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Bonjour à tous, je recherche un clip de chanson. Malheureusement ce sont mes seules infos je me rappelle que du clip et j'ai plus aucun souvenir des paroles.

• Le clip de la chanson est une sorte de making-of.
• Le chanteur est un jeune homme à lunettes.
• Le chanteur est en école de cinéma.
• Le chanteur ne rappe pas vraiment, il chante.
• Le clip montre comment il a fait tous les effets spéciaux.
• Le chanteur porte un pull vert de mémoire.
• Le titre de la chanson est simple, peut-être quelque chose comme “normal” ou un autre mot simple.
• La chanson est assez récente, sortie il y a moins de 5 ans.
• Le style musical est similaire à celui de “An’Om x Vayn - Astronaute”.
• À un moment du clip, le chanteur tombe dans un matelas pour un effet de caméra.
• Le nom d’artiste du chanteur est peut-être son prénom.

Vous auriez une idée ?

18 months after the last time he surfaced, do-nothing Intellivision CEO Phil Adam posted this feckless update.

May 24, 2023
Intellivision Update May 2023
The last 18 months, since becoming the CEO, has been an extremely difficult time for the Intellivision business. A long list of disappointments from both inside and outside of the company had to be taken head on. During this time we laid off a large portion of our staff, restructured our management team, and began the process of reevaluating every aspect of the business, which included the path that lay ahead for Intellivision.

That phrase, "a long list of disappointments," really sums up the project, doesn't it?

What we have distilled down from countless hours of self assessment is that we are, or more accurately, wish to be, in the business of creating a living room experience that brings people of various ages together in group play. It is the experience between people, sitting in the same room, that will be our primary measure of success. This, first and foremost, comes from offering great content.

If that's your "primary measure of success," I guess you realize by now that you have utterly failed, right?

As an entertainment business, we realize that creating great content requires world class partners and a focus on strategies where we can effectively achieve the necessary level of excellence to succeed. To this end, we will be announcing a string of new partnerships that will not only help bring fun and innovative content that captures the Amico experience, but also bolsters and celebrates our content's appeal by (1) licensing our IP to development partners who have product pedigrees that are creatively aligned and best poised to bring something great to market, (2) leveraging our IP in ways that ensures delivery on Amico but additionally expands our content to entirely new audiences Intellivision would otherwise be unable to reach and (3) acquiring new IP that embodies Amico and fits our strategic focus. This will include licensing IP for other platforms where it makes sense to do so.

That's how we got Astrosmash (music "compiled" by Tommy Tallarico) and Shark! Shark! for Steam, Switch, and Xbox, as well as Google Play. Very few reviews and not many more sales. Good job, Phil!

Our commitment to delivering a unique and innovative platform that brings people together has not wavered. What has changed is our philosophy on how to deliver that experience. The business environment is quite different from what it was in 2018 when the original Intellivision business plan was put together. We cannot solely be dependent on a traditional hardware console business model. The cost and time to scale such a business is too great. We must be more creative in how we deploy our intended entertainment experience - not only delivering a better experience for our customers, but also reducing the time and cost to scale the business.

Oh, it's wavered. No amount of empty words can hide that.

We want to assure our fans that shipping a console remains a part of our product strategy. The development and hands-on testing of our pilot units have been a successful step forward. As a testament of this progress, we are pleased to share with you this video of a father and son playing Shark! Shark! on one of the pilot units in their home!

No comment.

As part of our expanded strategy, we also plan to bring the Amico experience to other hardware platforms, starting with mobile devices, under the name Amico Home. Amico Home will dramatically reduce the hardware footprint needed to enjoy Amico games and provide more developers the opportunity to explore the creative potential of in-room multiplayer games with our innovative physical and smartphone controllers. This broadening of the talent pool will bring new ideas and gaming that will shape the future of Intellivision and our place in the market.

Amico Home = $15 ports of existing mobile games except you need to use a phone to control your phone. The most popular of them has "100+ downloads" and the modest roadmap milestones are already slipping.

We are excited for this future and what it means for bringing the Amico experience to the public. Those who supported Intellivision early on helped set the foundation for all that we have been able to achieve, and we are truly thankful to you all. In the coming weeks, those that have maintained a deposit will be able to sign in and verify their spot on the priority list (Amico Club List). The Amico Club List will be used as the primary mechanism to prioritize access to special products, early access to new games and other unique offers. More details to follow.

Again, it's been 51 weeks since this feeble declaration.

Again, we thank you for your patience and support as we chart a new course for Intellivision and establish our own unique position in the vast and vibrant video game industry.

Phil Adam, CEO
Truly unique indeed.

And now I’m thinking about using Pringles to pack a would or something similar.
It’s ok though, there is currently a driverless vehicle ramming into an ambulance over and over while 2 interns need to perform a life saving procedure.
Just another Tuesday at Grey-Sloane Memorial!
I…don’t work at Grey-Sloane Memorial, I’m just finally watching season 20…I also can’t ever remember if it’s Grey’s or Gray’s even though I’ve watched 19 seasons of the show.
I did not mean to make this entire post about Gre(a)’s Anatomy. It tells you nothing about me…or maybe it tells you everything? Hmmmm?
You want to know about me? Well I’m portrayed by Scott Speedman and I’m the current love interest of Meredith Gre(a)y…no wait that’s not me, that’s Dr Nick Marsh.
I’m not a doctor nor do I play one on tv. I’m just a regular guy who works from home and rarely has time to get out so I’m turning to the internet.
I enjoy horror movies, non-horror movies, games, tv, music, books, baseball, collecting stupid shit, being dumb with money, doing my dad stuff every day, playing with my pets….etc..
I’m neurodivergent if that’s not apparent already. I consider myself 95% of a socialist. I have heard, greying hair, dad bod, tattoos…I’m decently tall.
I don’t know what else to say here. Yesterday my post was a complete bust but I’m not one to give up that easily!

I (24F) was using a rideshare app to go back from my work. I met a guy (34M) in one of those rides and we got along very well and after two rides he invited me to a pastry shop to try his traditional cuisine - I had previously lived in his country and I knew a lot about the culture, food and it sounded great. After this first date we kept hanging out and organize more dates (he was always the one organizing those dates). One thing that felt off in the beginning was that he was not available during weekends. But I justified it in my mind with the fact the he lives with his parents and I already knew his parents had health issues previously so did not really want to make him uncomfortable (yes now I understand how wrong I was). After we got physical I told him that it would be my first sex experience (even though I've been in relationships before never did it) and he was okay with it and after some time we did it it felt do great. For the first time in my life I felt like falling in love with someone. But two months in two our hangout he just suddenly canceled our trip plan saying he is not in the mood after a bad traffic and he had some problems he did not tell me before about. The next day he texted me saying that he has two kids and lives partially with an ex (which he wishes not to but can't leave because of kids - bs I can say). I was devastated for the days not only because he had kids and how manipulative he was but the way he confessed it - over text was very selfish. The days after he said he wanted to meet me to apologize in person and when I said on Saturday he didn't reply and only texted again on Monday. We finally met and he told me about his situation and to be honest I felt so disgusted by myself. He kept saying how he is not happy with his ex because she was always complaining, not traveling, always unsatisfied etc. And he kept saying how he felt love for me and how I was funny and all that. He said those things thinking it would make me feel good but deep inside I was shocked how I fell for a man like him. He said he wished he mad met someone like me years ago and I do not understand it now because of my age. I did not trust any of his words anymore also his ex did not know at all about me, neither his friends or family. I just felt like a "side piece" all along.
TL; DR The guy I was dating told me after two months that he had kids.I am just feeling so bad. I told him to "have a nice life" and he said I can't tell that to him and he just left. I do not know how can someone ever get over it. How can men do such things easily? Now I am also wondering if I meet a guy of my age, would he be go looking for a younger women once we have kids? Is it really what it is? I stupidly still have feelings for him. I mean I can understand having a bad relationship can suck but how can you expect to live with an ex and still meet someone and lie to them like this?

hi everyone,
earlier this year, i fortunately got an offer for a software engineer internship from my top preferred company (which i have signed and accepted). I've still continued to interview at other places, and last week I got another offer from a place which I do not plan on accepting. How can I tell my recruiter that I am interested in the position and passionate about the company, and if the circumstances were different i would have definitely accepted and so on.
I have two main concerns:

1. me rejecting the second offer and then not being considered for a grad role at this company next year
   
2. things going south with my first offer (e.g. budgets cuts etc.) and me being left with no backup
   

What should I do? My other option would be accepting the offer for now (in case anything happens to my first offer) and rejecting later in the year. I don't see this playing out well though because I would leave the recruiter with no time to make adjustments to the team etc.

Is there a generally agreed procedure – or at least a handful of useful techniques?
Background:
I'm learning about concavity in curves of functions, specifically identifying the turning points and inflections in such curves.
To do this I'm building sign diagrams of f(x), f'(x) (first derivative) and f''(x) (second derivative).
For example:

x	-1	0	1/2	1
y'	-	-	+	+

• By working out the signs of the 1st derivative, I can determine the turning points of the curve.
• By working out the signs of the 2nd derivative, I can determine the inflection points of the curve.

The functions tend to be polynomial, e.g.:

• f(x) = x^2 - x^4
  
  • so that f'(x) = 2x - 4x^3
  • and f''(x) = 2 - 12x^2
• f(x) = x^4 - 3x^2 + 6x
  
  • so that f'(x) = 4x^3 - 6x + 6
  • and f''(x) = 12x^2 - 6

So far my "technique" is pretty scrappy.
First I determine zero points (by inspection, completing the square or applying the quadratic formula).
Then I just punch tiny permutations into my calculator, e.g. `1.0001^2 - 1.0001^4`, etc, randomly to see whether they're negative or positive, and scrawl down the results. Then I try to throw together a sign diagram that seems right.
I would prefer to follow a consistent method that can generally get me accurate results.
So far I've got this short list:
A) Inspecting for obvious forcing of the whole result. E.g. in an expression like: 2x^2 - x^2, the result can only be positive, because both sides square x and the left side only doubles that value, so will always be larger than the right.
B) Factoring/grouping. Factor the polynomial into groups of multiplications if possible, then solve the sign of each group separately, then combined them in the end.
For example:

1. x^4 - x^3 - 5x => (x^2 - 3x)(x^2 + 2x)
2. Make two sign diagrams, one for (x^2 - 3x) and one for (x^2 + 2x)
3. Then combine the signs, i.e. - * - = +, - * + = +, + * + = +

C) Tabulating permutations. Drawing up a table of values of x (columns) and groups of the polynomial (from the Factoring/grouping above).
For example:

x	-1	-1 + 0.001	0 - 0.001	0	0 + 0.001	1 - 0.001	1
(x^2 - 3x)	2 (+)	≈ 3.995 (+)	≈ 0.003 (+)	0	≈ -0.002 (-)	≈ -1.998 (-)	-2 (-)
(x^2 + 2x)	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

This can then easily be converted to a sign diagram.
D) Applying values of powers of fractions.
I noticed it's common that a fraction raised to a power will give a radically (no pun) different result to the whole polynomial.
So it might be useful to quickly identify where this can happen and solve for it early.
I'm thinking of memorising (or at least being able to quickly build from memory) a table like the following:

x	2	3	4	...
1/2	1/4	1/8	...	...
1/4	...	...	...	...
1/6	...	...	...	...
...	...	...	...	...

What do you think?
Am I generally right to try and find a systematic method or at least a collection of tools to solve this kind of problem?
If so, are there any good books out there that cover such methods, so I don't have to discover them on my own by trial-and-error?
Or if not, then maybe this would be a good topic for a math book or blog post that I should write on my own!

May 14, 2024
The latest Times polling shows the extent of the challenge that President Biden faces and the strengths that Donald J. Trump retains. A yearning for change — as well as discontent over the economy and the war in Gaza among young, Black and Hispanic voters — may lie behind both.
Nate Cohn, our chief political analyst, explains the surveys: New York Times/Siena College polls of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, and the inaugural Times/Philadelphia InquireSiena poll in Pennsylvania.
On today's episode:
Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The New York Times.
Background reading:

• Surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer reveal an erosion of support for the president among young and nonwhite voters upset about the economy and Gaza.
• With polls showing that Trump is set to make a demographic breakthrough, ticket splitting is also back.

You can listen to the episode here.

Sneaking into supposedly haunted building late at night always sounded like a laugh, but I don't think so anymore.
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My town has this old mill. There used to be a lot of farmland around here, and the mill was practically the lifeblood of the town. You wouldn't know it to look at the place now. The soil surrounding us for a good couple of miles out is dry as bone with nothing growing out of it, and the mill looks like it's falling apart. Which apparently it has been since even before it closed down a few decades ago since a series of accidents is said to have been what finally pulled the plug on the old place—accidents where people died.
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Which is where all the ghost stories come from, which in turn are what led to my late-night venture into a building that looked like it would fall on top of me any moment if I brushed the wrong bit of wall. It was dumb, and the one or two friends I'd told of my plan thought I was going to get myself killed. In hindsight, they were right. But then, hindsight is 20/20, right?
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The door was easy enough to force. I had the torch function on my mobile phone switched on, and I saw that the wooden door was barely there anymore. Once it was open, I was hit by a cloud of dust so thick that I nearly choked on it. I couldn't believe I was the first one to try exploring the mill since it closed down, but that's what the air was telling me as I stepped inside.
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Most of it was wood just like the outside. Decades-old wooden pillars held up the ceiling, above which had to be more machinery like what I saw in this downstairs room. I won't pretend to know what any of it does, but it was rusted with age and far past its ability to perform its function. It looked heavy, though, and I immediately feared the prospect of the ceiling crashing down upon me. But, I reasoned, if it were going to do that, this place would have collapsed years ago, wouldn't it?
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The thought calmed me slightly but not much. After all, it would have to fall eventually.
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I was about to climb the stairs, satisfied that nothing was left to see on the ground floor, when the whisper reached me.
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"Help."
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I spun around, startled, to see absolutely nobody. The room was still as empty as it had been when I broke the door open. My heart raced in my chest from the start the voice had given me. "Is that someone mucking about?" I asked.
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There was no answer.
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I took some slow, deep breaths to calm myself down. Just my mind playing tricks on me, I thought. This place being spooky is the whole reason you came here.
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Satisfied that I was alone and that the voice had been nothing more than an illusion produced by my own mind's reaction to the darkness around me, I continued on up the stairs. Each one creaked as I planted a foot upon it, and I had visions of the flimsy wood breaking beneath my weight. At least I wouldn't have far to fall.
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I was right about there being more machinery on the floor above, although I still couldn't tell you what any of it was for. Well, I knew logically that it was for the process of making grain, but you know what I mean. I pointed the torch at it and saw that it was just as rusty as what was downstairs. I sighed. Nothing here but rust and dust. Not that I was expecting to find any ghosts or anything, but I was hoping for something marginally more interesting than old machinery and drifting flakes of crumbling wood.
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One of the shadows to my left moved, and I bloody near toppled onto my ass, yelling.
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My heart hammered away its rhythm at a quickened pace, and I pointed my light toward the area of the movement. Nothing. Just more old wood.
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I was alone, but I was certain that something had moved in here.
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"First your ears, now your eyes," I said to myself shakily, trying to make a joke of it. "This dark's making you lose your marbles. You're the only one here."
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Only ... I found that I didn't believe that anymore.
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I can't tell you what it was, but I just had an overwhelming feeling that I was no longer alone. I felt like a deer in a clearing who's just begun to suspect a tiger is watching me from the bushes. I could feel my legs tensing, preparing myself to run for the stairs.
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I stood there for what felt like an hour but was in actuality only a couple of minutes. I breathed to calm myself down again and decided that I really wasn't in the right headspace for this. I was too nervous. Too ... scared. Prey instincts I didn't even know I had were kicking in, and that couldn't be healthy. I decided to leave.
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I walked down the stairs, each step toward the front door coming as a relief.
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Then I saw it.
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A door. A door I knew hadn't been there when I'd entered the building. I remember sweeping my torch all over the room, and at no point had I seen that door in its light.
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"Down here. Help."
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It was the same voice as before, whispering in my ear so closely that I should have felt their breath on my lobe. But I felt nothing of the sort. A chill ran up my spine. Fuck this, I thought, and turned to charge at the exit.
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It was gone.
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Where once there was the front door, which I had broken open to gain entry in the first place, there was now only more wooden wall.
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I could bring myself to do nothing but stand and stare for a few minutes. It wasn't possible. The door was there, I knew it was! How could it be gone? What was happening? A scream of primal fear ripped its way out of my throat, and I charged at the wooden wall. The wood was flimsy-looking and rotted and should have broken easily, but with every punch I succeeded only in making my fists ache, and with every kick all I made was noise. Noise which reached nobody but myself.
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Tears of terror and frustration ran down my cheeks in rivers, and I bit my hand to keep from loudly sobbing. I was trapped.
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My legs buckled beneath me as the truth of my situation finally became clear, and I sat on the dusty wooden floors, my back against the infuriatingly sturdy wooden wall, and I held my head in my hand. What do I do?
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I must have sat there for hours.
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The sun didn't rise. No light peaked in through the gaps between the wood planks.
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"Help," the voice came again. This time it was no whisper, but a call from beyond the new door. "Down here. Help."
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Well ... what else could I do but listen?
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I stood up on shaky legs, bracing myself against the wall until I was sure I could stand unaided. Then I made my way over to the new door and gently pushed it open. It made a long, high-pitched creaking noise as it opened to reveal a second staircase—one that led down.
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I didn't want to go down. I wanted to leave, but I couldn't. My only other option was to sit and wait for something to happen, and I thought that might drive me mad.
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I went down the stairs.
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Unlike the ones upstairs, these steps didn't creak as I stepped on them. In fact, my footfalls made no sound at all, which if anything was even more unsettling.
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Yet that was not the most terrifying part. The part that scared me most, the part that got my heart racing so badly that I thought it'd beat its way right out of my chest, was the way the stairs just didn't end.
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I must have been walking down them for a good ten minutes before the thought occurred to me. My first instinct was to run around and run back up, but somehow I knew that if I did that, I would be running up forever just as I'd be walking down forever. Maybe I was wrong, but I don't think I was.
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"Keep going," the voice said, whispering from right by my ear once again. "Come down."
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I could see it now, whatever was speaking to me. Only not really. I didn't see what it looked like, but I saw it there, out of the corner of my eye, walking right next to me on the stairs somehow without ever touching me. Just a dark shape that only superficially resembled a human body—and too many eyes to count, all of them glowing a dull yellow, each one blinking periodically. Its entire body covered in them.
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I sped up my descent down the stairs. I knew I wouldn't find an end, but I had to get away from whatever it was that was with me. That deeply-buried prey instinct rose in me again, this time to the point of damn near screaming at me to run, run away because the predator was here.
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But I couldn't get away.
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No matter how much I picked up speed, it was always there, right by me.
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"Yes, yes!" it cried in pleasure. There was a sort of slurping sound. "Just like that! Such delicious terror!"
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I screamed.
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It laughed.
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And suddenly, I understood.
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It was eating me, not in body but in soul. With every second of fear, I could feel myself growing weaker. I felt thinner, less substantial. At some point, I knew, I would stop existing.
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I was scared, and that only fed it more of me.
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But then I realised something else: there were no walls around the staircase. Just a great expanse of darkness beyond the splintered wooden bannisters on either side.
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I had a way out.
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I stopped running down the stairs, turned, and gripped the bannister. Without so much as thinking about the height, I launched myself over the edge.
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There was a roar of pure rage loud enough to still be ringing in my eardrums now.
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Then a blinding light.
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It was the sun.
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I sat up, and I was outside the mill again. The warmth of the sun felt glorious, and I've never been happier to find myself lying in the grass where all the bugs could crawl all over me.
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I think I know why the land around our town died.
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I'm moving soon. I've told everyone else they should do the same, but they aren't listening to me. I hope they come to their senses before it's too late.
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Because whatever is living in the mill is hungry.
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How long will it take to leave its habitat and feast properly?
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I can already hear that voice again.

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I sat on my thrown with a frown on my face. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair at all! Magna, Mortifica, Liona, even Anatola! Why not me?
"Abaddon!" I shouted and my first captain appeared.
"Yes, my lady?" He stood at attention.
"What do my sisters have that I don't?"
Abaddon looked confused, "My lady?"
"Sanguinia has her Dove, Anatola has her Rose, even Mortifica has her... Whatever she calls him. Why do I not have a partner? I'm the Warmaster for Emperor's sake!"
Abaddon stammered. He didn't know how to answer. Unsurprising.
"H-Have you tried... Asking someone out?"
I frowned, "You think me so simple not to think of such elementary methods?"
"N-No, my lady. Of course not. It's just... Maybe it's because you're so..."
I leaned closer, my eyes narrowing, "So what?"
"Don't take this the wrong way. You're a giant, power-armored, immortal, practically god-like being. I doubt many would... Take the chance."
"Doesn't mean there aren't any," a new voice spoke out. Tarrik Torgadon walked in with his usual swagger, "And it's probably destiny."
Now I was confused, "Explain."
"Well, your sisters have gotten partners only through certain specific occasions. Lady Anatola got hers in a massive battle. I was there, Rose was wielding a chainsword bigger than him. And Lady Lilith got hers at one of those religious backwater conventions or whatever they are."
"So you're saying I'm unlucky?"
Tarrik twisted his lips, "Kind of? But who knows, maybe your knight in shining armor will appear any second."
I laughed at that, "Oh please, Tarrik. The chances of us meeting anybody in this sector of space are astronomically-"
A beeping noise broke me off. My communications officer turned to me and said, "We're being hailed, my Lady."
"By whom?" I ask. There wasn't supposed to be anyone here.
"Unknown. But they sent us a message. It reads: We are friendly. May we appear so we can discuss peace?"
Appear? What do they mean appear? This could be a trap. I guess it didn't matter. I had three dozen warships with me. Whatever comes at us will be destroyed.
"Fine. Tell them I shall meet them."
The officer relayed the message and a ship appeared out of nowhere a second later. Energy sparked in the dark void of space as the vessel's hull materialized. But there was no sign of warp activity. A cloaking device? It was only one and it didn't look particularly impressive despite its sleek design.
An hour went by as the ship got into position next to my Vengeful Spirit. In moments I would meet its captain and hopefully get answers.
"This could be him," Tarrik said.
"Who?" I asked.
"You know."
I scoffed, "Tarrik, once again, the chances of me finding my so-called 'knight in shining armor' on this unknown vessel is-"
The door opened and I was greeted with a sight that made me... Feel. There were two dozen individuals. All humans. A third were women, the rest men. Most of the men wore bulky armor and carried powerful-looking weapons.
But none of that interested me.
The man leading them. He was well over two meters tall. Neatly cropped silver hair adorned his head. His crimson eyes stared into mine. His skin as pale as snow-covered ash. The gray and white suit he wore utterly failed to hide his powerful body. He stood with his arms behind his straight back.
What was this? A witch? Did he use some kind of sorcery? What do I feel? Why do I feel it? How? He...
"Greetings," he spoke, his voice like a melody to my ears, "I am Antonius Maximilian Kantor, Admiral of the first Altraxian Commonwealth Fleet."
My hearts sank. My words refused to come out of my throat. My mouth opened yet not even air escaped my lips. A nudge from Tarrik brought me back just enough.
"Hera Lupercal. Warmaster of the Emperor's armies. Lady of the Lunar Wolves. Conquerer of a million worlds."
I don't know why I said all of that. My mind just devolved into its basic instinct. To make those beneath me fear me. Perhaps that's why I'm...
"An impressive assortment of titles," Antonius said, unnerved by my words, "Hera. Like the goddess of Ancient Terra?"
I stammered, "Y-Yes. Quite a joke name, isn't it?"
"Not at all. It's most fitting."
I swear I could feel my hearts skip a beat. I could feel my face burning like a star. What is this?!
Antonius extended his hand, "Shall we move to a more appropriate location? I believe we have much to discuss."
I hesitated. My arm felt heavy as I slowly lifted it and gently clasped his small hand. Despite my thick gauntlet, I could feel the softness of his palm.
Was this it? Did I... Find him?

If an Olive Garden employee were to ACCIDENTALLY, take home a box of the chocolates….then trip, land on their keyboard and ACCIDENTALLY put said chocolates up on eBay……I’d never tell, and I promise those chocolates will sell…….and for those who think “it’s just Andes Chocolates” you’re mistaken. Andes makes Olive Garden chocolates special with a 1:1 ratio. While the sell chocolates with a 2:1 ratio….POINT:……someone PLEASE put some chocolates on eBay!! And shout out to all the employees who give out a shit ton of chocolates, I value you for your service! 🫡

Hello I’ve had slight issues with my buildings super in the past he definitely does not like me my apartment is right above him I’m very quiet never have parties the most noise usually comes from my pet dog or cat having zoomies lol anyway we live in nyc so roaches are a problem obviously our apartment is on the second floor faces the back of the building towards where they store all of the trash for our building and the next door outside my apartment is our floors trash room When i first moved in we had a roach problem it was kinda bad but it’s been under control as of the past year I only see occasionally a small little roach by my windows which face the back of the building where our trash is kept ( I spray and try to keep the apt as clean as possible I am also a plant person so plants and some bugs are inevitable) anyway my super comes supposedly every two weeks on a Tuesday to spray our apartment he doesn’t let us know often when he’s coming and never gives us an actually time when he’ll be there he just says he’ll be there in the morning I’ve taken off multiple days of work to let him in and spray there’s been a couple occasions where I’ve had to wait the whole day for him and he never came ( he does not give me his number which makes it even harder to contact him ) but as of recently I haven’t been able to take off and I don’t feel comfortable letting him in by himself to spray chemicals when I am not home and my pets are their by themselves today he threatens me to take me to court for not letting him into my apartment that just sounds crazy I don’t need him to spray my apartment for roaches I can easily do that myself I keep traps around the house on the regular and swap them out. He just keeps threading us and I’m not sure what to do especially since I don’t hav much hard evidence Thank u if anyone has any advice Because I’m unsure of what to do

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Before we get into it, I am a shitty brother. l'm not going to hide from it, I'm not going to excuse myself from it. I am a shitty older brother. Before we start, need to give you guys some context into my terrible psychological state. I grew up abused by my mom. I know it sounds like I have a victim complex but it's true. She was only 26 when she had me, and my dad was working all the time on his business in a foreign country. She didn't know how to raise my sister and me, and I was an energetic and mischievious little kid. I was also naive, and unaware of what people thought of me, and I was a nose picker. So for that, I got bullied at school for it. From ages of 7-12, I was bullied in middle school for picking my nose, and going home to getting beaten by my mom. She would also lock me out of the house and make me beg to come back inside our house. She would hit me out of frustration, hit me when she was mad, when my grades weren't as good. I was frustrated by the double standards of how my parents treated me and my sister, so I took my frustration out on her. I beat her too. The more my mom beat me, the more I beat my sister. Because I thought that's what family does right? Take your frustration out on each other when you are unhappy with something else. But I realized my sister went through the same shitty situation as me and I could never understand that because I was only focused on my own pain, and my own situation. But last year, in September 2023, I beat her so badly it left marks on her body. I don't need to go into detail, but it was bad. Like she almost called the cops, really bad. I don't think I can ever be forgiven.
My sister has tried to cope with her psychological state by smoking weed, an act done out of rebellion.
My father uses the silent treatment on my sister, even though I tell him to try to speak to her and have a conversation. My sister also used to cut herself, a fact that we seem to ignore in our house. She still carries the marks on her thighs, and it breaks my heart every time to think that I might be the cause of it. She's also a lesbian, something that I've always never cared about, and she knows that I accept her sexuality, not sure if my father or mother accepts her.
My sister thinks I am sexist, and that I hate women.I don't blame her because she's heard the way I talk about my mom(who is a horrible woman, i.e.), and she's experienced the way l've treated her. I can argue that I only hate the women in my family and that I've experienced positive relationships with other women I am unrelated to, but from her POV, it's hard not to agree with that. I have anger issues, stemming from my childhood, the abuse I experienced, and the emotional scars I carry. My pain is valid, but the way I treated her is illegal and immoral. I can't speak with her, because she hates me, and won't listen to a word I say After I did what I did, she told my mom, "He's not my brother, he's my abuser."
These are words I think l'll carry for the rest of my life. The guilt is killing me, and I just want us to go back to the way when we were kids when it was just me and her playing and having fun.
I hear the way she talks to my parents behind my back but my eyes are open now, but I fear I'm too late. She'll never see me the same way as I was that day. I'm the villain in her story, whereas I've only seen her as an obstacle, not as a sister.
She doesn't regard me as a brother anymore, just as a toxic person, or someone to tolerate before you cut out of your life.
What can I do to get her to forgive me and repair our relationship? Cause the guilt is fucking killing me, and I don't know how to live with knowing the only person who understood what I went through hates me.

This is part 4 of my infertile vampire series. You can find the other parts in my masterlist: My masterlist :
I put the script in scriptbin for ease of recording (I heard some VA's prefer reading it from there): Virtual-Grade592: [A4A] [F4A] [M4A] Your vampire partner is infertile [vampire] [established relationship] - scriptbin
It's okay to fill this script and make minor adjustments. Please give me credit for writing the script and put a link in the comments so that I can find your audio. It's okay to paywall, but send me a copy of the audio then.
This part will have 2 speakers, the infertile vampire partner and the adoptive vampire. I’ve given the infertile vampire partner the name Alex, so I’ll use an A to indicate when they speaks and the adoptive vampire is called Ender, so I’ll use an E to indicate when they speak. Feel free to change pronouns and names to fit your audio.
(several days have passed since Ender started living with Alex and the listener. Ender has been gradually getting more at ease with their vampiric nature. Today all of you sit down to discuss the next step in Ender’s education as a vampire.)
[The listener, Alex and Ender sit down on a couple of chairs in the living room]
E: *nervous* I’m not ready for this.
A: *reassuring* Everyone is anxious for the first time they need to feed. You’re such a calm vampire, I’m sure you’ll do fine.
E: *still anxious* But what if I lose control? The blood bags you’ve been feeding me taste so much better than the animal blood I drank before. What if I can’t stop once I start?
A: You’re worrying too much. We aren’t the bloodthirsty monsters that the media portrays us as. Your hunger is the same as when you were human. Only starving or psychopathic vampires would drain a human to the point of death.
E: *unsure* I still feel that this is dangerous. When I arrived here, I had trouble restraining myself from drinking from them.
A: Back then you were starving. Your survival instinct was screaming at you that you needed blood. And you didn’t even give in to it. Now you aren’t starving. At this moment does it feel like you need to bite a human?
E: No, I’m fine now.
A: My point exactly. You’re fine and you’ll still be fine if you feed.
E: *slowly building up courage* I suppose you are right. It feels daunting though. I imagine many things could go wrong, like I could accidentally bite their artery. But those are worst case scenarios right?
A: Yes, that’s right. Those are just worst case scenarios and they are very rare. In all the years I’ve been feeding off of them *pointing at the listener* There were never any problems. All that will happen is that your partner gets a bit fatigued. *cheeky* Or they’ll get turned on if they have a thing for vampires.
[pause]
A: *amused* Aw that’s cute, look at the both of you blushing. I understand that Ender might be flustered at their first time feeding, *Alex turns to the listener* But I’ve fed plenty of times on you, my darling. Why are you bashful about the notion of Ender drinking from you?
[pause]
A: You’re afraid it’ll be too intimate? Hey sweetheart, there is nothing wrong with how you’ll react or feel when being fed on. I won’t see it as cheating if you get hot and bothered. It’s only cheating if you act on it. You don’t need to be ashamed if you get a bit, um how to say this … excited? Yeah excited. It’s okay if you get excited from being fed on. You’re married to a vampire, it’s normal to like being bitten. And if it gets too much for you then *suggestive* we can always retire to our bedroom to ‘deal’ with any overwhelming emotions.
[pause]
A: That seems to have put you at ease. It’s going to be okay darling. It’ll just be like me feeding on you. And I’ll guide Ender through it all to keep you and them safe.
E: *stammering nervously* Um, c-could we do this another time? I-I still don’t feel r-ready. I t-think It’ll be easier if I had more time to mentally prepare myself.
A: *encouraging* Ender, I can tell that you are ready now. You’ve been doing fine this last week and you are cautious. I know this will go alright. If we delay it now, it’ll just become more daunting to bite a human. The extra time will just increase your nervousness, not lessen it. So please believe me, because now is the best time to do your first feeding.
E: *getting more confident* Maybe you’re right. I should try at some point, so why not now. Even if something goes wrong, you’re here to help.
A: That’s the spirit. So when you’re ready, sit down next to our prospective bite victim.
[Ender sits down next to the listener]
A: Now, feeding takes three simple steps. First, put some of your saliva on the part of the skin you want to feed on. Our saliva has a numbing effect on humans, so this way your prey won’t feel pain from your bite. If your victim has been particularly annoying, then I’d spit on them, but otherwise it’s nicer to apply your saliva with a kiss. Second you bite the skin and begin drinking. Third when you’ve had your fill, you remove your fangs and catch your prey if they got too drained from the blood loss. Then you are done.
E: Okay, I think I can do that. Human, if you want me to stop at any moment, just squeeze my hand or tell me to stop. Are you ready as well?
[pause]
E: Good, then I’ll begin.
[sound of Ender giving one kiss on the neck]
E: *uncertain* There’s the saliva. Is it working? Are you feeling numb?
[pause]
E: Yeah? Okay, then I’ll bite you now.
[sound of a bite and the sucking of blood]
[after a few moments Ender stops the bite]
E: *pleasantly surprised* Huh, that was a lot easier than expected. Are you feeling okay?
[pause]
E: Phew, that’s good. I’m glad you’re fine.
A: To me it seems alright as well. Sweetheart can you tilt your neck? I want to check the wound just in case.
[listener tilts neck]
A: *pleased* This is a very clean wound. It’s hardly worse than a papercut. You did well Ender, you can be proud.
E: It felt surprisingly good. I could certainly get used to this.
A: *amused* My, my, you’re really getting used to your vampirism aren’t you. Already eager to bite more humans and taste their delicious blood. It’s a good thing you are kind-hearted or humanity would have to fear a new predator in the night.
E: *flustered* If you put it like that, it sounds like I’m getting bloodthirsty. I just liked biting them. But I don’t want to go hunting them and forcefully feed off of them.
A: *chuckling* That’s adorable dear. You won’t have to worry about hunting anyone. There are plenty of humans with a thing for vampires. Whenever you feel like biting anyone, just find one of them. They’ll happily consent to being fed upon. Especially wit the internet it’s easy to find people who want to do some vampire ‘roleplaying’.
E: *Surprised* It’s that easy? People even like our bite?
A: Oh yes, they certainly do. Just look at my partner. They seem quite satisfied from the ordeal. And you’re happy with how it all went, right darling?
[pause]
E: That’s a relief. I’d hate it if I had to hurt someone every time I ate.
A: Oh that won’t happen. Tomorrow I’ll teach you to find these humans eager to be bitten. And you’ll be surprised how many of them there are.
E: *excited* Ooh, I can’t wait for it.
A: Great, then we’ll pick this up first thing tomorrow morning. But for now let’s start on dinner. My sweetheart can use some food after losing blood.
[fade to black as the three of them get dinner ready]

This is the strategy I used recently to get my first Roc very early on in the game - before even making my full diamond armor set. It's quite easy to do and overall I think it takes less time and is safer for any gear you have than the "intended" way, that being hunting and killing or soulgazer-ing multiple Rocs and then hunting for trolls for materials for the saddle.
Part 1: Needed materials (minimum, you can add other stuff for utility or whatever)

• Multiple shovels (1-2 diamond shovels should do the trick, or their equivalent durability-wise of iron shovels)
• Some basic materials for a small temporary base - blocks, furnace, crafting table, bed, etc.
• A boat
• Soulgazer
• Soulstone
• Name tag
• Basic Saddle
• ~20 bones
• 20-30 river fish
• At least level 1 in treasure hunting skill ("L" hotkey) - the more, the better
• A few stacks of easily breakable blocks (dirt will probably be your first choice here)
• Any of the matierials mentioned in Part 2 as things to farm that you might already have

Part 2: Strategy

1. First you obviously want to get everything mentioned above. Everything can be found easily in many structures around the world, both safe and unsafe (villager "mansions" with basements, battle towers, etc.)
2. Next, you want to have waystones at specific locations
   • In a snowy biome, close to ice villages (the common small ones), best to have a few of these
   • In a regular plains or forest area with a nearby rivelake/sea
3. Once you've found those, the next step is to make a small base in the plans/forest area. Obviously, make sure it's not near a dragon and also not near a village (unless you don't care about keeping villagers alive in that village). You'll be spending quite a bit of time here now
4. Before your first night, get at least 5 Silex meat from the nearby body of water. If near an ocean, Ika and Crab meat works too. Cook the meat and make your first avian treats
5. Once night falls, wait for a Roc variant to spawn (Scarlet or Golden) -> variants give double knowledge when using Soulgazer (or avian treats if still at knowledge level 1), giving +200 instead of +100 and therefore requiring only 5 interactions with the Soulgazer. Place your boat near your base, then lure the Roc to it by holding your avian treats. Once it's in the boat, use your name tag on it so it doesn't despawn, then use your Soulgazer and go to sleep.
6. From now until you make the Roc your pet:
   • Keep it daytime the whole time (sleep as soon as you can)
   • Use your Soulgazer on the Roc when you can
   • Keep farming Silexes/Ikas/Crabs for their meat and making avian treats
   • While waiting for new ones to spawn, start digging dirt. Once you have about a stack or 2, just start building a pillar and then digging down. This will give you some random stuff occasionally due to Treasure Hunting skill. The chance of getting any drop at all is 5% per level of the skill, and out of those 5% approximately 0.016% is the chance for a Troll Tusk (this is 0.016% per each block, which equates to about a 1% chance in any 64 dirt blocks broken), which is the main thing we're after here. This might sound like a very low chance, but considering how many dirt blocks you'll end up breaking the chance is actually quite high. At level 2 Treasure Hunting, I gotten both of my Troll Tusks (one for avian saddle, other one for dragon saddle) within 20 minutes of placing and breaking dirt. On top of this, you can get some other stuff as well, including enchanted stone tools (usually with quite good enchants), enchanted diamond sword, dragon bones and even a pig spawner!
7. Once you have level 2 knowledge of the Roc, you can start taming it with your treats. On average, you'll get 50-100 taming points per treat, and you'll need 1000 total for the Roc to be tamed. This means that most of the time 20-30 treats should be more than enough. After the Roc is tamed, make sure to use the Soulstone on it so it can respawn when it dies!!!
8. If you still haven't gotten a Troll Tusk, keep digging for it. If you have, move on to the next step.
9. Now take all your river fish and any dragon bones you're fine with trading and go to the ice villages (wool armor highly recommended). Find a Fisherman (they usually have a spear in their hands) that's buying the river fish at a 1:1 ratio and sell your fish for Sapphires. You can do the same with your Dragon Bones at a Shaman.
10. Next, find a Craftsman and level him up fully (usually 1-2 trades are enough for him to level up once, I just went with the cheapest one and spent maybe 5-10 Sapphires to level him up fully). His final trade will ALWAYS be Ice Troll Leather. You should have enough Sapphires left over to buy 3 pieces of leather, but if not just get more by finding and trading more river fish and Dragon Bones. Shamans will also buy Blaze Powder, so that's another alternative for getting Sapphires.
11. Only the last material left for the saddle now: 2x Amphitere or Stymphalian Bird feathers. Unfortunately, hunting and killing them is damn near impossible in early game (as most RLCraft players know). Fortunately, however, you don't have to do that. You can get both of the feathers in those small floating structures high up in the air (kinda like small "cubes" with a single chest in the middle). Just pillar up to them with your easily-breakable blocks, optionally take a few lockpicks with you in case the chest is locked (or do what I did and look for a different one, they're very common) and see if you got lucky. From my experience, at least half of the chests will have the feathers in them and there will always be at least 2 feathers if they are in there. Added bonus is that you can often find Potions of Wings in the chests too (seems to also be at least half the time), which give you free flight for 3 minutes and can make finding more of these structures a lot easier and faster if you get unlucky with the first one.

And there you have it, you now have all of the stuff you need to craft the avian saddle and a Roc to use it on! A quite simple strategy that requires about as much effort as hunting for trolls for the materials would, but a lot safer and requiring very minimal gear. Plus added bonus from all the additional stuff you get thanks to Treasure Hunting.

I know this sounds childish, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out anyway. My friend Julie and I have been having problems in our friendship for a while. For background information: we've been friends since 2020 and at first it was a normal friendship, but then she became increasingly demanding and needy, and jealous of my other friendships. That was weird to me because we're both adults (late 20s) and her behavior screamed middle school to me. I tried talking to her about this and she seemed to understand and we moved on. Then she started being inappropriate to my other friends (for example, she started hitting on one of my best friend's sister in their house, knowing the sister was in a relationship) so I had to stop inviting her to do things with my friend group. I still would hang out with her, but when it was just us.
She would go out to have a meal with me and expect me to pay, sometimes saying she forgot her wallet, saying she would pay me back but never doing it. She would say she'd meet me at a certain time, only to arrive 2-3 hours later or sometimes she would not arrive at all. But at the same time she'd be angry when I spend time with my other friends or boyfriend.
The last straw was when she insisted I go with her to a costume party with this group of people I didn't know (she met them once before). The thing was, everyone had to pay a sort of fee and bring something to eat, so I payed it and said I would bring a cake. Julie said she'd help me baking the cake, but on the day of the event she texted me saying she had traveled to the countryside with her new boyfriend, and she couldn't help me with the cake nor go to the party. I am an introvert and she knows it, I'm not the type to go to parties where I know no one, but I decided to go because I had already payed for it. But after that, I decided to stop talking to Julie.
The thing is, I have a book club with a few friends and Julie was part of it since the beginning. We have a rule that says that if you do not participate in three meetings consecutively you're out (to make space for other people that want to participate). Julie had said she would come for the last three meetings, but never showed up, so I decided to kick her out of the club. She begged to stay, saying she was having mental health problems and that the book club was the one thing keeping her sane. I said I was sorry to hear that, but I didn't see how the book club was helping, seeing she never read the books or went to the meetings, and kicked her out anyway. But now I'm thinking I may have been to harsh, because if it were someone else, I probably would let them stay, but I just want to Julie to be completely out of my life and that was the last link between us. AITA?

I'm sorry people, but I fucked up. So there is this gal in my town, married woman with two children. Now, I like to be friendly with everyone, so I got to know what each of them likes the most and she absolutely adore diamonds (thinking of it, who doesn't?), so I did go to her house and gifted her one of them in front of her husband.
Now, this dude is a quite tough looking army guy, a veteran who just recently came back from war. I knew he loved hazelnuts so I brought 3 of them to him. He thanked me with a smile, saying that they bring back wonderful memories to him. Now that seems good, but he must have later realize the price difference between a diamond and 3 hazelnuts, because he started sending me explosive devices via mail, calling them "gifts". This is clearly a threat, is it not? As of now, I am scared to pick up my mail, and even more scared to confront him about the problem. What should I do?
Update: I happened to be at their home when the wife was making popcorns. The husband freaked out as the popping sound triggered his PTSD. I thought that taking fault for her would be a good move, so I told him I asked her for popcorn myself. And the guys says that hates lying more than anything. Does he thinks we have an affair or something?

My wife and I were sitting here watching an old Showa Era film when we saw something we used to see a lot back in the day, but had completely forgotten. Anyone remember when every train station had guys standing at the gate with those little hole punchers so they could punch your train ticket to show it has now been used? They would often spin and flick them around while making clickity-clickity-click sounds in between punching tickets.
Not an important post, just a bit of nostalgia.