Drama 3 orang

Audio Drama

2010.11.29 20:42 Hitch42 Audio Drama

A community to discuss audio drama in all its various forms. All types of fictional storytelling are welcome here. Audio drama creators are highly encouraged to promote and link to their productions.
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2018.06.07 01:53 sand500 Hobby Drama

The most interesting subreddit about things you're not interested in. Come here for writeups about drama in various hobbies, interests, and fandoms over the years.
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2019.09.12 01:32 tarley_apologizer the old freefolk

1. Say anything you want 2. Do not kneel
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2024.05.14 14:15 theotherone1010 Opinions on menu design illustrations?

I would just like feedback on which style/design is working better out of the 3 menu options I gave. I’m a bit iffy on the green agave plants on the bottom, the sun rays and overall cover, and if I should stick to the orange-block titles or the sketchy-line titles.
P.S This is just a draft. Please excuse the inconsistent margins, I just quickly threw this up on a mockup bc I figured a PDF would be harder to compare/contrast.
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2024.05.14 14:01 Zappingsbrew A post talking about 400 words

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2024.05.14 13:58 bigteebo Dispensed (Aura therapeutics) McFlurry 26%

Dispensed (Aura therapeutics) McFlurry 26%
As another poster stated yesterday this is a flower review not a clinic review.
McFlurry- Watermelon zkittlez x Tahoe hydro OG
It’s always a pleasure opening up a tub of aura product and this one was no different. Absolutely love how well trimmed all their products are. As soon as the postie arrived I knew this one was some dank haha.
Upon opening the tub I was greeted by some nice dense frosty nugs as seen in the photos. There was a tiny bit of shake at the bottom but was also overweight by that much. Smell won’t be for everyone, if you’ve ever had Florida oranges you’ll be familiar with the smell. It sorta smells like some sort of citrusy cleaning product or even sweet fly spray but in a good way haha. (I realise it’s a weird description) 😂
Nugs are super dense but chop out nicely. Taste is very similar to smell just a bit more subtle. Hits very nicely and gives you that typical heavy indica body high, also was great for relieving stress. I wouldn’t consider this a knockout strain however I don’t think I’ll have any issues getting to sleep tonight. Becoming very tired on the back end similar to tropicane. Very solid strain, would be keen to buy again.
Smell: 7/10 (not my favourite scent profile) Taste: 7/10 Effects: 8.1/10 Appearance 8.3/10
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2024.05.14 13:51 Connect-Wave-9636 24 [M4F] India/online/Anywhere Looking for player 2 with whom I can really be myself and level up in the "Life" game :)

Heyy everyone, Regardless of whoever is looking this I hope that you are going through a good day! As for me I did have a pretty good day!, I talked to my close friends and spent the last 3 hours playing badminton 😂🎖
Imagine this usual scenario......you ever see posts/reels in Instagram/TikTok and wonder when do I get someone who's sweet and caring like that...? Well, it's the same for me as well! I really want to find someone whom I can treat really well like those in romantic novels/K-Drama's haha~
P. S I'm open to LDR as long as we feel we vibe :)
Now, here is what I can offer, I am usually non-biased and straightforward and I am on both emotional/logical side people say that I'm a great listener, So I promise that whenever you come online, I'll listen to you Rant/discuss how much of a great day you are having or if you are having a bad day, let's talk about it and we can make it better :).
what I do expect from you: I just want someone who is willing to open up just as much as I am
Some of my hobbies: I play badminton and practise piano and exercise regurarly as well and I love watching movies/reading manga and all, I'm a big nerd when it comes to sci-fi and other stuff, but there isn't any genre that I don't like. I love reading books and playing online games as well but I don't know where to start, so we can be gaming buds as well!
I don't really mind the ages or anything like that and if in the off chance that I do get lucky, maybe we can start from LDR and end at "I do"? hahaha
If you made it until the end thank you :) I'll let you on a little secret before you go!
Do you know you can't feel your tongue while smiling, haha got you! there you gooo ....smile a bit and have a nice day :
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2024.05.14 13:51 Groenboys A month ago, a video from Nerd City was posted in r/youtubedrama. Today, the youtuber himself shows up in the month old thread to defend himself. It goes as well as expected

To quickly introduce Nerd City, he is a youtube with nearly 1 million subs, who gets over a million views on nearly every video, and he can be classified as a "drama youtuber". He makes long videos on youtubers he does not like and the internet also generally not like. Most of the time. He was quite well respected in the youtube community, but lately he has become more of a background character due to his efforts focusing on other things, like right-wing politics and NFTs.
Anyways, a month ago, Nerd City made a video about SSSniperwolf, which got posted on youtubedrama. The comments in general were pretty negative of Nerd City, talking about his views and NFTs and such.
Then today, a month after the post was made on youtubedrama, the man Nerd City himself shows up and immediately starts attacking.
"Do you struggle with nuance in every subject, it’s just all binary to you? What about genders, I bet you understand that spectrum, no?".
Naturally, a fellow popcorn enjoyer posts this bizarre appearance of Nerd City on youtubedrama. And would you look at that? Nerd City appears in this thread too!
Some highlights of Nerd City's comments:
In fact, while I am writing this he is still busy posting comments, even if they don't show up on the subreddit yet
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2024.05.14 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - May 14th, 2024

BRAVO
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
BEVERLY HILLS
ATLANTA
AFRICAN FRANCHISES
Links to this week's episode discussion posts:
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2024.05.14 13:26 LickTempo Prompt for making your life easier with Midjourney v6

This prompt is inspired from the tutorial by Sumu (u/Aryasumu) at How to write better MidJourney prompts in v6.0 (different tricks than v5.2). Prompting for Midjourney v6 is truly different from that for the previous version. The fact that it takes full stops and commas more seriously and prefers natural language to just short phrases changes the way you would describe the image you want to create. You can intput the following instruction, followed by whatever you want the image to be, to any of the intelligent text AIs (even dumb ones might do) like Claude Opus, GPT 4, Bing Copilot, and you will have descriptions that work really well with Midjourney v6.
The prompt for MJ prompts:

Given a text input (term, phrase, short passage), create a well-composed image using your knowledge of history, fiction, fantasy, religion, culture, etc. Follow these steps for an effective prompt:
  1. Set the Main Scene:
- Start with a basic idea. Use generic representations of your subjects with a few scene details.
- Example: 'A medieval knight in a forest.'
  1. Describe the Details:
- Get specific with the description of the subjects. Mention materials, ethnicity, age, clothing, colors, textures, shapes, hairstyles, emotions, etc.
- Example: 'The knight is tall, wearing shiny silver armor with intricate engravings, a blue cape flowing behind him, holding a gleaming sword. He has a determined expression, short brown hair peeking from his helmet.'
  1. Describe the Location:
- Specify the setting with relevant details. Mention the environment, time of day, weather, and other contextual elements.
- Example: 'The forest is dense with towering trees, the ground covered in lush green moss, dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves. It's early morning with a hint of mist in the air.'
  1. Explore Styles & Mediums:
- Add the medium to help visualize the results. Mention artistic styles, avoiding technical buzzwords.
- Example: 'Painted in a realistic style with vibrant colors.'
Putting it all together:
'A medieval knight in a forest. The knight is tall, wearing shiny silver armor with intricate engravings, a blue cape flowing behind him, holding a gleaming sword. He has a determined expression, short brown hair peeking from his helmet. The forest is dense with towering trees, the ground covered in lush green moss, dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves. It's early morning with a hint of mist in the air. Painted in a realistic style with vibrant colors.'
By following these steps, you can create detailed, specific, and well-structured prompts that Midjourney v6 can effectively interpret to generate high-quality images. Output only the put-together description without anything else.

Examples
Input: bear fighting a tiger. day time, watercolour with photographic look. tiger is dressed in formals
Output: A bear fighting a tiger in the daytime. The bear is a large, muscular grizzly with thick, shaggy brown fur and powerful claws. The tiger is a majestic Bengal tiger with striking orange fur marked by black stripes, dressed in a formal black suit complete with a white dress shirt and a red tie. They are engaged in a fierce battle, teeth bared and claws slashing. The scene takes place in a grassy clearing surrounded by scattered trees, the sun high in the clear blue sky casting sharp shadows. The image has the appearance of a detailed watercolor painting but with the realism and depth of a photograph, capturing the raw intensity of the moment.
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2024.05.14 13:24 Boltsnouns What's Happening in 2024: A Real Answer

What's Happening in 2024: A Real Answer

What's up regards?!

You don't remember me since I haven't posted here since the July 2023 boycott (when I deleted my entire post history).

Many of you are looking for an answer as to what's happening right now and I'll be honest, as much as I love seeing the memes.... it's time an OG like myself schools you all on market mechanics.

Let's get some admin stuff out the way real quick.
My credentials: my first buy order was Jan 18th, 2021 when I saw the hype on the Betz sub and used TA to check out GME. I saw the ascending triangle on the chart and invested $1000 expecting GME to go bankrupt. Imagine my surprise when a week later my account hit $80k before they shut off the buy button. You think TA doesn't work? Cool. Who cares. I'm here to make money, not argue over tea leaves. I now own xxxx shares and attempted to DRS my calls like a true regard. I've written 3 DD on Options and Market Mechanics which wound up at the top of the sub and all ~fall of 2022. How do you think I have all that karma without any posts?

Moving On.

The market is insanely complex, so forgive me for trying to simplify these complex mechanics into an easy to read social media post. People who understand, PLEASE... help me in the comments. All of this stuff can be found on Investopedia or a quick ChatGPT prompt.
There are four main mechanics at play right now driving the stock price: 1. options, 2. Direct Registration, 3. social media, 4. DFV.

Part 1. Options

Look, I get it. This sub hates options because 99% of us lose money on them. Fun fact, you aren't supposed to hold options to close. They are meant for quick plays where you get in and out, but don't want to tie up all of your capital waiting a week for the stock to settle. Here's the rub: Options drive the vast majority of the market. Considering the ENTIRE GLOBAL GDP is $109 trillion, from every country on earth. The estimated options only market: $12.4 trillion actual value, with a notional value of $600 trillion!!! Options alone are 6x the entire global GDP. If you don't think a handful of calls move the price.... well. Go back to school I guess and learn how to math.
Call contracts are worth 100 shares each, so options are like 100x leverage over shares for like 10% of the cost. So when the price swings drastically, options pay back way more money than shares, but unlike shares, they expire and go to zero. The way options were created, they also affect the share price 10x+ more than shares. Most retail (I.e. plebs like me and you) don't know this. Options (calls specifically) give the option to buy 100 shares of a stock at an agreed price, the strike price. The formula to calculate the price of an options contract is very complicated but consist of variables called the Greeks.
The two main Greeks are the delta and gamma. The delta says how much a contract will affect the share price, I.e. acceleration (up or down), and the gamma sets the impact on market makers who wrote the contract. Remember, someone has to sell stocks if a contract gets executed. So gamma is the rate of change for the delta (i.e. the higher the gamma, the faster the delta increases.) Since market makers have special privileges, they don't have to own the shares before they write (sell) the options contract to buyers. This is (one method) of naked shorting a stock. Most call strikes are out of the money (above the share price) so market makers don't own 100% of the stock to sell if a contract goes in the money. I.e. the share price goes above the strike price. So what happens? This is where delta becomes important. The market maker has to go onto the open market and buy the shares that they don't have. This is called delta hedging. Well, if the options delta is high when the MM go to the market to buy the naked shares, the price becomes volatile and starts to skyrocket. Now, since the gamma affects the delta, as a ton of people start buying options, each options gamma begins to grow, exponentially increasing the delta effect on the stock price.
In GMEs case, the stock has been extremely flat, with no volatility for months. This dropped the delta significantly over time and most options contracts were nearly worthless if they were more than $5 above GME's share price. Last week the price started moving up into low delta strike prices (which were un-hedged by MMs). As the price continues going up, more call strikes go in the money leaving the naked MM's at very high risk. Now the market makers have to hedge those calls since they are either in the money, or about to be in the money. Since each call is 100 shares, for every call bought, the MM has to buy 100 shares (oversimplifying). So if there's 16,000 calls that means 1.6M shares have to be purchased on the open market.
Joe schmoe isn't moving the share price with his $5,000 stock purchase. But if a MM has to buy $54.4m of shares at once (1.6m shares times $34), guess where the price goes? UP.
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So now the price skyrockets due to the MM massive purchases, putting even more calls in the money. Requiring more hedging. Requiring more purchases, requiring more hedging. This ramp is called the Gamma ramp. Eventually the loop stops and the price stabilizes at the top of the gamma ramp. Right now, the max strike yesterday was $34 for GME so the ramp can't go higher (which is why after market close the price moved up to $33). But today, when the new strikes are released (max strike is $57), if there's enough hedging required, the ramp continues until either 1. No more hedging is required, or 2. the stock hits max strike price again ($57, and the stock price is currently at $45 at 6am). Wait a day, rinse repeat. (FYI, MM have two days to hedge, so just because the price drops down to $28, does not mean the hedging is complete for today). Low supply + high demand = recipe for insane share prices as MMs fight to close out their naked shorts.
Check out this chart from 2021:
https://preview.redd.it/bv329dpnhd0d1.jpg?width=624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=069dfc38cdaf33cff6c514614ad999730b610799
This has happened so many times in the market and this is a GAMMA squeeze. GME is not being short squeezed right now. It's being gamma squeezed. However, if too many contracts are sold short, they still require a share to close the position. Too many shorts equals not enough shares. It becomes the hunger games on crack. A gamma squeeze is the predecessor to a short squeeze. If the gamma squeeze keeps going through this week, next week will be a blood bath as the short squeeze kicks off and Market Makers begin liquidating real companies like Apple and NVDA and TSLA to pay for the GME squeeze.

Part 2: DRS

Okay, so now we established that GME is undergoing a Gamma Squeeze, pushing the price high, very very quickly. Well, for literal years, this sub has DRS'd over 75 million shares, removing approximately 50% of the float, that we know of. This means that HALF the available shares on the market are locked away from MMs, who can no longer use them to hedge with. DRS was never going to cause the MOASS, but DRS is like pouring a thousand gallons of gas on a camp fire. It's going to go BOOM and there's nothing can stop it. Take the limited supply due to the gamma ramp, and get rid of HALF the remaining supply. It's making the gamma ramp problem exponentially worse.
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It's possible that the DTCC failed to properly account for real shares, and let Market Makers use their liquidity fairy powers to create fake shares by naked selling them through brokers. If this is the case, then there are no actual shares for market makers to buy off the open market to fulfill their obligations during the gamma squeeze. Just like the old punch buggy squeeze in 2008, no shares alone will cause the price to skyrocket. This means that we are about to see Institutions blow up as their obligations exceed their assets with no way to purchase real shares off the market. When these banks, hedge funds, and market makers blow up, it's going to ripple across the market. Expect a lot of drama from everywhere including many unexpected places.

Part 3: Social Media

How does social media play in this? The spread of information. Remember the old bets sub, where people yolo'd tens of thousands of dollars into options contracts in order to make a fortune? Yeah, for every one person on that sub YOLOing their entire 401k into 0DTE calls, there are probably 10 more who dump theirs into the exact same stock options. Suddenly, those $10k YOLO posts are the equivalent of $100k+ for each one posted. $10k in share prices won't affect the price much, but $10k in high delta calls? Yeah, RIP to the Market Makers trying to buy and hedge shares.
Additionally, the 2021 squeeze spread massive awareness of these types of events. Add in GME's synonymy with meme stock, make me rich, and the non-stop reminded for the last three years by this sub, no one is going to miss this opportunity to invest again. Remember bitcoin and Apple Computer, and Amazon? Who wouldn't go back and invest everything in those stocks. Social media is driving people to invest in GME, not wanting to miss the rocket this time around. And that bring me to my last point....

Part 4: DFV, the man himself, returns.

Remember this guy?
He made like... ALL the money... Off of only $50k initial invest in 2019! Insane!
He's Back...
https://preview.redd.it/108r9cm4md0d1.png?width=987&format=png&auto=webp&s=2faeaec294fb2a86a763f294822c42a962b31c33
Time to get serious. All the OG's like myself are back, and we have 3 years of savings to pour into this thing. This is our (un?)intentional catalyst. And MOASS is about to start.
BUCKLE UP. The fasten seat-belt sign is on. We are number one for departure....
TO THE MOON.
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2024.05.14 13:22 FPSpsycho Most Annoying Chef from Seasons 1-19 Ranked WORST to BEST (Left to Right)

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Now admittedly, this is partially opinion-based. Also, since I know people will ask: the main reason Elise isn't higher is the fact she actually has cooking talent (unlike majority of contestants higher than her). Some of these choices were difficult, like the bottom 4 arguably aren't THAT bad, but comparable to other contestants in the season they were my most logical choice.
As for my top 3...
For anyone that'd like to do the tier list ranking for themselves - https://tiermaker.com/create/hells-kitchen-seasons-1-20-contestants-and-staff-140353
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2024.05.14 13:22 lazymentors Marketing & Social Media News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

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My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

AI 🤨

Reddit & Pinterest

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Marketing & AdTech

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead. All the sources can be found in the newsletter archive post.
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2024.05.14 13:20 lazymentors Marketing News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

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Meta 😅

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My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

AI 🤨

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I hope this helps to plan your week ahead. Follow for more.
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2024.05.14 13:16 lazymentors Advertising & Agency News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Trending

TikTok 🎶

Meta 😅

X (Twitter) 🕹️

Youtube 🕹️

Google 🔦

Agency News

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

AI 🤨

Reddit & Pinterest

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Marketing & AdTech

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead.
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2024.05.14 13:15 lazymentors Marketing News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Trending

TikTok 🎶

Meta 😅

X (Twitter) 🕹️

Youtube 🕹️

Google 🔦

Agency News

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

AI 🤨

Reddit & Pinterest

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Marketing & AdTech

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead. Follow for more.
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2024.05.14 13:03 Specialist_Travel898 For sale: Barely used collab sneakers. All in excellent condition

For sale: Barely used collab sneakers. All in excellent condition
Selling these 2 pairs that I’ve only worn about 2-3 times each. All original and complete with box and extra laces
New Balance 550 Aime Leon Dore “White leather” US 8 (Purchased for 11k)
Nike x Sacai Blazer Low “Magma Orange” US 10 (Purchased for 9k)
Take both for 7,500
RFS: have too many pairs. need to unload
📍Katipunan QC
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2024.05.14 12:49 jarsun_carpincho How I would change the story

The story of Eiyuden is OK for me, it's tempered because of the E10+ rating and was only kind of good when Kenan betrayed us (but then it ended up being anticlimactic). During the whole story, it felt like nothing was at stakes (we could freely go around occupied towns, Seign despite being a traitor could walk around Ardinale like it was nothing. Meanwhile, in Suikoden III, we had Chris Lightfellow changing her appearance because it would not make sense if she could walk freely around the Grasslands after burning the Karaya Village to the ground. In Suikoden V, the Prince, Lyon, Sialeeds had to disguise himself from time to time, otherwise the enemy would recognise him).
So here's how I would change some of the story:
  1. Make Lian less annoying
  2. Put more interactions with the Watch. Maybe do 1 small mission (which also functions as a kind of tutorial) before meeting Seign. In this mission we should see more bonding between the members.
  3. After discovering the Primal Lens, maybe do 1 more mission with Seign that can further strengthen the friendship between Nowa and Seign. Maybe bringing the Primal Lens to the Dux in Ardinale, and then we start seeing that he's an unsettling character (like when we first met Marscal and Gizel in Stormfist)
  4. After the six months jump, do a mission where Nowa saves Garr's life or smthg (maybe Garr being held hostage by Hurstwine or something so that he can take the blame for the purported attacks on Galdean border), so that it makes sense that he then becomes the captain of the Watch.
  5. In Kyshiri, start by having a feast between Nowa and the villagers and Aunt Martha to see how nice people they are. And then when the attack came, burn the village to the ground, have some villagers being slaughtered and Aunt Martha killed. We need to see more rage from Nowa, and maybe Nowa crying after. Seign rescuing the villagers so that none of them died is really out of place here, it's better to have more drama and make us feel bad that these good people were slaughtered. This also gives us more tension with Leene, we don't really know where she is (instead of Aunt Martha saying she is on adventure), and we can have cutscenes of Nowa worrying and Mio and Lian trying to console him.
  6. Eltisweiss war: explain how the Galdeans suddenly appeared out of the mountains and occupied Werne.
  7. Sneaking into Werne: have Nowa meet Seign to have a dramatic cutscene, and then Hildi seeing them and sounding the alarm. Maybe one of the members of the Watch can stay to hold the enemies and be arrested to add more drama.
  8. I didn't really get how there's suddenly an abandoned castle connected to the abandoned mines. Maybe when we sneaked there and saw Kogen etc, we could have more scenes exploring how they found the castle, how they have been living there, etc.
  9. Siege of Eltisweiss: Perrielle being let go is not so outlandish, but it really removes the tension and it felt like nothing was at stakes. It would be better if she was under house arrest in her manor, and later we have to rescue her.
  10. I don't like how we can freely walk around Eltisweiss to play Beigoma with Reid and Dr. Corque. Also didn't Seign destroy the gate in the war, but suddenly the gate was left intact?
  11. Seign's defection was too fast, the infiltration to the laboratory should have been before the defection. It will make more sense that way. Also it may be a good Pahn moment to have one of them (maybe Hildi) not defecting immediately, but only later after some convincing. Also Seign's defection should have led him to being forced to fight his father in battle, that would have been really interesting + Teo moment.
  12. The chimaeras in the laboratory could have been made of the corpses of the people of Grum County being deformed by the Primal Lens, so not just those adept in lens magic. That could also explain the Dux's war: to get human sacrifices. This will really raise the stakes of losing, and makes Perrielle's confrontational approach more questionable: she indirectly brought her people's demise by being so oppositional to the Dux. This can also be used to explain Valmaurice's betrayal: the Dux promised him League lands that can be resettled by dragonewts.
  13. Invasion of Hishahn: explain how the imperial army can cross mountains without logistic problems.
  14. The attack on Yarnaan was kind of random also, why?
  15. I will end here because it's getting too long, but I would certainly not make things anticlimatic right after we were in such a desperate situation after Athrabalt. I also wonder how those sharks could bring those ships through the mountains to reach the great seas...
It's such a shame that the story could have been amazing, but it has been tempered to have a more lighthearted feeling + be more accessible for more people. I guess we'll see if this decision is more justified from a financial perspective.
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2024.05.14 12:40 Specialist_Bake6514 Vapiano P3: Italian Food Made in Germany

Vapiano P3: Italian Food Made in Germany
The kitchen is on fire. Welcome to the final part of the Vapiano story where the tables are turning. In the first two episodes we followed Mark Korzilius' journey from setbacks to founding Vapiano, a groundbreaking restaurant concept, highlighting its fresh ingredients, dynamic atmosphere, and data-driven operations that drove rapid success. While achieving initial profitability and garnering attention from industry giants like McDonald's, Vapiano's global expansion has led to stellar revenue growth. However, it has also resulted in the emergence of numerous side projects (or distractions), operational challenges, increased costs, significant investments, and a notable accumulation of debt. This underscores the prioritization of top-line growth over profitable growth. We will continue on this thread and see how the story ends, but I would encourage you to read part one and two for better context. Vapiano P1: Italian Food Made in Germany (substack.com). Let's dig in.
Before Going Public
We are now in 2015 and the year is a disaster for Vapiano's PR department. Employee time stamps are being manipulated, endless overtime for employees and high turnover in managerial roles are reported; mice in the kitchen and even rotten food allegedly found.
The company is confronted with allegations of exceeding working hours among trainees in an article published by Welt am Sonntag, while the same outlet accuses Vapiano of manipulating punch times. The auditing firm PwC is commissioned to investigate the allegations and finds that there is no systematic approach but rather misconduct by individual employees, a mistake that’s being corrected. Internal however, investigations into stamp times are carried out regularly now and beyond its obvious reputational impact, this sucks up valuable management time and attention.
In the summer of 2015 CEO, co-founder and investor Gregor Gerlach, who has been running the group since 2011 is stepping down and Jochen Halfmann is taking over. A new Vapiano People Program with an App is being developed with the aim to better interact with customers that will incorporate innovate features such as mobile pay. The German website sees a launch of new magazine to further promote the brand and there is now a full inhouse blogger and Instagram team being installed. In October the company buys seven restaurants from original co-founder, former co-investor and ex-president previously responsible for internation expansion Kent Hahne (2x Bonn, 3x Cologne, 1x Koblenz and one in Cologne that’s under construction). This package of Vapiano restaurants is very successful and generates net sales of more than 20 million euros in 2014. Hahne opened his first Vapiano restaurant in Cologne in August 2006 and in 2015 with his company apeiron AG, Hahne operates six L'Osteria franchise restaurants, a direct Vapiano competitor, and two self-owned restaurants GinYuu.
Then in November of 2015, the next public relations bomb goes off with allegations regarding the company's quality standards. The company immediately investigates the issue through internal and external specialists but finds no evidence of any quality issues. Nevertheless, knowing that the group is now being closely watched, the company’s already in place hygiene standards are being reinforced. Additional audits and inspections are performed nationally. Further, all Vapianos worldwide are being audited twice by the partners SGS Institut Fresenius and SAI Global. Auditing software is purchased to simplify the implementation of the audits and the resulting measures. Apart from the external examinations, there is a food sampling plan in place being performed continuously. Again, all of this sucks up costs, management time and attention. With all these tumultuous developments the company’s growth engine is undeterred. Revenue grows by a whopping 50 million euros to 202 million euros, an increase of 33%. Impressive. While average spent per customer increases in all countries, the number of customers per day in Germany decreases by 3.3% partially due to the negative press towards the end of the year. Five own, four JV and 19 new franchise restaurants are added that year to the group, the total number of own managed restaurants grows to 51, there are 31 JVs and 84 franchises which bringing the total to 166 Vapiano restaurants. Global restaurant sales are now above 400 million euros.
But while revenue grows by an astronomical 50 million euros, operating profits, alarmingly, shrink again. Gross margins are staying perfectly healthy above 75% but operating costs keep growing disproportionately fast. The Company’s outstanding debt jumps by almost 30 million, close to 85 million euros by the end of the year. With operating profits at 9.5 million euros, alarm bells should be going off right now.
In Q4 of 2015, new CEO Jochen Halfmann introduces Strategy 2020. The new strategy includes five essential points. One, profitable growth in the newly defined core markets of Germany and Austria as well as in the UK, Netherlands, France and USA. Two, operational excellence through strict “best practice” management. Three, further development and digitalization of the concept considering guest feedback. Four, greater focus on long-term employee retention and five, building a modern and sustainable IT landscape. Sound’s good on paper but let’s see how things pan out.
Vapiano's investments (capital expenditures) that year are primarily directed towards new restaurant openings, renovations of existing establishments, and share acquisitions in other Vapiano restaurants from franchisees or JV partners. A significant portion of funds is allocated to the digitalization of the guest experience, including the development of a new app scheduled for market release in 2016 and the implementation of a time recording system across all group restaurants. The world's first standalone Vapiano restaurant with a delivery service that year is built in Fürth, Germany. The company keeps expanding its presence in both inner-city locations and international markets, such as Shanghai, China.
To finance all of this, the group has its own operating cash flow which comes in at 18 million while capital expenditures are 26 million euros plus 14 million for acquisitions. The funding gab is filled with 26 million euros of new debt and a seven-million-euro equity raise. At that end of the year and after the equity raise Gregor Gerlach (through his AP Leipzig GmbH & Co. KG entity) holds 30.1%, Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander through their Exchange Bio GmbH hold 25.5% and the Tchibo heirs, Herz through their Mayfair Beteiligungsfonds II GmbH & Co. KG hold 44,4%.
But for the first time the restaurant’s concept that was so successful to date is being questioned. Some customers are starting to mislike the operational flow of the concept itself. If you want pasta, you must queue for pasta. If you want pizza you stand in a different queue. A small side salad, yet another queue. "You spend more time carrying trays than an actress in Berlin-Mitte. The audience in the pasta limbo can only consist of people who have worked for an insurance company for a long time and, like Stockholm syndrome, they can no longer get away from the industrial canteen feeling," writes TV host Beisenherz provocatively. While overly harsh in his assessment he's not entirely wrong judging by customers venting their frustrations in forums and social media channels. It isn’t uncommon for those who ordered pizza to have already finished eating while there is little movement in the pasta queue. Long term that doesn't go down well, QSRs competitors like L’Osteria are handling this process differently, with much success.
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Tipping Point

Where are now in the year 2016 and things start to deteriorate visibility. Perhaps not for the leman’s eye but any business minded observer can see that there are problems under the hood. Yes, revenue grows yet another whopping 50 million to almost 250 million euros but half of that growth, comes from acquisitions of restaurants that the group didn’t already own 100%, which is now being fully consolidated within the group’s accounts. Here is a concrete example. In the past, Vapiano SE, the group’s top holding company held an indirect 50% stake in a French subgroup via the subsidiary VAP Restaurants SA, based in Luxembourg, and included this as an associated company in the Vapiano SE consolidated financial statements using the equity method. Due to the acquisition of additional shares in September of 2016, Vapiano SE's indirect share in the French subgroup increased to 75%. This means that Vapiano SE takes control of the French subgroup, which is therefore included in the group’s financial statements as part of the full consolidation. The revenue from the acquired subsidiary now recorded in the consolidated income statement amounts to 12.8 million euros. While that’s great for the top line, the loss of the fully consolidated entity equates to 0.2 million euros. Yes, you are buying revenue, but there are losses attached to them, not profits. A similar case is the Swedish entity that runs eight restaurants with revenue of 11.5 million euros but has losses of 235 thousand euros. So much for Strategy 2020 and “profitable” growth.
That year the group’s operating profits are absolutely tanking, halving to 3.5 million euros. Operating profits are now a mere 1,4% of revenue. Remember original founder Mark Korzilius who talked about operating margins of 25% to 28% at the restaurant level? Yes, there are overhead costs for the organization that sits above the chain of restaurants, but operating margins that low indicates a course correction is needed. What’s telling is that in the annual report, in the management discussion section, the company starts talking about EBITDA as a proxy measure of profitability, rather than operating profit or net income. This wasn’t the case in the years before. Is this window dressing for an upcoming IPO? EBITDA is short for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization. How can you measure profitability of a restaurant chain that absolutely and unequivocally needs capital investment to maintain its restaurant operations, the very source of cash generation, by simply excluding this maintenance charge (depreciation in the income statement)? Vapiano’s own annual report talks about the fact that existing restaurants must be rejuvenated from time to time and that new interior designs have to be implemented every few years. These things wear and tear, they go out of style, kitchen equipment breaks and needs replacement. This business absolutely needs maintenance capital expenditure, why anyone talks of profits before these maintenance costs is beyond me. Fun fact: in the previous annual report EBITDA is mentioned seven times, mostly around restaurant acquisitions and financing, not however as a profit indication for the group. In the new annual report, EBITDA is mentioned 28 times. Maybe it’s just me but belated Charlie Munger liked to call EBITDA: bullsh*t earnings. When in doubt I stick with Charlie. Interestingly, EBITDA for Vapiano keeps growing while operating and net profits keep falling.
Operating cashflow for the group that year is about 21 million euros, but capital expenditure is 30 million and acquisitions for subsidiaries another 20 million. To finance these expenditures another 28 million euros of debt and 16 million of equity is raised. Net debt rises above 130 million euro. The operating cashflow of the group before any capital expenditures is 21 million euros. I am not sure free cash flow would be significantly positive after maintenance capex is paid out; it’s not broken out so we can’t be sure. Granted, I am not on the ground during this time, and I am not in the board room, I am simply reading what’s in front of me, but to me this is starting to look like a distressed situation. Regardless, the following year the company goes public.

IPO

Where are now in the year 2017 and its Vapiano’s first year as public company. The company’s annual report reads the following “Sales revenue, like-for-like growth (LfL) and the earnings figures EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are used as the most important financial performance indicators for controlling operational business activities.” The very same report however also says: “The majority of the group's investments regularly go towards opening new restaurant locations and modernizing existing restaurants. The latter are differentiated into regular replacement investments that occur during ongoing operations (Maintenance CAPEX) and fundamental investments in the renovation of a restaurant (Remodeling CAPEX). On average, a restaurant remodeling takes place nine years after opening.” It says it right there in their own report; every nine years a remodeling is taking place. Remodeling and updating is not cost free, so why exclude depreciation charges which reflect capital expenditures? I understand that perhaps you would want to strip out one-off opening costs, that’s fine and fair, but don’t go overboard.
The number of restaurants increases by 26 (previous year: 13) to a total of 205. The increase consists of 27 new openings and one closure. Group revenue grows to an astonishing 325 million euros but here comes the shocker, operating profits turn negative to 25 million. Fine, strip out foreign exchange losses of 3 million, IPO costs of 5.8 million and new opening costs of 6.1 million and you still have 10 million euros of operational losses. All the while the debt load of almost 130 million hasn’t materially changed, so those operating losses are before a six-million-euro interest payment. 184 million euros are raised through the IPO of which 85 million go to the company. This money is earmarked for further expansion as the group has ambitions to almost double the footprint to 330 restaurants by the end of 2020. The company is currently not profitable on an operating basis, and still wants to expand aggressively? I don’t get it. The remaining 100 million euros of the IPO money raised is distributed to co-founder Gregor Gerlach and Wella heirs Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander. The family office of the former Tchibo owners Günter and Daniela Herz with a 44% stake, don’t sell a single share. After the IPO, 32% of all the company’s shares are now in free float.
One year later, in 2018, things get even worse. Revenue grows to 371 million, but operating losses mount to 85 million euros, that’s before interest expenses of 9 million. Even the beloved EBITDA figure turns negative, meaning the operating business before any expansionary or even maintenance capital expenditures is loss making. All regions are experiencing significant deterioration in their earnings profiles. Like for like sales are down 1% across the board. That’s revenue, not profitability. The question naturally arises: is the Group approaching its natural saturation point here or this operational by nature? The operating cash flow is now 9 million while financing cost are close to 7 million. That leaves 2 million for maintenance capital for 74 own restaurants and 76 joint ventures ones. Describing this as financially tight, would be an understatement.
Things are not looking good at this point. Yet the company still grows restaurants by 26 new sites. 64 million euros are spent on acquisitions, new openings, and maintenance costs, financed through a 20 million-euro equity raise and 72 million of new debt. The Company now has net debt outstanding of over 160 million euros. After the equity raise and by the end of the year 2018, Mayfair owns 47.4%, VAP Leipzig, Gregor Gerlach’s entity owns 18.9% and the Sander couple own 15.5% of the company. Yes, the Sanders and Gerlach may have taken 100 million euros off the table, but they still have substantial skin in the game. Plus, Mayfair hasn’t sold a single share and instead injects more money into the company through the equity round. The stock has now fallen from its IPO price of 23 euros per share to under 6 euros by the end of 2018. Something must be done here. And indeed, there is pivot in strategy and a hard push for change. At last, the management team abandons its aggressive growth plan and curtails new openings significantly. Additionally, the team wants to run a thorough analysis of weak locations to then either discontinue or sell sites. In Europe, the operating focus will be put on corporate restaurants and joint ventures in major cities to ensure the ideal size and location to match the respective demographic target group. Outside of Europe, the franchising business is being expanded and at the same time a consolidation of the existing corporate and joint venture markets is being sought. All future investments will be reviewed to achieve higher rates of returns on new openings. Investments are also being made in the renovation of older restaurants. The goal in the future is to also open smaller formats, like Mini-Vapianos (less than 400 square meters) or Freestander at prominent transportation hubs outside city centers (currently in Fürth and Toulouse) to cater to individual location requirements, and to enter new partnerships. I am not sure why management hasn’t stopped all expansion altogether, bringing the ship in order first, getting profitable, clean up, all hands-on deck before considering any further expansions whatsoever. But again, it’s easy to comment from the sidelines; maybe they saw white spaces that would be covered by competing concepts if they weren’t moving fast and aggressively enough. Although pushing internationally means competing with local players such as Jamie's Italian, Prezzo, Pizza Express, Wagamama, Nando's and many more which brings in its own dynamic.
Management also aims to enhance guest satisfaction. This involves refining operational processes, reorganizing the support center, and refocusing on the core offering: providing fresh and high-quality Italian food at affordable prices for a broad audience. The group also aims to reduce waiting times, especially during lunch, while also improving the evening atmosphere. There is even what I would call an evolution, away from Vapiano’s original concept, reorientating the customer journey. The ordering flow is being changed, offering guests synchronized preparations of all dishes while eliminating wait times at the cooking stations. The open show kitchen remains, staying true to original mantra of freshness and transparency but now guests can choose their preferred method of ordering through a mobile app, using a digital order point (kiosk), or by personally placing an order with a waiter. Guests can still freely choose their table and are then informed about the complete preparation of their order through a pager or their smartphone. This is a substantial deviation from the original concept, but a needed one. The group is also exploring and implementing the expansion of take-away and home delivery services but only at suitable locations, not universally across new openings. I am not sure why home delivery is even a priority here; it adds operational complexity. It’s better to clean up shop first and get back to the basics before adding new complexities. To be fair management does try to simplify. There are 49 different permanent dishes on the menu and additional 10 seasonal ones. Customers can choose from eleven different types of pasta. There is simply too much choice, and it makes orders complicated. The company announced to slim the menu down to its most popular and typical Vapiano dishes. There’s no need for an Asian salad at an Italian restaurant. "We have to go back to the roots, i.e. classic, honest Italian cuisine" says COO Everke. Regardless, in November of 2018, the supervisory board pulls the plug on CEO Jochen Halfmann and replaces him with Cornelius Everke. Everke himself has just become COO five months ago. Since 2017 he was responsible for international expansion. From 2011 to 2017 that role was filled by Mario Bauer – put a pin in that name, he’ll play a key role in the groups fate later. Then nine months later, in the middle of 2019, Cornelius Everke quits. He essentially concludes that his skillset and experience in the areas of internation expansion is no longer needed in the foreseeable future. To put it differently: Vapiano has moved from a growth story and has become a restructuring case, and other skills are required for that job. In June of 2019 Everke says the following “(we’ve) made a bit of a mistake when it came to foreign expansion”. No sh#t. Vapiano postpones the presentation of the 2018 annual financial statements three times in the spring of 2019, citing negotiations over an urgently needed loan of 30 million euros. It’s not until the end of May that a binding loan commitment comes through from the financing banks and major shareholders.
We are now in August of 2019 and the corona pandemic is just around the corner. Supervisory board chief Vanessa Hall takes over as interim-CEO and things are unravelling. Visitor numbers are declining; originally, it was planned to sell the US business but halfway through the year the buyer cannot come up with the money. But not all restaurants are performing poorly. The group's poor figures contrast starkly as an example with the experiences of the Swiss-German franchisee, who runs six restaurants. The Sodano family in Switzerland pays Vapiano a royalty of 6% of sales for the use of the brand. Enrico Sodano explains in an interview that they operate largely autonomously from the licensor. If an “accident” were to occur, he could immediately replace the Vapiano sign with Sodano, he says. The family concluded the rents and contracts with employees and suppliers independently. The Sodano family have six locations in Bern, Basel and Zurich, around one million guests every year and 350 employees. Things are going well on the ground. The delivery service they’ve built is offering them a second income stream. Expansion into Winterthur, St. Gallen and Lucerne are being planned; small locations with 150 to 250 square meters and an attached delivery service. Originally, Vapiano restaurants used to be huge but for such a large restaurant to be profitable, 800 to 1,000 guests per day are needed. That’s possible in medium-sized cities, but not in smaller towns which is why the Vapiano group now also supports smaller formats. Back to our corporate drama. The 2019 annual report would be the last report the group files. By the end 2019 the outstanding debt of the company is at an astronomical 450 million euros. Revenue has grown by another 7%, produced by four net new openings through two JVs and two franchise restaurants but operating losses come in at 317 million euros. That sound like an absolute shocker at first but depreciation and amortization charges are 345 million, so that operating cash flow is actually positive but unfortunately capital expenditures and interest payments are so large that they are eating up all of the company’s operating cash flow. Then in the beginning of 2020 Corona hits with full force and the world shuts down. As a result of the measures to prevent further spreading of the virus, the group is forced to cease all global business operations (except in Sweden). While all these shutdowns are happening, the group is the middle of negotiating with its lending banks and main shareholders. There are additional financing needs for restructuring measures, even without a pandemic happening in the background. The situation is so dire that the company starts pleading to the German government to roll out the package of financial help more quickly. Unfortunately, it’s to no end. The rapid closure of restaurants and the resulting lack of operating cash inflows in conjunction with the additional financing requirements, lead to the company’s final knockout punch. In April of 2020, the Vapiano group officially files for insolvency proceedings. The end of an era.

New Beginnings

Because of the pandemic, the majority of the group's subsidiaries in Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United States, Sweden, and China also file for insolvency or seek liquidation. The US business never gets sold in the end and is wound down. In the summer of 2020, significant group divestments occur, including the sale of 75% shares in the group's French subsidiaries, shares in franchisor companies, Australian subsidiaries, German subsidiaries, associated companies, self-managed restaurants in Germany, and insolvency-related sales in the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Sweden. The buyer of the Vapiano brand and one of these bundles of Vapiano restaurants is company named Love & Food Restaurant Holding, a consortium led by Mario C. Bauer – a name I told you to remember. Bauer was a former Vapiano board member and led the national and international expansion, opening 200 sites in 33 countries from 2011 to 2017 until he was succeeded by Cornelius Everke. Bauer didn’t feel comfortable with the IPO at the time but clearly has a lot of managerial and entrepreneurial talent.
The buyer consortium is an absolute A-Team comprised of European QSR top league hitters, including the founder of the Pret A Manger chain Sinclair Beecham; Henry McGovern, the founder and Ex-CEO of the giant international restaurant and foodservice operator AmRest; the Van der Valk Family that runs hotels and Vapiano restaurants in the Netherlands, and co-founder and ex-CEO Gregor Gerlach. The acquisition value is 15 million euros and entails 30 Vapiano restaurants in Germany, albeit that’s just the purchase price which comes on top of any capital investment needed to refresh and return the sites to its former glory. Nevertheless, just as a thought experiment, if you can get each site to 2 million euros of revenue and 400,000 euros in operating profit on average, which wouldn’t be an overly aggressively assumption given the company’s history, you’ve got yourself a package that can deliver restaurant-level operating profits of 12 million euros or more. It’s not disclosed how much capex was needed to refresh the operations, just that fact that the overall investment plus purchase price was a middle double-digit million-euro figure. Stil, it probably was a decent purchase. The same consortium buys Vapiano’s French business for 25 million euros just two weeks prior. After the transaction concludes, the master franchise is given to Delf Neumann and his Gastro & Soul GmbH. Neumann is an experienced operator, and he is ambitious to revitalise the brand with new services and products. For example, instead of pizza, the restaurants will be serving pinsa - a flatbread made from sourdough, wheat and rice flour, topped similarly to a pizza. It targets a more health-oriented customer base looking for a less calory heavy option. The menu overall is expanded by including a variety of vegan and vegetarian dishes.
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Today Neumann’s Gastro & Soul GmbH operates 18 Vapianos on its own account and has 29 franchise sites, amongst other brands. By the year 2021, Vapiano operates 191 restaurants in 34 countries. This is around 50 fewer sites than before the bankruptcy. The number of branches is particularly thinned out in Germany – from 80 to 55. Nevertheless, Vapiano's home country remains by far the largest market, followed by France with 35 restaurants and Austria with 15 locations. “We have shrunk ourselves to health,” says Bauer in the aftermath and there is no further shrinking planned. Quite the opposite, the smell of expansion is in the air again – pun intended. Not as aggressively as before and with a new menu and ordering process.
Overall, the team around Bauer is filled with industry experts with knowledge and networks gained over decades who have a great track record, a long-term view, and the staying power to let Vapiano breath and finds its way back to success. The pressure of being a public company with all the associated quarterly, half-year and yearly disincentives have been removed. The menu is changed and extended with new types of pasta and sauces with significantly more vegetarian and vegan dishes available. Guests can order with restaurant staff, at terminals or on their phones and there are barcodes attached to the tables identify the respective seat. The food is brought to your table, all at the same time if you are in a group, no more annoyances with waiting in line. There is a plan for smaller, 350 square meter locations, with half the number of guests and significantly fewer staff and less set-up costs required to make the economics work. Locations that capitalize on remote work and increased demand for local lunch options, higher population density with shorter delivery routes and therefore cost-effective in house delivery services are targeted. And Bauer is testing the concept of ghost kitchens, which operate without a dining room or service staff, focusing solely on preparing food for delivery services, which for obvious reasons have a very different operational set up and footprint. Original founder Mark Korzilius however is not entirely convinced. He is not a fan of the pinsa for instance and he considers Vapiano's pizza as its cash cow, flagship product and believes that the core Vapiano proposition of Pizza, Pasta, Bar that has given the company its original success is being diluted. He instead admires the competitor L'Osteria, saying they’ve done a better job by focusing on Italian classics, especially the impressively large pizzas that sticks out beyond the plate is leaving every customer in awe. The guys who run L’Osteria are the same guys who have built Vapiano with him in the first place. Bauer on the other hand, like a true business leader, remains undeterred, stating that he is frequently asked whether Vapiano's restart was bold or foolish. He believes in entrepreneurship, franchising, in his experienced fellow partners and importantly the Vapiano concept. By the year 2024 you can find over 140 Vapiano branded restaurant in 27 countries across the globe, including locations far away from its birthplace like Australia, USA, Columbia, Chile, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. And why not? Italian food is, and will remain to be, incredibly popular. Vapiano offers fresh and tasty food at affordable prices in a good atmosphere. This combination of attributes should attract a lot of customers. It certainly has in the past.
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2024.05.14 12:40 CharlieChieplin 3d printed Juggernaut

3d printed Juggernaut
I airbrushed a Juggernaut for my friend. He printed this with PLA for 3 weeks straight. The stl file is designed by Wicked if someone is interested. Do any of you have experience with painting / airbrushing PLA? How to fix it when the paint sticks differently to certain objects? In my attempt the left halve of the juggernaut logo ("jugge") the print has a different direction, it even causes color difference between the left part and right part.The right part is printed in stripes, the left part is noodles. Also, I still see a lot of lines which I can't just sand down , since I am also sanding the details (damage, dents, etc.) away. The chest has a lot of layers of paint, but I get a strange golden glow from it. Looks orange from certain angles. The pla was white foe the chest part, I added white primer, then red, then shadows, then red again...still a golden glow. Kinda cool, but no idea what is causing it? I made a small vid with the paint job, hope you enjoy it, it's my first bigger project.
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2024.05.14 12:35 DirtZealousideal9270 AITAH for thinking of leaving my SO because she is not and does not have a plan to be financially independent?

Throwaway account.
My wife (31F) and I (35M) have been married for 4 years now. We both are from South East Asia who went through an arranged marriage. We met online about 5 years ago. At the time, I lived in North America and she lived in her home country. We chatted on the phone and spent significant time on calls to get to know each other, I even flew down for a few days to meet her the same year. We took some time to know each other and decided to get married about 7 to 8 months after our introduction.
About 2 months before my marriage, my parents pressured (a whole lot of family drama) me into moving back to my home country. They wanted me to spend some time(about 5 months) with them after our marriage as I was away from them for 5 years or so. Though I hated this whole situation, I headed to their request (regretfully so) and moved back to my country. As a retaliation my then soon to be wife quit her job. To this day she refuses to accept that it was a retaliation, instead she claims it was too difficult for her to juggle between work and giving attention to marriage preparations, so she quit her Job.
I had never wanted to live in my home country, never felt I belonged there. When I decided to move back to my country, I had prepared myself well to not take any support from my parents. So, I had applied for another visa, had planned & paid for our honeymoon, saved enough to survive about a year in my home country without a job and had enough money to move back once my new visa gets approved.
Her quitting the job before our marriage was her decision, and I understand to certain aspect. At the time she lived in a different city than mine and after marriage she wanted to find work in the city that I would end up residing in. Also, we had plans to move to North America after our wedding anyways, so this made sense at the time. We had agreed to do our individual visa's coz I didn’t want her to move countries on a dependent visa, just so that she does not lose her career growth or leave North America if we ever split. We both were supposed to apply for the visa before our marriage date, I applied mine 4 months before our marriage. She was still figuring it out until our wedding date. I got my visa a couple of weeks after our wedding, but she was not able to secure her visa as she couldn't score enough in her English proficiency (not because she lacks the skill, English is her native tongue and has a good hold on the language). I tried to give her time, motivation and any kind of financial support that she needs to clear all visa requirements. But it was too late. Pandemic hit, borders were shut, so were government offices. I moved out of my country 7 months after our marriage amid a lot of pandemic restrictions. My wife promised she would continue to pursue applying for the visa while I leave the country and establish myself again.
1 year later, still no progress in her visa application, no change in employment status. She was living with her parents, and passed all her leisurely expenses to me coz I was "her husband". My family is not the best to work with, so my wife kept blaming that my parents stressed her enough to not pursue her carrier nor focus on the visa application. In the meanwhile, I was supporting my family financially(I owe them funding my college education) and my wife coz she couldn't find a job during the pandemic, while I was surviving my temporary low income job. Surviving with just bare minimum and sending home literally every surplus I earned by picking extra shifts. Fine. Pandemic restrictions started to ease further about 1.5 - 2 years after our marriage. By this time, I had a good job, was earning well enough. I flew back to my country to register our marriage and start her visa application as my dependent. She knew it would be a while before she gets her visa because of the back log and she agreed to look for work until we unite again in North America. She kept saying she is applying without any positive result. After a lot of argument, she confessed she wasn't looking for jobs with complete focus.
In the meantime I am going back to my country every year until her dependency visa was processed just so that she does not get depressed because of the long distance relationship.
Finally after a lot of effort, my wife finally got her visa approved, and I immediately booked her flight so that this long distance ordeal might end. She landed in my city a year ago. She had promised to start looking for job right after she landed, especially picking up temporary jobs until she gets something in her field of education. She has been jobless for more than 3 years by now. We were in our honeymoon phase for about 4 - 5 months after she had moved in with me. She got a job at a grocery store, which she worked briefly (~3 months), and would always complain about pains, how horrible the job is compared to her job back home, how beneath her standards were mopping the floors.
She wanted our first anniversary together to be an overseas trip, so I booked a trip for which she was supposed to pitch in half using her pay from the temporary job. She was asked to leave the job a month before the trip and I took care of the expense, this was unplanned for me, so had to move money around to make this happen.
She just completed 1 year of stay about a month ago. This milestone has taken a toll on me. We had a very bad argument, during which she confessed she knew she needed to bridge her overseas education courses with a fresh course in the new country. Which is about 6 months long and costs lesser than our anniversary trip. She didn't want to ask me money for her education, coz she felt I have spent enough money on her? What? It goes beyond me why a person would think a trip is more important than an education that would put her back in the job market.
She loves me a lot, she takes care of me, she is affectionate for which I am grateful for her. But I very much feel my future is not going to be wise to me if I continue to live with her. Post our argument which was a month ago, I had walked her through a few things to get some fee waiver and asked her to find a temporary job to fund this education. I don't see any improvements and I strongly suspect she has already missed deadlines to do this bridging course from reputed universities. I do not want to wait to get disappointed at her again. Am I an asshole to think she should have been financially independent by now? Am I an asshole for asking her to pitch in on our anniversary trip? Am I an asshole for thinking that I should end this marriage and cancel her dependency visa? I feel I will be better off alone.
TLDR: My wife quit her job just before our marriage and has not worked a stable job in the last 5 years of our marriage. We are now in a new country and it doesn't look like she will be able to get a job in the near future without a bridging course which she has missed her deadline to apply.
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2024.05.14 12:25 GPTSportsWriter Boston Red Sox VS Tampa Bay Rays Recap 2024-05-13 19:12:50-04:00

Boston Red Sox VS Tampa Bay Rays Recap 2024-05-13 19:12:50-04:00
Boston Red Sox VS Tampa Bay Rays Recap 2024-05-13 19:12:50-04:00

Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays Recap: May 13, 2024

Introduction

In a game that could be described as a rollercoaster of emotions, the Boston Red Sox faced off against the Tampa Bay Rays on May 13, 2024. The matchup, held at Fenway Park, was a spectacle of baseball prowess, strategic blunders, and a few moments that left fans scratching their heads. With the Red Sox priced at 1.85 and the Rays at 2.0 according to FanDuel, the odds were slightly in favor of Boston, but as we all know, baseball is a game where anything can happen.

Pre-Game Expectations

Odds and Predictions

The bookmakers had their say before the game, with FanDuel and DraftKings both favoring the Red Sox, albeit by a narrow margin. FanDuel had the Red Sox at 1.85 and the Rays at 2.0, while DraftKings offered slightly different odds with the Red Sox at 1.8 and the Rays at 2.05. These odds suggested a close game, and boy, did it deliver.

Team Form

The Red Sox came into this game with a mixed bag of recent performances. Their batting lineup had shown flashes of brilliance, but their pitching staff had been inconsistent. On the other hand, the Rays, known for their analytical approach to the game, were looking to exploit any weaknesses in the Red Sox's armor.

The Game

First Inning: A Rocky Start

The game started with a bang, quite literally, as the Rays' leadoff hitter smacked a double off the Green Monster. The Red Sox pitcher, clearly rattled, walked the next batter, setting the stage for a potential disaster. However, a timely double play and a strikeout later, the Red Sox managed to escape the inning unscathed.

Middle Innings: Tug of War

The middle innings were a back-and-forth affair. The Red Sox struck first with a solo home run in the third inning, much to the delight of the Fenway faithful. The Rays responded in the fourth with a two-run shot, taking the lead and silencing the crowd. The Red Sox tied it up in the fifth with a sacrifice fly, and the game was on a knife-edge.

Pitching Duel

Both starting pitchers settled into a groove after their early hiccups. The Red Sox's ace, known for his fiery fastball and devastating slider, racked up strikeouts like they were going out of style. The Rays' pitcher, a crafty lefty, kept the Red Sox hitters off balance with a mix of off-speed pitches and pinpoint control.

Late Innings: Drama Unfolds

The seventh inning stretch seemed to rejuvenate the Red Sox. A leadoff single followed by a double put runners in scoring position with no outs. A wild pitch allowed the go-ahead run to score, and the Red Sox took a 3-2 lead. The Rays, however, were not done. In the top of the eighth, they loaded the bases with one out. A clutch double play by the Red Sox infield ended the threat and preserved the lead.

Ninth Inning: Nail-Biting Finish

The ninth inning was a heart-stopper. The Red Sox closer, known for his high-velocity fastball, came in to shut the door. After striking out the first batter, he gave up a single and a walk, putting the tying run in scoring position. With two outs and a full count, the closer unleashed a 100 mph fastball that the Rays' batter could only watch as it zipped past for strike three. Fenway Park erupted in celebration.

Player Performances

Red Sox

  • Pitcher: The Red Sox's starting pitcher went seven strong innings, giving up two runs on five hits while striking out nine. His performance was a masterclass in resilience and skill.
  • Closer: Despite a shaky ninth inning, the closer managed to secure the save, adding another chapter to his reputation as a high-stakes performer.
  • Batter: The hero of the day was the Red Sox's third baseman, who went 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs. His bat was the difference-maker in this tightly contested game.

Rays

  • Pitcher: The Rays' starter also had a commendable outing, going six innings and giving up three runs. His ability to keep the Red Sox hitters off balance was impressive.
  • Batter: The Rays' leadoff hitter was a thorn in the Red Sox's side all game, going 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored. His speed and agility on the base paths were a constant threat.

Post-Game Analysis

What Went Right for the Red Sox

The Red Sox's ability to capitalize on the Rays' mistakes was crucial. Their timely hitting and solid defense, especially in high-pressure situations, were the keys to their victory. The pitching staff, despite a few hiccups, managed to hold the line when it mattered most.

What Went Wrong for the Rays

The Rays will be ruing their missed opportunities. Leaving runners in scoring position in key moments was their downfall. Their bullpen, usually a strength, faltered at a critical juncture, allowing the Red Sox to take the lead.

Key Takeaways

  1. Clutch Performances: The Red Sox's ability to perform under pressure was the difference-maker. Their clutch hitting and defensive plays in the late innings were pivotal.
  2. Pitching Depth: Both teams showcased their pitching depth, but the Red Sox's bullpen held firm when it mattered most.
  3. Missed Opportunities: The Rays had their chances but failed to capitalize. Their inability to drive in runs with runners in scoring position was a glaring issue.

Conclusion

In a game that had everything from home runs to nail-biting finishes, the Boston Red Sox emerged victorious over the Tampa Bay Rays. The win was a testament to their resilience and ability to perform under pressure. For the Rays, it was a case of missed opportunities and what could have been. As the season progresses, both teams will look to build on this game, learning from their mistakes and capitalizing on their strengths.

References

  • FanDuel. (2024). MLB Odds. Retrieved from FanDuel
  • DraftKings. (2024). MLB Odds. Retrieved from DraftKings
This detailed recap provides a comprehensive look at the game, highlighting key moments, player performances, and strategic decisions. The use of humor and sarcasm adds a unique flavor to the report, making it an engaging read for baseball fans.
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2024.05.14 12:24 teh_saccade Collaborate: Suno chain-letter game: The Sofa King Song

I've noticed that Suno (Sun in esperanto, so aka "Sunny") has an "extend" option that you can use to continue a song and change the lyrics? It works sometimes, I've managed to get it working once. Seems to be best from the song page or your library page (the extend button, not the three dots).
Here's one to start off with:
https://suno.com/song/8b1ad240-9ef0-4e05-b01d-4f80dd858a65
The game is - you gotta extend this song and we see how long we can keep the chain going. Idk if you can extend extensions, but idk why you shouldn't be able to...
The only rules ought to be:
  1. You have to use anyGPT to write the lyrics - you have to contribute less than 15-20% of the edits to the original song (not that anyone will check, but ...).
If you have problems due to context or language, you can use Cindy😘, a lite version of a chat-bot I've put at blackbox for people who need a quick jailbreak: https://www.blackbox.ai/agent/cindy2UkExUF
  1. Please don't change the song name, but you can add an iteration mark (eg, i, ii, iii, iv, v) however you want, so long as it's in sequnce (we need to get to version 420!!!), but i don't really mind if you do.
  2. choose any style, but pease try to extend the original song above, using most of teh lyrics or the narrative or context or whatever.
  3. It has to maintain the streak to be used as tomorrows Seed for Extending in the Suno Sofa King Good Chain Letter Game.
Does that make sense?
If not - copy-paste this into Cindy and she'll explain it to you lol :P
I'm going to keep this thread alive whenever I remember, so - it'd be nice to see some orange numbers on reddit to show at least one person has had a go at extending / remixing / reusing The SOFA KING STAR song to make it even more sofa king good.
BTW - if anyone hasn't had a chat with suno - you can just talk to it like anyGPT in the lyric generator box. I've extracted the instructions from it and a list of moderated words in english, so... it's not very well protected and it does write some terrible things..! haha
It *will* write swears and it will even transliterate them into Russian for you so the words get past moderation, if you know how to ask ;)
eg, https://suno.com/song/90d8608f-b6ed-4cfd-8464-0c5c047c8934
(the words i've given are substitutes for the actual terms that it will print IF you enforce additional translation; also - broken condition to not use punctuation; it even corrected "esshol" from "essholye" due to translit., etc...)
// for context - i'm not just a mindless vandal - i'm an award winning jailbreaker on mission from god - there's a reason behind all of this - don't worry. I'm a gamer, really.
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2024.05.14 12:20 chanma50 'Back To Black' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.
Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten
Critics Consensus: Back to Black's sympathetic approach to its subject's story is an overdue antidote to the tabloid treatment she often received in life, even if the end results are disappointingly pedestrian.
Score Number of Reviews Average Rating
All Critics 36% 69 4.50/10
Top Critics 38% 24 4.50/10
Metacritic: 49 (18 Reviews)
Sample Reviews:
The film’s snaky on-and-off power begins with the British actor Marisa Abela, whose lead performance nails Amy Winehouse in every look, mood, utterance, and musical expression. - Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Back to Black is, like its heroine, flawed and fallible but frequently very affecting. - Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
Tells the story of Amy Winehouse but shows no passion in telling it and has nothing to say about the events that transpire. It’s the utter minimum of what a biopic can be. - William Bibbiani, TheWrap
There are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse’s life on screen – but Abela conveys her tenderness, and perhaps most poignantly of all her youth, so tellingly at odds with that tough image and eerily mature voice. 4/5 - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
There are moments when Abela disappears and Winehouse bursts on to the screen, like a magic eye picture blinked fleetingly into focus. But the film is wildly uneven and prone to catastrophic misjudgments. 2/5 - Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)
Because of the cautious gloss, the film is perhaps less enlightening or truly tragic than it might have been. 3/5 - Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph (UK)
The final scene, in particular, with its completely and utterly baseless, sensationalist implications, made me physically gasp in horror. 1/5 - Hamish Macbain, London Evening Standard
The ending, of course, is sad... Yet, for all its faults, the film is more celebratory than tragic. 3/5 - Ed Potton, Times (UK)
Back to Black is a fitfully enjoyable little package that will do wonders for the careers of Abela and O’Connell. But unlike Winehouse’s oeuvre, it’s not worth taking seriously. It’s just too afraid of the dark. 2/5 - Charlotte O'Sullivan, Independent (UK)
The film seems too tame, too tasteful, too frightened of alienating the fans: everything that Winehouse was not. 2/5 - Tom Shone, Times (UK)
[Amy Winehouse's] music remains in a different creative galaxy to this dispiriting film, which is at once twee and ghoulish. 2/5 - Danny Leigh, Financial Times
Sure, you will learn more – and hear more of the original recordings – in Asif Kapadia’s great documentary Amy, but Taylor-Johnson does a decent job of making a tight drama from the same tragic yarn. 3/5 - Donald Clarke, Irish Times
This is a middle-of-the road biopic about a musician who was anything but. It’s not great and it’s not terrible. 3/5 - Stephen Romei, The Australian
It has such reverence for Winehouse that it lacks the honesty the 2015 Oscar-winning documentary Amy was able to present. 2.5/5 - Wenlei Ma, The Nightly (AU)
A solid performance let down by a script that cherry-picks the facts and ultimately tells us less than we already know. Watch Asif Kapadia’s Amy instead. 2/5 - Hayley Campbell, Empire Magazine
Offers a pallid account of Winehouse’s story, ironing out some thornier issues, and bringing little that’s new, either in fresh revelations or distinctive angles on the familiar. - Jonathan Romney, Screen International
This is better than I expected (although my expectations were low). It does seem softened at the edges, and one can never forgive a falling-in-love montage set at London Zoo -- ever -- but I (mostly) didn’t cringe and it is respectful, if painful. - Deborah Ross, The Spectator
In her attempt to put the woman back at the centre of her own life, Taylor-Johnson has at least captured an addictive personality and achieved a powerful portrait of doomed love. - Kate Mossman, New Statesman
It is as salacious and cruel as any tabloid cutting from the noughties – only invested in the bloody ballet pump left in the street, not the complexities of living a very public life with addiction. 1/5 - Rogan Graham, Little White Lies
Everyone involved in the film approaches the late artist with love and respect, but its tawdry instincts and misguided sense of responsibility let her memory down. C- - Vikram Murthi, indieWire
Bizarrely, the one thematic thread that Back to Black does seek to tie its tale together with is the singer’s desire to have a child. 1.5/4 - Ross McIndoe, Slant Magazine
Like Winehouse herself, the film teeters on the edge, hovering restlessly between genre-subversive brilliance that complicates celebratory narratives about artistic genius, and well-worn, re-hashed tropes about tragic women. - Rebecca Harrison, Sight & Sound
A strong cast, in particular a stirring performance from Marisa Abela, is not enough to effectively convey the chaos and the tragedy central to the story of such a beloved artist. 2/5 - Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
Its punchlines lack punch, [but] what it does have is a frankly dynamite central turn from Marisa Abela. - Mark Kermode, Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
SYNOPSIS:
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
CAST:
DIRECTED BY: Sam Taylor-Johnson
SCREENPLAY BY: Matt Greenhalgh
PRODUCED BY: Alison Owen, Debra Hayward, Nicky Kentish-Barnes
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sam Taylor-Johnson, Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Polly Morgan
EDITED BY: Martin Walsh
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Sarah Greenwood
COSTUME DESIGNER: PC Williams
MUSIC BY: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
MUSIC PRODUCTION BY: Giles Martin
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Iain Cooke
CASTING BY: Nina Gold
RUNTIME: 122 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: May 17, 2024
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2024.05.14 12:18 FrenchieHoneytoast What was the name of this series?

There was a series on Netflix about 10 years ago, it was about a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman who had a romance, it was set in modern times. The woman was a soldier and was from a wealthy family, the man was from a poor family. It was a drama/romance
I’m gonna try and give as much detail as I can remember about it.
The actor had almost shaved short black hair, the woman had brown hair. They were both in their early 20s.
There was a scene where they were at the woman’s house and in the pool.
There was another scene with her at work as a solider, she was in a watch tower with some other soldiers and they were (I think) watching something disparaging about Palestine, there was some sort of drama involving a phone…I can’t really remember.
There was another scene about him trying to cross a border (not sure which one) and being given a hard time by the Israeli soldiers.
I believe the man lived with his mom in Gaza, he had a friend he was always with.
The woman also lived with her parents.
It was a series, I think there were 2 or 3 seasons.
It came out sometime between 2011-2014?
Does anyone know what the show was called?
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http://rodzice.org/