Sewer jetter craigs list
How the Polyamory could have been handled differently (P.2)
2024.05.13 23:42 jayseejewel How the Polyamory could have been handled differently (P.2)
This is party 2 of a discussion regarding how poly could have been handled a little better in BG3. I recommend you read through the first part here: https://new.reddit.com/BaldursGate3/comments/1crb2s7/how_the_polyamory_could_have_been_handled/ so you can get context and I sound like less of a rambling weirdo.
Astarion:
Out of all the discussions, people were the most confused by this choice. Not only does making him poly at the last minute feel contrary to a lot of statements he himself makes throughout his romance arc, but it also runs counter to what other characters say about him and his backstory as a whole. He is one of the most insecure characters in the game, he was trained for two hundred years to lie in order to avoid punishment, and he has far more trauma and healing to do than the other characters. Astarion is the most likely to lie about the Halsin relationship in order to avoid appearing weak or demanding. Out of the poly players who expressed disappointment, Astarion was the one that bothered them the most, since many felt he wasn’t fully consenting.
Most of my reasons for why he’s not a good poly option (from a development standpoint) have already been stated in earlier sections, so most of this will be spent diving into the “Is he fine with poly or not?” debate, which had me intrigued. (This will be the longest section and won’t be as connected to the overall topic, so if you want to skip to the Halsin part, feel free.)
I’ll start with the main arguments I see defending him being poly.
Argument 1: He says he’s fine with Halsin and the twins, so we should take him at his word.
While this can definitely be argued, and it’s not good to treat an adult man like a baby, his constant lying as a defense mechanism and current issues with sex/relationships do need to be taken into account (if not by the players then at least by the developers). There were plenty of people (some of them victims of SA) who talked about their own experience of tolerating poly because they were scared of their partner leaving or finding them too demanding/narrow minded. This led to their self-esteem and views on relationships growing worse rather than better. For someone like Astarion, who outright admits he has never had a healthy relationship and doesn’t want to lose this one, it’s understandable that people view his response as a coping mechanism rather than his own genuine feelings. There were also two different mental health professionals who reminded players that although a few victims of abuse do enter poly relationships, statistically most do not and it is far more common for them to agree to poly relationships out of pressure (which often make the person’s mental issues even worse in the long run).
Argument 2: He claims to be fine with open relationships during Act 1.
This is countered by the fact that everything he says about himself in Act 1 is a lie (unless he’s specifically talking about Cazador). He lies about wanting to sleep with you, he lies about his identity until he bites you, he claims to only care about sex (then later admits it makes him feel disgust and loathing), and he brags about his former conquests (which you later find out he regrets and feels guilt over). His statements that he’s fine with open relationships are made when choosing between him and another Origin character in Act 1 or 2, but this is also said at a time when his act is still up and he isn’t in love with the player. If you choose between him and another Origin character AFTER he confesses and let’s his guard down, he insists that he is NOT fine with sharing. “You’ve decided to replace me?” If the player says they care about both him and the other person, he’ll say, “Don’t give me that. I can see what this is.” Then he promptly breaks up with them. This second reaction is not only said using his genuine voice (whereas before he was still using his fake one), but a few poly people mentioned that this isn’t a normal reaction from someone who is fine with poly.
This isn’t to shame people who want to think Astarion is fine with it, or to judge players who went through with the poly relationship. Instead, this is once again asking the developers why they chose this option, rather than someone who wouldn’t spark so much debate or remind abuse victims of their past without giving them a dialogue option to address it. (This is a similar issue with Astarion’s brothel scene. They should have either removed it by having him say he’s not comfortable again, or at the very least, let players talk to him about it after.)
I think it’s pretty clear that after reading the discussions and evidence both sides provided, I myself lean heavily to one side. However, the main defense I personally have for the opposite side is that the writers were sometimes vague about Astarion’s true preferences and wishes. I especially felt this during the origin playthrough, where his narrator would constantly flip between him liking hedonism and despising it. It gave the impression that two opposing authors were wrestling while writing him, unable to decide where he truly stood on things. It felt similar to how the devs tried to write a respectful story of overcoming abuse and the fear of being sexualized, only to turn around and repeatedly sexualize the character in both the game and promotional material. I really wish the writers and developers had picked a lane and stuck with it.
Now I’ll get into the evidence for the counter theory: That he’s not actually open to sharing, but says he’s fine with it to avoid appearing weak or losing his partner. I personally prefer this theory because it makes the writing seem more intentional, adds more nuance to an already complex character, and feels more realistic. However, even if this is what the writer or actor were trying to convey, it’s still a far worse alternative to simply keeping him out of the poly options in the first place.
Compare this to the Halsin situation and the drow ‘group activity’. For Halsin, he says he was expecting this for months. He’s had several months to plan his reaction and decide what he’s willing to tolerate. Hence, he has a very rehearsed reaction. With the twins, he had less time to anticipate this but probably also worried about it (especially if the player asked about them earlier and he said no. Now he expects the player to try again and has planned accordingly). Again, this response feels rehearsed and fake. The only response where he uses his real voice is when you ask for one of the twins alone. This is something he likely wouldn’t plan for, so we get to see his gut reaction for the first time: he doesn’t want you to do it.
Now some people argue that he’s fine with Halsin and not the other Origin characters because Halsin is just a fling and won’t try to take his spot. If that’s the case, he should be fine with the twins too. If anything, they are even less of a threat. Yet he doesn’t want you to do it and responds accordingly. If he truly was poly, he would respond like Karlach did and tell you to have fun, or like Shadowheart telling you to give him a heads up first. But we don’t see that.
One other thing about the twins that I felt I could point out: if you or the twins ask to do a group activity before Cazador is killed, Astarion says he’s not comfortable with this yet. The “yet” part has been pointed out to show that he’s fine with it after Cazador has been killed (even though he still disassociates later). However, another explanation of the “yet” part is that he’s trying to soften the blow because he’s scared of using a blunt NO. We see this with Araj, the blood merchant. Even though he is absolutely disgusted with her treatment of him and how she’s “defiling” him with her fantasies, his rejections of her are very soft and nervous. Even when reinforced by his friend/lover, he says “It’s still a no, I’m afraid” with a smile. Turning down sexual encounters is tough for him, even when he has people backing him up, so I can see him using words like “yet” or “I’m afraid” to soften the blow. I know several people in real life who do this, despite later admitting there was no “yet”.
There’s another part of this dialogue with the early twins that I want to point out (really overanalyzing here but if we want to believe the writers do things intentionally/with a lot of forethought, I think it’s okay to read into the words they use). When Astarion says he’s not comfortable with the twins, the player’s response is “I wouldn’t ask such a thing of you”. This will raise his approval and make him respond positively. The promise you give him is not “I’ll ask them later, after we’ve killed Cazador” or “I would have liked to but okay” (that one doesn’t trigger his positive response). He only approves of you saying you won’t ask him to do things like this (stated in a tense that implies you will NEVER ask him to do such a thing, regardless of Cazador’s stabbed or unstabbed state). This could have been the writer hinting that if you bring him back after, you’re going back on your promise and thus have to see the disassociating scene. That…or the writer wasn’t thinking too hard and we are simply thinking too much.
If Astarion actually is fine with poly, then it means both Shadowheart and Minthara are wrong. That means the writers either made a mistake or made a very weird writing choice.
However, if Astarion is actually pretending to be fine with sharing as they say, not only is the writing consistent but these dialogues become very clever foreshadowing. I want to give the writers the benefit of the doubt and believe they did a good job with Astarion, so I prefer to lean into the theory that he’s pretending because it makes more sense for him overall.
That was quite a long tangent and somewhat unnecessary, but he’s a character whose mannerisms and statements are meant to be heavily analyzed, so it’s fun to go more in depth. Let’s move on.
The only feasible fix the developers could make at this point to avoid all the issues mentioned is keeping Halsin poly but removing his connections to other Origin romances (or at least Karlach and Astarion). At this point, that’s the only thing that could realistically be done. I also wish they made characters break up with you if you cheat on them in the brothel, since that’s what many people including myself would do.
Again, these opinions are my own (and those that aren’t come from a variety of comments across Youtube, Reddit, and Larian’s forums). I enjoyed getting to see so many different viewpoints and appreciated how civil (most of) the people on both sides were. It’s an interesting topic and here’s hoping game studios handle it better in the future.
If anyone reads this far and wants links to the threads, forums, and youtube comment sections, let me know.
submitted by jayseejewel to BaldursGate3 [link] [comments]
Astarion:
Out of all the discussions, people were the most confused by this choice. Not only does making him poly at the last minute feel contrary to a lot of statements he himself makes throughout his romance arc, but it also runs counter to what other characters say about him and his backstory as a whole. He is one of the most insecure characters in the game, he was trained for two hundred years to lie in order to avoid punishment, and he has far more trauma and healing to do than the other characters. Astarion is the most likely to lie about the Halsin relationship in order to avoid appearing weak or demanding. Out of the poly players who expressed disappointment, Astarion was the one that bothered them the most, since many felt he wasn’t fully consenting.
Most of my reasons for why he’s not a good poly option (from a development standpoint) have already been stated in earlier sections, so most of this will be spent diving into the “Is he fine with poly or not?” debate, which had me intrigued. (This will be the longest section and won’t be as connected to the overall topic, so if you want to skip to the Halsin part, feel free.)
I’ll start with the main arguments I see defending him being poly.
Argument 1: He says he’s fine with Halsin and the twins, so we should take him at his word.
While this can definitely be argued, and it’s not good to treat an adult man like a baby, his constant lying as a defense mechanism and current issues with sex/relationships do need to be taken into account (if not by the players then at least by the developers). There were plenty of people (some of them victims of SA) who talked about their own experience of tolerating poly because they were scared of their partner leaving or finding them too demanding/narrow minded. This led to their self-esteem and views on relationships growing worse rather than better. For someone like Astarion, who outright admits he has never had a healthy relationship and doesn’t want to lose this one, it’s understandable that people view his response as a coping mechanism rather than his own genuine feelings. There were also two different mental health professionals who reminded players that although a few victims of abuse do enter poly relationships, statistically most do not and it is far more common for them to agree to poly relationships out of pressure (which often make the person’s mental issues even worse in the long run).
Argument 2: He claims to be fine with open relationships during Act 1.
This is countered by the fact that everything he says about himself in Act 1 is a lie (unless he’s specifically talking about Cazador). He lies about wanting to sleep with you, he lies about his identity until he bites you, he claims to only care about sex (then later admits it makes him feel disgust and loathing), and he brags about his former conquests (which you later find out he regrets and feels guilt over). His statements that he’s fine with open relationships are made when choosing between him and another Origin character in Act 1 or 2, but this is also said at a time when his act is still up and he isn’t in love with the player. If you choose between him and another Origin character AFTER he confesses and let’s his guard down, he insists that he is NOT fine with sharing. “You’ve decided to replace me?” If the player says they care about both him and the other person, he’ll say, “Don’t give me that. I can see what this is.” Then he promptly breaks up with them. This second reaction is not only said using his genuine voice (whereas before he was still using his fake one), but a few poly people mentioned that this isn’t a normal reaction from someone who is fine with poly.
This isn’t to shame people who want to think Astarion is fine with it, or to judge players who went through with the poly relationship. Instead, this is once again asking the developers why they chose this option, rather than someone who wouldn’t spark so much debate or remind abuse victims of their past without giving them a dialogue option to address it. (This is a similar issue with Astarion’s brothel scene. They should have either removed it by having him say he’s not comfortable again, or at the very least, let players talk to him about it after.)
I think it’s pretty clear that after reading the discussions and evidence both sides provided, I myself lean heavily to one side. However, the main defense I personally have for the opposite side is that the writers were sometimes vague about Astarion’s true preferences and wishes. I especially felt this during the origin playthrough, where his narrator would constantly flip between him liking hedonism and despising it. It gave the impression that two opposing authors were wrestling while writing him, unable to decide where he truly stood on things. It felt similar to how the devs tried to write a respectful story of overcoming abuse and the fear of being sexualized, only to turn around and repeatedly sexualize the character in both the game and promotional material. I really wish the writers and developers had picked a lane and stuck with it.
Now I’ll get into the evidence for the counter theory: That he’s not actually open to sharing, but says he’s fine with it to avoid appearing weak or losing his partner. I personally prefer this theory because it makes the writing seem more intentional, adds more nuance to an already complex character, and feels more realistic. However, even if this is what the writer or actor were trying to convey, it’s still a far worse alternative to simply keeping him out of the poly options in the first place.
- His hedonistic playboy persona is stated to be a façade. Anything he says in act one about being poly and wanting open relationships is stated when he is both wearing his mask and before he trusts the player. Every statement about relationships here has to be taken with a grain of salt because his mask is centered around attracting victims for Cazador. Since he hated bringing “sweet innocents” to his master, it makes sense that he would initially try to attract the opposite (“criminals and brothel goers”) by sleeping around and making a show of wanting casual relationships.
- Once he gets comfortable in the relationship, he makes it clear he is looking for someone who will make him feel safe and value him for his personality over his body (“I don’t want you to think of me in terms of sex. I don’t think I want anyone to.” “How do you want me to see you?” “As a person. Is that so much to ask?”). If the player chooses to sexualize him, he will go through with it, then regret it later and break up. He makes it very clear in Act two that he’s not actually looking for casual hookups because they make him feel “ashamed and alone”. So it is odd that he’s fine with Halsin (who seems to care more about the sex and the body than the emotional bonding) and the brothel (which is solely about sex). One can argue that he’s fine with the poly relationship because he’s not taking part, but Halsin DOES wish for him to take part ‘eventually’.
- Jumping off of that, Astarion’s dialogue makes it clear he wants a partner who cares about more than just sex, but if you tell him you want to date Halsin solely for the sex (and because Astarion’s not doing it with you), he will say that’s fine and he doesn’t mind the player seeking sex from others. This seems to counter his previous statements and arc. It’s especially strange that even if you reinforce his greatest insecurity (that his refusal to have sex has made his partner immediately seek out other people), he will still claim to be fine with it.
- In terms of dialogue, the actor for Astarion seems to be very intentional when using the fake theatrical masking voice vs. the more genuine softspoken voice he uses when he’s comfortable and being honest. The fake voice is blatantly obvious throughout the Act 1 romance, in Act 2 if you force him to obey the blood merchant (his voice goes from genuinely scared to flirtatious and over the top within seconds), and in Cazador’s mansion where he’ll speak genuinely to you, then be over the top when addressing Cazador’s servants. He’ll often use jokes and loud laughter to conceal his true feelings and insecurities. Meanwhile his laughter in the confession scene, graveyard scene, and Spawn epilogue is quiet and subdued because he’s being genuine. It feels like a strange coincidence that when addressing both the Halsin situation and the brothel situation, his voice becomes very loud and high pitched again, he immediately starts making jokes, and his laughter is over the top. This hints at him not wanting to go along with either situation, but he’s putting himself through it because this is what his partner wants and since he’s tolerated sexual stuff he hated before, he can do it again. Plus, after killing Cazador, he wants to ensure no one views him as weak. He has to prove to himself and his lover (at least in his mind) that refusing to take the Ascendant powers was good and he’s strong enough to not need it. I can understand players not picking up on the voice changes (because not everyone is going to replay the game or even care) but those who did notice it believe it’s done intentionally (either by the actor or the writer or both). If it’s not intentional, then it’s a strange decision to make from a developer’s standpoint.
- Throughout the threads I read, most poly people made it clear that poly relationships require complete trust, clear communication, and general confidence. Astarion himself admits to lacking all of those traits to some degree. If you don’t romance him, he will literally not trust any of the characters right up to the epilogue (he’ll hold a knife behind his back while talking to the Dark Urge). Even though he does seem to genuinely trust his lover by Act 2, he will still lie to them several times. He lies about being fine with the drow twins (he states he’ll leave if he hates if but never does despite disassociating), feigns confidence when the player says they’ll become a mind flayer (he says he only cares about them becoming ugly but expresses his true fears only after the fight, that he’s worried they are no longer the person he fell in love with by losing their soul), he manipulates his lover when confronting Cazador despite being conflicted about it himself and wanting reassurance, and (on a more minor note) he continuously claims he’s doesn’t care about Yenna or the Gur children despite getting upset when they’re in danger. This is a character who, even after he kills his tormentor, struggles to be honest with his partner. That isn’t a good combination when addressing poly. (Again, it could be worked through in real life, but is better avoided in video games where there isn’t time to address it).
- There are also plenty of situations where he agrees to do things he outright hates. In Act 1, we know he is (at least somewhat) disgusted by having sex with the player or Laezel, but he’ll do it. In Act 2, he tries to be genuine about not wanting to touch the player until he no longer feels disgust, but if the player pressures him, he will cave and obey. He does break up with the player afterwards, but it is only after he has gone through with the act. In Act 3, he will state three times that he doesn’t want to take the tadpole, but if the player pressures him by bringing up his darkest fear, he will give in. Worse, he will give in and STILL stay with the player romantically despite them clearly manipulating him to do something they know he fears. He does thankfully break up if you fail the checks, but if you succeed, he goes through with it. If he’s willing to cave to something as huge as altering his entire body, it makes sense that he would cave to something he views as more minor (like tolerating unwanted sexual acts in a brothel or sharing his partner).
- I didn’t know this until I saw others mention it but there are points where he will flirt with NPCs if he is single (the girl in the sewers), but he uses neutral dialogue if he is dating the player. This reinforces the theory that he doesn’t actually plan to sleep around or be with others as he claims (though there are some dialogues that I think slipped through the cracks where he still flirts with others despite being in a committed relationship).
- If Halsin propositions you after Cazador has been killed, Astarion no longer asks if you’re doing this because he hasn’t been fulfilling your sexual needs. However, he does give another response that feels out of place: “I’ve realized it doesn’t matter if anything (in our relationship) changes.” Parallel this with what he said at the graveyard, that “no matter what happens, I don’t want to lose this (relationship).” It’s very odd to have him say he doesn’t want to lose the relationship, but then the next day he is totally okay with losing it. Granted, it is nice to know that even if the characters break up, he’ll be fine, but it does feel contradictory for his character, especially with how devastated he acts if they DO end the relationship. If the Halsin statement is just an act and he’s overcompensating, however, then it feels more intentional on the writer’s part.
- I’ve seen lots of people say that Ascended Astarion also shouldn’t be fine with poly, and I agree, though it’s for different reasons than Spawn Astarion. Unlike SA, I think Ascended would absolutely do the brothel scene because 1. He’s actively suppressing his trauma and playing a new character and 2. He feels in control in the brothel and is the focus. However, with Halsin, he doesn’t have any control. For someone obsessed with possessing his lover and ensuring they can never leave him, letting them sleep with Halsin doesn’t fit his writing. He isn’t participating. He doesn’t know what they’re doing behind his back. For all he knows, Halsin and the player might be discussing how to kill Astarion or escape him. In some deleted party banter, Halsin literally tells Ascended Astarion he doesn’t approve of the abusive spawn/master relationship they’ve formed. With that knowledge, not only should Halsin not be willing to join a poly relationship that he thinks is unhealthy, but he has a motivation to help the player get away from AA (and AA would know this). I could see Spawn Astarion hesitantly agreeing to the Halsin thing despite not wanting to share, but AA just wouldn’t. It feels contrary to both his and Halsin’s writing.
- This is the second most convincing piece of evidence for me: The Drow twins. If you ask Astarion to join a ‘group activity’, he’ll use his fake voice and flighty laugh and agree to go through it, saying he’ll run away if he doesn’t like it and comparing the act to burning in the sun (a little concerning that he’s already comparing the two). Then during the act, he will immediately ask the player what they want “us” to do. Not only is he lumping himself in with the prostitutes, but he is also doing something that an Origin playthrough reveals is a trigger for him (he tells the drow twins that being ‘told what to do’ reminds him of his time as a slave). If the player tries to check up on him, he ignores them and says he wishes he was drunk. Then he disassociates and never brings it up again. This has been viewed two ways: either he doesn’t want to have casual sex anymore and wants to be in a one-on-one relationship, or he does want to do stuff like this but just needs to heal more before he can. I lean toward the first assumption because he is acting flighty and fake BEFORE the sexual act even begins. If he really wanted to do it but changed his mind after, it makes more sense for him to sound genuine at first, then fake halfway through.
Compare this to the Halsin situation and the drow ‘group activity’. For Halsin, he says he was expecting this for months. He’s had several months to plan his reaction and decide what he’s willing to tolerate. Hence, he has a very rehearsed reaction. With the twins, he had less time to anticipate this but probably also worried about it (especially if the player asked about them earlier and he said no. Now he expects the player to try again and has planned accordingly). Again, this response feels rehearsed and fake. The only response where he uses his real voice is when you ask for one of the twins alone. This is something he likely wouldn’t plan for, so we get to see his gut reaction for the first time: he doesn’t want you to do it.
Now some people argue that he’s fine with Halsin and not the other Origin characters because Halsin is just a fling and won’t try to take his spot. If that’s the case, he should be fine with the twins too. If anything, they are even less of a threat. Yet he doesn’t want you to do it and responds accordingly. If he truly was poly, he would respond like Karlach did and tell you to have fun, or like Shadowheart telling you to give him a heads up first. But we don’t see that.
One other thing about the twins that I felt I could point out: if you or the twins ask to do a group activity before Cazador is killed, Astarion says he’s not comfortable with this yet. The “yet” part has been pointed out to show that he’s fine with it after Cazador has been killed (even though he still disassociates later). However, another explanation of the “yet” part is that he’s trying to soften the blow because he’s scared of using a blunt NO. We see this with Araj, the blood merchant. Even though he is absolutely disgusted with her treatment of him and how she’s “defiling” him with her fantasies, his rejections of her are very soft and nervous. Even when reinforced by his friend/lover, he says “It’s still a no, I’m afraid” with a smile. Turning down sexual encounters is tough for him, even when he has people backing him up, so I can see him using words like “yet” or “I’m afraid” to soften the blow. I know several people in real life who do this, despite later admitting there was no “yet”.
There’s another part of this dialogue with the early twins that I want to point out (really overanalyzing here but if we want to believe the writers do things intentionally/with a lot of forethought, I think it’s okay to read into the words they use). When Astarion says he’s not comfortable with the twins, the player’s response is “I wouldn’t ask such a thing of you”. This will raise his approval and make him respond positively. The promise you give him is not “I’ll ask them later, after we’ve killed Cazador” or “I would have liked to but okay” (that one doesn’t trigger his positive response). He only approves of you saying you won’t ask him to do things like this (stated in a tense that implies you will NEVER ask him to do such a thing, regardless of Cazador’s stabbed or unstabbed state). This could have been the writer hinting that if you bring him back after, you’re going back on your promise and thus have to see the disassociating scene. That…or the writer wasn’t thinking too hard and we are simply thinking too much.
- With all that out of the way, we’ll get to the final point that solidifies this theory for me personally. It’s the statements of Shadowheart and Minthara if you ask to do a three-way relationship with one of them and Astarion. Shadowheart’s response is: “I think you’re overestimating his willingness to share. He may seem like a carefree hedonist, but there’s something fragile beneath the façade.” Minthara says something nearly identical, that sharing would wound his pride and he is far too fragile to handle it. You could even add Astarion’s line from the other end, where if you ask Astarion to share with you and Karlach, he will say they shouldn’t because Karlach loves the player and relationships are fragile (implying that he either thinks open relationships don’t work if there’s love involved, or perhaps he himself can only do open relationships if he doesn’t love the other person).
If Astarion actually is fine with poly, then it means both Shadowheart and Minthara are wrong. That means the writers either made a mistake or made a very weird writing choice.
However, if Astarion is actually pretending to be fine with sharing as they say, not only is the writing consistent but these dialogues become very clever foreshadowing. I want to give the writers the benefit of the doubt and believe they did a good job with Astarion, so I prefer to lean into the theory that he’s pretending because it makes more sense for him overall.
That was quite a long tangent and somewhat unnecessary, but he’s a character whose mannerisms and statements are meant to be heavily analyzed, so it’s fun to go more in depth. Let’s move on.
- ISSUES WITH HOW HALSIN WAS PRESENTED
- He is not presented as poly until Act 3. I was reading through a thread full of people who loved him and several of them were early access players who had requested he become a romance option. However, the reason they requested him was very important. In EA, all three of the male options seemed immature (Wyll), condescending (Gale), or straight up evil (Astarion). Meanwhile Halsin was, in their words, a mature man who seems like the type to settle down with them in a cottage and help raise their kids. This is the impression he gives and what drew many people to him. As a result, many of these players were extremely disappointed to reach Act 3 once the game was out and discover that not only was he the complete opposite of their initial impression, but he won’t even stay with the player after the game ends (in most cases). Honestly, if I was a developer and saw that they liked him for those earlier reasons, I wouldn’t make him strictly poly because that wasn’t what the players wanted. They wanted him because he was muscular and a good, stable man. It was a very odd choice to turn around and give the players the opposite of what they asked for. But if the devs were truly determined to go the poly route, they should have at least gone back to Act 1 and 2 and slipped in some hints that he was poly. I saw some newer players who recently played the game for the first time and wanted to romance him for the aforementioned reasons (stable, mature, kind, huge). They ignored all other romances until Act 3, then got hit with the “I’m only poly” discussion. Had they known he wasn’t monogamous, they wouldn’t have blown off all the other options.
- But let’s ignore that. We’re focusing on the world where he IS completely poly (though some were arguing that it should at least be an option to ask if he’ll try being monogamous with the player.) The way he is presented still has a lot of issues according to poly players. For one, the way he tries to butt in on the relationship is done in a really sketchy manner (especially considering what some of the Origin characters have gone through/are currently going through). It would have been far better to do what they did with Minsc and give the PLAYER the option to hit on Halsin, rather than the other way around. Have them offer poly to him, and then he can discuss it from there. Having the proposition come from Halsin himself puts him in a negative light, and it’s pretty clear the writers didn’t actually want to portray him as a bad person so they messed up here.
- The flagging for Halsin’s dialogues is awful and despite seeing people report it for eight months, that hasn’t changed. Even if you pick the most neutral option, he will still hit on you by saying “I think you feel the same way”. Not a good idea. “I HOPE you feel the same way” would have been infinitely better. Women often have to deal with people assuming their friendly, professional conversation is something more when it isn’t. It’s not a great idea to bring that into fantasy games too. It hit too close to home for some.
- Even if you use the most neutral option at the Act 1 party (“Go have fun and mingle”), your main dialogue option the next day is “Sorry for coming on so strong last night”. It’s a strange thing to say. Again, I’m not sure how developers missed this and why it was never patched out. I saw people reporting it since the release.
- He will also ask for a relationship at neutral approval. In most of my playthroughs, I stopped talking to him beyond the Thaniel quest and avoided asking about his personal life. He still led his proposition with “I think you feel the same way”. How does he know when we only spoke to him three times? They should have at least required you to go through all his extra dialogues before triggering this.
- When Halsin says he loves you, you have two options: reject him straight away, or ask about his opinions a little more. Oddly enough, if you ask a bit more and THEN reject him, he’ll have a proper response. “That’s fine. I understand. I won’t ask again.” However, if you reject him as soon as he starts talking to you, his response is very off putting. He’ll protest and say, “but you asked me about my former lovers” or, if you didn’t even do that, he’ll claim “you looked after me with the care of a lover, not a host.” These pushy assumptions turned a lot of people off. This is entirely on the writer, in my opinion. He should have realized how weird these sounded.
- Halsin is the only person you can’t dismiss from your camp at any point through dialogue. All of the origins have to be pursued and recruited intentionally. Halsin is the only exception. This makes some sense because you need him to cure the Shadowlands, but for Act 3, he literally has nothing to do. They should have given players an option after the Ketheric fight to dismiss him and tell him to take care of the Shadowlands. It makes a lot more sense narratively and would help avoid a lot of the more awkward parts later.
- Halsin’s initial dialogue about monogamy vs. polyamory is mostly fine, with him comparing it to gardens and wolves vs. bears. But (and don’t quote me on this because I can’t recall the specifics), if you ask your partner to do poly and they say no, Halsin will be a little more judgmental about your partner, saying he was hoping they would be more “open minded”. Statistically, the majority of BG3’s players are going to be monogamous, so it’s strange to see nearly every character (monogamous or poly) criticize monogamy in some way. It is called selfish, narrow minded, and old fashioned by at least 3 characters to my knowledge (Halsin, Act 1 Astarion, and even Gale (who is monogamous himself)). If the developers truly wanted to be inclusive, criticizing one’s lifestyle and having no characters openly defend it in the game (even those who practice it) is a disappointing choice. In this case, it might be an unintentional mistake (maybe they feared that by defending monogamy, they were somehow demonizing polygamy or polyamory), but it would have been better to just leave the criticisms out of it entirely if that was the case.
The only feasible fix the developers could make at this point to avoid all the issues mentioned is keeping Halsin poly but removing his connections to other Origin romances (or at least Karlach and Astarion). At this point, that’s the only thing that could realistically be done. I also wish they made characters break up with you if you cheat on them in the brothel, since that’s what many people including myself would do.
Again, these opinions are my own (and those that aren’t come from a variety of comments across Youtube, Reddit, and Larian’s forums). I enjoyed getting to see so many different viewpoints and appreciated how civil (most of) the people on both sides were. It’s an interesting topic and here’s hoping game studios handle it better in the future.
If anyone reads this far and wants links to the threads, forums, and youtube comment sections, let me know.
2024.05.13 23:22 WarlordofBritannia Dave Dombrowski: A Retrospective in Transactions
On August 18, 2015 the Boston Red Sox hired the late General Manager of the Detroit Tigers, Dave Dombrowski, to run the team, replacing Ben Cherrington. The development focused Cherrington had failed to follow up the Red Sox miracle 2013 season with even winning records in the two years since, though the farm system ranked among the very best in baseball and a wave of prospects had just hit the majors (among them, Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Mookie Betts, and Blake Swihart). Thus, the swapping of Cherington for Dombrowski was rightly interpreted as the Red Sox moving to a more assertive phase, to win now even at the expense of the player development system.
Ironically Dombrowski had been fired by the Tigers because of his belief that the organization’s competitive window had closed and that the team needed to rebuild; the Tigers gave the job to his former assistant who got one more winning season out of their aging core before the inevitabilities became insurmountable. By that time the Red Sox were in the midst of their second straight division crown of three, which climaxed with the single greatest season in franchise history. This is how Dombrowski built that team, as well as the fiscal panic that cost the Red Sox the greatest all around player in franchise history following it:
~2015~
November 13, 2015: Traded Logan Allen, Carlos Asuaje, Javy Guerra and Manuel Margot to the San Diego Padres. Received Craig Kimbrel.
The first major transaction of the Dave Dombrowski era set the pace for the next four years; trading four prospects for a relief pitcher constitutes the classic win-now move. In this case the Red Sox won the deal in both the long and short terms, as only Manuel Margot developed in regular at the major league level, and that at a position where the Red Sox were not in need (center field). Meanwhile Craig Kimbrel made the all-star team in each of his three seasons in Boston, the second of which was one of the greatest relief performances in the game’s history.
December 4, 2015: Signed David Price as a free agent, 217 million dollars over seven years.
At once the most maligned and most underrated move of the Dombrowski era as well as being the biggest, the David Price signing saw the Red Sox for the first time handout a nine figure contract to a free agent pitcher. This was all the more dramatic as they had alienated and traded away their own homegrown southpaw ace (Jon Lester) less than eighteen months before. This was also the first time with the Red Sox that Dave Dombrowski acquired a player he was he previously familiar with, perhaps slightly overpaying for that familiarity. Did we mention that this was largest contract ever given to a pitcher at time, too?
Price had a solid first season in Boston, leading the league in innings pitched with 230 and striking out nearly a man per inning. Nonetheless the first three years of his tenure were marked with mutual hostility towards the ever-ravenous Boston sports media, only alleviated after his fantastic 2018 postseason run. Aging and injuries limited both the quantity and quality of his performance in 2017 and 2019; this trend as well as his 31 million annum salary contributed to owner John Henry’s decision to offload Price even at the cost of Mookie Betts. If only for that last reason alone the David Price signing is one the Red Sox would likely not repeat in hindsight.
December 7, 2015: Traded Jonathan Aro and Wade Miley to the Seattle Mariners. Received Roenis Elías and Carson Smith.
The first of many times Dombrowski would be burned in pursuit of bullpen arms, this deal with Seattle comes down to Wade Miley for Carson Smith. Miley had been signed as a reclamation project by Cherrington before 2015 in the hopes that Miley could serve as a solid mid-rotation option, which he more or less fulfilled with just short of 200 league average innings. Smith on the other hand was coming off his first full season in the majors where he gave the Mariners seventy brilliant innings of high leverage relief pitching (2.31 ERA, 11.8 K/9, and only two home runs allowed).
In a twist of fate, this trade hurt both teams as Smith immediately got injured and only pitched 24 innings in the rest of his career while Miley bombed in Seattle en route to a midseason jettisoning. Yet he rebounded with Baltimore in 2017 and remains an effective if oft-injured starting pitcher to this day, currently with the Milwaukee Brewers.
~2016~
June 10, 2016: Drafted Bobby Dalbec in the 4th round of the 2016 amateur draft.
The once and future Red Sox, Quad A superstar Bobby Dalbec!
July 7, 2016: Traded Wendell Rijo and Aaron Wilkerson to the Milwaukee Brewers. Received Aaron Hill and cash.
With Pablo Sandoval well into his career of eating his way out of Boston, the Red Sox carried a gaping hole at third base from August 2012 to July 2017. One of the short term attempts at a fix featured the acquisition of infielder Aaron Hill, hoping that he and Travis Shaw could platoon for the rest of the 2016 season. The thirty four year old Hill had been decent in Milwaukee in the first half after two bad seasons, but he reverted to that form as soon as he put on a Red Sox uniform, posting a 54 OPS+ in 137 plate appearances. After another terrible eighty plate appearances for the Giants in 2017 Hill was done. On the bright side, the two players Dombrowski gave up for him never amounted to anything.
July 9, 2016: Traded Jose Almonte and Luis Alejandro Basabe to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Received Brad Ziegler.
Ziegler was an accomplished submarine righty who the Red Sox acquired for basically free to get same-sided batters out, a role which he fulfilled to perfection (1.52 ERA in 30 innings). Another clearly won trade for DD.
July 14, 2016: Traded Anderson Espinoza to the San Diego Padres. Received Drew Pomeranz.
At the time, Anderson Espinoza was a teenager in Single A while Drew Pomeranz had appeared to finally unlock his long-salivated over potential with an all-star appearance. Ideally the Padres were hoping Espinoza could eventually develop to that same quality while the Red Sox expected Pomeranz to fill the fourth spot in the rotation. Neither team got what they wanted, at least in 2016 or for most of thereafter; Espinoza immediately went down with a major arm injury which kept him from pitching professionally for five years. Pomeranz himself reverted to his pre-breakout level for the rest of the season, bounced back with a big 2017 (17-6, 3.32 ERA, a strikeout per inning across 174 frames) and then finally was the forgotten man on the 2018 pitching staff due to injuries and ineffectiveness (6.08 ERA in 74 innings, 66 strikeouts to 44 walks). At this point the thirty year old southpaw looked like the quintessential example of TNSTAAPP (There’s No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect), another electric arm who would never match his potential due to injuries and command woes. Anyways, Pomeranz then seemed to resuscitate his career out of the bullpen for the 2019 Brewers and 2020-21 Padres with a sub-2 ERA across 70 innings in those three seasons…before injuries again struck. Though he has not pitched in the majors in three years he remains in the Dodgers minor league system, currently (where else) on the injured list.
December 6, 2016: Traded Victor Diaz, Luis Alexander Basabe, Michael Kopech and Yoán Moncada to the Chicago White Sox. Received Chris Sale.
It’s easy to forget now, but Moncada was not only a can’t miss prospect but one of the three best in all of baseball at the time, and Kopech was another Top 100 type. I’ve covered Kopech in my previous article on Red Sox pitching prospect busts but Moncada’s own failure to reach his ceiling was due more to injuries and a passive approach at the plate. Thus far into his career, Moncada has had two good seasons out of seven and played in at least 130 games in only three. With a strikeout rate of thirty percent, a declining walk rate, little power and less defense, he’s become a fourteen million dollar albatross even when on the field for the White Sox.
Sale, of course, had two Cy Young Award worthy campaigns before injuries and an ill-advised extension soured his final five seasons as a Red Sox. That extension will be discussed further when we come to it, but the trade on its own was inarguably a major victory.
Traded a player to be named later, Josh Pennington, Mauricio Dubón and Travis Shaw to the Milwaukee Brewers. Received Tyler Thornburg. The Boston Red Sox sent Yeison Coca (June 5, 2017) to the Milwaukee Brewers to complete the trade.
Yet another ill-fated trade for a relief pitcher, this time costing the Red Sox heavily in terms of value lost; Shaw went to become an all-star power bat at second and third base for the next two seasons in Milwaukee before his career petered out. Thornburg on the other hand contracted thoracic outlet syndrome from which he never recovered. Even if he had pitched well, the Red Sox could have used Shaw more than any setup man due to Dustin Pedroia’s career ending knee injury.
December 8, 2016: Signed Mitch Moreland as a free agent.
Mitch Moreland was a decent first baseman, but could Dave really not find someone better to play first over the next three years? Even if they cost more than $18.5 million?
December 20, 2016: Traded Clay Buchholz to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Josh Tobias.
This was more of a psychic relief to Red Sox Nation than anything else, finally alleviating them of the constant confusion over which Bucholz would show up on the mound—the oft-injured and easy to hit version, or the dominating ace? Fittingly Clay’s last three seasons in the majors featured two horrid starts for Philly, sixteen dominating starts in Arizona, and then finally split the difference with a final dozen poor performances as a Blue Jay.
~2017~
June 12, 2017: Drafted Tanner Houck in the 1st round (24th pick) of the 2017 amateur draft.
Houck’s selection constitutes one-third of the total number of draft picks by Dombrowski that made which helped the Red Sox at the major league level (the other two being fourteenth round pick Kutter Crawford in 2016 and fellow first rounder Triston Casas in 2018); inability to find even depth pieces in the draft left the Red Sox farm system utterly void of impact talent by 2018.
June 23, 2017: Selected Doug Fister off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.
As alluded to in my previous article, veteran GMs tend to reacquire players they were familiar with from previous stops. Fister had been an excellent fourth starter for the Tigers early in the 2010s but by 2017 the end was clearly staring him in the face; a 4.88 ERA in eighteen appearances (fifteen starts) just underlined this inevitable and unenviable conclusion.
July 26, 2017: Traded Shaun Anderson and Gregory Santos to the San Francisco Giants. Received Eduardo Núñez.
Nunez was the short-term solution to Pedroia’s knee injury. He turned out to be the medium-term solution too, as the degenerate condition of the incumbent’s affliction led DD to resign Nunez that winter. While fantastic down the stretch in 2017 this was a stretch of the infielder’s capabilities; Nunez suffered his own knee injuries and posted a remarkable -2.3 WAR as Boston’s primary keystone occupant over the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
July 31, 2017: Traded Gerson Bautista, Jamie Callahan and Stephen Nogosek to the New York Mets. Received Addison Reed.
Another deadline, another deal to reinforce the bullpen. Reed was inconsistent for the Red Sox during his two month stay, which turned out to be the penultimate chapter for his career—a poor 2018 in Minnesota marked the end of his major league career, an astonishingly quick demise even for a reliever.
~2018~
February 26, 2018: Signed J.D. Martinez as a free agent, five years and 110 million dollars.
The best free agent signing of the Dombrowski era, JD provided the power bat the Red Sox sorely lacked after Big Papi’s retirement. In his first and best season in Boston Martinez led the majors in both runs batted in and total bases, placed third in MVP voting, and earned Silver Sluggers at two different positions! He declined linearly from there, but remains a productive member of any team’s lineup to this day; he has spent the last two seasons as the Dodgers and now Mets’ DH, attempting to compensate for declining bat speed by sacrificing contact for power.
March 4, 2018: Signed Ryan Brasier as a free agent.
The quality of Brasier’s pitching is inversely proportional to the quality of the expectations laid upon him. Thus he alternates excellent if limited seasons with ostensibly healthier but more erratic contributions.
March 24, 2018: Traded Deven Marrero to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Received a player to be named later. The Arizona Diamondbacks sent Josh Taylor (May 15, 2018) to the Boston Red Sox to complete the trade.
Deven Marrero was the prototypical good-field/no-hit infielder. Taylor is yet another oft-injured reliever, though he at least gave the Red Sox two solid seasons as the primary southpaw in 2019 and 2021. After missing all of 2022, he was traded to the Royals for Adalberto Mondesi and a teenage infielder named Angel Pierre; while Mondesi knee injuries seem to have ended his career Pierre posted a .415 OBP in rookie ball last year. Keep an eye and ear out for him as he climbs through the minor league ranks.
June 4, 2018: Drafted Triston Casas in the 1st round (26th pick) of the 2018 amateur draft.
Get well soon. There’s only so much Bobby Dalbec a fan can take.
June 28, 2018: Traded Santiago Espinal to the Toronto Blue Jays. Received Steve Pearce and cash.
Moreland had never and would never hit southpaws, but it took until the middle of his second season in Boston for the Red Sox to provide him with a platoon partner. When they finally did so at least they chose one of the very best platoon players in the major leagues in Steve Pearce; Pearce of course would win the World Series MVP that should have gone to Price later that year.
July 25, 2018: Traded Jalen Beeks to the Tampa Bay Rays. Received Nathan Eovaldi.
Even had he not resigned with the team during the offseason, Eovaldi would have earned his place in Red Sox lore for his heroic six inning relief appearance in the World Series. We’ll discuss the extension later, but also note that Beeks is perhaps the only pitcher who the Rays failed to turn into a Cy Young contender. What’s the opposite of adding insult to injury?
July 30, 2018: Traded Ty Buttrey and Williams Jerez to the Los Angeles Angels. Received Ian Kinsler and cash.
With Nunez playing well below replacement level, the Red Sox needed a replacement for the replacement. Kinsler in his penultimate season at least provided a solid glove; just in case the Red Sox also picked up Brandon Phillips.
November 16, 2018: Signed Steve Pearce as a free agent. AND, December 6, 2018: Signed Nathan Eovaldi as a free agent.
These were covertly two of the worst transactions of the Dave Dombrowski era. Refusing to say goodbye to midseason rentals is risky enough, but the amount of money given to Pearce and Eovaldi also baffled reasonable explanations; a thirty-six-year-old platoon hitter at first base is replaceable enough, even when he’s not the weak side of the arrangement. Had Pearce played well and been healthy in 2019, perhaps the six and quarter million would have seemed mostly worth it; instead, he “hit” .180 in twenty nine games before retiring.
Meanwhile, Eovaldi’s lengthy injury history made it a minor miracle that he was healthy enough for the Red Sox during his three months in Boston—bringing him back for four years and sixty-eight million dollars can only be explained as a sentimental move, an excessive reward for that World Series performance. As could have been reasonably expected in December 2018, Nitro Nate only proved worthy of that contract in one out of four seasons; in the other three he was either injured for most of the season, ineffective, or both.
~2019~
March 23, 2019: Extended Chris Sale for five years, 145 million dollars.
It wasn’t the David Price contract that caused the fiscal panic that cost the Red Sox their best player since at least Carl Yastrzemski, not really. The Red Sox could have eaten that sunken cost, had it been the sole albatross on their pitching staff. But, of course, it was only one of three unnecessary contracts that Dave Dombrowski issued to injury-prone starting pitchers on the wrong side of thirty. Sale had already shown long term red flags in 2018, which argued for letting him play out his walk year in 2019 before possibly ponying up the cash to keep him. After all, the Red Sox also had to extend Xander Bogaerts as well as the inestimable Betts; those two would cost at least sixty million a year to retain. Since they were coming off the most dominant single season in franchise history, perhaps now was the best time to let go some of the chief contributors, before the Red Sox tricked themselves into trying to recapture lightning in a bottle…Well, you know what happened in reality.
Between them, Eovaldi, Sale, and Price cost the Red Sox $52 million in 2019 alone, then $67 million in 2020; accounting for other contracts (JBJ’s arbitration rang up $11 million, Bogey was extended for $20 million, and JD was on the books for about $24 million) that was at least $122 million dollars already assigned to six players entering 2020. Assuming a payroll of effectively $200 million, this would have left about thirty million to spend on the other twenty-odd players required to field a team after giving Mookie his presumed megadeal. Turning back to 2019, just like with the Tigers in 2015, Dave couldn’t even make his customary July trade for pitching; the acquisition of Andrew Cashner from the Orioles felt like a low-budget parody of his previous deadline splashes, which of course it was.
There’s the real reason Dave Dombrowski was fired—just as in Detroit his full throttle commitment to a win-now mandate from ownership eventually led to a top-heavy roster and barren farm system. Have fun while you can, Phillies Phans.
Final Note/Small Self Promotion I forget to add: You could have read this post ten days earlier if you follow my blog
submitted by WarlordofBritannia to redsox [link] [comments]
Ironically Dombrowski had been fired by the Tigers because of his belief that the organization’s competitive window had closed and that the team needed to rebuild; the Tigers gave the job to his former assistant who got one more winning season out of their aging core before the inevitabilities became insurmountable. By that time the Red Sox were in the midst of their second straight division crown of three, which climaxed with the single greatest season in franchise history. This is how Dombrowski built that team, as well as the fiscal panic that cost the Red Sox the greatest all around player in franchise history following it:
~2015~
November 13, 2015: Traded Logan Allen, Carlos Asuaje, Javy Guerra and Manuel Margot to the San Diego Padres. Received Craig Kimbrel.
The first major transaction of the Dave Dombrowski era set the pace for the next four years; trading four prospects for a relief pitcher constitutes the classic win-now move. In this case the Red Sox won the deal in both the long and short terms, as only Manuel Margot developed in regular at the major league level, and that at a position where the Red Sox were not in need (center field). Meanwhile Craig Kimbrel made the all-star team in each of his three seasons in Boston, the second of which was one of the greatest relief performances in the game’s history.
December 4, 2015: Signed David Price as a free agent, 217 million dollars over seven years.
At once the most maligned and most underrated move of the Dombrowski era as well as being the biggest, the David Price signing saw the Red Sox for the first time handout a nine figure contract to a free agent pitcher. This was all the more dramatic as they had alienated and traded away their own homegrown southpaw ace (Jon Lester) less than eighteen months before. This was also the first time with the Red Sox that Dave Dombrowski acquired a player he was he previously familiar with, perhaps slightly overpaying for that familiarity. Did we mention that this was largest contract ever given to a pitcher at time, too?
Price had a solid first season in Boston, leading the league in innings pitched with 230 and striking out nearly a man per inning. Nonetheless the first three years of his tenure were marked with mutual hostility towards the ever-ravenous Boston sports media, only alleviated after his fantastic 2018 postseason run. Aging and injuries limited both the quantity and quality of his performance in 2017 and 2019; this trend as well as his 31 million annum salary contributed to owner John Henry’s decision to offload Price even at the cost of Mookie Betts. If only for that last reason alone the David Price signing is one the Red Sox would likely not repeat in hindsight.
December 7, 2015: Traded Jonathan Aro and Wade Miley to the Seattle Mariners. Received Roenis Elías and Carson Smith.
The first of many times Dombrowski would be burned in pursuit of bullpen arms, this deal with Seattle comes down to Wade Miley for Carson Smith. Miley had been signed as a reclamation project by Cherrington before 2015 in the hopes that Miley could serve as a solid mid-rotation option, which he more or less fulfilled with just short of 200 league average innings. Smith on the other hand was coming off his first full season in the majors where he gave the Mariners seventy brilliant innings of high leverage relief pitching (2.31 ERA, 11.8 K/9, and only two home runs allowed).
In a twist of fate, this trade hurt both teams as Smith immediately got injured and only pitched 24 innings in the rest of his career while Miley bombed in Seattle en route to a midseason jettisoning. Yet he rebounded with Baltimore in 2017 and remains an effective if oft-injured starting pitcher to this day, currently with the Milwaukee Brewers.
~2016~
June 10, 2016: Drafted Bobby Dalbec in the 4th round of the 2016 amateur draft.
The once and future Red Sox, Quad A superstar Bobby Dalbec!
July 7, 2016: Traded Wendell Rijo and Aaron Wilkerson to the Milwaukee Brewers. Received Aaron Hill and cash.
With Pablo Sandoval well into his career of eating his way out of Boston, the Red Sox carried a gaping hole at third base from August 2012 to July 2017. One of the short term attempts at a fix featured the acquisition of infielder Aaron Hill, hoping that he and Travis Shaw could platoon for the rest of the 2016 season. The thirty four year old Hill had been decent in Milwaukee in the first half after two bad seasons, but he reverted to that form as soon as he put on a Red Sox uniform, posting a 54 OPS+ in 137 plate appearances. After another terrible eighty plate appearances for the Giants in 2017 Hill was done. On the bright side, the two players Dombrowski gave up for him never amounted to anything.
July 9, 2016: Traded Jose Almonte and Luis Alejandro Basabe to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Received Brad Ziegler.
Ziegler was an accomplished submarine righty who the Red Sox acquired for basically free to get same-sided batters out, a role which he fulfilled to perfection (1.52 ERA in 30 innings). Another clearly won trade for DD.
July 14, 2016: Traded Anderson Espinoza to the San Diego Padres. Received Drew Pomeranz.
At the time, Anderson Espinoza was a teenager in Single A while Drew Pomeranz had appeared to finally unlock his long-salivated over potential with an all-star appearance. Ideally the Padres were hoping Espinoza could eventually develop to that same quality while the Red Sox expected Pomeranz to fill the fourth spot in the rotation. Neither team got what they wanted, at least in 2016 or for most of thereafter; Espinoza immediately went down with a major arm injury which kept him from pitching professionally for five years. Pomeranz himself reverted to his pre-breakout level for the rest of the season, bounced back with a big 2017 (17-6, 3.32 ERA, a strikeout per inning across 174 frames) and then finally was the forgotten man on the 2018 pitching staff due to injuries and ineffectiveness (6.08 ERA in 74 innings, 66 strikeouts to 44 walks). At this point the thirty year old southpaw looked like the quintessential example of TNSTAAPP (There’s No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect), another electric arm who would never match his potential due to injuries and command woes. Anyways, Pomeranz then seemed to resuscitate his career out of the bullpen for the 2019 Brewers and 2020-21 Padres with a sub-2 ERA across 70 innings in those three seasons…before injuries again struck. Though he has not pitched in the majors in three years he remains in the Dodgers minor league system, currently (where else) on the injured list.
December 6, 2016: Traded Victor Diaz, Luis Alexander Basabe, Michael Kopech and Yoán Moncada to the Chicago White Sox. Received Chris Sale.
It’s easy to forget now, but Moncada was not only a can’t miss prospect but one of the three best in all of baseball at the time, and Kopech was another Top 100 type. I’ve covered Kopech in my previous article on Red Sox pitching prospect busts but Moncada’s own failure to reach his ceiling was due more to injuries and a passive approach at the plate. Thus far into his career, Moncada has had two good seasons out of seven and played in at least 130 games in only three. With a strikeout rate of thirty percent, a declining walk rate, little power and less defense, he’s become a fourteen million dollar albatross even when on the field for the White Sox.
Sale, of course, had two Cy Young Award worthy campaigns before injuries and an ill-advised extension soured his final five seasons as a Red Sox. That extension will be discussed further when we come to it, but the trade on its own was inarguably a major victory.
Traded a player to be named later, Josh Pennington, Mauricio Dubón and Travis Shaw to the Milwaukee Brewers. Received Tyler Thornburg. The Boston Red Sox sent Yeison Coca (June 5, 2017) to the Milwaukee Brewers to complete the trade.
Yet another ill-fated trade for a relief pitcher, this time costing the Red Sox heavily in terms of value lost; Shaw went to become an all-star power bat at second and third base for the next two seasons in Milwaukee before his career petered out. Thornburg on the other hand contracted thoracic outlet syndrome from which he never recovered. Even if he had pitched well, the Red Sox could have used Shaw more than any setup man due to Dustin Pedroia’s career ending knee injury.
December 8, 2016: Signed Mitch Moreland as a free agent.
Mitch Moreland was a decent first baseman, but could Dave really not find someone better to play first over the next three years? Even if they cost more than $18.5 million?
December 20, 2016: Traded Clay Buchholz to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Josh Tobias.
This was more of a psychic relief to Red Sox Nation than anything else, finally alleviating them of the constant confusion over which Bucholz would show up on the mound—the oft-injured and easy to hit version, or the dominating ace? Fittingly Clay’s last three seasons in the majors featured two horrid starts for Philly, sixteen dominating starts in Arizona, and then finally split the difference with a final dozen poor performances as a Blue Jay.
~2017~
June 12, 2017: Drafted Tanner Houck in the 1st round (24th pick) of the 2017 amateur draft.
Houck’s selection constitutes one-third of the total number of draft picks by Dombrowski that made which helped the Red Sox at the major league level (the other two being fourteenth round pick Kutter Crawford in 2016 and fellow first rounder Triston Casas in 2018); inability to find even depth pieces in the draft left the Red Sox farm system utterly void of impact talent by 2018.
June 23, 2017: Selected Doug Fister off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.
As alluded to in my previous article, veteran GMs tend to reacquire players they were familiar with from previous stops. Fister had been an excellent fourth starter for the Tigers early in the 2010s but by 2017 the end was clearly staring him in the face; a 4.88 ERA in eighteen appearances (fifteen starts) just underlined this inevitable and unenviable conclusion.
July 26, 2017: Traded Shaun Anderson and Gregory Santos to the San Francisco Giants. Received Eduardo Núñez.
Nunez was the short-term solution to Pedroia’s knee injury. He turned out to be the medium-term solution too, as the degenerate condition of the incumbent’s affliction led DD to resign Nunez that winter. While fantastic down the stretch in 2017 this was a stretch of the infielder’s capabilities; Nunez suffered his own knee injuries and posted a remarkable -2.3 WAR as Boston’s primary keystone occupant over the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
July 31, 2017: Traded Gerson Bautista, Jamie Callahan and Stephen Nogosek to the New York Mets. Received Addison Reed.
Another deadline, another deal to reinforce the bullpen. Reed was inconsistent for the Red Sox during his two month stay, which turned out to be the penultimate chapter for his career—a poor 2018 in Minnesota marked the end of his major league career, an astonishingly quick demise even for a reliever.
~2018~
February 26, 2018: Signed J.D. Martinez as a free agent, five years and 110 million dollars.
The best free agent signing of the Dombrowski era, JD provided the power bat the Red Sox sorely lacked after Big Papi’s retirement. In his first and best season in Boston Martinez led the majors in both runs batted in and total bases, placed third in MVP voting, and earned Silver Sluggers at two different positions! He declined linearly from there, but remains a productive member of any team’s lineup to this day; he has spent the last two seasons as the Dodgers and now Mets’ DH, attempting to compensate for declining bat speed by sacrificing contact for power.
March 4, 2018: Signed Ryan Brasier as a free agent.
The quality of Brasier’s pitching is inversely proportional to the quality of the expectations laid upon him. Thus he alternates excellent if limited seasons with ostensibly healthier but more erratic contributions.
March 24, 2018: Traded Deven Marrero to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Received a player to be named later. The Arizona Diamondbacks sent Josh Taylor (May 15, 2018) to the Boston Red Sox to complete the trade.
Deven Marrero was the prototypical good-field/no-hit infielder. Taylor is yet another oft-injured reliever, though he at least gave the Red Sox two solid seasons as the primary southpaw in 2019 and 2021. After missing all of 2022, he was traded to the Royals for Adalberto Mondesi and a teenage infielder named Angel Pierre; while Mondesi knee injuries seem to have ended his career Pierre posted a .415 OBP in rookie ball last year. Keep an eye and ear out for him as he climbs through the minor league ranks.
June 4, 2018: Drafted Triston Casas in the 1st round (26th pick) of the 2018 amateur draft.
Get well soon. There’s only so much Bobby Dalbec a fan can take.
June 28, 2018: Traded Santiago Espinal to the Toronto Blue Jays. Received Steve Pearce and cash.
Moreland had never and would never hit southpaws, but it took until the middle of his second season in Boston for the Red Sox to provide him with a platoon partner. When they finally did so at least they chose one of the very best platoon players in the major leagues in Steve Pearce; Pearce of course would win the World Series MVP that should have gone to Price later that year.
July 25, 2018: Traded Jalen Beeks to the Tampa Bay Rays. Received Nathan Eovaldi.
Even had he not resigned with the team during the offseason, Eovaldi would have earned his place in Red Sox lore for his heroic six inning relief appearance in the World Series. We’ll discuss the extension later, but also note that Beeks is perhaps the only pitcher who the Rays failed to turn into a Cy Young contender. What’s the opposite of adding insult to injury?
July 30, 2018: Traded Ty Buttrey and Williams Jerez to the Los Angeles Angels. Received Ian Kinsler and cash.
With Nunez playing well below replacement level, the Red Sox needed a replacement for the replacement. Kinsler in his penultimate season at least provided a solid glove; just in case the Red Sox also picked up Brandon Phillips.
November 16, 2018: Signed Steve Pearce as a free agent. AND, December 6, 2018: Signed Nathan Eovaldi as a free agent.
These were covertly two of the worst transactions of the Dave Dombrowski era. Refusing to say goodbye to midseason rentals is risky enough, but the amount of money given to Pearce and Eovaldi also baffled reasonable explanations; a thirty-six-year-old platoon hitter at first base is replaceable enough, even when he’s not the weak side of the arrangement. Had Pearce played well and been healthy in 2019, perhaps the six and quarter million would have seemed mostly worth it; instead, he “hit” .180 in twenty nine games before retiring.
Meanwhile, Eovaldi’s lengthy injury history made it a minor miracle that he was healthy enough for the Red Sox during his three months in Boston—bringing him back for four years and sixty-eight million dollars can only be explained as a sentimental move, an excessive reward for that World Series performance. As could have been reasonably expected in December 2018, Nitro Nate only proved worthy of that contract in one out of four seasons; in the other three he was either injured for most of the season, ineffective, or both.
~2019~
March 23, 2019: Extended Chris Sale for five years, 145 million dollars.
It wasn’t the David Price contract that caused the fiscal panic that cost the Red Sox their best player since at least Carl Yastrzemski, not really. The Red Sox could have eaten that sunken cost, had it been the sole albatross on their pitching staff. But, of course, it was only one of three unnecessary contracts that Dave Dombrowski issued to injury-prone starting pitchers on the wrong side of thirty. Sale had already shown long term red flags in 2018, which argued for letting him play out his walk year in 2019 before possibly ponying up the cash to keep him. After all, the Red Sox also had to extend Xander Bogaerts as well as the inestimable Betts; those two would cost at least sixty million a year to retain. Since they were coming off the most dominant single season in franchise history, perhaps now was the best time to let go some of the chief contributors, before the Red Sox tricked themselves into trying to recapture lightning in a bottle…Well, you know what happened in reality.
Between them, Eovaldi, Sale, and Price cost the Red Sox $52 million in 2019 alone, then $67 million in 2020; accounting for other contracts (JBJ’s arbitration rang up $11 million, Bogey was extended for $20 million, and JD was on the books for about $24 million) that was at least $122 million dollars already assigned to six players entering 2020. Assuming a payroll of effectively $200 million, this would have left about thirty million to spend on the other twenty-odd players required to field a team after giving Mookie his presumed megadeal. Turning back to 2019, just like with the Tigers in 2015, Dave couldn’t even make his customary July trade for pitching; the acquisition of Andrew Cashner from the Orioles felt like a low-budget parody of his previous deadline splashes, which of course it was.
There’s the real reason Dave Dombrowski was fired—just as in Detroit his full throttle commitment to a win-now mandate from ownership eventually led to a top-heavy roster and barren farm system. Have fun while you can, Phillies Phans.
Final Note/Small Self Promotion I forget to add: You could have read this post ten days earlier if you follow my blog
2024.05.13 21:40 PoetAbject5488 Starting tools for sewing with a $300 budget
Hello! I'm a beginner sewer who recently completed a weekend bootcamp on sewing. I sewed my own dress from scratch with facing on the collar and cuffs. I also learned to hand sew. I have a $300 budget to get set up to machine-sew and hand-sew 100% wool and 100% linen clothing (with some limited silk) for medieval-themed historical re-enactment events. These will be outfits for myself, my elementary-aged children, and occasionally for friends.
This budget does not include cloth or patterns (just tools). I would like to include tailoring/measurement/cutting tools, key reference/learning books (I can check some of these from the library), and beginner tools for simple hand-sewn embroideries, stamping clothes with stencils and paint, and applying wool applique. I'd love to figure out how to make custom cloth-covered buttons as well to match dresses and coats.
Here is what I have on hand already, thanks to hand-me-downs from family and what I had already:
Knowing that I'm a beginner, and will (almost) exclusively be sewing (90% machine sewing) with wool and linen to make medieval clothing that are intended to look hand-made, what "essentials" would you recommend I purchase or focus on? What can you not live without now that you've been sewing for years that you think I might need? What's turned out to not be useful? I'll shop around for the best prices on items once I've narrowed down my list. Thank you in advance for your advice!
submitted by PoetAbject5488 to sewhelp [link] [comments]
This budget does not include cloth or patterns (just tools). I would like to include tailoring/measurement/cutting tools, key reference/learning books (I can check some of these from the library), and beginner tools for simple hand-sewn embroideries, stamping clothes with stencils and paint, and applying wool applique. I'd love to figure out how to make custom cloth-covered buttons as well to match dresses and coats.
Here is what I have on hand already, thanks to hand-me-downs from family and what I had already:
- a Singer XL-400 Futura sewing machine (no embroidery attachment, but I have a pedal).
- a Brother CS-6000i sewing and embroidery machine (with all attachments).
- Multi-color starter kits of thread sets and bobbin sets, plus white, black, and gray thread.
- a dedicated table and chair for sewing and cutting material.
- a decent ironing board, iron, cutting surface sheet, a see-through tailoring ruler, and a few sizes of non-fancy scissors - one from Joann's for cloth.
Knowing that I'm a beginner, and will (almost) exclusively be sewing (90% machine sewing) with wool and linen to make medieval clothing that are intended to look hand-made, what "essentials" would you recommend I purchase or focus on? What can you not live without now that you've been sewing for years that you think I might need? What's turned out to not be useful? I'll shop around for the best prices on items once I've narrowed down my list. Thank you in advance for your advice!
2024.05.13 20:11 nixonwinters Dark, brutal and not pulling any punches
I recently watched God is a Bullet, 2023 (the long version) and it got me wanting more of that brutal, dark and serious action, thriller.. whatever you want to call it.
I'm not looking for the typical Hollywood action, rather something like the following:
submitted by nixonwinters to MovieSuggestions [link] [comments]
I'm not looking for the typical Hollywood action, rather something like the following:
- You Were Never Really Here (2017)
- Blue Ruin (2012)
- Dragged Across Concrete (2018) - Seen all S. Craig Zahler movies
- Kill List (2011)
- God is A Bullet (2023)
2024.05.13 16:58 socontroversialyetso MH3 Phoenix Combo
With [[Buried Alive]] spoiled, Phoenix gets an interesting new angle that has proven itself in Legacy.
[[Dark Ritual]] ramps out Buried Alive putting the playset of [[Arclight Phoenix]] into the GY and is an additional spell. With just one more spell, you can reanimate all the birds immediately and swing for 12 as early as turn 2 - or turn 1 with [[Once Upon a Time]]
Apart from the combo, the deck is quite similar to UR Phoenix lists: cheap threats, cantrips and interaction. The main game plan is assembling the combo and killing your opponent with a bunch of Phoenixes, but you can also play like a traditional tempo deck and get some chip damage in with DRC/Shredder while you assemble the combo/if you have to play through disruption like [[Relic of Progenitus]]. Black also gives you access to [[Thoughtseize]], which protects your combo and stops their [[Show and Tell]] or [[Natural Order]].
Here's the list I came up with:
deck
choices:
[[Ox of Agonas]] - additional target for Buried Alive in case we draw a Phoenix. Refill is useful in grindy games.
[[Brazen Borrower]] - flexible interaction, protects against being cheesed, useful for tempo gameplan
[[Undercity Sewers]] - small upside if we want to fetch a tapped land, bins Phoenix with Brainstorm
[[Spell Pierce]] - cheap interaction to protect the combo. hits more spells but is not a hard counter so I chose a 1-1 split with [[Dispel]]
not included:
[[Faithless Looting]] - we don't need to dig for Phoenix as we want to combo with Buried Alive. Is also an additional target for BA, so maybe you could run it as a 1-off, but I don't think it comes up often
[[Mana Drain]] - we don't want to play very reactively. We either play like a combo or a tempo deck, so I don't think there's room for Mana Drains/Counterspells. Both one mana counters seem to fit the strategy better
[[Expressive Iteration]] - there's a lot of cards we don't want to hit: Phoenix, BA, Ox, counters
[[Fatal Push]] - Lightning Bolt can both deal with cheap creatures and deal chip damage. Maybe more of a SB option?
[[Young Pyromancer]] - can grow out of control quickly, but supports main game plan less than [[Ledger Shredder]]
[[Snapcaster Mage]] - love this card, but Shredder does more for the deck
[[Sauron's Ransom]]/[[Flame of Anor]] - I don't think this deck really needs reactive 3cmc spells. Treasure Cruise provides plenty of card draw already
[[Surgical Extraction]] - not important enough to play mb, but should be a great sb card
What do you think about this new version of Phoenix?
If you're a Phoenix lover, what are you hoping for from MH3?
(for me it's [[Mental Note]], but mostly for Vintage Pauper)
submitted by socontroversialyetso to TimelessMagic [link] [comments]
[[Dark Ritual]] ramps out Buried Alive putting the playset of [[Arclight Phoenix]] into the GY and is an additional spell. With just one more spell, you can reanimate all the birds immediately and swing for 12 as early as turn 2 - or turn 1 with [[Once Upon a Time]]
Apart from the combo, the deck is quite similar to UR Phoenix lists: cheap threats, cantrips and interaction. The main game plan is assembling the combo and killing your opponent with a bunch of Phoenixes, but you can also play like a traditional tempo deck and get some chip damage in with DRC/Shredder while you assemble the combo/if you have to play through disruption like [[Relic of Progenitus]]. Black also gives you access to [[Thoughtseize]], which protects your combo and stops their [[Show and Tell]] or [[Natural Order]].
Here's the list I came up with:
deck
choices:
[[Ox of Agonas]] - additional target for Buried Alive in case we draw a Phoenix. Refill is useful in grindy games.
[[Brazen Borrower]] - flexible interaction, protects against being cheesed, useful for tempo gameplan
[[Undercity Sewers]] - small upside if we want to fetch a tapped land, bins Phoenix with Brainstorm
[[Spell Pierce]] - cheap interaction to protect the combo. hits more spells but is not a hard counter so I chose a 1-1 split with [[Dispel]]
not included:
[[Faithless Looting]] - we don't need to dig for Phoenix as we want to combo with Buried Alive. Is also an additional target for BA, so maybe you could run it as a 1-off, but I don't think it comes up often
[[Mana Drain]] - we don't want to play very reactively. We either play like a combo or a tempo deck, so I don't think there's room for Mana Drains/Counterspells. Both one mana counters seem to fit the strategy better
[[Expressive Iteration]] - there's a lot of cards we don't want to hit: Phoenix, BA, Ox, counters
[[Fatal Push]] - Lightning Bolt can both deal with cheap creatures and deal chip damage. Maybe more of a SB option?
[[Young Pyromancer]] - can grow out of control quickly, but supports main game plan less than [[Ledger Shredder]]
[[Snapcaster Mage]] - love this card, but Shredder does more for the deck
[[Sauron's Ransom]]/[[Flame of Anor]] - I don't think this deck really needs reactive 3cmc spells. Treasure Cruise provides plenty of card draw already
[[Surgical Extraction]] - not important enough to play mb, but should be a great sb card
What do you think about this new version of Phoenix?
If you're a Phoenix lover, what are you hoping for from MH3?
(for me it's [[Mental Note]], but mostly for Vintage Pauper)
2024.05.13 15:24 Rogue1_76 Patient Who Hired a dude from Craigs List
Who was the patient who hired a dude from Craig's List to help her fly to Dr. Now, then she had a panick attack and went home. Then she decided to try again but got to an airport in Texas and then needed medical transport to Houston?
submitted by Rogue1_76 to My600PoundLife [link] [comments]
2024.05.13 06:32 Rude_Respond3628 (Selling) HUGE LIST! 4K HD AND SD CODES! NEWER AND OLDER TITLES BOTH! SALE $1 OFF EVERY $10 SPENT WHEN BUY 2+ TITLES!
Please comment on the post before message me for codes. Preferred payment is PayPal Friends and Family! But I can also do Cashapp, Zelle, Facebook Pay, Venmo or Amazon/Vudu gift cards as payment if need be.
I am open to trades if I don't already own it in my own personal collection. A list of codes I'm currently looking for and would trade for will be at the very bottom of my sales list.
2 Guns 4K MA $5 HD MA $3.50
12 Rounds 2 Reloaded HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
13 Hours 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
21 Jump Street SD MA $2.50
22 Jump Street HD MA $4 SD MA $2.50
31 HD Vudu $3
47 Meters Down HD Vudu $4.50 HD iTunes $4
101 Dalmatians 1961 HDMA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
101 Dalmatians 2 Patch's London Adventure HDMA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
A Haunted House 2 HD Itunes $3.50
A Quiet Place 4K iTunes $5 HD Vudu $3.50
A Wrinkle In Time 2018 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Abominable HD MA $4
Act Of Valor SD iTunes $2.50
Ad Astra 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $4
Admission HD iTunes $4
After HD MA $4
After Earth HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Aladdin 1992 4K MA $6.50 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Aladdin 2019 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $3
Alex Cross HD VD/IT $3.50
Alien HD MA $4
Alien 2 HD MA $4.50
Alien 3 HD MA $5
Alien Resurrection HD MA $5
Alien Covenant HD MA $3
Alien Prometheus HD MA $3
Alita Battle Angel 4K MA $5
All Eyez On Me iTunes $4
All The Money In The World SD MA $2
American Assassin HDVD/4KIT $5
American Hustle SD MA $2
Amsterdam HD GP $4.50
Anchorman 2 HD VD/IT $3
Angry Birds HD MA $4
Annie 2014 HD MA $3
Ant-Man 4K MA $6.50 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3.50
Ant-Man And Wasp HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Apollo 11 HD MA $4.50
Apollo 13 4K MA $6
Aristocats HD MA $6.50
Arrival HD Vudu $3.50
Assassination Nation HD MA $3
Atlantis Lost Empire HD MA $7
Atlantis Milos Return HD MA $7
Atomic Blonde 4K iTunes $4.50
Avatar 2 The Way Of Water HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Avengers 4K MA $7
Avengers Age Of Ultron HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Avengers Confidental Black Widow And Punisher HD MA $5.50
Avengers Endgame HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Avengers Infinity War 4K MA $5 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Back To The Future HD MA $4
Back To The Future 2 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Back To The Future 3 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Back To The Future 3 Film Collection HD MA $11
Bad Boys For Life HD MA $4
Bad Grandpa HD VD/IT $3
Bad Mom's HD MA $3 HD iTunes $2.50
Bad Words HD ITunes $4
Bambi 2 HD GP $5.50
Barbie 2023 HD MA $6
Barbie Her Sisters Puppy Chase HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Battle Of The Year HD MA $3.50
Battleship 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Baywatch 4K iTunes $5.50 HD Vudu $4.50
Beauty And The Beast 2017 HDMA $3 HD GP $2
Beauty And The Beast 1991 HDMA $5 HD GP $3
Beauty And The Beast Enchanted Christmas HD MA $5.50
Bedknobs And Broomsticks HD GP $4.50
Before I Fall HD MA $4.50 iTunes $4
Beirut HD MA $4.50
Belly 4K Vudu $5.50
Ben-Hur 2016 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4.50
Big George Foreman 4K MA $5.50
Big Hero 6 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2
Birdman HD MA $5
Black Panther 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Black Panther Wakanda Forever 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Black Sea iTunes $4.50
Black Widow HD GP $4
Blair Witch 2 Film Collection HD Vudu $6.50
Bobs Burgers Movie HD GP $4
Book Club HD VD/IT $3.50
Book Of Life HD MA $3.50
Boss Baby HD MA $3.50
Bourne Jason Bourne 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2
Bourne Legacy HD MA $3
Boyhood HD VD/IT $3
Brave HD GP $4.50
Breaking In Unrated HD MA $4
Breakthrough HD MA $4
Brian Banks HD MA $3.50
Bring It On Cheersmack iTunes $3
Brother Bear HD MA $7
Brother Bear 2 HD MA $7 HD GP $6.50
Bullet Train 4K MA $6
Call Jane 4K VD/IT $5
Captain America Civil War HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Captain America First Avenger HD MA $5 HD GP $3.50
Captain America Winter Soldier HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Captain Marvel 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Captain Phillips SD MA $2
Captain Underpants First Epic Movie HD MA $3.50
Cars HD GP $4
Cars 3 4K MA $4.50 HDMA/4KIT $3.50 HD GP $2
Cats 2019 HD MA $4.50
Celebrating Mickey HD MA $5.50 HD GP $5
Chappie HD MA $4
Christopher Robin HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Cinderella 1950 4K MA $6 HD MA $5 HD GP $4.50
Cinderella 2 HD MA $6.50 HD GP $6
Cinderella 3 HD MA $6.50 HD GP $6
Cinderella 2015 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Clerks 3 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Clifford 2021 HDVD/4KIT $4
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 SD MA $2.50
Coco HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Cold Pursuit 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $4
Columbiana HD MA $4
Company Of Heroes HD MA $4.50
Contraband iTunes $4
Cowboys And Aliens iTunes $4
Crawl 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $4
Creed 3 HD Vudu $3.50
Criminal 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $4
Cruella 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Daddys Home 4K ITunes $4.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Daddys Home 2 4K ITunes $5 HD Vudu $4
Danny Collins HD Itunes $3
Dark Skies HD Vudu $4.50
Darkest Hour 2017 4K MA $5 HD MA $3.50
Date Night iTunes $4
Dead In Tombstone Unrated HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
Dead Man Down HD MA $4
Deadpool 4k iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Deadpool 2 HD MA $4
Death On The Nile HD GP $4
Deepwater Horizon 4K ITunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Denial HD MA $4 HD
Despicable Me 4K MA $6 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Despicable Me 2 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $3
Despicable Me 3 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Despicable Me Minion Madness iTunes $4
Despicable Me Minions 2 Film Collection Minions/Rise Of Gru HD MA $7.50
Despicable Me Minions 4K MA $5 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Despicable Me Minions Rise Of Gru HD MA $4.50
Detective Knight Rogue HD VD/IT $4
Devotion 4K VD/IT $5.50
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days HD MA $4
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Long Haul HD MA $3
Die Hard HD MA $4
Die Hard 2 Die Harder HD MA $4.50
Die Hard 3 With A Vengeance HD MA $4.50
Die Hard 4 Live Free Or Die Hard HD MA $3.50
Die Hard 5 A Good Day To Die Hard HD MA $3.50
Dig 4K VD/IT $5
Dirty Grandpa HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
Disney Nature Monkey Kingdom HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Disney Pixar Short Films Collection Vol 3 HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
District 9 4K MA $5.50
Divergent 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Divergent Insurgent 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Django Unchained HD Vudu $4
Doctor Strange 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Doctor Strange Multiverse HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Don Jon iTunes $4
Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot HD Vudu $4.50
Downsizing HD VD/IT $3
Dracula Untold HD MA $3.50 iTunes $3
Dredd 4K VD/IT $4
Dumbo 2019 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Dying Of The Light SD Vudu $2.50
Earth Girls Are Easy HD Vudu $4
Edge Of Seventeen HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
El Chicano HD MA $3
Empire Of Light HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Encanto 4K MA $6 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Enders Game 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Epic HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
Equalizer HD MA $4
Equalizer 2 HD MA $4
Equalizer 3 HD MA $5.50
Escape Plan 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
ET 4K MA $6 4K ITunes $5.50 HD MA $4
Eternals 4K MA $6 HD GP $3
Everything Everywhere HD Vudu $5
Evil Dead 2 HD Vudu $4
Ex Machina HD Vudu $4
Exorcist 4K MA $6
Expendables 1-4 Film Collection 4K Vudu $17 HD Vudu $12
Expendables 1 4K VD/IT $5
Expendables 2 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Expendables 3 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $2
Fantastic Four 2015 HD MA $4.50
Fast And Furious 1 4K MA $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Fast And Furious 6 4K ITunes $2.50 6 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 7 4K iTunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 8 4K Itunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 1-8 Film Collection HD MA $11
Fast And Furious 1-9 Film Collection HD MA $14
Fast And Furious 1-10 Film Collection HD MA $17
Fast And Furious Hobbs And Shaw HD MA $4
Fault In Our Stars 4K Itunes $3.50 HD MA $2
Ferdinand HD MA $4
Fifty Shades Darker Unrated HD MA $2.50
Fifty Shades Of Grey Unrated 4K MA $2.50 4K iTunes $2 HD MA $1.50
Finding Dory HDMA/4KIT $3.50 HD GP $1.50
Finding Nemo HD GP $3.50
First Cow HD Vudu $5.50
Flight HD Vudu $3.50
Florence Foster Jenkins HD Vudu $4 HD Itunes $3
Fox And The Hound 2 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Free Guy 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Frozen 4K MA $4.50 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $1
Frozen 2 4K MA $4.50 HD GP $2
Frozen Olaf Frozen Adventure HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Frozen Sing Along Edition HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Fury HD MA $3.50
Game Of Thrones Season 5 iTunes $4.50
Gamer 3D HD VD/IT $3.50
Gemini Man 4K Vudu $4.50
Get A Job SD Vudu $2
Get Out 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Ghost In The Shell 2017 4K ITunes $5 HD Vudu $3.50
Ghostbusters Answer Call Extended/Theatrical HD MA $4
GI Joe Retaliation 4K Vudu $4 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2.50
GI Joe Rise Of Cobra iTunes $4
Girls Trip HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Glengarry Glen Ross HD Vudu $5
Godfather 1 4K iTunes $6
Gods Not Dead 2 HD MA $2 iTunes $1.50
Gods Not Dead A Light In Darkness HD MA $3
Gods Of Egypt 4K iTunes $4.50 SD Vudu $2
Good Kill HD VD/IT $4
Goodbye Christopher Robin HD MA $4.50
Goosebumps HD MA $4
Goosebumps 2 HD MA $4
Grace Unplugged HD Vudu $4
Grand Budapest Hotel HD MA $4.50
Green Room HD Vudu $5
Grown Ups 2 HD MA $4
Guardians Of The Galaxy 4K MA $6.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2
Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $1.50
Guilt Trip HD VD/IT $4
Hacksaw Ridge 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2.50
Halloween 2018 HD MA $4
Halloween Kills HD MA $4
Haywire Itunes $3.50
Heat 4K MA $5
Heaven Is For Real HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Hell Or High Water 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Hellboy 2019 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Hercules 2014 HD VD/IT $3
Here Comes The Boom SD MA $2
Hereditary HD Vudu $4
Hilary's America SD Vudu $2
Hillsong Let Hope Rise HD MA $1 HD iTunes $1
Hitman's Bodyguard 4K Vudu $5 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard 4K VD/IT $5.50
Hocus Pocus HD MA $5 HD GP $3
Home 2015 HD MA $3.50
Home Alone HDMA/4KIT $5
Home Alone 2 HD MA $4
Hope Springs HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Hotel Transylvania HD MA $4
Hotel Transylvania 3 SD MA $2.50
Hostiles 4K VD/IT $6
How To Train Your Dragon 1-3 Film Collection HD MA $10
Hugo SD VD/IT $2
Hunger Games 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $1 SD Vudu $0.50
Hunger Games Catching Fire 4K Vudu $4.50 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $1.50 SD Vudu $0.50
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $1.50
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 HD Vudu $3
Hunger Games 4 Film Collection 4K Vudu $15 HD Vudu $6.50
Hunter Killer HD Vudu $3.50
I Can Only Imagine HD VD/IT $3
I Feel Pretty Itunes $2.50
I Frankenstein HD VD/IT $3.50
Ice Age 5 Film Collection HD MA $18
Ice Age HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Christmas Special HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Continental Drift HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Dawn Of The Dinosaurs HD MA $4.50
Ides Of March HD MA $4.50
Incarnate iTunes $4
Incredibles 2 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $3
Indiana Jones 4 Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull 4K VD/IT $6
Indiana Jones 5 Dial Of Destiny HD MA $5.50
Independence Day 2 Film HD MA $8
Independence Day HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Independence Day Resurgence HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Inferno HD MA $4
Inside Out HDMA/4KIT $5.50 HD GP $3.50
Instructions Not Included HD Vudu $4 SD Vudu $2
Interstellar 4K VD/IT $5.50 HD Vudu $3
Into The Woods HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Iron Man HD GP $4.50
Iron Man 3 HD GP $3.50
Iron Man And Hulk Heroes United HD MA $5
Iron Mask HDVD/4KIT $5.50
It's A Wonderful Life 4K VD/IT $6
Jack And Jill HD MA $4
Jack Reacher Never Go Back 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Jackass 3 HD VD/IT $4.50
James Bond Connery Collection Volume 1 HD Vudu $14
James Bond Connery Collection Volume 2 HD Vudu $14
James Bond Daniel Craig 4 Film Collection HD Vudu $11
James Bond Skyfall HD Vudu $1.50
James Bond Spectre HD Vudu $3.50
Jarhead 2 HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Jarhead 3 HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Jaws 4K MA $6
Jay And Silent Bob Reboot HD VD/IT $4.50
Jigsaw 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Joe Dirt 2 HD MA $4.50
John Wick 1 4K iTunes $3 HD Vudu $1
John Wick 1 And 2 Combo HD Vudu $2.50
John Wick 2 HD Vudu $2
John Wick 3 HDVD/4KIT $4
Journey To Bethlehem HD MA $5
Jumanji 2 Film (Welcome To The Jungle/Next Level) HD MA $6.50
Jumanji Welcome To The Jungle HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Jungle Book 1967 HD GP $4.50
Jungle Cruise 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Jurassic Dominion 4K MA $5.50
Jurassic Park 4K MA $4 HD MA $3
Jurassic World 4K Itunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom HD MA $3
Jurassic 5 Film Collection 4K MA $15
Jurassic 6 Film Collection HD MA $15
Justice 2017 HD MA $4
Justin Bieber Never Say Never Itunes $1.50
Kickass 2 HD MA $4
Killer Elite iTunes $3
King Kong 2005 4K MA $6
Kingsman The Golden Circle 4K ITunes $4
Kingsman The Secret Service 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3
Knock At The Cabin HD MA $4.50
Krampus iTunes $4.50
Lady And The Tramp HD MA $5
Lady And The Tramp 2 Scamps Adventure HD MA $6 HD GP $5
La La Land HD Vudu $3.50
Lara Croft Tomb Raider HD Vudu $4
Last Vegas HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Lee Daniels The Butler HD Vudu $4
Legends Of Oz Dorothy's Return HD MA $5
Leperchaun 8 Film Collection HD Vudu $13
Leprechaun Origins HD VD $3
Let Him Go HD MA $4
Life Of Pi Itunes $4 HD MA $3
Lightyear 4K MA $6 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2.50
Lilo And Stitch HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Lilo And Stitch 2 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Lion King 1994 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Lion King 2019 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Little Mermaid 1989 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Little Mermaid 2023 HD MA $5.50
Lone Ranger HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Lone Survivor 4K MA $5.50 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2.50
Longest Ride 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Looper HD MA $4.50
Lorax 2012 HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Lucy 4K MA $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $3
Machine Gun Preacher iTunes $4
Madea's Witness Protection VD $2
Maggie HD Vudu $3
Maleficent 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2.50
Maleficent Mistress Of Evil HD GP $3.50
Marvins Room HD VD/IT $4
Mary Poppins HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Mary Poppins Returns 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $3
Max Payne Unrated iTunes $4
Mechanic Resurrection 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Megan Leavey HDMA/iTunes $2
Men In Black 3 HD MA $3
Men In Black International 4K MA $5
Mickeys Christmas Carol HD MA $6
Mickey Classic Shorts Volume 1 HD MA $6 HD GP $5
Mickey Classic Shorts Volume 2 HD MA $6
Midsommar HD Vudu $5.50
Midway 4K VD/IT $5 HD GP $3
Mile 22 4K iTunes $5
Million Dollar Arm HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates HD MA $4.50
Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children HD MA $4
Mission Impossible 1 HD Vudu $3.50
Mission Impossible 2 HD Vudu $3.50
Mission Impossible 3 4K iTunes $4
Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Mission Impossible 5 Rogue Nation 4K Vudu $4.50 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Mission Impossible 6 Fallout 4K Vudu $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Moana HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $3
Moneyball HD MA $4
Monsters University HD GP $4.50
Morbius 4K MA $5.50 SD MA $2
Mr Peabody And Sherman HD MA $4.50
Mud HD Vudu $3
Mulan 1 HD MA $6 HD GP $5
Mulan 2 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Mulan 2020 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Mummy 1932 4K iTunes $4.50
Murder On The Orient Express HD MA $4.50
My All American HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
My Girl 1 And 2 Film Collection SD MA $6
Need For Speed HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4.50 HD GP $4
News Of The World HD MA $4.50
Night At The Museum Secret Tomb HD MA $3
Nightmare Before Christmas 4K MA $6 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
No Escape HD Vudu $4
No Good Deed 2014 HD MA $3.50
Noah 2014 Itunes $3.50
Nonstop 4K Itunes $5 HD MA $4
Norm Of The North HD Vudu $3
Now You See Me HD VD/IT $2 SD Vudu $1
Now You See Me 2 SD Vudu $1.50
Nutcracker And The Four Realms 4K MA $5 HD GP $3
Oblivion 4k iTunes $4 HD MA $3
Office Christmas Party 4K iTunes $5.50 HD Vudu $4.50
Olympus Has Fallen HD MA $4.50
Onward HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Overdrive HD Vudu $4 iTunes $2.50
Oz The Great And Powerful HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Paddington HD Vudu $4.50
Pain And Gain HD Vudu $4
Paranormal Activity 3 HD VD/IT $1
Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimensions HD VD/IT $3
Parental Guidance HD MA $4 iTunes $3
Parker SD MA $2
Patriots Day 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 SD MA $2.50
Peanuts The Movie HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters HD MA $2.50
Pet Semetary 2019 4K Vudu $5 4K Itunes $4.50
Peter Pan HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4
Peter Pan 2 Return To Neverland HD MA $6 HD GP $5.50
Petes Dragon 2016 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Pinocchio 1940 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Pirates Of The Caribbean DMTNT HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Pitch Perfect 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Pitch Perfect 2 4K ITunes $4 HD MA $2
Planes HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Planes Fire And Rescue HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Planes Trains And Automobiles HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Planet Of The Apes "Dawn" HDMA/4KIT $3.50
Pocahontas HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Pocahontas 2 HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Poltergeist 4K MA $5.50
Precious Cargo HD VD/IT $3.50
Predator 4 Film Collection 4K MA $19
Premium Rush HD MA $4.50 SD MA $2
Prey For The Devil 4K Vudu $5.50 HDVD/4KIT $4.50
Psycho HD MA $4
Public Enemies iTunes $4
Queen And Slim 4K MA $6
Queen Of Katwe HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Rambo First Blood HD Vudu $3
Rambo Last Blood 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Raya And The Last Dragon HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Red 2 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Red Dawn 2012 HD MA $4.50 iTunes $4
Redemption HD VD $3
Replicas HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Rescuers HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Rescuers Down Under HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Reservoir Dogs 4K VD/IT $5
Resident Evil Death Island HD MA $4.50
Riddick Unrated Directors Cut HD MA $4 iTunes $4
Ride Along iTunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Ride Along 2 ITunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Rio 2 Sing Along HD MA $4
RIPD 4K ITunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Rise Of The Guardians HD MA $4
Rob Zombie Firefly 3 Film Collection HD Vudu $8
Robin Hood Disney 1973 HD MA $4 HD GP $2
Robocop HD Vudu $4.50
Rocketman 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Rocky 2 4K VD/IT $5
Rogue Warfare The Hunt SD VD/IT $2
Roman J Israel HD MA $3
Rons Gone Wrong 4K MA $6 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2.50
Saban's Power Rangers 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $3
Safe HD VD/IT $2.50
Same Kind Of Different As Me HD VD/IT $3
Samson HD MA $3
Savages iTunes $4
Saving Mr Banks HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Saw 7 Film Collection HD Vudu $13
Scarface 4K ITunes $5
Scream 1996 4K VD/IT $6 HD Vudu $4.50
Scream 2022 4K VD/IT $6
Scream 2 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Scream 5 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Season Of The Witch iTunes $4
Second Act iTunes $4
See No Evil 2 SD Vudu $3
Selma HD Vudu $2.50 HD Itunes $2
Serenity 4K MA $6
Seventh Son iTunes $3.50
Shang Chi HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Show Dogs HD MA $4
Sicario 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
Sing 4K ITunes $5 HD MA $4
Sisters Unrated Itunes $3
Sixteen Candles HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Skyscraper HD MA $3
Sleeping Beauty HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Sleepless Itunes $3.50
Smurfs Lost Village HD MA $4
Snatched HDMA/4KIT $4
Sniper HD MA $5
Sniper 2 HD MA $5
Sniper 3 HD MA $5
Sniper 4 Reloaded HD MA $4.50
Sniper 5 Legacy HD MA $4.50
Sniper 6 Ghost Shooter HD MA $4.50
Sniper 7 Ultimate Kill HD MA $4.50
Sniper 8 Assassins End HD MA $4.50
Snitch 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $3 SD Vudu $2
Snow White Disney HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Snow White And The Huntsman 4K Itunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Snowden HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
Sonic Hedgehog 4K VD/IT $6 HD Vudu $5
Soul 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Speed 4K MA $6.50
Spider-Man Across The Spiderverse HD MA $4.50 SD MA $3
Spider-Man Amazing Spider-Man 4K MA $6 HD MA $4
Spider-Man Amazing Spider-Man 2 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Spider-Man Far From Home HD MA $4
Spider-Man Homecoming 4K MA $6 HD MA $2
Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse HD MA $4.50
Spider-Man No Way Home 4K MA $6 HD MA $4
Spider-Man Tobey HD MA $4
Spider-Man 2 Tobey 2 Film Collection Theatrical/Extended HD MA $4.50
Spider-Man 3 Tobey HD MA $4
Spies In Disguise HD GP $3
Spy Unrated HD MA $4
St Vincent HD Vudu $4.50
Star Trek Beyond 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Star Trek Into Darkness 4K Itunes $3 HD Vudu $1
Star Trek 2 Wrath Of Khan 4K VD/IT $4 50
Star Trek 2009 4K iTunes $4.50
Star Wars Rogue One HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2
Star Wars Solo HD GP $4.50
Star Wars Ep 4 A New Hope HD GP $5.50
Star Wars Ep 5 Empire Strikes Back HD GP $5.50
Star Wars Ep 7 Force Awaken 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $2
Star Wars Ep 8 The Last Jedi 4K MA $5 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $2
Star Wars Ep 9 Rise Skywalker 4K MA $6.50 HD GP $3.50
Step Up All In SD Vudu $2.50
Step Up Revolution HD Vudu $3
Straight Outta Compton Unrated 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Strange World HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Suburbicon 4K Itunes $4
Super 8 HD Vudu $3.50
Superfly HD MA $3
Super Mario Bros Movie 4K MA $6 HD MA $5
Sweetwater HD MA $4
Taken iTunes $4
Taken 2 HDMA $4 iTunes $3.50
Tangled HD GP $4.50
Ted Unrated HD MA $3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 4K Vudu $4 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out Of Shadows HD Vudu $4
Terminator Dark Fate 4K Vudu $5.50 4K iTunes $4.50
Terminator Genesis 4K Vudu $5.50 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
That Awkward Moment SD MA $2
The A Team iTunes $4
The Adventures Of Tin Tin SD Vudu $2
The Artist SD MA $2
The Art Of Self Defense HD MA $3
The Best Man Holiday 4K iTunes $4.50
The BFG HD GP $4
The Boy HD MA $3.50 Itunes $3
The Bye Bye Man HD iTunes $4
The Cabin In The Woods 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
The Call HD MA $4.50
The Call Of The Wild HD GP $4
The Children HD Vudu $4.50
The Choice HD Vudu $3.50 iTunes $3 SD Vudu $2
The Commuter 4K VD/IT $5 HDVD/4KIT $4
The Croods HD MA $4.50 Itunes $3.50
The Croods 2 Film Collection HD MA $8
The Dentist 2 Film Collection HD Vudu $6
The Departed 4K MA $7
The Devil Inside SD Vudu $2
The Dilemma HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
The Duff HD Vudu $3
The Emoji Movie HD MA $3
The Exorcist 2 Film Theatrical/Extended 4K MA $6
The Gambler HD VD/IT $3.50
The Ghost Writer HD Vudu $4.50
The Girl On The Train 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3.50
The Good Dinosaur HD MA $4 HD GP $3
The Greatest Showman HD MA $4
The Gunman HD MA $2.50 HD iTunes $2
The Heat HD MA $3 Itunes $2.50
The High Note HD MA $3
The Host iTunes $4
The Imitation Game HD Vudu $4.50
The Internship HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
The Interview HD MA $4.50
The King Of Staten Island HD MA $4.50
The Last Duel HD MA $5 HD GP $4
The Last Witch Hunter 4K Vudu $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
The Legend Of Hercules HD VD/IT $3
The Machine HD MA $4.50
The Magnificent Seven 2016 HD MA $4
The Marksman HD MA $4
The Martian HDMA/4KIT $5
The Mask Of Zorro 4K MA $6
The Menu HD GP $4
The Mist 4K Vudu $6
The Monuments Men HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
The Mountain Between Us HD MA $4
The Mummy "Tom Cruise" 4K ITunes $5 HD MA $4
The Night Before HD MA $3.50
The Nut Job HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
The Nut Job 2 HD MA $4 Itunes $3.50
The Perfect Guy SD MA $2
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
The Possession HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
The Purge 4 Film Collection HD MA $14
The Purge 5 Film Collection HD MA $17
The Purge 4K MA $5 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Anarchy 4K MA $5.50 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Election Year 4K MA $5.50 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Forever Purge HD MA $4.50
The Raven iTunes $4
The Rocker iTunes $4
The Santa Clause HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Santa Clause 2 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Santa Clause 3 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Secret Garden 2020 4K Vudu $5 Itunes $3.50
The Secret Life Of Pets 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2.50
The Shack HD VD/IT $3.50
The Shallows HD MA $4.50
The Spectacular Now HD Vudu $4 SD Vudu $2
The Star SD MA $2
The Sting 4K iTunes $5
The Sum Of All Fears 4K VD/IT $5.50
The Upside iTunes $4
The Vanishing HD VD $3.50
The Vow SD MA $1.50
The Warriors Way iTunes $3
The Whale HD Vudu $6
The Wedding Ringer HD MA $3
The Witch HD Vudu $4.50
The Wolf On Wall Street 4K Vudu $6 4K iTunes $5.50
This Is 40 HD MA $4
This Is The End HD MA $4
Thor HD GP $4
Thor Dark World HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $2
Thor Love And Thunder HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Thor Ragnarok 4K MA $6 HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Three Billboards Outside Missouri HD MA $4.50
Thumbelina HD MA $6
Tinkerbell Pirate Fairy HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Titanic 4K VD/IT $6
To Kill A Mockingbird 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Top Gun 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $3.50
Top Gun Maverick 4K VD/IT $5.50
Total Recall 1990 HD Vudu $4
Tower Heist Itunes $3
Toy Story 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $5.50 HD GP $3
Toy Story 4 4K MA $4.50 4KIT/HDMA $3.50 HD GP $2
Trainwreck 4K iTunes $5
Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Transformers 4 The Last Knight 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Transformers 5 Age Extinction 4K VD/IT $4 HD Vudu $3
Transformers Bumblebee 4K iTunes $4.50 4K HD Vudu $3
Transformers Rise Of The Beasts 4K VD/IT $6
Trauma Center HDVD/4KIT $3.50
Trolls HD MA $3.50
True Blood Season 2 Itunes $4
Turning Red HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Twilight Eclipse HD Vudu $4.50
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 HDVD/4KIT $5
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 4K iTunes $2 HD Vudu $1 SD Vudu $0.50
Twilight Complete 5 Film Collection 4K Vudu $19
Tyler Perry Madea Christmas Vudu $3
Tyler Perry Neighbors From Hell Vudu $3
Unbreakable 4K MA $5.50 HD GP $3.50
Unbroken 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Uncle Drew HDVD/4KIT $4.50
Underworld Awakening HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Unfinished Business HD MA $4.50
Universal Rewards Monthly Movies You Pick HD/4K MA "1 for $3.50 or 2 for $6"
Unknown iTunes $4
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets HD VUDU $4
Van Helsing 4K iTunes $5.50 HD MA $4.50
Vanquish HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Venom 4K MA $6 HD MA $3
Venom Let There Be Carnage HD MA $4.50
Violent Night 4K MA $6.50
Walking With Dinosaurs HD MA $3.50 HD iTunes $3
Wanted iTunes $4
War Room HD MA $3
Warcraft 4k iTunes $3.50 HD MA $2
Warhunt 4K Vudu $5
Warm Bodies 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
Warrior iTunes $4
Water For Elephants Itunes $4
We Die Young HD VD/IT $4
What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas iTunes $4
West Side Story 2021 HD MA $3 HD GP $2.50
What To Expect When Your Expecting HD Vudu $3.50
When The Game Stands Tall SD MA $1.50
White House Down HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Winnie Pooh Springtime With Roo HD MA $4.50
Winnie Pooh A Very Merry Pooh Year HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Wonder Park 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2.50
World War Z 4K iTunes $5 HD Vudu $4
Wreck It 2 Ralph Breaks The Internet 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Wrong Turn 5 Bloodlines iTunes $4
X-Men 3 Film Collection (X-Men/X-2/Last Stand) HD MA $13
X-Men 3 Film Collection (Apocalypse/Days Of Future Past/First Class) HD MA $12
X-Men Apocalypse HDMA/4KIT $5
X-Men Days Of Future Past HDMA/4KIT $5
X-Men Days Of Future Past Rogue Cut HDMA/4KIT $6
X-Men Logan 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3
X-Men The New Mutants HD GP $4.50
X-Men Wolverine Unrated HD MA $4 SD iTunes $2
XXX Return Of Xander Cage 4K iTunes $4 HD VD/IT $2.50
Zero Dark Thirty HD MA $4
Zootopia HD GP $3
TRADES FOR PERSONAL REDEEM LOOKING FOR LIST
These are some new release movies im looking for
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
Killers Of Flower Moon
The Kill Room
These are some older movies I know have codes I'm looking for
Battle For Sky Ark
Doubt
Judge Archer
Little Stranger
Once Upon A Time In The West
One From The Heart Reprise
Piercing
Stonewall
Throwdown
submitted by Rude_Respond3628 to DigitalCodeSELL [link] [comments]
I am open to trades if I don't already own it in my own personal collection. A list of codes I'm currently looking for and would trade for will be at the very bottom of my sales list.
2 Guns 4K MA $5 HD MA $3.50
12 Rounds 2 Reloaded HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
13 Hours 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
21 Jump Street SD MA $2.50
22 Jump Street HD MA $4 SD MA $2.50
31 HD Vudu $3
47 Meters Down HD Vudu $4.50 HD iTunes $4
101 Dalmatians 1961 HDMA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
101 Dalmatians 2 Patch's London Adventure HDMA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
A Haunted House 2 HD Itunes $3.50
A Quiet Place 4K iTunes $5 HD Vudu $3.50
A Wrinkle In Time 2018 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Abominable HD MA $4
Act Of Valor SD iTunes $2.50
Ad Astra 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $4
Admission HD iTunes $4
After HD MA $4
After Earth HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Aladdin 1992 4K MA $6.50 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Aladdin 2019 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $3
Alex Cross HD VD/IT $3.50
Alien HD MA $4
Alien 2 HD MA $4.50
Alien 3 HD MA $5
Alien Resurrection HD MA $5
Alien Covenant HD MA $3
Alien Prometheus HD MA $3
Alita Battle Angel 4K MA $5
All Eyez On Me iTunes $4
All The Money In The World SD MA $2
American Assassin HDVD/4KIT $5
American Hustle SD MA $2
Amsterdam HD GP $4.50
Anchorman 2 HD VD/IT $3
Angry Birds HD MA $4
Annie 2014 HD MA $3
Ant-Man 4K MA $6.50 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3.50
Ant-Man And Wasp HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Apollo 11 HD MA $4.50
Apollo 13 4K MA $6
Aristocats HD MA $6.50
Arrival HD Vudu $3.50
Assassination Nation HD MA $3
Atlantis Lost Empire HD MA $7
Atlantis Milos Return HD MA $7
Atomic Blonde 4K iTunes $4.50
Avatar 2 The Way Of Water HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Avengers 4K MA $7
Avengers Age Of Ultron HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Avengers Confidental Black Widow And Punisher HD MA $5.50
Avengers Endgame HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Avengers Infinity War 4K MA $5 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Back To The Future HD MA $4
Back To The Future 2 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Back To The Future 3 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Back To The Future 3 Film Collection HD MA $11
Bad Boys For Life HD MA $4
Bad Grandpa HD VD/IT $3
Bad Mom's HD MA $3 HD iTunes $2.50
Bad Words HD ITunes $4
Bambi 2 HD GP $5.50
Barbie 2023 HD MA $6
Barbie Her Sisters Puppy Chase HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Battle Of The Year HD MA $3.50
Battleship 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Baywatch 4K iTunes $5.50 HD Vudu $4.50
Beauty And The Beast 2017 HDMA $3 HD GP $2
Beauty And The Beast 1991 HDMA $5 HD GP $3
Beauty And The Beast Enchanted Christmas HD MA $5.50
Bedknobs And Broomsticks HD GP $4.50
Before I Fall HD MA $4.50 iTunes $4
Beirut HD MA $4.50
Belly 4K Vudu $5.50
Ben-Hur 2016 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4.50
Big George Foreman 4K MA $5.50
Big Hero 6 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2
Birdman HD MA $5
Black Panther 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Black Panther Wakanda Forever 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Black Sea iTunes $4.50
Black Widow HD GP $4
Blair Witch 2 Film Collection HD Vudu $6.50
Bobs Burgers Movie HD GP $4
Book Club HD VD/IT $3.50
Book Of Life HD MA $3.50
Boss Baby HD MA $3.50
Bourne Jason Bourne 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2
Bourne Legacy HD MA $3
Boyhood HD VD/IT $3
Brave HD GP $4.50
Breaking In Unrated HD MA $4
Breakthrough HD MA $4
Brian Banks HD MA $3.50
Bring It On Cheersmack iTunes $3
Brother Bear HD MA $7
Brother Bear 2 HD MA $7 HD GP $6.50
Bullet Train 4K MA $6
Call Jane 4K VD/IT $5
Captain America Civil War HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Captain America First Avenger HD MA $5 HD GP $3.50
Captain America Winter Soldier HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Captain Marvel 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Captain Phillips SD MA $2
Captain Underpants First Epic Movie HD MA $3.50
Cars HD GP $4
Cars 3 4K MA $4.50 HDMA/4KIT $3.50 HD GP $2
Cats 2019 HD MA $4.50
Celebrating Mickey HD MA $5.50 HD GP $5
Chappie HD MA $4
Christopher Robin HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Cinderella 1950 4K MA $6 HD MA $5 HD GP $4.50
Cinderella 2 HD MA $6.50 HD GP $6
Cinderella 3 HD MA $6.50 HD GP $6
Cinderella 2015 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Clerks 3 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Clifford 2021 HDVD/4KIT $4
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 SD MA $2.50
Coco HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Cold Pursuit 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $4
Columbiana HD MA $4
Company Of Heroes HD MA $4.50
Contraband iTunes $4
Cowboys And Aliens iTunes $4
Crawl 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $4
Creed 3 HD Vudu $3.50
Criminal 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $4
Cruella 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Daddys Home 4K ITunes $4.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Daddys Home 2 4K ITunes $5 HD Vudu $4
Danny Collins HD Itunes $3
Dark Skies HD Vudu $4.50
Darkest Hour 2017 4K MA $5 HD MA $3.50
Date Night iTunes $4
Dead In Tombstone Unrated HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
Dead Man Down HD MA $4
Deadpool 4k iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Deadpool 2 HD MA $4
Death On The Nile HD GP $4
Deepwater Horizon 4K ITunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Denial HD MA $4 HD
Despicable Me 4K MA $6 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Despicable Me 2 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $3
Despicable Me 3 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Despicable Me Minion Madness iTunes $4
Despicable Me Minions 2 Film Collection Minions/Rise Of Gru HD MA $7.50
Despicable Me Minions 4K MA $5 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Despicable Me Minions Rise Of Gru HD MA $4.50
Detective Knight Rogue HD VD/IT $4
Devotion 4K VD/IT $5.50
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days HD MA $4
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Long Haul HD MA $3
Die Hard HD MA $4
Die Hard 2 Die Harder HD MA $4.50
Die Hard 3 With A Vengeance HD MA $4.50
Die Hard 4 Live Free Or Die Hard HD MA $3.50
Die Hard 5 A Good Day To Die Hard HD MA $3.50
Dig 4K VD/IT $5
Dirty Grandpa HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
Disney Nature Monkey Kingdom HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Disney Pixar Short Films Collection Vol 3 HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
District 9 4K MA $5.50
Divergent 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Divergent Insurgent 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Django Unchained HD Vudu $4
Doctor Strange 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2.50
Doctor Strange Multiverse HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Don Jon iTunes $4
Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot HD Vudu $4.50
Downsizing HD VD/IT $3
Dracula Untold HD MA $3.50 iTunes $3
Dredd 4K VD/IT $4
Dumbo 2019 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Dying Of The Light SD Vudu $2.50
Earth Girls Are Easy HD Vudu $4
Edge Of Seventeen HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
El Chicano HD MA $3
Empire Of Light HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Encanto 4K MA $6 HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Enders Game 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Epic HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
Equalizer HD MA $4
Equalizer 2 HD MA $4
Equalizer 3 HD MA $5.50
Escape Plan 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
ET 4K MA $6 4K ITunes $5.50 HD MA $4
Eternals 4K MA $6 HD GP $3
Everything Everywhere HD Vudu $5
Evil Dead 2 HD Vudu $4
Ex Machina HD Vudu $4
Exorcist 4K MA $6
Expendables 1-4 Film Collection 4K Vudu $17 HD Vudu $12
Expendables 1 4K VD/IT $5
Expendables 2 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Expendables 3 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $2
Fantastic Four 2015 HD MA $4.50
Fast And Furious 1 4K MA $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Fast And Furious 6 4K ITunes $2.50 6 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 7 4K iTunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 8 4K Itunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Fast And Furious 1-8 Film Collection HD MA $11
Fast And Furious 1-9 Film Collection HD MA $14
Fast And Furious 1-10 Film Collection HD MA $17
Fast And Furious Hobbs And Shaw HD MA $4
Fault In Our Stars 4K Itunes $3.50 HD MA $2
Ferdinand HD MA $4
Fifty Shades Darker Unrated HD MA $2.50
Fifty Shades Of Grey Unrated 4K MA $2.50 4K iTunes $2 HD MA $1.50
Finding Dory HDMA/4KIT $3.50 HD GP $1.50
Finding Nemo HD GP $3.50
First Cow HD Vudu $5.50
Flight HD Vudu $3.50
Florence Foster Jenkins HD Vudu $4 HD Itunes $3
Fox And The Hound 2 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Free Guy 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Frozen 4K MA $4.50 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $1
Frozen 2 4K MA $4.50 HD GP $2
Frozen Olaf Frozen Adventure HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Frozen Sing Along Edition HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Fury HD MA $3.50
Game Of Thrones Season 5 iTunes $4.50
Gamer 3D HD VD/IT $3.50
Gemini Man 4K Vudu $4.50
Get A Job SD Vudu $2
Get Out 4K iTunes $5 HD MA $4
Ghost In The Shell 2017 4K ITunes $5 HD Vudu $3.50
Ghostbusters Answer Call Extended/Theatrical HD MA $4
GI Joe Retaliation 4K Vudu $4 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2.50
GI Joe Rise Of Cobra iTunes $4
Girls Trip HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Glengarry Glen Ross HD Vudu $5
Godfather 1 4K iTunes $6
Gods Not Dead 2 HD MA $2 iTunes $1.50
Gods Not Dead A Light In Darkness HD MA $3
Gods Of Egypt 4K iTunes $4.50 SD Vudu $2
Good Kill HD VD/IT $4
Goodbye Christopher Robin HD MA $4.50
Goosebumps HD MA $4
Goosebumps 2 HD MA $4
Grace Unplugged HD Vudu $4
Grand Budapest Hotel HD MA $4.50
Green Room HD Vudu $5
Grown Ups 2 HD MA $4
Guardians Of The Galaxy 4K MA $6.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $2
Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $1.50
Guilt Trip HD VD/IT $4
Hacksaw Ridge 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2.50
Halloween 2018 HD MA $4
Halloween Kills HD MA $4
Haywire Itunes $3.50
Heat 4K MA $5
Heaven Is For Real HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Hell Or High Water 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Hellboy 2019 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Hercules 2014 HD VD/IT $3
Here Comes The Boom SD MA $2
Hereditary HD Vudu $4
Hilary's America SD Vudu $2
Hillsong Let Hope Rise HD MA $1 HD iTunes $1
Hitman's Bodyguard 4K Vudu $5 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard 4K VD/IT $5.50
Hocus Pocus HD MA $5 HD GP $3
Home 2015 HD MA $3.50
Home Alone HDMA/4KIT $5
Home Alone 2 HD MA $4
Hope Springs HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Hotel Transylvania HD MA $4
Hotel Transylvania 3 SD MA $2.50
Hostiles 4K VD/IT $6
How To Train Your Dragon 1-3 Film Collection HD MA $10
Hugo SD VD/IT $2
Hunger Games 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $1 SD Vudu $0.50
Hunger Games Catching Fire 4K Vudu $4.50 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $1.50 SD Vudu $0.50
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $1.50
Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 HD Vudu $3
Hunger Games 4 Film Collection 4K Vudu $15 HD Vudu $6.50
Hunter Killer HD Vudu $3.50
I Can Only Imagine HD VD/IT $3
I Feel Pretty Itunes $2.50
I Frankenstein HD VD/IT $3.50
Ice Age 5 Film Collection HD MA $18
Ice Age HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Christmas Special HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Continental Drift HD MA $4.50
Ice Age Dawn Of The Dinosaurs HD MA $4.50
Ides Of March HD MA $4.50
Incarnate iTunes $4
Incredibles 2 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $3
Indiana Jones 4 Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull 4K VD/IT $6
Indiana Jones 5 Dial Of Destiny HD MA $5.50
Independence Day 2 Film HD MA $8
Independence Day HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Independence Day Resurgence HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Inferno HD MA $4
Inside Out HDMA/4KIT $5.50 HD GP $3.50
Instructions Not Included HD Vudu $4 SD Vudu $2
Interstellar 4K VD/IT $5.50 HD Vudu $3
Into The Woods HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Iron Man HD GP $4.50
Iron Man 3 HD GP $3.50
Iron Man And Hulk Heroes United HD MA $5
Iron Mask HDVD/4KIT $5.50
It's A Wonderful Life 4K VD/IT $6
Jack And Jill HD MA $4
Jack Reacher Never Go Back 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Jackass 3 HD VD/IT $4.50
James Bond Connery Collection Volume 1 HD Vudu $14
James Bond Connery Collection Volume 2 HD Vudu $14
James Bond Daniel Craig 4 Film Collection HD Vudu $11
James Bond Skyfall HD Vudu $1.50
James Bond Spectre HD Vudu $3.50
Jarhead 2 HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Jarhead 3 HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
Jaws 4K MA $6
Jay And Silent Bob Reboot HD VD/IT $4.50
Jigsaw 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Joe Dirt 2 HD MA $4.50
John Wick 1 4K iTunes $3 HD Vudu $1
John Wick 1 And 2 Combo HD Vudu $2.50
John Wick 2 HD Vudu $2
John Wick 3 HDVD/4KIT $4
Journey To Bethlehem HD MA $5
Jumanji 2 Film (Welcome To The Jungle/Next Level) HD MA $6.50
Jumanji Welcome To The Jungle HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Jungle Book 1967 HD GP $4.50
Jungle Cruise 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Jurassic Dominion 4K MA $5.50
Jurassic Park 4K MA $4 HD MA $3
Jurassic World 4K Itunes $2.50 HD MA $1
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom HD MA $3
Jurassic 5 Film Collection 4K MA $15
Jurassic 6 Film Collection HD MA $15
Justice 2017 HD MA $4
Justin Bieber Never Say Never Itunes $1.50
Kickass 2 HD MA $4
Killer Elite iTunes $3
King Kong 2005 4K MA $6
Kingsman The Golden Circle 4K ITunes $4
Kingsman The Secret Service 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3
Knock At The Cabin HD MA $4.50
Krampus iTunes $4.50
Lady And The Tramp HD MA $5
Lady And The Tramp 2 Scamps Adventure HD MA $6 HD GP $5
La La Land HD Vudu $3.50
Lara Croft Tomb Raider HD Vudu $4
Last Vegas HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Lee Daniels The Butler HD Vudu $4
Legends Of Oz Dorothy's Return HD MA $5
Leperchaun 8 Film Collection HD Vudu $13
Leprechaun Origins HD VD $3
Let Him Go HD MA $4
Life Of Pi Itunes $4 HD MA $3
Lightyear 4K MA $6 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2.50
Lilo And Stitch HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Lilo And Stitch 2 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Lion King 1994 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Lion King 2019 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Little Mermaid 1989 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Little Mermaid 2023 HD MA $5.50
Lone Ranger HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Lone Survivor 4K MA $5.50 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2.50
Longest Ride 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Looper HD MA $4.50
Lorax 2012 HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Lucy 4K MA $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $3
Machine Gun Preacher iTunes $4
Madea's Witness Protection VD $2
Maggie HD Vudu $3
Maleficent 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2.50
Maleficent Mistress Of Evil HD GP $3.50
Marvins Room HD VD/IT $4
Mary Poppins HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Mary Poppins Returns 4K MA $5.50 HDMA/4KIT $4.50 HD GP $3
Max Payne Unrated iTunes $4
Mechanic Resurrection 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Megan Leavey HDMA/iTunes $2
Men In Black 3 HD MA $3
Men In Black International 4K MA $5
Mickeys Christmas Carol HD MA $6
Mickey Classic Shorts Volume 1 HD MA $6 HD GP $5
Mickey Classic Shorts Volume 2 HD MA $6
Midsommar HD Vudu $5.50
Midway 4K VD/IT $5 HD GP $3
Mile 22 4K iTunes $5
Million Dollar Arm HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates HD MA $4.50
Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children HD MA $4
Mission Impossible 1 HD Vudu $3.50
Mission Impossible 2 HD Vudu $3.50
Mission Impossible 3 4K iTunes $4
Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Mission Impossible 5 Rogue Nation 4K Vudu $4.50 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Mission Impossible 6 Fallout 4K Vudu $4.50 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $2
Moana HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $3
Moneyball HD MA $4
Monsters University HD GP $4.50
Morbius 4K MA $5.50 SD MA $2
Mr Peabody And Sherman HD MA $4.50
Mud HD Vudu $3
Mulan 1 HD MA $6 HD GP $5
Mulan 2 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Mulan 2020 HD MA $4 HD GP $2.50
Mummy 1932 4K iTunes $4.50
Murder On The Orient Express HD MA $4.50
My All American HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
My Girl 1 And 2 Film Collection SD MA $6
Need For Speed HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4.50 HD GP $4
News Of The World HD MA $4.50
Night At The Museum Secret Tomb HD MA $3
Nightmare Before Christmas 4K MA $6 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
No Escape HD Vudu $4
No Good Deed 2014 HD MA $3.50
Noah 2014 Itunes $3.50
Nonstop 4K Itunes $5 HD MA $4
Norm Of The North HD Vudu $3
Now You See Me HD VD/IT $2 SD Vudu $1
Now You See Me 2 SD Vudu $1.50
Nutcracker And The Four Realms 4K MA $5 HD GP $3
Oblivion 4k iTunes $4 HD MA $3
Office Christmas Party 4K iTunes $5.50 HD Vudu $4.50
Olympus Has Fallen HD MA $4.50
Onward HD MA $3.50 HD GP $3
Overdrive HD Vudu $4 iTunes $2.50
Oz The Great And Powerful HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Paddington HD Vudu $4.50
Pain And Gain HD Vudu $4
Paranormal Activity 3 HD VD/IT $1
Paranormal Activity Ghost Dimensions HD VD/IT $3
Parental Guidance HD MA $4 iTunes $3
Parker SD MA $2
Patriots Day 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 SD MA $2.50
Peanuts The Movie HDMA/4KIT $4.50
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters HD MA $2.50
Pet Semetary 2019 4K Vudu $5 4K Itunes $4.50
Peter Pan HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4
Peter Pan 2 Return To Neverland HD MA $6 HD GP $5.50
Petes Dragon 2016 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Pinocchio 1940 HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Pirates Of The Caribbean DMTNT HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Pitch Perfect 4K iTunes $4 HD MA $2
Pitch Perfect 2 4K ITunes $4 HD MA $2
Planes HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Planes Fire And Rescue HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Planes Trains And Automobiles HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Planet Of The Apes "Dawn" HDMA/4KIT $3.50
Pocahontas HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Pocahontas 2 HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Poltergeist 4K MA $5.50
Precious Cargo HD VD/IT $3.50
Predator 4 Film Collection 4K MA $19
Premium Rush HD MA $4.50 SD MA $2
Prey For The Devil 4K Vudu $5.50 HDVD/4KIT $4.50
Psycho HD MA $4
Public Enemies iTunes $4
Queen And Slim 4K MA $6
Queen Of Katwe HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Rambo First Blood HD Vudu $3
Rambo Last Blood 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Raya And The Last Dragon HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Red 2 4K iTunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2 SD Vudu $1
Red Dawn 2012 HD MA $4.50 iTunes $4
Redemption HD VD $3
Replicas HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Rescuers HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Rescuers Down Under HD MA $4.50 HD GP $4
Reservoir Dogs 4K VD/IT $5
Resident Evil Death Island HD MA $4.50
Riddick Unrated Directors Cut HD MA $4 iTunes $4
Ride Along iTunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Ride Along 2 ITunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Rio 2 Sing Along HD MA $4
RIPD 4K ITunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Rise Of The Guardians HD MA $4
Rob Zombie Firefly 3 Film Collection HD Vudu $8
Robin Hood Disney 1973 HD MA $4 HD GP $2
Robocop HD Vudu $4.50
Rocketman 4K iTunes $4 HD Vudu $3
Rocky 2 4K VD/IT $5
Rogue Warfare The Hunt SD VD/IT $2
Roman J Israel HD MA $3
Rons Gone Wrong 4K MA $6 HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2.50
Saban's Power Rangers 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $3
Safe HD VD/IT $2.50
Same Kind Of Different As Me HD VD/IT $3
Samson HD MA $3
Savages iTunes $4
Saving Mr Banks HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Saw 7 Film Collection HD Vudu $13
Scarface 4K ITunes $5
Scream 1996 4K VD/IT $6 HD Vudu $4.50
Scream 2022 4K VD/IT $6
Scream 2 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Scream 5 HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Season Of The Witch iTunes $4
Second Act iTunes $4
See No Evil 2 SD Vudu $3
Selma HD Vudu $2.50 HD Itunes $2
Serenity 4K MA $6
Seventh Son iTunes $3.50
Shang Chi HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Show Dogs HD MA $4
Sicario 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
Sing 4K ITunes $5 HD MA $4
Sisters Unrated Itunes $3
Sixteen Candles HD MA $4 HD iTunes $3.50
Skyscraper HD MA $3
Sleeping Beauty HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3.50
Sleepless Itunes $3.50
Smurfs Lost Village HD MA $4
Snatched HDMA/4KIT $4
Sniper HD MA $5
Sniper 2 HD MA $5
Sniper 3 HD MA $5
Sniper 4 Reloaded HD MA $4.50
Sniper 5 Legacy HD MA $4.50
Sniper 6 Ghost Shooter HD MA $4.50
Sniper 7 Ultimate Kill HD MA $4.50
Sniper 8 Assassins End HD MA $4.50
Snitch 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $3 SD Vudu $2
Snow White Disney HD MA $5.50 HD GP $4.50
Snow White And The Huntsman 4K Itunes $3.50 HD MA $3
Snowden HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
Sonic Hedgehog 4K VD/IT $6 HD Vudu $5
Soul 4K MA $5.50 HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Speed 4K MA $6.50
Spider-Man Across The Spiderverse HD MA $4.50 SD MA $3
Spider-Man Amazing Spider-Man 4K MA $6 HD MA $4
Spider-Man Amazing Spider-Man 2 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Spider-Man Far From Home HD MA $4
Spider-Man Homecoming 4K MA $6 HD MA $2
Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse HD MA $4.50
Spider-Man No Way Home 4K MA $6 HD MA $4
Spider-Man Tobey HD MA $4
Spider-Man 2 Tobey 2 Film Collection Theatrical/Extended HD MA $4.50
Spider-Man 3 Tobey HD MA $4
Spies In Disguise HD GP $3
Spy Unrated HD MA $4
St Vincent HD Vudu $4.50
Star Trek Beyond 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $2.50
Star Trek Into Darkness 4K Itunes $3 HD Vudu $1
Star Trek 2 Wrath Of Khan 4K VD/IT $4 50
Star Trek 2009 4K iTunes $4.50
Star Wars Rogue One HDMA/4KIT $4 HD GP $2
Star Wars Solo HD GP $4.50
Star Wars Ep 4 A New Hope HD GP $5.50
Star Wars Ep 5 Empire Strikes Back HD GP $5.50
Star Wars Ep 7 Force Awaken 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $2
Star Wars Ep 8 The Last Jedi 4K MA $5 HDMA/4KIT $3 HD GP $2
Star Wars Ep 9 Rise Skywalker 4K MA $6.50 HD GP $3.50
Step Up All In SD Vudu $2.50
Step Up Revolution HD Vudu $3
Straight Outta Compton Unrated 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Strange World HD MA $5 HD GP $4
Suburbicon 4K Itunes $4
Super 8 HD Vudu $3.50
Superfly HD MA $3
Super Mario Bros Movie 4K MA $6 HD MA $5
Sweetwater HD MA $4
Taken iTunes $4
Taken 2 HDMA $4 iTunes $3.50
Tangled HD GP $4.50
Ted Unrated HD MA $3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 4K Vudu $4 4K Itunes $3.50 HD Vudu $2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out Of Shadows HD Vudu $4
Terminator Dark Fate 4K Vudu $5.50 4K iTunes $4.50
Terminator Genesis 4K Vudu $5.50 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
That Awkward Moment SD MA $2
The A Team iTunes $4
The Adventures Of Tin Tin SD Vudu $2
The Artist SD MA $2
The Art Of Self Defense HD MA $3
The Best Man Holiday 4K iTunes $4.50
The BFG HD GP $4
The Boy HD MA $3.50 Itunes $3
The Bye Bye Man HD iTunes $4
The Cabin In The Woods 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
The Call HD MA $4.50
The Call Of The Wild HD GP $4
The Children HD Vudu $4.50
The Choice HD Vudu $3.50 iTunes $3 SD Vudu $2
The Commuter 4K VD/IT $5 HDVD/4KIT $4
The Croods HD MA $4.50 Itunes $3.50
The Croods 2 Film Collection HD MA $8
The Dentist 2 Film Collection HD Vudu $6
The Departed 4K MA $7
The Devil Inside SD Vudu $2
The Dilemma HD MA $4.50 HD iTunes $4
The Duff HD Vudu $3
The Emoji Movie HD MA $3
The Exorcist 2 Film Theatrical/Extended 4K MA $6
The Gambler HD VD/IT $3.50
The Ghost Writer HD Vudu $4.50
The Girl On The Train 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3.50
The Good Dinosaur HD MA $4 HD GP $3
The Greatest Showman HD MA $4
The Gunman HD MA $2.50 HD iTunes $2
The Heat HD MA $3 Itunes $2.50
The High Note HD MA $3
The Host iTunes $4
The Imitation Game HD Vudu $4.50
The Internship HD MA $3 iTunes $2.50
The Interview HD MA $4.50
The King Of Staten Island HD MA $4.50
The Last Duel HD MA $5 HD GP $4
The Last Witch Hunter 4K Vudu $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
The Legend Of Hercules HD VD/IT $3
The Machine HD MA $4.50
The Magnificent Seven 2016 HD MA $4
The Marksman HD MA $4
The Martian HDMA/4KIT $5
The Mask Of Zorro 4K MA $6
The Menu HD GP $4
The Mist 4K Vudu $6
The Monuments Men HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
The Mountain Between Us HD MA $4
The Mummy "Tom Cruise" 4K ITunes $5 HD MA $4
The Night Before HD MA $3.50
The Nut Job HD MA $4 iTunes $3.50
The Nut Job 2 HD MA $4 Itunes $3.50
The Perfect Guy SD MA $2
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
The Possession HD VD/IT $3.50 SD Vudu $2
The Purge 4 Film Collection HD MA $14
The Purge 5 Film Collection HD MA $17
The Purge 4K MA $5 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Anarchy 4K MA $5.50 4K Itunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Election Year 4K MA $5.50 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
The Purge Forever Purge HD MA $4.50
The Raven iTunes $4
The Rocker iTunes $4
The Santa Clause HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Santa Clause 2 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Santa Clause 3 HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $3
The Secret Garden 2020 4K Vudu $5 Itunes $3.50
The Secret Life Of Pets 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $2.50
The Shack HD VD/IT $3.50
The Shallows HD MA $4.50
The Spectacular Now HD Vudu $4 SD Vudu $2
The Star SD MA $2
The Sting 4K iTunes $5
The Sum Of All Fears 4K VD/IT $5.50
The Upside iTunes $4
The Vanishing HD VD $3.50
The Vow SD MA $1.50
The Warriors Way iTunes $3
The Whale HD Vudu $6
The Wedding Ringer HD MA $3
The Witch HD Vudu $4.50
The Wolf On Wall Street 4K Vudu $6 4K iTunes $5.50
This Is 40 HD MA $4
This Is The End HD MA $4
Thor HD GP $4
Thor Dark World HDMA/4KIT $5 HD GP $2
Thor Love And Thunder HD MA $4.50 HD GP $3
Thor Ragnarok 4K MA $6 HD MA $3 HD GP $2
Three Billboards Outside Missouri HD MA $4.50
Thumbelina HD MA $6
Tinkerbell Pirate Fairy HD MA $3.50 HD GP $2
Titanic 4K VD/IT $6
To Kill A Mockingbird 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $3.50
Top Gun 4K VD/IT $5 HD Vudu $3.50
Top Gun Maverick 4K VD/IT $5.50
Total Recall 1990 HD Vudu $4
Tower Heist Itunes $3
Toy Story 4K MA $6 HDMA/4KIT $5.50 HD GP $3
Toy Story 4 4K MA $4.50 4KIT/HDMA $3.50 HD GP $2
Trainwreck 4K iTunes $5
Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon 4K iTunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Transformers 4 The Last Knight 4K VD/IT $4.50 HD Vudu $3
Transformers 5 Age Extinction 4K VD/IT $4 HD Vudu $3
Transformers Bumblebee 4K iTunes $4.50 4K HD Vudu $3
Transformers Rise Of The Beasts 4K VD/IT $6
Trauma Center HDVD/4KIT $3.50
Trolls HD MA $3.50
True Blood Season 2 Itunes $4
Turning Red HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Twilight Eclipse HD Vudu $4.50
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 HDVD/4KIT $5
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 4K iTunes $2 HD Vudu $1 SD Vudu $0.50
Twilight Complete 5 Film Collection 4K Vudu $19
Tyler Perry Madea Christmas Vudu $3
Tyler Perry Neighbors From Hell Vudu $3
Unbreakable 4K MA $5.50 HD GP $3.50
Unbroken 4K iTunes $4.50 HD MA $4
Uncle Drew HDVD/4KIT $4.50
Underworld Awakening HD MA $3.50 SD MA $2
Unfinished Business HD MA $4.50
Universal Rewards Monthly Movies You Pick HD/4K MA "1 for $3.50 or 2 for $6"
Unknown iTunes $4
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets HD VUDU $4
Van Helsing 4K iTunes $5.50 HD MA $4.50
Vanquish HDVD/4KIT $5.50
Venom 4K MA $6 HD MA $3
Venom Let There Be Carnage HD MA $4.50
Violent Night 4K MA $6.50
Walking With Dinosaurs HD MA $3.50 HD iTunes $3
Wanted iTunes $4
War Room HD MA $3
Warcraft 4k iTunes $3.50 HD MA $2
Warhunt 4K Vudu $5
Warm Bodies 4K Itunes $4.50 HD Vudu $3.50
Warrior iTunes $4
Water For Elephants Itunes $4
We Die Young HD VD/IT $4
What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas iTunes $4
West Side Story 2021 HD MA $3 HD GP $2.50
What To Expect When Your Expecting HD Vudu $3.50
When The Game Stands Tall SD MA $1.50
White House Down HD MA $4 SD MA $2
Winnie Pooh Springtime With Roo HD MA $4.50
Winnie Pooh A Very Merry Pooh Year HD MA $4 HD GP $3.50
Wonder Park 4K Itunes $4 HD Vudu $2.50
World War Z 4K iTunes $5 HD Vudu $4
Wreck It 2 Ralph Breaks The Internet 4K MA $6 HD MA $4 HD GP $3
Wrong Turn 5 Bloodlines iTunes $4
X-Men 3 Film Collection (X-Men/X-2/Last Stand) HD MA $13
X-Men 3 Film Collection (Apocalypse/Days Of Future Past/First Class) HD MA $12
X-Men Apocalypse HDMA/4KIT $5
X-Men Days Of Future Past HDMA/4KIT $5
X-Men Days Of Future Past Rogue Cut HDMA/4KIT $6
X-Men Logan 4K Itunes $4 HD MA $3
X-Men The New Mutants HD GP $4.50
X-Men Wolverine Unrated HD MA $4 SD iTunes $2
XXX Return Of Xander Cage 4K iTunes $4 HD VD/IT $2.50
Zero Dark Thirty HD MA $4
Zootopia HD GP $3
TRADES FOR PERSONAL REDEEM LOOKING FOR LIST
These are some new release movies im looking for
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
Killers Of Flower Moon
The Kill Room
These are some older movies I know have codes I'm looking for
Battle For Sky Ark
Doubt
Judge Archer
Little Stranger
Once Upon A Time In The West
One From The Heart Reprise
Piercing
Stonewall
Throwdown
2024.05.13 05:36 Lambari_de_sanga Fight, Shoot or Run? (List) (Termina)
I have nothing to do at the moment (and all day), so I'll post a list of whether you should fight, shoot or run from certain enemies (only enemies that can be shot in the overworld are included).
This is based on my opinion after my runs, so it might be biased/suboptimal.
Unique enemies now:
So, that's it. Comment anything you think it's wrong with this post, or any better strategies.
submitted by Lambari_de_sanga to FearAndHunger [link] [comments]
This is based on my opinion after my runs, so it might be biased/suboptimal.
- Early enemies (Moonscorched villagers, ghouls, headless hounds, riflemen):
- Weaker enemies (Fecal Hounds & Fallen Cherubs):
- Half Cocooneds + Pillarmen:
- Inquisitors + Crimson Fathers:
- Decrepit priests:
- Neighbors and Beekeepers:
- Rat hags, Soldier and Levi (doppelganger):
- Ronteals:
- Bobbies:
- Sew jobs:
- Owl cultists and Bellends:
- Death masks:
- Elite troopers and Flame troopers:
Unique enemies now:
- Woodsman:
- Vile:
- Chaugnar:
- Needles and Stitches:
- Centaur:
- Living flesh:
- The Mob:
- Father Hugo:
- Giant:
- Judgement:
- Mastermind:
- Mechanical dance:
So, that's it. Comment anything you think it's wrong with this post, or any better strategies.
2024.05.13 03:13 ArmaCityDillo9832 Ferry Tale
Probably one of my favorite episodes. I always laugh so much when watching but never remember to list it as one of my favorites.
Craig is absolutely hilarious and plays opposite Shawn and Gus perfectly.
submitted by ArmaCityDillo9832 to psych [link] [comments]
Craig is absolutely hilarious and plays opposite Shawn and Gus perfectly.
2024.05.13 01:38 critical_courtney [Hot Off The Press] — Chapter Seven
![[Hot Off The Press] — Chapter Seven](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/S_i5mg8WGrkOkYVSzzHeObYQjZiRdmtatEDfnFvvpvQ.jpg "[Hot Off The Press] — Chapter Seven") | https://preview.redd.it/atxfdqdvz20d1.jpg?width=1410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1de4b1144687f7d2213ad8e78959c33d045bcd3 submitted by critical_courtney to redditserials [link] [comments] My Discord Buy me a cup of coffee (if you want) Previous Chapter Chapter Seven: (Frankie) The newsroom was quiet at 5:30 p.m., which was a little strange on a Friday evening. Usually, the Friday news dump would have our reporters scrambling on at least one or two stories. We’d expected our governor to announce her decision on a new offshore wind farm application today, and she’d so far sent nothing. If Brian isn’t responding to my texts there must still be some last-minute meetings going on in Augusta, I thought. Brian Tildry was the governor’s executive assistant and my best source for news tips when it came to Maine’s executive branch. I walked over to our breakroom, opened Apple Pay, and got a candy bar from the vending machine. Sugar and caffeine are a journalist’s two best friends, I thought as I started to feel woozy for the second time today. Right as I started to open my Snickers bar, our IT person walked into the room and all but cornered me. The smell of cigarettes and hand sanitizer filled the air. “Frankie Dee, do you know what happens when you don’t respond to my text messages?” Sighing and lowering my dinner from my taste buds, who were now about to start a revolution at being denied sugar, I scanned our super short computer engineer. “Fun-sized,” I occasionally called them. Their name was Ghost, and they looked every bit the part. Pale skin, undercut, hair dyed white, and colored contact lenses that made their irises the color of flour. Ghost’s nails were painted gunmetal grey, and it was difficult not to stare at their tongue piercing every now and again. But they were a fucking wizard on a keyboard and didn’t give me too much shit about not being able to pay as well as news outlets in Boston’s market. “I’m sorry, Ghost. I’ve been on a Zoom call for the last hour with a new applicant for our printing press apprenticeship. I didn’t even have time to glance at my phone,” I said. After rolling their eyes, the IT expert said, “You know, when you’re using your phone for a Zoom call, you can respond to iMessages on your laptop, right? That’s why I set that up for you two months ago.” Rubbing my temples, I apologized again. “Because when you don’t respond to my texts asking me what time I can take our servers offline for maintenance tonight, I have to leave my den and come find you. Do you know what happens when I leave my den?” I shook my head. “People talk to me! Emma wanted to see my Cowboy Bebop tattoo, Richard asked if his computer had a virus (it didn’t), and Craig wanted me to listen to some new song from an Australian DJ. I don’t have the spoons to be a social butterfly, Frankie,” Ghost said. I fought a grin. Our IT expert was. . . not the most social person around. They preferred to stay in their office, and if you had a tech problem, you were supposed to email them. Don’t call them. Don’t holler for them. And definitely don’t knock on their door. We called their office a den because it was an icebox to keep the servers cool, the lights were usually off, and Ghost did not like to leave it. Hell, some days I didn’t even see Ghost in person. They were the only staff member with access to this building’s basement, and they used it to come in and out of the news office unseen. I almost respected that level of antisocial dedication. “I’d hardly call three conversations totaling less than 45 seconds much of a social outing, Ghost,” I snickered. And they honest to god hissed. “Answer. My. Texts. Please.” “Um, do I text you back now, or can I just tell you face-to-face?” “Well, I’m already here, so you might as well tell me in person. I swear to god, I’m going to take that job in Montreal,” they muttered. I stifled another giggle. Some people thought Ghost was a little prickly. And they absolutely were. But I always got a kick out of their quirks and did my best to be accommodating. “Midnight should be fine? I think our web traffic tends to drop off then for the night,” I said, rubbing my chin. They nodded and turned to leave. “Well, you certainly smoke enough to fit in with the other Québécois, but how is your French?” I watched our IT expert leave the room shortly before calling back, “Je t'emmerde.” I’ll need to remember to Google what that means later, I thought. The refrigerator in the breakroom started to hum and rattle as I stared at the yellow-ing appliance. Don’t get me wrong. We kept the inside immaculately clean. But she was approaching 30 years running. We didn’t have the money in our newsroom budget to replace it. Just another piece of technology we kept operating with engine grease and chewing gum. It matched the outdated blue and white cabinets that squeaked no matter what angle you opened them from. My shoes also squeaked as I walked across the white tile floor and finally started to eat my Snickers. I was half-finished with my dinner when I returned to my office and found Dawn waiting for me. The sight of her pleasant curves and sparkling emerald eyes spun my heart faster than a Beyblade. “H — hi, Dawn.” “The dinner of champions?” she asked, standing up and placing both hands on her hips. Hips I truly missed feeling against mine. C’mon, now. Professional, Frankie. Keep things professional, I thought, pushing those feelings away as best I could. Before I could answer, the witch walked forward, snatched the candy bar from my jaw, and folded the wrapper, placing it on my desk. “I know I don’t need to remind you of this, but dessert comes AFTER dinner, Frankie,” she said, gently pushing me toward the door after grabbing my small leather purse. All I could do was gasp. “Hey now!” I protested, but surprisingly, none of my employees came to my defense. In fact, I’m pretty sure Emma was audibly laughing. When we got outside, I anchored myself as best I could. “Where are you taking me?” She raised an eyebrow. “To get a proper dinner. Because I’m assuming the last real meal you had before that Snickers bar was a bowl of cereal this morning,” she said. I crossed my arms. “Frankie Dee, you’ve been in this office for — what — 12 hours today? Let’s take a fucking dinner break.” When I cocked my head to the side, she added, “As colleagues, not girlfriends. Geez. Lighten up. Coworkers get lunch together all the time. We can keep it professional. We don’t even need to trade chapstick.” With a slight wink, the witch left me paralyzed. The warmth of her cinnamon breath and the brush of her painted lips against mine like an artist shading a canvas was a potent memory. As I froze, Dawn giggled and again softly moved me down the sidewalk. We wound up walking down Congress Street a few blocks to the Munjoy Hill Inn, a tall and narrow building, its first story made of brick, and everything above that faded white siding. Seagulls screamed above us, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw one shit on a cyclist who nearly lost control of their bike and swerved madly to the left. He cursed and stopped to wipe his arm clean with a napkin from his pocket. That was the thing about these seagulls. You never knew when they were going to dump on you. I remember standing in line waiting for ice cream on a hot summer day when one shit on my shoulder, and some of it got into my hair. Fucking birds, I thought, shaking my head, remembering how I swore the entire walk home, all during the shower, and on the jog back to the newsroom. My foot scraped against the concrete on the sidewalk’s edge, jarring me back to reality. “Ope, easy there. You good? Looked like you tried to slip off the curb,” Dawn said, grabbing my arm before I faceplanted on Congress Street. “Let’s get you some proper dinner before you collapse.” The witch opened a single heavy wooden door and motioned for me to head inside. I said nothing, having eaten more than a few meals here. It was actually one of Dad’s favorites. He brought me here as a kid all the time for meal breaks. He was better about eating than I was. The interior of Munjoy Hill Inn was mostly exposed brick and chalkboards on the wall detailing drink selections and menu choices in plenty of colorful sketchings. Dawn found us a table next to the long wooden bar where a woman wearing a yellow button-down shirt and a blue jacket was shaking a cocktail in a mixer. The bartender made her way over to our table as the restaurant started to fill for the evening dinner rush. I ordered a personal pan pizza, to which, Dawn suggested I add a bowl of greens. She ordered a turkey sandwich. “At least try to get a few vegetables with dinner, won’t you?” she asked as the bartender took our menus. I scoffed. “I’m getting onions on my pizza. Thanks, MOM,” I said, slumping in my chair. This fucking witch, I swear. “What are you bitching about? I didn’t say anything about the garlic bread, did I?” I started to retort but was interrupted by the witch reaching into her purse and grabbing something to tie around my wrist. Before I could ask what she was doing, the witch had her hands back on her side of the table, and a tumbled gemstone was secured to my wrist with thin, black leather straps. “What is this?” I asked, pointing to the polished black stone. “Tourmaline. It absorbs negative energy. I’m hoping it’ll reduce your grumpiness about being forced to eat veggies with dinner. Is it working?” she asked. I didn’t want to do her the favor of admitting I did strangely feel a little better with this rock tied to my wrist. And it was very pretty, like an oil slick, but with more of an artistic flair. Behind us, a group of guys cheered at the Blue Sox game playing on a mounted TV. One nearly spilled his beer shouting something about a “hell of a pitch.” “It’s pretty,” I confessed. “But is it professional?” She shrugged. “If you don’t want it, give it back.” I clutched my wrist and pulled back with a frown. “No.” Dawn leaned over the table, her shadow covering the ciders we’d ordered, and she said, “Then it’s professional.” Scoffing, I drowned any snide remark I had left lingering in the booze. Our food came, and I found myself more ravished than expected. The garlic bread and pizza, I inhaled like a plate of cookies in front of a pink starfish. And the greens? Child’s play. I ate them faster than Billie could’ve. I immediately placed a second order for two more sides of garlic bread while Dawn giggled into her sandwich. “See what happens when you actually eat? You feel better,” she said. Finishing my cider, I found myself staring at the bracelet again. Its weight on my wrist felt. . . reassuring somehow. It was like someone made a small effort to protect me when the whirlpool I was struggling to avoid being swallowed by each day tore another piece of my ship. “I got our loan request back from Gorham First Security Bank,” I mumbled. Dawn raised an eyebrow. “They declined since we’re already paying back another business loan to Portland Community Credit Union. And my father only got that loan because he’s golf buddies with the president of that particular financial branch.” With a long deep sigh, I suddenly felt more vulnerable and yet relaxed than I had in a long time. Maybe it was having a warm meal in my belly. Perhaps it was the liquor. Or it could’ve been the pretty witch sitting across from me that just made me want to spill every little secret tucked away in my heart. I swear, she could coax every lock in Fort Knox to retire with a gentle smile. “I don’t mean to add any pressure, but if your astrology section launch could bring in a few more thousand subscribers, it’d be pretty great,” I said, staring out the window at a woman walking her golden retriever down the sidewalk. Dawn placed a hand on mine. “This newspaper is going to be the death of me,” I mumbled without thinking. And the witch’s eyes widened. “Hey, we don’t have to talk about work, you know? We can talk about literally anything else.” I devoured another piece of garlic bread, feeling the buttery goodness bring a little bit of relief to my sudden downpour of spirit. I wasn’t sure I wanted to ever get up from this table. Every weight in my body decided to drop anchor here tonight, and dammit if I lacked the confidence to shake it off. “I’ve got one. If you could date any fictional witch, who would it be?” Dawn asked, finishing her sandwich. The question caught me off guard, and I shook my head, mind rising from the current that’d been dragging it down for the last few minutes. “Excuse me?” I asked. “What? You’re obviously not going to date me because of ethics or some shit. So pick a fictional witch who doesn’t work for you to take on a date. Who do you choose?” A small Swanson-sized giggle escaped my throat as I considered the possibilities. This was an outrageous question. I dealt with facts. Indisputable data and information that my subscribers trusted me to deliver to them in a timely manner. “Does Raven from the Teen Titans count? Her grown-up version? I’m pretty sure she was a witch.” That earned me a small sympathetic smile from the new astrology editor. “More like an intergalactic telepath. Try again, FeeDee.” I ignored her use of the wrong name and pictured another group. “Oh! Those girls from Scooby Doo. You know — the ones in the band?” Dawn let loose a bellowing laugh that caught the attention of our baseball neighbors as they stared for a few seconds. When she got wind back in her lungs, she said, “The Hex Girls?” “Yeah! The Hex Girls.” My dinner partner nodded and stole a piece of garlic bread, tearing off a small bite before putting it back in the wicker basket. “Okay, The Hex Girls. All of them?” “Why not?” I asked. “Any or all. They could put a spell on me.” That mischievous grin worked its way back onto the witch’s face, the dangerous one that lured me to her house. . . and couch. . . and bed. I stifled a quick gasp. She definitely noticed but said nothing. “How about you?” I asked. “Who would you pick?” Without hesitation, Dawn said, “Oh, Bonnie Bennett for sure.” “From ‘Vampire Diaries’?” I asked. Dawn nodded with a satisfied smile on her face. “She was so badass. I’d fight Enzo for her any day,” the witch said as my phone vibrated. I checked a text, and it actually turned out to be a picture from one of my friends, a journalism professor at South Portland Community College, which sat right on the beach. There was a fire. A large white boat with yellow paint down the side. Shit, I thought, zooming in and realizing it was a ferry. She’d snapped the photo from the Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse. That’s the Bug Light Ferry. Standing up with every muscle in my body and mind starting to protest, I felt my hands shaking. Come on, Frankie! I thought. This is breaking news. You’ve done this thousands of times! Get to work. But my chest was starting to ache and throb. My legs wanted to give out and sit back down as weakness filled me. “What’s wrong?” Dawn asked with more concern in her voice than business partners typically give each other. “There’s a fire on one of the ferries that goes out to Peaks Island. I gotta get back to the newsroom,” I said, grabbing the table for support. More pain radiated from my chest, and I took short breaths, closing my eyes and willing it away. It didn’t work very well. “Why don’t you sit down? Text Emma or something. Isn’t this why you have an evening city editor?” I shook my head. “I mean — yes. That’s why I do. But what good is a managing editor who isn’t in the trenches with her reporters? They respect me because I’m always willing to hop in wherever there’s a gap. Covering meetings, writing stories, proofreading, and even taking pictures. I do it all, and this is going to be an all-hands-on-deck night.” Dawn furrowed her brow. “You’re awfully pale, Frankie. And you’ve already put in 12 hours today. I can see your legs shaking from here. Why don’t you sit back down, and I’ll give you a ride home? Seriously, I’m worried.” My heart was at war. On one front, I was demanding it give me the strength to power through an evening of breaking news. On another, it swooned over someone actually telling me to give it a rest for once. And not just anyone. . . but the girl I’d give anything to stop being professional with. The bartender came over with our ticket, and I put some cash on the table. “Keep the change,” I said, turning to go and nearly colliding with one of the baseball bros. He steadied me, and I apologized. Dawn was quickly beside me as I called Craig. “Where are you?” I asked, as soon as he picked up. “City Hall. They’re about to meet and vote on —” I interrupted him. “Scrap it. Take your camera and head to Bug Light. There’s a ferry on fire, and I want pictures. Use the big lens. Hustle over there, but take your time with the photos. It’s getting darker, so you’ll need to keep the camera more steady to get clear shots.” “You got it, boss,” he said. I sighed and walked outside, nearly spilling into the street again. What was it with my legs and this particular section of sidewalk? Fuck. “Don’t call me that,” I said, hanging up and immediately calling Emma. She answered, and I fired off a list of things to do, telling her I was on my way back to the newsroom. “Call the PIO for the US Coast Guard Station in SoPo. He doesn’t answer after hours, but he will check his voicemail through the night, so leave him a message. I’m going to text a contact who works in the dispatch office for the Bug Light Ferry system.” “Yes ma’am,” Emma said, hanging up. My chest throbbed even harder as I walked uphill toward the newsroom. Dawn tried one final time to convince me to let my night crew handle this. “I truly think you should rest, Frankie. You’re sweating and really pale.” Huffing, I walked and talked. “Seventy-five years the Portland Lighthouse-Journal has served as the leading source of news for Maine’s biggest city. Equity firms want to buy us out. Subscribers call and ask why they need us when they can get their news for free on Facebook. And the TV stations try to take our content at least three times a month. But we’re still here. A Ricci at the helm of this paper keeping the public informed is what’s kept us afloat for 75 years. And I can’t quit now, Dawn. I won’t. These are the moments they need us, and I refuse to let our readers down.” My hand clutched the doorknob of our office, and I took a steadying breath. It was going to be a long night of breaking news push alerts, redoing the front page layout, evening press conferences, and hopefully, news that everyone made it back to shore alive. I’d be there to cover it all with my team, chest pain be damned. |
2024.05.13 01:27 KahdinGray Meanwhile in an alternate universe....
 | https://preview.redd.it/qfw9glvdu20d1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6c20fa6eae45d5c82fab09daff4a60ae6e8da1c submitted by KahdinGray to nickelodeon [link] [comments] Some Nicktoons that Nickelodeon DO care about: SpongeBob SquarePants (14 seasons & 5 movies) El Tigre The Adventures Of Manny Rivera (7 seasons, A movie, A series finale Nintendo Switch exclusive game, & a spin off (El Tigre III: The Adventures Of A New Generation)) Fairly Odd Parents (10 seasons, 3 live action movies, & a revival (A New Wish)) Samurai Jack (Nickelodeon "bought" the rights to the show in 2014 and whenever they air Season 5 (Even when it premiered in 2017) they show a warning/disclaimer. Also the series finale is an hour long) Avatar The Last Airbender (3 seasons, A spin off (Legend Of Korra), & more to come) Rugrats (9 seasons, 3 movies, spin-offs, & a revival) Danny Phantom (3 seasons & a graphic novel) Dora The Exploerer (8 seasons, 2 movies, spin-offs, & a revival) Blue's Clues (6 seasons, a revival, & a movie) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Need I say more?) Some Nicktoons that Nickelodeon DON'T care about (Because they couldn't compete with SpongeBob or any of the shows listed above): The Loud House (Moved to Nicktoons, Cancelled after 4 seasons, And became a tax write off in 2023) Robot And Monster (Moved to Nicktoons & cancelled after 1 season) Fanboy & Chum Chum Welcome To The Wayne (Moved to Nicktoons & cancelled after 2 seasons) Harvey Beaks (Moved to Nicktoons & cancelled after 2 seasons) Wallykazam! (Cancelled after 2 seasons) Mighty B! (Cancelled after 2 seasons) Catscratch (Cancelled after 1 season) The X's (Cancelled after 1 season) Bunsen Is A Beast (Cancelled after 1 season) Sanjay & Craig (Cancelled after 3 seasons) Back At The Barnyard (Cancelled after 2 seasons) |
2024.05.12 23:38 Yokepearl Craig’s List: James Hagens emerges as potential No. 1 in 2025 NHL Draft lookahead
 | 2025 looks pretty heavy with forwards submitted by Yokepearl to hawks [link] [comments] |
2024.05.12 23:14 SigSauer_P6 CDC: COVID vaccine causes excess deaths
 | Will we have another hearing about this now? Accountability? Anything? submitted by SigSauer_P6 to AntiVaxxClub [link] [comments] “U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned. CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some of the deaths, according to an internal file obtained by The Epoch Times. Myocarditis was also described as being caused by vaccination in a subset of the deaths. In other cases, the CDC workers found that deaths met the agency’s definition for myocarditis, that the patients started showing symptoms within 42 days of a vaccine dose, and that the deceased displayed no virus-related symptoms. Officials say that after 42 days, a possible link between the vaccine and symptoms becomes tenuous, and they list post-vaccination deaths as unrelated if they can find any possible alternative causes. In cases with those three features, it’s “absolutely” safe to say that the vaccines caused the deaths, Dr. Clare Craig, a British pathologist and co-chair of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team Group, told The Epoch Times in an email.” |
2024.05.12 20:49 hotballs Des Moines Metro Public Bodies Meetings/Agendas for week of May 13th - May 17th, 2024
Adel
submitted by hotballs to desmoines [link] [comments]
- City Council meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. with agendas available by EOD Friday before the meeting. Agendas can be found here.
- Adel Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 14, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Adjusting Storm Water Rates
- Setting the FY2024-2025 Fees for Services
- Support for Increasing Board Membership of the Dallas County Board of Supervisors
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 2nd Monday of every month at 7 p.m. AND every 3rd Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m., which appears to be their Work Session meetings. Agendas can be found here.
- Alleman Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Nothing of interest this meeting
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 6:30 p.m. Agendas can be found here.
- Altoona Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 5:30 p.m. with agendas available by EOD Friday before the meeting. Agendas can be found here
- Ankeny Mayor and City Council
- You need to select Novus agenda and it takes you to a 3rd party website where you can then select the latest meeting type such as City Council, Action Planning, etc.
- City Council meetings can be viewed via Zoom, but only during the meeting. The City does not post the video of the Council meetings on either their website or YouTube.
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here
- Bondurant Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month at 6:30 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here on the right side of the website.
- Carlisle Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Moving May 27, 2024 Regular Council Meeting to May 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM
- Public Hearing For Specifications for Scotch Ridge Road And Highway 5 Intersection Improvements
- Ordinance 799 Amending Stop Signs To Allow Roll-out Stop Signs
- Discussion and Possible Action On Gravel Surfacing For County Line Road and SE 72nd Street
- City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of every month at 6 p.m. with the goal of having agendas posted no later than two business days prior to a meeting. Agenda Packets for 2024 can be found here and a collection of prior year agenda packets (2005+) and large construction set documents can be located here.
- Clive Mayor and City Council
- Latest City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 2, 2024
- City Council meets on the 2nd Mondays of every month and sometimes on the 4th Monday if needed at 7 p.m. They updated their website so in the new way to find their current agenda/packets is either on the front page of the website either under latest news in the center or to the right under upcoming events.
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Moving May 27, 2024 Regular Council Meeting to May 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here
- Dallas Center Mayor and City
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – April 29, 2024
- Dallas County Board of Supervisors meet every Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. Upcoming Supervisor Agenda Packets can be found here and Supervisor meetings prior to upcoming meetings can be located here.
- They do not post contact information for their three board of supervisors - Someone who lives in Dallas County please contact the County to post this information because it’s antithetical to an “open” government.
- Regular Board of Supervisors Meeting Agenda – May 14, 2024
- Items of interest:
- CAPITAL PROJECTS BUDGETING
- HEART OF IOWA COMMUNITY SERVICES 28E AGREEMENT
- Items of interest:
- If you work for Dallas County or know someone who works there, please tell the administration to include Supervisor agenda packets on the website.
- City Council meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. with agendas posted to the City website by the EOD Friday before the meeting. Agendas can be found here.
- De Soto Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda – April 16, 2024
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 5 p.m. with agendas being available by 4:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the meeting. Agendas can be found here. I will only do my top 5 as the media generally covers DSM Council meetings and the big topics.
- Des Moines Mayor and City Council
- City Council does usually have Work Sessions on the morning of regular City Council meetings (Mondays) at 7:30 a.m.
- City Council Meeting Agenda – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 3rd Monday of every month at 6 p.m. Agendas can be found here and Agenda Packets can located here (it seems like agendas are posted at a separate time compared to the full agenda packet.
- Elkhart does not provide contact information for their Mayor or City Council. If you live in Elkhart, please contact the City to ask that they put this information up on their website.
- City Council Meeting Agenda – April 22, 2024
- City Council meets on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. Agendas can be found here.
- Granger Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 8, 2024
- City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month at 5:30 p.m. and they try to have agendas available to view for the public published 24 hours in advance of the meeting. They have dates listed on their website when they will not meet during the year listed here.
- Grimes Mayor and City Council
- agenda & meetings page/calendar this does include their upcoming and previous meetings with agendas/packets if you scroll up or down.
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 14, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Public Hearing on Proposed Voluntary Annexation of Property Generally Located Along SE 19th Street/250th Street
- Second Reading of Ordinance 787 Amending Grimes Code of Ordinances Title 8 Public Ways and Properties, Title 11 Building Regulations, and Title 13 Subdivision Regulations
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 7 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here.
- Indianola Mayor and City Council
- City Council does have study sessions on topics that are before the regular City Council meeting at 6 p.m. and are open to the public.
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 7 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here This takes you to a 3rd party website where there appears to be no separate web pages for each Council meeting.
- Johnston Mayor and City Council
- City Council does have Work Sessions that are open to the public that occur before regular City Council meetings at 6 p.m.
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024 (On the desktop version, it is not a separate page from where the agendas are located so you have to click on meetings in the top right, find the Council meeting on the left, click view agenda, and then you can click on separate agenda items on the left to get more info)
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here
- Norwalk Mayor and City Council
- Tentative City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 16, 2024
- Items of interest:
- SW Corridor Update - Snyder & Associates
- Animal Control - Chief Staples
- Setting a Date of Meeting at which it is Proposed to Approve a Development Agreement with Dunn Industrial Condominiums LLC
- Public Hearing regarding Resolution of Necessity for The Ridge at Echo Valley Reconstruction Project
- Resolution approving the Site Plan of Legacy Circle Apartments
- Amending Water, Sewer, Recycling and Solid Waste Fees
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets for previous meetings can be found here but you have to select the particular meeting from a list under City Council Agendas (Their archive is not updated properly so you may need to contact staff at the city to fix this or request different agenda documents). Agendas for the upcoming City Council meeting can be located here on the left hand side of the web page.
- Pleasant Hill Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda – May 14, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Ordinances amending sewer, solid waste, recycling, and stormwater rates
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here
- Polk City Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Ordinances amending sewer, solid waste, recycling, and water rates
- Items of interest:
- Polk County Board of Supervisors meet every other Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. The schedule for the rest of the year as well as agenda packets for upcoming and previous meetings can be found here They also typically have work sessions on Wednesday or Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
- Polk County Board of Supervisors (You have to click on each Supervisors “Bio” to get their contact information)
- Board of Supervisors Meeting Agenda Packet – May 7, 2024
- City Council meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here on the right side of the website.
- Urbandale Mayor and City Council (On the left hand side of the webpage you have to select each person for their contact information)
- City Council does have Work Sessions that are open to the public that occur before City Council Meetings at 5:30 p.m. City Council also has Lunch and Learn meetings that are open to the public electronically on select Tuesdays at 11:45 a.m. (The public may access the conversation in person at Urbandale City Council Chambers the day of the meeting).
- City Council Lunch and Learn Meeting Agenda Packet – May 14, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Review Use of City Assets & Workforce for Non-City Engagements
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 2nd Monday of every month at 7 p.m. Agendas can be found here
- Van Meter Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Discussion & Possible Action: Resolution #2024-46 – Approval & Certification of the FY25 Budget
- Resolution of Support for Increasing Board Membership of the Dallas County Board of Supervisors
- Setting Date of Public Hearing Special Speed Zones to change the speed zone to 45 mph in the city limits along F-90
- Discussion & Possible Action: City’s policy & structure setting fees
- Items of interest:
- If you work for the City of Van Meter or know someone who works there, please tell the administration to include Council agenda packets on the website.
- Warren County Board of Supervisors meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month at 9:30 a.m. Agendas can be found here
- Warren County Board of Supervisors
- Board of Supervisors Meeting Agenda – May 7, 2024 They require you to download the agendas via PDF’s so there is no direct web link to the agendas
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 5:30 p.m. Agendas can be found here AND the agenda packets can be located here
- Waukee Mayor and City Council
- City Council will have Work Sessions and Special Meetings that usually occur on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.
- City Council Work Session Meeting Agenda Packet – May 13, 2024
- Items of interest:
- Alice’s Road Widening Project
- SE Olson Drive/SE Brick Drive intersection control update
- Kettlestone residential development overview
- Urban fowl discussion
- Pool and hot tub ordinance
- Items of interest:
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 5:30 p.m. Upcoming Council Agenda Packets can be found here (to see the packet for a meeting, click on the meeting under “Events” and then select one of the packet choices) and Council meetings prior to upcoming meetings can be located here
- West Des Moines Mayor and City Council
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024
- City Council meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month at 6 p.m. Agenda Packets can be found here
- Windsor Heights Mayor and City Council (You have to click on each person to get their contact information but you can fill out this form to send a message to the Mayor, the five city councilors, and the city administrator at once.
- They do have recaps of their City Council meetings which are located here
- City Council Meeting Agenda Packet – May 6, 2024
2024.05.12 17:35 InGenNateKenny (Spoilers Extended) The Slayer of Lies: False Dragons, Aegon the Conqueror, and Daenerys's Destiny
The House of the Undying has been puzzling readers since 1998. The "slayer of lies" portion has fermented countless theorizing:
Dragons are at the core of the events at the House of the Undying. Daenerys is in Qarth because Pyat Pree, Xaro, and Quaithe seek dragons, and she goes to the Undying to seek their counsel, inevitably involving her dragons. Drogon accompanies her, helps her find the way to the Undying, dragons appear in the visions several times (and Daenerys is often called “mother of dragons” in them), then Drogon fries the Undying. But not all dragons are the same:
Disregarding — for now — the intricacies of what makes someone a figurative “dragon,” no character in the main series comes close as to being “true dragon” as Daenerys. She is the last Targaryen, the mother of dragons, the rider of Drogon. This is known. She is a true dragon. But what about the false dragons?
In the House of the Undying, the Undying call Daenerys the “slayer of lies” after showing the three visions to her. In a vacuum that may mean that Daenerys a) will slay whatever or whomever the three lies represent and/or b) she will prove the lies false by her actions. That suggests that Dany represents the truth opposing the falsehood of the three lies.
So have the fact that Dany is a true dragon and that the Undying vision suggests Dany is true and the three lies are, well, lies. Let’s merge those ideas together — Dany, a true dragon, is the slayer of three false dragons — and see whether the visions themselves support this marriage. In the chapter after the visit, Dany describes the “cloth dragon” as a “mummer’s dragon”:
Now consider the "great stone beast”, a flying stone creature that lurks near smoke and breathes shadow fire. As described, the beast sounds awfully like a dragon — but moreso like an imitation of a dragon, a gargoyle, mayhaps — and an imitation is inherently false. Shadow fire is extra fake because "[s]hadows only live when given birth by light" (Davos III, ASOS). The stone beast is another representation of a false dragon.
If the two parts of the vision are false dragons, it would suggest the blue-eyed king is too. On passing glance, it does not seem like it is. However, consider this quotation from Maester Aemon:
Therefore, Dany being the slayer of lies means that the true dragon Dany is the "slayer of false dragons" makes sense. While most popular interpretations of slayer of lies put each lie as separate from each other (i.e. the blue-eyed king being a false Azor Ahai, the cloth dragon being a false Targaryen, etc.), it makes just as much sense — arguably more sense — that the three lies are all incarnations of one central falsehood.
The Dragon is a fitting epithet for Aegon I, the man known as the Conqueror and Aegon Dragonlord, he who (mostly) conquered Westeros atop Balerion the Black Dread through fire and blood. Aegon I chose the three-headed dragon as his banner, married his sisters in Valyrian fashion, and with an ancestry full of incest to keep the blood of the dragon pure. He seemingly even had dragon dreams. He wore a crown and bore a blade of Valyrian steel. Dangerous to his enemies but fair to vassals, Aegon embodied everything House Targaryen aspired to be — a true dragon — and many, some bearing his name, attempted to be Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again, a true dragon too.
Daeron the Dragon was amongst the most ambitious of the Targaryens who sought to be Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again. He worn the Conqueror's crown and bore his sword. He was determined to finish what Aegon I started in Dorne. Daeron named himself a dragon:
Daeron is not the only character compared to Aegon the Conqueror or hyped up as his successor who failed to reach his heights. Numerous historical figures — mostly Targaryens — were compared to Aegon I including Baelor Breakspear, Daemon Blackfyre, and Rhaegar Targaryen. None lived up to his legacy. Several main series characters are compared to Aegon or described as his heir — Drogo, Joffrey, Robb, Renly, and Rennifer Longwaters — but their claims to be Aegon the Dragon false. Just sitting the Iron Throne, having Targaryen ancestry, or being a warrior-king doesn’t make Aegon the Dragon:
Recall earlier that the slayer of lies vision was not three separate lies, but three incarnations of false dragons. If that interpretation is correct, then all three of the lies should have things in common, and Stannis, Aegon, and Euron share quite a few similarities, too many to highlight here. But there is one key one: All three seek the Iron Throne through fire — dragons — and blood — Targaryen heritage — and in doing so draw inspiration and comparisons to emulate Aegon the Conqueror. All three want to become king and dragons. This is known. But realizing that “fire and blood” is basically the foundation of their claim is subtler.
How do they seek the throne through blood? Well, the blood of inheritance is intrinsic to their claims. Stannis does so as Robert’s heir, and House Baratheon's claim to the throne is based on its Targaryen heritage. Aegon does so as House Targaryen’s heir, reinforced by marriage to his (alleged) aunt Daenerys. Euron, as far as we know, has no Targaryen blood, but like Aegon, via marriage to Daenerys, Targaryen blood is the means to the throne. In effect, all three men are seeking to use blood to justify their claims as the heir to House Targaryen, the blood of the dragon.
How do they seek the throne through fire? All three are dragon-seekers. Stannis covets a stone dragon to win his kingdom, his temptation to commit a horrible evil to wake one only tempered by Davos for now. Aegon and Euron seek Daenerys for her dragons, for her dragons will allow them to complete their dreamed conquests. Through dragons, these three men will bring fire to Westeros and claim their throne.
*But these men also *plan to use blood to get fire, and then fire for blood, following the cyclical mantra of Blood for fire, fire for blood. * Those words are written on Euron’s Valyrian hellhorn, Dragonbinder:
Now, let us briefly look at how each man parallels or is compared to Aegon:
Stannis Baratheon is a direct descendant of both the Conqueror and his bastard half-brother Orys Baratheon. Both Stannis and Aegon are described as tall and broad-shouldered. Both were Lord of Dragonstone and shared the same original bannermen. Stannis sits at the same Painted Table that Aegon used to plan his conquest of Westeros. Aegon was the middle child, as is Stannis. Like Aegon, Stannis has “two queens”, one whom he sleeps with far more often than the other. While Visenya was rumored to practice dark arts, Melisandre does, in fact. Aegon was a solitary man, just as Stannis is: both of their only true friends are men of uncertain birth who were their Hands of the King and who each had their hands permanently damaged. Aegon and Stannis both invaded Westeros from Dragonstone. Aegon’s first defeat during his conquest (though he was not present) was a naval battle that destroyed his fleet, as was Stannis’s first defeat during his conquest. Aegon followed the Faith of the Seven for political reasons as Stannis does for R’hllor. Aegon had a dragon dream that inspired his conquest — to protect Westeros from the Others — while Stannis saw in Melisandre’s fire the Others’ attack at the fist of the First Men, inspiring his sail north. Lastly, both have famous swords, dark Blackfyre and bright Lightbringer.
There are a number of times where characters directly compare Stannis to the Conqueror, and specifically how he needs dragons to finish the comparison and become Aegon the Conqueror 2.0:
Aegon “Young Griff” Targaryen, no matter if he is truly Rhaegar and Elia’s son, a Blackfyre, or a Brightflame (just not a random kid) is also a direct descendant of the Conqueror, who is his namesake. Like the Conqueror, Young Griff had a sister named Rhaenys — both associated with Dorne — and a bastard brother. Aegon claims the Iron Throne as a Targaryen, heir to the dynasty that Aegon created, and displays the Conqueror’s banner. He seeks to practice the Valyrian tradition of incest as Aegon did, becoming a dragon-rider together with his bride. Like the Conqueror, Young Griff’s Hand of the King is a great lord and warrior of the stormlands, one who had to seize their seat. Jon Connington and Orys Baratheon both have hand infirmities that call into question their suitability for the office of Hand. Young Griff invades Westeros by sea, as Aegon did, and the Conqueror’s forces (but not the conqueror himself) fought a battle north of Storm’s End, which Aegon seems poised to do in TWOW.
A number of characters compare Young Griff to the Conqueror, even calling him (or him calling himself) a dragon. But, like Stannis, Young Griff still seeks dragons to become Aegon the Conqueror 2.0:
Euron is (apparently) not a direct descendant of the Conqueror, but he does seek to marry and breed with one, putting himself into Aegon’s line and ruling with Daenerys’ dragons. Aegon and Euron are both the second child of their mothers. Aegon the Conqueror was the sovereign ruler of Dragonstone and a number of other islands. Euron Greyjoy is the sovereign ruler of the Iron Islands. None of that is especially compelling, but what is significant is that the Conqueror (and his sister-wives) were the last dragonlords, and Euron all but states that he intends to be the next dragonlord, having gone to Valyria, armored himself in Valyrian steel, wielding a Valyrian hellhorn, and soon riding a dragon. While Euron seeks dragons, he does already have a “mount” even without them: his ship, the Silence, which has a red hull and black sails, the Targaryen colors. Aegon’s mount, Balerion was a black dragon with fearsome black wings; the sails of the Silence make men pray in the same way Balerion’s black wings made men dread. His personal coat-of-arms of the Crow’s Eye is of a black flying animal, just as Balerion. Aegon had two sister-wives. Euron (falsely) tells Falia Flowers that she will be his salt wife and that Daenerys will his rock wife, with Falia believing the “two of us will be as close as sisters” (The Forsaken, TWOW). Aegon was generous to those who joined him and vengeful to those who defied him; Euron is much the same, giving wealth and honors to those who follow him but brutal punishments for those who oppose.
Euron has only physically appeared in four chapters (if including TWOW’s The Forsaken), so there is less to say about him. Still, the kingsmoot speech conveys Euron’s ambition to be the Conqueror 2.0.:
Stannis, Aegon, and Euron may seek to be Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again, but they are false. The House of the Undying vision tells us as much, and our interactions with them suggest their fraudulence. Stannis particular is just as much a blue-eyed king as he is a mummer’s dragon and a beast that breathes shadow fire because of Melisandre, the de facto mummer and shadow-binder, false in many ways. Aegon may be false because he is not even Aegon, he claims to be a dragon that he is not. Euron’s falsehoods are harder to discern at this point in the story, but there is simply no way he is a true dragon. There is only true dragon, whose claim and destiny conflicts with all three of these men; she must prove them false to complete it:
Daenerys is often compared to the Conqueror, both as his heir and blood and as the Conqueror 2.0. There are too many to list all, but here are some choice ones:
TL;DR The slayer of lies in the House of the Undying is about three false dragons whose claims to the Iron Throne as Aegon the Conqueror’s heir conflicts with her own. Dany, through her true fire and true blood, is the true dragon, a worthy successor to Aegon destined to repeat what he did.
submitted by InGenNateKenny to asoiaf [link] [comments]
Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of lies. (Daenerys IV, ACOK)Today, I propose a new interpretation for this storied section. These three portions of the "slayer of lies" vision do not refer to three separate, individual lies, but rather three incarnations of one central falsehood, repeated on three different people: each man in the vision seeks to be a dragon, both the reincarnation of Aegon the Conqueror and his heir and successor. However, all three men are false dragons. Daenerys is the true dragon; her destiny is to be Aegon the Dragon, come again, to bring Fire and Blood to Westeros. These three men's false claims of dragonhood stand in her way in pursuit of her fate.
Here Be False Dragons
Let us set aside any consideration of the identities of who is specifically is being referenced the Undying visions for a moment, and focus on the text and context of the visions themselves and their imagery.Dragons are at the core of the events at the House of the Undying. Daenerys is in Qarth because Pyat Pree, Xaro, and Quaithe seek dragons, and she goes to the Undying to seek their counsel, inevitably involving her dragons. Drogon accompanies her, helps her find the way to the Undying, dragons appear in the visions several times (and Daenerys is often called “mother of dragons” in them), then Drogon fries the Undying. But not all dragons are the same:
"Dragons. Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark.” (Tyrion VIII, ADWD)Much has been written about the dragons Moqorro sees in fires. Dragons “true and false” is of most interest for us. What actually constitutes a "false dragon" and a "true dragon" is broadly ambiguous, but the text does have some suggestions. In AGOT, there is a juxtaposition between Dany’s unborn son Rhaego and her brother Viserys, the former literally called a true dragon…
She was lying there, holding the egg, when she felt the child move within her … as if he were reaching out, brother to brother, blood to blood. "You are the dragon," Dany whispered to him, "the true dragon. I know it. I know it." (Daenerys IV, AGOT)…and the latter naming himself a dragon often, only for his death to prove the falsehood of those claims:
He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon. (Daenerys V, AGOT)The idea that there are “true dragons” and “false dragons” is interesting in-and-of-itself, and the fact that Moqorro sees them in his fires means that they do, in fact, exist. Where do these true and false dragons be found?
Disregarding — for now — the intricacies of what makes someone a figurative “dragon,” no character in the main series comes close as to being “true dragon” as Daenerys. She is the last Targaryen, the mother of dragons, the rider of Drogon. This is known. She is a true dragon. But what about the false dragons?
In the House of the Undying, the Undying call Daenerys the “slayer of lies” after showing the three visions to her. In a vacuum that may mean that Daenerys a) will slay whatever or whomever the three lies represent and/or b) she will prove the lies false by her actions. That suggests that Dany represents the truth opposing the falsehood of the three lies.
So have the fact that Dany is a true dragon and that the Undying vision suggests Dany is true and the three lies are, well, lies. Let’s merge those ideas together — Dany, a true dragon, is the slayer of three false dragons — and see whether the visions themselves support this marriage. In the chapter after the visit, Dany describes the “cloth dragon” as a “mummer’s dragon”:
"A dead man in the prow of a ship, a blue rose, a banquet of blood . . . what does any of it mean, Khaleesi? A mummer's dragon, you said. What is a mummer's dragon, pray?"Dany’s description of the mummer’s dragon suggests that the vision represents one that uses trickery and mummery to appear as a dragon. The mummer’s dragon is no real dragon, but it serves for the purposes of the performance. In other words, a mummer’s dragon is the metaphorical representation of a false dragon.
"A cloth dragon on poles," Dany explained. "Mummers use them in their follies, to give the heroes something to fight." (Daenerys V, ACOK)
Now consider the "great stone beast”, a flying stone creature that lurks near smoke and breathes shadow fire. As described, the beast sounds awfully like a dragon — but moreso like an imitation of a dragon, a gargoyle, mayhaps — and an imitation is inherently false. Shadow fire is extra fake because "[s]hadows only live when given birth by light" (Davos III, ASOS). The stone beast is another representation of a false dragon.
If the two parts of the vision are false dragons, it would suggest the blue-eyed king is too. On passing glance, it does not seem like it is. However, consider this quotation from Maester Aemon:
"The sword is wrong, she has to know that . . . light without heat . . . an empty glamor . . . the sword is wrong, and the false light can only lead us deeper into darkness, Sam. Daenerys is our hope." (Samwell IV, AFFC)False light leads to darkness. The blue-eyed king’s sword is “[g]lowing like sunset”; sunset heralds the arrival of darkness. Moreover, the king casts no shadow. As we noted for the stone beast, shadows cannot exist without light, meaning that the king creates no light. Dragons, on the other hand, create light and shadow by their mere existence. The blue-eyed king is figuratively a false dragon.
Therefore, Dany being the slayer of lies means that the true dragon Dany is the "slayer of false dragons" makes sense. While most popular interpretations of slayer of lies put each lie as separate from each other (i.e. the blue-eyed king being a false Azor Ahai, the cloth dragon being a false Targaryen, etc.), it makes just as much sense — arguably more sense — that the three lies are all incarnations of one central falsehood.
The Dragon: Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again
But what exactly is a dragon? Dragons are flying fire-breathing reptiles, sure, but the word “dragon” is used figuratively extensively. One of its most popular uses is to mean a Targaryen or Valyrian, those with “the blood of the dragon.” What that phrase means is under dispute — some think it means that Valyrians are literally descended from dragons. The word "dragon" is also often incorporated in nicknames, like Daemon Blackfyre’s "the Black Dragon". However, there are only two characters referred to as The Dragon: Aegon I Targaryen and Daeron I Targaryen.The Dragon is a fitting epithet for Aegon I, the man known as the Conqueror and Aegon Dragonlord, he who (mostly) conquered Westeros atop Balerion the Black Dread through fire and blood. Aegon I chose the three-headed dragon as his banner, married his sisters in Valyrian fashion, and with an ancestry full of incest to keep the blood of the dragon pure. He seemingly even had dragon dreams. He wore a crown and bore a blade of Valyrian steel. Dangerous to his enemies but fair to vassals, Aegon embodied everything House Targaryen aspired to be — a true dragon — and many, some bearing his name, attempted to be Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again, a true dragon too.
Daeron the Dragon was amongst the most ambitious of the Targaryens who sought to be Aegon the Conqueror, Come Again. He worn the Conqueror's crown and bore his sword. He was determined to finish what Aegon I started in Dorne. Daeron named himself a dragon:
Few foresaw that Daeron, the First of His Name, would cover himself in glory as did his ancestor Aegon the Conqueror, whose crown he wore. (His father had preferred a simple circlet.) Yet that glory turned to ashes almost as swiftly. A youth of rare brilliance and forcefulness, Daeron at first met resistance from his uncle, his councillors, and many great lords when he first proposed to "complete the Conquest" by bringing Dorne into the realm at last. His lords reminded him that, unlike the Conqueror and his sisters, he had no more dragons fit for war. To this Daeron famously responded: "You have a dragon. He stands before you." (TWOIAF, The Targaryen Kings: Daeron I)And yet, Daeron failed, just as Aegon did, and at much greater cost — while Aegon lost a wife and a dragon, Daeron lost his own life, and 50,000 others. His conquest accomplished nothing; his successors’ diplomacy bore fruit and it was, very pointedly Daeron II, who shared a name and little else with Daeron I, who welcomed Dorne under the Iron Throne. Was Daeron I a false dragon? In-so-far as that he attempted to and failed at capturing Aegon the Conqueror’s legacy, yes, he was.
Daeron is not the only character compared to Aegon the Conqueror or hyped up as his successor who failed to reach his heights. Numerous historical figures — mostly Targaryens — were compared to Aegon I including Baelor Breakspear, Daemon Blackfyre, and Rhaegar Targaryen. None lived up to his legacy. Several main series characters are compared to Aegon or described as his heir — Drogo, Joffrey, Robb, Renly, and Rennifer Longwaters — but their claims to be Aegon the Dragon false. Just sitting the Iron Throne, having Targaryen ancestry, or being a warrior-king doesn’t make Aegon the Dragon:
"King Joffrey sits where Aegon the Dragon once sat, in the castle built by his son," Ser Arys said. "He is the dragon's heir—and crimson is the color of House Lannister, another sign. This comet is sent to herald Joffrey's ascent to the throne, I have no doubt. It means that he will triumph over his enemies." (Sansa I, ACOK)
"She gave their son the bastard name of 'Waters' in honor of his father, and he grew to be a great knight, as did his own son, who put the 'Long' before the 'Waters' so men might know that he was not basely born himself. So I have a little dragon in me."
"Yes, I almost mistook you for Aegon the Conqueror," Jaime had answered. (Jaime I, AFFC)
Stannis, Aegon, and Euron as False Dragons
Returning to the House of the Undying, I believe the three false dragons referenced in the House of the Undying are Stannis I Baratheon, Aegon VI Targaryen/Young Griff, and Euron III Greyjoy. The reader consensus is that the blue-eyed king is Stannis and that the mummer’s dragon is Aegon. The stone beast is speculated on far more contentiously. Euron Greyjoy is probably the most popular option for this, but Jon Snow and Jon Connington are also often raised. I believe it is Euron because of what kind of character is he and because the dragon has three heads.Recall earlier that the slayer of lies vision was not three separate lies, but three incarnations of false dragons. If that interpretation is correct, then all three of the lies should have things in common, and Stannis, Aegon, and Euron share quite a few similarities, too many to highlight here. But there is one key one: All three seek the Iron Throne through fire — dragons — and blood — Targaryen heritage — and in doing so draw inspiration and comparisons to emulate Aegon the Conqueror. All three want to become king and dragons. This is known. But realizing that “fire and blood” is basically the foundation of their claim is subtler.
How do they seek the throne through blood? Well, the blood of inheritance is intrinsic to their claims. Stannis does so as Robert’s heir, and House Baratheon's claim to the throne is based on its Targaryen heritage. Aegon does so as House Targaryen’s heir, reinforced by marriage to his (alleged) aunt Daenerys. Euron, as far as we know, has no Targaryen blood, but like Aegon, via marriage to Daenerys, Targaryen blood is the means to the throne. In effect, all three men are seeking to use blood to justify their claims as the heir to House Targaryen, the blood of the dragon.
How do they seek the throne through fire? All three are dragon-seekers. Stannis covets a stone dragon to win his kingdom, his temptation to commit a horrible evil to wake one only tempered by Davos for now. Aegon and Euron seek Daenerys for her dragons, for her dragons will allow them to complete their dreamed conquests. Through dragons, these three men will bring fire to Westeros and claim their throne.
*But these men also *plan to use blood to get fire, and then fire for blood, following the cyclical mantra of Blood for fire, fire for blood. * Those words are written on Euron’s Valyrian hellhorn, Dragonbinder:
Moqorro pointed to the band of steel. "Here. 'Blood for fire, fire for blood.' Who blows the hellhorn matters not. The dragons will come to the horn's master. You must claim the horn. With blood." (Victarion I, ADWD)Stannis’s (near) use of blood to get fire is obvious: Melisandre and her followers push for him to sacrifice those with kingsblood — Edric Storm, Mance Rayder and his son — to wake a stone dragon. Aegon’s is subtler: his case to marry Daenerys and thus claim her dragons is because of his blood, as her nephew. In order to claim Dragonbinder, Euron must have claimed the horn with blood in the past to fit its instructions of “blood for fire”. Whatever sacrifice seems to involve blood he has planned at Oldtown as well. That blood will unlock fire, and with the dragons they will conqueror Westeros and bring blood to it.
Now, let us briefly look at how each man parallels or is compared to Aegon:
There are a number of times where characters directly compare Stannis to the Conqueror, and specifically how he needs dragons to finish the comparison and become Aegon the Conqueror 2.0:
"Look out your windows, my lord. There is the sign you have waited for, blazoned on the sky. Red, it is, the red of flame, red for the fiery heart of the true god. It is his banner—and yours! See how it unfurls across the heavens like a dragon's hot breath, and you the Lord of Dragonstone. It means your time has come, Your Grace. Nothing is more certain. You are meant to sail from this desolate rock as Aegon the Conqueror once sailed, to sweep all before you as he did. Only say the word, and embrace the power of the Lord of Light." (Prologue, ACOK)
Ser Axell went to one knee. "On bended knee I beg you, sire. Wake the stone dragon and let the traitors tremble. Like Aegon you begin as Lord of Dragonstone. Like Aegon you shall conquer. Let the false and the fickle feel your flames." (Davos V, ASOS)
"Lord husband," said Queen Selyse, "you have more men than Aegon did three hundred years ago. All you lack are dragons." (Davos V, ASOS)
"It glimmers prettily, I'll grant you, but on the Blackwater this magic sword served me no better than any common steel. A dragon would have turned that battle. Aegon once stood here as I do, looking down on this table. Do you think we would name him Aegon the Conqueror today if he had not had dragons?" (Davos V, ASOS)
A number of characters compare Young Griff to the Conqueror, even calling him (or him calling himself) a dragon. But, like Stannis, Young Griff still seeks dragons to become Aegon the Conqueror 2.0:
"Do you want to wager your throne upon a woman's whim? Go to Westeros, though … ah, then you are a rebel, not a beggar. Bold, reckless, a true scion of House Targaryen, walking in the footsteps of Aegon the Conqueror. A dragon." (Tyrion VI, ADWD)Also, it is worth noting that Aegon is directly called a “false dragon” at one point:
And then Prince Aegon spoke. "Then put your hopes on me," he said. "Daenerys is Prince Rhaegar's sister, but I am Rhaegar's son. I am the only dragon that you need." (The Lost Lord, ADWD)
"The first Aegon took Westeros without eunuchs," said Lysono Maar. "Why shouldn't the sixth Aegon do the same?" (The Lost Lord, ADWD)
"Storm's End." Lord Mace Tyrell grunted the words. "He cannot take Storm's End. Not if he were Aegon the Conqueror." (Epilogue, ADWD)
"Then let me prove the truth of them with my sword." The light of the torches made a fiery blaze of Ronnet Connington's long red hair and beard. "Send me against my uncle, and I will bring you back his head, and the head of this false dragon too." (Epilogue, ADWD)
Euron has only physically appeared in four chapters (if including TWOW’s The Forsaken), so there is less to say about him. Still, the kingsmoot speech conveys Euron’s ambition to be the Conqueror 2.0.:
"Crow's Eye," Asha called, "did you leave your wits at Asshai? If we cannot hold the north—and we cannot—how can we win the whole of the Seven Kingdoms?"
"Why, it has been done before. Did Balon teach his girl so little of the ways of war? Victarion, our brother's daughter has never heard of Aegon the Conqueror, it would seem."
"Aegon?" Victarion crossed his arms against his armored chest. "What has the Conqueror to do with us?"
"I know as much of war as you do, Crow's Eye," Asha said. "Aegon Targaryen conquered Westeros with dragons."
"And so shall we," Euron Greyjoy promised. "That horn you heard I found amongst the smoking ruins that were Valyria, where no man has dared to walk but me. You heard its call, and felt its power. It is a dragon horn, bound with bands of red gold and Valyrian steel graven with enchantments. The dragonlords of old sounded such horns, before the Doom devoured them. With this horn, ironmen, I can bind dragons to my will." (The Drowned Man, AFFC)
Daenerys: Aegon the Conqueror with Teats
Daenerys is the true dragon, the rightful heir and successor of Aegon the Conqueror through fire and blood. Dany is a direct descendant of the Conqueror, born on Dragonstone, as he was, and is the rightful heir of House Targaryen and thus the throne that Aegon forged. She was the only daughter of Aerys and Rhaella as Aegon was the only son of Aerion and Valaena, and each had two opposite-sex (full-blooded) siblings. She is the mother of dragons, three dragons as the three-headed dragon on the banner that Aegon designed. Her mount. black-scaled Drogon, is “Balerion, come again." (Daenerys I, ACOK). Her destiny is to invade Westeros and complete Aegon’s dream of defending it from the Others.Daenerys is often compared to the Conqueror, both as his heir and blood and as the Conqueror 2.0. There are too many to list all, but here are some choice ones:
I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror. (Daenerys II, AGOT)Dragons are all the difference, and that is fundamentally why she is true and everyone else is false. That and one other thing: everyone else is a man, Daenerys is a woman. In their sexism, people in Westeros see the next Aegon as a man, but fail to realize the truth:
No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would. Aegon the Conqueror had won Westeros with three dragons, but she had taken Meereen with sewer rats and a wooden cock, in less than a day (Daenerys VI, ASOS)
The dragon has three heads. There are two men in the world who I can trust, if I can find them. I will not be alone then. We will be three against the world, like Aegon and his sisters. (Daenerys VI, ASOS)
"Must?" Tyrion made a tsking sound. "That is not a word queens like to hear. You are her perfect prince, agreed, bright and bold and comely as any maid could wish. Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. She may not prove as willing as you wish." (Tyrion VI, ADWD)
Part of her would have liked nothing more than to lead her people back to Vaes Tolorro, and make the dead city bloom. No, that is defeat. I have something Viserys never had. I have the dragons. The dragons are all the difference. (Daenerys III, ACOK)
"No one ever looked for a girl," he said. "It was a prince that was promised, not a princess. Rhaegar, I thought . . . the smoke was from the fire that devoured Summerhall on the day of his birth, the salt from the tears shed for those who died. He shared my belief when he was young, but later he became persuaded that it was his own son who fulfilled the prophecy, for a comet had been seen above King's Landing on the night Aegon was conceived, and Rhaegar was certain the bleeding star had to be a comet. What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it." (Samwell IV, AFFC)
2024.05.12 11:41 crizzleybear Travelling with bambina
Ciao,
we will be travelling with child (1,5 years old) in late september in liguria. We will come to la spezia by train and thought about renting a car to explore the beautiful nature in the mountains. We thought about renting a car in La Spezia and we will need a child seat. Is there something like craigs list or mybee even a second hand store for children's stuff in la spezia?
And also do you recommend any place or even accommodation around (like 50 km) la spezia?
Grazie
Chris
submitted by crizzleybear to LaSpezia [link] [comments]
we will be travelling with child (1,5 years old) in late september in liguria. We will come to la spezia by train and thought about renting a car to explore the beautiful nature in the mountains. We thought about renting a car in La Spezia and we will need a child seat. Is there something like craigs list or mybee even a second hand store for children's stuff in la spezia?
And also do you recommend any place or even accommodation around (like 50 km) la spezia?
Grazie
Chris
2024.05.12 08:00 MTGSpacy Spicy decks on modern league-2024-05-128075
Boilerplate: Spicy today, tomorrow top eight. Some of these lists are just to off meta to be properly categorized. I'm looking for something to properly name them.Click on player's name to see full deck list on mtgspacy site. 🏆 Congrats to all who got there using some off meta ideas. This is a list of different decks comming from this event: * Deck by mgs2017 🌶️: Grief, Ashiok, Dream Render, Not Dead After All, Satoru, the Infiltrator, Pithing Needle, Damping Sphere, Soul-Guide Lantern, Cauldron Familiar, Fatal Push, Undercity Sewers.
Fringe cards used on this event: Freestrider Lookout
Spicy Reddit: /MTGSpacyModern Don't follow, come with me on Twitter for alerts about newcards on modern metagame. MTGSpacy is a deck builder tool that can help you know how off meta your deck is, so you can play with your friends using only off meta decks. Additionally we provide some metagame updates like this. Try MTGSpacy to create new spicy decks.
submitted by MTGSpacy to MTGSpacyModern [link] [comments]
2024.05.12 01:48 meowmeow289 Ants causing shower smell mystery 🐜🚿
Hi all, we’ve been dealing with quite the shower saga for the last month or so.
We had ants coming in (we believe through the shower in some fashion) beginning of April. Not terribly unusual, we’ve had ant issues in our bathroom in the past. They are the super small ones.
Had a pest guy out, who sprayed inside and out twice. They kept coming. No spraying was done inside the shower, I will add.
My husband was convinced they were getting in through the shower, in the grout area between shower floor and wall. The grout in that section needs to be re done, a project we’ve had on our list for awhile. As a short term solution to the ants, my husband decided to put caulk over the grout just to try to get them to stop.
We used a guest shower for a few weeks until the ants left.
Ants finally died down (although not gone completely). We started using the shower again. But a few days later, the shower started to smell very bad. Not necessarily sewep trap smell. My husband smells mildew, I smell more of a sour chemical-y scent. It gets worse after the shower is used.
We removed the caulk, which had the same smell on it. Then we deep cleaned the grout area with mold and mildew cleaner and blue dawn. We tried baking soda and vinegar in the drain and also snaked it (removing some hair). The smell is still there.
A contractor told us the failing grout may have caused water to seep under the tile, causing mold and subfloor damage etc. He suggested ripping out the shower floor to replace the shower pan altogether. While he may be right, I just have a hard time with how coincidental the timing of that would be with my husband doing his DIY grout emergency work.
Any ideas of what may be causing this? We are about at our wits end. I have to believe this is solvable—the smell did not exist until after the caulk work.
submitted by meowmeow289 to Plumbing [link] [comments]
We had ants coming in (we believe through the shower in some fashion) beginning of April. Not terribly unusual, we’ve had ant issues in our bathroom in the past. They are the super small ones.
Had a pest guy out, who sprayed inside and out twice. They kept coming. No spraying was done inside the shower, I will add.
My husband was convinced they were getting in through the shower, in the grout area between shower floor and wall. The grout in that section needs to be re done, a project we’ve had on our list for awhile. As a short term solution to the ants, my husband decided to put caulk over the grout just to try to get them to stop.
We used a guest shower for a few weeks until the ants left.
Ants finally died down (although not gone completely). We started using the shower again. But a few days later, the shower started to smell very bad. Not necessarily sewep trap smell. My husband smells mildew, I smell more of a sour chemical-y scent. It gets worse after the shower is used.
We removed the caulk, which had the same smell on it. Then we deep cleaned the grout area with mold and mildew cleaner and blue dawn. We tried baking soda and vinegar in the drain and also snaked it (removing some hair). The smell is still there.
A contractor told us the failing grout may have caused water to seep under the tile, causing mold and subfloor damage etc. He suggested ripping out the shower floor to replace the shower pan altogether. While he may be right, I just have a hard time with how coincidental the timing of that would be with my husband doing his DIY grout emergency work.
Any ideas of what may be causing this? We are about at our wits end. I have to believe this is solvable—the smell did not exist until after the caulk work.
2024.05.12 00:51 kingintheyunk Which rug works better in this foyer?
Was lucky enough to get some Persian rugs from a nice lady on Craig’s list. Couldn’t decide which would look better so I bought both. Still can’t decide. What do you think?
The red/blue one is way longer. It’s 18 feet and spans from the from door all the way to the other end behind the picture, where there is a coat closet. The Turkish rug is 11 feet and shows more of the floor.
https://imgur.com/a/4M1XokI
submitted by kingintheyunk to HomeDecorating [link] [comments]
The red/blue one is way longer. It’s 18 feet and spans from the from door all the way to the other end behind the picture, where there is a coat closet. The Turkish rug is 11 feet and shows more of the floor.
https://imgur.com/a/4M1XokI
2024.05.11 21:50 DrHamboigas Trying to prevent my employee from leaving. Would really appreciate some feedback.
Warning - very long post. TLDR: I’m struggling to find a way to address certain challenges involving my employee, Jason, that I believe will lead to him leaving if left unresolved. This includes some negative changes in his attitude caused by bad experiences on his old team and asking more a promotion/more resources. I’m asking, a bit desperately if I’m being honest, for this community’s feedback on what I might be doing wrong as a manager and what I can do to fix the situation before it gets worse.
I need to offer some back story on Jason for all this to make sense.
Jason was hired back in 2022, not by me, but by a department colleague of mine named Evelyn who brought him on to support her marketing team by overseeing ad deployment (I explain later how Jason ends up on my team). For the sake of brevity and not with the intention of downplaying his workload, the essence of his job is to collect creative from others in the department, place it in an ad and ensure it got properly published. He follows this workflow for each of the 2 ads that get published every week. The role also came with the responsibility of managing an offshore team of 3 meant to help with the more technical/IT-level aspect of his deployment duties including programming and knowledge of business intelligence systems.
Issues with some of Jason's more high-visibility ad deployments began around 3-4 month mark following his start while under Evelyn. Jason was tasked around this time with ensuring his offshore team successfully managed the upload of a new customer ad group into the department’s ad distribution system. After the project had been completed, Jason discovered that his offshore team had uploaded the wrong group of customers in the system resulting in customers receiving ads by mistake. Our department head, Craig, looped me in to assist Jason with purging the customers from the system which we ended up resolving, however, re-uploading the correct customer list in the ad system was put on hold.
The second issue, now about 8 months in Jason’s start, was a published weekend ad with a major price typo. Part of the creative review process before an ad is published includes an ad price/item check by a designated employee (not Jason) as well as a final comb-through of the ad by 8-10 members in our department (including Jason and Evelyn)—the incorrect price wasn’t caught at any of these stages. A company exec saw the misprinted price on the ad on a Sunday and immediately reached out to the department head, Craig, to get it fixed. Timing couldn’t have been worse as Jason had been hiking all day and his mobile reception was bad and no one from his off-shore team was available either to address the issue because of time zone differences. The typo was ultimately not fixed, and despite sales impacts from the incorrectly-priced item being minimal, executive leadership saw this is a very big mishap and directed blame towards Craig as the department lead for failing to have his team catch it. This also put pressure on Jason as the lead for ad deployment.
By this point, Jason’s work-relationship with Evelyn had become contentious. Jason had felt Evelyn and other members of her team were throwing him under the bus for mistakes made during the ad deployment process that he believes weren’t his fault. Evelyn and others on her team believed Jason was not living up to his expectations managing ad deployment and critiqued his quality of work and worth ethic, often sighting Jason’s arrival to the office at 10AM and departure at 4:30PM as a lack of dedication (Jason lives about an hour to an hour a half away from the office). Jason eventually went to Craig and requested to be switched to a different team in our department. Craig honored his request and, with my boss Diana’s approval, had him begin reporting to me in early 2023 but was still required to uphold his existing role and responsibilities, that is, continuing to support Evelyn with ad deployment and managing the ad deployment system with his off-shore team.
I’d like to believe I made a conscious effort to set up Jason for success in the initial months of him joining my team as I suspected maybe he hadn’t been given adequate support, guidance or resources with his previous team. I made sure any mistakes he made were met with feedback that was more constructive than critical or that if he was accused of making mistakes by others that I felt were unjustified, I would step in and back him. I shadowed him on certain projects either offering to split some of the duties with him if I felt the project was too big for him to handle alone or simply as a second set of eyes and stepping in with a little bit of guidance when I considered it necessary. I was lenient with his work schedule allowing him to come in after most people typically arrived and leaving earlier that most even after my boss Diana expressed to me some concerns about optics (I told her he was getting his work done which was true). He was initially only allowed 1 day a week to work from home (an old agreement between him and Evelyn) and I got approval on changing it to 2 after a year on my team to match the rest of the department. This all appeared to benefit Jason as major assignments were getting completed (with few or no issues). I no longer had to keep a bird’s eye view on his work as often. He was much more well-equipped at handling certain situations than he had previously been. My boss Diana even mentioned to me that our department lead, Craig, noted that “Jason was thriving”.
With all that backstory out of the way, now I can get into the challenges from my TDLR.
Challenge #1 – Jason’s history with his former boss Evelyn is making him disgruntled, affecting his attitude.
To re-iterate, Jason’s job is still to support Evelyn with ad deployment even though he now currently. reports to me. Since the beginning, Jason’s always had major gripes with his limited role in respects to creation of the ad which is strictly gathering content and piecing the ad together and has very little input on the actual content, which is predominantly Evelyn’s function and has been since before he started at the company. Jason and Evelyn are just two of the 8-10 people involved in putting together the ad.
Even though he was never promised it, Jason believes that he should own creative control of the ad over Evelyn and has made some rather alarming comments to me recently on this topic—one time in person saying “Why did I move teams if I don’t own the ad?” and the second time in an email just to me, in a sort of demanding tone, asking we cut and/or limit Evelyn’s input on ad content. Both times I had to remind him our role was specifically tied to ad deployment.
I don’t doubt that his animosity stems from his negative experience working on Evelyn’s team and the issues they had with one another that led to him reporting to me. Jason has a right to feel that way on some level (Evelyn and her team are sometimes very difficult to work with, can be duplicitous, etc.) but, as his manager, I’ve also noted that Evelyn’s criticism about Jason have some validity as I’ve seen them for myself (not holding himself accountable, not project managing things appropriately, etc.). I’m having a hard time getting Jason to hold himself accountable for situations where he is the cause as he simply attributes the issues back to Evelyn or the process with the ad overall. And though he's not always vocal about it, I know for a fact he still fully believes he should own the content portion of the ad over Evelyn.
Challenge #2 – Jason has asked for a promotion as well as more resources
Earlier this year was our annual job performance review. I though Jason did an exceptional job going above and beyond to deliver on certain key assignments and showed lots of promise in terms of his professional growth. There were still a few items I rated him at average that I felt he could work on but gave him a high overall rating.
When I conducted one-on-one with him, he asked for a title change and justified the work he did this year warranted it. He wanted to add 1 of or all of “CRM”, “Developer”, “Artificial Intelligence” to his existing title, “Manager of Ads Deployment”. Jason does indeed use a CRM tool for ad deployment and he had also been actively doing some dev-level work for a 1-time integration project on this CRM tool so from this angle he certainly has a point. However, my boss Diana and I initially sought to hire a temporary off-shore developer resource to handle the dev integration project before Jason took the project on himself. We consulted Jason on this possible temporary hire and he advised us he would be more well equipped to handle it himself and that we should not move forward with the acquiring this resource. He did not inquire to us at that time if this would merit a title change. Lastly, Jason has shown a keen interest in AI though he doesn’t possess a background in this (no degrees or past work experience) nor is it expected of him to know anything in this area to carry out his core responsibilities. I know he uses ChatGPT a lot for his programming projects (it’s not required of him to know any programming) to help him learn and apply to his job, but that’s about it as far as I’m aware.
I told him I would speak to my boss, Diana, and Craig, our department head, to see what I could do for him but advised I couldn’t make any promises. I spoke with Diana the next day about the change request (she basically scoffed) and told me she’d speak to Craig about it at some point in the following days. I week transpired and Jason asked me to for any updates on his title change and pay rise. I asked for clarity as I did not recall him mentioning pay rise at all, only title change. He responded saying “I said during my performance eval pay would come later”. I took him at his word assuming I simply didn’t hear him during our one-on-one and told him I would speak again with Diana to share he was also expecting a pay increase. Later that week I was told by Diana that Craig couldn’t approve either.
I messaged him on Slack on Friday while he worked from home at about 1:15PM asking if he could spare some time for us to discuss his title change/pay raise request. No response for an hour. I knew he was working that day because I saw emails from him in the morning that same day. At around 2:30PM, I texted him (not messaged on Slack) saying “Hey, not sure if you saw my Slack message but wanted to see if you could get on a call for us to discuss your title change/pay rise request”. Another hour went by without a response. Finally around 3:30PM that day, he responds on Slack saying he was running errands and didn’t see my messages. Now look, I get taking it easy sometimes when working from home—I do it too—but disappearing in the middle of a work day for hours while your boss is trying to contact you about your requests for a title change/pay rise is not a good look in my opinion.
We got on a Slack call (it sounded like he was still in his car) and essentially told him I couldn’t get approval for a pay raise. The best we (meaning myself and my boss Diana) could do is try to make a case for him at some undisclosed point in the future to leadership to possibly get him paid more, but that the title changes were still out of the picture. He pushed back, referring to developer work he was doing that was out of his job description to which I reminded him that Diana and I initially wanted to hire someone to do it so he wouldn’t have to and that this dev work was a one-time integration, not an recurring business need. Jason ultimately accepted that his requests had been denied.
The promotion discussion was earlier in the year but sort of resurfaced this week. Jason will begin handling deployment for 2 more ads in the upcoming weeks. This increase in workload was anticipated and normally Jason could tap into his off-shore team to help manage the workload. Diana and I realize that there are some disadvantages with relying on the off-shore team and floated the idea of possibly replacing them with a single on-site resource that might be better able to assist Jason. We let Jason know would run this by Craig so he could run it by the company CEO for approval but never made any promises it would happen.
The company is now really struggling financially and pay raises and additional resources are essentially no longer getting approved. Many of us, including me, have had take on additional duties, work more hours, etc. Jason messaged me on Slack saying he sensed Craig was not willing to replace his off-shore team with an on-site resource and that continuing to work with his current off-shore team would cause more headaches than solutions. He finished it off by saying “No pay rise and no resource feels like a slap in the face tbh”. I told him I needed to discuss the matter further with Diana, but if that need be, I would gladly step up and have him train me to be his back up/split some of the workload if in case we can't secure that on-site resource.
This is where I need some feedback. Sometimes I feel like Jason is out of line but sometimes I feel like he's justified. I want to be able to help him as much as I can but I'm limited in what I can do and I fear his dissatisfaction with work is going to cause him to leave. At this time, I don't have enough knowledge/expertise over what he does so that I could easily take over his role if he decided to leave. I'd really appreciate any advice here.
submitted by DrHamboigas to Advice [link] [comments]
I need to offer some back story on Jason for all this to make sense.
Jason was hired back in 2022, not by me, but by a department colleague of mine named Evelyn who brought him on to support her marketing team by overseeing ad deployment (I explain later how Jason ends up on my team). For the sake of brevity and not with the intention of downplaying his workload, the essence of his job is to collect creative from others in the department, place it in an ad and ensure it got properly published. He follows this workflow for each of the 2 ads that get published every week. The role also came with the responsibility of managing an offshore team of 3 meant to help with the more technical/IT-level aspect of his deployment duties including programming and knowledge of business intelligence systems.
Issues with some of Jason's more high-visibility ad deployments began around 3-4 month mark following his start while under Evelyn. Jason was tasked around this time with ensuring his offshore team successfully managed the upload of a new customer ad group into the department’s ad distribution system. After the project had been completed, Jason discovered that his offshore team had uploaded the wrong group of customers in the system resulting in customers receiving ads by mistake. Our department head, Craig, looped me in to assist Jason with purging the customers from the system which we ended up resolving, however, re-uploading the correct customer list in the ad system was put on hold.
The second issue, now about 8 months in Jason’s start, was a published weekend ad with a major price typo. Part of the creative review process before an ad is published includes an ad price/item check by a designated employee (not Jason) as well as a final comb-through of the ad by 8-10 members in our department (including Jason and Evelyn)—the incorrect price wasn’t caught at any of these stages. A company exec saw the misprinted price on the ad on a Sunday and immediately reached out to the department head, Craig, to get it fixed. Timing couldn’t have been worse as Jason had been hiking all day and his mobile reception was bad and no one from his off-shore team was available either to address the issue because of time zone differences. The typo was ultimately not fixed, and despite sales impacts from the incorrectly-priced item being minimal, executive leadership saw this is a very big mishap and directed blame towards Craig as the department lead for failing to have his team catch it. This also put pressure on Jason as the lead for ad deployment.
By this point, Jason’s work-relationship with Evelyn had become contentious. Jason had felt Evelyn and other members of her team were throwing him under the bus for mistakes made during the ad deployment process that he believes weren’t his fault. Evelyn and others on her team believed Jason was not living up to his expectations managing ad deployment and critiqued his quality of work and worth ethic, often sighting Jason’s arrival to the office at 10AM and departure at 4:30PM as a lack of dedication (Jason lives about an hour to an hour a half away from the office). Jason eventually went to Craig and requested to be switched to a different team in our department. Craig honored his request and, with my boss Diana’s approval, had him begin reporting to me in early 2023 but was still required to uphold his existing role and responsibilities, that is, continuing to support Evelyn with ad deployment and managing the ad deployment system with his off-shore team.
I’d like to believe I made a conscious effort to set up Jason for success in the initial months of him joining my team as I suspected maybe he hadn’t been given adequate support, guidance or resources with his previous team. I made sure any mistakes he made were met with feedback that was more constructive than critical or that if he was accused of making mistakes by others that I felt were unjustified, I would step in and back him. I shadowed him on certain projects either offering to split some of the duties with him if I felt the project was too big for him to handle alone or simply as a second set of eyes and stepping in with a little bit of guidance when I considered it necessary. I was lenient with his work schedule allowing him to come in after most people typically arrived and leaving earlier that most even after my boss Diana expressed to me some concerns about optics (I told her he was getting his work done which was true). He was initially only allowed 1 day a week to work from home (an old agreement between him and Evelyn) and I got approval on changing it to 2 after a year on my team to match the rest of the department. This all appeared to benefit Jason as major assignments were getting completed (with few or no issues). I no longer had to keep a bird’s eye view on his work as often. He was much more well-equipped at handling certain situations than he had previously been. My boss Diana even mentioned to me that our department lead, Craig, noted that “Jason was thriving”.
With all that backstory out of the way, now I can get into the challenges from my TDLR.
Challenge #1 – Jason’s history with his former boss Evelyn is making him disgruntled, affecting his attitude.
To re-iterate, Jason’s job is still to support Evelyn with ad deployment even though he now currently. reports to me. Since the beginning, Jason’s always had major gripes with his limited role in respects to creation of the ad which is strictly gathering content and piecing the ad together and has very little input on the actual content, which is predominantly Evelyn’s function and has been since before he started at the company. Jason and Evelyn are just two of the 8-10 people involved in putting together the ad.
Even though he was never promised it, Jason believes that he should own creative control of the ad over Evelyn and has made some rather alarming comments to me recently on this topic—one time in person saying “Why did I move teams if I don’t own the ad?” and the second time in an email just to me, in a sort of demanding tone, asking we cut and/or limit Evelyn’s input on ad content. Both times I had to remind him our role was specifically tied to ad deployment.
I don’t doubt that his animosity stems from his negative experience working on Evelyn’s team and the issues they had with one another that led to him reporting to me. Jason has a right to feel that way on some level (Evelyn and her team are sometimes very difficult to work with, can be duplicitous, etc.) but, as his manager, I’ve also noted that Evelyn’s criticism about Jason have some validity as I’ve seen them for myself (not holding himself accountable, not project managing things appropriately, etc.). I’m having a hard time getting Jason to hold himself accountable for situations where he is the cause as he simply attributes the issues back to Evelyn or the process with the ad overall. And though he's not always vocal about it, I know for a fact he still fully believes he should own the content portion of the ad over Evelyn.
Challenge #2 – Jason has asked for a promotion as well as more resources
Earlier this year was our annual job performance review. I though Jason did an exceptional job going above and beyond to deliver on certain key assignments and showed lots of promise in terms of his professional growth. There were still a few items I rated him at average that I felt he could work on but gave him a high overall rating.
When I conducted one-on-one with him, he asked for a title change and justified the work he did this year warranted it. He wanted to add 1 of or all of “CRM”, “Developer”, “Artificial Intelligence” to his existing title, “Manager of Ads Deployment”. Jason does indeed use a CRM tool for ad deployment and he had also been actively doing some dev-level work for a 1-time integration project on this CRM tool so from this angle he certainly has a point. However, my boss Diana and I initially sought to hire a temporary off-shore developer resource to handle the dev integration project before Jason took the project on himself. We consulted Jason on this possible temporary hire and he advised us he would be more well equipped to handle it himself and that we should not move forward with the acquiring this resource. He did not inquire to us at that time if this would merit a title change. Lastly, Jason has shown a keen interest in AI though he doesn’t possess a background in this (no degrees or past work experience) nor is it expected of him to know anything in this area to carry out his core responsibilities. I know he uses ChatGPT a lot for his programming projects (it’s not required of him to know any programming) to help him learn and apply to his job, but that’s about it as far as I’m aware.
I told him I would speak to my boss, Diana, and Craig, our department head, to see what I could do for him but advised I couldn’t make any promises. I spoke with Diana the next day about the change request (she basically scoffed) and told me she’d speak to Craig about it at some point in the following days. I week transpired and Jason asked me to for any updates on his title change and pay rise. I asked for clarity as I did not recall him mentioning pay rise at all, only title change. He responded saying “I said during my performance eval pay would come later”. I took him at his word assuming I simply didn’t hear him during our one-on-one and told him I would speak again with Diana to share he was also expecting a pay increase. Later that week I was told by Diana that Craig couldn’t approve either.
I messaged him on Slack on Friday while he worked from home at about 1:15PM asking if he could spare some time for us to discuss his title change/pay raise request. No response for an hour. I knew he was working that day because I saw emails from him in the morning that same day. At around 2:30PM, I texted him (not messaged on Slack) saying “Hey, not sure if you saw my Slack message but wanted to see if you could get on a call for us to discuss your title change/pay rise request”. Another hour went by without a response. Finally around 3:30PM that day, he responds on Slack saying he was running errands and didn’t see my messages. Now look, I get taking it easy sometimes when working from home—I do it too—but disappearing in the middle of a work day for hours while your boss is trying to contact you about your requests for a title change/pay rise is not a good look in my opinion.
We got on a Slack call (it sounded like he was still in his car) and essentially told him I couldn’t get approval for a pay raise. The best we (meaning myself and my boss Diana) could do is try to make a case for him at some undisclosed point in the future to leadership to possibly get him paid more, but that the title changes were still out of the picture. He pushed back, referring to developer work he was doing that was out of his job description to which I reminded him that Diana and I initially wanted to hire someone to do it so he wouldn’t have to and that this dev work was a one-time integration, not an recurring business need. Jason ultimately accepted that his requests had been denied.
The promotion discussion was earlier in the year but sort of resurfaced this week. Jason will begin handling deployment for 2 more ads in the upcoming weeks. This increase in workload was anticipated and normally Jason could tap into his off-shore team to help manage the workload. Diana and I realize that there are some disadvantages with relying on the off-shore team and floated the idea of possibly replacing them with a single on-site resource that might be better able to assist Jason. We let Jason know would run this by Craig so he could run it by the company CEO for approval but never made any promises it would happen.
The company is now really struggling financially and pay raises and additional resources are essentially no longer getting approved. Many of us, including me, have had take on additional duties, work more hours, etc. Jason messaged me on Slack saying he sensed Craig was not willing to replace his off-shore team with an on-site resource and that continuing to work with his current off-shore team would cause more headaches than solutions. He finished it off by saying “No pay rise and no resource feels like a slap in the face tbh”. I told him I needed to discuss the matter further with Diana, but if that need be, I would gladly step up and have him train me to be his back up/split some of the workload if in case we can't secure that on-site resource.
This is where I need some feedback. Sometimes I feel like Jason is out of line but sometimes I feel like he's justified. I want to be able to help him as much as I can but I'm limited in what I can do and I fear his dissatisfaction with work is going to cause him to leave. At this time, I don't have enough knowledge/expertise over what he does so that I could easily take over his role if he decided to leave. I'd really appreciate any advice here.
2024.05.11 20:00 MTGSpacy Spicy decks on modern league-2024-05-118075
Boilerplate: Spicy today, tomorrow top eight. Some of these lists are just to off meta to be properly categorized. I'm looking for something to properly name them.Click on player's name to see full deck list on mtgspacy site. 🏆 Congrats to all who got there using some off meta ideas. This is a list of different decks comming from this event: * Deck by stan 🌶️: Cryptic Coat, Sword of Feast and Famine, Otawara, Soaring City, Ephemerate, Tishana's Tidebinder, Skyclave Apparition, Solitude, Undercity Sewers, Subtlety, Dawnbringer Cleric.
Fringe cards used on this event: Helping Hand
Spicy Reddit: /MTGSpacyModern Don't follow, come with me on Twitter for alerts about newcards on modern metagame. MTGSpacy is a deck builder tool that can help you know how off meta your deck is, so you can play with your friends using only off meta decks. Additionally we provide some metagame updates like this. Try MTGSpacy to create new spicy decks.
submitted by MTGSpacy to MTGSpacyModern [link] [comments]
- Deck by Eter89 🌶️: Forge Anew, Colossus Hammer, Surge of Salvation, Cursed Totem, Strict Proctor, Ornithopter, Gingerbrute, Helping Hand, Springleaf Drum, Containment Priest.
2024.05.11 13:55 Low-Entropy From "Frontal Sickness" to "(Maria) I Like It Loud" - Marc Acardipane, the 'Forgotten Man' of Techno
There is an essay by "raver anthropologist" Simon Reynolds that has become a kind of cult thing amongst Hardcore Techno aficionados. It got published in The Wire in 1998; it turned into a cult object not only because it was one of the rare cases where Hardcore music was mentioned in a bigger zine during the late 90s (as opposed to the many badly xeroxed Hardcore-fanzines, with a run of ~50 copies, of which most were destined to end up on soaked squat party toilet room floors), but because it also focused on a very specific person: Marc Acardipane, his releases, and his label family. [1]
In it, he called Marc "the forgotten man of Techno", and followed up with the reasons for that: even though he was right there at the proper beginning of "Techno", was hugely influential, and good friends with many people that are now considered to be true pioneers and legends by vox populi, he fell out of favor when Hardcore itself fell out of favor amongst the Techno folk; because he stayed true to his "core roots" and didn't disown them, like so many other producers did on their way up to the place amongst the stars (and on their way down to the sewers again).
But let's move on from Simon, The Wire, and the year 1998. What happened after that date? First, Marc itself was pulled out from the "shadow zones"; because at least the Hardcore and Gabber scene finally remembered its Techno roots, and kept worshiping those roots again; although under different monikers, such as "oldschool", "oldstyle", "early rave", and so on - I guess "the names have been changed to protect the innocent". This meant that "Technoid Hardcore" could be enjoyed at Hardcore parties and festivals once more (often on separate floors), which led to a lot of gigs and exposure for Marc and his Planet Core Productions sound. [Note: PCP aka Planet Core Productions was a label family run by Marc Acardipane and Thorsten Lambart in the 90s.] It also influenced the Hardcore scene as a whole. A succession of genres such as "newstyle", "millennium" and "mainstyle" came into existence; genres that to 98% were built upon PCP and PCP-adjacent tracks: "Stereo Murder" (produced by Acardipane), "Atmos-Fear" (produced by Acardipane), "Poltergeist" (released on his label), "Flesh is the Fever" (released on Things To Come Records, a label with personal ties to PCP and that was inspired by PCP), plus various others.
This was already a good thing. But then, slowly but steadily, the Techno folk re-gained their interest in Hardcore and harder sounds, too; and now that the "millennial dominance" of the Techno scene, together with their favoring of minimalist and dandy-esque sounds, is slowly fading away, a younger generation is taking over the scene, and that new generation is very, very hardcore.
This led to a renewed interest in the works of Marc Acardipane, his crew, and his output again, coming straight from the heart of the Techno world. Marc himself acknowledged this development in some of his interviews, and added that the Techno people are sometimes even more zealous and knowledgeable about this music than the die-hard old-school gabbers!
A very fine evolution indeed; and we hope Marc gets into the spotlight again because of this, and that he finally reaps the respect that he deserves!
But why is the Techno folk favoring him and his sound specifically - in fact, more than a lot of other "Hardcore" players? I think this is because - and now we cycle back to 1998's "The Wire" essay - his sound is *indeed* heavily connected to Techno. It's not just some ultra-aggressive, ultra-noisy Gabber outing. It's real, true, bona fide Techno music. More than that, it represents a "road not taken" in the history of Techno music. Because, when you go back to the advent of Techno, to Detroit, Chicago, Berlin, London, Frankfurt, there was always a Hardcore contingent. Hardcore was always part of the Techno spirit, it helped to shape and mold the Techno sound. Alas, as mentioned above, it got disowned, and it became almost "forbidden" to speak of this type of music within Techno circles.
A liminal space that always lingered next to the scene as time moved on; a place that people did not dare to enter.
All this is changing now again. And while "every boy and his dog" (i.e. zines, webcasts, music academies) had their own Marc Acardipane feature by now, focusing on his more Hardcore and Gabber output, we decided to do the very opposite here, and showcase the Techno tracks from the past days of the PCP oeuvre, released using a cornucopia of aliases.
Bon appetit!
Oh, and by the way: we very dearly love "I like it loud", too!
(This list is in no particular order)
1. The Mover - Over Land and Sea how can one not love this track? great techno beats, rhythms, groove... and then this cosmic, celestial arrangement in the middle... the beats come back in, and the dancefloor erupts into madness. the flip side ("underwater operations") is also very well worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYMsR1Cae8
2. Cyborg Unknown - The Year 2001 (Deep in Detroit mix) this is going deep into the history of detroit techno indeed. it's not enough to be friends of the jaguar here, this track channels cybotron just as much as it does metroplex. funky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2q4v8_YxbE
3. Trip Commando - Cross The White Line a techno behemoth of the most epic proportions. has probably one of the most elongated build ups in dance history, until the epic cinematic breakdown unfolds. highly recommended!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWv1e2hBZk
4. Turbulence - Whurlstorm this was on the second release by Industrial Strength Records - a label that shaped Hardcore history, too. it starts as a nice little nasty techno track, until everything breaks apart in the mid-riff, and turns into a hurricane of bass frequncies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngue8baqPs
5. The Mover - Nightflight (Nonstop 2 Kaos) and this was on Industrial Strengh Records number one! As Lenny Dee licensed "We Have Arrived" (a fantastic hardcore track, to say the least) for his label, and put that number on the back side. a cold groove, percussion that almost feels like a breakbeat... lots of bass, cyber-synth.... this is just dancefloor heaven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnHspK1QYI
6. Countdown Part V - Untitled (A1) Countdown FFM is another sub-label to go for if one is looking for some technoid gems. stellar electronic intro, then we get into dance grooves, and things become more deviant as acid sounds sneak in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIL6OCtN3o
7. Alien Christ - Of Suns and Moons (Phase II) inspired by "Suburban Knights - The Art of Stalking" (a true classic, originally released on Transmat). Marc made this influence his own, and delivered a very detroit-ish underground rave anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmmDrQTyyY
8. The Mover & Lunatic Asylum – Frequency Surfers Lunatic Asylum aka "Dr. Macabre" is another person that was entwined with electronic music history while turning into a global player in the hardcore sector at a later date. this is a joint-venture of these two titans of techno, and the result is a very trippy, very twisted and surreal track.
(Cannot be found on youtube, but here are audio previews: https://www.toolboxrecords.com/en/product/17643/techno-hardtechno/dance-ecstasy-2025/ )
9. The Mover - Astral Demons (Original Mix) you should have realized by now: the mover is a synonym for high quality productions. this is one of my favorite pics from the legendary "frontal sickness" releases; and indeed adds a very demonic vibe to the whole dance thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMT2KdQt5Q
10. Rave Creator - A New Mind (Thai Acid Mix) "Thai" was a pcp sub that focused specifically on techno, acid, even a bit of trance-ish tracks. despite the alias, this was put out on DE 2001 instead. It's a remix of the famous "A New Mind" track.
starting with pure bass drones. it builds up very slowly, until thunderous, reverberated bass drums come in, and then it goes into full-on acid feeding. similar to "cross the white line", this track could be given the title "cinematic techno soundtrack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGpuMbLicZU
Honorable Mentions:
T-Bone Castro - Return 2 Planet E Reincarnated Regulator - Italian Stallion Craig Tayaffo - Reduction (Back For Acid-The Expanded 0,25 Hrs Mix) Barracuda - Braineaters Two Tonys - Organ Bitch Nasty Django - Ey Loco Cold Rush Records Frontal Sickness 1+2 Reincarnated Regulator - Mindeater Climax - Relax Nasty Django - 3 P Rules! SexDrive Entertainment - No.2 T-Bone Castro / Ace The Space - Ace In The Hole Project Æ - Whales Alive Ultra Spaceman - Ultra-Style
Footnotes: 1: The original Wire essay - http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2015/03/marc-acardipane-mover-pcp-dance-ecstasy.html
submitted by Low-Entropy to TheHcTechnoOverDogs [link] [comments]
In it, he called Marc "the forgotten man of Techno", and followed up with the reasons for that: even though he was right there at the proper beginning of "Techno", was hugely influential, and good friends with many people that are now considered to be true pioneers and legends by vox populi, he fell out of favor when Hardcore itself fell out of favor amongst the Techno folk; because he stayed true to his "core roots" and didn't disown them, like so many other producers did on their way up to the place amongst the stars (and on their way down to the sewers again).
But let's move on from Simon, The Wire, and the year 1998. What happened after that date? First, Marc itself was pulled out from the "shadow zones"; because at least the Hardcore and Gabber scene finally remembered its Techno roots, and kept worshiping those roots again; although under different monikers, such as "oldschool", "oldstyle", "early rave", and so on - I guess "the names have been changed to protect the innocent". This meant that "Technoid Hardcore" could be enjoyed at Hardcore parties and festivals once more (often on separate floors), which led to a lot of gigs and exposure for Marc and his Planet Core Productions sound. [Note: PCP aka Planet Core Productions was a label family run by Marc Acardipane and Thorsten Lambart in the 90s.] It also influenced the Hardcore scene as a whole. A succession of genres such as "newstyle", "millennium" and "mainstyle" came into existence; genres that to 98% were built upon PCP and PCP-adjacent tracks: "Stereo Murder" (produced by Acardipane), "Atmos-Fear" (produced by Acardipane), "Poltergeist" (released on his label), "Flesh is the Fever" (released on Things To Come Records, a label with personal ties to PCP and that was inspired by PCP), plus various others.
This was already a good thing. But then, slowly but steadily, the Techno folk re-gained their interest in Hardcore and harder sounds, too; and now that the "millennial dominance" of the Techno scene, together with their favoring of minimalist and dandy-esque sounds, is slowly fading away, a younger generation is taking over the scene, and that new generation is very, very hardcore.
This led to a renewed interest in the works of Marc Acardipane, his crew, and his output again, coming straight from the heart of the Techno world. Marc himself acknowledged this development in some of his interviews, and added that the Techno people are sometimes even more zealous and knowledgeable about this music than the die-hard old-school gabbers!
A very fine evolution indeed; and we hope Marc gets into the spotlight again because of this, and that he finally reaps the respect that he deserves!
But why is the Techno folk favoring him and his sound specifically - in fact, more than a lot of other "Hardcore" players? I think this is because - and now we cycle back to 1998's "The Wire" essay - his sound is *indeed* heavily connected to Techno. It's not just some ultra-aggressive, ultra-noisy Gabber outing. It's real, true, bona fide Techno music. More than that, it represents a "road not taken" in the history of Techno music. Because, when you go back to the advent of Techno, to Detroit, Chicago, Berlin, London, Frankfurt, there was always a Hardcore contingent. Hardcore was always part of the Techno spirit, it helped to shape and mold the Techno sound. Alas, as mentioned above, it got disowned, and it became almost "forbidden" to speak of this type of music within Techno circles.
A liminal space that always lingered next to the scene as time moved on; a place that people did not dare to enter.
All this is changing now again. And while "every boy and his dog" (i.e. zines, webcasts, music academies) had their own Marc Acardipane feature by now, focusing on his more Hardcore and Gabber output, we decided to do the very opposite here, and showcase the Techno tracks from the past days of the PCP oeuvre, released using a cornucopia of aliases.
Bon appetit!
Oh, and by the way: we very dearly love "I like it loud", too!
(This list is in no particular order)
1. The Mover - Over Land and Sea how can one not love this track? great techno beats, rhythms, groove... and then this cosmic, celestial arrangement in the middle... the beats come back in, and the dancefloor erupts into madness. the flip side ("underwater operations") is also very well worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYMsR1Cae8
2. Cyborg Unknown - The Year 2001 (Deep in Detroit mix) this is going deep into the history of detroit techno indeed. it's not enough to be friends of the jaguar here, this track channels cybotron just as much as it does metroplex. funky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2q4v8_YxbE
3. Trip Commando - Cross The White Line a techno behemoth of the most epic proportions. has probably one of the most elongated build ups in dance history, until the epic cinematic breakdown unfolds. highly recommended!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWv1e2hBZk
4. Turbulence - Whurlstorm this was on the second release by Industrial Strength Records - a label that shaped Hardcore history, too. it starts as a nice little nasty techno track, until everything breaks apart in the mid-riff, and turns into a hurricane of bass frequncies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngue8baqPs
5. The Mover - Nightflight (Nonstop 2 Kaos) and this was on Industrial Strengh Records number one! As Lenny Dee licensed "We Have Arrived" (a fantastic hardcore track, to say the least) for his label, and put that number on the back side. a cold groove, percussion that almost feels like a breakbeat... lots of bass, cyber-synth.... this is just dancefloor heaven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnHspK1QYI
6. Countdown Part V - Untitled (A1) Countdown FFM is another sub-label to go for if one is looking for some technoid gems. stellar electronic intro, then we get into dance grooves, and things become more deviant as acid sounds sneak in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIL6OCtN3o
7. Alien Christ - Of Suns and Moons (Phase II) inspired by "Suburban Knights - The Art of Stalking" (a true classic, originally released on Transmat). Marc made this influence his own, and delivered a very detroit-ish underground rave anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmmDrQTyyY
8. The Mover & Lunatic Asylum – Frequency Surfers Lunatic Asylum aka "Dr. Macabre" is another person that was entwined with electronic music history while turning into a global player in the hardcore sector at a later date. this is a joint-venture of these two titans of techno, and the result is a very trippy, very twisted and surreal track.
(Cannot be found on youtube, but here are audio previews: https://www.toolboxrecords.com/en/product/17643/techno-hardtechno/dance-ecstasy-2025/ )
9. The Mover - Astral Demons (Original Mix) you should have realized by now: the mover is a synonym for high quality productions. this is one of my favorite pics from the legendary "frontal sickness" releases; and indeed adds a very demonic vibe to the whole dance thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMT2KdQt5Q
10. Rave Creator - A New Mind (Thai Acid Mix) "Thai" was a pcp sub that focused specifically on techno, acid, even a bit of trance-ish tracks. despite the alias, this was put out on DE 2001 instead. It's a remix of the famous "A New Mind" track.
starting with pure bass drones. it builds up very slowly, until thunderous, reverberated bass drums come in, and then it goes into full-on acid feeding. similar to "cross the white line", this track could be given the title "cinematic techno soundtrack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGpuMbLicZU
Honorable Mentions:
T-Bone Castro - Return 2 Planet E Reincarnated Regulator - Italian Stallion Craig Tayaffo - Reduction (Back For Acid-The Expanded 0,25 Hrs Mix) Barracuda - Braineaters Two Tonys - Organ Bitch Nasty Django - Ey Loco Cold Rush Records Frontal Sickness 1+2 Reincarnated Regulator - Mindeater Climax - Relax Nasty Django - 3 P Rules! SexDrive Entertainment - No.2 T-Bone Castro / Ace The Space - Ace In The Hole Project Æ - Whales Alive Ultra Spaceman - Ultra-Style
Footnotes: 1: The original Wire essay - http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2015/03/marc-acardipane-mover-pcp-dance-ecstasy.html