when I got up there I was jumped by a freak that was just waiting but this one was different smarter in a way it heard me climbing up but instead of screaming and jumping off to get me it decided to hide and wait. In my years of freak killing I’ve never seen one that waits and ambushes. I hope this isn’t a sign that the infected are getting smarter. Anyway Richie popped it in the head and we got in to the gun store and what a find it was. I managed to get a brand new Glock 9 with a torch attachment and extended mag to replace the pistol I gave Richie. Speaking of Richie he decided on a 12 gauge pump with a tube extension and a AR-15 with a suppressor, extended mag and front grip. We also found enough ammo to keep us stocked even if we have to shoot our way to Charlotte now that we’re locked and loaded its time to leave this shit hole and start walking to the next shit hole at least for once I won’t be alone.
Chapter 4
The Road to Charlotte
We’d been walking for 60 miles before we were jumped by a gang of thugs. I caught a round to the leg before I knew what was happening Richie was more awake than me and managed to put a round through the bastards chest before his friends jumped out from behind two cars in front of us we managed to take cover behind a ruined car and we returned fire. I could see the thugs had no skill they just fired randomly in our direction while we were in cover I waited till they had to reload and tossed a molotov at one of them burning the bastard to a crisp. Richie rushed the other and unloaded some buckshot into his head. My leg hurts like a bitch. Richie bandaged it up for me he’s really starting to get used to life on the road. Looking at our map it looks like there is a gas station about 10 miles away so I guess I’ll limp my way there so we can hunker down while me leg heals. I still can’t believe I let the bastard catch me lacking but it won’t happen again
We made it too the gas station. The place looks almost perfectly preserved except the group of freaks that were shuffling around outside nothing that we couldn’t deal with. There is a lot of food and water here and we should be safe here while my leg heals. I hope we don’t run into any more problems till then. I trust Richie but he’s still learning and I’m not sure he’d be able to deal with any major problem on his own.
Its been 4 weeks since I took that shot to my leg and I’m feeling a lot better. Richie managed to find some painkiller so he was able to get the round out and everything healed nicely. He really is an amazing guy young and naive but he really is a good person. I don’t know how I did it without him for so long. It nice not being alone any more. I think I’m ready to get moving again we have about another 100 miles left to go before we get to Charlotte so we better get moving.
We’re about 20 miles from Charlotte, the roads been peaceful we ran into a group of survivors living on a pretty well fortified farm about 25 miles back. They were having issues with some freaks hanging around their water pumping station so we dealt with them for them in exchange for some antibiotics to help with an infection Richie got in his leg where he cut himself jumping a fence while a freak chased him before I could dome it. Only god knows how I didn’t get an infection in my leg after getting shot but he did from cutting himself on a rusty fence guess I’m just lucky. After helping them back we continued on our way. Nothing else interesting happened and Richie is looking a lot better and his cut is basically healed. We should get to Charlotte within the day but I want to stop on a hill on the Outskirts to set up base and get a look at the situation in the city because the farmers mentioned that a horde had passed through recently and they usually get held up in cities they should have moved on by now but better safe than sorry
Chapter 5
Charlotte
We made it to the hill outside Charlotte and the place is infested millions of freaks. I’ve never seen so many of them in one place and I think I know why. In the middle of the city is an old NARU emergency treatment centre. A place where all of the cities first infected were sent. A good plan till there were to many of them and quarantine was broken then all it was was a collection of infected right in the middle of the city which lead to the whole thing being infected much faster. I’m guessing this caused most of the freaks to pile and the smell was attracting more. Oh I forgot to mention the smell imagine a pile of thousands of rotting corpses that’s the smell I’m talking about. There’s no chance we’ll be able to get through the city but I need to get to that NARU site. There might be some old documents or something about my mom I need to find out what happened to her. I’ve spoken to Richie and we both agree that we should try and divert the horde away so we can have time to get to the NARU centre.
Richie has volunteered to draw the hordes attention away while I get to the NARU building. The plan is he triggers an explosion at an old gas station on the other side of town while I get to the building and look for information about the virus and what happened to my mom. All I know is that my mom created the virus while working for NARU. I need to find out what happened to her. I hate putting Richie at risk but it needs to be done.
I just heard the explosion and it works thousands of freaks started moving like a tidal wave of flesh towards the sound I hope Richie is on his way to the meeting place at the abandoned NARU checkpoint on the south side of town but I don’t have time to think about it now I’m almost at the NARU centre I need to be as fast as possible
I made it to the NARU centre and it’s covered in bodies there’s no way I can get in it looks more like a pile of living human corpses than a building I’m guessing the freaks all turned on and consumed each other till they were all stuck and fused together. I’m making my way to the NARU checkpoint I hope Richie is already there and safe.
I made it to the NARU checkpoint and reunited with Richie. He was covered in blood and gore. He had to kill hundreds of freaks to make it here. He says he was almost bitten a few times. I can’t believe I risked his life for nothing. I’ll never do it again. While exploring the place I found this.
20 March 2025
Dr Olivia Warren
Dixie is at the Safe zone.
I can’t live with myself any more. 4 billion people dead
The final communication between my mom and NARU it turns out she couldn’t live with the guilt and decided to kill herself. I can’t blame her I would probably do the same if I was the reason the world ended and killed billions of people but it still breaks my heart. I am happy to know she’s dead and not infected lumbering around somewhere.
Richie is exhausted and so am I were going to take a brake here and continue on to Atlanta tomorrow.
Everything is packed up and we’re ready to go. Last night was rough I kept watch while Richie slept I hate to admit it but I think I’m falling in love with him. I never really had a first love I live for 13 years at NARU but I was the oldest kid there by far by the time any of the boys were close to my age I was already jaded and thinking about leaving so I didn’t pay any attention to them but Richie is different when I found him he was so helpless and lost now he’s strong, confident and he’s so loyal to me. I don’t want to speak to soon by I think he might feel the same way I guess time will tell we still have a long road to walk together. Speaking of walking Atlanta here we come.
Chapter 6
Road to Atlanta
We ran into a group of survivors hiding in a shed on the outskirts of Charlotte on our way home two parents and a little girl they were all bitten and waiting to turn they begged us to put them down before they turned so I did but I think it took a toll on Richie. He’s been almost silent since it must’ve reminded him of his parents and little sister I hope the day never comes that one of us get bitten and the other one has to decide whether or not to do it but if it does I hope Richie has what it takes to put me down if not I hope I get to do it myself before I turn but I shouldn’t be thinking about things like that. Thinking about your own death is a pretty sure-fire way to make it happen.
We ran into a pretty large group of infected must’ve been about 20 of them but all of them behaved the same as the one that jumped me on the roof of the gun store back in Raleigh. I guess that confirms that it wasn’t a once off thing but I still wonder what causes it maybe I’ll find out one day. We took them all down and continued on I hate to admit it but I really enjoy killing freaks call it therapy I guess. Richie is running low on ammo for his 12 gauge. There should be a gun store in about 30 miles so we should be able to restock there. My ammo supplies are also running a bit low only got about a hundred rounds per gun left. I know that sounds like a lot but with all the freaks on the roads it barely enough after Raleigh I had about a 500 per gun. Lets hope we don’t run into any large hordes till we get to the gun store.
We made it to the gun store just to find it controlled by 2 less than friendly guys. They opened fire as soon as they same us. We returned fire and we’re about to enter the store. Richie kicked the door down and I rushed in I let of two shots taking down the one guy the other was a second away from filling me with bullets from his Uzi but luckily Richie put a round through his chest and another through his right eye before he could. Thank god. I don’t know what I would do without him. We’ve decided to rest tonight and continue tomorrow morning.
Dixie: “Hey Richie”
Richie: “Hey Dixie”
Dixie: ”How you feeling buddy”
Richie: ”Oh you know always OK”
Dixie: ”That’s good buddy”
Richie: “Hey Dixie thank you for everything you really are the best thing that ever happened to me”
Dixie: ”Don’t mention it buddy I love you”
We’re almost 20 miles away from Atlanta and I’m not hopeful judging by smell. I’m guessing its going to be a lot worse than Charlotte but we’ll have to wait and see.
We’ve made it to the outskirts of Atlanta and its as bad as I thought there are hundreds of body piles almost the size of buildings. The living freaks move around the city streets like blood through the veins of the body. Some of them are engaged in massive fights with other groups ripping each other apart.
We’re going in tomorrow but for now Richie’s hunting while I scope out the area. I hope he brings some venison anything but rabbit. I’m sick of rabbit meat. When he comes back I want to try and cuddle up to him and see what happens
Richie and I have eaten and we’re getting ready to sleep. I asked Richie if I could sleep in his sleeping bag with him. He looked at me like I was crazy but once I insisted I was serious I could see the joy on his face so we cuddled up for the night and went to sleep
Wow it felt so amazing sleeping in Richie’s arms and today everything feels different but in a good way everything just feels more intimate we had an amazing conversation about life this morning and it feels like our bond is on a whole new level. Its time to go explore Atlanta there should be an old NARU field hospital on the North-side of town but we’ve got a whole city to get through before that.
Chapter 7
Atlanta
Atlanta is a nightmare right now we’re stuck in a pharmacy bunch of freaks trying to get to us. I’m busy wiring up a pipe bomb while Richie holds the door then when I’m done BOOM
Richie Move....
BOOM....
Well that’s one way to deal with freaks. Always hate being covered in gore though. We’re near the city centre now and its as bad as we thought the place is infested with freaks every building, street and alley we’ve been fighting for every mile we’ve been moving basically carving our way through the city leaving streets flooded in blood but its worth it I can see the NARU hospital and it looks like I might be able to get in this time.
We’re Exploring the NARU hospital and its a goldmine I found a bunch of old documentation on the virus and even some reports of small towns keeping quarantine for years after the Fall. There’s also apparently an old supply and weapons depot nearby so were going there next.
Richie has been opening up a lot his little sister was out playing when a freak got her. Her parents couldn’t put her down so she turned and bit them he hid in the bathroom for 2 days before I got there and put then out of the misery. I wish I could understand how he feels because I never had anyone except my mom and I lost her so young so it never really affected me. I love him so much. This would be so difficult without him.
We made it to the NARU supply depot and it basically empty I mean it make sense Atlanta was one of the first city to fall due to vast number of infected that moved in from the nearby NARU detention camp. That was a bright idea locking up a bunch infected in one place and expecting the place to last. So the city fell to chaos pretty quickly and NARU withdrew most likely taking everything with them that or it was looted after the city fell doesn’t matter now its almost night and we should get some rest we’re going to camp on a nearby rooftop.
Sitting on the roof with Richie and a fire I can’t help but feel like life isn’t that bad yeah its not what it used to be but I mean I have food and freedom and someone I love what more could someone want from life. Looking out at the desolate streets full of freaks well except the streets we pushed through I see the death of the old world and the birth of a new one.
I should get to sleep we got a long road to Birmingham tomorrow. Its so warm and cosy pressed up against Richie.
Chapter 8
The Road To Birmingham
On our way out of Atlanta we ran into a huge freak and I mean a huge motherfucker must’ve been at least 10 feet tall and covered in muscle it looked like it was made of at least 5 other freaks. He tossed Richie against a car and knocked him out I managed to chop one of its arms off before it threw me 10 feat in the air and I crashed down on my back and passed out when I woke up Richie was putting round after round in the things chest and it still wouldn’t go down to I ran jumped on its back and used my machete to chop the freaks head off and burnt the body with a molotov just to be sure the thing was dead
Richie was pretty beat up and I’m not going to lie so was I my back hurts like a bitch but we keep on going no matter what because we still have each other. Still I wonder how those freaks got combined into that thing. Maybe that’s why they pile the way they do so they can combine into something bigger I remember something in one of the NARU document mentioning the virus being able to cause “cellular recombination” so I wonder if that’s not maybe what happened and if it is it means things are about to get a lot worse and a lot more dangerous.
We’re about 50 miles always from Birmingham now. The road has been pretty quite only the occasional group of freaks and the group of raiders we ran into outside a gas station awhile back but this time we got the drop on them and not the other way round gave all three of them a new hole in the head Richie was worried that they might be survivors till we found Sandra tied up in the gas station bathroom turns out the bastards grabbed her from her family farm during the night a few days ago and have been taking turns on her over and over since then. We agreed to take her home its the least we could do after everything that happened to her. When we got her home we found the place burnt down and her family butchered outside. I’m guessing after they grabbed her the bastards came back to finish the job. She’s decided to stick with us she’s a lot older than me and Richie. She used to be a nurse before the Outbreak she dealt with some of the first infected until NARU took over the hospitals. When things really started to go bad she moved back to Alabama to her old family farm to live with her parents they managed to set everything up before the Fall and have been living there since well till recently. She’s pretty shook about the whole situation but she should be okay in a day or two. We’ve all lost something in this new world.
We’ve made it to the outskirts of Birmingham and the place is a fortress looks like remnants of the US military and NARU have fortified the place they have watch towers, auto-turrents and armed patrols. Also looks like they have a lot of military hardware. I know better than to approach the main gate NARU has a shoot on site order for all there quarantine zones no reason to assume this place would be any different. Still I have to get a look inside. Tonight while Richie and Sandra set up camp I’m going to look around and see if I can find a way in. I have to know what’s going on here.
I’ve taken a look around and I’ve found a way in through an old sewer pipe running into an old factory from there I should be able to sneak into the city and have a look around maybe they have some new information on the virus or at least I should be able to find some weapons for Sandra
Chapter 9
Birmingham
Richie and Sandra are waiting for me back at camp while I go explore the city. I left most of my kit behind except my Glock and combat knife. I’m not planning on getting into any fights and if I do I want the finished as quickly as possible. I’ve made it to the sewer pipe it should lead me to the sewer grate I saw on the other side of the fence from there I should have free reign over the city as long as I avoid the NARU patrols and don’t draw to much attention to myself.
I’ve made it into the city and it looks like something out of a George Orwell novel. Security cameras on every street, I’ve seen security forces beat a man to death and another group drag a young women kicking and screaming into an abandoned building. I hate to say it but I think life is better outside with the freaks than in here. Can’t say I’m surprised there’s a reason I left the NARU security forces and the safe zone. Lets just say civilian life and happiness has never been on their priority list. I can see a NARU supply depot I should be able to get a uniform and standard load out last I remember NARU doesn’t have a way of removing employees from the database so my security id number should still work.
I was right NARU never changes I just used my id to get a brand new NARU-P-2a NARU's home grown assault rifle basically its everything the AR-15 is but better its literally a gun made for killing freaks and you can feel it. I always wished I stole one when I left but I guess better late than never I also scanned through a few of the latest security reports and it seems like big guys like we fought back in Atlanta are becoming more common as well as a new faster infected with razor sharp claws that hunt and ambush their victims. We haven’t ran into one of those yet and I hope we don’t any time soon. I hope Richie and Sandra are okay, they should be we have no shortage of fire-power but I still worry. I’m going to keep taking a look around and maybe find out how they’ve maintained quarantine for so long
Well I got my answer and its not a good one. The NARU higher ups here basically outlawed being sick. Anyone with any symptoms that might be HRV-1 are immediately executed and burnt without exception I guess that’s one way to maintain quarantine but I can’t help but wonder how many thousands of innocent people have died to maintain it.
I think its about time I get out of here and back to Richie and Sandra.
I made it back to camp. I’m so happy to be back with Richie. He went out hunting and brought back a nice fat wild pig for dinner. Sandra is looking a lot better as well she still has that distant look in her eye but that should go away soon
Next stop Montgomery Alabama.
Chapter 10
The Road to Montgomery
I still can’t get it out of my head. The freaks are changing getting more dangerous, if I understand correctly the longer they are infected the more unstable the virus gets leading to mutations. I hope this doesn’t mean that the longer we survive the harder its going to get but there’s no point in worrying about whether or not the freaks are going to be stronger in the future as long as we make sure we get stronger too it should work out just fine. Richie and I are doing really well our love kinda makes everything a lot easier. Gives us a reason if that makes sense Sandra on the other hand is kinda dead weight if I’m being honest but its not her fault. She’s been through a lot Richie and I do our best to look out for her and take care of her. I just wish she’d start to adjust to life out here she still winches every time we take out a group of freaks or thugs and she’s a bleeding heart. Yesterday as we were going past a little abandoned convenience store we heard a little girl crying when we asked what was wrong she said they were trapped and needed help. It was obviously a trap we could see the store was fortified and the little girl looked too happy for a kid whose parents were stuck and dying but Sandra insisted we go in and help and what do you know the kids parents are perfectly healthy and holding us at gun point luckily I’m pretty quick on the draw and managed to put two rounds through the fathers chest and Richie tackled the mom. I walked up to the big dude and put one through the head to make sure the mom learns her lesson. We agreed to let her and her daughter live as long as the promised to stop robbing travellers. Sandra couldn’t handle the fact that I finished the dad off even though I think that was better than leaving his family to watch him bleed out because there was no way he would have survive I shot him through both of his lungs they would have filled up with blood and he would have chocked to death I did him a favour by putting him down but she didn’t see it that way even threatened to go it on her own until Richie and I told her to go ahead if she really thought it was the best thing for her. She then decided to stick with us
We’re nearly at the outskirts of Montgomery, we just passed the old civil rights monument. The roads been a bit too still I have a bad feeling about what we’re going to find when we get there
2024.05.15 01:55 FetishUnimagined Should I expect perfectly leveled frets on NEW Guitars Under $1500?
I may be too picky for modern guitar manufacturing standards, but I feel that every guitar costing at least $1000 should have perfectly leveled frets out of the box. I understand the impact of humidity changes, wood expansion, shrinking, etc., but properly seasoned wood should handle transportation just fine. In the last few months, I have returned 2 MIA Fenders, LTD 1000, Schecter Hybrid, and HB Amarok, all guitars had unleveled frets to some extent, setting a relatively low action would cause fret buzz or dead notes.
Of course, I check the frets with a fret rocker :)
The funny thing is that my old Squier has perfectly leveled frets to this day (never been leveled by a luthier), and I can set a 1mm action (above the 12th fret), and it just works!
What is your opinion? Should I accept that I won't get 100% perfectly leveled frets out of the box, and every guitar needs fret leveling or PLEK to be playable at very low action?
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Of course, I check the frets with a fret rocker :)
The funny thing is that my old Squier has perfectly leveled frets to this day (never been leveled by a luthier), and I can set a 1mm action (above the 12th fret), and it just works!
What is your opinion? Should I accept that I won't get 100% perfectly leveled frets out of the box, and every guitar needs fret leveling or PLEK to be playable at very low action?
2024.05.15 01:47 Rare-Firefighter-415 Advice on how to buy purchase our first home in London?
Hi All, first time on Reddit. A friend of mine suggested this subreddit for advice, thanks in advance for any help. I recently inherited some large sum of cash, would like to have some advice on how to use it to purchase a house in or around London. Thanks!
A bit about my wife (30F) and I (28M): We both work in tech, my wife (EU national) has a masters degree from a major EU university on AI/data science and currently works as a software engineer with a data engineering lean, in a scale up based in London, she earns £80k with about £5000 worth of equity per year on top, no bonuses. She does have to commute to the office in central London twice to three times a week. I (non UK/EU national) am a research scientist in another start-up, I have a Physics PhD from OxBridge. Currently earning about £85k, with almost £50k in EMI options per year. I work almost 100% remote, office attendances once a month.
Finances: - £45k each in S&S ISAs. - £15k each in savings accounts. - £335k from inheritance - saving close to £5000 per month in total. - rent is £2500 atm, we are quite frugal and don’t spend much.
Unfortunately, neither of us ever had a credit card, not sure how that will affect our ability to borrow. Additionally, we are due to acquire ILR in 2026-2028 or so. We also have 2 very large dogs (one Great Dane).
Some help would be really appreciated: 1) I would love to know what is an appropriate budget we should aim for in terms of a property. We would like to live in a low crime area, transport is not the top priority and ideally a house with a garden (for the dogs). 2) What should I do with the money I have acquired right now? Sorry, really financially illiterate here, spent all my early 20s chasing 1/2 in obscure equations. 3) Any other career advice to maximise lifetime earnings?
Thanks! Any other advice would be great too!
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A bit about my wife (30F) and I (28M): We both work in tech, my wife (EU national) has a masters degree from a major EU university on AI/data science and currently works as a software engineer with a data engineering lean, in a scale up based in London, she earns £80k with about £5000 worth of equity per year on top, no bonuses. She does have to commute to the office in central London twice to three times a week. I (non UK/EU national) am a research scientist in another start-up, I have a Physics PhD from OxBridge. Currently earning about £85k, with almost £50k in EMI options per year. I work almost 100% remote, office attendances once a month.
Finances: - £45k each in S&S ISAs. - £15k each in savings accounts. - £335k from inheritance - saving close to £5000 per month in total. - rent is £2500 atm, we are quite frugal and don’t spend much.
Unfortunately, neither of us ever had a credit card, not sure how that will affect our ability to borrow. Additionally, we are due to acquire ILR in 2026-2028 or so. We also have 2 very large dogs (one Great Dane).
Some help would be really appreciated: 1) I would love to know what is an appropriate budget we should aim for in terms of a property. We would like to live in a low crime area, transport is not the top priority and ideally a house with a garden (for the dogs). 2) What should I do with the money I have acquired right now? Sorry, really financially illiterate here, spent all my early 20s chasing 1/2 in obscure equations. 3) Any other career advice to maximise lifetime earnings?
Thanks! Any other advice would be great too!
2024.05.15 01:25 WhoSaysDadsCant Would I be an idiot to dump my 401k to pay off the CC debt? 52k and drowning.
Hello debt. I could really use some advice here.
Let me start out by saying I realize I screwed up. I grew up poor and have always lacked the financial intelligence that seems to come naturally to others. I also know that, until I learn to budget and save, paying off my CC debt is nothing more than a bandaid.
That said, I am struggling. I went back to school to pursue my dream career several years back. My wife, at the time, encouraged me to do so. Unfortunately, she filed for divorce a year later. I didn't want to give up on my dream, so I finished out the remaining 2.5 years of school by maxing my federal student loans and, later, credit cards.
I finished my bachelor's and masters, but I worked very little and depended largely on CCs for my families basic needs. Unfortunately, I found my passion in a career path that is not the most lucrative.
Here's the details of my situation:
Debt:
CC debt - $52,000
Student loans - $60,000
Mortgage - $125,000
Then...
Money in/out (monthly):
+$3800 - Take home (net) pay
+260 - Child support
-$400 - Utilities
-$1300 - Mortgage & HOA
-$160 - Car insurance
-$1400 - Min monthly CC payments
-250 - Gas
Remaining for food, kids, etc: $550
Important to mention, I have 4 (soon to be 3) dependents that live with me full time.
Thankfully, my career allows student loan forgiveness and with my salary and number of dependents, I am paying $0 and it counts toward the 120 payments til forgiveness. I also own my vehicles outright, so no car payments and I stick to liability only. I have a teenager on the insurance with me, which is why it is so high.
As you can see, I am barely scraping by. I bought a cheap Prius, which should reduce my monthly gas cost to $100 or so. That still only leaves $700 to pay for feed and cloth 5 people. I don't see how I will ever climb back out of this hole I have dug for myself.
I have an old 401k account from my previous factory job. It is currently sitting at about 65k. I could drain it and pay off the majority of my debt (65k-10% penalty-13k taxes=$45,500). This would allow me to eliminate ~$1200 in monthly payments.
The pros:
This would allow me to start finally saving money; for emergencies, college funds, retirement, etc. 27k of my CC debt is on cards that offer 0 interest balance transfers, so I could potentially pay half of my debt, balance transfer the other half, and use the minimum payments I was making to pay off another 25k over 18 months.
Cons:
I will have no retirement savings left. My current job offers a pension, but I don't know if I will work in a state position long enough to truly capitalize on it. I'm in my mid 30s, so that 64k will be ~200k by the time I retire, assuming a modest 5% annual growth.
I also lose out on the $7,830 for 2024, since my income will be too high. With taxes and penalty on the early withdrawal, I'm setting just over $27,000 on fire.
However, I'm already burning $12,000/year in interest right now. I am barely making a dent in the principle. In 6 years, I will have broken even, minus the interest lost. After 15 years of maxing out IRA contributions, I'll be in a better position for retirement anyway. I wouldn't be able to contribute anything to retirement with the CC debt I have now.
I know draining my 401k in my mid 30s is not normally a financially sound decision, but my math says I'll be better off financially in the long run IF I cut up my cards and avoid falling back into the same debt trap.
What do you say, my fiscally responsible brethren? Am I an idiot for even considering this, or is this a terrible decision?
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for any advice you might offer.
TLDR: 52k in CC debt, income too low to make more than min monthly payments. Considering draining my only retirement fund of 64k to be debt free.
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Let me start out by saying I realize I screwed up. I grew up poor and have always lacked the financial intelligence that seems to come naturally to others. I also know that, until I learn to budget and save, paying off my CC debt is nothing more than a bandaid.
That said, I am struggling. I went back to school to pursue my dream career several years back. My wife, at the time, encouraged me to do so. Unfortunately, she filed for divorce a year later. I didn't want to give up on my dream, so I finished out the remaining 2.5 years of school by maxing my federal student loans and, later, credit cards.
I finished my bachelor's and masters, but I worked very little and depended largely on CCs for my families basic needs. Unfortunately, I found my passion in a career path that is not the most lucrative.
Here's the details of my situation:
Debt:
CC debt - $52,000
Student loans - $60,000
Mortgage - $125,000
Then...
Money in/out (monthly):
+$3800 - Take home (net) pay
+260 - Child support
-$400 - Utilities
-$1300 - Mortgage & HOA
-$160 - Car insurance
-$1400 - Min monthly CC payments
-250 - Gas
Remaining for food, kids, etc: $550
Important to mention, I have 4 (soon to be 3) dependents that live with me full time.
Thankfully, my career allows student loan forgiveness and with my salary and number of dependents, I am paying $0 and it counts toward the 120 payments til forgiveness. I also own my vehicles outright, so no car payments and I stick to liability only. I have a teenager on the insurance with me, which is why it is so high.
As you can see, I am barely scraping by. I bought a cheap Prius, which should reduce my monthly gas cost to $100 or so. That still only leaves $700 to pay for feed and cloth 5 people. I don't see how I will ever climb back out of this hole I have dug for myself.
I have an old 401k account from my previous factory job. It is currently sitting at about 65k. I could drain it and pay off the majority of my debt (65k-10% penalty-13k taxes=$45,500). This would allow me to eliminate ~$1200 in monthly payments.
The pros:
This would allow me to start finally saving money; for emergencies, college funds, retirement, etc. 27k of my CC debt is on cards that offer 0 interest balance transfers, so I could potentially pay half of my debt, balance transfer the other half, and use the minimum payments I was making to pay off another 25k over 18 months.
Cons:
I will have no retirement savings left. My current job offers a pension, but I don't know if I will work in a state position long enough to truly capitalize on it. I'm in my mid 30s, so that 64k will be ~200k by the time I retire, assuming a modest 5% annual growth.
I also lose out on the $7,830 for 2024, since my income will be too high. With taxes and penalty on the early withdrawal, I'm setting just over $27,000 on fire.
However, I'm already burning $12,000/year in interest right now. I am barely making a dent in the principle. In 6 years, I will have broken even, minus the interest lost. After 15 years of maxing out IRA contributions, I'll be in a better position for retirement anyway. I wouldn't be able to contribute anything to retirement with the CC debt I have now.
I know draining my 401k in my mid 30s is not normally a financially sound decision, but my math says I'll be better off financially in the long run IF I cut up my cards and avoid falling back into the same debt trap.
What do you say, my fiscally responsible brethren? Am I an idiot for even considering this, or is this a terrible decision?
Thank you for taking the time to read this and for any advice you might offer.
TLDR: 52k in CC debt, income too low to make more than min monthly payments. Considering draining my only retirement fund of 64k to be debt free.
2024.05.15 01:22 Th3Crusader [WTS] MGI Inc. Monolothic QCB Upper Bundle, M1 Carbine Stock, Bushnell Trophy Red Dot
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/gafs-timestamp-5-14-24-9YmSr9K
Recently had the opportunity to buy out a retired gunsmiths collection, and it was pricey, so as I sort through it I'll be putting some stuff up to recoup cash. Let my gains be your gains too, also, as well. Buy this stuff so I can do more sorting and bring even more cooler items to the GAFS community.
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Recently had the opportunity to buy out a retired gunsmiths collection, and it was pricey, so as I sort through it I'll be putting some stuff up to recoup cash. Let my gains be your gains too, also, as well. Buy this stuff so I can do more sorting and bring even more cooler items to the GAFS community.
- First up is an upper bundle including one 5.56 Barrel/Bolt combo, one 7.62x39 barrel/bolt combo, adjustable hydraulic buffer and spring, 2x 7.62x39 AR mags, and the MGI Inc. Monolithic QCB upper. Asking $1k
- As far as I can tell this company no longer exists, and these uppers are totally discontinued. Not sure of the age or round count of the bundle, but everything looks to be in pretty good shape. From what I could gather though, the last MGI QCB upper was sold a decade ago.
- If nothing else, buy the bundle and get yourself a 'Quadwar at home' build and a neat party trick
- Bushnell Trophy Red Dot
- Up next, some old school cool. Comes with Bushnell red dot, scope rings, and front and rear sunshade. Asking $100 for the set.
- Seems like this is also a totally discontinued product, so grab it quick and lord it over your friends with their stupid modern mass produced dots.
- Exactly as the header would lead you to believe, last and least today I am selling a telescoping M1 Carbine Stock, plastic upper handguard, wooden upper handguard, and bayonet mount. Functionally it is in great shape, aesthetically I want it out of my sight. Asking $50 for the bundle.
2024.05.15 01:01 zillybong Race Report: Eugene Marathon 2024 - First Marathon Ever!
Race Information
- Name: Eugene Marathon
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Distance: 26.2 miles
- Location: Eugene, OR
- Website: https://www.eugenemarathon.com
- Strava: https://strava.app.link/XYl9QkmpcJb
- Time: 3:26:57
Goals
| Goal | Description | Completed? |
|---|---|---|
| A | Sub 3:30 | Yes |
| B | Finish my first marathon! | Yes |
Splits
| Mile | Time |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8:03 |
| 2 | 7:41 |
| 3 | 7:49 |
| 4 | 7:56 |
| 5 | 7:46 |
| 6 | 7:33 |
| 7 | 7:37 |
| 8 | 7:39 |
| 9 | 7:45 |
| 10 | 7:31 |
| 11 | 7:44 |
| 12 | 7:49 |
| 13 | 7:42 |
| 14 | 7:39 |
| 15 | 7:36 |
| 16 | 7:42 |
| 17 | 8:05 |
| 18 | 8:09 |
| 19 | 7:55 |
| 20 | 7:42 |
| 21 | 7:56 |
| 22 | 7:42 |
| 23 | 8:03 |
| 24 | 8:00 |
| 25 | 8:05 |
| 26 | 8:15 |
| 26.2 | 7:53 |
Training
I'm a 37M who has never been a runner in the past, mostly just ran short distances in order to maintain fitness for the various sports that I played. My main form of exercise prior to this was pick-up basketball a couple days a week, which for those of you who know ball, mainly involves short sprints with periods of standing around (obviously I should be crashing the boards more). A friend invited me to run the Eugene Marathon (our hometown race) with him and on a whim I said yes. How hard could it be? Unbeknownst to me, really freaking hard.My training block started in December with no formal training plan. I took a look at all the various recommended plans, from Hanson's to Pfitz 18/55, and loosely based my training on a mishmash of these. Ultimately I ended up averaging 20-40 miles per week, usually with one or two easy runs, one speed session, one tempo run, and one long run. I realize that this is lowish mileage, but it was all I could honestly pull off with three kids and a demanding job. I spent the first weeks just getting used to running, figuring out what good running form is supposed to be, how to tackle track workouts, how to interpret my Garmin data, and assembling some sort of a shoe rotation. I didn't have a time goal in mind at first, but as my running fitness slowly revealed itself, I made an arbitrary goal of sub-3:30. Ambitious for a first marathon, but according to my metrics theoretically obtainable.
Training went well and I was able to avoid injury. I ended up completing three long runs of 20, 20, and 21 miles each, each with a good amount of marathon pace (7:50) miles. Looking back, this may not have been optimal since about 40-50% of my weekly mileage was concentrated in these long runs, leading to longer recovery times afterwards. I practiced with Maurten gels, found them easy to handle, and decided to stick with them for race day. Turns out that I can handle more affordable gels too (more on that later), so maybe I'll change things up for the next training block. Strength training was sprinkled in haphazardly, mostly doing upper body work because my legs would be tired. This would come back to mildly haunt me during the race. In any case, training felt like it went relatively smoothly, though I would in retrospect add in some more hill work.
Pre-race
Tapered for a couple weeks before race day, which felt very odd. I was getting all sorts of weird aches and pains that I hadn't experienced before, and the runs that I did ended up feeling pretty sluggish. I may experiment with a shorter (7-10 day) taper in the future to see if it feels any different. Carb loaded the week before just by trying to eat more rice, pasta, and bread, but didn't try to count grams. Honestly, I love carb loading, it felt fantastic to eat a bunch of carbs when I had been trying to avoid it to stave off the dad-bod in the past few years.Eugene being my hometown race, it was pretty nice to sleep in my own bed the night before. I did wake up in a cold sweat at 4AM because I had an incredibly vivid nightmare that I woke up at 7:05 and missed the start, that was real fun. Ate a bagel with peanut butter, bananas, and honey, drank my customary cup of coffee, evacuated the bowels, and caught a ride to the race with a buddy who I was running with. I have no other races to compare this with, but Eugene felt like a really well organized race, with tons of portapotties, volunteers, and quick gear check. Pre-race went without a hitch and we made it into Corral B about 15 minutes before the start. I had no idea it was going to be that crowded, but it was fun chatting with the people around us as we tried to stay warm. The announcer counted us down, and off we went!
Race
Miles 1-13This being my first marathon, I kind of knew to expect a crowded start, but I wasn't fully prepared for exactly how crowded it would be. I ended up trying to keep to the edges to try and maintain my pace, but that did lead to some weaving and jumping over curbs/puddles/potholes, which may have come back to bite me later in the race. The first few miles of the race went reasonably well as I tried to keep to my planned pace of 7:40-7:50 min/mile and I felt fine. I stuck to my fueling strategy of a Maurten 100 every 30 minutes, alternating between regular and caf gels. I also tried to grab Nuun drink and down it while running - I quickly figured out after the first station that I would just end up aspirating half of the drink and have a violent coughing fit. I'd end up walking and drinking the rest of the stations. The crowds were amazing and I found myself smiling and waving to nearly every spectator that I ran by, especially the ones with hilarious signs. Shout out There was a long gradual uphill early on, which didn't really give me any problems, and then a much steeper but shorter hill afterwards that I tried to take slowly. I have naturally high turnover (cadence 180-190 usually) and I found myself really rocketing down the declines as I tried to make a conscious effort to not brake with my heels. This caused me to take the downhills at a stupid pace (6:15-6:30) and probably came back to hurt me later in the race. In retrospect, braking on the downhills is probably necessary in order to maintain a reasonable pace and save my quads. The Springfield section saw us running down a couple major roads by some construction, which was a little bit of a drag. But then I saw my wife, kids, and some friends cheering wildly after turning off of Main Street and that gave me a huge boost. Couldn't wipe the stupid smile off my face as we headed back towards Alton Baker.
Miles 14-21
This was a section of the race that was a little sparser on the crowds, which made it feel tougher. In addition, as I reached to grab my gel for mile 16, I realized that one of my caf gels had fallen out of my half-tights, which sent me into a minor panic. Thankfully, the course had 3 gel stations interspersed throughout the course, which would ultimately save me. That being said, the mental burden of having my fueling strategy thrown off was hard to shake. I ended up involuntarily slowing down my pace at miles 17-19 as I felt my legs slow down, which had never happened to me before during long training runs. I believe that much of this was purely mental, since I had stuck to my fueling up to that point, and we were on the river path which little to no crowd support. At mile 19 I saw my family again, which gave me another big boost and I felt like I was able to pick up my pace again. I also was able to grab a Gu from an aid station and choked it down. Having only trained with Maurtens, the Gu's thick consistency threw me for a loop - I felt like I was eating a chocolate pudding. Not a fan. Still, it gave me enough energy to pick up the pace for a couple of miles. A friend who was aiming for the same time goal caught up to me and we ran together for the rest of this section, which was a godsend. My legs were still turning over, but they were starting to feel heavier and I felt like it was getting tougher to maintain a sub-8:00 pace.
Miles 22-26.2
This was where things got hard. Most of this was still on the river path, which was very familiar territory since I had trained almost all my long runs on this path. Knowing what to expect maybe gave me a slight mental advantage, but the fact remained that my legs were feeling heavy and my breathing was started to get more ragged. My running buddy eventually cramped up at mile 23 and had to drop back to stretch, meanwhile I trucked on, focusing on trying to keep my legs moving. Around mile 24 I felt my left calf start to spasm and I had to back off on pace to prevent a full cramp. At mile 25 my right hamstring started to do the same, and then my left hamstring. I was somehow able to keep my legs turning but I felt like I was on the razor's edge between running and having full-blown cramps. I saw lots of people pulled off to the side trying to stretch and I shouted encouragement as best as I could. As we got out of the trees and onto the street towards Hayward, the crowd thickened and their cheering pushed me onwards. I tried to pick up the pace, but immediately felt my hamstrings spasming so I backed off. Finally, rounding into Hayward was amazing, with all the spectators in the stands cheering us on. I saw my kids at the front row, cheering wildly and waving their signs, and it gave me some impetus to push myself to a "sprint" to the finish line. I knew I had finished under my 3:30 goal, but had no idea how far under I was. It wasn't until I pulled up the official chip time later that I saw my final time of 3:26:57. I did it! I waited around for some other friends to finish, and we hobbled off of the field together.
Post-race
Found my family and gave them all huge hugs - having never had run an official marathon before, I had no idea how much of a boost I would get from seeing them. I had previously thought that running was almost purely physical, and it would be impossible to push past physicial limits that were defined by your training. But somehow at the end, even though I was on the brink of cramping, I was able to pick up my pace and sprint to the end. I had to attribute that to seeing my kids at the finish line.Overall I was really happy with my results, especially given my relatively low weekly mileage in training and it being my first marathon. I can't say that I have ever known such physical suffering as I felt in miles 22-26, but it felt great to be able to push through that pain and finish relatively strong. I've been bitten by the running bug and I've already signed up for the next one!
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2024.05.15 00:31 johnrushx Just reached $300k ARR & 130,000 users. Here is how:
Today is a very special day for me.
Unicorn Platform is at $300,000 ARR!
I bought it two years ago for $800k with 40k users.
After having one bad year after the purchase, the next year, I managed to grow it to 128,328 users, who built their Websites, Directories, Job Boards, Launchpads, and landing pages for their SaaS, Personal, App, Course, or Podcast.
How I got there (last 12 months):
1. Redesign.
I went through 1000+ support tickets one by one to 100 frequent requests.
At first, I wanted to start fixing them, but it'd taken us a year. I slept on this idea for a few weeks and realized that half of these may be solved by changing our entire UX from page-based to canvas-based. Like Notion, where there are no pages. It's only a canvas with a page, and everything else comes in popups.
It just erased 80% of the tasks from the backlog.
Then we tackled the remaining 20%(not all ofc, still working on it).
It reduced churn from double-digit to single-digit.
2. SEO.
I knew very little about SEO a year ago, so I had to learn a lot from scratch. Instead of implementing just one strategy, I went on to try pretty much all of them at once
I saw traffic from directories 2 years ago on my other project(marsx). So it pushed really hard on listing on all directories for Unicorn Platform too. back then, most directories were not so popular yet, so I was kinda lucky to list there early and as they went viral, I got really good share of that traffic too.
4. Product Hunt.
We launched there in July. If you win the product hunt, there is a very long aftershock. You end up in newsletters and blog articles. We took 2nd place, but it was a very busy day. We scored over 1000 upvotes, so we got pretty good traffic and results.
5. Talking to users. Helping them.
I sent an email to every paid user asking for feedback and starting a discussion. I talked to at least 300 of them. It helped me figure out some low-hanging fixes I could do to keep them, and I also had a very strong network effect afterward. Many new users would tell me they got a recommendation from their friend.
Eventually, I started simply helping out all my users every day(I still spend at least an hour a day). For free. With my feedback on everything they ask, tips, and advice. I even connected one guy who was raising a round to an investor.
6. Social Media.
I shared all my steps—not just MRRs but my actual steps on how I got there and what I did. Many of such posts went viral and helped other makers grow their products. This led to X becoming the top 4 traffic source for sign-ups.
7. Traffic from my directories & products.
I have 24 products in total.
So my other 23 products drive traffic to this one via links in the footer and banners, and sometimes I recommend it in an email. About 30% of the traffic comes this way.
Also, I have over 20 directories, some of which are very successful, and they drive good traffic, too. I had a gut feeling about directories 3 years ago. But my friends kept saying, "Directories are out of hype by now..".
So, I gave up on the idea until November, when I launched the gpt directory, which went viral with millions of visits. After that, I built a few new directories every month.
8. Word of Mouth.
I track this via social media mentions, and it's my most important metric. It's the one in a pair with SEO that leads to PMF. In Jan last year, I was pretty sad to see that the viral "best landing page builders" posts on the internet would never have Unicorn Platform in them.
But all that I did above helped, and we started to appear in many such posts. Today, 90% of the mentions come organically from people on the internet.
Thank you people. Thx for sharing. I work really hard to justify your trust.
9. Affiliate partners.
I've been running it for 8 months, and it works.
People bring sign-ups, and they eventually convert into paying users. Easy to setup. No effort at all once it's running.
10. Paid ads.
This one is short: I tried and failed. Most likely, I need to learn more about this, or maybe it never works.
11. Sponsoring other directories.
I sponsored a few directories to place my banner there.
I like it. There is traffic. The ROI seems good. I wanna do more of it. If you have a directory that's visited by busy founders, let me know, and I may sponsor you.
12. More templates and blocks.
I hired an amazing designer. He is the next Johnny Ive, trust me. We created many new templates and components.
Now, we're working on a new update that will 10x the power of Unicorn when it comes to visual stuff. Once this is out, you'll forget what webflow and framer are.
Imagine getting similar power with 10x less time than is needed and 20x easier UX.
13. Cross promo.
We partnered with Senja by adding their testimonial block to our third-party blocks. Now, Unicorn users can add Senja blocks with just a few clicks. It's so powerful that users love it and use it. We drove traffic to Senja, and they drove some traffic to us by posting on social media about this integration. We may do more, for example, sending an email to all our users about Senja, and Senja sends an email to all their users about a Unicorn.
I have many more such collaborations coming. The next one is RapidForms. Users will be able to add very advanced forms with multiple steps and even payment steps.
Launching it next week.
If you think your product fits in, too, let me know.
We both will grow our userbase by doing these collabs.
That's it.
I may have missed some details.
Just ask me in replies, and I'll answer.
P.S.I don't read DMs here, only on X or Linkedin.
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Unicorn Platform is at $300,000 ARR!
I bought it two years ago for $800k with 40k users.
After having one bad year after the purchase, the next year, I managed to grow it to 128,328 users, who built their Websites, Directories, Job Boards, Launchpads, and landing pages for their SaaS, Personal, App, Course, or Podcast.
How I got there (last 12 months):
1. Redesign.
I went through 1000+ support tickets one by one to 100 frequent requests.
At first, I wanted to start fixing them, but it'd taken us a year. I slept on this idea for a few weeks and realized that half of these may be solved by changing our entire UX from page-based to canvas-based. Like Notion, where there are no pages. It's only a canvas with a page, and everything else comes in popups.
It just erased 80% of the tasks from the backlog.
Then we tackled the remaining 20%(not all ofc, still working on it).
It reduced churn from double-digit to single-digit.
2. SEO.
I knew very little about SEO a year ago, so I had to learn a lot from scratch. Instead of implementing just one strategy, I went on to try pretty much all of them at once
- looked at existing keywords I rank for optimized pages for that to win even more traffic
- looked at competitors and created articles for the same keywords
- worked hard on domain rating, reached almost 80
- half of my pages weren't indexed, I used an indexing tool
- created lots of articles for nonrelated topics for the same audience
I saw traffic from directories 2 years ago on my other project(marsx). So it pushed really hard on listing on all directories for Unicorn Platform too. back then, most directories were not so popular yet, so I was kinda lucky to list there early and as they went viral, I got really good share of that traffic too.
4. Product Hunt.
We launched there in July. If you win the product hunt, there is a very long aftershock. You end up in newsletters and blog articles. We took 2nd place, but it was a very busy day. We scored over 1000 upvotes, so we got pretty good traffic and results.
5. Talking to users. Helping them.
I sent an email to every paid user asking for feedback and starting a discussion. I talked to at least 300 of them. It helped me figure out some low-hanging fixes I could do to keep them, and I also had a very strong network effect afterward. Many new users would tell me they got a recommendation from their friend.
Eventually, I started simply helping out all my users every day(I still spend at least an hour a day). For free. With my feedback on everything they ask, tips, and advice. I even connected one guy who was raising a round to an investor.
6. Social Media.
I shared all my steps—not just MRRs but my actual steps on how I got there and what I did. Many of such posts went viral and helped other makers grow their products. This led to X becoming the top 4 traffic source for sign-ups.
7. Traffic from my directories & products.
I have 24 products in total.
So my other 23 products drive traffic to this one via links in the footer and banners, and sometimes I recommend it in an email. About 30% of the traffic comes this way.
Also, I have over 20 directories, some of which are very successful, and they drive good traffic, too. I had a gut feeling about directories 3 years ago. But my friends kept saying, "Directories are out of hype by now..".
So, I gave up on the idea until November, when I launched the gpt directory, which went viral with millions of visits. After that, I built a few new directories every month.
8. Word of Mouth.
I track this via social media mentions, and it's my most important metric. It's the one in a pair with SEO that leads to PMF. In Jan last year, I was pretty sad to see that the viral "best landing page builders" posts on the internet would never have Unicorn Platform in them.
But all that I did above helped, and we started to appear in many such posts. Today, 90% of the mentions come organically from people on the internet.
Thank you people. Thx for sharing. I work really hard to justify your trust.
9. Affiliate partners.
I've been running it for 8 months, and it works.
People bring sign-ups, and they eventually convert into paying users. Easy to setup. No effort at all once it's running.
10. Paid ads.
This one is short: I tried and failed. Most likely, I need to learn more about this, or maybe it never works.
11. Sponsoring other directories.
I sponsored a few directories to place my banner there.
I like it. There is traffic. The ROI seems good. I wanna do more of it. If you have a directory that's visited by busy founders, let me know, and I may sponsor you.
12. More templates and blocks.
I hired an amazing designer. He is the next Johnny Ive, trust me. We created many new templates and components.
Now, we're working on a new update that will 10x the power of Unicorn when it comes to visual stuff. Once this is out, you'll forget what webflow and framer are.
Imagine getting similar power with 10x less time than is needed and 20x easier UX.
13. Cross promo.
We partnered with Senja by adding their testimonial block to our third-party blocks. Now, Unicorn users can add Senja blocks with just a few clicks. It's so powerful that users love it and use it. We drove traffic to Senja, and they drove some traffic to us by posting on social media about this integration. We may do more, for example, sending an email to all our users about Senja, and Senja sends an email to all their users about a Unicorn.
I have many more such collaborations coming. The next one is RapidForms. Users will be able to add very advanced forms with multiple steps and even payment steps.
Launching it next week.
If you think your product fits in, too, let me know.
We both will grow our userbase by doing these collabs.
That's it.
I may have missed some details.
Just ask me in replies, and I'll answer.
P.S.I don't read DMs here, only on X or Linkedin.
2024.05.15 00:27 OMGWTHEFBBQ Planning a 2 week roadtrip in northeast USA and into Canada - Suggestions for things to do in the general vicinity of my route? It is very flexible.
I'm planning a road trip for May 25th - June 9th. The only things that I know I 100% will be doing is the Air Force Museum in Ohio, staying in Chicago for a few days. Everything else is just areas I am thinking of exploring.
I am traveling alone, and the main focus of things to do is great nature and great driving roads (I am a car enthusiast taking my fun but comfortable and roomy car (BMW M5).
Any suggestions for great roads to drive, nature to see, great restaurants, or things that are a must-see or do, please comment!
Couple questions/thoughts:
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I am traveling alone, and the main focus of things to do is great nature and great driving roads (I am a car enthusiast taking my fun but comfortable and roomy car (BMW M5).
Any suggestions for great roads to drive, nature to see, great restaurants, or things that are a must-see or do, please comment!
Couple questions/thoughts:
- I've never driven to Canada before. I have my passport. Am I able to just drive my car in and that's it? Anything special to do beforehand, or anything I should know?
- Is it possible to bring a firearm with me along this trip? I have my Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearms, and generally carry wherever I am legally able to. Traveling alone, it would bring piece of mind to have a form of protection, especially as I plan to camp in some remote areas.
- I really enjoy stargazing and have been to Cherry Springs State Park, and seen darker skies while in other countries. Any dark sky opportunities or observatories will be great!
- Please recommend any great driving roads near my route! Twisty roads through scenic areas that are good road quality (minimal potholes). Low population/traffic preferred.
- Sat 5/25 Home to Charleston, WV (planning to stop in Harper's Ferry)
- Sun 5/26 explore WV (mostly looking for good nature or driving roads)
- Mon 5/27 Charleston to Dayton, Ohio for AF Museum
- Mon 5/27 Dayton to Chicago
- Tues 5/28 - Thu 5/30 Chicago (visiting a friend, any good driving roads? everything is so flat)
- Fri 5/31 Chicago to Toronto
- Sat 6/1 Toronto to Montreal
- Sun 6/2 Montreal to Quebec City
- Mon 6/3 explore QC (seems like a cool place; history, architecture, food)
- Mon 6/3 QC to Baxter State Park, ME (for stargazing)
- Tues 6/4 ME to Mt Washington, NH (I love a good mountain)
- Tues 6/4 NH to Albany, NY
- Wed 6/5 Explore Albany
- Thu 6/6 Albany to Syracuse
- Thu 6/6 Explore Finger Lakes
- Thu 6/6 End at Watkins Glen
- Fri 6/7 Watkins Glen to Catskills
- Sat 6/8 Explore Catskills
- Sun 6/7 Drive Home
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2024.05.15 00:16 ProgrammerNo42 Does this infinite cap trick work?
I recently found this video linked from some article Google News thought I should see. https://youtu.be/9Beq9t4_Jew?si=1WomjpgKyl_s5rrV
The thinking goes that you craft Poisoned Caltrops using 5 steel by scrapping everything in Sanctuary. Then you make your way to Diamond City and sell them all to Myrna. She sells shipments of steel, so you buy those from her, turn it into more caltrops, and repeat.
In that way, it's supposed to be a self sustaining economy of infinite caps and XP. However, does it work?
I just tried this and Myrna was selling a shipment of 100 Steel for 870 caps. That's enough to craft 20 caltrops. Each Poisoned Caltrop sells for 40 caps. So 100 Steel = 20 Poisoned Caltrops = 800 caps. I'm losing 70 caps every time there. What am I missing? How is this method self sustaining for infinite caps when I really can only do it a few times until I'm too low on caps to buy more steel from Myrna?
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The thinking goes that you craft Poisoned Caltrops using 5 steel by scrapping everything in Sanctuary. Then you make your way to Diamond City and sell them all to Myrna. She sells shipments of steel, so you buy those from her, turn it into more caltrops, and repeat.
In that way, it's supposed to be a self sustaining economy of infinite caps and XP. However, does it work?
I just tried this and Myrna was selling a shipment of 100 Steel for 870 caps. That's enough to craft 20 caltrops. Each Poisoned Caltrop sells for 40 caps. So 100 Steel = 20 Poisoned Caltrops = 800 caps. I'm losing 70 caps every time there. What am I missing? How is this method self sustaining for infinite caps when I really can only do it a few times until I'm too low on caps to buy more steel from Myrna?
2024.05.15 00:12 JJFAmerica My Akoustyx R-100 impressions
 | TLDR Akoustyx R-100 is the top quality DF tuned IEMs made in the USA with super detailed sound, neutral tonality, low impedance, and high sensitivity easily driven by phone, for only $55. submitted by JJFAmerica to headphones [link] [comments] https://akoustyx.com/products/r100 https://preview.redd.it/8so5q715ug0d1.png?width=2610&format=png&auto=webp&s=f036389c64f50c656f5793987fc5b846726498ec So here is a story, the last couple of months I have to travel around a lot due to my business needs, hence I can't enjoy my home music studio anymore. Well technically my ER4SR (my reference IEMs as I strictly prefer neutral, uncolored sound), could be useful with my cell phone, yet their high impedance / low sensitivity (45 ohms / 98 dB) prevent me from enjoying the music as loudly as I prefer, and I don't like the hassle associated with dongle dac/amp. Looking around many IEMs at https://squig.link I was pleasantly surprised by the Akoustyx R-120 graph, which is very close to the neutral DF signature, and after further research, I found out about the R-100 with 22 ohms / 115 db, I ordered them immediately 10 days ago, and guess what... They are basically ER4SR in terms of neutrality, transparency, details, tonality, etc, no wonder as R-100 uses Knowles BA, and ER4SR uses Knolews too. How do they sound, well, bass is going deep to the low end with all the details, mids are just perfect, vocals sounding so live, and real, highs are precisely correct, instruments separation is laser sharp. I think BA tech is very close to the electrostatic quality of sound, even better than planars, all notes are sharp, transients are amazing. In the package there is a case, and a lot of ear tips, including foams, I use Dual Flange ones as they go deeper, almost like in ER4SR. The cable is soft and flexibale, I hear no microphonics at all. For the current price of $55 R-100 is a pure steal I think, honestly for the such high quality build (Akoustyx are made in the USA) and for the astonishingly clean, detailed, and neutral sound, I would easily pay $200 for them, plus they offer Worldwide Free Shipping right now (I'm in NYC btw so I was not concerned about that much). Now I'm set for life, no matter where I'm I can enjoy the highest quality sound, thanks to Akoustyx, I hope someone will find my R-100 impressions helpful, and indeed I certainly recommended those amazing IEMs to all my friends, and colleagues. |
2024.05.15 00:00 Historical_Painter_2 a single Bees Knees turns into heartbreak 29M
Experts say that when you’re sexually or romantically attracted to someone, your pupils dilate. Oxytocin and dopamine, the “love hormones,” affect pupil size.
Like drugs do. I didn’t know this until I met her.
On our first date, we sat next to each other on wooden stools in a quiet corner of a popular bar in town. I ordered a Bee’s Knees. She ordered the same.
We turned and faced each other as we sipped and talked. Our legs were touching, and our faces were so close that I could feel her breath when she laughed. Within minutes of interacting, I noticed her smooth chocolate brown eyes turning black. I felt like I was getting sucked into a black hole of desire where there was no turning back.
Thirty minutes into the date, I excused myself to go to the bathroom. I needed to calm down. The electric surge of chemicals between us was just too intense. When I looked in the bathroom mirror, I noticed that my sparkly blue-green eyes had turned mostly black too. I started to fantasize that I was living in some vampire romance novel.
I took my phone out of my purse and googled, “Why are my and my date’s eyes black?” “Your eyes dilate when you’re in love with someone,” Google replied.
I felt instantly drunk. I walked out of the bathroom with butterflies in my stomach and sat back down on the stool, inches from her.
We locked eyes again, and I gently put my hand on her thigh. For the next two hours, we talked about everything and anything. I watched her lips stretch and bend when she smiled and laughed. I studied the curve of her jaw and the petiteness of her frame. I noticed the adorable cowlick that made her hair stick up.
I was giddy. It felt like no one else was at that bar. It was only us. The live music next door sounded muffled, like the band was playing underwater. Time and space no longer existed.
It’s been seven months since that night. And I was right. There was and is no turning back.
Until two weeks ago when everything went downhill. We had a trip planned to Paris where I thought to myself, this is it. This trip will set our love in stone and the rest will be history. She decided to uninvite me about 1 month before we were to leave. We slowly grew apart as I knew subconsciously that her mind was made up, that she was done trying to work through our issues.
She comes to pick up her things from my house a week before heading out for Paris. Everything hits me all at once. "Oh my god what have I done". I realized right then and there that I had made the greatest mistake of my life. That I had given up on fighting for the most wonderful girl that had ever walked my way.
I began obsessing, looking at her Instagram. Trying to piece things together and figure out where everything went wrong. I realize that her and her ex of 3 years started following each other again on Instagram. I look further, she's unarchived 100 photos with him. I begin to lose my mind.
I reach out to her, call her a cheater, only to push her away more. She begins to think I'm crazy. Fast forward to today, I see her and her ex in Paris together, enjoying the trip that we had planned.
In the span of 1 month, she went from loving me to being amicable with me to getting back with her ex and completely disposing of me. Lying about it. Never once saying sorry, but instead that “you’re not my issue anymore” and that I should check myself into a psych ward for even feeling hurt by everything. Telling me she never thought we were meant to be. I was a terrible boyfriend. I was her rebound. And my hate for myself grew even more.
I'll see them grow happy, get engaged, have children. I can see their future clearly.
And all my future holds is the despair I will continue to endure as I see their life unfold. I've dated enough women to know this will forever be the best girl that has ever given me a chance. I am sick to my stomach. She loved me so much and I let it slip away.
I’ll never forget when I first met her. It was as if my heart leaped out of my chest. We had an immediate connection. I remember coming back home to my friends in discord at the end of the night and saying to them, “This is the one”. I don’t know how things got away so fast. I was a soul just barely hanging on when I met her. She helped me through my addiction, she showed me what true love is, and I took her for granted.
I feel like a true psychopath now. But at least she made me feel less alone for a few good months.
I've grown tired of the struggle, of the rollercoaster, of the endless highs and lows, of waking up feeling good and then without warning being triggered back into suicidal despair. It's been a consistent cycle for so long that I see no reason to believe that it will suddenly change. I just can’t get her out of my head. And I don’t ever see a day that I will.
I've wavered back and forth about making this post, secretly hoping she will see it. I've decided to go ahead and do so because in a sense I’m thankful that she's helped me decide to finally end my miserable life.
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Like drugs do. I didn’t know this until I met her.
On our first date, we sat next to each other on wooden stools in a quiet corner of a popular bar in town. I ordered a Bee’s Knees. She ordered the same.
We turned and faced each other as we sipped and talked. Our legs were touching, and our faces were so close that I could feel her breath when she laughed. Within minutes of interacting, I noticed her smooth chocolate brown eyes turning black. I felt like I was getting sucked into a black hole of desire where there was no turning back.
Thirty minutes into the date, I excused myself to go to the bathroom. I needed to calm down. The electric surge of chemicals between us was just too intense. When I looked in the bathroom mirror, I noticed that my sparkly blue-green eyes had turned mostly black too. I started to fantasize that I was living in some vampire romance novel.
I took my phone out of my purse and googled, “Why are my and my date’s eyes black?” “Your eyes dilate when you’re in love with someone,” Google replied.
I felt instantly drunk. I walked out of the bathroom with butterflies in my stomach and sat back down on the stool, inches from her.
We locked eyes again, and I gently put my hand on her thigh. For the next two hours, we talked about everything and anything. I watched her lips stretch and bend when she smiled and laughed. I studied the curve of her jaw and the petiteness of her frame. I noticed the adorable cowlick that made her hair stick up.
I was giddy. It felt like no one else was at that bar. It was only us. The live music next door sounded muffled, like the band was playing underwater. Time and space no longer existed.
It’s been seven months since that night. And I was right. There was and is no turning back.
Until two weeks ago when everything went downhill. We had a trip planned to Paris where I thought to myself, this is it. This trip will set our love in stone and the rest will be history. She decided to uninvite me about 1 month before we were to leave. We slowly grew apart as I knew subconsciously that her mind was made up, that she was done trying to work through our issues.
She comes to pick up her things from my house a week before heading out for Paris. Everything hits me all at once. "Oh my god what have I done". I realized right then and there that I had made the greatest mistake of my life. That I had given up on fighting for the most wonderful girl that had ever walked my way.
I began obsessing, looking at her Instagram. Trying to piece things together and figure out where everything went wrong. I realize that her and her ex of 3 years started following each other again on Instagram. I look further, she's unarchived 100 photos with him. I begin to lose my mind.
I reach out to her, call her a cheater, only to push her away more. She begins to think I'm crazy. Fast forward to today, I see her and her ex in Paris together, enjoying the trip that we had planned.
In the span of 1 month, she went from loving me to being amicable with me to getting back with her ex and completely disposing of me. Lying about it. Never once saying sorry, but instead that “you’re not my issue anymore” and that I should check myself into a psych ward for even feeling hurt by everything. Telling me she never thought we were meant to be. I was a terrible boyfriend. I was her rebound. And my hate for myself grew even more.
I'll see them grow happy, get engaged, have children. I can see their future clearly.
And all my future holds is the despair I will continue to endure as I see their life unfold. I've dated enough women to know this will forever be the best girl that has ever given me a chance. I am sick to my stomach. She loved me so much and I let it slip away.
I’ll never forget when I first met her. It was as if my heart leaped out of my chest. We had an immediate connection. I remember coming back home to my friends in discord at the end of the night and saying to them, “This is the one”. I don’t know how things got away so fast. I was a soul just barely hanging on when I met her. She helped me through my addiction, she showed me what true love is, and I took her for granted.
I feel like a true psychopath now. But at least she made me feel less alone for a few good months.
I've grown tired of the struggle, of the rollercoaster, of the endless highs and lows, of waking up feeling good and then without warning being triggered back into suicidal despair. It's been a consistent cycle for so long that I see no reason to believe that it will suddenly change. I just can’t get her out of my head. And I don’t ever see a day that I will.
I've wavered back and forth about making this post, secretly hoping she will see it. I've decided to go ahead and do so because in a sense I’m thankful that she's helped me decide to finally end my miserable life.
2024.05.14 23:33 Making_flowers [US-MD][H]SO MANY NEW HUGE ARRIVALS AND PRICE DROPS, PLEASE HELP I CAN’T STOP: Major Keys, Minor Keys, Iconic Covers and Silver Age, Golden Age, Horror, a bit of everything. $10 issue included free with purchase. [W] PayPal
Adding new books every week! Added an inventory list (newly arrived issues in bold at the top) then you can scroll further for more details on condition and key facts. I’m always open to bundle deals and reasonable offers.
I’ve also taken on a lot of random fillers as I fill inventory, so I’ll be including a random comic valued around $10 in each order. Just some examples of the issues I will randomly include in packages:
Please take a look. Up to 7 imgur albums at this point to cover it all:
https://imgur.com/a/4Vs2PvN (Newly Listed Items)
https://imgur.com/a/Oq8vHnw
https://imgur.com/a/atKGE1G
https://imgur.com/a/eu9hXc9
https://imgur.com/a/CbVrE6w
https://imgur.com/a/3RtKPXR
https://imgur.com/a/rowfZD9
https://imgur.com/a/YfgSMEa
Inventory (new items since last post at the top in bold, scroll below list for details on each):
This iconic book is in good to great shape, see the photos for the details. Solidly attached and great colors.
Amazing Spider-Man #98 - 1971 - Non-Code Approved Drug Issue, Green Goblin cover: $66
Great condition. Some minor wear and ticks on the spine, but overall a great, beautiful, solid book.
Amazing Spider-Man #121 -1973 - Death of Gwen Stacy: $200
The cover is worn, has some holes but despite that the staples are attached,colors are good, and everything is attached and complete. The inside looks good, too. See photos for details.
Amazing Spider-Man #361 Newsstand - 1992 - First appearance of Carnage - Slice at top, $38
Here's a tragedy. This otherwise beautiful high grade major key book has a clean scissor cut at the top through the whole book. Included photos and closeups.
Journey into Mystery #125 - 1966 - Iconic cover and last Journey into Mystery before Thor title change: $49
Very good condition, has a small chip out of the bottom left cover but other than some cover wear it’s just a solid book with great colors.
Early Man-Thing lot: Astonishing Tales #13, Adventure into Fear #11-13: $80 (willing to split this lot up)
Third cover appearance of Man-Thing in awesome condition. The Fear 11-13 are in good condition, but a little more worn than the Astonishing.
Flash #113 - 1960 - First appearance and origin of the Trickster: $75
This one looks good until you realize it has tape up the spine holding the loose staples on. Included pictures of the staples and tape. It is complete and has good colors otherwise, but still low grade because of the tape/staple issue.
Werewolf by Night #8 - 1973 - Has Mark Jewelers insert included: $26
Is in great shape and includes a Mark Jewelers insert making this regular issue a little more rare.
Werewolf by Night #18 - 1974 - $22
Worn condition but great colors. See photos.
House of Secrets #91 - 1971 - Iconic Neal Adams cover: $32
Book is in great condition. There is some minor chipping on a portion of the bottom edge of the cover but other than the wear on the cover it is a beautiful book.
Amazing Adventures #13, #16 & #17 - $42
Good to great condition on these Beast issues, including the Juggernaut vs Beast cover. Bundle with Amazing Adventures #11 (first furred Beast) and I'll give you a great deal.
Invaders #31 - 1978 - Frankenstein is a Nazi. Come on: $17
In awesome condition. Also did I mention Captain America fights Nazi Frankenstein?
Action Comics #263 - 1960 - Last appearance of Bizarro world. End of Bizarro world not told. Not good deal.: $33
Cover has pen on it and is worn but interiors are good, complete and attached and colors are great.
Giant Size Chillers #1 - 1975 - John Romita art: $20
Not the more valuable 1974 with Drac but this is in awesome condition and still some great classic horror.
Daredevil #184 Newsstand - 1982 - Iconic cover: $22
In fantastic condition. Newsstand variant that has been very well kept.
Astonishing Tales featuring Dr. Doom & Kazar #1 - 1970 - First issue in series: $15
In great condition. Great colors and quality. Doctor Doom.
Detective Comics #355 and 2 copies of #375 - $25
Some classic old Batman. Good but a cleaning is needed on 355, two copies of 375 one clean and great condition one worn in but complete and attached.
Green Lantern #59 - 1968 - First appearance of Guy Gardner: $125
Worn but complete. Attached at top staple, bottom staple detached.
Wolverine (1988) #1 - 1988 - Can’t have the 1982? Take this instead!: $65
Also in awesome condition. Very, very clean.
Amazing Spider-Man #29 - 1965 - SLAB CGC 4.5 - Second Scorpion: $140
Slabbed. See photos.
Amazing Spider-Man #40 - 1966 - Origin of the Green Goblin, Iconic Cover: $185
Looks great, clean, bright colors. Complete and solidly attached. See photos
Amazing Spider-Man #64- 1968 - Romita Spider-Man vs. Vulture Cover: $90
Great condition. Bright awesome colors.
Amazing Spider-Man #72 - 1969 - Shocker cover: $35
Is a bit worn and the centerfold is detached (see photos). But it is complete and still has good colors on the interior.
X-Men #221 - 1987 - First Appearance of Mister Sinister: $75
Awesome condition. Just a couple of minor spine ticks. Other than that, beautiful. See photos.
X-Men #4 - 1992 - First Appearance of Omega Red: $20
Awesome condition. Not even any spine ticks. See photos
Daredevil #157 (Newsstand) - 1979: $15
Awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Daredevil #164 (Newsstand) - 1980 - Iconic Cover: $55
In awesome condition. Great colors on cover despite all the white. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Plastic Man #1 (#19 free with purchase) - 1966 - First appearance of Plastic Man (son of original): $SOLD AT 35$41$SOLD
Hole in cover, worn, needs a cleaning. But come on, it’s Plastic Man!
Detective Comics #259 - 1958 - First Appearance of Calendar Man: $175
Worn but expected for its age. Solid staples and fully attached. Great colors.
Batman Annual #14 - 1990 - Iconic Neal Adams Two-Face Cover, Origin of Two-Face: $15
Amazing condition, almost unused. See photos.
Detective Comics #324 (1964) and Batman #410 (1987) - $32
324 in good condition but could use a clean and press. Batman 410 is in awesome condition, but considering the prices of these I figured I’d just throw them together.
Amazing Adventures #11 - 1972 - First furry beast: $100
In awesome condition. Minor, tiny blemish (possibly a tape pull?) on the bottom of the A on cover. See photo, but very tiny blemish.
Incredible Hulk #105 - 1968 - First appearance of Missing Link, iconic cover: $45
In really good condition, with minor wear to the cover and some breaking on it. White interiors, solidly attached, great colors.
Incredible Hulk #179 - 1974: $15
In great condition.
Incredible Hulk #250 (Newsstand) - 1980 - Iconic Hulk vs. Silver Surfer cover: $38
Awesome condition. See photos.
Tales of Suspense #94 - 1967 - First appearance of M.O.D.O.K.: $50
In good condition, with a little edge wear and marks on the cover in places. Other than that it has bright clean pages and good colors.
Captain America #110 - 1969 - Rick Jones dons Bucky Costume, first appearance of Madame Hydra: $60
Iconic Jim Steranko cover and art. In OK condition, a bit worn, could definitely use a cleaning. See photos.
Flash #129 - 1962 - First team-up of golden age Flash and silver age Flash; first appearance of golden age Green Lantern and JSA in silver age: $95
Good condition! Very solid, great colors, complete and attached.
Flash #147 - 1964 - Second appearance of Professor Zoom: $95
Good condition! Very solid, great colors, complete and attached.
Aquaman #11 - 1963 - First appearance of Mera: $95
Worn condition but solid, complete and attached.
Mystery in Space #68 - 1961 - 10c Comic Goodness: $25
Cover is detached, but hey, it’s a 10c comic. Otherwise good colors and pages.
Strange Adventures #138 - 1962: $18
Good condition, good colors.
Golden and Silver Age Lot of 12- $85
Came into a lot of worn golden and silver books I know little about. Would like to offload them all together, so take a look at the album. Includes Little Lulu, Cheyenne Kid, the Flintstones, Tarzan, some other Gold Key and Dell stuff and an Adventures book from 1945. Did some research to get prices, take a look.
Tower of Shadows Annual #1 - 1971 - Romita cover and Neal Adams art: $25
Great condition. Good colors, solid book.
Dead of Night #1 - 1973 - Romita art: $35
Really great condition, with a minor color rub or stain or something (can’t tell what) to a spot on the bottom of the front cover and top of the back. Fantastic colors, white pages.
Tomb of Dracula #27 and #63 - $23
Non-key issues in great condition, just throwing together to move.
Sub-Mariner #15 and #31 - Silver Age Namor bundle: $22
Great colors and interiors. Fading on spine cover on #15, #31 in great condition, see photos.
Marvel Feature #1 - 1971 - Origin & First Defenders: $49
Has tape pull on cover, subscription crease color break (see photos)
Fantastic Four #150 - 1974 - Wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver: $25
In awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Tales to Astonish #58 - 1964 - Silver age Giant Man: $19
Worn condition but complete and attached. See photos.
Marvel Team-Up Annual #2 - 1978 - Spider-Man & The Hulk team-up: $30
In awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 - 1987 - Death of First Hobgoblin: $19
Awesome condition. Pressable non-color breaking crease on back cover. See photos
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I’ve also taken on a lot of random fillers as I fill inventory, so I’ll be including a random comic valued around $10 in each order. Just some examples of the issues I will randomly include in packages:
- Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #4 (iconic Hulk cover)
- What If #37
- Our Army at War #238
- From Beyond the Unknown #13
- House of Secrets #109 (low grade)
Please take a look. Up to 7 imgur albums at this point to cover it all:
https://imgur.com/a/4Vs2PvN (Newly Listed Items)
https://imgur.com/a/Oq8vHnw
https://imgur.com/a/atKGE1G
https://imgur.com/a/eu9hXc9
https://imgur.com/a/CbVrE6w
https://imgur.com/a/3RtKPXR
https://imgur.com/a/rowfZD9
https://imgur.com/a/YfgSMEa
Inventory (new items since last post at the top in bold, scroll below list for details on each):
- Amazing Spider-Man #33 - $190
- Amazing Spider-Man #98 - $66
- Amazing Spider-Man #121 - $200
- Amazing Spider-Man #361 Newsstand (slice damage) - $38
- Journey into Mystery #125 - $49
- Early Man-Thing lot: Astonishing Tales #13, Adventure into Fear #11-13: $80 (willing to split this lot up)
- Flash #113 - $75
- Werewolf by Night #8 Mark Jewelers Insert - $26
- Werewolf by Night #18 - $22
- House of Secrets #91 - $32
- Amazing Adventures #13, #16 & #17 - $42
- Invaders #31 (Nazi Frankenstein) - $17
- Action Comics #263 - $33
- Giant Size Chillers #1 (1975 not 1974) - $20
- Daredevil #184 Newsstand - $22
- Astonishing Tales featuring Dr. Doom & Kazar #1 - $15
- Detective Comics #355 and 2 copies of #375 - $25
- Green Lantern #59 - $125
- Wolverine (1988) #1 - $65
- Amazing Spider-Man #29 - $140
- Amazing Spider-Man #40 - $185
- Amazing Spider-Man #64 - $90
- Amazing Spider-Man #72 - $35
- X-Men #221 - $75
- X-Men #4 (1992) - $20
- Daredevil #157 - $15
- Daredevil #164 (Newsstand) - $55
- Plastic Man #1 (#19 free with purchase) - $SOLD AT 35 $41 $SOLD
- Detective Comics #259 - $175
- Batman Annual #14 - $15
- Detective Comics #324 and Batman #410 - $32
- Amazing Adventures #11 - $100
- Incredible Hulk #105 - $45
- Incredible Hulk #179 - $15
- Incredible Hulk #250 (Newsstand) - $38
- Tales of Suspense #94 - $50
- Captain America #110 - $60
- Flash #129 - $95
- Flash #147 - $95
- Aquaman #11 - $95
- Mystery in Space #68 - $25
- Strange Adventures #138 - $18
- Golden and Silver Age Lot of 12- $85
- Tower of Shadows Annual #1 - $25
- Dead of Night #1 - $35
- Tomb of Dracula #27 and #63 - $23
- Sub-Mariner #15 and #31 - $22
- Marvel Feature #1 - $49
- Fantastic Four #150 - $25
- Tales to Astonish #58 - $19
- Marvel Team-Up Annual #2 - $30
- Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 - $19
This iconic book is in good to great shape, see the photos for the details. Solidly attached and great colors.
Amazing Spider-Man #98 - 1971 - Non-Code Approved Drug Issue, Green Goblin cover: $66
Great condition. Some minor wear and ticks on the spine, but overall a great, beautiful, solid book.
Amazing Spider-Man #121 -1973 - Death of Gwen Stacy: $200
The cover is worn, has some holes but despite that the staples are attached,colors are good, and everything is attached and complete. The inside looks good, too. See photos for details.
Amazing Spider-Man #361 Newsstand - 1992 - First appearance of Carnage - Slice at top, $38
Here's a tragedy. This otherwise beautiful high grade major key book has a clean scissor cut at the top through the whole book. Included photos and closeups.
Journey into Mystery #125 - 1966 - Iconic cover and last Journey into Mystery before Thor title change: $49
Very good condition, has a small chip out of the bottom left cover but other than some cover wear it’s just a solid book with great colors.
Early Man-Thing lot: Astonishing Tales #13, Adventure into Fear #11-13: $80 (willing to split this lot up)
Third cover appearance of Man-Thing in awesome condition. The Fear 11-13 are in good condition, but a little more worn than the Astonishing.
Flash #113 - 1960 - First appearance and origin of the Trickster: $75
This one looks good until you realize it has tape up the spine holding the loose staples on. Included pictures of the staples and tape. It is complete and has good colors otherwise, but still low grade because of the tape/staple issue.
Werewolf by Night #8 - 1973 - Has Mark Jewelers insert included: $26
Is in great shape and includes a Mark Jewelers insert making this regular issue a little more rare.
Werewolf by Night #18 - 1974 - $22
Worn condition but great colors. See photos.
House of Secrets #91 - 1971 - Iconic Neal Adams cover: $32
Book is in great condition. There is some minor chipping on a portion of the bottom edge of the cover but other than the wear on the cover it is a beautiful book.
Amazing Adventures #13, #16 & #17 - $42
Good to great condition on these Beast issues, including the Juggernaut vs Beast cover. Bundle with Amazing Adventures #11 (first furred Beast) and I'll give you a great deal.
Invaders #31 - 1978 - Frankenstein is a Nazi. Come on: $17
In awesome condition. Also did I mention Captain America fights Nazi Frankenstein?
Action Comics #263 - 1960 - Last appearance of Bizarro world. End of Bizarro world not told. Not good deal.: $33
Cover has pen on it and is worn but interiors are good, complete and attached and colors are great.
Giant Size Chillers #1 - 1975 - John Romita art: $20
Not the more valuable 1974 with Drac but this is in awesome condition and still some great classic horror.
Daredevil #184 Newsstand - 1982 - Iconic cover: $22
In fantastic condition. Newsstand variant that has been very well kept.
Astonishing Tales featuring Dr. Doom & Kazar #1 - 1970 - First issue in series: $15
In great condition. Great colors and quality. Doctor Doom.
Detective Comics #355 and 2 copies of #375 - $25
Some classic old Batman. Good but a cleaning is needed on 355, two copies of 375 one clean and great condition one worn in but complete and attached.
Green Lantern #59 - 1968 - First appearance of Guy Gardner: $125
Worn but complete. Attached at top staple, bottom staple detached.
Wolverine (1988) #1 - 1988 - Can’t have the 1982? Take this instead!: $65
Also in awesome condition. Very, very clean.
Amazing Spider-Man #29 - 1965 - SLAB CGC 4.5 - Second Scorpion: $140
Slabbed. See photos.
Amazing Spider-Man #40 - 1966 - Origin of the Green Goblin, Iconic Cover: $185
Looks great, clean, bright colors. Complete and solidly attached. See photos
Amazing Spider-Man #64- 1968 - Romita Spider-Man vs. Vulture Cover: $90
Great condition. Bright awesome colors.
Amazing Spider-Man #72 - 1969 - Shocker cover: $35
Is a bit worn and the centerfold is detached (see photos). But it is complete and still has good colors on the interior.
X-Men #221 - 1987 - First Appearance of Mister Sinister: $75
Awesome condition. Just a couple of minor spine ticks. Other than that, beautiful. See photos.
X-Men #4 - 1992 - First Appearance of Omega Red: $20
Awesome condition. Not even any spine ticks. See photos
Daredevil #157 (Newsstand) - 1979: $15
Awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Daredevil #164 (Newsstand) - 1980 - Iconic Cover: $55
In awesome condition. Great colors on cover despite all the white. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Plastic Man #1 (#19 free with purchase) - 1966 - First appearance of Plastic Man (son of original): $SOLD AT 35$41$SOLD
Hole in cover, worn, needs a cleaning. But come on, it’s Plastic Man!
Detective Comics #259 - 1958 - First Appearance of Calendar Man: $175
Worn but expected for its age. Solid staples and fully attached. Great colors.
Batman Annual #14 - 1990 - Iconic Neal Adams Two-Face Cover, Origin of Two-Face: $15
Amazing condition, almost unused. See photos.
Detective Comics #324 (1964) and Batman #410 (1987) - $32
324 in good condition but could use a clean and press. Batman 410 is in awesome condition, but considering the prices of these I figured I’d just throw them together.
Amazing Adventures #11 - 1972 - First furry beast: $100
In awesome condition. Minor, tiny blemish (possibly a tape pull?) on the bottom of the A on cover. See photo, but very tiny blemish.
Incredible Hulk #105 - 1968 - First appearance of Missing Link, iconic cover: $45
In really good condition, with minor wear to the cover and some breaking on it. White interiors, solidly attached, great colors.
Incredible Hulk #179 - 1974: $15
In great condition.
Incredible Hulk #250 (Newsstand) - 1980 - Iconic Hulk vs. Silver Surfer cover: $38
Awesome condition. See photos.
Tales of Suspense #94 - 1967 - First appearance of M.O.D.O.K.: $50
In good condition, with a little edge wear and marks on the cover in places. Other than that it has bright clean pages and good colors.
Captain America #110 - 1969 - Rick Jones dons Bucky Costume, first appearance of Madame Hydra: $60
Iconic Jim Steranko cover and art. In OK condition, a bit worn, could definitely use a cleaning. See photos.
Flash #129 - 1962 - First team-up of golden age Flash and silver age Flash; first appearance of golden age Green Lantern and JSA in silver age: $95
Good condition! Very solid, great colors, complete and attached.
Flash #147 - 1964 - Second appearance of Professor Zoom: $95
Good condition! Very solid, great colors, complete and attached.
Aquaman #11 - 1963 - First appearance of Mera: $95
Worn condition but solid, complete and attached.
Mystery in Space #68 - 1961 - 10c Comic Goodness: $25
Cover is detached, but hey, it’s a 10c comic. Otherwise good colors and pages.
Strange Adventures #138 - 1962: $18
Good condition, good colors.
Golden and Silver Age Lot of 12- $85
Came into a lot of worn golden and silver books I know little about. Would like to offload them all together, so take a look at the album. Includes Little Lulu, Cheyenne Kid, the Flintstones, Tarzan, some other Gold Key and Dell stuff and an Adventures book from 1945. Did some research to get prices, take a look.
Tower of Shadows Annual #1 - 1971 - Romita cover and Neal Adams art: $25
Great condition. Good colors, solid book.
Dead of Night #1 - 1973 - Romita art: $35
Really great condition, with a minor color rub or stain or something (can’t tell what) to a spot on the bottom of the front cover and top of the back. Fantastic colors, white pages.
Tomb of Dracula #27 and #63 - $23
Non-key issues in great condition, just throwing together to move.
Sub-Mariner #15 and #31 - Silver Age Namor bundle: $22
Great colors and interiors. Fading on spine cover on #15, #31 in great condition, see photos.
Marvel Feature #1 - 1971 - Origin & First Defenders: $49
Has tape pull on cover, subscription crease color break (see photos)
Fantastic Four #150 - 1974 - Wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver: $25
In awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Tales to Astonish #58 - 1964 - Silver age Giant Man: $19
Worn condition but complete and attached. See photos.
Marvel Team-Up Annual #2 - 1978 - Spider-Man & The Hulk team-up: $30
In awesome condition. No spine ticks, creases, color breaks or bends.
Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 - 1987 - Death of First Hobgoblin: $19
Awesome condition. Pressable non-color breaking crease on back cover. See photos
2024.05.14 23:32 EubenHad Low profile full keyboard with backlight, brown or scissor switches?
Help!
So I'm in need of a 100% low profile keyboard with basic backlight that won't have the paint start to wear off the keys in a year. I'm coming from Razer Ornate v2, but the V3 is junk, so that's not a option.
I either want brown or scissor switches for soft-tactile. (The Keychron yellow or green would be options too, except..)
I'd try Keychron, but they don't have any backlight on their K5/s which is their only 100%.
I've read up on both the Cherry low profiles, but the mech one only has linear red switches, and their scissor one has a clacky spacebar. Also read up on the Corsair 100 Air, and it has spacebar issues too. Meanwhile the logitech G915 seems to wear out fast.
So.. yes, I'm a victim of over-research as well.
Any ideas?
submitted by EubenHad to keyboards [link] [comments]
So I'm in need of a 100% low profile keyboard with basic backlight that won't have the paint start to wear off the keys in a year. I'm coming from Razer Ornate v2, but the V3 is junk, so that's not a option.
I either want brown or scissor switches for soft-tactile. (The Keychron yellow or green would be options too, except..)
I'd try Keychron, but they don't have any backlight on their K5/s which is their only 100%.
I've read up on both the Cherry low profiles, but the mech one only has linear red switches, and their scissor one has a clacky spacebar. Also read up on the Corsair 100 Air, and it has spacebar issues too. Meanwhile the logitech G915 seems to wear out fast.
So.. yes, I'm a victim of over-research as well.
Any ideas?
2024.05.14 22:58 Eddi_imma_ready High blood pressure and fatigue
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 87kg
Age: 31
Sex assigned at birth: male
Geographic region(s) your ancestors are from: born in Kyrgyztan (mother an father were born there), genetic test says 48% Eastern Europe, 32% Baltik, 10% England, 6% Central Asia and 3% Inuit. Grandma of my mothers side was orphaned, don't know anything about grandpa besides their wedding place in Kyrgystan. Grandma of my fathers side is from northern Russia and my grandpa from northern Germany/Netherlands.
Medications: -
Simplified Symptoms list: Blood pressure averages at around 175 systolic, 99 diastolic. Sometimes it goes up to over 190 systolic pressure, even when I don't feel anything off despite some, but not bad weariness. Also I suffer hyperhirdosis; I noticeably sweat more and more easily than others. Bad sleep.
Health background : Nothing protruding. I had repeated encounters of dog bites with puntured skin during my childhood, once on my head. Had chickenpox as a joung child and scarlet fever as a child. I live in areas with many ticks, which can transfer diseases. I had multiple ticks stuck on me during my lifetime, but not once a prominent infection. I tended to have regular middle ear infections due to having longer hair in my youth and going out into the cold winter with wet hair. Had multiple bones broke, most remarkably my left clavicle which was not 100% aligned to grow together.
I made a full run of experts: • Nephrologist • Radiologist • Cardiologist • Blood screens Result: nothing, except my right kidney seems to have split arteries connecting it to my aorta, but the doc said both diameters together should average to normal blood flow. The blood screen results pointed to a slightly hightened but not alarming result of the enzyme that points to the kidneys. (I forgot what it was called, sadly). I took blood pressure medication myself once but stopped as I wished to tend to the cause and not treat the symptoms. But a healthier lifestyle seemed not to help me...
Background of Symptoms : High bloodpressure was first detected when I was around 16 when I messured just for fun. Back then it averaged at about 155 systolic pressure.
Family history: My mother is taking blood pressure medication and my grandma (mothers side) has hightened blood pressure as does my grandpa(fathers side). They are old and seem to get by with it well, except my mother. She has a unhealthy style of life and cannot handle stress very good. Father had diabetes.
Other information: I exerecise regularly by going for runs, swimming, bouldering among other sports. I have a great variety of sports and do mostly cardio but also calisthenics. I stretch and use blackrolls for tensions in my muscles. I had long-term ECG device not too long ago. The results said I had a great range between high pulse and low pulse. BUT it detected sleeping apnoea. And indeed I go weeks of bad sleep before I am reminded by some wonder, that sleep can be restful. I eat vegetables or fruit to every single meal and try to mix it up regularly. Nuts, different grain, fish and meat is on my menue and I also take Vitamin D and Vitamin B12 and sometimes Magnesium supplements. I don't smoke and don't abuse any substances, though I consume alcohol and the occasional hash cookie. I drink one coffee per day and don't use much salt. I get my regular walks and during sunny days go into the sun. I meditate from time to time and have a supportive partner. In my mind I life way healthier than the average person but my energy level and motivation seem to be always way too low.
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Weight: 87kg
Age: 31
Sex assigned at birth: male
Geographic region(s) your ancestors are from: born in Kyrgyztan (mother an father were born there), genetic test says 48% Eastern Europe, 32% Baltik, 10% England, 6% Central Asia and 3% Inuit. Grandma of my mothers side was orphaned, don't know anything about grandpa besides their wedding place in Kyrgystan. Grandma of my fathers side is from northern Russia and my grandpa from northern Germany/Netherlands.
Medications: -
Simplified Symptoms list: Blood pressure averages at around 175 systolic, 99 diastolic. Sometimes it goes up to over 190 systolic pressure, even when I don't feel anything off despite some, but not bad weariness. Also I suffer hyperhirdosis; I noticeably sweat more and more easily than others. Bad sleep.
Health background : Nothing protruding. I had repeated encounters of dog bites with puntured skin during my childhood, once on my head. Had chickenpox as a joung child and scarlet fever as a child. I live in areas with many ticks, which can transfer diseases. I had multiple ticks stuck on me during my lifetime, but not once a prominent infection. I tended to have regular middle ear infections due to having longer hair in my youth and going out into the cold winter with wet hair. Had multiple bones broke, most remarkably my left clavicle which was not 100% aligned to grow together.
I made a full run of experts: • Nephrologist • Radiologist • Cardiologist • Blood screens Result: nothing, except my right kidney seems to have split arteries connecting it to my aorta, but the doc said both diameters together should average to normal blood flow. The blood screen results pointed to a slightly hightened but not alarming result of the enzyme that points to the kidneys. (I forgot what it was called, sadly). I took blood pressure medication myself once but stopped as I wished to tend to the cause and not treat the symptoms. But a healthier lifestyle seemed not to help me...
Background of Symptoms : High bloodpressure was first detected when I was around 16 when I messured just for fun. Back then it averaged at about 155 systolic pressure.
Family history: My mother is taking blood pressure medication and my grandma (mothers side) has hightened blood pressure as does my grandpa(fathers side). They are old and seem to get by with it well, except my mother. She has a unhealthy style of life and cannot handle stress very good. Father had diabetes.
Other information: I exerecise regularly by going for runs, swimming, bouldering among other sports. I have a great variety of sports and do mostly cardio but also calisthenics. I stretch and use blackrolls for tensions in my muscles. I had long-term ECG device not too long ago. The results said I had a great range between high pulse and low pulse. BUT it detected sleeping apnoea. And indeed I go weeks of bad sleep before I am reminded by some wonder, that sleep can be restful. I eat vegetables or fruit to every single meal and try to mix it up regularly. Nuts, different grain, fish and meat is on my menue and I also take Vitamin D and Vitamin B12 and sometimes Magnesium supplements. I don't smoke and don't abuse any substances, though I consume alcohol and the occasional hash cookie. I drink one coffee per day and don't use much salt. I get my regular walks and during sunny days go into the sun. I meditate from time to time and have a supportive partner. In my mind I life way healthier than the average person but my energy level and motivation seem to be always way too low.
2024.05.14 22:36 spoon_jar I already feel like I’ve lead a full life at the age of 25. Fully at peace with dying. (LONG READ)
I plan on ending it in ~30 years, or when I become a burden on my friends and family.
Preface:
I know and understand I am extremely privileged. I’ve always had supportive parents and a safe place/roof over my head. I’ve faced hardships, but they’re a far cry from what others have dealt/are dealing with.
Context dump:
I grew up in a middle class family in England, born of two working class parents that managed to achieve a decent amount of social mobility and provide a comfortable childhood for my siblings and I. We weren’t spoiled in a material sense. We all went to local state schools, never had the latest games consoles, designer clothes, or ate fancy food. My parents chose to spoil us with experiences and travel, getting the opportunity to see the world and have a go at different activities.
I was gifted when it came to academics and flew through school in all the top classes, however choked when I got to my final years. As a result the university I went to wasn’t all that great. This along side other factors such as experimenting with drugs, developing an eating disorder and getting myself into a very toxic relationship (my ‘first love’) started my depression. When covid hit I dropped out and moved back home.
My depression persisted and got worse. I contemplated suicide frequently, however always knew it was never really something I’d go through with, at least not yet. In the meantime I started working in hospitality in my hometown, developing two major passions, music and craft beer. In total I spent 2 years saving money, developing my passions and trying to ignore my depressive thoughts.
Where I am now:
For the last two years I’ve been living in a major city in England. I have a great job working 40 hours a week in a craft beer pub and can pay my own way with a little left over to save each month. In my free time I go and enjoy the music scene and listen to the Djs I love mix live, and (safely/infrequently) taking drugs to enhance the experience. I have a beautiful, kind, hilarious girlfriend that I have a great relationship with. I’m attempting to put myself out there with Djing myself, in the hopes of playing clubs one day. Right know I feel relatively content, proud of myself for striking out on my own and building a life for myself, and living %100 independently.
I’m really not trying to brag, I’ve had a privileged upbringing and I know that. But I would like to make a list of things to help get across this sense that I’ve already lead a full life and would be okay if it ended tomorrow.
I’ve visited 10 different countries in 4 different continents. I’ve tried sailing, skiing, kayaking, rock climbing, horse riding and sky diving. I’ve gone camping in -10 degrees weather. I’ve helped build living facilities (laying bricks) for orphans in South Africa. Performed my own original poetry for a room of 50 people. I’ve felt some of the most intense euphoria it’s possible to feel, in unison with another person I love to the ends of the earth.
I’ve also seen extremely low lows, contemplated suicide and confronted my own mortality. I’ve shoplifted. Hurt peoples feelings. Lied for my own benefit. I’ve felt real heartbreak and mourned close family members. I’ve experienced high levels of self hatred/inadequacy and projected those feelings on my loved ones negatively impacting them. All things I regret, but contribute to my life feeling ‘full’.
The controversial bit:
As a result of all this, coupled with my depression, I plan on killing myself when I start becoming a burden on others. The exact nature of my depression is also crucial to this. I believe that my existence itself is to some extent immoral. To make it actually moral would involve moving somewhere I can live entirely independently, which would sadly involve effectively cutting off my friends and family. The way the modern world is structured means that there is always some from of exploitation involved in the goods I consume, and I as a consumer contribute to this exploitation. I’ve come to terms with it for the meantime. I will only start to really plan the end of my life once my parents are gone. It would cause them too much grief if I were to leave before they do.
I’ve been considering this since I was about 16. Reading moral philosophy since 15. I’m going to strive to improve the lives of those around me, be kind and helpful and do right by people for the next 30 years or so and then seek out the most reasonable way to end my life.
My girlfriend knows about these plans. She is understanding and supportive.
Thanks for reading.
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Preface:
I know and understand I am extremely privileged. I’ve always had supportive parents and a safe place/roof over my head. I’ve faced hardships, but they’re a far cry from what others have dealt/are dealing with.
Context dump:
I grew up in a middle class family in England, born of two working class parents that managed to achieve a decent amount of social mobility and provide a comfortable childhood for my siblings and I. We weren’t spoiled in a material sense. We all went to local state schools, never had the latest games consoles, designer clothes, or ate fancy food. My parents chose to spoil us with experiences and travel, getting the opportunity to see the world and have a go at different activities.
I was gifted when it came to academics and flew through school in all the top classes, however choked when I got to my final years. As a result the university I went to wasn’t all that great. This along side other factors such as experimenting with drugs, developing an eating disorder and getting myself into a very toxic relationship (my ‘first love’) started my depression. When covid hit I dropped out and moved back home.
My depression persisted and got worse. I contemplated suicide frequently, however always knew it was never really something I’d go through with, at least not yet. In the meantime I started working in hospitality in my hometown, developing two major passions, music and craft beer. In total I spent 2 years saving money, developing my passions and trying to ignore my depressive thoughts.
Where I am now:
For the last two years I’ve been living in a major city in England. I have a great job working 40 hours a week in a craft beer pub and can pay my own way with a little left over to save each month. In my free time I go and enjoy the music scene and listen to the Djs I love mix live, and (safely/infrequently) taking drugs to enhance the experience. I have a beautiful, kind, hilarious girlfriend that I have a great relationship with. I’m attempting to put myself out there with Djing myself, in the hopes of playing clubs one day. Right know I feel relatively content, proud of myself for striking out on my own and building a life for myself, and living %100 independently.
I’m really not trying to brag, I’ve had a privileged upbringing and I know that. But I would like to make a list of things to help get across this sense that I’ve already lead a full life and would be okay if it ended tomorrow.
I’ve visited 10 different countries in 4 different continents. I’ve tried sailing, skiing, kayaking, rock climbing, horse riding and sky diving. I’ve gone camping in -10 degrees weather. I’ve helped build living facilities (laying bricks) for orphans in South Africa. Performed my own original poetry for a room of 50 people. I’ve felt some of the most intense euphoria it’s possible to feel, in unison with another person I love to the ends of the earth.
I’ve also seen extremely low lows, contemplated suicide and confronted my own mortality. I’ve shoplifted. Hurt peoples feelings. Lied for my own benefit. I’ve felt real heartbreak and mourned close family members. I’ve experienced high levels of self hatred/inadequacy and projected those feelings on my loved ones negatively impacting them. All things I regret, but contribute to my life feeling ‘full’.
The controversial bit:
As a result of all this, coupled with my depression, I plan on killing myself when I start becoming a burden on others. The exact nature of my depression is also crucial to this. I believe that my existence itself is to some extent immoral. To make it actually moral would involve moving somewhere I can live entirely independently, which would sadly involve effectively cutting off my friends and family. The way the modern world is structured means that there is always some from of exploitation involved in the goods I consume, and I as a consumer contribute to this exploitation. I’ve come to terms with it for the meantime. I will only start to really plan the end of my life once my parents are gone. It would cause them too much grief if I were to leave before they do.
I’ve been considering this since I was about 16. Reading moral philosophy since 15. I’m going to strive to improve the lives of those around me, be kind and helpful and do right by people for the next 30 years or so and then seek out the most reasonable way to end my life.
My girlfriend knows about these plans. She is understanding and supportive.
Thanks for reading.
2024.05.14 22:29 DaddyDersch Bulls Make a Historical 9 Green Day Long Run Into CPI… 5-14-24 SPY/ ES Futures, and QQQ/ NQ Futures Daily Market Analysis
 | I have been doing this for quite a some time now… and I am pretty well adversed to the fact that “the market is going to market” but I have got to say this 9 day long bull run is one of the most criminal things I have ever seen. The last 4 days of trading from a macro stand point (especially today) make absolutely no sense… the start of this 9 days made 100% sense as the VIX got majorly crushed and we rocketed off that. I can get on board with a sick short squeeze to the upside. submitted by DaddyDersch to wallstreetbetsOGs [link] [comments] According to ChatGPT (Thanks FRENCH!) the last time the S&P500 saw this many green closes in a row was March/ April 1971 where it closed 14 consecutive green days in a row. That makes this the second longest green run in the history of the stock markets (at least since 1971). However, today made ZERO sense. We got WAY hotter than forecasted and previous PPI (inflation data) data this morning at 830a. However, markets initially correctly reacted with a huge wick to the downside… only to instantly get bought up and never see that low again. Now sometimes his makes sense because the VIX is so pumped going into data that unless its wildly bad we crush the VIX and rally anyways. However, that was not what we had today. Honestly I cant really explain todays movement. This is setting up and incredibly wild day tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/djxybwi3cg0d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c3428320e7912e46fce344d298936faeddd8c1b Based off Bloomberg, Cleveland fed and forecast this is our expected range for CPI tomorrow. My Prediction CPI YoY: 3.6% (miss) CPI MoM: 0.5% (miss) CORE YoY: 3.8% (unchanged) CORE MoM: 0.4% (unchanged) I actually going into this CPI was pretty bullish and thinking that we would get a COLD CPI which would take us to ATHs… However, now the data is pointing to a more neutral/ HOT CPI Tomorrow. However, like we saw with PPI today… is the market even going to care? https://preview.redd.it/7glwhsv3cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=fd88b53f03050ae0d0f9c88824c393e84e41e860 Thanks ChatGPT and FRENCH! https://preview.redd.it/tguacg94cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c027c5a93d2f7c6ea7482840ddd131bb04efb4f Since December 2023 any time PPI has come in HIGHER than estimates we have also seen CPI come in HIGHER than estimates also… that means for CPI YoY tomorrow we should expect a 3.5% minimum number which would leave CPI YoY unchanged… there is no way that the fed can even remotely justify or explain that we will get 3 rate cuts in 2024 with CPI unchanged… Honestly I have been saying it since December 2023… we are NOT getting rate cuts this year UNLESS something breaks in a major way… we actually could easily see a rate HIKE in 2024 at the pace we are at… https://preview.redd.it/i2osz7l4cg0d1.png?width=963&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c024bd1f8d227da4ff68d323d88fa795f2a7b57 We are also seeing an estimation at 3.6% for CORE YoY… IF we use the variation of 0.1% like we had on PPI then we should see CORE YoY come in at 3.7% tomorrow. This would be a small BEAT. https://preview.redd.it/fwkl5mu4cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc16bf54546bbe9c66725274c06fa30db4672331 I have a feeling that tomorrow we could easily see HOT CPI data and still see a new ATHs… SPY DAILY https://preview.redd.it/blk31765cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=e69efa03684c826a77adee5f38ab82e101d5b2b4 Whats even wilder is that SPY is about $1 from ATHs as we head into the most important CPI data day in a long time. Its very possible markets will see a new ATH tomorrow despite hotter inflation data that signals no rate cuts. SPY closed just below its critical 523.45 double confirmed supply. Bulls will look for a breakout to ATHs and target a closure in the 530s. Bears need to minimally close under todays demand of 520.82. SPY DAILY LEVELS Supply- 518.01 -> 523.45 Demand- 520.82 ES FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/w2q2svh5cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ac71f8be57a4c5fe49e0ab9b10d686c911be6df Futures also turned previous supply into demand and also had daily buyers today. Now the chart we see right now is NOT what we saw at open… for most of the day we were not seeing stronger daily buyers which is very interesting as they once again came in very late to the day. Today is another very low volume day overall too hitting about 65% of the 30 day average volume today. Bulls will target ATHs tomorrow of 5333.5 and a closure over 5309 supply. Bears will look to close under todays demand of 5239. ES FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 5266 -> 5309 Demand- 5239 QQQ DAILY https://preview.redd.it/6rj9p5t5cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6133366dacacb65d6edaa0584e49840136752d1 Much like SPY we are pushing up and nearing our ATHs here with only about $3 to go to reach 449.34. We are coming into our major double supply of 445.36-446.44. If the bulls can break through this level here then we should realistically look for a closure in the 450s tomorrow. Bears minimally will look to close under yesterdays demand of 442. QQQ DAILY LEVELS Supply- 441.14 -> 445.36 -> 446.44 Demand- 442 NQ FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/0mmez946cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d198df9875818901f69502f6f2466545b334dbc Nq also turned supply into demand today and was the main leader of upside support with stronger daily sellers for the 2nd day in a row now. NQ remains about 250 pts from ATHs as it has a much larger wick the day we hit ATHs compared to ES. Bulls will look to break through 18489-18582 tomorrow and target a move to 19000 by EOW. Bears need to minimally close under 18234 demand. NQ FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 17917 -> 18489 -> 18582 Demand- 17462 -> 18234 DAILY TRADING LOG https://preview.redd.it/u60ec0h6cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=180e6abc5b653192216a9585f5d223adea934782 Truthfully I am not too proud to admit that today got the best of me. I truly in no world believed we would get a HOT PPI data AND still close green for the 9th day in a row leading into one of the most important data points we have gotten recently… And honestly I just couldn’t see anything but shorts. I just kept waiting for something to come that never came. In the end though its not for nothing. I did lose one funded account which I took an early payout in this week so it barely had $400 of drawdown left… I had another account that was slightly down and that got burnt trying to be patient and waiting for a short to play out (it did eventually pay out but it did not come quick enough). The funded account I made $108 in today I will be requesting a pay out in tonight. My APEX account thankfully ended up only down $300 which I already requested one payout in and will request another payout in tomorrow. APEX payout windows run the 15th-20th. I also was able to pass two more EVALS on MFFU today to replace my lost funded. In the end not a total loss but it is what it is. Tomorrow plan honestly is to not even convert over my two MFFU funded accounts and I will just be trading my APEX. Today I abandoned my strategy and thought I could force trades. It cost me some but it could have been much much worse. I am going to regather tomorrow and also avoid risking trading on CPI day by only trading my APEX account which has a major cushion. This was my the worse day I have had in a very long time… it sucks but in the end it’s a learning experience. |
2024.05.14 22:29 ZevNyx The cost of SotO vs previous Expansions
I see a lot of people say things like living world used to be free and now it’s expensive cause it’s bundled with the expansion and is small. Or various other arguments about the cost and quality of SotO vs other expansions, HoT & PoF in particular. I thought it would be interesting to go back and look at the numbers. Sometimes I participate in arguments to and I really should be saying accurate things myself.
When living world first came out, the base game was buy to play @ $60. And you had to own the game to access it. LWS1 never cost anything but each release was somewhere between as small as pressing f on some signs for refugees or as big as the Tower of Nightmares and then literally disappeared from the game 3 weeks later. An attempt to get us to log in from extreme FOMO.
LWS2 consists of 8 content drops that cost 200 gems, 160 gems each if bought bundled for $16. Required owning the base game. ANet made a decision at the time that IF you login during the correct time period per episode that you can have it for free in the hopes they’d make up for the difference in gem sales but 200 gems has always been the “box price” for these episodes.
HoT cost $50 at release and consisted of the expansion drop plus 6 content drops (LWS3, which cost 160 gems each if you buy it all as a bundle. So LWS3 cost $12.
PoF cost $30 at release and consisted of the expansion drop plus 6 content drops (LWS4, which again cost $12 unless you met the same criteria that was supposed to get you to spend more in the gem store.
IBS, an attempt to quit having to make expansions, was 6 content drops for $12 or free if you again met the free-ness criteria that was meant to get you to drop money in the gem store. It still requires you to own PoF though so in order to play it you had to buy PoF.
EoD cost $30 and consisted of the expansion drop andof 2 small content drops (Gyala Delves) or 7 if you consider the LWS1 re-release to be content which many in the community don’t, but at best it’s double dipping.
SotO costs $25 and consists of the expansion drop plus 3 small content drops which you receive as part of the expansion regardless of when you buy it or whether you log in during a certain period of time.
I see the old model as a business putting a sign on the door saying “free stuff” to get you in the door to buy other more expensive things and then leaving the “free stuff” sign up in the door forever after and saying “whoops forgot to take the sign down that’ll be $5 please”. Whereas the “free stuff” being advertised now is worth less and everything else has gone up in price but at least the sign isn’t a lie later on.
This is how businesses like ANet and NCSoft view things.
GW2 base game in the LWS1 era, $60 with FOMO dialed up to 11 to try to push gem sales.
GW2 base game in the LWS2 era, $76 with LWS2, discounted to $60 if you participate in the FOMO to push gem sales.
HoT, $62 with LWS2, discounted to $50 if you participate in the FOMO to push gem sales.
PoF, $54 with LWS4 & IBS, discounted to $30 if you participated in 3 years of FOMO to push gem sales.
EoD, $30 as is, no living world FOMO cause we have to panic and re-release LWS1 so the Steam release doesn’t flop and the player base will revolt if we attach gems to it. And we threw Gyala Delves in there to wrap up EoD in a bow so we can move to the new model.
Soto, $25 as is, with Wizard Vault seasons, constant in game bonus events, and 3 content patches included in the box price to create a constant low level FOMO to drive gem sales.
Additional sales as needed get new people to buy old “free” content and skins.
Personally, I think the cost of the content is the most honest it’s ever been.
I’m fine with being cynical here, and have been cynical to ANets reason for previous and current business models here. SotO is definitely designed to create more consistent profit for the company while managing a smaller workforce.
If we spread the cost of content out over time, the game cost $170 if you participated in 100 percent of the FOMO so $15.50 per year (including some extreme content droughts.) Compared to $25 per year that certainly can seem like a 61% cost increase for what has certainly been a mediocre story in Inner Nayos so far.
Even jf you didn’t participate in the FOMO it cost $222 over the years, so $20.20 per year, less if you caught sales or buy the complete collection today. So a 24% cost increase.
If we compare per expansion though, SotO is less than half the bundled price of the core, HoT, or PoF eras individually and around 15% cheaper than EoD.
For people who primarily care about story and new maps, I get it. For story and map content alone, if this is going to be the quality going forward over multiple annual expansions it’s a disappointment that costs more over time.
I would argue that the increased game balance frequency, consistent bonus events, numerous QoL improvements, increased attention to WvW and PvP (something is more than nothing), increased communication, actual bug fixes for old content, and improved frequency of new open world and instanced content (hopefully consistency of quality improves there too) is worth the dollars, despite the story.
I’d really like a better story. ANet please learn things from Inner Nayos and Gyala Delves in particular. Those adorable Kryptis Quaggans should probably be trying to eat my face, not apples, and a battle to fight through Eparch’s queens forces should make me break a sweat. If neither Peitha or Isgarren betray me next week I’ll probably quit the game for a month.
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When living world first came out, the base game was buy to play @ $60. And you had to own the game to access it. LWS1 never cost anything but each release was somewhere between as small as pressing f on some signs for refugees or as big as the Tower of Nightmares and then literally disappeared from the game 3 weeks later. An attempt to get us to log in from extreme FOMO.
LWS2 consists of 8 content drops that cost 200 gems, 160 gems each if bought bundled for $16. Required owning the base game. ANet made a decision at the time that IF you login during the correct time period per episode that you can have it for free in the hopes they’d make up for the difference in gem sales but 200 gems has always been the “box price” for these episodes.
HoT cost $50 at release and consisted of the expansion drop plus 6 content drops (LWS3, which cost 160 gems each if you buy it all as a bundle. So LWS3 cost $12.
PoF cost $30 at release and consisted of the expansion drop plus 6 content drops (LWS4, which again cost $12 unless you met the same criteria that was supposed to get you to spend more in the gem store.
IBS, an attempt to quit having to make expansions, was 6 content drops for $12 or free if you again met the free-ness criteria that was meant to get you to drop money in the gem store. It still requires you to own PoF though so in order to play it you had to buy PoF.
EoD cost $30 and consisted of the expansion drop andof 2 small content drops (Gyala Delves) or 7 if you consider the LWS1 re-release to be content which many in the community don’t, but at best it’s double dipping.
SotO costs $25 and consists of the expansion drop plus 3 small content drops which you receive as part of the expansion regardless of when you buy it or whether you log in during a certain period of time.
I see the old model as a business putting a sign on the door saying “free stuff” to get you in the door to buy other more expensive things and then leaving the “free stuff” sign up in the door forever after and saying “whoops forgot to take the sign down that’ll be $5 please”. Whereas the “free stuff” being advertised now is worth less and everything else has gone up in price but at least the sign isn’t a lie later on.
This is how businesses like ANet and NCSoft view things.
GW2 base game in the LWS1 era, $60 with FOMO dialed up to 11 to try to push gem sales.
GW2 base game in the LWS2 era, $76 with LWS2, discounted to $60 if you participate in the FOMO to push gem sales.
HoT, $62 with LWS2, discounted to $50 if you participate in the FOMO to push gem sales.
PoF, $54 with LWS4 & IBS, discounted to $30 if you participated in 3 years of FOMO to push gem sales.
EoD, $30 as is, no living world FOMO cause we have to panic and re-release LWS1 so the Steam release doesn’t flop and the player base will revolt if we attach gems to it. And we threw Gyala Delves in there to wrap up EoD in a bow so we can move to the new model.
Soto, $25 as is, with Wizard Vault seasons, constant in game bonus events, and 3 content patches included in the box price to create a constant low level FOMO to drive gem sales.
Additional sales as needed get new people to buy old “free” content and skins.
Personally, I think the cost of the content is the most honest it’s ever been.
I’m fine with being cynical here, and have been cynical to ANets reason for previous and current business models here. SotO is definitely designed to create more consistent profit for the company while managing a smaller workforce.
If we spread the cost of content out over time, the game cost $170 if you participated in 100 percent of the FOMO so $15.50 per year (including some extreme content droughts.) Compared to $25 per year that certainly can seem like a 61% cost increase for what has certainly been a mediocre story in Inner Nayos so far.
Even jf you didn’t participate in the FOMO it cost $222 over the years, so $20.20 per year, less if you caught sales or buy the complete collection today. So a 24% cost increase.
If we compare per expansion though, SotO is less than half the bundled price of the core, HoT, or PoF eras individually and around 15% cheaper than EoD.
For people who primarily care about story and new maps, I get it. For story and map content alone, if this is going to be the quality going forward over multiple annual expansions it’s a disappointment that costs more over time.
I would argue that the increased game balance frequency, consistent bonus events, numerous QoL improvements, increased attention to WvW and PvP (something is more than nothing), increased communication, actual bug fixes for old content, and improved frequency of new open world and instanced content (hopefully consistency of quality improves there too) is worth the dollars, despite the story.
I’d really like a better story. ANet please learn things from Inner Nayos and Gyala Delves in particular. Those adorable Kryptis Quaggans should probably be trying to eat my face, not apples, and a battle to fight through Eparch’s queens forces should make me break a sweat. If neither Peitha or Isgarren betray me next week I’ll probably quit the game for a month.
2024.05.14 22:28 DaddyDersch Bulls Make a Historical 9 Green Day Long Run Into CPI… 5-14-24 SPY/ ES Futures, and QQQ/ NQ Futures Daily Market Analysis
 | I have been doing this for quite a some time now… and I am pretty well adversed to the fact that “the market is going to market” but I have got to say this 9 day long bull run is one of the most criminal things I have ever seen. The last 4 days of trading from a macro stand point (especially today) make absolutely no sense… the start of this 9 days made 100% sense as the VIX got majorly crushed and we rocketed off that. I can get on board with a sick short squeeze to the upside. submitted by DaddyDersch to Wallstreetbetsnew [link] [comments] According to ChatGPT (Thanks FRENCH!) the last time the S&P500 saw this many green closes in a row was March/ April 1971 where it closed 14 consecutive green days in a row. That makes this the second longest green run in the history of the stock markets (at least since 1971). However, today made ZERO sense. We got WAY hotter than forecasted and previous PPI (inflation data) data this morning at 830a. However, markets initially correctly reacted with a huge wick to the downside… only to instantly get bought up and never see that low again. Now sometimes his makes sense because the VIX is so pumped going into data that unless its wildly bad we crush the VIX and rally anyways. However, that was not what we had today. Honestly I cant really explain todays movement. This is setting up and incredibly wild day tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/9o2njftwbg0d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=63eb205a8caa04a9bbfc19ba75ad0ea4302dba8e Based off Bloomberg, Cleveland fed and forecast this is our expected range for CPI tomorrow. My Prediction CPI YoY: 3.6% (miss) CPI MoM: 0.5% (miss) CORE YoY: 3.8% (unchanged) CORE MoM: 0.4% (unchanged) I actually going into this CPI was pretty bullish and thinking that we would get a COLD CPI which would take us to ATHs… However, now the data is pointing to a more neutral/ HOT CPI Tomorrow. However, like we saw with PPI today… is the market even going to care? https://preview.redd.it/cocu2s9xbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad22c5f184b3ec783eea7fed0980c705b5cb31f4 Thanks ChatGPT and FRENCH! https://preview.redd.it/7766c7nxbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=2688de1ae3637dcb1722eaad69625eac0adb4b85 Since December 2023 any time PPI has come in HIGHER than estimates we have also seen CPI come in HIGHER than estimates also… that means for CPI YoY tomorrow we should expect a 3.5% minimum number which would leave CPI YoY unchanged… there is no way that the fed can even remotely justify or explain that we will get 3 rate cuts in 2024 with CPI unchanged… Honestly I have been saying it since December 2023… we are NOT getting rate cuts this year UNLESS something breaks in a major way… we actually could easily see a rate HIKE in 2024 at the pace we are at… https://preview.redd.it/m7zndecybg0d1.png?width=963&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4e8d97155b7c69f55568eeaae219059eaaf26e5 We are also seeing an estimation at 3.6% for CORE YoY… IF we use the variation of 0.1% like we had on PPI then we should see CORE YoY come in at 3.7% tomorrow. This would be a small BEAT. https://preview.redd.it/5i5vufoybg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ca13ad8679d62a67193637f06645acd9f320af0 I have a feeling that tomorrow we could easily see HOT CPI data and still see a new ATHs… SPY DAILY https://preview.redd.it/c8vspq3zbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=542b27f1d8fcbfa8306d331a65bb5004a631975c Whats even wilder is that SPY is about $1 from ATHs as we head into the most important CPI data day in a long time. Its very possible markets will see a new ATH tomorrow despite hotter inflation data that signals no rate cuts. SPY closed just below its critical 523.45 double confirmed supply. Bulls will look for a breakout to ATHs and target a closure in the 530s. Bears need to minimally close under todays demand of 520.82. SPY DAILY LEVELS Supply- 518.01 -> 523.45 Demand- 520.82 ES FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/49pu8mozbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=676da33e37ef06865a6816935bef88d83260bccf Futures also turned previous supply into demand and also had daily buyers today. Now the chart we see right now is NOT what we saw at open… for most of the day we were not seeing stronger daily buyers which is very interesting as they once again came in very late to the day. Today is another very low volume day overall too hitting about 65% of the 30 day average volume today. Bulls will target ATHs tomorrow of 5333.5 and a closure over 5309 supply. Bears will look to close under todays demand of 5239. ES FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 5266 -> 5309 Demand- 5239 QQQ DAILY https://preview.redd.it/na066310cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ed6615f7ec88842d150e5866c8ad9e10725fbd2 Much like SPY we are pushing up and nearing our ATHs here with only about $3 to go to reach 449.34. We are coming into our major double supply of 445.36-446.44. If the bulls can break through this level here then we should realistically look for a closure in the 450s tomorrow. Bears minimally will look to close under yesterdays demand of 442. QQQ DAILY LEVELS Supply- 441.14 -> 445.36 -> 446.44 Demand- 442 NQ FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/y9ayjic0cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e64a84c24737ba63c1271ff4a432a6749279cd8 Nq also turned supply into demand today and was the main leader of upside support with stronger daily sellers for the 2nd day in a row now. NQ remains about 250 pts from ATHs as it has a much larger wick the day we hit ATHs compared to ES. Bulls will look to break through 18489-18582 tomorrow and target a move to 19000 by EOW. Bears need to minimally close under 18234 demand. NQ FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 17917 -> 18489 -> 18582 Demand- 17462 -> 18234 DAILY TRADING LOG https://preview.redd.it/it3p9co0cg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=47263ef12f20c6ba7fa7ebac42e4324f314276f3 Truthfully I am not too proud to admit that today got the best of me. I truly in no world believed we would get a HOT PPI data AND still close green for the 9th day in a row leading into one of the most important data points we have gotten recently… And honestly I just couldn’t see anything but shorts. I just kept waiting for something to come that never came. In the end though its not for nothing. I did lose one funded account which I took an early payout in this week so it barely had $400 of drawdown left… I had another account that was slightly down and that got burnt trying to be patient and waiting for a short to play out (it did eventually pay out but it did not come quick enough). The funded account I made $108 in today I will be requesting a pay out in tonight. My APEX account thankfully ended up only down $300 which I already requested one payout in and will request another payout in tomorrow. APEX payout windows run the 15th-20th. I also was able to pass two more EVALS on MFFU today to replace my lost funded. In the end not a total loss but it is what it is. Tomorrow plan honestly is to not even convert over my two MFFU funded accounts and I will just be trading my APEX. Today I abandoned my strategy and thought I could force trades. It cost me some but it could have been much much worse. I am going to regather tomorrow and also avoid risking trading on CPI day by only trading my APEX account which has a major cushion. This was my the worse day I have had in a very long time… it sucks but in the end it’s a learning experience. |
2024.05.14 22:27 DaddyDersch Bulls Make a Historical 9 Green Day Long Run Into CPI… 5-14-24 SPY/ ES Futures, and QQQ/ NQ Futures Daily Market Analysis
 | I have been doing this for quite a some time now… and I am pretty well adversed to the fact that “the market is going to market” but I have got to say this 9 day long bull run is one of the most criminal things I have ever seen. The last 4 days of trading from a macro stand point (especially today) make absolutely no sense… the start of this 9 days made 100% sense as the VIX got majorly crushed and we rocketed off that. I can get on board with a sick short squeeze to the upside. submitted by DaddyDersch to wallstreetbetsHUZZAH [link] [comments] According to ChatGPT (Thanks FRENCH!) the last time the S&P500 saw this many green closes in a row was March/ April 1971 where it closed 14 consecutive green days in a row. That makes this the second longest green run in the history of the stock markets (at least since 1971). However, today made ZERO sense. We got WAY hotter than forecasted and previous PPI (inflation data) data this morning at 830a. However, markets initially correctly reacted with a huge wick to the downside… only to instantly get bought up and never see that low again. Now sometimes his makes sense because the VIX is so pumped going into data that unless its wildly bad we crush the VIX and rally anyways. However, that was not what we had today. Honestly I cant really explain todays movement. This is setting up and incredibly wild day tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/63wc63inbg0d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=373246682ff1ed9da0c495731a0a6961b36dd7dc Based off Bloomberg, Cleveland fed and forecast this is our expected range for CPI tomorrow. My Prediction CPI YoY: 3.6% (miss) CPI MoM: 0.5% (miss) CORE YoY: 3.8% (unchanged) CORE MoM: 0.4% (unchanged) I actually going into this CPI was pretty bullish and thinking that we would get a COLD CPI which would take us to ATHs… However, now the data is pointing to a more neutral/ HOT CPI Tomorrow. However, like we saw with PPI today… is the market even going to care? https://preview.redd.it/ucbq3r8obg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e5bf343e5cbde59e88f40db6002ad162b2ed423 Thanks ChatGPT and FRENCH! https://preview.redd.it/6maalslobg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f58896745db4205d998b8119516aff2088b677f Since December 2023 any time PPI has come in HIGHER than estimates we have also seen CPI come in HIGHER than estimates also… that means for CPI YoY tomorrow we should expect a 3.5% minimum number which would leave CPI YoY unchanged… there is no way that the fed can even remotely justify or explain that we will get 3 rate cuts in 2024 with CPI unchanged… Honestly I have been saying it since December 2023… we are NOT getting rate cuts this year UNLESS something breaks in a major way… we actually could easily see a rate HIKE in 2024 at the pace we are at… https://preview.redd.it/j9rw5xzobg0d1.png?width=963&format=png&auto=webp&s=62c8835bea167e9691e8c55c41ae0d19a28951c0 We are also seeing an estimation at 3.6% for CORE YoY… IF we use the variation of 0.1% like we had on PPI then we should see CORE YoY come in at 3.7% tomorrow. This would be a small BEAT. https://preview.redd.it/8ysjl8bpbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd636b90f0475f0771adc70512549dcb17a99edf I have a feeling that tomorrow we could easily see HOT CPI data and still see a new ATHs… SPY DAILY https://preview.redd.it/po7r2xnpbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=86d9030100730e124a6e70f25a9202a84d7a1ec3 Whats even wilder is that SPY is about $1 from ATHs as we head into the most important CPI data day in a long time. Its very possible markets will see a new ATH tomorrow despite hotter inflation data that signals no rate cuts. SPY closed just below its critical 523.45 double confirmed supply. Bulls will look for a breakout to ATHs and target a closure in the 530s. Bears need to minimally close under todays demand of 520.82. SPY DAILY LEVELS Supply- 518.01 -> 523.45 Demand- 520.82 ES FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/ix9i1czpbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc2973a59d08b537847331501e9224735943f51a Futures also turned previous supply into demand and also had daily buyers today. Now the chart we see right now is NOT what we saw at open… for most of the day we were not seeing stronger daily buyers which is very interesting as they once again came in very late to the day. Today is another very low volume day overall too hitting about 65% of the 30 day average volume today. Bulls will target ATHs tomorrow of 5333.5 and a closure over 5309 supply. Bears will look to close under todays demand of 5239. ES FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 5266 -> 5309 Demand- 5239 QQQ DAILY https://preview.redd.it/sut8vbaqbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e02a3140f8404e6719f4646855ac673efea25cd Much like SPY we are pushing up and nearing our ATHs here with only about $3 to go to reach 449.34. We are coming into our major double supply of 445.36-446.44. If the bulls can break through this level here then we should realistically look for a closure in the 450s tomorrow. Bears minimally will look to close under yesterdays demand of 442. QQQ DAILY LEVELS Supply- 441.14 -> 445.36 -> 446.44 Demand- 442 NQ FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/7f4z1vlqbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=771c4d063bf8d34ef9da45bb42fa3182482ce27b Nq also turned supply into demand today and was the main leader of upside support with stronger daily sellers for the 2nd day in a row now. NQ remains about 250 pts from ATHs as it has a much larger wick the day we hit ATHs compared to ES. Bulls will look to break through 18489-18582 tomorrow and target a move to 19000 by EOW. Bears need to minimally close under 18234 demand. NQ FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 17917 -> 18489 -> 18582 Demand- 17462 -> 18234 DAILY TRADING LOG https://preview.redd.it/38zlkgyqbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b5fa077d1b98cf82c6a9d68d1ff50d813f80411 Truthfully I am not too proud to admit that today got the best of me. I truly in no world believed we would get a HOT PPI data AND still close green for the 9th day in a row leading into one of the most important data points we have gotten recently… And honestly I just couldn’t see anything but shorts. I just kept waiting for something to come that never came. In the end though its not for nothing. I did lose one funded account which I took an early payout in this week so it barely had $400 of drawdown left… I had another account that was slightly down and that got burnt trying to be patient and waiting for a short to play out (it did eventually pay out but it did not come quick enough). The funded account I made $108 in today I will be requesting a pay out in tonight. My APEX account thankfully ended up only down $300 which I already requested one payout in and will request another payout in tomorrow. APEX payout windows run the 15th-20th. I also was able to pass two more EVALS on MFFU today to replace my lost funded. In the end not a total loss but it is what it is. Tomorrow plan honestly is to not even convert over my two MFFU funded accounts and I will just be trading my APEX. Today I abandoned my strategy and thought I could force trades. It cost me some but it could have been much much worse. I am going to regather tomorrow and also avoid risking trading on CPI day by only trading my APEX account which has a major cushion. This was my the worse day I have had in a very long time… it sucks but in the end it’s a learning experience. |
2024.05.14 22:26 DaddyDersch Bulls Make a Historical 9 Green Day Long Run Into CPI… 5-14-24 SPY/ ES Futures, and QQQ/ NQ Futures Daily Market Analysis
 | I have been doing this for quite a some time now… and I am pretty well adversed to the fact that “the market is going to market” but I have got to say this 9 day long bull run is one of the most criminal things I have ever seen. The last 4 days of trading from a macro stand point (especially today) make absolutely no sense… the start of this 9 days made 100% sense as the VIX got majorly crushed and we rocketed off that. I can get on board with a sick short squeeze to the upside. submitted by DaddyDersch to WallStreetbetsELITE [link] [comments] According to ChatGPT (Thanks FRENCH!) the last time the S&P500 saw this many green closes in a row was March/ April 1971 where it closed 14 consecutive green days in a row. That makes this the second longest green run in the history of the stock markets (at least since 1971). However, today made ZERO sense. We got WAY hotter than forecasted and previous PPI (inflation data) data this morning at 830a. However, markets initially correctly reacted with a huge wick to the downside… only to instantly get bought up and never see that low again. Now sometimes his makes sense because the VIX is so pumped going into data that unless its wildly bad we crush the VIX and rally anyways. However, that was not what we had today. Honestly I cant really explain todays movement. This is setting up and incredibly wild day tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/5n64d8rebg0d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=c48496a3a0723105979352d0a6a74e794b07df68 Based off Bloomberg, Cleveland fed and forecast this is our expected range for CPI tomorrow. My Prediction CPI YoY: 3.6% (miss) CPI MoM: 0.5% (miss) CORE YoY: 3.8% (unchanged) CORE MoM: 0.4% (unchanged) I actually going into this CPI was pretty bullish and thinking that we would get a COLD CPI which would take us to ATHs… However, now the data is pointing to a more neutral/ HOT CPI Tomorrow. However, like we saw with PPI today… is the market even going to care? https://preview.redd.it/r73p192fbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=59b0e16af675ef91033b86db964a5e74df8b508b Thanks ChatGPT and FRENCH! https://preview.redd.it/tnalq3lhbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2c743edb7f65cacedb31e82e975da52cc4bde39 Since December 2023 any time PPI has come in HIGHER than estimates we have also seen CPI come in HIGHER than estimates also… that means for CPI YoY tomorrow we should expect a 3.5% minimum number which would leave CPI YoY unchanged… there is no way that the fed can even remotely justify or explain that we will get 3 rate cuts in 2024 with CPI unchanged… Honestly I have been saying it since December 2023… we are NOT getting rate cuts this year UNLESS something breaks in a major way… we actually could easily see a rate HIKE in 2024 at the pace we are at… https://preview.redd.it/6mih5r5ibg0d1.png?width=963&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0d6ed34afea909888e40a39fd1a41e3f22839a0 We are also seeing an estimation at 3.6% for CORE YoY… IF we use the variation of 0.1% like we had on PPI then we should see CORE YoY come in at 3.7% tomorrow. This would be a small BEAT. https://preview.redd.it/qlarsb3jbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=2dba57291bd95fd7894884503719276811716604 I have a feeling that tomorrow we could easily see HOT CPI data and still see a new ATHs… SPY DAILY https://preview.redd.it/sl7ejtljbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=eab83a376feff788d5b4224275812bfbd8e287dc Whats even wilder is that SPY is about $1 from ATHs as we head into the most important CPI data day in a long time. Its very possible markets will see a new ATH tomorrow despite hotter inflation data that signals no rate cuts. SPY closed just below its critical 523.45 double confirmed supply. Bulls will look for a breakout to ATHs and target a closure in the 530s. Bears need to minimally close under todays demand of 520.82. SPY DAILY LEVELS Supply- 518.01 -> 523.45 Demand- 520.82 ES FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/bysyrx0kbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=988b01ccfa8787a8af8fa2551dfb4fee94f794db Futures also turned previous supply into demand and also had daily buyers today. Now the chart we see right now is NOT what we saw at open… for most of the day we were not seeing stronger daily buyers which is very interesting as they once again came in very late to the day. Today is another very low volume day overall too hitting about 65% of the 30 day average volume today. Bulls will target ATHs tomorrow of 5333.5 and a closure over 5309 supply. Bears will look to close under todays demand of 5239. ES FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 5266 -> 5309 Demand- 5239 QQQ DAILY https://preview.redd.it/mbs28ydkbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=2000b00f4baa71b872c5d3dc5c2abdda39ea80bd Much like SPY we are pushing up and nearing our ATHs here with only about $3 to go to reach 449.34. We are coming into our major double supply of 445.36-446.44. If the bulls can break through this level here then we should realistically look for a closure in the 450s tomorrow. Bears minimally will look to close under yesterdays demand of 442. QQQ DAILY LEVELS Supply- 441.14 -> 445.36 -> 446.44 Demand- 442 NQ FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/204f7npkbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=45facb622181c03f7301853d267630e7f2892558 Nq also turned supply into demand today and was the main leader of upside support with stronger daily sellers for the 2nd day in a row now. NQ remains about 250 pts from ATHs as it has a much larger wick the day we hit ATHs compared to ES. Bulls will look to break through 18489-18582 tomorrow and target a move to 19000 by EOW. Bears need to minimally close under 18234 demand. NQ FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 17917 -> 18489 -> 18582 Demand- 17462 -> 18234 DAILY TRADING LOG https://preview.redd.it/vlffup3lbg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=40df0fe0cad2892fcc2ca0348845e1d7c88d50b1 Truthfully I am not too proud to admit that today got the best of me. I truly in no world believed we would get a HOT PPI data AND still close green for the 9th day in a row leading into one of the most important data points we have gotten recently… And honestly I just couldn’t see anything but shorts. I just kept waiting for something to come that never came. In the end though its not for nothing. I did lose one funded account which I took an early payout in this week so it barely had $400 of drawdown left… I had another account that was slightly down and that got burnt trying to be patient and waiting for a short to play out (it did eventually pay out but it did not come quick enough). The funded account I made $108 in today I will be requesting a pay out in tonight. My APEX account thankfully ended up only down $300 which I already requested one payout in and will request another payout in tomorrow. APEX payout windows run the 15th-20th. I also was able to pass two more EVALS on MFFU today to replace my lost funded. In the end not a total loss but it is what it is. Tomorrow plan honestly is to not even convert over my two MFFU funded accounts and I will just be trading my APEX. Today I abandoned my strategy and thought I could force trades. It cost me some but it could have been much much worse. I am going to regather tomorrow and also avoid risking trading on CPI day by only trading my APEX account which has a major cushion. This was my the worse day I have had in a very long time… it sucks but in the end it’s a learning experience. |
2024.05.14 22:23 DaddyDersch Bulls Make a Historical 9 Green Day Long Run Into CPI… 5-14-24 SPY/ ES Futures, and QQQ/ NQ Futures Daily Market Analysis
 | I have been doing this for quite a some time now… and I am pretty well adversed to the fact that “the market is going to market” but I have got to say this 9 day long bull run is one of the most criminal things I have ever seen. The last 4 days of trading from a macro stand point (especially today) make absolutely no sense… the start of this 9 days made 100% sense as the VIX got majorly crushed and we rocketed off that. I can get on board with a sick short squeeze to the upside. submitted by DaddyDersch to u/DaddyDersch [link] [comments] According to ChatGPT (Thanks FRENCH!) the last time the S&P500 saw this many green closes in a row was March/ April 1971 where it closed 14 consecutive green days in a row. That makes this the second longest green run in the history of the stock markets (at least since 1971). However, today made ZERO sense. We got WAY hotter than forecasted and previous PPI (inflation data) data this morning at 830a. However, markets initially correctly reacted with a huge wick to the downside… only to instantly get bought up and never see that low again. Now sometimes his makes sense because the VIX is so pumped going into data that unless its wildly bad we crush the VIX and rally anyways. However, that was not what we had today. Honestly I cant really explain todays movement. This is setting up and incredibly wild day tomorrow. https://preview.redd.it/9mi520c3bg0d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=53f48852b2d10d743097ed7ff76455453ce2143f Based off Bloomberg, Cleveland fed and forecast this is our expected range for CPI tomorrow. My Prediction CPI YoY: 3.6% (miss) CPI MoM: 0.5% (miss) CORE YoY: 3.8% (unchanged) CORE MoM: 0.4% (unchanged) I actually going into this CPI was pretty bullish and thinking that we would get a COLD CPI which would take us to ATHs… However, now the data is pointing to a more neutral/ HOT CPI Tomorrow. However, like we saw with PPI today… is the market even going to care? https://preview.redd.it/4ofggga4bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=0bd0e2f831f9a0b27a7c16022861a86fa21b9dbc Thanks ChatGPT and FRENCH! https://preview.redd.it/ezt4g6t4bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=920dca6de022471d1980bed72bd190dd23a067b0 Since December 2023 any time PPI has come in HIGHER than estimates we have also seen CPI come in HIGHER than estimates also… that means for CPI YoY tomorrow we should expect a 3.5% minimum number which would leave CPI YoY unchanged… there is no way that the fed can even remotely justify or explain that we will get 3 rate cuts in 2024 with CPI unchanged… Honestly I have been saying it since December 2023… we are NOT getting rate cuts this year UNLESS something breaks in a major way… we actually could easily see a rate HIKE in 2024 at the pace we are at… https://preview.redd.it/8oknqy65bg0d1.png?width=963&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bf7c6e5d10cd4d14231b624d16ef81c1c7a94bf We are also seeing an estimation at 3.6% for CORE YoY… IF we use the variation of 0.1% like we had on PPI then we should see CORE YoY come in at 3.7% tomorrow. This would be a small BEAT. https://preview.redd.it/edqbnnk5bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=b542e175f4ec26ebff8d89be34d9567bc91c288a I have a feeling that tomorrow we could easily see HOT CPI data and still see a new ATHs… SPY DAILY https://preview.redd.it/kghja0x5bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=76f2ff7ff09596bec0fbb3a58755bfcdcb78da0e Whats even wilder is that SPY is about $1 from ATHs as we head into the most important CPI data day in a long time. Its very possible markets will see a new ATH tomorrow despite hotter inflation data that signals no rate cuts. SPY closed just below its critical 523.45 double confirmed supply. Bulls will look for a breakout to ATHs and target a closure in the 530s. Bears need to minimally close under todays demand of 520.82. SPY DAILY LEVELS Supply- 518.01 -> 523.45 Demand- 520.82 ES FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/w2ujg796bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d818648d7f656e6762f254c865c80cc1b034a87 Futures also turned previous supply into demand and also had daily buyers today. Now the chart we see right now is NOT what we saw at open… for most of the day we were not seeing stronger daily buyers which is very interesting as they once again came in very late to the day. Today is another very low volume day overall too hitting about 65% of the 30 day average volume today. Bulls will target ATHs tomorrow of 5333.5 and a closure over 5309 supply. Bears will look to close under todays demand of 5239. ES FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 5266 -> 5309 Demand- 5239 QQQ DAILY https://preview.redd.it/cm7o1dk6bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a1cd313ecd3ce4fdf2d8f1b484aa3379df6f653 Much like SPY we are pushing up and nearing our ATHs here with only about $3 to go to reach 449.34. We are coming into our major double supply of 445.36-446.44. If the bulls can break through this level here then we should realistically look for a closure in the 450s tomorrow. Bears minimally will look to close under yesterdays demand of 442. QQQ DAILY LEVELS Supply- 441.14 -> 445.36 -> 446.44 Demand- 442 NQ FUTURES DAILY https://preview.redd.it/tttjcax6bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fb47ae70f67de99d25c30d0453274c8dc279bb0 Nq also turned supply into demand today and was the main leader of upside support with stronger daily sellers for the 2nd day in a row now. NQ remains about 250 pts from ATHs as it has a much larger wick the day we hit ATHs compared to ES. Bulls will look to break through 18489-18582 tomorrow and target a move to 19000 by EOW. Bears need to minimally close under 18234 demand. NQ FUTURES DAILY LEVELS Supply- 17917 -> 18489 -> 18582 Demand- 17462 -> 18234 DAILY TRADING LOG https://preview.redd.it/ib7i5w97bg0d1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=34ed3fa7390328f4f12992f118ba3f8f65ec950f Truthfully I am not too proud to admit that today got the best of me. I truly in no world believed we would get a HOT PPI data AND still close green for the 9th day in a row leading into one of the most important data points we have gotten recently… And honestly I just couldn’t see anything but shorts. I just kept waiting for something to come that never came. In the end though its not for nothing. I did lose one funded account which I took an early payout in this week so it barely had $400 of drawdown left… I had another account that was slightly down and that got burnt trying to be patient and waiting for a short to play out (it did eventually pay out but it did not come quick enough). The funded account I made $108 in today I will be requesting a pay out in tonight. My APEX account thankfully ended up only down $300 which I already requested one payout in and will request another payout in tomorrow. APEX payout windows run the 15th-20th. I also was able to pass two more EVALS on MFFU today to replace my lost funded. In the end not a total loss but it is what it is. Tomorrow plan honestly is to not even convert over my two MFFU funded accounts and I will just be trading my APEX. Today I abandoned my strategy and thought I could force trades. It cost me some but it could have been much much worse. I am going to regather tomorrow and also avoid risking trading on CPI day by only trading my APEX account which has a major cushion. This was my the worse day I have had in a very long time… it sucks but in the end it’s a learning experience. |
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Individuals with well-controlled diabetes can contribute to plasma donation, but certain criteria need to be met:
Absence of Complications: This means no existing diabetic complications affecting your kidneys, heart, blood vessels, or eyes.
Insulin Independence: If you rely on insulin for diabetes management, a three-month waiting period is required after using needles for non-prescribed medications. Additionally, you must be free of symptoms or treatment needs related to blood sugar fluctuations (high or low) for the past three months.
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- Plasma is 92% water and the rest is mostly protein elements.
- The plasma is separated from your blood and your red blood cells are returned to you in cycles.
- Per FDA regulations, you're only allowed to donate plasma twice in a 7 day period, with a 48 hour wait inbetween those two times. Don't risk your health by hopping around to different plasma donation centers to circumvent these regulations, and you may get caught if you do.
- Eat a meal high in protein 2-3 hours before donating, but your plasma protein levels depend on what you ate the day before.
- Drink plenty of water and/or non-caffeinated juice before donating to stay hydrated.
- Avoid caffeine such as in coffee or soda before donating or you may get nauseous and vomit or faint during your donation.
- No alcohol 24 hours before, and for a little while after donating.
- No exercising for at least 6 hours after donating as it can put too much stress on the vein.
- Some people get away with smoking or vaping nicotine before and after donating, but it's recommended not to for 2 hours before and after. The nicotine can raise your heart's pulse rate.
- If your pulse rate is 100 or above, you'll be able to do a vitals retake after a 15 minute wait. But if it's 100 or higher again you'll be deferred for the day. If your pulse rate is an issue, listen to "Pink Noise" or "Green Noise" at a low volume before donating which may help reduce your pulse rate, along with its effect on lowering your blood pressure.
- There is a risk of getting a blown vein if the worker is having a hard time finding your vein when they're sticking you with the needle or if you have small veins. You may get deferred until your vein heals if that happens. But it's ok, your body is able to regenerate your veins with a process called Angiogenesis.
- There is a risk of blood clots, but when your blood is constantly moving through the machine it prevents that from happening.
- You may be subject to drug screening. The drug screening tests for methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin. Certain pharma prescription meds may show up as a false positive so you'll want to let the plasma center know what meds you're taking. Testing positive for these drugs can result in a permanent deferral from donating plasma.
- A sample of your blood will be drawn periodically to test for certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A positive test will result in either a temporary or permanent deferral from donating plasma. If you've ever been diagnosed or received treatment for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B (HBV) or Hepatitis C (HCV) you will be permanently deferred from donating plasma.'
Individuals with well-controlled diabetes can contribute to plasma donation, but certain criteria need to be met:
Absence of Complications: This means no existing diabetic complications affecting your kidneys, heart, blood vessels, or eyes.
Insulin Independence: If you rely on insulin for diabetes management, a three-month waiting period is required after using needles for non-prescribed medications. Additionally, you must be free of symptoms or treatment needs related to blood sugar fluctuations (high or low) for the past three months.
- Healthy Feet: Active foot ulcers requiring medical attention will disqualify you from donation.
- Steady Balance: You shouldn't experience dizziness or lightheadedness upon standing.
- Type 1 Consideration: For Type 1 diabetics, eating within two hours of donation is mandatory.
- Wait a few hours before taking the bandage wrap off of your arm after donating.
- It's recommended to use Vitamin E oil/Mineral oil on the needle site for the puncture area to heal better. A Q-tip can be used to apply it easier. I simply dip the Q-Tip in the bottle, but never dip the used cotton back into the bottle.
- Frequently donating over a prolonged period of time may lead to your body having decreased vitamin D levels.
- Red meats are particularly high in the protein vitamins and minerals found in plasma.
- Personally, I take a Now brand Vitamin D supplement that contains vitamin D3, Calcium, Magnesium, and Zinc. But I only take a half a dose, 1 gel capsule instead of 2, since I get these from eating meats and other foods as well. It's bad for your health if you take too much of these vitamins and minerals over time. I also take an Iron supplement. I also drink a protein shake before donating. Just to be safe.
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