Hi, guys! So, graduation is coming up and my friend group from school is just in an awful place at the moment, so I’m spending a lot more time alone than I would like to, and I’m hoping to change that with video games.
I don’t really have or play a lot of games where I can talk to strangers - I have Project Zomboid, but I am yet to find an active server that fulfills both my social and base-building needs alike, and I also have played One Hour One Life, but there isn’t that much building involved, and I’ve only played there twice, so I’m not very good at it, and people weren’t super talkative last time I was there…
Other than that, I have no other games in the survival genre that would allow me to meet random players around the map. Anyone got any recommendations for me on that aspect? Or, where do you usually go to build stuff and talk to strangers? I’m not very into PvP, but if the building aspect is good, then I’ll probably still like it! - Though maybe not if it’s anything that would require me to be a valuable part of a team, because I’m hearing impaired and can’t really take verbal orders. 😅

I'm working on a ranking for sunglass lenses (NOT frames), to be used when I start publishing lens reviews. This is my current list and I wanted to run it by this subreddit for your thoughts. Let me know what you think, if I'm missing anything or there should be different categories.
Tier 1: Elite
The best of the best. These lenses offer exceptional quality and performance, making them worth actively seeking out. They provide unparalleled clarity, color enhancement, and contrast, making them ideal for anyone who wants the very best viewing experience. They may not be the best in every situation, but the experience they provide in environments they thrive in is unmatched. It may be worth sacrificing the style or construction of the frame in order to acquire these lenses.
Examples: Serengeti Drivers, Maui Jim Blue Hawaii

Tier 2: Exceptional
Amazing lenses that excel in specific conditions or slightly lag the tech of tier 1. While they may not be perfect, they will still be a pleasure to wear, and their quality is worth considering a purchase. They may perform even better than Tier 1 in particular situations, such as extreme bright sunlight, low light, or atypical environments. If you need lenses for a specific activity or condition, or you love the frame they come with, these are a superb choice.
Examples: Costa Del Mar Blue Mirror Glass, Vuarnet Grey Polar

Tier 3: Excellent
Great lenses that offer a consistently good experience. While they may not be the absolute best, they provide excellent protection, clarity, and comfort. If you want a reliable and high-quality lens, these are a great option. These can also thrive in very specific circumstances. Glass lenses with no significant added tech, most high-quality nylon or polycarbonate lenses. Consider purchasing if the frame choice is important.
Examples: Persol Green, Oakley Dark Golf

Tier 4: Standard
Fine lenses that meet basic expectations. They provide adequate protection and clarity but lack the exceptional quality and features of higher-tier lenses. If you're looking for a no-frills option, these lenses will suffice. Non glass but with some tech and all basic coatings included. Worth buying at low prices or keeping as beater pairs.
Examples: Revo Graphite, Smith Chromapop Brown

Tier 5: Basic
Essentially the minimum quality you can expect. These lenses provide basic protection but lack the clarity, comfort, and features of higher-tier lenses. While they can be cheap (though often that is not the case), they're disappointing overall and not recommended for anyone who wants a good sunglass experience. Will often not have even basic coatings included. Not worth buying.
Examples: Ray Ban Polycarbonate, Many designer options.

1. Draft logic is near non-existent. When you're picked is based solely on Combine performance and doesn't take into account what picks a team has or what trades they'd have to make. Only a select few teams, it seems, can pick certain positions (like when I remade my CB save 3 times and all 3 times was drafted by the Lions,) and actual team need is basically thrown out of the window, ignoring the picks teams made in real life. (Which feels like something that wouldn't be hard to implement if the devs actually ever updated the game.)
2. Combine minigames are extremely poorly made. The bench press has stupid control mapping, and while it isn't that difficult, it is really annoying and uncomfortable to do well. The 40 is fine, I guess, but it has 0 nuance outside of the feature where sometimes it doesn't register your inputs (which is really fun and interesting!) The broad jump is impossible, no matter how hard I try, or how I try, or what I try on, I can barely get above an F for some reason. The 20-yard shuttle is the opposite end of the spectrum and is way too easy, and the position-specific drills are unrealistic, boring, annoying with how the controls are set up, and are also paired with somehow the most annoying music in the game.
3. Training camp minigames are way too difficult for what they should be. The scoring system for the WDB battle minigame on defense sucks, making it near impossible to get gold if you don't have a Superstar over 80 OVR. The Oklahoma drill minigame is just plain boring. The moving barriers in the pass rush minigame are really annoying when paired with how terrible the movement system is. And, finally, the target passing QB minigame just doesn't really make sense. I would love a realistic training camp but I guess asking for realism is too much for Madden devs.
4. Defensive balancing sucks. The way it seems to me that the difficulty system works is that it only actually affects your offense, because in my experience, changing the difficulty setting does nothing to the difficulty of playing defense in Superstar mode. The opposing offense will have the same skill with different playbook sizes, and your AI teammates will still not pick up receivers in their zones or play the ball with any sense of a brain. Changing the difficulty only influences two things: the nuance of the opponent's playbook, and how good your team's offense is. If you're playing a defensive superstar on a not great team, your offense will struggle greatly while you try your best, meaning even in the best case scenario you won't score enough to win. If you lower the difficulty, you'll score more, but it'll make playing defense less fun and interesting overall.

I may be very wrong about how the game works, but this is what it feels like to me while playing it, which is bad enough. A problem is a problem no matter why it's happening and it would be very very much appreciated if the devs tried maybe anything at all to fix it.

I (24F) travel a lot for work and I have to use my Apple Maps daily. There’s no good place to put a phone holder on my dash or windshield so I have to hold it in my hand on the steering wheel (which I know isn’t ideal).
So I’m driving to a customer’s house and I notice this lifted truck is driving right next to me even though I kept speeding up and slowing down to try to get him to go away. I was getting creeped out and I couldn’t even see inside of the truck since the windows were tinted. I kept looking over with a “wtf??” look on my face. This goes on for a couple of minutes until we approach a red light.
We get to a red light and a boomer rolls down his window screaming, “GET OFF OF YOUR PHONE!!!! YOUR GENERATION IS SO LAZY AND CARELESS ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” He said a lot of other things but that was the gist of it.
Mind you, I don’t think I looked at my phone once the entire time of him driving next to me. Instead I kept looking at him out of concern.
Once he stopped screaming at me, I panned my phone over to him to show it’s the gps.
He didn’t say a word and rolled up his window.
I just don’t understand why boomers are so comfortable yelling at people they don’t know? Especially young women??

SABOTAGE?! And it all started out as such a nice idea… A cliche as tall as my ex-roommate’s erection live-blending Kelly Bundy Mike Kelley and Ted Bundy parafernalia wearing blondes to the sound of gekko’s mating in the Amazon. Cut the bullshit! There’s no such thing as a nice idea getting detourné by some smart art postpostsituationist pranker or right-wing gaswhitey flexfrat, no, my dear well-meaning peace dove friends, if an idea can gets turned into its opposite during its execution, it probably was flawed from the start! Sometimes people use Woodstock 99 - the limp dickshit rape and pillage slash and burn disaster edition - as an example of how a great, positive, wonderful, hell, holy idea can turn into the worst kind of evil in the hands of the wrong people. Well, dear naivopino’s, let me inform you: bull-shit! The whole idea of Woodstock, be it ’99, ’94, ’69 or 2219, is just batshit dumbwhat asking for the baddest kind of trouble right from the bat. Or, what? Do you honest-to-dogly think that during the original (I retrovulsely puke into my stomach even using that wretched word) edition of 1969 nothing was burned, stolen, no women were raped? What, just because there were no sperm dna tests, nigh to none options for women to speak up against sexual violence let alone the fact that speaking up against rape during that whole shitshebang of a weak acid trip’s campfire get-together was near to blasphemy in the hippie community means that no women were raped? Because men all of a sudden turned into meek little dickies lambs for three years from 1968 to ’71? Fuck that shit. Please. I don’t even want to spend a single move of a single digit of my old hands having to make anything about that largest circle jerk-off in history clear to you. Read your books. Do your homework. Anyway, that’s what I was thinking about when a friend told me recently about another of those so-called great ideas gone hilariously wrong in a little map smudge of a town in of all fucking places Belgium for chrissakes. Let me admit to you, right here and now, no smirk no smile on my face: I laughed so hard when I heard it I shat my new Calvins. Framed them afterwards, too, in a nice little Nielsen A2 birch. It’s sitting there, stinking the fuck out of my storage, waiting for a good stock market crash to come. Never underestimate the potential of the future art market gold rushes. My shit, my gold, bruv. So, these two clowns of artists in Belgium (are there any other there? don’t get me started on rené ma bite or marcel bread arse here!) had the ammazing idea to get themselves funded by the local government in this hamlet of three houses called Watou which apparently would be part of - ok, stop me here. Not in the history of mankind has ever ended a sentence well which tried to explain any aspect of Belgian politics, topography or whatever the call the thing there where a man rides a horse stark naked and bites the neck of living goose hanging from a tree? (See, that sentence didn’t end well either, did it, what’d I tell you? Cursed stuff!) Let’s try that again: two artists in the Belgian town of Watou had the splendid idea to organize a festive event, in the middle of summer, whereby all the people of this little village (if you’re thinking of blue skinned vikings charging Roman legionnaires in a berry-induced bad trip frenzy, well, so am I) for one day left their houses, dropped the key of their house in a transparant bowl on the town square and all went to the field adjacent to their village to well be (as in: not fornicate) together and thereby, if I had a press release I’d quote this from it: practiced a performative experiment in hospitality and neighborship where no fixed rules are applied. I’m guessing if you’re sensitive like I am to the finer things a life, you might as well start looking for your nearest Nielsen frame too by now, but hey: we haven’t even gotten to the joke yet! This was all the serious stuff. Let me summarise it even more briefly for you, just to get it out of my haemorrhoidical system: Imagine a village. Everyone leaves their house at the same time. Leaves their front door open. Drops the key to said door in a large bowl. Drifts into a field somewhere off to do fripp knows what (no rules applied, but probably: no fornication whatsoever.) Got the mental image? Good. Now get the fuck out of that dream and imagine any sad little teardrop of a town you know. Imagine who lives there. Imagine all the people you know who live in a town, or rather, fuck that, imagine all the people you know. Now imagine that some dogoodydoodydoobywah wants to “bring the people together again” and “mend the social bonds which had been broken by” yaddah yaddah yaddah. Okay? Now imagine the fucking assholes - they might even be you - who get they absolute mostest pleasure out of ruining the naive, well-intentioned ideas of others? You see what I see? The doodygoodoo is a bit all alone on his white ivory hilltowertop, right? All the others apparently prefer to start mayhem, to jinx other people’s efforts, to laugh - loud! - at their friends tripping over their own feet. No? You think in your ‘reality’ people are ‘decent’ and ‘rough diamonds’ or ‘deeper than you’d think they are’? Well, my dear, that paradisiacal odor you’re smelling all around you is the smell of your own shit cause you got your head up your ass! Listen and suffer! Because what happened in our not-just-proverbial Belgian village on that sunny morning in July… a couple of the townspeople - we’ll never know how many but I’m guessing almost everyone except for the government-funded, from-the-city hippie artists was in on the joke - had invited some acquaintances from the town next door to quietly enter the village while everyone was not-fornicating on the idyllic field, to take all the keys from the bowl, lay them on the train tracks which run along the town, flattening them to perfectly unusable little steel flabs and placing them back in the bowl. So when our supposedly resocialised townspeople entered their village that afternoon, ready to get their key, run to their house and close their door for at least the next 364 days, the immediately realised they couldn’t close their doors anymore. Total mayhem ensued. Men started chasing women, people pillaged their neighbours houses, children and adults alike pooped on all toothbrushes they could find, underwear was thrown into compost heaps, compost heaps were thrown into unlawful indoor spas, hundred thousands of untaxed euro piles were find inside old televisions and grandmas paintings. There was no stopping them. Housewifes hung themselves after their portrait, tits out and all, was found hanging above at least three beds in different houses. It was bad. Real bad. By the time news of this feast of anarchy and murder had spread to the nearest villages and the police arrived, the artists had of course long disappeared, no doubt to narrativise their failure into a story of experiment and learning and cash in a couple of fat pay checks.
And you know what the name was the artists had given their beautiful day of harmony and collective connecting: Open Doors Day. They sure got it, their open doors day, they sure got it. Serves them right. Serves them damn right.
peace - out!

18 super samples an hour.
I’m sure something similar is posted elsewhere but none of the other guides have worked for me. I can’t consistently find the rock on the map and usually spend too much time looking and get whacked by a patrol and can’t recover.
What has worked for me is this and it works on suicide missions and above, solo or with a team of friends on the same page.

1. Select a blitz mission, bots or bugs, doesn’t matter but I’ve found bots are easier to outrun if you get caught and bug breaches on helldive are just crazy.
   
2. Wear scout armor that decreases your detectable range.
   
3. Drop in a clear area near extraction to get set up.
   
4. You can pretty easily avoid most enemies.
   
5. Make your way around the map until you find the radar tower (so far there has always been one on blitz) or you find the thumb rock. You can easily avoid the main and sub objectives as well.
   
6. ALL super samples in a blitz mission spawn together so 6 on Helldive.
   
7. If you don’t find the rock before you activate the radar there are only 3 or 4 MPI, so it’s easy to find the rock after activation.
   

8A. Sneak your way to extraction and chill/hide. You shouldn’t have much time left until the extraction sequence.
8B. If you cleared the objectives, still let time expire and don’t active extraction. This auto-calls in Pelican 1 BUT doesn’t seem to trigger any major wave. I’m still testing but it’s been pretty consistent.
8C. You can drop the samples near the beacon in case you get killed but any adds should be manageable.

1. Hop on the bird and fly away with up to 6 super samples every 15 minutes or so.

I’ve done this as I said solo (and I’m not good) and with a group. I’ll usually sneak off looking for the radar or the rock while the rest of the team clears objectives and we just meet at extraction. Scout armor is probably the key.

Now I’m not making the claim the game is dead, but it’s in a very different state than it was 5 years ago. I still play and the game still is imo the most fun moba ever created.
Now hots was never my main moba, it was always the game my friends and I would go to when league was pissing us off too much, but I have been play league for over a decade so I think I’m a little qualified to talk about mobas.
I think what ultimately made hots not take off was just the time in came out. When hots came out we were still knee deep in the competitive moba discovery period. People were still figuring out macro and micro play and being a “good player” was a way broader statement.
Today in 2024 that is so not that case lol. The guide meta these games have caused the player bases be a lot better in general, and that’s good. I have however noticed that a lot of people are afraid to try mobas due to their hyper competitive tive nature, and that’s where I think hots would so fantastic.
I think the game releases with just some modern graphics and maybe some changes to ranked. I personally think having a smaller map pool per ranked season would allow balance to be a little more broad.
Hots is objectively a fantastic option for someone who has not played a moba before. You have no item builds, team xp, and objective based maps.
Those might seem unimportant but it’s the opposite. No builds means you don’t have to learn what a bunch of items do. Team xp means your team can makeup for your lack of knowledge, and objective based maps makes the macro play insanely simple and easy to understand.
They would have to do some advertising they couldn’t just decided to start supporting the game again. I just think the game would do fantastic today, but blizzard would never.

Buying first Garmin, Fitbit Charge 5 died at 12.1 months. Overwhelmed by garmin lineup.
Thinking Epix Gen 2 ($500 at Cabelas) is best for me, priorities below, what am I missing?:

1. Music
2. 5+ day battery
3. Run tracking (casual 2 runs per week, 15k fun runner dadbod)
4. Rugged: want 3+ years of life. Yardwork, weights, running, kids all beat up my Charge 5 and galaxy active2 in 12 months
5. Payments
6. body battery
7. Golf (use laser rangefinder, find myself asking league partner for yardages ~5x per round)
8. auto workout tracking (weights, rowing, swimming, biking)

Don't care about:

1. Touch screen
2. size
3. watch faces
4. solar charging
5. maps
6. massive amounts of golf course info. front/back/middle and hazards is good

Thinking epix gen2 covers all 8 above.
Forerunner 955 makes some sacrifices some golf functionality & ruggedness (maybe?) for $100 less
Forerunner 255 music sacrifices all golf, some ruggedness, touchscreen, for $250 less
vivofit 5 sacrifices ruggedness, 5 button layout, some run coaching
Am I overlooking anything? What would you buy? $500 price tag isn't hateful for me.

Many already love this game mode, but I know its true potential hasn't been scratched yet.
This game mode hasn't any dedicated map (developed&designed only for Firefight) and, unlike the og Firefight which can adapt to any map since it's just a infinite enemy wave survival mode, it could use a lot more dedicated maps where the hills spawns in specific zones that you can tell they're made for holding a hill against waves of enemies (thanks to the setting and positioning of the hill)
Let me explain further: normal king of the hill in pvp requires team to hold or capture the hill but in maps designed to be balanced and for any other mode also. Meanwhile firefight doesn't need any of this, so the maps could potentially be designed way more around the game mode itself rather than copy paste others and adding random hills like it is now (I don't blame them at this point, I'm just talking about its potential, I'm not complaining)
Indeed the best map where to play Firefight KoTH is easly the one from the campaign for two reasons:
The setting is screaming Banished all around, but in general the map itself is designed greatly for that (since it was developed for a campaign level).
And the first hill position. It's a cool fucking hill the first one. I wish there where many other maps with hills zones like that one cuase when there you can truly feel like you're holding a position rather than "defending a random area"
Cool they added randevou tho, that's a big w I didn't expect. Hopefully more dedicated maps will come to this mode, I bet forgers have some really good ones.

We are planning a big trip for 2025 and are completely lost with deciding which island and if we should go in March/April or SeptembeOctober. We typically always pick a shoulder season to travel because its good weather and not too crowded. We want to mostly do hiking, we arent big beach people. My hubby wants to do a fishing tour of sorts. I really want to see volcanoes and incredible waterfalls. Im currently torn between Big Island and Oahu (although open to suggestions). The Pearl Harbor Museum is also kind of intriguing to me and hubby as well. We are planning to AirBnB or Vrbo since we would really like to be able to cook our own meals but still have the option of a nice dinner and from what I can tell the costs are a bit better if we dont stay in hotels or resorts. We figure we will have about 7-10days depending on what we end up really wanting to do while we are there (and we are limited on vacation day availability with our work schedules). Ive also considered splitting the trip in half and doing half on one island and half on another. It also looks like we would have a full day to day and a half travel to get to Hawaii which we would need to factor in as well.

I’ll start with shotguns in Warzone. I believe that shotguns NEED to be a one hitter. Two shots maximum. Otherwise they are utterly worthless. Yes, I know distance is a factor. But at close range, one shot should crack people, and the second should immediately kill. Or if you’re shot by a shotgun at POINT BLANK range that should be an instant kill. I know that will make many people complain that they are OP but in reality that would make shotguns do what they are actually intended to do. Also CoD nerfs shotguns by default. For those of you that don’t know, shotguns in real life have a much higher effective range than they do in CoD. So CoD nerfs shotguns by default with there terribly short range. If shotguns had there real life effective range AND maximum stopping power in Warzone, THEN I can agree they would be OP. But with such a short range and low fire rate, giving them maximum stopping power isn’t too much of a buff.
As little side note it’s very rare CoD has something OP or something that “needs to be fixed”. Every now and then there is an undeniable problem. But most of the time people just simply complain about what they feel gets them killed the most. Even in Multiplayer. People that can’t stand snipers are people that get killed by them all the time. People that complain that flashbangs and concussions need to be nerfed are people that are always victim and feel screwed to those. Aggressive run and gunners with assault rifles can’t stand shotguns in small maps. Lots of people that like to snipe can’t stand smoke and so on. Most of the time when people complain about something being OP or needs to be nerfed they are just exposing what always beats them.
Now for my second statement, 2v2 gulag. In my opinion the 2v2 gulag wasn’t bad in theory. But it was bad in reality. I know lots of you are thinking IT WAS BAD IN THEORY TOO. You are disagreeing with me from your emotions from bad experiences rather than from your mind. In theory, it would be a new and thrilling concept for people to be paired with some random person and you’d have to work together and depend on one another to respawn back into the game. Then part ways. But in REALITY, that wasn’t always the case. There are two reasons people say 2v2 gulag was a terrible mistake. In my opinion, 1 reason was INVALID and the other is VALID.
The invalid reason is that people complained their partner wasn’t as good as themselves. All I can think of to those people is tough ti*dy. Too bad, that’s unfortunate, but I don’t care. Suck it up. You won’t always get your way. Even in real life people get paired with other people that have a lack of experience in something. Just because your partner wasn’t as good as you doesn’t mean this system sucks and should be removed. You’re being a total crybaby and hypocrite. Because it’s only “terrible” when you and your partner lose. If you died and your partner carried you back into the game, and especially if you ended up getting a Warzone win, you’d be happy your gulag partner saved you.
Now the valid reason it sucks and I’m forced to agree even though I rarely experienced this myself, is that it was often LITERALLY and TRULY a 2v1. Often times people’s parters deliberately didn’t even try. I seen it with my own eyes. And for that reason, everyone’s frustration and 2v2 being replaced with 1v1 is totally understandable and justified.
But if it were up to me, there would be three types of BR solos, one with 2v2 gulag, one with 1v1 gulag(the standard), and one without gulag at all.

I was wondering what was causing all those little stutters. It's the Vram reaching limit randomly.
Only textures setting affects the Vram currently in any significant way, so you're forced to use low textures which .... is hit and miss, on the Asgard maps it looks great, in Tokyo 2099 you get ps2 textures on monitors (but the rest looks good), character textures suffer a bit up close too.
Hope they can lower that a bit because the other settings affect GPU usage but not Vram. So you end up with powerful GPUs having to run the game very ugly just because of that.

I wanted to create an updated grub guardian drop guide. Obviously this will take me a while to complete and the game is on its death bed. Either way it's clear that the last extensive guide is slightly out of date (made in 2013). I just had a couple of questions for anyone who cares about the guide.

1. Should I play free maps or only paid maps? While free maps do have drops they're usually not as good or important as paid maps.
   
2. Should I make it for all medals or just gold? Obviously the best guide would include all maps and all medals but that would take a while longer and delay me actually putting the guide out.
   

Yeah for anyone who's interested let me know. This could be a waste of time and the drops could be minimally different.

⚠️ WARNING: Maasverse Spoilers—Proceed with Caution ⚠️

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Part 1: Characters and Courts - YOU ARE HERE
Part 2: World Map, Items, Terms & Other
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Well, here we go. A master list of all things ACOTAR + the "real" world.

Now, do I believe every single name and location on this list was chosen by SJM with a specific real-world allusion in mind? Of course not. But when you look at the similarities, you'd be hard pressed to deny some of their very probable relations.
As far as this list goes, I've provided what was within my ability to find—coupling each with that which made the most sense relationally—though several definitions would appear to have zero connection to the story at large.
I can't promise perfection. Heck, I can't even promise 100% accuracy (though I did cross-reference the more obscure sources). And I will gladly welcome any missing pieces and/or additional insight you may have.
\Note: If a character or place/item is minor enough, I've included a reminder of their book roles.*

So come on, friends. Let's dive on in.

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UK + IRELAND

PRYTHIAN

A combination of Prydain, the old Welsh name for Britain, and Brython, which translates to “Ancient Britons” from Welsh.

HYBERN

A riff of Hibernia, the Classical Latin name for Ireland.

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Artist of Prythian map: P-dulcis on redbubble

*A continuing list of world map related locations is provided in Part 2 of this post (see link above)

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MAIN CHARACTERS

RHYSAND

Rhys (also Rhŷs) is Welsh in origin and means "ardent, enthusiasm." It has deep roots in Welsh culture and is the name of several famous Welsh kings and noblemen, including Rhys ap Thomas, a solider who rose to prominence during the Wars of the Roses.

FEYRE ARCHERON

Feyre is a variant of Feyre and is Old English in origin. It means "fair, beautiful." A similar name in Old Norse is Freyja (also spelled Freya), meaning "Lady," denotes a woman of nobility. In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, and war.
In Greek mythology, the Archeron is one of the five rivers of the Underworld and is often the principal river through which the ferryman Charon transports the dead. It said to be the River of Woe or the River of Misery.

CASSIAN

Cassian is Latin in origin, means "son of Cassius," and denotes one of the oldest families in Rome. Arguably the most well known Cassius was one of the leading instigators of Julius Caesar's assassination plot.

AZRIEL

Azriel is Hebrew in origin meaning "God is my help." In some religions, Azrael is the benevolent angel of death who carries souls of the deceased to the afterlife.

MORRIGAN

The Morrígan is a Celtic goddess associated with war and fate and is seen as a guardian of the earth and its people. Her name means "great queen" or "phantom queen."

AMREN

Amram is of Hebrew origin and means "exalted people." It is the Biblical name of Moses' father.
Note: This tracks with Amren being able to interpret The Book of Breathings which is a play on the very real The Books of Breathing, a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts.

NESTA

Nesta is the Welsh version of Agnes meaning "pure, holy." May also have potential connections to Nestor, a legendary Greek king who was known as a great warrior and for the sage advice he offered younger soldiers.

ELAIN

Elain is Welsh in origin and means "fawn." Elaine is associated with the Greek name Helen meaning "light, bright one."
Fun fact: Elain is an anagram of Aelin.

NYX

Nyx is the Greek mythological goddess and personification of the Night. She is the mother of Day (Hemera) and Darkness (Erebus). She often appears alongside other celestial deities such as Selene, Helios, and Eos.

ILLYRIANS

EMERIE

Emerie has Old German origins and means "home strength, brave, powerful."

ENALIUS

In Greek mythology Enyalius is a son of Ares but is also a byname for the god of war. He is often seen as the god of soldiers and warriors from the Ares cult.

DEVLON

Devlon is Gaelic in origin and related to the name Devlin meaning "fierce courage."

BALTHAZAR

Balthazar is Akkadian in origin meaning "God protects the King." It is a name commonly attributed to the wise man who gifted myrrh to the Christ child (the myrrh symbolizing the future death of a king). It is an alternate form of King Belshazzar who played a pivotal role in a coup d'état that overthrew a Neo-Babylonian king.
ACOTAR role: Balthazar helped Nesta during the Blood Rite.

PROTEUS

Proteus is a prophetic sea god in Greek mythology and means "versatile, mutable, capable of assuming many forms."
ACOTAR role: Proteus is Emerie's father and was killed in the war with Hybern.

BELLIUS

May refer to Belus, the Babylonian god of war.
ACOTAR role: Bellius is Emerie's cousin and was slain by Cassian during the Blood Rite.

KALLON

No clear references found, but kalon in Ancient Greek translates to "ideal perfect beauty."
ACOTAR role: Kallon incited the Illyrians against the Night Court leaders and was ultimately slain during the Blood Rite.

HEWN CITY

KEIR

Keir is Gaelic, meaning "dark," and is related to the Irish name Ciarán. In Greek mythology, the Keres (singular being Ker) were female death spirits who personified violent death. There is a suggested connection between the Keres and the Valkyries of Norse mythology, each representing opposite ideals; the Valkyries being benevolent deities in death, versus the Keres representing feasting destruction.

THANATOS

In Greek mythology, Thanatos is the personification of death. He is a minor figure, often referred to but rarely appearing in person (I see what you did there, SJM).
ACOTAR role: Thanatos is mentioned briefly by Keir during the alliance meeting with Eris.

THE LIBRARY

CLOTHO

In ancient Greek mythology, Clotho is the youngest goddess of the Three Fates and spins the thread of human life. Her name means "spinner."

MERRILL

Merrill is of British origin meaning "sparkling sea, sea-bright."

GWYNETH BERDARA

Gwyneth is Welsh in origin and means "blessed, happiness." In Irish mythology, the Lady Gwyn is a headless woman (cough, Catrin, cough) who chases wanderers at night. In Arthurian mythology, Guinevere has an evil half-sister—"False" Guinevere—who bewitches Arthur.

ANANKE

Ananke means "necessity, fate personified." In Greek mythology she is one of the primordial deities and is the personification of necessity and inevitability.
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who joins in the training to become a Valkyrie.

DEIRDRE

Deirdre is Gaelic in origin and means "broken-hearted, wanderer." The name is associated with a tragic heroine in Irish mythology.
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who joins in the training to become a Valkyrie.

ILANA

Illana is Hebrew in origin nd means "tree, bright light." It stems from the name Elena and is potentially related to the name Ileana, a beautiful young female fairy in various myths.
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who joins in the training to become a Valkyrie.

LORELEI

Lorelei in German in origin and means "alluring, temptress." In German folklore, she is a siren-like seductress.
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who joins in the training to become a Valkyrie.

ROSLIN

Roslin is Scottish in origin and means "rose, red-haired."
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who joins in the training to become a Valkyrie.

RIVEN

Riven derives from Old Norse meaning "to split, tear asunder."
ACOTAR role: A Priestess who avoids contact with strangers and whose background is unknown.

SIDE CHARACTERS

MADJA

Madja is Slavic in origin and may mean "splendid, noble one." In Arabic it means "the women with glory." It is related to the name Madeleine meaning "from Magdala."

NUALA

Nuala is Irish in origin and means "fair shouldered one." In modern Irish storytelling it means "born of the sea." It is considered a diminutive form of the name Fionnuala, a mythological figure who was the daughter of a sea god.

CERRIDWEN

Cerridwen is an enchantress in Welsh mythology. She is said to possess the cauldron of poetic inspiration and is regarded by many as the Celtic goddess of rebirth, transformation, and inspiration.

RITA

Rita stems from the name Margarita and comes from the Greek word meaning "pearl." The Greeks promoted pearls as a symbol of honesty and integrity.
ACOTAR role: Rita owns the "how does the IC not know the clientele is gay" bar.

SEVENDA

No clear connection found, though venda in Latin means "sell" while sev means "strew, spread" and enda means "end." Could also potentially be related to the number seven.
ACOTAR role: Owns a restaurant the IC frequents.

NEVE

Neve is of Latin origin and means "snow."
ACOTAR role: The jeweler from whom Rhys buys jewelry for Amren in ACOFAS.

POLINA

Polina has Latin origins and derives from Apollo, though it could also be seen as a variant of Paulina/Paul meaning "little, the younger."
ACOTAR role: The faerie who owned Feyre's art studio before her untimely death.

RESSINA

Resina means "resin of the pine." Plants secret resin as a protective response, guarding them from insects and pathogens.
ACOTAR role: Ressina opens the art studio with Feyre. She has green skin and stood outside her shop in response to Hybern's attack on Velaris, protecting the terrified faeries inside.

ARANEA

Aranea is Greek in origin and denotes a genus of orb-weaving spiders.
ACOTAR role: Aranea is the weaver who created the Void cloth.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

TAMLIN

From the "Ballad of Tam Lin," a legendary ballad from the borderlands of Scotland. Reminiscent of the fairytale Beauty & the Beast where a mortal woman plucks a rose and encounters a man in the forest, later learning he is captive to faeries. She must hold onto him as he is transformed into various beasts and upon his rescue, the faerie Queen muses that she should have taken out his eyes (Lucien, anyone?) or capture his heart (Tamlin's stone heart) to prevent his escape.

LUCIEN

Lucien is French in origin and means "light." Lucian was also the name of a Hellenized Syrian satirist who was known for his tongue-in-cheek style is said to be the inventor of comic dialogue.

ALIS

Alis is a variant of Alice and translates to "noble, exalted."

SIDE CHARACTERS

IANTHE

Ianthe is Greek in origin and means "she who delights." In Greek mythology she is a water-nymph daughter of Oceanus and a companion to Persephone when she was abducted by Hades.

ANDRAS

Andras has Welsh origins and means "manly, brave."

BRON

Bron is Old English and means "brown."

HART

Hart has Irish origins and means "hero, brave, firm." A hart is also the term for a male deer and in Celtic mythology, the white hart is said to appear when one is transgressing a taboo (Tamlin's whipping of his other sentry comes to mind).

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MAIN CHARACTERS

BERON VANSERRA

Beron is French in origin and is a pet form of the name Bero meaning "bear."
Vanserra is a combination of the prefix van meaning "from, of" and serra meaning "saw, view from a high place" or "mountain range." Vanserra can be said to mean "of the mountains."

ERIS

In ancient Greek mythology, Eris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent, Discord, is the goddess of chaos. She is associated with the war goddess Enyo who is frequently associated with the war god Ares.

SIDE CHARACTERS

JESMINDA

Jesminder is Indian in origin meaning "flower queen."

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MAIN CHARACTERS

TARQUIN

Tarquin is of Latin origin and means "ruler, strong soldier." Two of the seven kings of Rome bore the name.

VARIAN

Varian is of Latin origin and means "variable."

CRESSEIDA

Cressida derives from Chryseis and means "golden." She is a character associated with the Trojan War and is the archetype of a faithless lover.

SIDE CHARACTERS

NOSTRUS

Nostrum comes from the Latin noster meaning "our, ours." Nostos is an Ancient Greek literary theme concerning an epic hero returning home, often by sea. It is deemed a high level of heroism or greatness and focuses on the hero retaining or elevating their identity while often resisting temptation.
ACOTAR role: The High Lord prior to Tarquin who was slain by Amarantha after participating in a rebellion Under the Mountain.

BRUTIUS

May refer to the Latin name Brutus meaning "heavy, dull."
ACOTAR role: Mercifully slain by Rhys Under the Mountain after his attempted escape.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

HELION

Helios is the Ancient Greek god personifying the sun. He is often depicted with a solar crown and drives a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He played a significant role in ancient magic and spells and is the son of the Titan Theia and brother to Selene.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

KALLIAS

Callias is Greek in origin and means "beauty, beautiful voice." He is a diplomatic and wealthy figure in Ancient Greece.

VIVIANNE

From the Latin word vivianus meaning "alive." Commonly associated with the Irish name Bébinn meaning "beautiful, fair one" and is the name of an underworld goddess in both Irish and Welsh mythology.

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THESAN

Thesan is the Etruscan goddess of the dawn. Greeks identified her with Eos, the goddess and personification of the dawn. She is sometimes depicted with wings.

NUAN

Nuan is Mandarin and means "warm, genial."

THE PEREGRYN

The peregrine is a falcon renowned for its speed.
Fun fact: The peregrine is the fastest member of the animal kingdom and can reach speeds of over 200mph.

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AMARANTHA

Amaranths is Greek in origin and means "unfading." The amaranthus flower, often deep red in color, is said to symbolize immortality as it blooms for so long.

BRANNAGH

Brannagh is of Irish origin and denotes a "beautiful female with hair dark as a raven."

DAGDAN

In Irish mythology, the Dagda is considered the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. His name means "the good god, the great god."

CLYTHIA

In Greek mythology, Clytia is a water nymph who loved the sun god Helios. Helios left her for another woman after coming under the influence of Aphrodite. Clytia exposed the affair to the other woman's father, but eventually lost herself in mourning for Helios's love. Her name means "glorious, renowned."
ACOTAR role: Amarantha's sister.

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HISTORICAL FIGURES

THEIA

Theia is a Titan and is the Ancient Greek goddess of sight and vision. She is the parent of Helios, Selene, and Eos. She is most known not for her own role, but for that of her childrens'. Her name means "goddess, godly."

SILENE

Selene is the Ancient Greek goddess and personification of the moon. She is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia and sister to Helios and Eos.

HELENA

Comes from the Green name Helen meaning "shining light." There are various Helens in Greek mythology: Helen of Troy, Helen a friend to Aphrodite, and Helene the Amazonian who fought Achilles.

FIONN

Fionn is of Irish origin and means "fair-haired." In Irish folklore, Fionn Mac Cumhaill was a leader of a band of young hunter-warriors.

PELIAS

Pelias is Greek in origin and means "rock pigeon." Pelias was the king of Ioclus while Peleus was the king of Phthia. Peleus was husband to Thetis, father to Achilles, and left several (men and women) dead in his wake, both through means of accident and betrayal, fleeing more than once to escape punishment.

OLEANNA

Oleanna derives from the Greek name Helene meaning "sun ray, shining light."
ACOTAR role: The High Priestess who dipped Gwydion in the Cauldron.

REPORTED DECEASED

CATRIN BERDARA

Catrin is Greek in origin and means "clear, pure." It's commonly used in Wales and is connected with the ancient goddess Hecate, who is the goddess of witchcraft, sorcery, and necromancy.

MINOR CHARACTERS

TANWYN

Tanwan is of Welsh origin and means "white fire."
ACOTAR role: Tanwyn was a Valkyrie and Cassian's former lover.

OSIAN

Osian is Welsh meaning "young deer" and derives from the Irish legendary poet and warrior Oisín, who was regarded as the greatest poet of Ireland and a warrior of the Fianna (small warrior-hunter bands). He was a demigod son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and Sadhbh.
ACOTAR role: The author of A Brief History of the Great Sieges

RABATH

Rabath is an anagram of Bharat, one of the names of India. Derived from the Sanskrit word bharata, meaning "to bear, be maintained" it can also mean "one who is engaged in search of knowledge."
ACOTAR role: Lord of the Western Wind and ancestor to Merrill.

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JURIAN

Jurian is Greek in origin and means "farmer, earthworker."

GRAYSEN

Graysen is of English origin and translates to "son of the steward/gray-haired man."

NOLAN

Nolan is Irish in origin and denotes a "child of nobility, champion."
ACOTAR role: Nolan is Graysen's father.

ISAAC HALE

Isaac is Hebrew in origin and means "one who laughs or rejoices." Hale is Old English in origin and means "nook, recess" and denoted someone who lived in a nook or hollow.

TOMAS MANDRAY

Thomas is Hebrew in origin and means "twin." No clear reference to Mandray, though Mandrew is Greek and means "man, warrior."
ACOTAR role: Tomas was Nesta's former betrothed.

CLARE BEDDOR

Clare is French in origin and means "bright, clear." No reference found for Beddor.

AUNT RIPLEIGH

Ripleigh is Old English and means "shouting man's meadow." It is connected to the name Ripley meaning "strip of clearing in the woods."
ACOTAR role: Aunt Ripleigh is the feigned aunt Feyre takes care of.

Ms. Laurent

Laurent is French in origin and means "from Laurentum" and "bay laurel."
ACOTAR role: Ms. Laurent is the mortal caretaker of the Archeron estate.

BRIAR

Briar is of British origin and means "thorny bush of wild roses, brambles."
ACOTAR role: Briar is the mortal woman rescued by Feyre and Azriel.

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HUMAN QUEENS

VASSA

Vasilissa is Greek in origin and means "queen, empress." It is also the name of a Christian child martyr who was left unharmed during her capture, but after her release was slain in a field as she prayed.

BRIALLYN

Briallen is a Welsh name meaning "primrose." Primrose comes from the Latin word meaning "first" and the primrose flower often represents youth and renewal (SJM, you dog—this may be my favorite tongue-in-cheek naming thing you did).
ACOTAR role: Briallyn is the first queen who enters the Cauldron and is rewarded with immortality as a withered old hag.

DEMETRA

Demeter was the mother of Persephone, an Ancient Greek goddess of the harvest and an emblem of growth.
ACOTAR role: Demetra was the golden queen who provided the mortal half of The Book of Breathings to the Night Court and was subsequently slain by the Attor.

ANDROMACHE

Andromache means "fighter of men." In Greek mythology, she was representative of the suffering of Trojan women during the war and was famous for her virtue and fidelity. Andromache was also the name of a famous Greek Amazonian who fell at Troy.
ACOTAR role: Andromache was the former mortal lover of Mor.

FAE CHARACTERS

DRAKON

Drakon is of Greek origin and means "dragon."

NEPHELLE

In Greek mythology Nephele, meaning "cloud," is a cloud nymph who is considered the goddess of loyalty, generosity, peace, and shyness.

THE SERAPHIM

A seraph is a celestial being regarded as belonging to the highest order of angels in Christian angelology.

HUMAN CHARACTERS

MIRYAM

Miriam of of Hebrew origin and means "sea of sorrow." She is the Biblical daughter of Amram and Jochebed and sister to Aaron and Moses.

URSTIN

No plausible connections found. Potentially an anagram for Rustin, an English name meaning "Rust's estate" or Surtin, a Middle English name meaning "reliable, trustworthy."
ACOTAR role: Urstin is a cousin of the Archerons via their mother.

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MAIN CHARACTERS

THE SURIEL

Suriel is a Hebrew name meaning "God's prince, divine authority." May also reference Sariel, an angel from Judais tradition, one of the seven holy angels. He is considered to be a primordial power invoked for his protective powers.

ATTOR

Possibly an altered form of the German tatter meaning "goblin, puppet." Likely inspired by the Ahool, a bat or primate-like winged cryptid said to live in the jungles of Indonesia.

DEATH GODS

THE BONE CARVER

Self-explanatory.

STRYGA AKA THE WEAVER

Stryzga is a female demon in Slavic mythology similar to a vampire. Stryzga stems from the mythological Strix of Ancient Greece, referring to birds of ill omen (and also witches) who fed on human flesh and blood.

KOSCHEI

Koschei is a common villain in East Slavic tales. He is often given the epithet of "the Immortal, the Deathless" and is said to hide his death inside nested objects for protection. He often takes the role of a malevolent rival figure who competes or entraps a male hero's love interest.
Fun note: The love interest trapping tidbit has interesting connotations for both Lucien (regarding Vassa) and Azriel (regarding Eris). For a breakdown of the Azriel x Koschei scene in ACOSF, see HERE.

PRISON INMATES

BRYAXIS

Bryaxis was a famous Ancient Greek sculptor. His name may mean "delight, lust."

LANTHYS

No information or connections found (and it is KILLING me).

LUBIA

In Albanian mythology, the lubia is a multi-headed, serpentine-like, female watestorm demon-dragon. Her irresistible taste of flesh leans toward that of young girls.
ACOTAR role: Also called Seven-Headed Lubia, imprisoned for preying on girls on the western coast of Prythian.

ANNIS

The Black Annis is a bogeyman in English folklore, depicted as a blue-faced witch with iron claws who has a taste for human flesh, especially that of children.
ACOTAR role: Also called Blue Annis, imprisoned for her craving of female flesh.

VESPERUS

In Greek mythology, Hesperus is the Evening Star. Her Roman equivalent is named Vesper.
ACOTAR role: Vesperus is the Asteri found beneath the Prison.

MINOR CHARACTERS

MIDDENGARD WYRM

Midgard is the realm of human beings in Norse mythology, ie Earth. Wrym is an Old Norse word and refers to a wingless and limbless dragon.

THE BOGGE

Bogge is a Middle English word meaning "frightening specter" from which the term bogeyman originated. Bogeyman have no specific appearance and conceptions vary drastically by culture.
Fun fact: A boggart is a supernatural being from English folklore and also derives from the term bogge (Harry Potter facts, yo).

NAGA

Throughout various Asian religious traditions, Angus are a divine or semi-divine race of half-human, half-serpent beings residing in the netherworld.
Fun fact: A female naga is called a Nagi or a Nagini (more HP facts, yo).

MARTAX

A manticore is a Persian mythological creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. The martax describe in ACOTAR has a head like a lion's and three rows of teeth. A manticore has the body of a lion and eats its victims whole with its three rows of teeth. The term manticore stems from Latin and Ancient Greek.

PUCA

Púca is Irish for "spirit, ghost" while puca is Old English for "goblin." They were said to be shape-changers.

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MEALLAN

Meallán is Irish in origin meaning "small pleasant one."
ACOTAR role: Helion's pegasus.

ELLIA

Ellia is of various origins and can translate to "beautiful fairy maiden" with hints to the "Otherworld."
ACOTAR role: Mor's horse.

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For Part 2: World Map, Items, Terms & Other, click HERE

tl;dr tips plz? thanks
Hey all, so ever since Wreck it Ralph first came out all I wanted was a good Sugar Rush based kart game. This seemed close enough, so I gave it a shot.
Anyone got any tips that the game doesn't tell you or otherwise please? I've played MK and CTR before, and in those games it's best to keep drifting even on straights for your boost. Does it work like that here? Because I had some races where I drifted my butt off, and barely edged first. Then I did the same race barely drifting and just driving casually and came first easily, so I don't get it. Drift less?
I also feel like there's not enough feedback when you drift. Sometimes I drift and there's no boost, but I never get why? Should I be looking out for something?
Shortcuts seem like the best advantage, but I'm not sure how to learn them. CPU don't take many, and online some do but generally the ones that do are double my level and pull away so fast I can't see what they're doing. Don't really want to sit and watch clips of all the tracks either just to learn them.
Finally, with the awful state of monetisation in this game, should I actually bother learning the game at all? Been doing the world map, it's roadblock after roadblock. Can't play this race, can't play that race. Done every race I could but still left out and no way to get Vanellope or even other characters. Is it worth buying one golden pass and hoping that will sustain me or am I going to miss out on loads anyway? Then online it's just about who's bought the most to win.
It's a shame because there's been some clear effort and talent behind this game but the game is marred by an awful business model that actively hurts it.
Sorry for long post.

I’ve been playing bf1 on Xbox since release mainly operations. Seems like a good 70 percent of the times the only servers that are up are Monte grappa and Ballroom Blitz. Was thinking of switching over to pc in hopes there was more variety in the map rotation, would my switch be in vain or are there more servers on pc?

Level 87 player with over 350hours of gameplay - no, I'm not omniscient, I don't know everything, but I I've seen a lot and learned even more.
With the increase in patrols I think we can all agree things have gotten messier in game play, especially that you can get completely surrounded very easily now.
With that said I've seen an uptick in random gameplay where the host chides me or kicks me for not "participating" or not "keeping up with the rest of the team" because I'm somewhere else on the map.
So my default play style is "Big Brother" - at least some Youtubers call it that - it's the role where you're a little behind the pack watching all the angles, flanking as necessary and protecting the rest of the team. With my Autocannon and Punsher Plasma I have good medium range to take out Rocket Devastators and Gunships, etc. and kill Berserkers as they're chasing my teammates. Sometimes I help my teammates by covering for an escape - like keeping a Hulk or Tank busy while my teammates move on to the next objective.
The Big Brother role's strength is to keeping your teammates alive it has a weakness especially with all the new patrols: You can get cut-off from the team easily.
As I'm trying to support the team so they can move on and because distance-wise I'm not super close to the team, I get surrounded ever more now which means getting isolated is much more likely. When you're in this situation what are your options?

• #1 Try to run away without dying - not easy to do with heavy armor which I use to compensate because I'm carrying Autocannon/AC Backpack
• #2 Fight as minimally as possible with a small group that's blocking a clear path
• #3 (Worst choice) There's no clear path and so you get bogged down running around and then dying (which means you lose your stratagem weapon and being less effective on respawn especially if it's a long recharge time.

I've seen all three and #1 isn't always an option.
Jerk 1 who kicked me: After answering your SOS, I was saving your butt (and the other sub-level 10 lowbies) on Extreme for 30 minutes, distracting the tank so you guys could run to the next objective without dying, and also destroying the bot factories you completely ignored - not to mention they weren't anywhere close to the extraction which means we'd have to run all the way back to clear them .... and you waited for me to catch up to you to lecture me in your little-dictator-Napoleon-voice "You're level 87 and you've spent the whole time doing nothing. Don't board my ship ever again if you don't want to contribute." And then you kicked me.
Jerk 2 who kicked me: Another SOS. After running around the map trying to find samples (like everyone else) and then finding nothing I then ran to you at Extraction where we both loitered for a minute or two. Then you ran off to go find samples again. I stayed behind for a beat to look at the map then after that I GOT SURROUNDED BY EVERY LIVING BUG ON THE PLANET. I couldn't get an out ANYWHERE and just died. Again with the lecture on mic "Why aren't you doing anything. You're not helping us find samples. You're useless" ... then kick.
If you're going to host a game and call an SOS, yes you get to be a little dictator as much as you want - but know that you DO NOT know everything and you're not omniscient. At best you're an ineffective leader and you ARE contributing to the toxicity of the game, which is the OPPOSITE of the spirit of this whole enterprise - to work as a team.
My advice to you little wannabe fascists - learn some basic leadership skills maybe?