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2013.03.14 05:32 Fluxdada That Peeling Feeling
A place to share in the unique joy that is peeling the plastic off of new objects.
2015.02.11 00:55 The KonMari method! Spark joy!
For people who want to surround themselves with joy!
2024.05.15 08:07 AltruisticDealer4717 One thing I hope we can see in the next game.
This post is not about the plot itself but more about how a game should be designed.
People who play Cyberpunk should probably be familiar with the meme about the infamous "Meet Hanako at Ember.", but that meme itself was a fundamental problem with the open-world game.
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Horizon: Zero Dawn. The story was great, but one element gave me the most thinking: Aloy's pursuit of her own mystery gradually elevated to an even bigger and more global-impact mission about the world's fate, and her success was tied to humanity's fate.
This is a cool idea and a main driving force for me to play the game, but the problem is that it is a game.
Games, especially open-world games, by their nature, are anti-timers. You can't put a timer on the player and expect them to be happy. This is especially true when you play the DLC for Zero Dawn. A dialogue tells you that you should return to your task to stop Eclipse from destroying the world.
But guess what? You can still play in the snow, and the whole main quest plus side gigs in DLC can cost a whole week from an in-game world perspective. When you finally defeat the last Fireclaws and find all the paints, you can finally return to Meridian, which can probably take another week due to the distance.
When you finally deliver the bad news to Sun King, the game will tell you that finishing all the remaining matters before sleep will probably be a good idea. But because the map is so big, it literally takes Aloy days to travel from one quest to another. When you finally clean up all the green dots on the map, it could take a whole month before it is time to go to sleep.
I think this is the problem with the open-world game. People all want open-world games, especially open-world RPG games, to have a believable world in which player decisions can impact the game world. I like this, too. But whenever I think about this question about how such a game will look when you have a big mission or a sense of urgency to change the world your character is currently living in, it brings more questions than answers, like, How long should you make such a decision? Is 60 hours in the game to do that thing better than doing that in 15 hours? Or should I do another thing I was more interested in and leave this latter for who knows how long? And if the world changed while I was doing another thing, what should I do if I just couldn't do those things fast enough?
Fundamentally, I think there isn't a wrong way to play the game since it should be played how the players feel they're most joyful—however, immersion in the open-world game conflicts with the nature of such a game itself. The world independently exists from the gamer. Such conflict will ultimately result in the whole world becoming another, just running around the map and chasing one quest and then another before the whole world experiences boring and repeating.
So, I hope that in the next game, which is probably 5-8 years away, we can find a new solution to this problem: how to balance exploring and the in-game world itself.
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People who play Cyberpunk should probably be familiar with the meme about the infamous "Meet Hanako at Ember.", but that meme itself was a fundamental problem with the open-world game.
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Horizon: Zero Dawn. The story was great, but one element gave me the most thinking: Aloy's pursuit of her own mystery gradually elevated to an even bigger and more global-impact mission about the world's fate, and her success was tied to humanity's fate.
This is a cool idea and a main driving force for me to play the game, but the problem is that it is a game.
Games, especially open-world games, by their nature, are anti-timers. You can't put a timer on the player and expect them to be happy. This is especially true when you play the DLC for Zero Dawn. A dialogue tells you that you should return to your task to stop Eclipse from destroying the world.
But guess what? You can still play in the snow, and the whole main quest plus side gigs in DLC can cost a whole week from an in-game world perspective. When you finally defeat the last Fireclaws and find all the paints, you can finally return to Meridian, which can probably take another week due to the distance.
When you finally deliver the bad news to Sun King, the game will tell you that finishing all the remaining matters before sleep will probably be a good idea. But because the map is so big, it literally takes Aloy days to travel from one quest to another. When you finally clean up all the green dots on the map, it could take a whole month before it is time to go to sleep.
I think this is the problem with the open-world game. People all want open-world games, especially open-world RPG games, to have a believable world in which player decisions can impact the game world. I like this, too. But whenever I think about this question about how such a game will look when you have a big mission or a sense of urgency to change the world your character is currently living in, it brings more questions than answers, like, How long should you make such a decision? Is 60 hours in the game to do that thing better than doing that in 15 hours? Or should I do another thing I was more interested in and leave this latter for who knows how long? And if the world changed while I was doing another thing, what should I do if I just couldn't do those things fast enough?
Fundamentally, I think there isn't a wrong way to play the game since it should be played how the players feel they're most joyful—however, immersion in the open-world game conflicts with the nature of such a game itself. The world independently exists from the gamer. Such conflict will ultimately result in the whole world becoming another, just running around the map and chasing one quest and then another before the whole world experiences boring and repeating.
So, I hope that in the next game, which is probably 5-8 years away, we can find a new solution to this problem: how to balance exploring and the in-game world itself.
2024.05.15 08:05 Immediate_Ad1579 Really struggling lately
Never posted for advice on Reddit before but in a really rough period at the moment. I'm 25 male, was a bad addict from 17-23/24 clean off opiates and meth for 18 months now, moved back across the country back to my mums because I ended up homeless on the other side of the country. Lost literally everything in 2022 to my addictions. I've lost contact with literally any friends I've ever had,feeling very lonely Im, last 8 months I've sat at home everyday, mainly because have nowhere to go and i'm physically injured badly (had a major shoulder surgery 2 months ago, had a really bad car crash about 2 years ago and it's just ruined my body( and aside from the physical stuff I feel like I'm dead inside, always exhausted, I just feel very little anymore nothing excites or brings me any joy. I don't know how to articulate it better, I feel like a shell of who I used to be, aside from feeling depressed as I feel just completely useless and so so far behind everyone else. I tried doing an electrical apprenticeship but just fucked it up and I don't know if I can go back to it now my body is so fucked and even if I do, I feel like what the fucks the point everything for the last 10 years has been fucked I don't know how and why it would get better
I don't know but thank you for reading my rant I don't have any one to speak to, I know I probably need therapy but again it's like I've already destroyed my life and pushed everyone away how would I even fix this, feels pathetic typing this but yeah thanks
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I don't know but thank you for reading my rant I don't have any one to speak to, I know I probably need therapy but again it's like I've already destroyed my life and pushed everyone away how would I even fix this, feels pathetic typing this but yeah thanks
2024.05.15 08:04 themohammadhamza 10 major signs of judgement day
Islam has several significant and minor indicators of the imminence of the Day of Judgement, but they all point to the manner and timing of its arrival. The Quranic findings and other hadiths give Muslims wisdom and direction beforehand so that when the time comes, they will be able to discriminate between good and wrong, even though only Allah knows the precise day. True events are predicted by Qayamah’s lesser and greater indications.
From an early age, we are taught about the approaching judgement day, and when we inquire about its exact date, we are informed that it will occur eventually. We have the texts of the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet (SAW) to confirm its authenticity. Hudhayfah bin Usayd says that as we were having a conversation, Allah’s Apostle showed up out of the blue. “What topics do you discuss?” he asked. “We are discussing the Final Hour,” the friends uttered.
The smoke, the Anti-Christ, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west, the descent of Jesus, the Gog and Magog, and landslides in three places, one in the east, one in the west, and one in Arabia, at the end of which fire would burn forth from Yemen, driving people to the place of their assembly, were among the ten signs he mentioned. (Muslim)
Following Imam Mehdi’s entrance, the Prophet (Saw) declared, “One person will appear before the end of the world.” Both his and my names will be the same, as will those of his father. The world will be full of tyranny and injustice before to his coming, but justice will prevail when he arrives. An angel would appear from the cloud above his head and say, “This is Mehdi, listen to what he says.”
He is going to take on many of the enemies of Islam and try to make the international legal system better. There will be a great lot of injustice, transgressions, murders of Muslims, and the system of good actions will be destroyed by the evildoers prior to his arrival.
There are numerous ways to read the hadith and the time indication. There are others who hold the belief that anything that Allah has predetermined cannot be changed. Some people think that the Sun rising in the West signifies the upending of the global system.
However, regular supplications and prayers are very necessary and can prevent one from taking actions that will ultimately be harmful to them. In addition to these major signs, there are other smaller or more subtle signs of the Day of Judgement in Islam, and numerous theories have been formed based on these signs to confirm their accuracy.
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From an early age, we are taught about the approaching judgement day, and when we inquire about its exact date, we are informed that it will occur eventually. We have the texts of the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet (SAW) to confirm its authenticity. Hudhayfah bin Usayd says that as we were having a conversation, Allah’s Apostle showed up out of the blue. “What topics do you discuss?” he asked. “We are discussing the Final Hour,” the friends uttered.
The smoke, the Anti-Christ, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west, the descent of Jesus, the Gog and Magog, and landslides in three places, one in the east, one in the west, and one in Arabia, at the end of which fire would burn forth from Yemen, driving people to the place of their assembly, were among the ten signs he mentioned. (Muslim)
In Islam, there are ten phases to the day of judgement, each of which depicts the event categorically:
1) Arrival of Imam MahdiFollowing Imam Mehdi’s entrance, the Prophet (Saw) declared, “One person will appear before the end of the world.” Both his and my names will be the same, as will those of his father. The world will be full of tyranny and injustice before to his coming, but justice will prevail when he arrives. An angel would appear from the cloud above his head and say, “This is Mehdi, listen to what he says.”
He is going to take on many of the enemies of Islam and try to make the international legal system better. There will be a great lot of injustice, transgressions, murders of Muslims, and the system of good actions will be destroyed by the evildoers prior to his arrival.
2) Dajjal Will Arrive
Most people are informed that the most obvious and well-known sign is the advent of Dajjal. He’ll claim to be God when he gets there. A heretic is someone who places their confidence in him. If information about him is misguiding people, why would they believe him? This is the job of the Fitnah of Dajjal, forcing the population’s thinking to be fixed so that they will inevitably accept the idea that he is God (God forbid). Dajjal is going to be able to control the sky to rain and the earth to sprout plants. These are deceptive signs, but they will make people think he is God.3) The Descent of Jesus
According to Islamic belief, Prophet Jesus will descend at the time Dajjal shows up and declares himself to be God. He would then attack and murder Dajjal. In addition, he will bring Muslims to Tur Mountain, destroy the cross, and free them from the Majooj and Yajooj. The Jews were supposed to kill the Prophet, but Allah raised him up and preserved him. When he gets there, everyone who has been buying into falsehoods and misconceptions will be taken aback.4) Yajooj And Majooj’s emergence
There are multiple references to Yajooj and Majooj’s rise to prominence. A wall encloses them. There is a legend about them that states that during Hazrat Ibrahim’s (a.s.) reign, there lived a just King by the name of Zulqarnain. People asked him to keep them safe from the Gog and Magog tribes, two deadly tribes they had heard about. Zulqarnain consequently built an iron wall that would remain impenetrable till the end of time. They will therefore be able to break past the barrier and chase the populace come the end of time. To relieve humanity from its fury and danger, Hazrat Isa will arrive on Earth5) Smoke will appear as a sign of the Day of Judgment.
The Quran states, “Wait for the day when smoke appears from the sky.” According to Hadith, “the smoke will come from the sky and blanket the entire planet for 40 days.” It is said that although smoke will chill Christians, it will chastise unbelievers. There are numerous theories regarding what smoking will be like in the future. The most frequent possibilities are an atomic explosion or environmental contamination. In any event, the result will serve as one of the markers for the Day of Judgement in Islam.6) The Coming Of The Beast
As stated in the Quran, “And when the word of torture is fulfilled against them, we shall bring out from the Earth a beast for them, to speak to them, because mankind did not accept with conviction in Our signs,” Allah verifies the arrival of the beast in Islam. (An-Naml: 82) It is said that the beast is carrying Mousa’s handstick for believers, and that if they are sincere believers, light would radiate from their faces. For the unbelievers, he will wield the Seal of Suleman; if it comes into contact with them, their countenance will turn gloomy, denoting their degree of faith.7) The Sun Rise from the West
One of the primary indicators of Qayamah, or the Day of Judgement in Islam, is the rising of the Sun from its setting position in the West. “The Hour will not come until the Sun has risen from the West, and when it rises and people see it, they will all believe,” but additionally, “that will be the time when it will do no good to a person who has not believed before, nor earned good (by doing deeds of righteousness through his faith),” according to Abu Hurayrah, a contemporary of the Prophet (saw). (As stated by Muslim and Al-Bukhari, 11/352 and 2/194)There are numerous ways to read the hadith and the time indication. There are others who hold the belief that anything that Allah has predetermined cannot be changed. Some people think that the Sun rising in the West signifies the upending of the global system.
8) Landslides
There will be three major landslides in Islam: one in the Arabian Peninsula, one in the East, and one in the West. The Prophet (saw) stated that the signs won’t appear until these regions have attained the highest concentrations of immorality and bad behaviour. Some people think that earthquakes, not landslides, will be the cause of the landslides. The most common belief is that these locations would submerge due to a natural disaster, killing the local population.9) The Fire Will Begin
The eruption of fire from the direction of Yemen, from the bottom of ‘Aden, from the Sea of Hadramawt’ is another key sign of the day of judgement. The Prophet (Saw) was heard saying, “The last of them will be a fire that will come from Yemen, and will force the people to the area of their assembly,” according to Hudhayfah ibn Usayd. (Source: Muslim, 18/27)10) The Kaabah Will Be Destroyed
The Prophet (SAW) said, “Dhu’l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia will ruin the Ka’ba and seize its treasure and kiswah,” according to Abdullah Ibn “Amr.” I feel as if I can see him now; he’s balding and his wrists are distorted. With his spade and pich-axe, he will attack the Ka’ba. Allah will take the Quran and the virtuous people from the Earth to shield them from the Last Hour.However, regular supplications and prayers are very necessary and can prevent one from taking actions that will ultimately be harmful to them. In addition to these major signs, there are other smaller or more subtle signs of the Day of Judgement in Islam, and numerous theories have been formed based on these signs to confirm their accuracy.
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2024.05.15 08:02 Daemonback Why am I like this
For the record I do not have any trauma related disorders, personality disorders, or mental disorders other than MDD and severe anxiety. That being said I truly share symptoms across a lot of different disorders which confuses the hell out of me.
I had a normal childhood until about middle school. There I experienced a moderate amount of social isolations but still managed to make friends. A few of these friends tended to mess with me and try to make me feel as if I was lesser. I know I am not overreacting because other people have told me this and they act differently toward others. I think this was due to my appearance at a younger age and my anxiety. I cut them off because I realized they didn’t keep me around for other then making themselves feel good. I kept a few friends that I never Really considered close but largely I feel didn’t want to hangout with me lying about reasons not being able to hangout. I caught them in lies multiple times posting stories being somewhere when they said they were too tired to do anything or had a family event. I wantd to do something maybe once every two weeks and when they were busy maybe once a month but they managed to hangout with other people every weekend. High school I isolated myself and experimented with different personalities to try to make friends but nothing really worked that well. In my Highschool friend group I eventually had enough and argued with them over something relatively unimportant and they stopped associating with me after that with no more than a text asking if I was ok after being hospitalized a few days after. I had a bad reaction to prescribed medication that wasn't my fault. Never talked to a few of them after that in person and till this day and they think I am crazy. One said I don’t have it that bad when I tried explaining why I was so upset and how I struggled with a lot of things because a family member had an autistic son and I could never have it that bad. I was forced to go into group therapy in h s as well because of a screw up with the school and long story short my parents agreed it would be best to pull me out for a bit. I was by far the most emotionally stable person in each group I was put in no matter which person it was. I was also the only male except for a couple younger guys that were there for ASPD or OCD. I hate that I actually enjoyed being around all of the people in there. I still hate how I wish I never met any of these people because I think about them way to often and it hurts me. I felt too much in common with girls that had PTSD, BPD, and severe childhood trauma. I know that sounds awful but I truly wish I could switch lives with them because of the true horrors many of these kids experienced. the main reason I am even religious is because I do not know how a human being could torture another human soul so badly without remorse or reason without being influenced by true evil/demon/possession. I will not go into any detail because I do not feel it is my story to tell. All I will say is the light seemed dull in many children's eyes in that place. The only reason I have cried in the past like 8 months is because I remember the stories these people have told me. I hate how the closest I have every felt to a human being was with a girl that had BPD who I barely know and I felt was kind to me with no reason. I hate how I see these people around my city without it actually being them. I hate how I stay up at night thinking about our conversations. I hate how I feel they did not like me because I was even in there. I felt annoying and disrespectful without trying and I felt everything I said was stupid and came off weird or wrong. I hate how no one understands me as well as some of these girls did. Like why am I actively having good conversations with someone who seems to feel the same emotions I am feeling do not wish to have children because of the way I feel and the risk associated with them experiencing something horrible. I have also never seen myself living super long due to me being high stress and the fact I just have too much weird situations happen to me. I feel every major goal of mine has been ruined by things outside of my control I only have happiness in fleeting moments but I have experienced pure joy in a handful of moments in my life. My baseline is depressed and anxious but manageable. I feel I am lucky enough to not experience true trauma but unlucky enough to keep having bullshit mess with my life plans and happiness. There is more stuff I intentional left out because its too specific and I don't like talking bout them.
Symptoms list:
Mind racing, hypervigilance, feeling everyone is against me without proof, paranoid or more so anxious bad things will happen to me, always on guard in public; feels like people are making fun of me, intense anger toward others the world and myself, sensitive to specific words and topics, intense sensation of hollowness, backseat driveidentity issues [really only preset during extreme bouts of physical and mental stress such as not sleeping, eating or illness], I don't ever get headaches unless I am insanely stressed or depressed, sharp disconnect between myself and my feelings or feeling is should feel, I imagine crazy unrealistic but statistically probable dangerous situations happening to me when I am in public, have an intense almost idiotic need to prove my toughness and would rather die than back down to someone
My doctors have never thought I have autism and the only reason I have ever looked into that is social difficulties and when I am sleep deprived or under extreme stress/ anxiety I am not good in social situations. This has gotten better as I have gotten older though.
I do not have OCD even though I have a borderline extreme obsession with my chosen sport to the point I have to stop myself from talking about it all the time.
I don't hallucinate or have overly grandiose ideas/delusions
Don't fit criteria for PTSD as my symptoms are manageable enough to function at a high level and I have not really hit any of the trauma criteria under the DSM-5
Bipolar out of the question as I only ever experience manic symptoms when I am sick and cant get enough sleep and my mood is relatively stable. My psych told me to stop telling my therapist I have experienced mania because he believes its only due to sleep related insomnia. Even though they did say it is possible its not likely.
bipolar same with schizophrenia don't even come close to this one
Personality disorder I have no immediate family that has any of these and I did not have an exceptionally hard childhood. No severe trauma to cause this plus my mood is to stable and antidepressants help me regulate for the most part also antipsychotic actually make me worse even atypical ones suck.
My docs and therapist just say I am really unlucky and have MDD severe anxiety and to get over my past but I feel as if it is apart of me and if I let go of it that all my pain was meant for nothing. I don't know why but I would rather go a lifetime of suffering because I feel that is a better alternative for me personally and is more honorable to society than the alternative. I Truly for some reason don't have a quitting bone in my body and sometimes wish this wasn't the case. I think this is party due to spite and hate and the fact I cant believe all this was meant for nothing.
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I had a normal childhood until about middle school. There I experienced a moderate amount of social isolations but still managed to make friends. A few of these friends tended to mess with me and try to make me feel as if I was lesser. I know I am not overreacting because other people have told me this and they act differently toward others. I think this was due to my appearance at a younger age and my anxiety. I cut them off because I realized they didn’t keep me around for other then making themselves feel good. I kept a few friends that I never Really considered close but largely I feel didn’t want to hangout with me lying about reasons not being able to hangout. I caught them in lies multiple times posting stories being somewhere when they said they were too tired to do anything or had a family event. I wantd to do something maybe once every two weeks and when they were busy maybe once a month but they managed to hangout with other people every weekend. High school I isolated myself and experimented with different personalities to try to make friends but nothing really worked that well. In my Highschool friend group I eventually had enough and argued with them over something relatively unimportant and they stopped associating with me after that with no more than a text asking if I was ok after being hospitalized a few days after. I had a bad reaction to prescribed medication that wasn't my fault. Never talked to a few of them after that in person and till this day and they think I am crazy. One said I don’t have it that bad when I tried explaining why I was so upset and how I struggled with a lot of things because a family member had an autistic son and I could never have it that bad. I was forced to go into group therapy in h s as well because of a screw up with the school and long story short my parents agreed it would be best to pull me out for a bit. I was by far the most emotionally stable person in each group I was put in no matter which person it was. I was also the only male except for a couple younger guys that were there for ASPD or OCD. I hate that I actually enjoyed being around all of the people in there. I still hate how I wish I never met any of these people because I think about them way to often and it hurts me. I felt too much in common with girls that had PTSD, BPD, and severe childhood trauma. I know that sounds awful but I truly wish I could switch lives with them because of the true horrors many of these kids experienced. the main reason I am even religious is because I do not know how a human being could torture another human soul so badly without remorse or reason without being influenced by true evil/demon/possession. I will not go into any detail because I do not feel it is my story to tell. All I will say is the light seemed dull in many children's eyes in that place. The only reason I have cried in the past like 8 months is because I remember the stories these people have told me. I hate how the closest I have every felt to a human being was with a girl that had BPD who I barely know and I felt was kind to me with no reason. I hate how I see these people around my city without it actually being them. I hate how I stay up at night thinking about our conversations. I hate how I feel they did not like me because I was even in there. I felt annoying and disrespectful without trying and I felt everything I said was stupid and came off weird or wrong. I hate how no one understands me as well as some of these girls did. Like why am I actively having good conversations with someone who seems to feel the same emotions I am feeling do not wish to have children because of the way I feel and the risk associated with them experiencing something horrible. I have also never seen myself living super long due to me being high stress and the fact I just have too much weird situations happen to me. I feel every major goal of mine has been ruined by things outside of my control I only have happiness in fleeting moments but I have experienced pure joy in a handful of moments in my life. My baseline is depressed and anxious but manageable. I feel I am lucky enough to not experience true trauma but unlucky enough to keep having bullshit mess with my life plans and happiness. There is more stuff I intentional left out because its too specific and I don't like talking bout them.
Symptoms list:
Mind racing, hypervigilance, feeling everyone is against me without proof, paranoid or more so anxious bad things will happen to me, always on guard in public; feels like people are making fun of me, intense anger toward others the world and myself, sensitive to specific words and topics, intense sensation of hollowness, backseat driveidentity issues [really only preset during extreme bouts of physical and mental stress such as not sleeping, eating or illness], I don't ever get headaches unless I am insanely stressed or depressed, sharp disconnect between myself and my feelings or feeling is should feel, I imagine crazy unrealistic but statistically probable dangerous situations happening to me when I am in public, have an intense almost idiotic need to prove my toughness and would rather die than back down to someone
My doctors have never thought I have autism and the only reason I have ever looked into that is social difficulties and when I am sleep deprived or under extreme stress/ anxiety I am not good in social situations. This has gotten better as I have gotten older though.
I do not have OCD even though I have a borderline extreme obsession with my chosen sport to the point I have to stop myself from talking about it all the time.
I don't hallucinate or have overly grandiose ideas/delusions
Don't fit criteria for PTSD as my symptoms are manageable enough to function at a high level and I have not really hit any of the trauma criteria under the DSM-5
Bipolar out of the question as I only ever experience manic symptoms when I am sick and cant get enough sleep and my mood is relatively stable. My psych told me to stop telling my therapist I have experienced mania because he believes its only due to sleep related insomnia. Even though they did say it is possible its not likely.
bipolar same with schizophrenia don't even come close to this one
Personality disorder I have no immediate family that has any of these and I did not have an exceptionally hard childhood. No severe trauma to cause this plus my mood is to stable and antidepressants help me regulate for the most part also antipsychotic actually make me worse even atypical ones suck.
My docs and therapist just say I am really unlucky and have MDD severe anxiety and to get over my past but I feel as if it is apart of me and if I let go of it that all my pain was meant for nothing. I don't know why but I would rather go a lifetime of suffering because I feel that is a better alternative for me personally and is more honorable to society than the alternative. I Truly for some reason don't have a quitting bone in my body and sometimes wish this wasn't the case. I think this is party due to spite and hate and the fact I cant believe all this was meant for nothing.
2024.05.15 08:00 CaTTerpillar__ SLANDERED AS A SEX OFFENDER (LIBEL)
My name was slandered SO badly by the quinte.ca news that it is literally criminal and VERY VERY messed up.
According to this article I am a Sex Predator and was trying to lure a 13 year old for sex using the internet.(!!!!!)
This is a long story so I’m going to do my best at condensing it so people actually read it.
This is what happened: With a fair amount of spare time on my hands I decided to do something that would create a positive, long lasting impact. I knew there had to be some real sex predators in a city this size so I decided to see if any ADULTS online were interested and fully follow through with preying on a minor. Less than a few minutes after creating a profile I was contacted by a Belleville Resident who indicated DIRECTLY to me that he was “ok” with the decoys age.
Speaking to him about 45 minutes each day I was shocked at how this was actually happening. Shocked at how quickly, unaffected and confident he was to be luring a 12 year old to his apartment.
Most disturbing was the bits of information that was confessed to me. How he “had to be really careful” because he is already a registered sex offender due to being caught with another minor years ago, and how he “had multiple other people your age” in the past which he had never been caught for.
So obviously by the time I was aware of that I was Deadset at not only catching and exposing this creep but see to it that he gets his rightful spot back in a prison cell.
I went just outside the meeting area a bit early and sat down with my Sony 500 video camera around my neck and was prepared to begin the video, capturing him as he went directly to the prearranged location. He was going with the quickness and attempting to hold back the huge shit eating grin on his face. Disgusting. Vile. True evil.
So I walked up to him while recording and made a call from my cellphone to his which I used to instantly tell him off the bat: “YOU’RE FKD!” Also by doing this at that moment I was putting him in a position (ON CAMERA mind you) which he had zero opportunity to deny anything.
After having gathered what I believed to be enough evidence and having him vocally express ( One more and last time) directly to the camera why he was there at that precise moment and what it was he had expected to go down that day in his apartment, I decided to end recording, and leave.
With my adrenaline pumping, I left. Forgetting to do what could’ve been the most important thing, not for exposing him or the Court, but for ME. . . Call the cops. I called them about 10 minutes into the walk back to my home. I told the Officer everything that had just happened. Including the prior five days leading up to this event. I was praised for doing what I had done by this Officer but was informed that the “Detective” responsible for this “crime category” was already off duty and wouldn’t be returning until Monday.
On Monday I received a phone call from that Officer and TRIED to explain everything. It was like I was speaking another language to him. He REPEATEDLY tried to change what I was telling him. For example; I explained how I was the decoy and that there did NOT EXIST AN ACTUAL MINOR involved here, and then he would say: “so you and this sex offender ‘hooked up’ and tried to get a ‘13’ year old over to HIS house” !!!!! It was if he was Trolling. He simply could not, or did not WANT TO understand what happened. “It’s like a STING OPERATION” I finally said to him. I told him this guys name and where he lived. I even knew his birthdate from the convos with the Decoy. So this “detective” in charge of investigating a very serious category of crime in this city KNEW that this predator is a Registered Sex Offender. He KNEW that I was in possession of a litany of irrefutable evidence. Yet was totally incompetent and put me down as Suspect #1 from the start. For not a single reason. He denied my requests to come down and SHOW HIM THE FRICKIN’ EVIDENCE. He did not even want to see the video confession!!! Nothing happened. He said it was now an “open case” and I had a case number. Deflated. Flabbergasted. I was [again] in shock. After weeks of waiting, I ended up putting the entire video of sicko confessing and me grilling him on YouTube. My genuine motive from the start was to make a positive impact on the community. To potentially stop a child from being victimized by a predator. I felt let down the police response. Little did I know what was to come SIX months later. The cops raided the house I was living in.
I was immediately handcuffed and told that I was arrested for “LURING A MINOR” !!!! I was literally paralyzed. With at LEAST HALF A DOZEN POLICE OFFICERS AND AN EQUALLY UNNECESSARILY LARGE AMOUNT OF SUVS PARKED ON THE DRIVEWAY, LAWN, AND ONE OF THE BUSIEST ROADS IN THE CITY. RED AND BLUES FLASHING ON ALL OF THEM. W h a t . T h e . F o c k ! ? ! They went up to my neatly organized room and searched it over discovering of course nothing but my phone. Snatching it with a joy like they had just successfully done something significant. I had 5-7 cops surrounding me in a semi circle after arriving at the Jail as I prepared to go inside a cell. They even shackled my feet. I know from watching cops and the like on YouTube to always exercise the right to remain silent. There was nothing I could do or say at that point which would help and I definitely didn’t resist the arrest so it really must’ve been a slow day. Eh guys? That and/or the overly incompetent rookie had relayed to his colleagues and obviously his Superiors to get the raid and arrest warrant his own personal story that he had recreated. Unfriggenbelieveable! It’s SO ABSURD THERE IS NO PROPER WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW IT FEELS TO GO THROUGH THIS! Doing something I considered not just “Right”, but Honourable, Justified, and definitely NOT illegal! How the hell did a JUDGE sign an arrest AND RAID Warrant on me with ZERO evidence, physical, concrete, or even circumstantial?? Not a single reason lawfully or otherwise for them to raid, arrest, shackle my feet and throw me in a jail cell for hours, and then criminally charge me with “Luring of a Minor”. Evidently, according to this news article the police had conducted a Six Month Investigation. Huh? Of What?! On Who?!
Now, Finally, The News Article: The information printed in any news article requires a source, so all of this information had to have only been provided by the police department. This article was printed at 9 in the morning the very next day of the arrest and raid. So of course this was all information provided from police.
The charges against myself were eventually dropped, of course. About 18 months later! My phone being confiscated in the raid in order to access everything on there was also given back to me. They played immature and unprofessional games with that as well; returning my property. Such as : come in this day, your phone is ready to be released now. Show up. “Oh so and so thought it was ready but we don’t have it yet.” Weeks later. Get another call saying it is in fact ready now. Show up. “There is no one working in the evidence locker today, there will be in two days.” Screw them! I show up ten days late and what do you know? My property is actually there for me, and I finally get it back. Of course having had to purchase new phone in the meantime. Worse yet, I can’t recall the password and it was before facial recognition (not like that would matter) and after the fingerprint touch button. So it’s just a brick now.
That’s the least of my concern, as that bullshit article remains up, and the YouTube video had been taken down for some privacy violation nonsense.
After paying the criminal defence attorneys’ invoice(s), I couldn’t afford the 6K being asked by EVERY attorney I had reached out to.
So there, that’s one of many of my Unbelievably Insane Life’s stories. I suppose I didn’t provide the short version. Even though I have sincerely tried to keep it all to a minimum by leaving out plenty of details and significant events, this ended up being the Mid Length version.
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According to this article I am a Sex Predator and was trying to lure a 13 year old for sex using the internet.(!!!!!)
This is a long story so I’m going to do my best at condensing it so people actually read it.
This is what happened: With a fair amount of spare time on my hands I decided to do something that would create a positive, long lasting impact. I knew there had to be some real sex predators in a city this size so I decided to see if any ADULTS online were interested and fully follow through with preying on a minor. Less than a few minutes after creating a profile I was contacted by a Belleville Resident who indicated DIRECTLY to me that he was “ok” with the decoys age.
I told him my age was TWELVE.Within the first 5 minutes of the conversation. So for the next five days he was essentially grooming who he believed was 12 year old and attempting to meet him that upcoming weekend. At no time did I initiate or direct the conversation to move in the dirty direction. I wanted to not only provide as much solid evidence as possible for the police, but I was thinking forward to do the same for the future prosecution when this case ultimately reached the Court….( at least In my mind, this is what I was doing it for! )
Speaking to him about 45 minutes each day I was shocked at how this was actually happening. Shocked at how quickly, unaffected and confident he was to be luring a 12 year old to his apartment.
Most disturbing was the bits of information that was confessed to me. How he “had to be really careful” because he is already a registered sex offender due to being caught with another minor years ago, and how he “had multiple other people your age” in the past which he had never been caught for.
So obviously by the time I was aware of that I was Deadset at not only catching and exposing this creep but see to it that he gets his rightful spot back in a prison cell.
Make no mistake I took screenshots of EVERY message/text/conversations/photos.( I had taken photos of myself and used an age altering app which was procured freely from Apple. ) Upon his request I sent multiple Altered selfies over those five days in the various poses he was asking for. Obviously this was done to prove that the decoy was in fact “real”. Bam. That’s it. It was Friday and this registered sex offender “PDF File” was in FULL BELIEF and confident that a Minor was on the way to his apartment to “teach him” how to have sex.
I went just outside the meeting area a bit early and sat down with my Sony 500 video camera around my neck and was prepared to begin the video, capturing him as he went directly to the prearranged location. He was going with the quickness and attempting to hold back the huge shit eating grin on his face. Disgusting. Vile. True evil.
So I walked up to him while recording and made a call from my cellphone to his which I used to instantly tell him off the bat: “YOU’RE FKD!” Also by doing this at that moment I was putting him in a position (ON CAMERA mind you) which he had zero opportunity to deny anything.
Over the next 20-30 minutes He confessed to everything that was said during the conversations. Instead of me questioning him, initially I had told him to tell me exactly why he was there, and for him to tell me (the camera) everything that was in those terrible and unbelievable messages.I grilled him like a ribeye.
After having gathered what I believed to be enough evidence and having him vocally express ( One more and last time) directly to the camera why he was there at that precise moment and what it was he had expected to go down that day in his apartment, I decided to end recording, and leave.
With my adrenaline pumping, I left. Forgetting to do what could’ve been the most important thing, not for exposing him or the Court, but for ME. . . Call the cops. I called them about 10 minutes into the walk back to my home. I told the Officer everything that had just happened. Including the prior five days leading up to this event. I was praised for doing what I had done by this Officer but was informed that the “Detective” responsible for this “crime category” was already off duty and wouldn’t be returning until Monday.
On Monday I received a phone call from that Officer and TRIED to explain everything. It was like I was speaking another language to him. He REPEATEDLY tried to change what I was telling him. For example; I explained how I was the decoy and that there did NOT EXIST AN ACTUAL MINOR involved here, and then he would say: “so you and this sex offender ‘hooked up’ and tried to get a ‘13’ year old over to HIS house” !!!!! It was if he was Trolling. He simply could not, or did not WANT TO understand what happened. “It’s like a STING OPERATION” I finally said to him. I told him this guys name and where he lived. I even knew his birthdate from the convos with the Decoy. So this “detective” in charge of investigating a very serious category of crime in this city KNEW that this predator is a Registered Sex Offender. He KNEW that I was in possession of a litany of irrefutable evidence. Yet was totally incompetent and put me down as Suspect #1 from the start. For not a single reason. He denied my requests to come down and SHOW HIM THE FRICKIN’ EVIDENCE. He did not even want to see the video confession!!! Nothing happened. He said it was now an “open case” and I had a case number. Deflated. Flabbergasted. I was [again] in shock. After weeks of waiting, I ended up putting the entire video of sicko confessing and me grilling him on YouTube. My genuine motive from the start was to make a positive impact on the community. To potentially stop a child from being victimized by a predator. I felt let down the police response. Little did I know what was to come SIX months later. The cops raided the house I was living in.
I was immediately handcuffed and told that I was arrested for “LURING A MINOR” !!!! I was literally paralyzed. With at LEAST HALF A DOZEN POLICE OFFICERS AND AN EQUALLY UNNECESSARILY LARGE AMOUNT OF SUVS PARKED ON THE DRIVEWAY, LAWN, AND ONE OF THE BUSIEST ROADS IN THE CITY. RED AND BLUES FLASHING ON ALL OF THEM. W h a t . T h e . F o c k ! ? ! They went up to my neatly organized room and searched it over discovering of course nothing but my phone. Snatching it with a joy like they had just successfully done something significant. I had 5-7 cops surrounding me in a semi circle after arriving at the Jail as I prepared to go inside a cell. They even shackled my feet. I know from watching cops and the like on YouTube to always exercise the right to remain silent. There was nothing I could do or say at that point which would help and I definitely didn’t resist the arrest so it really must’ve been a slow day. Eh guys? That and/or the overly incompetent rookie had relayed to his colleagues and obviously his Superiors to get the raid and arrest warrant his own personal story that he had recreated. Unfriggenbelieveable! It’s SO ABSURD THERE IS NO PROPER WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW IT FEELS TO GO THROUGH THIS! Doing something I considered not just “Right”, but Honourable, Justified, and definitely NOT illegal! How the hell did a JUDGE sign an arrest AND RAID Warrant on me with ZERO evidence, physical, concrete, or even circumstantial?? Not a single reason lawfully or otherwise for them to raid, arrest, shackle my feet and throw me in a jail cell for hours, and then criminally charge me with “Luring of a Minor”. Evidently, according to this news article the police had conducted a Six Month Investigation. Huh? Of What?! On Who?!
Now, Finally, The News Article: The information printed in any news article requires a source, so all of this information had to have only been provided by the police department. This article was printed at 9 in the morning the very next day of the arrest and raid. So of course this was all information provided from police.
This is what the dumbass, rookie, ignorant cop fabricated for no actual real reason:“Two men were arrested yesterday after a Six Month long Investigation revealed that the men had ‘BOTH’ believed that they were speaking with a ‘13’ year old boy online. Registered sex offender (the real predators name) and another known sex offender ( my name) are each charged with Luring of a Minor. (Real predators name again) is also charged with using an electronic device to lure a Minor, and breach of probation.”
My LandLord happened to be home at the time of the Raid, and he had also (I guess being suspicious after the raid,) read the article online which is quoted directly above.Which meant that he would be evicting me from the property, and I can’t blame him. With that article being read by my roommates and hisself I can’t really blame him for that either.
The charges against myself were eventually dropped, of course. About 18 months later! My phone being confiscated in the raid in order to access everything on there was also given back to me. They played immature and unprofessional games with that as well; returning my property. Such as : come in this day, your phone is ready to be released now. Show up. “Oh so and so thought it was ready but we don’t have it yet.” Weeks later. Get another call saying it is in fact ready now. Show up. “There is no one working in the evidence locker today, there will be in two days.” Screw them! I show up ten days late and what do you know? My property is actually there for me, and I finally get it back. Of course having had to purchase new phone in the meantime. Worse yet, I can’t recall the password and it was before facial recognition (not like that would matter) and after the fingerprint touch button. So it’s just a brick now.
That’s the least of my concern, as that bullshit article remains up, and the YouTube video had been taken down for some privacy violation nonsense.
After paying the criminal defence attorneys’ invoice(s), I couldn’t afford the 6K being asked by EVERY attorney I had reached out to.
So there, that’s one of many of my Unbelievably Insane Life’s stories. I suppose I didn’t provide the short version. Even though I have sincerely tried to keep it all to a minimum by leaving out plenty of details and significant events, this ended up being the Mid Length version.
2024.05.15 07:56 readingitnowagain Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott defeats former Mayor Sheila Dixon in primary contest, making Mayor Scott the foregone favorite to hold the Mayorship against African American Republican Shannon Wright who's barely pulling 1,000 votes.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/14/scott-dixon-campaigning-primary-maryland-baltimore/
By Emily Opilo eopilo@baltsun.com PUBLISHED: May 14, 2024 at 3:51 p.m. UPDATED: May 15, 2024 at 12:56 a.m.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott declared victory in his bid for reelection Tuesday after opening what appeared to be an insurmountable lead over his chief opponent, former Mayor Sheila Dixon.
The Associated Press called the race for Scott at 11:24 p.m. Taking the stage minutes later at his South Baltimore election night party, Scott thanked Dixon for running a hard-fought campaign, but said it was time to “turn the page.”
“I think it’s safe to say we’re destined for a second term,” Scott said, prompting loud applause from a celebratory crowd.
Dixon, who left her party before 11 p.m., said before her departure that the race was too close to call.
After Scott declared victory, Dixon spokesman Luca Amayo said that “regardless of how the votes fall, there will always be people in the city who consider Sheila Dixon the forever mayor of Baltimore.”
The race pitted the first-term Scott against Dixon, the city’s mayor of three years, in a rematch of the 2020 contest that put Scott in office. Both are Democrats.
This time, the field was half the size of the crowded 2020 race and the upper tier of candidates shrank. Former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah dropped out of the race in the first week of May, less than 24 hours ahead of the start of early voting. Businessman Bob Wallace, an independent candidate for mayor in 2020, ran this time as a Democrat, but failed to gain traction.
Returns from the early voting period, mail-in ballots cast ahead of the election, and almost all of the city’s 295 precincts showed Scott with 50.9% of votes cast to Dixon’s 41.3% — a difference of about 6,200 votes. Vignarajah, who exited the race too late to remove his name from the ballot, still received 3% of the preliminary vote. The returns do not include at least 13,500 mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted by the Baltimore Board of Elections.
When early returns first became public, Dixon jumped to an early lead. However, Scott quickly became the frontrunner and continued to widen his margin Tuesday night as additional returns from primary day were posted.
Cheers broke out at Scott’s party at Baltimore Peninsula earlier Tuesday as initial returns hit two television screens showing Scott slightly ahead of Dixon. Diana Turner danced joyfully as video clips of Scott played on the newscasts. Turner admitted she was unnerved to see the numbers so close between Scott and Dixon, but said she learned from Scott’s previous campaign that initial figures don’t tell the whole story.
“It’s going to fluctuate depending on where the polls are,” she said.
Dixon supporters said they expected the race to be close and the early returns gave them hope that she could, unlike last time, end up victorious.
“I think it was too soon last time,” said Kim Bangs, 64, of Canton said of Dixon’s 2020 bid for the office.
The city board of elections tallied about 11,700 mail-in ballots from Democratic voters ahead of primary day. The canvassing of remaining mail-in ballots will not resume until Thursday.
The 2024 mayoral contest, like many before it, focused heavily on crime. Scott touted the city’s reduction in homicides in 2023 — fewer than 300 people were killed for the first time in nearly a decade. Dixon argued Scott focused only on the homicide rate, allowing quality-of-life crimes to go unaddressed and chasing residents from the city.
Scott, 40, and Dixon, 70, represent different generations of City Hall leadership, but at times, their plans converged. Dixon’s crime plan, rolled out in January, called for a focused deterrence model of policing which would attempt to identify violent offenders and offer social supports in an effort to redirect them. Scott implemented a similar program, known as the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. That approach, piloted in the Baltimore Police Department’s Western District and since expanded, aims to intercept those vulnerable to becoming shooters or victims and provide social supports. The mayor credits it in part for the reduction in homicides.
Both Scott and Dixon’s housing plans call for tax increment financing or “TIFs” to be used in various neighborhoods to address vacant properties.
Dixon and Scott opted to cast their ballots in person Tuesday morning, Dixon near her Hunting Ridge home in West Baltimore and Scott in his Northeast Baltimore neighborhood. Dixon said she was “at peace” as she entered her polling place at Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Scott carried 5-month-old son, Charm Scott, nestled in a car seat into his polling place at Engine House 56.
Some heavy-hitters threw their support behind both candidates, wagering political capital on the close race. Democratic State’s Attorney Ivan Bates joined Dixon’s cause, endorsing the former mayor and calling Scott out for what Bates said was a lack of partnership between the prosecutor’s office and Scott’s City Hall. Sheriff Sam Cogen, too, said Scott has failed to be a partner to his office.
U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen both backed Scott, as did numerous unions that represent city employees. Some, like the unions representing the city’s firefighters, took shots at Dixon’s treatment of the fire department during her time in office. Unions backed a PAC that supported Scott with voter outreach and online advertising.
Scott led in fundraising and spending, dropping almost $1 million on the contest since the start of the year. Dixon has spent $653,100 since January. A PAC supporting Dixon’s campaign (funded in large part David Smith, a co-owner of The Baltimore Sun and chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group) supplemented Dixon’s effort, running ads that tried to paint Scott as an inexperienced leader. Scott’s ads sought to remind residents of Dixon’s criminal past. She was forced to leave office in 2010 after an embezzlement conviction.
The results of the race showed Vignarajah’s exit did little to tighten the contest. Running his fourth campaign for citywide office in the last seven years, Vignarajah threw his support to Dixon after conversations with the camps of both leading contenders. Scott said afterward that Vignarajah asked to be named police chief or CEO of city schools in exchange for his support. Dixon said no deal was made with Vignarajah for a job, although she declined to discuss potential positions in her administration that he may have suggested. Vignarajah said he offered to be “helpful” to the Dixon administration.
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By Emily Opilo eopilo@baltsun.com PUBLISHED: May 14, 2024 at 3:51 p.m. UPDATED: May 15, 2024 at 12:56 a.m.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott declared victory in his bid for reelection Tuesday after opening what appeared to be an insurmountable lead over his chief opponent, former Mayor Sheila Dixon.
The Associated Press called the race for Scott at 11:24 p.m. Taking the stage minutes later at his South Baltimore election night party, Scott thanked Dixon for running a hard-fought campaign, but said it was time to “turn the page.”
“I think it’s safe to say we’re destined for a second term,” Scott said, prompting loud applause from a celebratory crowd.
Dixon, who left her party before 11 p.m., said before her departure that the race was too close to call.
After Scott declared victory, Dixon spokesman Luca Amayo said that “regardless of how the votes fall, there will always be people in the city who consider Sheila Dixon the forever mayor of Baltimore.”
The race pitted the first-term Scott against Dixon, the city’s mayor of three years, in a rematch of the 2020 contest that put Scott in office. Both are Democrats.
This time, the field was half the size of the crowded 2020 race and the upper tier of candidates shrank. Former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah dropped out of the race in the first week of May, less than 24 hours ahead of the start of early voting. Businessman Bob Wallace, an independent candidate for mayor in 2020, ran this time as a Democrat, but failed to gain traction.
Returns from the early voting period, mail-in ballots cast ahead of the election, and almost all of the city’s 295 precincts showed Scott with 50.9% of votes cast to Dixon’s 41.3% — a difference of about 6,200 votes. Vignarajah, who exited the race too late to remove his name from the ballot, still received 3% of the preliminary vote. The returns do not include at least 13,500 mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted by the Baltimore Board of Elections.
When early returns first became public, Dixon jumped to an early lead. However, Scott quickly became the frontrunner and continued to widen his margin Tuesday night as additional returns from primary day were posted.
Cheers broke out at Scott’s party at Baltimore Peninsula earlier Tuesday as initial returns hit two television screens showing Scott slightly ahead of Dixon. Diana Turner danced joyfully as video clips of Scott played on the newscasts. Turner admitted she was unnerved to see the numbers so close between Scott and Dixon, but said she learned from Scott’s previous campaign that initial figures don’t tell the whole story.
“It’s going to fluctuate depending on where the polls are,” she said.
Dixon supporters said they expected the race to be close and the early returns gave them hope that she could, unlike last time, end up victorious.
“I think it was too soon last time,” said Kim Bangs, 64, of Canton said of Dixon’s 2020 bid for the office.
The city board of elections tallied about 11,700 mail-in ballots from Democratic voters ahead of primary day. The canvassing of remaining mail-in ballots will not resume until Thursday.
The 2024 mayoral contest, like many before it, focused heavily on crime. Scott touted the city’s reduction in homicides in 2023 — fewer than 300 people were killed for the first time in nearly a decade. Dixon argued Scott focused only on the homicide rate, allowing quality-of-life crimes to go unaddressed and chasing residents from the city.
Scott, 40, and Dixon, 70, represent different generations of City Hall leadership, but at times, their plans converged. Dixon’s crime plan, rolled out in January, called for a focused deterrence model of policing which would attempt to identify violent offenders and offer social supports in an effort to redirect them. Scott implemented a similar program, known as the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. That approach, piloted in the Baltimore Police Department’s Western District and since expanded, aims to intercept those vulnerable to becoming shooters or victims and provide social supports. The mayor credits it in part for the reduction in homicides.
Both Scott and Dixon’s housing plans call for tax increment financing or “TIFs” to be used in various neighborhoods to address vacant properties.
Dixon and Scott opted to cast their ballots in person Tuesday morning, Dixon near her Hunting Ridge home in West Baltimore and Scott in his Northeast Baltimore neighborhood. Dixon said she was “at peace” as she entered her polling place at Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Scott carried 5-month-old son, Charm Scott, nestled in a car seat into his polling place at Engine House 56.
Some heavy-hitters threw their support behind both candidates, wagering political capital on the close race. Democratic State’s Attorney Ivan Bates joined Dixon’s cause, endorsing the former mayor and calling Scott out for what Bates said was a lack of partnership between the prosecutor’s office and Scott’s City Hall. Sheriff Sam Cogen, too, said Scott has failed to be a partner to his office.
U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen both backed Scott, as did numerous unions that represent city employees. Some, like the unions representing the city’s firefighters, took shots at Dixon’s treatment of the fire department during her time in office. Unions backed a PAC that supported Scott with voter outreach and online advertising.
Scott led in fundraising and spending, dropping almost $1 million on the contest since the start of the year. Dixon has spent $653,100 since January. A PAC supporting Dixon’s campaign (funded in large part David Smith, a co-owner of The Baltimore Sun and chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group) supplemented Dixon’s effort, running ads that tried to paint Scott as an inexperienced leader. Scott’s ads sought to remind residents of Dixon’s criminal past. She was forced to leave office in 2010 after an embezzlement conviction.
The results of the race showed Vignarajah’s exit did little to tighten the contest. Running his fourth campaign for citywide office in the last seven years, Vignarajah threw his support to Dixon after conversations with the camps of both leading contenders. Scott said afterward that Vignarajah asked to be named police chief or CEO of city schools in exchange for his support. Dixon said no deal was made with Vignarajah for a job, although she declined to discuss potential positions in her administration that he may have suggested. Vignarajah said he offered to be “helpful” to the Dixon administration.
2024.05.15 07:52 VoidAndBone Review of The Outsiders - 5/08. (Positive review)
Pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this one. The storyline is essentially “rich kids beat up on poor kids” a lot, so it’s pandering to the (now insufferable) “eat the rich” bandwagon that has gotten pretty extreme on some fringes, so I was a bit wary of it. However, I would be not at all surprised to hear that it won Best Musical.
The set: Pretty cool. They entire thing appears to take place in a junkyard, with a car that stays onstage the entire time. At times the audience was asked to imagine that the car was a bed or other furniture. When they were at a drive in, they just lifted the hood and put a sign that said “concession stand.” The only time that I was confused was when they wanted to portray someone in a hospital, they did it by just putting boards on top of stacked tires. I was confused about where we were. Since it was someone who was in trouble with the law, I thought that they might have been taking care of him in someones shed or something. You were supposed to understand it was a hospital by his clothing I guess, but that wasn’t clear enough for me until later dialogue. Also, the stage was covered with faux gravel. Definitely a cool effect, but I wondered if the front row was just a big splash zone. Also most of the actors were wearing pants, but not all! The spin on the knees…ouch.
Choreo: They absolutely deserved their nom here. There are a lot of fight scenes, which I am typically not a fan of, but they did a great job. I don’t know if I would ever describe a fight scene as beautiful but here we are. They were masterfully choreographed, and tight. Some of the other dance scenes were innovative and interesting, particularly the one with boards spinning around in the church. I can’t overstate how excellent I thought it was. The rumble itself was also a piece of choreographic art, and the entire cast was in lockstep during it. It was well done. I will say, one moment during the rumble reminded me powerfully of the apex of the Sleep No More orgy. Let me know if anyone else thought same or if I’m just nuts.
Lighting: I would not be surprised if they win lighting, though I haven’t seen Illinoise. It was absolutely a strong part of the storytelling, especially with the fighting/blackout scenes. I loved when they let you know you were at train tracks, with no change to the set, but a spotlight ripped across the stage and train sound effects. It was a joy to observe how they used lighting.
Score There is one moment in Great Expectations that much of the greasers come on with absolutely spine-tingling harmonies. My first thought was “this is why you go to a live show”. That moment was simply delicious, and it is very much worth seeing live. It’s hard to imagine that the moment could hit you like that on a recorded piece of media. That said, I did not walk out of there with any particular desire to hear any of the songs again. Even the “great expectations” reprise disappointed me - they just sang “great expectations” over and over again and I deeply wanted them to have some kind of impactful line in there instead. Given how powerful the rest of the show is, I’m probably missing out. If people want to tell me what their favorite songs are from that show, I’ll give it a listen.
Costumes: Fine, not much to say here.
Book: Fine? I was neither impressed nor disappointed, and I didn’t notice it while I was watching the show, so probably fine. I wished that the older brother character had been a little stronger (or at least I wish they’d punched it a bit more when he showed up at the rumble, because that was a pivotal moment for that character). I also wasn’t invested in Dallas’s arc. given recent politics, I did think it wise for them to for change his suicide to “jumping in front of a train” instead of “death by cop”, as it was in the novel. These are sort of nitpicks though. I wasn’t a fan of the narration, but it grew on me, especially the way it was used during the fight scenes.
Vocals: The person who made me sit up in my seat was Jason Schmidt/Darrel Curtis. I remember feeling meh on the lead, Brody Grant.
Set, but with spoilers. Wow! I was beyond surprised to see all of that fire on stage. That was raw and powerful. I was later a bit less surprised to see the rain during the rumble (If they are doing that kind of pyrotechnics they are probably required to have a big sprinkler, right?). I loved the effect of the rain during the rumble. At some point, I lost track of who was a greaser and who was a Soc because it got harder to tell in the dim and the rain. I think that was probably the point. Anyway, this definitely meets the criteria of a spectacle, and I would be happy to send broadway first-timers here.
Bechdel test?: Haahhahaha no.
Did I think about it a lot after?: I’ve started evaluating shows this way since A Slave Play and Lempicka, both of which I thought about and talked about a lot. It’s not a show that I am yearning to see again, and it didn’t bring up anything for my mind to chew on later.
Overall I would consider it one of the stronger shows this season, and it’s on my recommendation list for the “what should I see” posts. I’m glad I saw it, but I’m not super interested in seeing it again (if I see a show and love it, I drag my theater-tolerating fiance there). My fiance will probably not see this one. Probably neither here nor there - do with that what you will.
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The set: Pretty cool. They entire thing appears to take place in a junkyard, with a car that stays onstage the entire time. At times the audience was asked to imagine that the car was a bed or other furniture. When they were at a drive in, they just lifted the hood and put a sign that said “concession stand.” The only time that I was confused was when they wanted to portray someone in a hospital, they did it by just putting boards on top of stacked tires. I was confused about where we were. Since it was someone who was in trouble with the law, I thought that they might have been taking care of him in someones shed or something. You were supposed to understand it was a hospital by his clothing I guess, but that wasn’t clear enough for me until later dialogue. Also, the stage was covered with faux gravel. Definitely a cool effect, but I wondered if the front row was just a big splash zone. Also most of the actors were wearing pants, but not all! The spin on the knees…ouch.
Choreo: They absolutely deserved their nom here. There are a lot of fight scenes, which I am typically not a fan of, but they did a great job. I don’t know if I would ever describe a fight scene as beautiful but here we are. They were masterfully choreographed, and tight. Some of the other dance scenes were innovative and interesting, particularly the one with boards spinning around in the church. I can’t overstate how excellent I thought it was. The rumble itself was also a piece of choreographic art, and the entire cast was in lockstep during it. It was well done. I will say, one moment during the rumble reminded me powerfully of the apex of the Sleep No More orgy. Let me know if anyone else thought same or if I’m just nuts.
Lighting: I would not be surprised if they win lighting, though I haven’t seen Illinoise. It was absolutely a strong part of the storytelling, especially with the fighting/blackout scenes. I loved when they let you know you were at train tracks, with no change to the set, but a spotlight ripped across the stage and train sound effects. It was a joy to observe how they used lighting.
Score There is one moment in Great Expectations that much of the greasers come on with absolutely spine-tingling harmonies. My first thought was “this is why you go to a live show”. That moment was simply delicious, and it is very much worth seeing live. It’s hard to imagine that the moment could hit you like that on a recorded piece of media. That said, I did not walk out of there with any particular desire to hear any of the songs again. Even the “great expectations” reprise disappointed me - they just sang “great expectations” over and over again and I deeply wanted them to have some kind of impactful line in there instead. Given how powerful the rest of the show is, I’m probably missing out. If people want to tell me what their favorite songs are from that show, I’ll give it a listen.
Costumes: Fine, not much to say here.
Book: Fine? I was neither impressed nor disappointed, and I didn’t notice it while I was watching the show, so probably fine. I wished that the older brother character had been a little stronger (or at least I wish they’d punched it a bit more when he showed up at the rumble, because that was a pivotal moment for that character). I also wasn’t invested in Dallas’s arc. given recent politics, I did think it wise for them to for change his suicide to “jumping in front of a train” instead of “death by cop”, as it was in the novel. These are sort of nitpicks though. I wasn’t a fan of the narration, but it grew on me, especially the way it was used during the fight scenes.
Vocals: The person who made me sit up in my seat was Jason Schmidt/Darrel Curtis. I remember feeling meh on the lead, Brody Grant.
Set, but with spoilers. Wow! I was beyond surprised to see all of that fire on stage. That was raw and powerful. I was later a bit less surprised to see the rain during the rumble (If they are doing that kind of pyrotechnics they are probably required to have a big sprinkler, right?). I loved the effect of the rain during the rumble. At some point, I lost track of who was a greaser and who was a Soc because it got harder to tell in the dim and the rain. I think that was probably the point. Anyway, this definitely meets the criteria of a spectacle, and I would be happy to send broadway first-timers here.
Bechdel test?: Haahhahaha no.
Did I think about it a lot after?: I’ve started evaluating shows this way since A Slave Play and Lempicka, both of which I thought about and talked about a lot. It’s not a show that I am yearning to see again, and it didn’t bring up anything for my mind to chew on later.
Overall I would consider it one of the stronger shows this season, and it’s on my recommendation list for the “what should I see” posts. I’m glad I saw it, but I’m not super interested in seeing it again (if I see a show and love it, I drag my theater-tolerating fiance there). My fiance will probably not see this one. Probably neither here nor there - do with that what you will.
2024.05.15 07:51 longlonglongmann So I'm a fan of Commander Magic the gathering. My main commander is Bruna, Light of Alabaster and she feels SO MUCH like Kayle! both are angels, slow early game costing 6 mana to drop, but a feeling of becoming utterly invincible late game with an overwhelming amount of damage and self protection!
 | So I got a custom of my commander AND a playmat for her! Meet Kayle, Light of Demacia and the most bad ass playmat I've seen!!! (for that one commenter saying "Well technically, Kayle is an Aspect, not an Angel." To you I say sush and let me have my moment, okay? <3 submitted by longlonglongmann to Kaylemains [link] [comments] |
2024.05.15 07:50 Familiar-Shopping973 The meaning of an art piece is determined by the creator of the art, not the audience.
I’ve heard a lot of people say that they can get different meanings out of a piece of art, even if it wasn’t the author’s intention. I really just think this is wrong. The creator of the art is the only person who can verify what their message and intention was when creating the art.
Let’s take Fight Club for example. At least on the internet I’ve seen articles and numerous videos of people that are under the impression that Fight Club is a satire, critiquing toxic masculinity and highlighting and laughing at the way many men choose to express their feelings, through violence. But if you actually listen to the author of the book, Chuck Palahniuk, speak about why he wrote Fight Club and what he was trying to get at you realize that he really wasn’t writing a pure satire. Here are some quotes of Palahniuk on the Joe Rogan podcast discussing his book :
Link: https://youtu.be/GCuSDH-YEKI
“my classic thing is that there are so few social model novels or stories for men. For women there are … every season there’s a new Joy Luck Club, a new How to Make an American Quilt… all these different models where women can come together and talk about their lives and if you’re a man you’ve either got Fight Club or you have The Dead Poets Society”
“Jordan Peterson… he talks about that need for really rough play, and he talks about it a lot… We’ve kind of fallen away from this idea of consensual rough play and I think Fight Club resonated with that a lot”
“The idea that there needs to be a secondary father in Men’s lives… And you kind of put yourself in apprenticeship to the secondary father… So Fight Club was also depicting a new form of the secondary father with all these kids that were showing up on the doorstep of this ramshackle old house. So there was just so many aspects of men’s lives that were not being addressed when Fight Club came out…”
So as we can see Chuck was not completely condemning the act of fighting for fun. He actually likes the idea of “consensual rough play” as he calls it. He saw the problems that real men had during that time and took their reactions to those problems to an extreme in the book. He seems to understand the natural urge for violence that many feel when they are directionless and unfulfilled in life, and the catharsis of violence in a controlled setting.
So I’m just saying the book isn’t a cut and dry satire and critique of Toxic Masculinity like articles on the internet claim it is. It isn’t anti men either , I think it’s a commentary on lost men and consumerism, and somewhat of a cautionary tale. But people will read into it whatever ideology they fancy while disregarding the creator himself. If someone makes art that doesn’t align with your beliefs just call it satire and you can claim it for your side lol. So overall I think before we assign a meaning or message to a movie/art we should at least try to understand what the author was trying to say first.
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Let’s take Fight Club for example. At least on the internet I’ve seen articles and numerous videos of people that are under the impression that Fight Club is a satire, critiquing toxic masculinity and highlighting and laughing at the way many men choose to express their feelings, through violence. But if you actually listen to the author of the book, Chuck Palahniuk, speak about why he wrote Fight Club and what he was trying to get at you realize that he really wasn’t writing a pure satire. Here are some quotes of Palahniuk on the Joe Rogan podcast discussing his book :
Link: https://youtu.be/GCuSDH-YEKI
“my classic thing is that there are so few social model novels or stories for men. For women there are … every season there’s a new Joy Luck Club, a new How to Make an American Quilt… all these different models where women can come together and talk about their lives and if you’re a man you’ve either got Fight Club or you have The Dead Poets Society”
“Jordan Peterson… he talks about that need for really rough play, and he talks about it a lot… We’ve kind of fallen away from this idea of consensual rough play and I think Fight Club resonated with that a lot”
“The idea that there needs to be a secondary father in Men’s lives… And you kind of put yourself in apprenticeship to the secondary father… So Fight Club was also depicting a new form of the secondary father with all these kids that were showing up on the doorstep of this ramshackle old house. So there was just so many aspects of men’s lives that were not being addressed when Fight Club came out…”
So as we can see Chuck was not completely condemning the act of fighting for fun. He actually likes the idea of “consensual rough play” as he calls it. He saw the problems that real men had during that time and took their reactions to those problems to an extreme in the book. He seems to understand the natural urge for violence that many feel when they are directionless and unfulfilled in life, and the catharsis of violence in a controlled setting.
So I’m just saying the book isn’t a cut and dry satire and critique of Toxic Masculinity like articles on the internet claim it is. It isn’t anti men either , I think it’s a commentary on lost men and consumerism, and somewhat of a cautionary tale. But people will read into it whatever ideology they fancy while disregarding the creator himself. If someone makes art that doesn’t align with your beliefs just call it satire and you can claim it for your side lol. So overall I think before we assign a meaning or message to a movie/art we should at least try to understand what the author was trying to say first.
2024.05.15 07:49 ChromaticFlare1 After three years following Rudy, my journey with him is over.
 | No work of fiction has ever impacted me as much as Mushoku Tensei. submitted by ChromaticFlare1 to mushokutensei [link] [comments] Roxy, Eris, Sylphy, Norn, Aisha, Lilia, Paul, Zenith, Ruijerd, Zanoba, Cliff, Elinalise, Orsted, Nanahosi, Soldat, Sara, Ariel, Badigadi, Geese, and especially Rudeus; each and every one of these characters feels like family to me. I’ve seen them come so far, watched them grow, and have grown alongside them. Each and every one of them, imperfect and flawed, but all of them people whom I admire. This story isn’t really about redemption, despite what people say; It’s a story about growing from your past, for the sake of yourself, but especially for the sake of those you love. I strive to be like Rudy in that regard. I want to grow for the sake my friends and family, to do everything I can to support them and bring them happiness. A wise pervert once said that “whether you get a good hand or a bad one, if you want to be satisfied with your life, you have to live life as hard and as fully as you can.” I have taken this phrase to heart. Rifujin na Magonote, thank you for inspiring me to be strong for the sake of others. Mushoku Tensie has motivated me to give my all in everything I do, and its thanks to that that I’ve found as much joy in my life as I have. All this because a kid from Buena decided to touch some fucking grass. |
2024.05.15 07:46 Ok-Berry-5709 Why do I (M18) feel nothing after talking to her now ? (F18)
I feel nothing after talking to her
I have been talking to this girl for about a month or so and we had talked about getting into a serious relationship in the future. We both agreed that we wanted something serious if things go well. About 2 weeks ago she decided that she actually didn’t want a relationship. Of course i was sad and heartbroken but i also understood.
We weren’t 100% committed to eachother and sometimes people change their mind. She said it was because a lot of past trauma was coming up in her life and she wasn’t emotionally available to be in a relationship. I believe her, she’s always been open and honest and communicative with me, always discussing what she wants every step of the way.
She said she wanted to remain friends because she heavily valued the emotional connection that we shared and that the only reason she told me she didn’t want a relationship is because she truly cared for me and felt it would’ve been worse if she told me farther down the line and kept those emotions suppressed . After she gave me the news i told her to give me time and space to think about what i wanted to do. She gladly gave me that.
A couple days ago we met in person to discuss what i wanted to do. I expressed that I didn’t want her in my life because if we were to maintain a purely platonic relationship it would be inauthentic to myself because I’d be wanting more than to just be friends.
When we talked I saw that she actually was not capable of being in a relationship , she had so much trouble expressing her emotions and what was bothering her that I felt like I had to pry it out of her just to understand her perspective. Which led me to believe that she was being truthful about not being able to be in a relationship.
In that moment my mindset immediately shifted and I kind of lost feelings for her when I realized she wasn’t emotionally available. We talked it through and now we’re friends. We’ve been “friends” for the past 3 days and we’ve been talking nonstop just how we were before but every time I talk to her I feel empty. I’m not mad at her or holding a grudge towards her , I also feel that I got over the romantic feelings I had for her but i no longer feel joy or excitement when i talk to her.
It also doesn’t make me sad talking to her as I don’t yearn for a relationship with her. I just feel empty i feel nothing?
Why is that? It’s unfortunate because i truly do wanna be friends with her but every time i talk to her it feels forced and im not enjoying the conversations even though we are having the same level of conversations we were having before.
Why do I feel nothing? Why don’t I feel mad or sad or even happy?
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I have been talking to this girl for about a month or so and we had talked about getting into a serious relationship in the future. We both agreed that we wanted something serious if things go well. About 2 weeks ago she decided that she actually didn’t want a relationship. Of course i was sad and heartbroken but i also understood.
We weren’t 100% committed to eachother and sometimes people change their mind. She said it was because a lot of past trauma was coming up in her life and she wasn’t emotionally available to be in a relationship. I believe her, she’s always been open and honest and communicative with me, always discussing what she wants every step of the way.
She said she wanted to remain friends because she heavily valued the emotional connection that we shared and that the only reason she told me she didn’t want a relationship is because she truly cared for me and felt it would’ve been worse if she told me farther down the line and kept those emotions suppressed . After she gave me the news i told her to give me time and space to think about what i wanted to do. She gladly gave me that.
A couple days ago we met in person to discuss what i wanted to do. I expressed that I didn’t want her in my life because if we were to maintain a purely platonic relationship it would be inauthentic to myself because I’d be wanting more than to just be friends.
When we talked I saw that she actually was not capable of being in a relationship , she had so much trouble expressing her emotions and what was bothering her that I felt like I had to pry it out of her just to understand her perspective. Which led me to believe that she was being truthful about not being able to be in a relationship.
In that moment my mindset immediately shifted and I kind of lost feelings for her when I realized she wasn’t emotionally available. We talked it through and now we’re friends. We’ve been “friends” for the past 3 days and we’ve been talking nonstop just how we were before but every time I talk to her I feel empty. I’m not mad at her or holding a grudge towards her , I also feel that I got over the romantic feelings I had for her but i no longer feel joy or excitement when i talk to her.
It also doesn’t make me sad talking to her as I don’t yearn for a relationship with her. I just feel empty i feel nothing?
Why is that? It’s unfortunate because i truly do wanna be friends with her but every time i talk to her it feels forced and im not enjoying the conversations even though we are having the same level of conversations we were having before.
Why do I feel nothing? Why don’t I feel mad or sad or even happy?
2024.05.15 07:44 Street-Suggestion363 Introductions \(•^•)/
So we decided to make this post mainly cause our little wanted to say hi to everyone and such, we are new so somethings might change and suggestions are welcome.
There is: M(core), I tend to stay front because we aren't fully comfortable with switching fully yet, and I tend to find it hard to give up control. I am 21, in college and working. I am genderfluid and tend to use any and all pronouns (unless stated otherwise). I love all things science, stories, and animals. I try to be respectful and knowledgeable, so if I say anything out of pocket or wrong then please tell me so I can correct it.
Hello ppl, I'm Moss I age with the body (21), I am the host(co-host?) me and M share ownership lmao, I also tend to stay around simply because life is fun so why now 🤷🏻🤷🏻. I love video games, horror, documentaries etc(we all have the same basic likes and dislikes). Idk what else to put so ◉‿◉p.s I'm also genderfluid(any and all pronouns are welcome)
Hiii I'm lavender, I'm 18 years old. I don't know why I was created but I'm demigirl (she/they/fae). I am obsessed with tea, books, and stuffed animals. I love fanfiction (homestucker for life). I also really want to cosplay and rp (mainly ttrpg).
Hey I'm anvil, I'm the persecutor but I'm trying to be better ig 🙄, I'm 16, IDC about gender. I like creepypasta and stuff... whatever
Hi hi I'm Tiger Lillie, but you can call me Lillie, Tiger or just L. I'm 8 years old and I wanted to make this so I can make friends (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧. I love Pokemon, anime, books, supernatural, animals etc etc. btw whats your favorite monster high character? Mine is draculaura, and Frankie (it's really cool how gen 3 Frankie has a prosthetic leg :3333). I also really love coloring and art, but I'm being told to turn it down and let others have a turn so bye bye for now
Hello I'm Angel Wings, I'm a trauma holder. I'm about 10. I don't come out very much because it can be hard on the hosts(mainly M). So I'll try to keep this short. Anvil and me are the only ones who knows all of the trauma, I want to wait till we are in therapy so everyone can process what happened to us. I don't know exactly what my gender is so I will put my pronouns (she/he/they/it/fae/sol). I hope you all have a good day goodbye.
I also want to mention that I'm pretty sure that we are a median system (or at least it's the closest one) we all are the same person just in different fonts (as Moss likes to put it). We are thinking of fusing in the future, but ofc that might change (who really knows). We all have ADHD(and possibly autism), we tend to post on here a lot, and if you guys want to talk we are down for friends (mainly cause we are bored 🤷🏻) but have a goodnight
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There is: M(core), I tend to stay front because we aren't fully comfortable with switching fully yet, and I tend to find it hard to give up control. I am 21, in college and working. I am genderfluid and tend to use any and all pronouns (unless stated otherwise). I love all things science, stories, and animals. I try to be respectful and knowledgeable, so if I say anything out of pocket or wrong then please tell me so I can correct it.
Hello ppl, I'm Moss I age with the body (21), I am the host(co-host?) me and M share ownership lmao, I also tend to stay around simply because life is fun so why now 🤷🏻🤷🏻. I love video games, horror, documentaries etc(we all have the same basic likes and dislikes). Idk what else to put so ◉‿◉p.s I'm also genderfluid(any and all pronouns are welcome)
Hiii I'm lavender, I'm 18 years old. I don't know why I was created but I'm demigirl (she/they/fae). I am obsessed with tea, books, and stuffed animals. I love fanfiction (homestucker for life). I also really want to cosplay and rp (mainly ttrpg).
Hey I'm anvil, I'm the persecutor but I'm trying to be better ig 🙄, I'm 16, IDC about gender. I like creepypasta and stuff... whatever
Hi hi I'm Tiger Lillie, but you can call me Lillie, Tiger or just L. I'm 8 years old and I wanted to make this so I can make friends (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧. I love Pokemon, anime, books, supernatural, animals etc etc. btw whats your favorite monster high character? Mine is draculaura, and Frankie (it's really cool how gen 3 Frankie has a prosthetic leg :3333). I also really love coloring and art, but I'm being told to turn it down and let others have a turn so bye bye for now
Hello I'm Angel Wings, I'm a trauma holder. I'm about 10. I don't come out very much because it can be hard on the hosts(mainly M). So I'll try to keep this short. Anvil and me are the only ones who knows all of the trauma, I want to wait till we are in therapy so everyone can process what happened to us. I don't know exactly what my gender is so I will put my pronouns (she/he/they/it/fae/sol). I hope you all have a good day goodbye.
I also want to mention that I'm pretty sure that we are a median system (or at least it's the closest one) we all are the same person just in different fonts (as Moss likes to put it). We are thinking of fusing in the future, but ofc that might change (who really knows). We all have ADHD(and possibly autism), we tend to post on here a lot, and if you guys want to talk we are down for friends (mainly cause we are bored 🤷🏻) but have a goodnight
2024.05.15 07:42 Shaggy_Doo87 Shortlists for movie cast?
Mine,
Ganondorf :
Dave Batista / Idris Elba / Jason Momoa
Not super original but it's a very specific archetype & any of these would kill.
Link :
Tom Holland / Thomas Brodie-Sangster / Maxwell Jenkins
First two might seem a bit obvious for one reason or another but kid did a pretty good job on Lost in Space, think he would be solid too. Also, while Hylian royalty sound English per Zelda, not personally strictly invested in Link having an accent.
Zelda :
Anya Taylor-Joy / Florence Pugh
Not familiar enough with a lot of young English actresses but feel either of these two would do a really good job.
King/older Royal Hylian character (Rauru type) :
Ewan McGregor / Sean Bean / Jeremy Irons
Honestly they have a lot of flexibility in the King character, any of these would be good choices depending on the story direction and how they write him
Gordon chief/companion character (Daruk/Darunia type) :
Vin Diesel / Jack Black / Ron Perlman
Need I explain? Esp as Goron is likely to be comic relief
Zora princess/queen character :
Angela Bassett
This one I also don't feel I have to defend lol
Different choices? Favorites? Other characters?
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Ganondorf :
Dave Batista / Idris Elba / Jason Momoa
Not super original but it's a very specific archetype & any of these would kill.
Link :
Tom Holland / Thomas Brodie-Sangster / Maxwell Jenkins
First two might seem a bit obvious for one reason or another but kid did a pretty good job on Lost in Space, think he would be solid too. Also, while Hylian royalty sound English per Zelda, not personally strictly invested in Link having an accent.
Zelda :
Anya Taylor-Joy / Florence Pugh
Not familiar enough with a lot of young English actresses but feel either of these two would do a really good job.
King/older Royal Hylian character (Rauru type) :
Ewan McGregor / Sean Bean / Jeremy Irons
Honestly they have a lot of flexibility in the King character, any of these would be good choices depending on the story direction and how they write him
Gordon chief/companion character (Daruk/Darunia type) :
Vin Diesel / Jack Black / Ron Perlman
Need I explain? Esp as Goron is likely to be comic relief
Zora princess/queen character :
Angela Bassett
This one I also don't feel I have to defend lol
Different choices? Favorites? Other characters?
2024.05.15 07:39 Ok-Berry-5709 I feel nothing after talking to her
I have been talking to this girl for about a month or so and we had talked about getting into a serious relationship in the future. We both agreed that we wanted something serious if things go well. About 2 weeks ago she decided that she actually didn’t want a relationship. Of course i was sad and heartbroken but i also understood.
We weren’t 100% committed to eachother and sometimes people change their mind. She said it was because a lot of past trauma was coming up in her life and she wasn’t emotionally available to be in a relationship. I believe her, she’s always been open and honest and communicative with me, always discussing what she wants every step of the way.
She said she wanted to remain friends because she heavily valued the emotional connection that we shared and that the only reason she told me she didn’t want a relationship is because she truly cared for me and felt it would’ve been worse if she told me farther down the line and kept those emotions suppressed . After she gave me the news i told her to give me time and space to think about what i wanted to do. She gladly gave me that.
A couple days ago we met in person to discuss what i wanted to do. I expressed that I didn’t want her in my life because if we were to maintain a purely platonic relationship it would be inauthentic to myself because I’d be wanting more than to just be friends.
When we talked I saw that she actually was not capable of being in a relationship , she had so much trouble expressing her emotions and what was bothering her that I felt like I had to pry it out of her just to understand her perspective. Which led me to believe that she was being truthful about not being able to be in a relationship.
In that moment my mindset immediately shifted and I kind of lost feelings for her when I realized she wasn’t emotionally available. We talked it through and now we’re friends. We’ve been “friends” for the past 3 days and we’ve been talking nonstop just how we were before but every time I talk to her I feel empty. I’m not mad at her or holding a grudge towards her , I also feel that I got over the romantic feelings I had for her but i no longer feel joy or excitement when i talk to her.
It also doesn’t make me sad talking to her as I don’t yearn for a relationship with her. I just feel empty i feel nothing?
Why is that? It’s unfortunate because i truly do wanna be friends with her but every time i talk to her it feels forced and im not enjoying the conversations even though we are having the same level of conversations we were having before.
Why do I feel nothing? Why don’t I feel mad or sad or even happy?
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We weren’t 100% committed to eachother and sometimes people change their mind. She said it was because a lot of past trauma was coming up in her life and she wasn’t emotionally available to be in a relationship. I believe her, she’s always been open and honest and communicative with me, always discussing what she wants every step of the way.
She said she wanted to remain friends because she heavily valued the emotional connection that we shared and that the only reason she told me she didn’t want a relationship is because she truly cared for me and felt it would’ve been worse if she told me farther down the line and kept those emotions suppressed . After she gave me the news i told her to give me time and space to think about what i wanted to do. She gladly gave me that.
A couple days ago we met in person to discuss what i wanted to do. I expressed that I didn’t want her in my life because if we were to maintain a purely platonic relationship it would be inauthentic to myself because I’d be wanting more than to just be friends.
When we talked I saw that she actually was not capable of being in a relationship , she had so much trouble expressing her emotions and what was bothering her that I felt like I had to pry it out of her just to understand her perspective. Which led me to believe that she was being truthful about not being able to be in a relationship.
In that moment my mindset immediately shifted and I kind of lost feelings for her when I realized she wasn’t emotionally available. We talked it through and now we’re friends. We’ve been “friends” for the past 3 days and we’ve been talking nonstop just how we were before but every time I talk to her I feel empty. I’m not mad at her or holding a grudge towards her , I also feel that I got over the romantic feelings I had for her but i no longer feel joy or excitement when i talk to her.
It also doesn’t make me sad talking to her as I don’t yearn for a relationship with her. I just feel empty i feel nothing?
Why is that? It’s unfortunate because i truly do wanna be friends with her but every time i talk to her it feels forced and im not enjoying the conversations even though we are having the same level of conversations we were having before.
Why do I feel nothing? Why don’t I feel mad or sad or even happy?
2024.05.15 07:38 Substantial_Term_36 I was the villain in the relationship, and I feel like a monster making them go through it.
I recently just got out of a relationship (6-7 months) I know it's not long, but we really had it going and I thought that this would be my last relationship.
I knew this girl from my freshman year of college, we were never really close or didn't have the chance to. But at the start of my sophomore year, we had the chance to smoke together. Immediately after we hung out for the first time, we both realized that our interests and hobbies are very similar, and our conversations were filled with joy and laughter. After a month of texting every day and hanging out every weekend, I started developing feelings for her. But she was the first to confess to me and I agreed. It went great for the first 3 or 4 months, but after that we started arguing over small things. Now that we are separated, and I had time to think about the relationship I realized that I always emotionally manipulated her and would always trauma dump when things didn't go the way I wanted. She would come over about 4-5 times a week, but when she wanted to go out with her friends, I would always be like "You don't love me" or "You care more about your friends than me." And when she confronted me about it, I would reply with ", But you said that you won't be texting me" or "You said that you won't update me." But in reality, she texted me so much that her friends got tired of her always going on her phone to text me back and I just wanted attention.
Later in the relationship she would create boundaries and would finally say "I won't text you when I'm out with my friends." When she said that I went psychotic and called her 33 times, sent her hundreds of messages, acted violent, and very harsh words. Note that this happened twice, in two weeks both Fridays. But this was all after I originally lost her trust. Which was around a week prior to these events. I was over at her house during spring break, and I was on twitter, she wanted to see my twitter because I never showed it. There was nothing bad on my twitter, and I said "no," and she tried to grab my phone, but I used excessive force to get it back. I was only trying to get a reaction out of her, but that was the moment she lost all trust in me. I tried showing her after it, but it was already over. The next day she tells me to meet her, and she said she doesn't see us working out in the long term, and that she wanted to break up. But I started crying and trauma dumped. After a lot of talking, she said that we can try one more time. I fully believed the statement, but I later found out that it was just to make me stop crying. And that once she starts losing feelings, she can't stop herself even if she wants to.
She has been through a lot growing up. A bad and manipulative father, self-image issues, getting all her info leaked etc,. She even had her "phase" in college, and I knew all that and wanted to change her and make her life happier. But I took everything for granted, and I regret the fact that she even had to get close to me. I wanted her to change, but never wanted to change myself even after promising to. Yes, we were both toxic to each other, and it was never meant to be. But I feel like I made her life worse. She also mentioned that she was always scared of me during the relationship.
She got into a rebound probably 3 weeks after we broke up and said that she is doing good now that I'm gone. I will move on eventually, but I still believe that I have left unerasable scars in her heart, and I feel like an asshole for doing it. I don't think I can fully forgive myself ever.
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I knew this girl from my freshman year of college, we were never really close or didn't have the chance to. But at the start of my sophomore year, we had the chance to smoke together. Immediately after we hung out for the first time, we both realized that our interests and hobbies are very similar, and our conversations were filled with joy and laughter. After a month of texting every day and hanging out every weekend, I started developing feelings for her. But she was the first to confess to me and I agreed. It went great for the first 3 or 4 months, but after that we started arguing over small things. Now that we are separated, and I had time to think about the relationship I realized that I always emotionally manipulated her and would always trauma dump when things didn't go the way I wanted. She would come over about 4-5 times a week, but when she wanted to go out with her friends, I would always be like "You don't love me" or "You care more about your friends than me." And when she confronted me about it, I would reply with ", But you said that you won't be texting me" or "You said that you won't update me." But in reality, she texted me so much that her friends got tired of her always going on her phone to text me back and I just wanted attention.
Later in the relationship she would create boundaries and would finally say "I won't text you when I'm out with my friends." When she said that I went psychotic and called her 33 times, sent her hundreds of messages, acted violent, and very harsh words. Note that this happened twice, in two weeks both Fridays. But this was all after I originally lost her trust. Which was around a week prior to these events. I was over at her house during spring break, and I was on twitter, she wanted to see my twitter because I never showed it. There was nothing bad on my twitter, and I said "no," and she tried to grab my phone, but I used excessive force to get it back. I was only trying to get a reaction out of her, but that was the moment she lost all trust in me. I tried showing her after it, but it was already over. The next day she tells me to meet her, and she said she doesn't see us working out in the long term, and that she wanted to break up. But I started crying and trauma dumped. After a lot of talking, she said that we can try one more time. I fully believed the statement, but I later found out that it was just to make me stop crying. And that once she starts losing feelings, she can't stop herself even if she wants to.
She has been through a lot growing up. A bad and manipulative father, self-image issues, getting all her info leaked etc,. She even had her "phase" in college, and I knew all that and wanted to change her and make her life happier. But I took everything for granted, and I regret the fact that she even had to get close to me. I wanted her to change, but never wanted to change myself even after promising to. Yes, we were both toxic to each other, and it was never meant to be. But I feel like I made her life worse. She also mentioned that she was always scared of me during the relationship.
She got into a rebound probably 3 weeks after we broke up and said that she is doing good now that I'm gone. I will move on eventually, but I still believe that I have left unerasable scars in her heart, and I feel like an asshole for doing it. I don't think I can fully forgive myself ever.
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Discover the Essence of Yoga
In our immersive training program, you'll delve into the essence of yoga, exploring its rich history, philosophy, and techniques. From asanas to pranayama, meditation to anatomy, our comprehensive curriculum covers every aspect of yoga, ensuring a well-rounded education that prepares you for success.
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2024.05.15 07:37 sulli1403 looking at my chat counts drop randomly is like watching an angel die
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2024.05.15 07:34 Moist_Ambassador264 Meeting Angels? Beautiful Joyful Beings?
I had a strange dream where I met this large group of people. I forget how it started but after a bit we got in a circle and began to move around it I think counter-clockwise, sort of dancing and flailing around. It was a celebration. If someone started to move in the opposite direction, people would freak out, sometimes screaming for them to stop hahah. I remember being in awe at just how vivid it was, and when this circular dance eventually stopped I remember staring at one of these people, or beings. They were astonishingly beautiful to look at, and if I remember correctly their hair flowed in a way that it was almost burning, emanating an orange glow. The day that followed I remember living as though these beings were watching me, sometimes agreeing with what I said, thought, or did, and when I went against their wishes I felt them become more distant from me. It was like I could imagine their presence and respond positively to it, changing the way I thought or felt about things. I'm not super spiritual but I believe the narrative in our subconscious can very well give rise to the forming of relationships with people or entities in dreams. I'm curious what people think and if there are any theories as to what this dream experience might have meant for me.
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2024.05.15 07:33 NoMoreEitherOr What does a mixed episode feel like?
Recently diagnosed bp2- was cyclothymia for a while. I've been on Lamotrigine (150mg) for a while as well as Adderall xr for ADHD. Both have been life-changing. I just started Luvox as of a few hours ago, as I went through a really horrible depressive episode (also bad OCD) the last few weeks (more like months) where I was quite seriously suicidal.
The last few days have been weird. I got 3 hours of sleep the other night and woke up feeling totally awake and great all day, then last night I got maybe 4. Today I woke up exhausted and have taken a nap, so.... that just feels normal. I've felt at points like I am one of the greatest people on the planet and a creative genius with just so much grandiosity flooding my brain but at other times just miserable and absolutely hating myself and feeling like a fat piece of shit. I'm in that right now.
It's like going to work feeling great and super confident for a few hours and then by the afternoon being more angry and irritable than I've ever been. Telling myself I'm baseline and fine, but having awareness of all these different moods. Feeling giddy with joy and talkative with ideas flowing for like 4 hours and then just being exhausted and overwhelmed and pissed off for the rest of the day. My body just fucking aches.
I feel like I have this idea of a hypomanic (or any episode) episode being just this persistent and static great feeling for like 4ish days which I've definitely had in the past pre-meds.. I think. I can't really remember. (I remember feeling FANTASTIC for like 2 weeks the first time i was on an SSRI before a mood stabilizer.) So I feel confused by this. I feel like I'm just sort of in a funk, not that I'm in an episode or anything because everything is shifting so rapidly and I feel so many things at once. Idk, I'm doubting my diagnosis, I guess.
What do mixed episodes feel like for you?
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The last few days have been weird. I got 3 hours of sleep the other night and woke up feeling totally awake and great all day, then last night I got maybe 4. Today I woke up exhausted and have taken a nap, so.... that just feels normal. I've felt at points like I am one of the greatest people on the planet and a creative genius with just so much grandiosity flooding my brain but at other times just miserable and absolutely hating myself and feeling like a fat piece of shit. I'm in that right now.
It's like going to work feeling great and super confident for a few hours and then by the afternoon being more angry and irritable than I've ever been. Telling myself I'm baseline and fine, but having awareness of all these different moods. Feeling giddy with joy and talkative with ideas flowing for like 4 hours and then just being exhausted and overwhelmed and pissed off for the rest of the day. My body just fucking aches.
I feel like I have this idea of a hypomanic (or any episode) episode being just this persistent and static great feeling for like 4ish days which I've definitely had in the past pre-meds.. I think. I can't really remember. (I remember feeling FANTASTIC for like 2 weeks the first time i was on an SSRI before a mood stabilizer.) So I feel confused by this. I feel like I'm just sort of in a funk, not that I'm in an episode or anything because everything is shifting so rapidly and I feel so many things at once. Idk, I'm doubting my diagnosis, I guess.
What do mixed episodes feel like for you?
2024.05.15 07:33 ImpatientDelta 10 Best Diamond Ring Shopping Apps for iPhone
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2024.05.15 07:33 m4ndy246 i don’t want to be here anymore
i guess this is a common feeling here. but i’m just so done. im so so done. i think my life has been nothing but one traumatic awful life altering experience after another, with few or no joys in between. there has been irreparable damage done to my psyche and it gets worse every day. i am an outcast, a social pariah, a freak, a bummer, whatever. i’m almost 25 and i have found nothing in life to bring contentment or joy or peace or anything of the sort. right now my spouse is ignoring me for a game as im locked in the bathroom trying to find painless methods to leave. i just don’t know. i don’t know how or why ive lasted this long. i dont know why i was put here in the first place. my life has been almost exclusively suffering. sure in the day to day it isn’t always that extreme but the day to day are difficult in and of themselves. not necessarily traumatic but because of the trauma and resulting severe mental illness i can hardly get through the day feeling even somewhat ok let alone happy or joyful. i’m so sad and anxious and alone. i make friends and i ruin the friendship within a matter of weeks, yet i rarely can even recognize what’s so wrong with me. but something clearly is because no matter the friends and no matter the circumstances it always ends with loneliness. i’ve been married for 3 years and nearly got divorced at least twice. one time included a suicide attempt. and since that time i’ve had a hard time trusting my spouse because he slept with someone while we were separated. it’s destroying my relationship because im paranoid constantly and always trying to check his phone because of the paranoia and fear. i have a laundry list of diagnoses and i take all this medication each day and it changes nothing. i’ve been seeking treatment since i was 12. ive been hospitalized probably about 10 times, ive been to treatment centers multiple times, countless therapists, every medication that exists for psychiatric issues, even the name brand last resort $600 a month bullshit for truly lost causes. they say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem but the problem doesn’t seem so temporary anymore. i’ve had obsessive compulsive tendencies from childhood into adulthood, anxiety, self loathing, weight issues, etc since i was a literal 6 year old.trauma began probably before i had memory so i don’t even know what life is like without at least ptsd or anxiety or whatever the fuck. not only am i sad but im also angry. im so fucking angry and filled with rage and it’s exhausting. i just want relief. i’m a christian and i believe in heaven, and im just so lost as to why im even here when i could be there. lately i don’t care about the answer or the reason i just want to go. sorry if this is a jumbled incoherent mess. i’m not really going for legibility. i guess it’s just a last hope or cry for help. or something. idk what
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The Legacy of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh
Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh is a name that embodies a rich heritage of perfumery, rooted in the art and science of fragrance creation. With a commitment to quality and authenticity, each perfume is a testament to the brand’s dedication to excellence. These fragrances are more than just scents; they are an experience, a journey into the world of opulence and elegance.
The brand’s philosophy revolves around the use of the finest ingredients, sourced from around the globe. From the rarest flowers to the most precious woods, every component is meticulously selected to ensure a harmonious blend that delights the senses. This commitment to quality is what sets Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh apart in the competitive world of perfumery.
The Art of Perfumery: Crafting Timeless Scents
Creating a perfume is an intricate process that requires a deep understanding of the ingredients and their interactions. Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh perfumes are crafted by master perfumers who blend tradition with innovation, resulting in scents that are both timeless and contemporary.
The process begins with the careful selection of raw materials. Natural essences are chosen for their purity and potency, ensuring that each fragrance has a rich, authentic character. These essences are then expertly blended, with each note carefully balanced to create a scent that evolves beautifully over time.
One of the hallmarks of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh perfumes is their complexity. Each fragrance unfolds in layers, revealing different facets as it develops on the skin. This multi-dimensional quality makes these perfumes a joy to wear, as they offer a new experience with every wear.
Signature Fragrances: A Symphony of Scents
Perfume Palace is delighted to showcase a range of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh’s signature fragrances, each offering a unique olfactory experience. Here are a few standout scents from our collection:
1. Majestic Oud
Majestic Oud is a celebration of one of the most treasured ingredients in perfumery. This fragrance captures the deep, woody richness of oud, balanced with subtle hints of rose and amber. The result is a scent that is both powerful and refined, perfect for those who appreciate the finer things in life.
2. Rose Noir
For lovers of floral fragrances, Rose Noir is an exquisite choice. This perfume blends the sensuality of dark roses with the warmth of musk and patchouli, creating a scent that is both romantic and mysterious. It’s an ideal fragrance for evening wear, adding a touch of elegance to any occasion.
3. Oriental Spice
Oriental Spice transports you to the bustling markets of the Middle East with its rich, spicy notes. Cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron blend seamlessly with hints of vanilla and sandalwood, creating a fragrance that is both exotic and comforting. It’s a perfect scent for those who love warm, spicy aromas.
4. Amber Elegance
Amber Elegance is a sophisticated blend of amber, vanilla, and musk, with delicate floral undertones. This fragrance exudes luxury and sophistication, making it a perfect choice for special occasions. Its long-lasting scent ensures that you stay enveloped in its warmth and richness throughout the day.
The Experience of Shopping at Perfume Palace
At Perfume Palace, we understand that choosing a fragrance is a deeply personal experience. That’s why we strive to provide an environment that allows you to explore and discover the perfect scent. Our knowledgeable staff is always on hand to guide you through our collection of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh perfumes, offering personalized recommendations based on your preferences.
We believe that the right fragrance can enhance your mood, evoke memories, and even transform your perception of the world. That’s why we take pride in offering only the finest perfumes, ensuring that each one is a masterpiece in its own right.
The Perfect Gift: Luxurious Fragrances for Every Occasion
An Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh perfume makes an exquisite gift for any occasion. Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, or simply want to show someone you care, a luxury fragrance from our collection is a thoughtful and elegant choice. Each perfume is beautifully packaged, reflecting the quality and craftsmanship that goes into its creation.
Embrace the Essence of Luxury with Perfume Palace
Discover the world of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh at Perfume Palace and indulge in the finest fragrances that epitomize luxury and elegance. With our curated selection, expert guidance, and commitment to quality, we invite you to experience the art of perfumery like never before. Visit our website today and embark on a journey through the enchanting world of luxury scents.
At Perfume Palace, we are dedicated to helping you find the perfect fragrance that resonates with your unique personality and style. Experience the magic of Ahmed Al Maghribi Bin Shaikh perfumes and elevate your everyday moments into extraordinary experiences.