With the EA Sports College Football 25 cover being released this Thursday, I thought it would be interesting to look back at all covers — and not just the EA covers, but the athletes featured on covers of rival games by Sony, Sega, and other competitors.
Competition is a good thing. Putting these in chronological order takes me back to the era where there were options (I bought my first game in the '90s, and played a lot of 2k2).
If you count the 2 players that are identifiable off of "College Football USA 96" there have been 36 cover athletes across 34 editions of college football games (plus an active coach, mascot, two band members, and an unidentified player)
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Year	Publisher	Game Title (image)	Cover Athlete (wiki)	Heisman?	Formats	Notes
1993	EA Sports	Bill Walsh College Football	STAN Coach Bill Walsh	N/A	Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega CD	No licenses so generic names/logos
1994	EA Sports	Bill Walsh College Football '95	STAN Coach Bill Walsh	N/A	Sega Genesis	Schools licensed now
1994	Mindscape	NCAA Football	NCAA Logo over generic players	N/A	Sega Genesis, SNES
1994	Sega Sports	College Football's National Championship	ND Notre Dame Stadium	N/A	Sega Genesis
1995	EA Sports	College Football USA 96	KSU¦MICH¦FSU¦WIS¦USC "Generic" photos*	No	Sega Genesis	see below*
1995	Sega Sports	College Football's National Championship II	COL Folsom Field	No	Sega Genesis
1996	EA Sports	College Football USA 97	NEB QB Tommie Frazier	No	Sega Genesis, SNES	1st true cover athlete
1996	Sony	NCAA Football Gamebreaker	OSU RB Eddie George	HEISMAN!	PS1	1st Heisman winner on cover
1997	EA Sports	NCAA Football 98	FLA QB Danny Wuerffel	HEISMAN!	PS1, PC	EA gets NCAA license (mainly for a March Madness game)
1997	Sony	NCAA Gamebreaker 98	FSU RB Warrick Dunn	No	PS1	Dropped "football" from name.
1998	EA Sports	NCAA Football 99	MICH CB Charles Woodson	HEISMAN!	PS1, PC	1st of 2 defensive players ever
1998	Sony	NCAA GameBreaker 99	NEB QB Scott Frost	No	PS1	1st future head coach
1999	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2000	TEX RB Ricky Williams	HEISMAN!	PS1
1999	Sony	NCAA GameBreaker 2000	UCLA QB Cade McNown	No	PS1
2000	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2001	ALA RB Shaun Alexander	No	PS1
2000	Sony	NCAA GameBreaker 2001	WIS RB Ron Dayne	HEISMAN!	PS1, PS2	1st 6th generation console game
2001	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2002	FSU QB Chris Weinke	HEISMAN!	PS2
2001	Sega Sports	NCAA College Football 2K2	PUR QB Drew Brees	No	DC
2002	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2003	ORE QB Joey Harrington	No	PS2, GC, Xbox
2002	Sony	NCAA GameBreaker 2003	MIA RB Clinton Portis	No	PS2	[Sony skipped 2002]
2002	Sega Sports	NCAA College Football 2K3	NEB QB Eric Crouch	HEISMAN!	PS2, GC, Xbox
2003	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2004	USC QB Carson Palmer	HEISMAN!	PS2, GC, Xbox, N-Gage	1st handheld on Nokia's disastrous system
2003	Sony	NCAA GameBreaker 2004	PSU RB Larry Johnson	No	PS2
2004	EA Sports	NCAA Football 2005	PITT WR Larry Fitzgerald	No	PS2, GC, Xbox
2005	EA Sports	NCAA Football 06	MICH WR Desmond Howard		PS2, Xbox	1991's Heisman
2006	EA Sports	NCAA Football 07	USC RB Reggie Bush	HEISMAN!	PS2, Xbox, 360, PSP
2007	EA Sports	NCAA Football 08	BOISE QB Jared Zabransky	No	360, PS3, PS2, Xbox
2007	Aspyr	Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience	Generic player, cheerleader, drum major	No	PC, 360 (2009)	HBCU teams
2008	EA Sports	NCAA Football 09	CAL WR DeSean Jackson	No	PS2	Multi-cover
2008	EA Sports	NCAA Football 09	BC QB Matt Ryan	No	PS3	Multi-cover
2008	EA Sports	NCAA Football 09	WVU FB Owen Schmitt	No	PSP	Multi-cover
2008	EA Sports	NCAA Football 09	MSU mascot Sparty	No	Wii	Multi-cover
2008	EA Sports	NCAA Football 09	ARK RB Darren McFadden	No	360	Multi-cover
2009	EA Sports	NCAA Football 10	TEX LB Brian Orakpo	No	PS2	Multi-cover; 2 of 2 defenders
2009	EA Sports	NCAA Football 10	UTAH QB Brian Johnson	No	PS3	Multi-cover
2009	EA Sports	NCAA Football 10	USC QB Mark Sanchez	No	PSP	Multi-cover
2009	EA Sports	NCAA Football 10	TTU WR Michael Crabtree	No	360	Multi-cover
2010	EA Sports	NCAA Football 11	FLA QB Tim Tebow	HEISMAN!	PS3, 360, PS2, iOS
2011	EA Sports	NCAA Football 12	ALA RB Mark Ingram II	HEISMAN!	PS3, 360	Fan-vote cover athlete
2012	EA Sports	NCAA Football 13	BAY QB Robert Griffin III & OKST RB Barry Sanders	YES!	PS3, 360	Fan-vote for older athlete
2013	EA Sports	NCAA Football 14	MICH Denard Robinson	No	PS3, 360	Fan-vote cover athlete
2024	EA Sports	EA Sports College Football 25	TBD	TBD	PS5, Xbox Series X/S

*Photos on College Football USA 96 cover are USC Trojan drum major, a Wisconsin band member, unidentified Florida State player (zoomed in on helmet), but also easily identified K-State WR Kevin Lockett & Michigan RB Tim Biakabutuk (both played in '95 season after this came out)

Various developers:

EA Sports's developers:

• High Score Productions (1993: Genesis, Sega CD; 1994-96)
• Visual Concepts (1993: SNES)
• Tiburon Entertainment (1997-98), bought/renamed EA Tiburon (1999-2013), renamed EA Orlando (2024)
• Exient Entertainment (2003: N-Gage)

Sega Sports's developers:

• BlueSky Software (1994-95) [developers of Joe Montana series]
• Visual Concepts & Avalanche Software (2001-02) [NFL 2K & NFL Blitz, respectively]

Sony Computer Entertainment America's developers:

• Sony Interactive Studios America (1996-97), renamed Red Zone Interactive (1998-99), renamed 989 Studios (2000)

Aspyr Media's developer:

• Nerjyzed Entertainment (2007: Windows; 2009: 360)

Further notes:

Bill Walsh was picked because there was an early-theme of having big names on sports video games.

• EA actually started this back when they were the cool, bad boy of games in the 1980s (I'm that old, they packaged their games like records and put photos of their programmers that made them look like musicians on the back) with the pioneering PC game One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983), later updated to Jordan vs. Bird: One on One (1988).
• Nintendo got into it by localizing Punch-Out! as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (1987) for NES. EA brought out John Madden Football (1988) for PC.
• Sega was wild about this when they launched the Genesis with Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf (1989), Tommy Lasorda Baseball (1989), Pat Riley Basketball (1990), Joe Montana Football (1991).
• 1993: Bill Walsh! There even was an EA Coach K college hoops game.

Bill Walsh may have got the cover curse:

• While he had retired from the San Francisco 49ers on top, after winning his 3rd Super Bowl, he had only returned to the Farm for a year when he was picked (he had a good first tenure in the 70s before jumping to the 49ers).
• In 1992 he took the Cardinal to a Blockbuster Bowl win and a #9 rank. Signed this deal for EA.
• After the first game came out he had two bad seasons and re-retired for good.

The progression of teams is fun to see.

• 1993: the top 24 college football teams from 1992 + 24 of the all-time greatest teams since 1978. The teams were unlicensed so they used city and state names, especially where similar to their real names (e.g. Michigan). But you got some fun results like a spirited game of "South Bend, IN" vs "Raleigh, NC"
• 1994: 36 Division I-A teams, but the bowls were still not included: Instead we get Maple Bowl, Palm Bowl, Pecan Bowl, and Redwood Bowl
• 1995: first version to feature all (108 at the time) Division l-A teams, the real bowl games like Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, and Rose. Includes older names but also the Pacific Tigers, which actually dropped football before the game was released.

The rights to the title "NCAA" license wasn't obtained by EA until 1998 (as you can see there was an earlier one-off by Mindscape). Its ability to use the NCAA's brands in the the football game was actually the secondary result of a licensing deal intended primarily for an EA "March Madness" basketball game.

Inflation-kissed increases in prices seem to be happening everywhere from Lémeac to Bernie Beigne to Alati Caserta... Grabbing pizza or burgers for a family requires a second mortgage. What are the best deals still standing in Montreal, at the intersection of cost and true tastiness?
For my money (ha), here are some good ones to get the ball rolling:

• Spicy szechuan fish fillet at Chez Chili (and elsewhere) - $20 but v large portion;
• Lunch special at Restaurant Amigo;
• Croissants and bagels, despite increases;
• Banh mi at Hung Phat;
• Pupusas at Las Palmas, Iris or almost everywhere;
• Indian at Pushap;
• Patati Patata;
• the giant greasy plates at Ma Mere En Feu...

So today I woke up and had to force myself to eat & I felt off, I still hauled my ass to the gym but the music was too loud, the lights were too bright and innocent people were infuriating me for no reason so I left.
For the FIRST time in years I got home and realised I’m teetering on the edge of a meltdown and a huge burnout.
I know that when I’m burnout and or I’m having a meltdown I get very snappy and I’m not nice to be around because I’m trying to regulate my own emotions and feelings so I simply don’t have the capacity for others in times like these I have to put myself first which is something as a single mum I often struggle to do.
So I came home and although the urge to simply lay down and do nothing was strong I forced myself to tidy my room and sort my wardrobes and drawers because I know when I’m burnout looking in cupboards that are messy p*** me off and makes things even worse.
I then texted my daughter in school explaining I’d be buying them the pizza meal deal from Tesco because I don’t have the capacity to cook when I’m like this, I’ve explained they will likely need to head away to bed a little earlier so I can fully decompress
I have already picked my favourite movie for tonight (revenge of the sith I’m a huge SW fan) and will buy my favourite comfort foods which include sour patch kids and some sort of dairy free chocolate will schedule 2 days off of the gym and tonight enjoy my burnout in a clean and tidy space- and probably steal a couple of my daughters melatonin to help me sleep (she also had adhd and autism)
I’m going to make a conscious effort to put my phone on the other side of the room so I can’t scroll and just relax!
I just feel proud that my self awareness enabled me to see what was coming and take active steps to reduce any fall out .
I do strongly believe I have ASD as well as ADHD I just don’t think I have the energy to go through diagnosis
Hope you all have a great day, if you have any self care tips you use during burnout I’d love to hear them 💖

Joselow, Maxine. The Washington Post; Washington, D.C.. 14 May 2024: A.18.
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Move aimed at punishing Moscow and boosting domestic nuclear sector
President Biden on Monday evening signed a bipartisan bill prohibiting Russian imports of enriched uranium, the main fuel used by nuclear power plants, a move intended to cut off one of the last significant flows of money from the United States to Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
Congress took swift action to ban Russian oil and gas imports a month after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But sanctions on uranium imports have taken much longer, in part because Russia supplies roughly 20 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel, leading some lawmakers to fear disruptions to the nation's 93 nuclear reactors.
"It's kind of ridiculous that it took as long as it did to get to this stage," said Scott Melbye, executive vice president of mining company Uranium Energy and president of the Uranium Producers of America, a trade group. "But we're just glad that we got here."
American companies pay around $1 billion a year for enriched uranium from Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear power conglomerate. These payments have continued even after documents revealed last year that Rosatom had been working to supply the Russian arms industry with components, technology and raw materials for missile fuel.
The bipartisan bill will ban uranium imports from Moscow beginning 90 days after its enactment. It will provide waivers until 2028 for utilities that would be forced to shut down nuclear reactors once Russian supplies are cut off. The bill also frees up $2.7 billion passed in previous legislation to build out the domestic uranium processing industry.
"This new law reestablishes America's leadership in the nuclear sector," national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement Monday. "It will help secure our energy sector for generations to come."
The bill passed the House in December, but it had stalled for months in the Senate, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) had blocked the measure over unrelated disputes. In a development that surprised some observers, Cruz dropped his opposition last month, and the measure then passed the Senate by unanimous consent, meaning no senators objected to it.
"Russia's chokehold on America's uranium supply is coming to an end," Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), a bill sponsor, said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. "[Russian President Vladimir] Putin's war machine has now lost one of its cash cows. America is finally starting to take back our nuclear energy security as well as our energy future."
Officials at the Energy Department and the National Security Council had discussed the possibility of taking executive action to ban Russian uranium imports if Congress did not act, Bloomberg News reported.
Biden has set an ambitious goal of reaching 100 percent clean electricity by 2035. Nuclear reactors generate more than half of emissions-free electricity in the United States, and supporters say they can play a key role in the country's transition away from fossil fuels.
Yet the U.S. nuclear power industry has recently faced financial challenges, including spiraling costs of the new modular designs it is testing. Those difficulties may continue even after companies are no longer reliant on imported uranium.
The United States' dependence on Russian uranium dates back to a 1993 nuclear disarmament program soon after the Cold War ended. Under the program, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, the United States bought 500 metric tons of uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads and converted it to nuclear reactor fuel.
At the time, many policymakers in Washington hailed the deal as a win-win: Moscow got desperately needed cash in exchange for giving U.S. utilities cheap fuel and placating arms-control advocates. But today, some experts say the program had the unintended consequence of delivering such inexpensive Russian fuel that U.S. and European companies struggled to compete.
More than two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States largely lacks its own uranium enrichment capacity. The nuclear energy company TerraPower, which was founded by Bill Gates, has been forced to delay the opening of a new nuclear plant by at least two years, in part because it has pledged not to use Russian enriched uranium.
The new legislation could help. It unlocks $2.7 billion in funding for domestic uranium enrichment that Congress conditionally approved in a spending bill last year.
The funding could allow the company Centrus to expand its enrichment facility in Ohio with "thousands of additional centrifuges to replace Russian imports with American production," spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said in an email.
Jeff Navin, director of external affairs for TerraPower, which has signed an agreement with Centrus to collaborate on fueling its Natrium reactor in Wyoming, said in an email that the funding is "expected to spur job creation, technological advancement and boost the U.S. nuclear industry's global competitiveness."
In August, Biden established a new national monument near the Grand Canyon, putting the site off-limits to future uranium mining. The move did not affect an existing uranium mine owned by Energy Fuels, which recently ramped up work as growing demand and global instability pushed uranium prices higher.
Though some environmentalists support nuclear power, others say there are cheaper options and have voiced concerns that the country lacks a long-term plan for storage of nuclear waste. Still others have warned that radioactive dust from uranium mining could contaminate the drinking water of nearby communities.
Asked about these concerns, Curtis Moore, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development at Energy Fuels, said modern environmental regulations have made uranium mining much safer over the last half-century. He said the company's mine near the Grand Canyon poses "zero" risk to water supplies.
"To oppose modern uranium mining is akin to opposing electric vehicles today because cars in the '50s didn't have seat belts," Moore said. "It's really shortsighted. Uranium is absolutely essential to the fight against climate change."

For those who remember my story. Yes, I’m the man who broke Britain.
The north and Wales were ruled by King Arthur, the south by Richard the Lionheart, Scotland by Fergus, Ireland by the Atlantean’s, Jersey by Leonidas and some of the midlands by John.
Needing to take a quick detour to stop a Hun invasion of Agraba I returned to fix the island.
Having little if any interaction with Richard and the fact he was French, I sided with Arthur. After three battles at Stafford, Ipswich and London we drove Richard out of England.
But I DID help him take the French throne after the former royals had been executed for being heretics.
Turns out God is on the Furry’s side.
Moving back to England I sat Arthur and Fergus down to discuss an alliance against the incoming Germanic invasions. Which was only interrupted after Fergus’s chefs accidentally cooked my pet rooster Dwayne “The Cock” Johnson.
After erasing their bloodlines with a mini nuke I helped them kick the Huntsman and his followers back to Germany.
Following that I turned Leonidas into a throw rug and was made count of the Island of Jersey for my troubles.
The only threat left were the Atlanteans. Initially I tried diplomacy but as some Atlantean settlers began showing up it was made clear war was inevitable. Unable to deal with their vastly superior firepower I chose instead to free Kida from the Crystal.
Now she had been fused with it for a while but the Crystal failed to account for one thing.
Genie.
After she was freed she lead a revolt against Rourke. With him and his gvernment out of the way Atlantis relinquished Ireland as thanks. Later it would be repopulated by any Irishman who escaped the Horned King’s armies or any Americans who claimed to be Irish.
It took a year but I had learnt a lesson about overthrowing governments.
If you’re too lazy to stick around and make sure the successor state is competent don’t bother.

I ended up buying a house at the edge of this town.... before i knew all the bullshit that was goin' on around here. Got bored and went down to the local sheriff Jack and asked about an opening, Didn't even fill out an application, got the job on the spot. For the first few months it was the usual, speeding tickets, drunk and disorderly, normal shit right? Well... let the fuckery commence....
I had been a deputy for 7 months when one of the local farmers called in and reported he had some animals killed last night and wanted someone to come out to his house. John Nixon was a 60 year old farmer who lived by himself. His wife passed away years ago, but he never remarried and they never had kids. We met one day at the local tackle shop. Me being new in town, he took me to some of the good fishin' spots. The man was a huge military history buff and would always ask about my time in. I thought I knew him personally, so i took the call.
As I rolled up to the gate on his property, I saw John standing at the gate with a shotgun. " Hey john, can I ask why you are standing there with that cannon in your hands?" No response, he just stared at me. "John! put that damn shotgun down!!" I yelled. Its like he snapped to out of a trance. "Mason, i need you to come round the back side of the house to the barn, now!" he snapped.
"OK, OK, let me get outta the car and grab some gear." I said opening the car door. While i was grabbing my gear, John was standing there with his eyes scanning the tree line. "Come on mason! you need to see this!" He said heading towards the back. I closed the trunk and started walking over in his direction.
"So what the hell is going on that's got you walking around here with that damn bazooka?" No response, he just keeps walking and scanning the tree line. We finally got to the back of his house where the barn is. It looked like a horror movie in that pen.
"What the fuck happened here!?!" I said covering my mouth. There were pieces of chickens and goats everywhere, a few pigs looked like they had been filleted. "Its back mason, after all these years" John mumbled. "John what the hell are you talking about? what did this?" I asked.
John took his eyes off the tree line and looked me dead in the face. "Your not from here so you dont know." "Know what man? what are you saying?" I asked getting annoyed now. "Years ago this same thing happened to a few guys I know. All of their livestock had been killed. Not killed and eatin', just killed. It got people 'round here up in arms. Well, a few of us got together and decieded we were gonna look for whatever did it" he said. "What the hell are you telling me john?" I interrupted. "There were four of us. We were young, thought we were bullet proof. We went out into the woods one morning, determined to find the damn thing that had been killing our animals.
Tommy was the first to say something. "Hey, did you guys hear that?". The rest of us didnt hear a thing, so we kept moving. We got about three miles deep into the old pine forest at the edge of town. Will was the next to say something, "WHAT THE FUCK?!" he yelled out while looking down at the mud. We ran over to where he was standing to find him wide eyed. "I dont know what the actual fuck did this, but we..we need to go and I mean right fucking now!!!" he said pointing. This track was huge, at least 14 inches long with huge claws. Gerald spoke up "Let's fuckin' go guys!!".
We started back tracking out of the area, when we were stopped cold in our tracks, we all heard it this time. It was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same damn time. A sickening, shrieking laugh was coming from all around us. We panicked and starting runnin'. As soon as we did that, whatever was making that noise centered as if right behind us, and it was coming fast, ungodly fast" John said eyeing the remains of a chicken that was torn apart.
"We were about a mile from the trucks when I heard a thud and a scream, when i looked back Gerald wasn't there. Will and tommy were right behind me, terror all over their faces. Tommy pulled his pistol and started shooting backwards. Only one shot rang out before something tackled him and Will. I stopped, raising my rifle, but they had already been torn apart. It was seconds, and they were in shreds" John said.
"Mason, what i saw standing over their shredded bodies has haunted me since then. The fucking thing was nine feet tall, shaped like a man, but not. Its skin, or or scales was a mixture of black and grey and it looked slimy. It looked like a damn bodybuilder with hugh claw like hands. Its head was massive, with what looked like horns coming from the jaw to around the chin. Its eyes, glowed bright green in the middle of the fucking day, and it had a mouth full of fucked up jagged teeth." He said lowering his head.
"I jus.. just stood there, waitng for my turn. This thing paced back and fourth, staring at me, with this creepy damn smile. It looked down at Will and Tommy, then it looked back up at me. My heart almost stopped when it pointed and shook its head at me. It started making that shrieking laugh as it grabbed what was left of my friends in each giant claw and walked off into the woods, still fucking laughing. I fell to my knees as it vanished into the trees."
I stood there, thinking he lost his damn mind. John had stopped talking, he had this way off look in his eyes. "John..., john.., JOHN!!" his eyes snapped back to mine. "So what are you telling me? A nine foot creature with claws killed your friends and animals?!" I half mocked. "Yea.... thats what i'm telling you. Its back for me, i know it." "What makes you think it was this thing you say killed your friends? It could have been coyotes" I asked " I know mason, i heard that same horrible shrieking laugh in the woods behind the barn last night."
Now I’ve heard some real bullshit in my time, especially during my time in the contracting field... But this was the most out there shit I had ever heard.
"Alright, alright... let's just take a big ass step backwards. I need to wrap my head around all of this." I said takin a deep breath. John laid the shotgun down to his side. "I'm telling you the truth mason. i'm too old and tired to lie about shit" he said shrugging. I looked deep into this man’s eyes. When I did, I saw something that told me this was the absolute truth as he knew it. " You haven’t given me any reason to doubt you... but fuck man... this is hard to swallow. I need proof John, that's the way this works." A look of frustration washed over his weathered face.
"Proof?! you want proof huh? follow me" John groaned.
He started walking towards the tress behind the barn. As we got closer to the trees, I started to smell rusty copper. Blood I thought out loud. John raised his shotgun as we walked closer. That damn gun had to be illegal, but this wasn’t the time for that. Him raising that gun made me a lil' uneasy, so I pulled my Glock 9mm out and flipped the safety off.
John owned about 90 acres, most of it unkept. A lot of the land was behind the barn which butted up to a state forest. We took about 12 steps into the wood line when the smell of death hit me like a brick. "I'm taking you to where I heard the noise coming from last night... your PROOF is out there Mason" He said with a slight edge to it.
We walked almost a hundred yards into the woods when john stopped in front of a tree. It looked twisted and warped all the way to its top. I stepped around John and saw huge claw marks cut deep all the way around the base of the tree, it's hard to even call it that. "What the hell is this?" I said looking up. "This is a marker, it's territory starts here" John replied. I looked at john like he was crazy, which at this point I thought he was. "This thing travels throughout these woods. I've found five more of these trees in our town" he said putting a hand on the tree.
"This isn’t telling me anything John, just that you've got a weird ass tree on your property" I said back to him. "Do you hear that?" So we could move this mess forward, I stopped talking and just listened. I hadn't noticed that during our walk into the woods it had got quiet, and I mean not one sound. " What the hell? where did all the animals go?" I asked looking around. "They're scared mason... you should be too. Let's get back to the house."
We turned and started making our way out of the woods. We were damn near the tree line when I heard a snap. I turned around, gun raised to see a black streak dart back deeper into the woods. "What the fuck was that?!" All John said was "we need to leave, now!" We turned and started sprinting the rest of the way out of the woods. I was surprised at how fast john was for an old man. We got all the way back to my patrol car. "I don't know what that was, but I don't think you should stay here tonight John. Pack some stuff and come to my place" I said pointing my gun at the trees. John just let out a sigh as if frustrated and defeated.
"You weren't listenin'. The pine forest, these trees, it’s all connected. I’m talkin’ bout before this area was even inhabited by native peoples. This fucking thing has been around for a very long time. I have been looking into this since that day, I had to find out what it was and if it can be killed" he tried to explain. The whole time john was talking I had my eyes and weapon pointed at the trees. " You can put that down mason, it just wanted you to know it's here" He said.
"John, I to need process this shit. I've never seen or heard anything like this and to be straight with you, I’m at a loss right now" I said opening the trunk. "I get it, I get it. The sheriff jack was a deputy back then. When you see him... tell him I said the dark is here..." And with that, he just turned his back and walked back into his house not saying another word.
I got back in the car and sat there. Looking at the treeline. After a few minutes I went back to the station. I must've walked in with that universal what the fuck look on my face, because Cathy the clerk asked what was wrong with me. I told her I was fine and asked if she had seen the sheriff? "Yeah, he is in the gun cage. Are you sure you’re ok Mason?" She asked again.
"Yeah, I'm good, just need to talk to Jack." I started walking towards the back of the building, when Jack came around the corner. "Hey mason, what's up?" he says walking up to me. "I just got back from John's house." The look on his face completely changed. "He had a bunch of animals killed last night. It looked like a slaughterhouse. He told me to tell you the dark was back?" I told him noticing his reaction.
Jack stiffened up and not saying a word gestured for me to follow him towards the back security door. We headed towards the back and out the door. Jack had stopped to make sure the door was secure then pointed at his truck and said "get in."
After getting in he looked over "I need some coffee" then started the truck up and headed west out of the parking lot towards the coffee shop. He ordered a large black coffee with extra sugar then asked if I wanted one. "I'll take a small black, no sugar." We pulled out and headed east back past the station. We ended up driving towards the edge of the county. "What's going on and why are we heading way the hell out here?" I looked at jack and said.
Jack just took a long sip of his coffee then placed it back in the holder.
After a long breath "You want some answers about what happened at Johns' house... I’m sure he told you about a few other things about this town... well we're gonna go get you some answers" He said looking at a black sedan passing in the opposite direction. "Aight so, like you mason, I’m not from here either. I was a trooper in New York for a few years before I came down here. I resigned after a call to an old couple’s house" He said reaching for his cup. "My partner Jake and I responded to what was thought to be an animal attack. We were the first on the scene, having been a couple miles away lookin' for speeders.
When we rolled up an older woman came running over to the cruiser. She had a panicked look on her face and just kept repeating "they're dead, they're dead!!" We hopped out and sat her in the back of the car then asked what happened. "I...I... came over to talk to gloria and... and I saw the door open. I walked in yelling her and Alan’s name, but they didn't answer... I found them upstairs... it's horrible!!" She said sobbing. Jake and I drew our weapons and started making the move inside. Like the witness said the front door was open, so we moved in. It smelled like sulfur and blood when we entered. We started clearing rooms. The first floor was clear, so we made our way up the steps.
The smell was overpowering now. We cleared the bathroom, and the two smaller rooms were clear also. The door to the master bedroom was slightly opened. I motioned to Jake and we hit the door.... it looked like some movie shit!! I kid you not. Jake turned and went back into the hallway and threw up. I stepped into the room and... listen I had never seen anything like this before" Jack stammered out.
"These two people were in shreds on the bed, they're insides had been yanked out and thrown around the fucking room. After looking at the bodies I noticed these huge claw marks in the wall, I’m talking if Andre the giant had had a Krueger glove. I stepped back out of the room and radioed to dispatch that we needed more units. I walked back to the front door where Jake was standing hunched over looking out of it.
Parked outside were 3 black SUVs and a black sedan. I counted 11 men dressed in black tactical military gear, some with a type of rifle I had never seen before, but you could tell it was large caliber. The rest with SMG weapons. When i looked over towards the patrol car, one of the men had the door opened and was talking to the witness. He saw us and started our way. He was dressed in all black too and carried what looked like a desert eagle in a chest holster.
When he got closer I got a better look at him. He looked to be in his late 40's with salt and pepper colored hair and a big ass scar that ran down the right side of his face. He got about ten feet from the steps "We appreciate the assistance, but you are no longer needed" He said in deep voice. As he is saying this, one of the other guys escorts the witness out of our car and into the back of that sedan.
The guy started walking away from us "Who are you? and what the fuck is going on?" I yelled at him. He turned with a look on his face that you only see in movies then took a few steps towards us. "Your command has been informed and you are to leave now!" He said raising his hand up towards that holstered pistol. Jake looked at me and shook his head "fuck it, let's go, let them deal with that mess upstairs" he said still coughing then started heading towards the car. I followed him down the steps... looking this guy up and down, checking out the vehicles... for anything that might tell me who we were dealing with.
The only thing I saw was on the assholes uniform... there was a patch on his shoulder. It was an all-black diamond with a weird looking black M in the middle on it. The guy stared us down until we were in the car driving away. He had that pistol in his hand and the other men starting moving into the house. Jake and I didn’t say a word until the radio squawked and we were told to head back to the barracks.
When we got there, we were told to report to the troop commander’s office. Commander Thompson was sitting in his office along with a man in a nice 2-piece suit. The man in the suit stood there quietly while Thompson told us that we never responded to any call out to that farmhouse, and that this was the first and only time he would say it. With that, he dismissed us and and we walked out. The shit didn’t sit well with me, and I ended up resigning a few months later.
I came down here and then that shit in the woods happened. I was on the scene, I saw the claw marks. They looked just like the ones in New York, and the same damn trucks showed up with different personnel. I knew just to shut up and walk away, and after making that choice I have had a pretty good career here." he finished grabbing his cup out of the holder.
My brain was in overdrive. I was just about to completely question bomb jack when he said, "We're here." He pulled off onto this overgrown driveway and drove for about a quarter mile. We pulled up to an old two-story house that looked like it was in ruins... but the lights were on. "Where the hell are we?" I asked As the last word of that question left my mouth, the front door of the house opened... standing in the doorway was a old man, dressed in weathered black clothing. Jack leaned over to me "You wanted answers... well.... there they are."

Students are required to take and pass this exam as a graduation requirement. There is also a push to have as much of the school testing as possible in order to receive a school grade. I believe it is about 95% attendance required, otherwise they are unable to give one.
The 9th graders have vocally announced that they are refusing to take part in state testing anymore. Many students decided to feign sickness, skip, or stay home, but the ones in school decided to hold a sit in outside the media center and refused to go in, waiting out until the test is over. Admin has tried every approach to get them to go and take the test. They tried yelling, begging, bribing with pizza, warnings that they will not graduate, threats to call parents and have them suspended, and more to get these kids to go, and nothing worked. They were only met with "I don't care" and many expletives.
While I do not teach Algebra 1 this year, I found it hilarious watching from the window as the administrators were completely at their wits end dealing with the complete apathy, disrespect, and outright malicious nature of the students we have been reporting and writing up all year. We have kids we haven't seen in our classrooms since January out in the halls and causing problems for other teachers, with nothing being done about it. Students that curse us out on the daily returned to the classroom with treats and a smirk on their face knowing they got away with it. It has only emboldened them to take things further. We received the report at the end of the day that we only had 60% of our students take the Algebra 1 exam out of hundreds of freshmen. We only have a week left in school. Counting down the days!

Part 1
I ended up buying a house at the edge of this town.... before i knew all the bullshit that was goin' on around here. Got bored and went down to the local sheriff Jack and asked about an opening, Didn't even fill out an application, got the job on the spot. For the first few months it was the usual, speeding tickets, drunk and disorderly, normal shit right? Well... let the fuckery commence....
I had been a deputy for 7 months when one of the local farmers called in and reported he had some animals killed last night and wanted someone to come out to his house. John Nixon was a 60 year old farmer who lived by himself. His wife passed away years ago, but he never remarried and they never had kids. We met one day at the local tackle shop. Me being new in town, he took me to some of the good fishin' spots. The man was a huge military history buff and would always ask about my time in. I thought I knew him personally, so i took the call.
As I rolled up to the gate on his property, I saw John standing at the gate with a shotgun. " Hey john, can I ask why you are standing there with that cannon in your hands?" No response, he just stared at me. "John! put that damn shotgun down!!" I yelled. Its like he snapped to out of a trance. "Mason, i need you to come round the back side of the house to the barn, now!" he snapped.
"OK, OK, let me get outta the car and grab some gear." I said opening the car door. While i was grabbing my gear, John was standing there with his eyes scanning the tree line. "Come on mason! you need to see this!" He said heading towards the back. I closed the trunk and started walking over in his direction.
"So what the hell is going on that's got you walking around here with that damn bazooka?" No response, he just keeps walking and scanning the tree line. We finally got to the back of his house where the barn is. It looked like a horror movie in that pen.
"What the fuck happened here!?!" I said covering my mouth. There were pieces of chickens and goats everywhere, a few pigs looked like they had been filleted. "Its back mason, after all these years" John mumbled. "John what the hell are you talking about? what did this?" I asked.
John took his eyes off the tree line and looked me dead in the face. "Your not from here so you dont know." "Know what man? what are you saying?" I asked getting annoyed now. "Years ago this same thing happened to a few guys I know. All of their livestock had been killed. Not killed and eatin', just killed. It got people 'round here up in arms. Well, a few of us got together and decieded we were gonna look for whatever did it" he said. "What the hell are you telling me john?" I interrupted. "There were four of us. We were young, thought we were bullet proof. We went out into the woods one morning, determined to find the damn thing that had been killing our animals.
Tommy was the first to say something. "Hey, did you guys hear that?". The rest of us didnt hear a thing, so we kept moving. We got about three miles deep into the old pine forest at the edge of town. Will was the next to say something, "WHAT THE FUCK?!" he yelled out while looking down at the mud. We ran over to where he was standing to find him wide eyed. "I dont know what the actual fuck did this, but we..we need to go and I mean right fucking now!!!" he said pointing. This track was huge, at least 14 inches long with huge claws. Gerald spoke up "Let's fuckin' go guys!!".
We started back tracking out of the area, when we were stopped cold in our tracks, we all heard it this time. It was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same damn time. A sickening, shrieking laugh was coming from all around us. We panicked and starting runnin'. As soon as we did that, whatever was making that noise centered as if right behind us, and it was coming fast, ungodly fast" John said eyeing the remains of a chicken that was torn apart.
"We were about a mile from the trucks when I heard a thud and a scream, when i looked back Gerald wasn't there. Will and tommy were right behind me, terror all over their faces. Tommy pulled his pistol and started shooting backwards. Only one shot rang out before something tackled him and Will. I stopped, raising my rifle, but they had already been torn apart. It was seconds, and they were in shreds" John said.
"Mason, what i saw standing over their shredded bodies has haunted me since then. The fucking thing was nine feet tall, shaped like a man, but not. Its skin, or or scales was a mixture of black and grey and it looked slimy. It looked like a damn bodybuilder with hugh claw like hands. Its head was massive, with what looked like horns coming from the jaw to around the chin. Its eyes, glowed bright green in the middle of the fucking day, and it had a mouth full of fucked up jagged teeth." He said lowering his head.
"I jus.. just stood there, waitng for my turn. This thing paced back and fourth, staring at me, with this creepy damn smile. It looked down at Will and Tommy, then it looked back up at me. My heart almost stopped when it pointed and shook its head at me. It started making that shrieking laugh as it grabbed what was left of my friends in each giant claw and walked off into the woods, still fucking laughing. I fell to my knees as it vanished into the trees."
I stood there, thinking he lost his damn mind. John had stopped talking, he had this way off look in his eyes. "John..., john.., JOHN!!" his eyes snapped back to mine. "So what are you telling me? A nine foot creature with claws killed your friends and animals?!" I half mocked. "Yea.... thats what i'm telling you. Its back for me, i know it." "What makes you think it was this thing you say killed your friends? It could have been coyotes" I asked " I know mason, i heard that same horrible shrieking laugh in the woods behind the barn last night."
Now I’ve heard some real bullshit in my time, especially during my time in the contracting field... But this was the most out there shit I had ever heard.
"Alright, alright... let's just take a big ass step backwards. I need to wrap my head around all of this." I said takin a deep breath. John laid the shotgun down to his side. "I'm telling you the truth mason. i'm too old and tired to lie about shit" he said shrugging. I looked deep into this man’s eyes. When I did, I saw something that told me this was the absolute truth as he knew it. " You haven’t given me any reason to doubt you... but fuck man... this is hard to swallow. I need proof John, that's the way this works." A look of frustration washed over his weathered face.
"Proof?! you want proof huh? follow me" John groaned.
He started walking towards the tress behind the barn. As we got closer to the trees, I started to smell rusty copper. Blood I thought out loud. John raised his shotgun as we walked closer. That damn gun had to be illegal, but this wasn’t the time for that. Him raising that gun made me a lil' uneasy, so I pulled my Glock 9mm out and flipped the safety off.
John owned about 90 acres, most of it unkept. A lot of the land was behind the barn which butted up to a state forest. We took about 12 steps into the wood line when the smell of death hit me like a brick. "I'm taking you to where I heard the noise coming from last night... your PROOF is out there Mason" He said with a slight edge to it.
We walked almost a hundred yards into the woods when john stopped in front of a tree. It looked twisted and warped all the way to its top. I stepped around John and saw huge claw marks cut deep all the way around the base of the tree, it's hard to even call it that. "What the hell is this?" I said looking up. "This is a marker, it's territory starts here" John replied. I looked at john like he was crazy, which at this point I thought he was. "This thing travels throughout these woods. I've found five more of these trees in our town" he said putting a hand on the tree.
"This isn’t telling me anything John, just that you've got a weird ass tree on your property" I said back to him. "Do you hear that?" So we could move this mess forward, I stopped talking and just listened. I hadn't noticed that during our walk into the woods it had got quiet, and I mean not one sound. " What the hell? where did all the animals go?" I asked looking around. "They're scared mason... you should be too. Let's get back to the house."
We turned and started making our way out of the woods. We were damn near the tree line when I heard a snap. I turned around, gun raised to see a black streak dart back deeper into the woods. "What the fuck was that?!" All John said was "we need to leave, now!" We turned and started sprinting the rest of the way out of the woods. I was surprised at how fast john was for an old man. We got all the way back to my patrol car. "I don't know what that was, but I don't think you should stay here tonight John. Pack some stuff and come to my place" I said pointing my gun at the trees. John just let out a sigh as if frustrated and defeated.
"You weren't listenin'. The pine forest, these trees, it’s all connected. I’m talkin’ bout before this area was even inhabited by native peoples. This fucking thing has been around for a very long time. I have been looking into this since that day, I had to find out what it was and if it can be killed" he tried to explain. The whole time john was talking I had my eyes and weapon pointed at the trees. " You can put that down mason, it just wanted you to know it's here" He said.
"John, I to need process this shit. I've never seen or heard anything like this and to be straight with you, I’m at a loss right now" I said opening the trunk. "I get it, I get it. The sheriff jack was a deputy back then. When you see him... tell him I said the dark is here..." And with that, he just turned his back and walked back into his house not saying another word.
I got back in the car and sat there. Looking at the treeline. After a few minutes I went back to the station. I must've walked in with that universal what the fuck look on my face, because Cathy the clerk asked what was wrong with me. I told her I was fine and asked if she had seen the sheriff? "Yeah, he is in the gun cage. Are you sure you’re ok Mason?" She asked again.
"Yeah, I'm good, just need to talk to Jack." I started walking towards the back of the building, when Jack came around the corner. "Hey mason, what's up?" he says walking up to me. "I just got back from John's house." The look on his face completely changed. "He had a bunch of animals killed last night. It looked like a slaughterhouse. He told me to tell you the dark was back?" I told him noticing his reaction.
Jack stiffened up and not saying a word gestured for me to follow him towards the back security door. We headed towards the back and out the door. Jack had stopped to make sure the door was secure then pointed at his truck and said "get in."
After getting in he looked over "I need some coffee" then started the truck up and headed west out of the parking lot towards the coffee shop. He ordered a large black coffee with extra sugar then asked if I wanted one. "I'll take a small black, no sugar." We pulled out and headed east back past the station. We ended up driving towards the edge of the county. "What's going on and why are we heading way the hell out here?" I looked at jack and said.
Jack just took a long sip of his coffee then placed it back in the holder.
After a long breath "You want some answers about what happened at Johns' house... I’m sure he told you about a few other things about this town... well we're gonna go get you some answers" He said looking at a black sedan passing in the opposite direction. "Aight so, like you mason, I’m not from here either. I was a trooper in New York for a few years before I came down here. I resigned after a call to an old couple’s house" He said reaching for his cup. "My partner Jake and I responded to what was thought to be an animal attack. We were the first on the scene, having been a couple miles away lookin' for speeders.
When we rolled up an older woman came running over to the cruiser. She had a panicked look on her face and just kept repeating "they're dead, they're dead!!" We hopped out and sat her in the back of the car then asked what happened. "I...I... came over to talk to gloria and... and I saw the door open. I walked in yelling her and Alan’s name, but they didn't answer... I found them upstairs... it's horrible!!" She said sobbing. Jake and I drew our weapons and started making the move inside. Like the witness said the front door was open, so we moved in. It smelled like sulfur and blood when we entered. We started clearing rooms. The first floor was clear, so we made our way up the steps.
The smell was overpowering now. We cleared the bathroom, and the two smaller rooms were clear also. The door to the master bedroom was slightly opened. I motioned to Jake and we hit the door.... it looked like some movie shit!! I kid you not. Jake turned and went back into the hallway and threw up. I stepped into the room and... listen I had never seen anything like this before" Jack stammered out.
"These two people were in shreds on the bed, they're insides had been yanked out and thrown around the fucking room. After looking at the bodies I noticed these huge claw marks in the wall, I’m talking if Andre the giant had had a Krueger glove. I stepped back out of the room and radioed to dispatch that we needed more units. I walked back to the front door where Jake was standing hunched over looking out of it.
Parked outside were 3 black SUVs and a black sedan. I counted 11 men dressed in black tactical military gear, some with a type of rifle I had never seen before, but you could tell it was large caliber. The rest with SMG weapons. When i looked over towards the patrol car, one of the men had the door opened and was talking to the witness. He saw us and started our way. He was dressed in all black too and carried what looked like a desert eagle in a chest holster.
When he got closer I got a better look at him. He looked to be in his late 40's with salt and pepper colored hair and a big ass scar that ran down the right side of his face. He got about ten feet from the steps "We appreciate the assistance, but you are no longer needed" He said in deep voice. As he is saying this, one of the other guys escorts the witness out of our car and into the back of that sedan.
The guy started walking away from us "Who are you? and what the fuck is going on?" I yelled at him. He turned with a look on his face that you only see in movies then took a few steps towards us. "Your command has been informed and you are to leave now!" He said raising his hand up towards that holstered pistol. Jake looked at me and shook his head "fuck it, let's go, let them deal with that mess upstairs" he said still coughing then started heading towards the car. I followed him down the steps... looking this guy up and down, checking out the vehicles... for anything that might tell me who we were dealing with.
The only thing I saw was on the assholes uniform... there was a patch on his shoulder. It was an all-black diamond with a weird looking black M in the middle on it. The guy stared us down until we were in the car driving away. He had that pistol in his hand and the other men starting moving into the house. Jake and I didn’t say a word until the radio squawked and we were told to head back to the barracks.
When we got there, we were told to report to the troop commander’s office. Commander Thompson was sitting in his office along with a man in a nice 2-piece suit. The man in the suit stood there quietly while Thompson told us that we never responded to any call out to that farmhouse, and that this was the first and only time he would say it. With that, he dismissed us and and we walked out. The shit didn’t sit well with me, and I ended up resigning a few months later.
I came down here and then that shit in the woods happened. I was on the scene, I saw the claw marks. They looked just like the ones in New York, and the same damn trucks showed up with different personnel. I knew just to shut up and walk away, and after making that choice I have had a pretty good career here." he finished grabbing his cup out of the holder.
My brain was in overdrive. I was just about to completely question bomb jack when he said, "We're here." He pulled off onto this overgrown driveway and drove for about a quarter mile. We pulled up to an old two-story house that looked like it was in ruins... but the lights were on. "Where the hell are we?" I asked As the last word of that question left my mouth, the front door of the house opened... standing in the doorway was a old man, dressed in weathered black clothing. Jack leaned over to me "You wanted answers... well.... there they are."

Intro

It’s not much of a stretch to say that violence is the primary form of interaction in video games. With a handful of exceptions, most video games involve guys whacking other guys, with varying degrees of brutality. Even chill games fall into this - Stardew Valley has sections with combat in them! Considering the pervasiveness of violence in video games, there has been a ton of amateur and academic commentary on the topic. However, while this is a well-established school of thought, I haven’t seen people try to apply this to Fire Emblem specifically.
So, let’s do that now! In this post, I’ll be exploring how violence in Fire Emblem is implemented - what limitations are placed on violence, how it warps wider game and narrative design, and what it implicitly says and does not say. I hope this post doesn’t come off as too early-2010s “makes you think”-y, but I do think there are multiple interesting things worth talking about here!
Despite the length of this post, "a brief discussion" is an appropriate title, as we won't be able to go into depth on everything. After all, video games are holistic works, so the attitude towards violence is relevant to every aspect of their design. However, I have managed to wrangle some of these threads into the following structure: first a discussion on the fundamental mode of interaction in Fire Emblem, then how stories are constructed with regards to violence, and ending with the aesthetics of violence and how they relate to characters. Also, as FE is a huge series, be aware that I am gonna be making some broad statements which may not apply to each individual plot point of every game. I actually planned to write 3 case studies around Thracia 776, Fates, and Three Houses (which have the most interesting attitudes to violence in the series IMO) which point out these deviations, but this post is way too long and full of tangents already. If people are interested, I’ll make a followup to this post which goes into them in more detail. Also also, because of the nature of this post, I’ll actually give a useful TL;DR for once:
TL;DR: Nintendo games must be fun mechanically, and they can’t be too uncomfortable narratively. If you try to provide a counterpoint by saying “oh this Kirby final boss is super dark it eats 100 morbillion galaxies”, you do not deserve rights. IntSys has to keep to this as a 2nd party publisher, but they also have to deal with the fact that their games are at least nominally about ‘war’ (or at least they put their toes into that particular thematic pool). This conflict between making a fun video game for children/teens and the wider framing of the narrative leads to interesting narrative and aesthetic tensions. also fun is cringe, misery is based

“Do you like hurting other people?” (or The Fundamental Mode of Interaction)

OK LISTEN I KNOW I LITERALLY JUST SAID THAT I DIDN’T WANT TO COME ACROSS AS A EARLY 2010s “VIOLENCE IN VIDYA BAD :O????” PERSON BUT I SWEAR I’M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS
The best place to start when talking about violence in video games is to think about the primary form of interaction in said game. In the case of Fire Emblem, this is in the in-chapter gameplay. Sure, in objective terms the player moves arbitrary objects across a 2D grid which perform subtraction on arbitrary objects controlled by the computer, but this is always framed as controlling a squad of soldiers to engage in (typically lethal) combat with enemies (who are normally also soldiers). When you’re not doing this in-chapter gameplay, you are preparing for the next chapter of combat. This involves surveying the area of combat, preparing weapon loadouts, etc, however more recent entries also include light life-sim-esque elements. To summarize, Fire Emblem’s interactivity involves ordering violence as well as the preparations to order said violence.
For players, this strategic thinking is extremely fun and is the primary draw of the series! You have all these tier lists of who’s better at killing, discussion of the maps where you do the killing, complaints about the length of gameplay sections where you don’t do killing, etc. This is by design, as while I don’t know the core brand tenets of Nintendo, I imagine the Reggie quote “If it isn’t fun, why bother?” is carved into a solid gold statue of Mario in the office lobby. This then is enforced on all associated studios, including IntSys and so Fire Emblem. While I would disagree with that Reggie quote (especially the bit where he says “If it’s not a battle, where’s the fun?” which is a wild statement to make about an entire medium), this approach to making games is ultimately fine, and so IntSys tailored the strategic gameplay to be satisfying to your dopamine receptors. You could analyse what the normalisation of violence even in ‘just for fun’ games says about wider gaming culture, but I won’t get into that here. In any case, let’s dig into a few specifics of FE’s interactivity.
One thing that’s interesting with regard to strategy games is the detached perspective of the player. You order units and observe the resulting violence, but it’s not tactile, you don’t directly swing the sword or shoot the bow or cast the spell like with action games. This adds a layer of separation between the player and what fundamentally happens, at least within the framing that the game provides. It’s not like Call of Duty, where your relationship to the violence is very visceral, where you view everything down the barrel of a gun. OK, I probably shouldn’t use a series that I have very little personal experience with (I only listen to the supplementary lore material, so let’s talk about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. While you’re not directly in the driver’s seat, John Sekiro reacts to your every input with extreme responsiveness, so overcoming the game’s challenges i.e. stabbing people is incredibly visceral and satisfying. While this violence is fantastical in nature, there is sufficient blood and explicit sword-action to clearly say “oh yeah you are violently killing all of those bozos with a katana”. Coming back to FE, not only are you far more detached from the violence, it is presented in an extremely cartoony manner… but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, we’ll get to the aesthetics later. Point is, Fire Emblem gives the viewpoint of a stoic commander, who Does What Needs To Be Done™, and not the viewpoint of an actual soldier who has to do the actual killing.
Now let’s view the player’s perspective on violence from a different angle. Fire Emblem intends for its combat to be relatively relaxed on the player side of things - the turn-based nature allows the player to calmly think through all of their moves, and you typically have perfect information on the enemies. The only exceptions to this are Fog of WaSame Turn Reinforcements, which are rare and typically unpopular amongst the fanbase. This leans into ‘combat as sport’, where (going back to the Reggie quote) you have a fun time picking apart a puzzle with the tools you have, and we all collectively enjoy this! This is a valid way of designing strategy games, and I like what IntSys has done. However, it’s not the only way of making these games - for example, in Total War you have to juggle all your battalions in real time whilst the enemy is bearing down on you, and the XCOM games always have Fog of War and limited information on the enemies, with you never knowing what kind of awful new monster is going to suddenly charge at you. Don’t get me wrong, neither of these follow ‘combat as war’, the principle that violence should properly mimic the stress, tension and unfairness of actual conflict. Hell, neither of them are particularly mature either - Total War is the strategy game equivalent of smashing action figures together, and XCOM emulates a pulp sci-fi alien invasion story. However, the additional pressures these games have make them hew slightly closer to actual conflict, putting you more in that mindset in a way that the clean fun Fire Emblem doesn’t really do. Again, I want to say FE’s approach to violence in in-map gameplay is fine, but when all three of these franchises have an explicit narrative framing of ‘warfare’, it does make Fire Emblem’s narrative a little more… stretched.
Finally, I want to briefly mention the maps. To steal from a brilliant Jacob Geller video, these are Worlds Designed For Violence. At least outside of the Kaga games, the maps you fight on are primarily designed around how the player interacts with them, i.e. fights on them. While I imagine the narrative designers and artists at IntSys are involved throughout the map design process, the gameplay flow probably takes precedence most of the time. Maps are not designed to resemble realistic places that you have to fight through, they are instead designed primarily to provide fun gameplay experiences before being dressed up by the artists to look realistic/fit the specific story beat. This is a more consistently entertaining approach to map design - heaven knows we have a lot of Kaga castle assault maps which are as fun as actually assaulting an entrenched position IRL - but this lack of friction could potentially take the bite out of the intended vibe, neuter any commentary on violence throughout the story.
You may have noticed that we’ve only talked about the “in-map” gameplay for now, when there’s an entire second half of these games, i.e. all the gameplay between the maps. Don’t worry, we’ll get to all of that, but this may fit better in:

Something something “ludonarrative” something something (or Narrative Implications)

(To clarify, here I’m going to talk about the wider plots and narrative structure as opposed to characterisation, as that fits more into the aesthetics of the series)
It’s not bold to say that the narratives of games have to warp around the core gameplay structure. Especially in AAA video game production, the narrative designers usually have to take a back seat to the systems and level designers, at least outside of the initial rough outline they provide in the original game pitch. In this case, the job of the writer is to form vaguely coherent connective tissue between individual levels, setpieces and expensive pre-rendered cutscenes. This must be a very difficult job, and is probably the reason why most video game stories are the way they are. I am not privy to IntSys internal meetings, but I imagine they abide by this paradigm, trying to give a reason for why you fight 20 battles which roughly align with plot beats that were decided years ago.
Put another way, the writers of Fire Emblem must contrive a reason why the characters fight a vast number of violent battles in a strategic manner. This has a pretty easy solution - war! We have found something it’s good for, as whenever the gameplay designers decide that an extra map is required, the writers can just insert “oh no there’s a blockade of enemy soldiers in the way, guess you gotta kill them all”. This is the case for almost all the games and is a fair enough narrative choice, as it’s frankly one of the few scenarios where you could reasonably contrive so many battles, but it’s worth examining this in a bit more detail.
Even in the framing of warfare, there are still a lot of skirmishes, which sometimes the narrative or tone fails to support - or at least, their presence means that violence isn’t taken that seriously. Let’s take an example from early in Awakening: Emmeryn sends the Shepherds to negotiate an alliance with Regna Ferox. On the way, they are ambushed by Risen on the Northroad (1), have to fight the border guards who think Chrom is a bandit I think??? (2), and then after arriving they need to take part in Regna Ferox’s ritual combat to secure their alliance (3). These beats aren’t necessarily bad, and I actually think Awakening uses these opportunities quite well: the Risen are established as a constant threat to the world (except not really in the main story but that’s a whole other thing), “Marth'' gets more development, we set up Regna Ferox as fighty people who like to fight, and while the middle encounter is very tenuous it does set up a funny joke in Cynthia’s paralogue. However, I want to communicate that if the map/encounter designers need X maps between plot points A and B - in this case, needing low-stakes trials in the tutorial period - then there’s gonna be a fair bit of narrative filler. That is to say, there must be multiple combat encounters that kinda just happen, which makes violence a lot more casual in the narrative. See also the myriad examples of “oh shit random bandits attack!”, used to have a lower stakes map, with bandits appearing and vanishing as needed. This works fine enough in the context of ‘combat as sport’, allowing your favourite scrunglo to build up a triple-digit body count, but this casual attitude circumvents potentially interesting ideas with regards violence. Taking the example further, banditry and its causes are never seriously explored, as bandits are just treated as a filler enemy (except in Based As Hell Thracia 776).
Another narrative consequence of needing so many fights is that… you need to fight. That is to say, any anti-war sentiment or appeal to diplomacy in the series is fundamentally undercut by a) strategic combat being a core appeal of the series and b) narrative beats needing to be structured around fighting enemies. It’s a struggle to have moments of diplomacy and reconciliation when you had a fight within 3 minutes of said moment, lest some people start screaming that things are getting boring. This also makes any appeals to pacifism kinda moot. Xander’s quote about “war bad” in Conquest is utter bullshit, as a huge part of the marketing around that route focuses on the coolness of the tactical combat and its challenge. Eirika and Ephraim can never be equal, because Ephraim’s “fighting is fucken awesome” is encouraged by the gameplay, and Eirika can NEVER save 11037 because we need a final boss and no-one else fits the bill.
Speaking of, in video games it’s best practice to have a big bad guy you fight at the end of the story, the toughest mechanical challenge coinciding with the narrative climax. In Fire Emblem, you have one grand final battle which decides the fate of the war and/or world, before cutting to a brief wrap-up and then credits. This is an attempt to make these games satisfying, which is fine, but this is at odds with an anti-war message (which FE often gestures towards) - that is, actual wars tend to be deeply unsatisfying in a narrative sense! Oftentimes, after a decisive battle, things just kinda keep going for a little while afterwards with casualties continuing to pile up until peace terms are agreed. In the few cases where there is a final battle, it’s more of a formality as the decisive moment occurred months ago. See World War 1 and… World War 2 for examples of each, not to mention a whole host of war-related books and films. The problem with doing this in a video game is that it would require having multiple one-sided fights past the most climatic fight, which would be unfun, and we return to that fucking Reggie quote again. While video games can effectively explore this anti-war narrative space - This War of Mine is a fantastic example - it just doesn’t gel with the fun games that IntSys wants to make. I bring this up in the context of FE because Fire Emblem has such an aesthetic focus on warfare compared to other video games, so it sticks out even further. Even in FE6/FE9 where the war is effectively over in the final few maps, the enemies still remain extremely challenging, because if they didn’t things would be boring.
A few minor things that didn’t fit in above before we wrap up this section. First of all, in making an action packed story, Fire Emblem neglects an important aspect of army life in warfare - the “hurrying up and waiting”. In the majority of cases, the breaks between fights is under 10 minutes, it’s just glossed over. Fire Emblem Three Houses is the exception to this, but there it’s more framed as school life. Some people may say “what’s the point in having large amounts of timewasting where nothing happens in my game about war” and to that I would say fuck you, I want to play Jarhead Emblem. Next, Fire Emblem involves fighting people AND monsters, but these targets are typically given equal narrative weight, outside of maybe a funny line of dialogue about someone being afraid of monsters. In 99% of cases, enemy soldiers you fight have no more humanity than literal monsters. The death of any of your beloved soldiers is a tragedy with big sad death quotes, the death of those poor fuckers is quite literally a statistic which is proudly used to rank how well your guys have done at the end of the game. Finally, the limited scope of the violence the series can show limits the potential impact of scenes. In some cases, this is good as the implication is enough, e.g. the ‘Monica’ scene in Sacred Stones is wonderfully grim and would be weakened by anything explicit. However, a number of other scenes are neutered by the limitations on violence. This fundamentally relates to the aesthetics of the series:

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I’ve been talking a lot about ‘the violence committed’, and this might have seemed a bit weird to you. It’s a true statement, but because the violence is mostly cartoony and abstracted - bad guys disappear into nothingness, there’s no blood, etc - it’s hard to think of it in that way. It’s basically impossible to place Fire Emblem in the same artistic sphere as, say, All Quiet on the Western Front. This aesthetic sense was partially tech-limited in the early NES and SNES games, which was grandfathered into the more graphically complex titles, but it’s also related to how the aesthetics unavoidably warp the tone of the work. IntSys needs their games to be relatively lighthearted and unconcerned with the consequences of its violence, as one of the core appeals of these games is the charming cast of characters. As you would expect, it would be a lot harder to appreciate your goofy blorbos and their lighthearted chats about nothing if you could see the brutal consequences of their triple digit body counts. If violence was more realistic, there would be a lot less “ooh I like training and/or this one hyperspecific food” or “I like peace, but I guess violence may be possibly needed sometimes” and there would have to be a lot more trauma and dourness. There are also age rating concerns, as you can’t exactly sell Come And See Emblem to pre-teens. And once more, to clarify: Fire Emblem as it exists now is fine! I like the lighthearted tone of this series, and I like the characters that reside within it. However, a few problems do arise from IntSys’s approach to violence, as occasionally they brush up against darker ideas but (due to similar reasons to the above) they can never commit to them, which neuters their potential impact. This is especially troublesome with regards to characterisation, as the little dudes are a core appeal, so if something is off that could cause problems. In a sense, at points we have severe aesthetic tension.
A fairly useful case study to see how this affects characterisation is with Mozu in Fire Emblem Fates. Mozu is a charming character, a genial country bumpkin with a bit of an edge at times, who has fond memories of her hometown. This lines up with the lighthearted tone of her recruitment paralogue, where (checks notes) her entire village gets massacred by inhuman monsters, with her mother literally being murdered right in front of her, and she joins up with Corrin’s party because there is literally nothing left of her old life. I understand that people who experience extreme trauma do still manage to live meaningful lives, and that IntSys wouldn’t want to have a character who is a barely functional traumatised mess for 90% of the campaign. However, this doesn’t explain the sheer dissonance between the relatively normal and well-adjusted Mozu who quietly remembers her lost loved ones, and the fact that her village got My Lai’d a handful of weeks ago in the game’s timeline. IMO this would work a lot better if there were a few survivors (instead of literally everyone else dying), with Mozu actively choosing to leave her old life to help others instead of being forced to leave by circumstance. This reduction in scope would mitigate the dissonance between the character and what actually happens to her. This is by far the most extreme example in the series, however I’m sure you can think of others. My issue here is not with having ‘normal’ characters, or with them suffering tragedies, my issue is the dissonance between the two when viewing the scope of said tragedies. This is just one way the series wants to get into darker territory, then swiftly backing off instead of delving into the consequences.
This aesthetic restriction also affects the potential impact of dramatic scenes in the main story, limiting what the focus of these scenes can actually be. This little bit will involve heavy spoilers for Genealogy of the Holy War and Spec Ops: The Line (I KNOW THESE GAMES ARE VERY DIFFERENT WITH VERY DIFFERENT INTENDED DEMOGRAPHICS IN VERY DIFFERENT CULTURAL CONTEXTS, SHUT UP). Both have a very important narrative moment around their midpoints, involving fire magic/white phosphorus respectively. In each game, the deaths that occur are utterly horrific when you think about them. In FE4 the focus is on the drama of the plot twist and effects on the characters, with the actual effects of the violence being left to implication. We don’t know if this was the original intent of Kaga and the team, or if this was enforced by various tech- and publisher-related restrictions, but in either case we do not see anything explicit. In any case, in Spec Ops: The Line, the horror and graphic nature of the violence is completely inescapable, and therefore forms the core of the turning point of the story. The specifics of the violence itself are crucial - the game does not work if you don’t see the consequences of the white phosphorus - and it leads beautifully to the complete descent of its endgame. You may be saying “of course you couldn’t show that violence in FE, it’s a kids game” which is true, and in any case the scene in Genealogy is very good, even without showing the violence. I imagine if we get a remake in the year 202X we wouldn’t see anything explicit anyway, partially due to the publisher but also because the scene doesn’t necessarily need it. The point I am trying to make is that the aesthetics form a limitation on what Fire Emblem can explore, narrative space that the series fundamentally cannot reach.
One more thing, and this isn’t really about the games themselves but the impressions leading into them, and how the aesthetics can affect that. Do you guys remember when the intro cutscene of Three Houses was released a few weeks before release? I do, and I also remember the collective shock of the community when seeing the early previews. It was so drastically different to everything that had come before, and consequently was really intriguing - you can see a lot of speculation in the above comments. To clarify, I don’t want to pretend that 3H is some kind of super mature ultra gritty war story, or that blood = good game, but that beginning cutscene gave one hell of a first impression. Even though the game isn’t that much darker than any other FE game, the sheer unexpectedness put people off-kilter in a kinda awesome way. Does the game actually deliver? YMMV, but I think this (and some of the later cutscenes, such as the mid-game Dimitri one) work quite well. Sometimes, a little injection of harsher violence can go a long way.

Conclusion

Frankly I don’t really have a conclusion, sorry. As you can see, there are so many disparate strands, I can’t possibly make one grand thesis statement. Maybe the inherent contradictions of having warfare in a family friendly video game weakens the potential end result? I guess, but I don’t want to imply that what we have now is bad, as it is pretty good tbh. So, uhh…
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OK, if I had to say something, it’s more about the process of making this. Having to try and think about how violence intersects with a video game you like takes you in a number of different directions. Ultimately, this process was really fulfilling for me, and I would recommend that you do the same (for FE or anything else)! Trying to analyse something you enjoy from a perspective not usually applied is pretty neat. If you guys have any thoughts (on the points above or your own), I’d be very interested to hear them!
Also, if people are interested, I’ll try to make a few case studies. I would focus on Thracia 776, Fates, and Three Houses, as (when thinking on this topic) I found that these games were consistently the most intriguing, with the most interesting relationships to violence. This would probably take a while though, as I am gonna be very busy in June, and I probably won’t have time this month either.

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The Purpose of Life for Man

One of the most direct verses on the subject of "the meaning (or purpose) of (human) life" in the Bible can be found in Revelation:

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."-Revelation 4:11

This, of course, should prompt us to ask what exactly does God take pleasure in?
Conversely, what doesn't He take pleasure in?

"Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"-Micah 6:6-8

God does not take pleasure in mere outward religiosity and ritual, but rather finds honest acts of love towards Him and others as more important when pertaining to our fulfillment of what God expects from us as His creation. God takes great pleasure in us doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with Him. This is what He requires of us. In other words...

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."-Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

The Book of Ecclesiastes is an existential treatise on the futility of finding any meaning or fulfillment in life apart from God. In it, "the Preacher" (or "Teacher" in some translations) explores the limits of human experiences which may provide meaning or fulfillment in this life before the author of the book inevitably concludes that the only thing we can do that has any kind of meaning or permanence in the end is fearing God and keeping His commandments. The reason for this is because the march of time and our own mortality effectively make most human endeavors hevel. The Hebrew word "hevel" is translated as vanity in the King James.
The following is taken from BibleProject:

In Hebrew, hevel literally refers to “vapor” or “smoke.” The teacher uses this word 38 times throughout the book of Ecclesiastes as a metaphor to describe how life is temporary and fleeting, like a wisp of smoke, but also how life is an enigma or paradox. Smoke appears solid, but when you try to grab it, it’s like nothing is there.

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The author’s basic goal is to target all of the ways we try to build meaning and purpose in life apart from God and then let the teacher deconstruct them. The author thinks that people spend most of their time investing energy and emotion in things that ultimately have no lasting meaning or significance. And so he allows the teacher to give us a reality check.

The Preacher gives us a "reality check" by demonstrating how time and death effectively make things like scientific and artistic discovery (1:10-11), mirth (2:1), alcohol (2:3), architecture (2:4), amassing property (2:7-8), and luxury (2:8) all hevel. Materialism and hedonism fail to fulfill, and though wisdom and righteousness are acknowledged by the preacher to be advantageous, the righteous and wise are still often victims of injustice and unfairness in the world while the wicked get to prosper and have longevity at times (1:13-18). Generally, your life will probably be better by living in the wisdom given in Proverbs (Ecc. 7:11-12; 9:13-18), but it's no guarantee that you will have a good life as bad things still happen to good people, and good things still happen to bad people. This isn't entirely "hevel" but it's confusing and disorienting because things don't always work out the way we think they should in this life.
Again, from BibleProject:

So what’s the way forward in the midst of all this hevel? Paradoxically, the teacher discovers that the key to truly enjoying life is accepting hevel, acknowledging that everything in your life is totally out of your control. About six different times, at the bleakest moments in his dialogue, the teacher suddenly talks about “the gift of God,” which is the enjoyment of the simple, good things in life such as friendship, family, a good meal, or a sunny day.
You and I can’t control the most important things in our lives. Nothing is guaranteed, and, strangely, that’s the beauty of it. When I adopt a posture of complete trust in God, it frees me to simply enjoy life as I actually experience it and not as I think it ought to be. In the end, even my expectations about life, my hopes and dreams, are all “hevel, hevel. Everything under the sun is hevel.”
The teacher’s words come to an end, and the author takes over, bringing the book to a close. He says that it is very important to hear what the teacher has to say. He likens the teacher’s words to a shepherd’s staff with a goad, a pointy end that will hurt when it pokes you. But that pain can ultimately steer you in the right direction towards greater wisdom.
The author warns us not to take the teacher’s words too far. You can spend your entire life buried in books trying to answer the existential puzzles of human life. Don’t exhaust yourself, he says. You’ll never get there. Instead, the author offers his own conclusion that we should “fear God and keep his commands; this is the whole duty of humans. For God will bring every deed into judgment, every hidden thing, whether good or evil” (Ec. 12:13-14).

Fearing the Lord doesn’t guarantee success in this life, but it is the right thing to do, and ultimately God will clear the "hevel" and bring His justice on all we have done. Therefore, we ought to keep God's commandments.
Through Jesus, we see the Bible clearing the confusion many have, and still have, about God's commandments and what exactly they are (in essence, at least):

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."-Matthew 22:37-40

The apostle Paul puts it like this:

"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."-Galatians 5:14

The apostle John, like this:

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."-1 John 4:16

In other words, the first and second greatest commandments can be seen as inextricably intertwined, as one cannot truly love God without loving their fellow man, and vice versa.
So, to put it bluntly, the meaning, or purpose, of (human) life according to the Bible is simply love.

"What Does It Mean to Love Biblically?"

But, what exactly is love anyway? We know that, according to the apostle John, God is love. But, what does that mean exactly?
The ancient Greeks had anywhere between four and eight different words for love (depending on the source):

• Storge: affection
  
• Philia or Phileo: friendship
  
• Eros: sexual, erotic
  
• Agape: unconditional, divine, selfless
  
• Ludus: flirtatious, playful, casual, uncommitted
  
• Pragma: committed, long-standing
  
• Philautia: self-love
  
• Mania: obsessive, possessive, addictive, dependent
  

The word translated as "charity" in the KJV's rendering of 1st Corinthians 13 is agape. A more accurate translation of the word would be "love," more specifically, the love of God. In this passage, Paul talks about the importance of having this kind of love for others compared to all the things we might typically obsess over concerning the things of God. Even things like charity to the poor itself, if not motivated by agape, does not impress God! Our motivations and heart matter to God just as much, if not more, than our actions themselves.
This is what the Bible defines as true love, or at least, is the kind of love it's most concerned about.
In order to demonstrate to another that we love them, we sacrifice something. For God, He sent His only begotten Son to die for our sins (John 3:16). For Jesus, he sacrificed himself to save us from our sins:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."-John 15:13

In essence, true love is self-sacrifice. Putting others before ourselves is the greatest kind of sacrifice.
God didn't have to send His Son, but He did. Jesus didn't have to accept the mission, but he did.
God loves you, and Jesus loves you.
We demonstrate to others that we love them by sacrificing our wants and desires for them. These sacrifices can range from really small, to really big. Loving others is a daily practice of making greater and greater sacrifices.

“You can will to love people. Love is not a feeling. Love is a willing, and the Lord says to love people. He did not mean [to merely] feel love for them” — A.W. Tozer

A stumbling block for many in their walk with God is the inability to love one's enemies and to love unlovable people as Jesus did. It’s difficult for us to show love to people we don’t feel love for; to people we despise or dislike. We also tend to struggle with extending grace and mercy to those who’ve hurt us. I myself often wonder whether I am even capable of loving everyone the way Jesus does.
As I grow in my faith, I realize it’s not that I’m incapable of loving like Jesus; I’m just not always willing to. My unwillingness to love indicates that I am unwittingly adopting the worldly view of love, which is based on feelings and merit. I am choosing not to love people I feel are underserving of my love. The more I study Scripture, though, the more I realize Biblical love is not a feeling or an emotion; it’s a decision. It is an action, and it’s sacrificial. It’s not something you feel; it is, again, something you practice.

“Biblical love is a choice to do good for another person regardless of what we feel. It is a decision to compassionately and righteously pursue the betterment of another person. This is why you can even love your enemies according to Christ’s command.” — Tony Evans

Jesus commands us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength (Mark 12:30). He also said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34). Since the Lord commands us to love, that means it is within our power to do so; therefore, love is a decision we make. Although feelings will accompany love, it’s not an emotion; it’s the decision to love regardless of how we feel.
As believers, we’re taught to love our enemies, and do good to those who hate us, and if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, "turn to him the other also" (Matt. 5:39). It’s not easy to do; hating our enemies comes naturally to us because of our evil nature. It is impossible to love our enemies on our own strength; we need the help of the Spirit of God.
The decision to love your enemies arises from the decision to obey the will of God and the desire to be Christlike. We choose to love our enemies because God said so and loved us first. Jesus said we are to love as he loved us.

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”-Romans 5:8

So Biblical love is sacrificial love. It is not a feeling but an act of will; the desire to put the welfare of others above your own. This type of love is not a love based on affection or emotion. Instead, it’s agape love, a love that is not concerned with self but is concerned more with the good of others.
We are not going to like everyone, nor are we called to; we are called to love everyone regardless of how we feel about them. It’s possible to love someone without feeling love for them when we decide to love everyone the way God loves us. The more we love through our actions, the decision to love will become a choice the heart is more willing to make.
Again, this doesn’t mean you will like or feel love for everyone, but when you put your trust in the Lord and pursue wisdom and holiness through prayer and Scripture, you will naturally develop a love for others.
To put it succinctly: Biblical love seeks the best interests of others, even our enemies, often to the detriment of ourselves. "Best interests" here doesn't necessarily mean what the other person thinks are their own best interests. It just means we do for them what we know or believe is best for them, and what we know or believe is best for them should be informed by an active participation with the Spirit of God and by His Word (the Bible) itself. Feelings may or may not accompany this, but how we feel towards the other is not what determines whether or not we're exhibiting the love of God, in the view of Jesus and the apostles. In their view, it's about whether or not we can still decide to seek the best interests of those who might harm us, or who we might not even like.

What the Real Heavenly Treasure Is

Now, this all brings us to an important question that needs to be answered: Is it wrong to love God and others while making a reward the objective for doing so?
We must ask this question, because all throughout Scripture we are told that the faithful followers of God will be "rewarded" some day for everything they've done to merit this. Giving an exhaustive list of passages that proves this point would be endless, but here are some examples of just a few:

"Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."-Luke 14:12-14
"I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."-Acts 20:35
"But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil."-Luke 6:35

The answer to this question depends on what we define as "rewards." Most will typically adopt some vague idea of material possesions that await the believer when they get to heaven as one's reward for faithfulness towards God, or that the reward is simply an escape from punishment for one's own sins, or perhaps even some combination of these things both.
However, none of these are the "rewards" the Lord is promising to those who obey the first and second commandments. If they were, our motivation to love God and others would ultimately be selfish. Think about it. Our motivation for rewards would inherently be me-centered, and not other-centered.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ gives the following command:

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."-Matthew 6:19-21

We know there are heavenly treasures, because Jesus says so, but what are they? The issue of heavenly treasures or eternal rewards is riddled with question marks. It’s a subject that has been abused by some (“Store up treasure by giving to my ministry”) and left in the too-hard basket by others.
But the answer here is simple, and two-fold. One of our rewards are God Himself:

"After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."-Genesis 15:1
"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."-Hevrews 11:6

What is the reward of the seeker but to find that which is sought? If you are searching for God, you will find Him and He will be your very great reward.
Now, if you are the newest believer or the eleventh-hour worker, you will be as richly blessed as the oldest, most faithful saint. Eternity will not be divided into the haves and have-nots, for we are all one in the New Jerusalem.
But we can distinguish God our reward from the heavenly treasure that Jesus said can be stored up. You cannot "store up" more of God, after all.
So what are heavenly treasures? The answer may surprise you, but it’s people.

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."-Psalm 127:3

What is the only thing you can take with you? People, a.k.a. eternal friends, a.k.a. spiritual offspring. This Psalm is not just talking about biological children. God has bigger plans for you and they involve spiritual children. Lots of them. Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands. Millions. Don’t limit God.
So much time and effort is spent debating heavenly treasures as though they were some great mystery. What are they? Jesus makes it plain: it's people.

• Just as Abraham was called to be the father of many nations, so are you.
  
• Jesus said those who followed him would be fishers of men. What is a fisherman’s reward? It’s fish, or people in this case.
  
• What is the reward of the one who sows and waters the good seed? It’s a harvest of people.
  
• What is treasure that never wears out and cannot be stolen? It’s people.
  

God's heart cries, “I treasure children. The more, the better!” In Matthew chapter 5, Jesus introduces God as our heavenly Father. In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus says God is a Father who rewards us. And what is a father’s reward?
It is children.
“Sounds great, but I am no evangelist.” You don’t need to be an evangelist to win eternal friends. Believers can live such godly lives that unbelievers will be won to the kingdom (1 Pet. 2:12; Matt. 5:16).
God's desire is to grow the world’s largest family and He treats people like treasure. This is obvious once you see it. Indeed, it’s a theme that runs throughout Scripture:

"For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."-Deuteronomy 7:6
"For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth."-Deuteronomy 14:2
"And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;"-Deuteronomy 26:18
"To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;"-1 Peter 2:4-9

Like Jesus, Paul eagerly gave to the poor (Gal. 2:10). He did not give out of religious duty or to put a shine on his reputation. He did it because he loved people and wanted to share the love of God with as many as possible (1 Cor. 13:3).
Life is a gift that is easily wasted. We can waste it running after inferior rewards that rust, or we can do what Jesus and Paul did and invest ourselves in the only reward that lasts: people.

God Is Faithful

Someone once asked me, "Why would God be concerned as to whether or not we 'have trust and confidence in him' when He's judging us and when He determines what our fate will be?"
Having trust and confidence in God, according to the Biblical authors, is required for us to fulfill His commandment that we love Him, and thus also love others. (See Hebrews 11.)
As with a spouse, you cannot truly love them if you do not have some level of trust or confidence in them, and vice versa. All relationships require trust, from both parties. God wants us to trust Him that He will keep His promises towards those of us who love and follow Him. He also wants to trust us that we will enter the kingdom of heaven with a righteous and loving character. He doesn't want another rebellion in paradise, so He's trying to see if we truly love righteousness for righteousness' sake. A truly righteous person wouldn't want to rebel against Him when the time comes that they enter the kingdom of God themselves, because a person with a righteous character wouldn't ever do such a thing.
As Open Theists, we believe we're being consistent in our belief that God, at times, puts trials before us to test whether or not we will remain trustworthy enough in our character to be deemed worthy of entrance into His kingdom. The Classical Theist doesn't have the luxury of being consistent if they have this same belief.
In the Book of Job, Satan makes an accusation towards someone God has deemed as truly righteous: Job.
Satan assails God’s wisdom and character in running the world by alleging that people only serve Him because of what they get out of it. God protects them from disaster and blesses them in other ways. Their obedience, he is suggesting, isn’t really a free choice. "There is no genuine virtue in the world," Satan is claiming. "There are only self-serving bargains, and obedience for the sake of being protected and blessed is one of them. Hence, true holiness and virtuous obedience are an illusion." "Take away a person’s protection," Satan insists, "and let me have my way with people, and they will stop living for God" (Job 1:9-11; 2:4-5).
God has so much faith in Job that he will not succumb to proving the false accusations being levied towards him and God's way of running things in general that He ends up accepting the challenge. For God, this is as much a test of His faith towards His servant as it is for Job for his Lord. The adversary, we see, was assailing God’s integrity and wisdom in overseeing the creation. Satan was, in effect, accusing God of being a Machiavellian ruler. In the context of this narrative, it was an assault that could only be refuted by being put to the test.
Had God simply forced Satan into silence, without proving him wrong, it would have simply confirmed the accuracy of Satan’s charge. It would have shown that there is no integrity or wisdom in how God runs the world after all. "There is only the exercise of power, used to manipulate beings into obeying Him. People serve God only as a bargain, not out of genuine love."
No, the challenge had to be answered by having it put to the test. The most righteous man on the earth was thus chosen to be tested. If Job failed, the narrative suggests, then Satan will have made his point. If he succeeded, however, then God’s wisdom and integrity in running the cosmos will have been vindicated. Hence, the protective fence around Job is removed and Satan is allowed to afflict him.
In the end, Job proves faithful to God and is even referenced in the New Testament as an example of the kind of faithfulness He expected of first century believers facing persecution and trials:

"Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy."-James 5:11

While most of us aren't dealing with the life-threatening kind of persecution that believers faced in the first century, for the very fact that the eschatological end of physical Israel and the Old Covenant system was fastly approaching for them (and already has approached), we still each face our own trials that God puts in our lives as individuals to see if we truly love Him. Job is simply the ultimate example of one who loved God because they chose to, not because God forced them to.
After all, you never know if your love is pure if it isn't tested...

How I keep weight on me and do back-to-back fasting?
When I do back-to-back extended fasts I go into a fasted state into a feasting state. I rapidly gain weight back from water weight, body density, muscle strength, etc. I break the fasts in different ways. Though, I prefer to break it healthy or with fruits or vegetables. Sometimes I break it with conventional foods like snacks or a microwavable vegan meal. It also depends on the fast as well. If it was a pure dry fast the whole way through then I'm breaking mostly on fruits then later some vegetables. I find it easy to gain weight back. I tend to feast on different foods. A lot of vegetables with some favorite snack foods like chips and one carby meal. Along with more snack foods like packages of cashews and some sweet snacks with not too much sugar in them.
Then my feasting window may go longer than I would like it. Then I'll move to eating pizza and plant-based burgers, potato wedges etc. So, just a lot of carbs and snacks.
The snacks really add a lot of calories very quickly. At the moment I am probably around 184lbs. After ended those back to back fasts I was probably about 181lbs. Before the start of those fasts I estimated I weighed around 195lbs. During the breaks and refeed periods I get back to working out. Full body workouts, machines weights and leg workout and cardio at the track. Carbs plus working out adds a lot of weight rapidly. Usually, after working out I start eating and I eat all night long. I'm eating something once I finish the meal, I am then snacking for the rest of the night. Along with lots of water. That adds a lot of water weight as well. All of which comes off in the first 2 days of the next fast.
Now, doing back-to-back extended fastings ultimately is reducing my weight as my overall net fat loss continues to trend downward despite feasting on refeeds. Because it's a lot of fasting. More fasting then eating basically. According to a friend 145lbs would be my weight at very low body fat percentage at 3-4% body fat levels. So, with that figure I can estimate I'm carrying about 40lbs of fat including water weight and body density, food contents. Without the dramatic weight loss in the beginning of the fast then probably around 25lbs of pure fat at this very moment. Although, at this moment my goal is not to keep lots of weight on me. I will allow my weight to trend downward to a normal body weight of 170lbs. If I wanted to keep weight then eating and feasting a lot more on carbs would do it.
How I maintained weight by living off almost exclusively an 80-90% vegetable diet along with back-to-back dry fasting for nearly an entire year of 2018?
I lived on this diet for nearly 3 years from 2017-2020. Yes, this diet really has a lot of benefits. First, there were no messy bowel movements. There was no smell. No stinky smell. Nothing. It's a diet filled with a lot of fiber. And there's very little concentration of any macronutrients. I received a lot of some nutrients but, it was slow absorption because of the large amount of fiber in the diet. I allowed myself to eat only 10g of sugar in a snack food. I barely had any conventional sugar. Sometimes, wheat bread or some variation of breads I ate outside of eating vegetables. That was as worst as my diet was during those 3 years. No meats. No cheese, no dairy, no eggs. Just vegetabes with a small amount of fruit. These vegetable mostly consisted of steamed or boiled cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and carrots, potatoes. Leafy greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, olives, string beans and salads with no sauces. Every now and then I might eat a very expensive small personal vegan pizza made out of cauliflower, vegan cheese and vegetables.
With a diet like that you would think it would be hard to maintain weight. Initially, I lost weight. Once I reached around 170-175lbs in back to back fastings. During my eating I normally feasted a few hours a day on these foods. I counted the calories and I always reached 2000 or more calories in eating. During two back to back water fasts is where I lost most of my weight from 195lbs to 178lbs. The water fasts were 13 days then followed by a 9 day fast.
Every other fasts were hard and soft dry. I was doing on average 2 extended dry fasts a month of 5-9 days then followed by 5-9 days of eating during the whole year of 2018. I feasted as much as I could every day. I probably gained 2-3lbs or more fat back.
With that diet there was very little detoxing during the first 7 days. Most of life just felt physically normal in the first 6 days of dry fasting. My body was highly adapted to it and it was as easy as driving. I never struggled with any detox, pain symptoms, fatigue, withdrawal effects. nothing. Only going to 7 days did I began to release a lot of toxins and things started dying when hitting that wall. The second crises. I never really broke through it.
I eventually reached around 168 - 170lbs. Like I said, your weight eventually trends downward with all of the fasting even though I feasted on buffets of foods. If you're naturally underweight then you would probably want to add a lot of water weight on a healthy diet or a conventional healthy carb diet through feasting. Along with weight training adding muscle seems to traps more weight on the body as well. Most people deal with being overweight in that case stick to high water content vegetables, workouts and 1 carb meal along with an abundance of vegetables and water to refeed in back to back extended dry fasts.

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I didn't realize how lucky I was to grow up in an urban and old walkable suburban community until me and my husband sold our first home and purchased a big MCmansion in an HOA community.
I went into a depression dealing with a crazy HOA (for instance the president decided one day she wanted ALL 5200 homes in our HOA to paint our homes the colors she liked or we would all get fined!!?) CRAZY B#+ch🤬. Using Google maps and drones to fly over our yards to find violations.
I lived in one of the better suburbs compared to what I read online, but the moment you leave the gated community it's an 8 lane stroad and parking lot target and winn Dixie big a$$ parking lot. There were parks that was empty 99.9 % of the time.
I didn't understand how I could be in this "nice" home in this "good" neighborhood and feel so sad. So I move there because I was pregnant and wanted to live somewhat closer to family. My baby not even 2 was already turning into an iPad kid and antisocial because literally nothing to F#$king do and no one to see but me. You can only play with the same toys but so much. So we would go to the park NOBODY WAS EVER THERE maybe one f$&king kid if we were lucky. My husband had to battle 1 1/2 of traffic morning and night. He was gone from 6-7am until 9 pm some nights. My baby would be sleep before he got home didn't see him for days.
My husband ended up crashing my car and I was TRAPPED for months. No car I the suburbs is a basically house arrest. I was going insane!!!!
I convinced my husband that renting out our home and moving closer to downtown in a 1 bd condo in an AMAZING walkable neighborhood was better.
BEST DECISION I EVER MADE!!!!!!!
I WALK to the library for FREE toddler events daily. My baby is socializing. He's so cute and deserved a be existence. Wanna go to the park???? NO PROBLEM!!! It's basically across the street. It's huge it's basically a town square. The neighborhood buildings are old and beautiful. The only thing that could rival it is like Norway or something. I have mom friends I see on a regular of ALL ethnicities and backgrounds. Mom's from France, Chicago, Ukraine..... I want a slice of pizza walk a few minutes BOOM a pizza!!! Want a fresh fruit smoothie BOOM 5 min walk... Wanna take a trolley and just sightsee!!? It's freeeee!!!! To the beach 15 min walk... Movie theater... Shopping.... 10min-30min walk 🥰
I'm in urban heaven!!!
I had no idea how HOAs could be are monsters. So I was like maybe we can potentially change our zoning and I realized my HOA didn't even want your cousin living with you, no way they would let a cafe start up in our garage.
I packed my 2 year old, myself and my husband, rented our home to someone who needed 5 bedrooms and I'm out.
99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% wrong with the U.S. is a domino effect of car dependent single family zoning.
The isolated gas guzzling lifestyle is fueling corporate giants because small businesses can't afford rents. The isolation make you paranoid causing people to vote out of fear rather than logic. The environmental damage and fueling war due to oil consumption
CAR DEPENDENT SINGLE FAMILY ZONING should be illegal!!!!!!!

Izzy Goldstein wore #21 for the 1932 Tigers (go back to Day 7); so did Garrett Stubbs for the Phillies starting in 2022 and continuing until …….today, Elliot Maddox for the 1977 Orioles and the Mets from 1978-80, and Dick Conger for the Phillies in 1943, his final season - also the season in which he pitched in 13 games (10 starts), 54.2 Innings, going 2-7 with an ERA of 6.09.
Jason Marquis played in 15 seasons; he wore #51 as a rookie with the Braves in 2000, before switching to #38 for 2001-03, before being traded with Ray King and Adam Wainwright to the Cardinals for JD Drew and El iMarrero (the Cardinals got the better end of that deal). He wore #21 with the Cards from 2004-06, and then with the Cubs (2007-08), Rockies (2009), Nationals (2010-11), D’Backs (2011), Twins (2012) and Padres (2013 - he wore #38 for the Padres in 2012 when John Baker wore it) before wearing #31 for the Reds in his last season, 2015. Mike Milchin wore #21 for the Orioles in 1996 (and #51 for the Twins in the same year). Norm Miller wore #21 for the Astros between 1967 and 1973 (he also wore #54 in 1965 and #34 in 1965-66) and then doubled his number to #42 when he was traded to the Braves in 1973-74.
Steve Stone wore 9 different uniforms in his 11 year career, including #21 for the Orioles in 1979; he also wore #32 for the Orioles that year as well as in 1980-81 (he won the Cy Young award in 1980, the only year he made the All Star team). He started his career wearing #33 for the Giants in 1971 (he also wore #35 that year), and then #29 in 1972. He switched to #32 in 1973 for the White Sox, then #30 when he went north the Cubs (as part of the trade for Ron Santo) for 1974-76, before going back to #32 when he went back south as a free agent for 1977-78.

"Il-kummiedja ma taħdimx jekk int moħħok litterali, jgħid Cleese
John Cleese qal li l-catering għall-membri tal-udjenza ""litterali"" huwa ""dejjem problema"" bil-kummiedja.
Il-kittieb u l-attur kien qed jitkellem fit-tnedija ta’ adattament għall-palk ta’ Fawlty Towers, li wasal biex jinfetaħ f’Londra.
Cleese irrikonoxxa li xi linji ta' djalogu tneħħew minħabba l-aspettattivi tas-soċjetà li qed jinbidlu.
Iżda qal li l-kitba tal-kummiedja hija ġeneralment aktar diffiċli minħabba t-telespettaturi li ""ma jifhmux metafora, ironija, jew esaġerazzjoni komika"".
Cleese għaqqad tlieta mill-episodji l-aktar popolari ta’ Fawlty Towers f’narrattiva waħda kumplessiva għad-dramm ta’ sagħtejn.
Huma Problemi ta’ Komunikazzjoni, The Hotel Inspectors u l-episodju aktar kontroversjali The Germans.
""Kien hemm xena fejn il-maġġuri uża ftit kelmiet li ma tistax tuża issa, slurs razzjali, għalhekk ħadna dan,"" qal Cleese lill-ġurnalisti nhar il-Ħamis.
Iżda żied jgħid li l-kittieba huma wkoll “kontra” nies li jinterpretaw iċ-ċajt litteralment, xi drabi ma jippermettux it-ton jew l-istruttura ta’ xena.
'Mhux tilgħab b'deck sħiħ'
""Inti tara, dejjem hemm problema bil-kummiedja li tittratta ma 'l-moħħ litterali,"" qal Cleese.
""Infakkarkom Till Death Us Do Part,"" qal Cleese, b'referenza għall-Alf Garnett, il-karattru ewlieni tas-sitcom tas-sittinijiet li regolarment kien jagħmel kummenti offensivi ħafna.
“In-nies kienu qed jgħajtu bid-daħk bih, mhux miegħu. Imma kien hemm ukoll nies jgħidu ‘grazzi lil Alla dawn l-affarijiet qed jingħadu fl-aħħar’.
""Għalhekk kull meta tkun qed tagħmel kummiedja, tkun kontra l-moħħ litterali. U l-moħħ litterali ma jifhmux l-ironija, allura dan ifisser li jekk teħodhom bis-serjetà, teħles minn ħafna kummiedja, għax il- moħħ letterali ma jifhmux metafora, ironija, esaġerazzjoni komika.
“U r-riżultat hu, jekk tismagħhom, dawn huma nies li mhumiex, sa fejn jifhmu dak li qed jgħidu u jagħmlu l-bnedmin, mhux qed jilagħbu b’deck sħiħ.
""Nies b'moħħ letterali jista 'jkollhom biss interpretazzjoni waħda ta' dak li qed jingħad. Nies li mhumiex moħħ letterali jistgħu jaraw li hemm interpretazzjonijiet differenti skont kuntesti differenti.""
Il-kummenti tiegħu jaslu erba’ snin wara li The Germans tneħħew temporanjament minn xi servizzi ta’ streaming u reġgħu ddaħħlu bi twissija dwar “kontenut u lingwaġġ offensiv”.
Trevor Leighton Anna-Jane Casey bħala Sybil fl-adattament għall-palk ta' Fawlty TowersTrevor Leighton
Saru tentattivi biex jiġi replikat is-sett oriġinali tal-lukanda għall-palk
Il-kast tal-adattament tal-palk ta’ Fawlty Towers għamel żewġ xeni għall-ġurnalisti fit-tnedija għall-istampa tal-Ħamis.
Iż-żewġ estratti kienu kważi għal kollox fidili għall-iskripts oriġinali tagħhom tat-TV, bi ftit bidliet li saru jew ċajt ġodda miżjuda.
Mistoqsi minn BBC News jekk kienx inkwetat li wħud miċ-ċajt saru tant famużi li jistgħu jitilfu ftit mill-impatt komiku tagħhom, Cleese innota li l-ispettaklu tal-palk kien se jevolvi u jinbidel hekk kif il-kast jibda jifhem l-udjenzi tat-teatru u jimprovizza sezzjonijiet ġodda. .
""Aħna żammejna l-aqwa ħwejjeġ, l-aqwa xeni, u aktar ma [l-atturi] jilagħbuha, aktar se jivvintaw ħwejjeġ ġodda,"" qal Cleese.
""U meta n-nies jaraw l-ispettaklu meta jiftaħ, jekk jiġu tmien ġimgħat wara, ikunu sorpriżi ħafna dwar kemm hu differenti, għax in-nies jirreaġixxu u jibdew jilagħbu bih.""
Żied jgħid: ""Naħseb li se tkun tremenda, iżda se tkun tremenda f'Ġunju, ladarba [il-cast] dehret fejn huma d-daħk u eżattament kif idoqqhom.""
L-attur Brittaniku ta’ Reuters John Cleese imewweġ hekk kif jasal għal photocall li jippromwovi r-remake teatrali tal-programm televiżiv tiegħu tal-1975 “Fawlty Towers” ​​fl-Apollo Theatre f’Londra, Brittanja, 2 ta’ Mejju 2024 Reuters
Cleese qal li jittama li jikteb episodji ġodda ta’ Fawlty Towers aktar tard din is-sena
Għalkemm xi wħud mill-lingwaġġ l-aktar kontenzjuż tneħħa, il-karattri prinċipali u l-vjolenza fiżika li Cleese kultant jidderieġi lejhom jibqgħu intatti.
Fl-ispettaklu fuq il-palk, Basil (interpretat minn Adam Jackson-Fox) jidher jipprova jrażżan mistieden li jibda jilmenta dwar is-servizz quddiem xi ħadd li Basil jissuspetta li huwa spettur tal-lukanda.
Jidher ukoll jagħti daqqa ta’ ħarta lil Manuel u jolqtu f’rasu b’kuċċarina iebsa, iżda jidher ċar li sar ħafna ħsieb biex jittella’ mossi bħal dawn b’mod sigur.
B’kuntrast, il-mibki Andrew Sachs, li oriġinarjament kellu Manuel, qabel fakkar li weġġa’ fiżikament b’xi azzjonijiet ta’ Basil.
Kitba fit-Telegraph il-ġimgħa l-oħra, Cleese iddefenda l-karattru ta’ Manuel kontra suġġerimenti li wejter Spanjol inutli (li kien qed jiġi interpretat minn attur Ingliż) kien sterjotip offensiv tas-sebgħinijiet.
Cleese qal: ""Manuel kien sempliċiment karattru li miegħu jista' jkun hemm nuqqas ta' ftehim kostanti u dejjem sibt li n-nuqqas ta' ftehim huwa umoristiku ħafna.""
Id-dramm ta’ sagħtejn ttella’ qabel fl-Awstralja, iżda din hija l-ewwel darba li waslet fil-West End.
F'lukanda fittizja fil-belt mal-baħar ta 'Torquay, Fawlty Towers segwa sid ta' lukanda irritabbli li ta 'spiss kien rude mal-klijenti esiġenti.
Fid-dramm, Basil se jidher qed jipprova jkun ta’ korteżija mhux tas-soltu mal-mistednin wara li l-ispetturi jkunu qed iżuru lukandi fiż-żona.
Iżda l-pjanijiet tiegħu huma mfixkla minn parti ta 'mistednin Ġermaniżi u klijent partikolarment ta' sfida, is-Sinjura Richards.
Mistoqsi kif kien mexa biex jgħaqqad it-tliet episodji, li se jġibu flimkien it-tliet tmiem, Cleese qal: “Hu dak li jien insejjaħ mastrudaxxa.
""Aħna għażilna lis-Sinjura Richards għax kulħadd iħobb dan, huwa karattru mill-isbaħ. U għażilna [The Hotel Inspectors] u mbagħad ovvjament kellna nagħmlu l-Ġermaniżi, u mbagħad kellna nifhmu kif nimxu flimkien.
""Għaliex jibdew fi żminijiet differenti u n-nies jimxu minn storja għall-oħra. Li jfisser li huwa pjuttost ippakkjat.""
Joan Sanderson u John Cleese bħala Basil Fawlty, is-sid tal-lukanda eċċentrika fis-sitcom kummiedja 'Fawlty Towers'.
Storja li tinvolvi mistieden eżiġenti, is-Sinjura Richards, ġiet inkluża fl-ispettaklu tal-palk
Cleese jargumenta li Fawlty Towers jippresta ruħu aħjar għal ambjent teatrali mit-televiżjoni, għax l-udjenzi jistgħu jaraw kollox jiġri fuq il-palk.
""Il-farsa tindaqq aħjar fit-teatru milli imkien ieħor. Għax ladarba tkun fuq it-televiżjoni, allura jkun hemm raġel imsejjaħ editur li jagħmel għażla dwar fejn tfittex.
“Imma f’teatru trid toqgħod bilqiegħda f’nofs il-monti, mhux viċin wisq, u mbagħad tara l-affarijiet differenti kollha li jkunu għaddejjin fl-istess ħin”.
B'konformità mat-tradizzjoni farsa, Fawlty Towers regolarment involva karattri li jagħmlu xi ħaġa fl-isfond mingħajr ma jiġu osservati mill-karattri fl-ewwel pjan.
L-ispettaklu se jittella’ fl-Apollo Theatre ta’ Londra nhar is-Sibt (4 ta’ Mejju).
Cleese kiteb is-sensiela televiżiva oriġinali flimkien ma' dak iż-żmien martu Connie Booth, li wkoll ħadem fis-serje bħala Polly.
John Cleese bħala Basil Fawlty u Connie Booth bħala Polly
Cleese kiteb is-sensiela oriġinali flimkien ma' martu ta' dak iż-żmien Connie Booth, li wkoll interpretat fiha bħala ċ-chambermaid Polly.
Minkejja li kien meqjus bħala wieħed mill-akbar sitcoms ta’ kull żmien, qatt ġew prodotti biss 12-il episodju ta’ nofs siegħa ta’ Fawlty Towers. L-ewwel sensiela xxandret fl-1975, it-tieni fl-1979.
Cleese spjega nhar il-Ħamis: ""Ħassna wara 12-il wirja li konna għamilna l-aħjar li stajna nagħmlu, u li kieku għamilna serje oħra n-nies probabbilment kienu jgħidu 'sewwa kien umoristiku ħafna, iżda ma kienx tajjeb daqs il- l-ewwel żewġ serje'. F'liema każ tagħmel dan jekk m'intix iddisprat għall-flus?""
Is-sitcom kienet ibbażata b'mod famuż fuq sid ta' lukanda fil-ħajja reali, Donald Sinclair. Cleese ħareġ bl-idea għall-ispettaklu meta baqa’ fil-Lukanda Gleneagles ta’ Sinclair f’Torquay u sar affaxxinat bl-imġieba oerhört goffi tiegħu.
Is-sena l-oħra, ġie rrappurtat li Cleese kien ippjanat li jikteb u jieħu sehem f’episodji ġodda flimkien ma’ bintu Camilla.
Ix-xahar li għadda, Cleese qal li kien qed jittama li jerġa’ lura għall-proġett aktar tard din is-sena.
""Huwa aġġornament modern li fih Basil joħroġ lejn il-Karibew fejn bintu li ilha mitlufa hija lukandiera u trid ftit għajnuna. Imma xorta se jkun repressi u maqbud. Dik hi l-kundizzjoni tiegħu.""
Spettaklu tal-palk ta' Fawlty Towers se jitnieda f'West End
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c90z18q2egpo
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"克萊斯說，如果你只注重字面意思，喜劇就行不通
約翰克里斯表示，迎合「注重字面意思」的觀眾對於喜劇來說「始終是一個問題」。
這位作家兼演員在《福爾蒂塔》舞台劇改編版的發布會上發表了講話，該劇即將在倫敦上映。
克里斯承認，由於社會期望的變化，一些對話台詞已被刪除。
但他表示，喜劇寫作通常更困難，因為觀眾「不懂隱喻、諷刺或喜劇誇張」。
克里斯將《弗爾蒂塔》中最受歡迎的三集並為這部兩小時劇的一個總體敘述。
它們是《溝通問題》、《飯店檢查員》和更具爭議性的劇集《德國人》。
「有一個場景，少校使用了一些你現在不能使用的詞，種族歧視，所以我們把它刪除了，」克里斯週四告訴記者。
但他補充說，編劇們也「反對」那些從字面上解釋笑話的人，有時不允許場景的基調或設定。
“不玩完整的牌組”
「你看，喜劇總是存在一個問題，那就是你要和那些只注重字面意思的人打交道，」克里斯說。
「我讓你想起《至死不渝》，」克里斯說，他指的是 20 世紀 60 年代情境喜劇的主角阿爾夫·加內特，他經常發表極具攻擊性的言論。
“人們對他哈哈大笑，而不是和他一起笑。但也有人說‘感謝上帝，這些事情終於被說了’。”
「所以每當你拍喜劇的時候，你都會遇到那些只注重字面意義的人。而那些只注重字面意義的人不懂諷刺，所以這意味著如果你認真對待他們，你就會擺脫很多喜劇，因為注重字面意思的人不懂隱喻、諷刺、喜劇誇張。
「結果是，如果你聽他們的，這些人並不是，就理解人類所說和所做的而言，他們並沒有玩完整的套牌。
“注重字面意義的人只能對所說的內容有一種解釋。不注重字面意思的人會根據不同的上下文看到不同的解釋。”
四年前，《德國人》被暫時從一些串流媒體服務中移除，並在警告「冒犯性內容和語言」的情況下恢復。
特雷弗雷頓 (Trevor Leighton) 安娜-簡凱西 (Anna-Jane Casey) 在舞台改編的弗爾蒂塔 (Fawlty Towers) 中飾演西比爾特雷弗雷頓 (Trevor Leighton)
我們嘗試複製酒店原來的舞台佈景
在周四的新聞發布會上，舞台劇《弗爾蒂塔》的演員們為記者表演了兩個場景。
這兩段摘錄幾乎完全忠於原來的電視劇劇本，幾乎沒有進行任何修改或添加新的笑話。
當被問及是否擔心某些笑話變得如此出名以至於失去喜劇效果時，克里斯表示，隨著演員們開始了解劇院觀眾並即興創作新的部分，舞台表演將會不斷發展和變化。
「我們保留了最好的東西、最好的場景，[演員]演得越多，他們就越會發明新東西，」克里斯說。
“當人們在演出開幕時看到演出時，如果八週後他們來，他們會驚訝於它有多麼不同，因為人們做出反應並開始玩它。”
他補充說：“我認為這將是巨大的，但一旦（演員）弄清楚笑點在哪里以及如何發揮它們，那麼到六月，這將是巨大的。”
路透社 2024 年 5 月 2 日，英國倫敦阿波羅劇院，英國演員約翰·克里斯 (John Cleese) 抵達英國倫敦阿波羅劇院參加宣傳翻拍自 1975 年電視節目《Fawlty Towers》的拍照活動時揮手致意
克里斯表示，他希望在今年稍後編寫《弗爾蒂塔》的新劇集
儘管一些更具爭議性的語言已被刪除，但主要角色和克里斯有時針對他們的身體暴力仍然完好無損。
在舞台表演中，巴茲爾（亞當傑克森-福克斯飾）試圖阻止一名客人，這位客人開始在巴茲爾懷疑是飯店檢查員的情況下抱怨飯店的服務。
人們還看到他扇了曼努埃爾一巴掌，並用硬勺敲打他的頭部，但很明顯，為了安全地進行這些舉動，他花了很多心思。
相比之下，最初扮演曼努埃爾的已故安德魯薩克斯此前回憶說，他因巴茲爾的一些行為而受傷。
克里斯上週在《每日電訊報》上撰文，為曼努埃爾這個角色辯護，反對認為無用的西班牙服務員（由英國演員扮演）是 70 年代令人反感的刻板印象。
克里斯說：“曼努埃爾就是一個經常會產生誤會的角色，而我一直覺得誤會很有趣。”
這部兩小時的戲劇此前曾在澳洲上演，但這是第一次來到倫敦西區。
《福爾蒂塔》以海濱小鎮託基的一家虛構酒店為背景，講述了一位易怒的酒店老闆的故事，他經常對挑剔的客人粗魯無禮。
在劇中，巴茲爾在接到檢查員可能正在參觀該地區酒店的消息後，試圖對客人表現出異常禮貌。
但他的計劃被一群德國客人和一位特別具有挑戰性的顧客理查茲夫人打亂了。
當被問及他如何合併這三集以將所有三個結局結合在一起時，克里斯說：「這就是我所說的木工。
「我們選擇了理查茲夫人，因為每個人都喜歡她，這是一個很棒的角色。我們選擇了[酒店檢查員]，然後當然我們必須扮演德國人，然後我們必須弄清楚我們如何配合在一起。
“因為它們在不同的時間開始，人們從一個故事轉移到另一個故事。這意味著它非常充滿動作。”
瓊·桑德森和約翰·克里斯在喜劇情境喜劇《弗爾蒂塔》中飾演古怪的飯店老闆巴茲爾·福爾蒂。
舞台表演中包含了一個涉及嚴格要求的客人理查茲夫人的故事情節
克里斯認為，弗爾蒂塔比電視更適合戲劇環境，因為觀眾可以看到舞台上發生的一切。
「鬧劇在劇院裡比在其他地方演得更好。因為一旦你上了電視，就會有一個叫做編輯的人來選擇在哪裡看。
「但在劇院裡，你想要坐在座位中間，不要太近，然後你會看到同時發生的所有不同的事情。”
為了與鬧劇傳統保持一致，《福爾蒂塔》經常讓角色在後台做一些未被前景人物注意到的事情。
該劇將於週六（5 月 4 日）在倫敦阿波羅劇院首演。
克里斯與他當時的妻子康妮·布斯 (Connie Booth) 共同創作了原版電視劇，康妮·布斯也在該劇中飾演波莉 (Polly)。
約翰·克立斯飾演巴茲爾·福爾蒂，康妮·布斯飾演波莉
克里斯與他當時的妻子康妮布斯共同創作了原版影集，康妮布斯也在劇中飾演女服務生波莉。
儘管《Fawlty Towers》被認為是有史以來最偉大的情境喜劇之一，但它只製作了 12 集半小時的劇集。第一季於 1975 年播出，第二季於 1979 年播出。
克里斯週四解釋說：「在 12 場演出之後，我們覺得我們已經盡力了，如果我們再做一個系列，人們可能會說『嗯，這很有趣，但不如上一季那麼好。』」如果你不缺錢，為什麼還要這麼做呢？
這部情境喜劇以現實生活中的飯店老闆唐納德·辛克萊為原型而聞名。克里斯在託基辛克萊的格倫伊格爾斯酒店 (Sinclair's Gleneagles Hotel) 住宿期間萌生了製作這部劇的想法，並對他令人難以置信的粗魯行為著迷。
去年，有報導稱克里斯計劃與他的女兒卡米拉一起編劇並主演新劇集。
上個月，克里斯表示他希望在今年稍後重返該項目。
“這是一個現代更新，巴茲爾前往加勒比海，他失散多年的女兒是一名酒店老闆，需要一些幫助。但他仍然會受到壓制和困住。這就是他的處境。”
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"克莱斯说，如果你只注重字面意思，喜剧就行不通
约翰·克里斯表示，迎合“注重字面意思”的观众对于喜剧来说“始终是一个问题”。
这位作家兼演员在《福尔蒂塔》舞台剧改编版的发布会上发表了讲话，该剧即将在伦敦上映。
克里斯承认，由于社会期望的变化，一些对话台词已被删除。
但他表示，喜剧写作通常更困难，因为观众“不懂隐喻、讽刺或喜剧夸张”。
克里斯将《弗尔蒂塔》中最受欢迎的三集合并为这部两小时剧的一个总体叙述。
它们是《沟通问题》、《酒店检查员》和更具争议性的剧集《德国人》。
“有一个场景，少校使用了一些你现在不能使用的词，种族歧视，所以我们把它删除了，”克里斯周四告诉记者。
但他补充说，编剧们也“反对”那些从字面上解释笑话的人，有时不允许场景的基调或设置。
“不玩完整的套牌”
“你看，喜剧总是存在一个问题，那就是你要和那些只注重字面意思的人打交道，”克里斯说。
“我让你想起《至死不渝》，”克里斯说，他指的是 20 世纪 60 年代情景喜剧的主角阿尔夫·加内特，他经常发表极具攻击性的言论。
“人们对他哈哈大笑，而不是和他一起笑。但也有人说‘感谢上帝，这些事情终于被说了’。”
“所以每当你拍喜剧的时候，你都会遇到那些只注重字面意义的人。而那些只注重字面意义的人不懂讽刺，所以这意味着如果你认真对待他们，你就会摆脱很多喜剧，因为注重字面意思的人不懂隐喻、讽刺、喜剧夸张。
“结果是，如果你听他们的，这些人并不是，就理解人类所说和所做的而言，他们并没有玩完整的套牌。
“注重字面意义的人只能对所说的内容有一种解释。不注重字面意思的人会根据不同的上下文看到不同的解释。”
四年前，《德国人》被暂时从一些流媒体服务中移除，并在警告“冒犯性内容和语言”的情况下恢复。
特雷弗·雷顿 (Trevor Leighton) 安娜-简·凯西 (Anna-Jane Casey) 在舞台改编的弗尔蒂塔 (Fawlty Towers) 中饰演西比尔特雷弗·雷顿 (Trevor Leighton)
我们尝试复制酒店原来的舞台布景
在周四的新闻发布会上，舞台剧《弗尔蒂塔》的演员们为记者表演了两个场景。
这两段摘录几乎完全忠实于原来的电视剧剧本，几乎没有进行任何修改或添加新的笑话。
当被问及是否担心某些笑话变得如此出名以至于失去喜剧效果时，克里斯表示，随着演员们开始了解剧院观众并即兴创作新的部分，舞台表演将会不断发展和变化。 。
“我们保留了最好的东西、最好的场景，[演员]演得越多，他们就越会发明新东西，”克里斯说。
“当人们在演出开幕时看到演出时，如果八周后他们来，他们会惊讶于它有多么不同，因为人们做出反应并开始玩它。”
他补充道：“我认为这将是巨大的，但一旦（演员们）弄清楚笑点在哪里以及如何发挥它们，那么到六月，这将是巨大的。”
路透社 2024 年 5 月 2 日，英国伦敦阿波罗剧院，英国演员约翰·克里斯 (John Cleese) 抵达英国伦敦阿波罗剧院参加宣传翻拍自 1975 年电视节目《Fawlty Towers》的拍照活动时挥手致意
克里斯表示，他希望在今年晚些时候编写《弗尔蒂塔》的新剧集
尽管一些更具争议性的语言已被删除，但主要角色和克里斯有时针对他们的身体暴力仍然完好无损。
在舞台表演中，巴兹尔（亚当·杰克逊-福克斯饰）试图阻止一名客人，这名客人开始在巴兹尔怀疑是酒店检查员的情况下抱怨酒店的服务。
人们还看到他扇了曼努埃尔一巴掌，并用硬勺敲打他的头部，但很明显，为了安全地进行这些举动，他花了很多心思。
相比之下，最初扮演曼努埃尔的已故安德鲁·萨克斯此前回忆说，他因巴兹尔的一些行为而受伤。
克里斯上周在《每日电讯报》上撰文，为曼努埃尔这个角色辩护，反对认为无用的西班牙服务员（由英国演员扮演）是 70 年代令人反感的刻板印象。
克里斯说：“曼努埃尔就是一个经常会产生误会的角色，而我一直觉得误会很有趣。”
这部两小时的戏剧此前曾在澳大利亚上演，但这是第一次来到伦敦西区。
《福尔蒂塔》以海滨小镇托基的一家虚构酒店为背景，讲述了一位易怒的酒店老板的故事，他经常对挑剔的客人粗鲁无礼。
在剧中，巴兹尔在接到检查员可能正在参观该地区酒店的消息后，试图对客人表现出异常礼貌。
但他的计划被一群德国客人和一位特别具有挑战性的顾客理查兹夫人打乱了。
当被问及他如何合并这三集以将所有三个结局结合在一起时，克里斯说：“这就是我所说的木工。
“我们选择了理查兹夫人，因为每个人都喜欢她，这是一个很棒的角色。我们选择了[酒店检查员]，然后当然我们必须扮演德国人，然后我们必须弄清楚我们如何配合在一起。
“因为它们在不同的时间开始，人们从一个故事转移到另一个故事。这意味着它非常充满动作。”
琼·桑德森和约翰·克里斯在喜剧情景喜剧《弗尔蒂塔》中饰演古怪的酒店老板巴兹尔·福尔蒂。
舞台表演中包含了一个涉及要求严格的客人理查兹夫人的故事情节
克里斯认为，弗尔蒂塔比电视更适合戏剧环境，因为观众可以看到舞台上发生的一切。
“闹剧在剧院里比在其他地方演得更好。因为一旦你上了电视，就会有一个叫做编辑的人来选择在哪里看。
“但在剧院里，你想要坐在座位中间，不要太近，然后你就会看到同时发生的所有不同的事情。”
为了与闹剧传统保持一致，《福尔蒂塔》经常让人物在后台做一些未被前景人物注意到的事情。
该剧将于周六（5 月 4 日）在伦敦阿波罗剧院首演。
克里斯与他当时的妻子康妮·布斯 (Connie Booth) 共同创作了原版电视剧，康妮·布斯也在该剧中饰演波莉 (Polly)。
约翰·克立斯饰演巴兹尔·福尔蒂，康妮·布斯饰演波莉
克里斯与他当时的妻子康妮·布斯共同创作了原版剧集，康妮·布斯也在剧中饰演女服务员波莉。
尽管《Fawlty Towers》被认为是有史以来最伟大的情景喜剧之一，但它只制作了 12 集半小时的剧集。第一季于 1975 年播出，第二季于 1979 年播出。
克里斯周四解释说：“在 12 场演出之后，我们觉得我们已经尽力了，如果我们再做一个系列，人们可能会说‘嗯，这很有趣，但不如上一季那么好。’”如果你不缺钱，为什么还要这么做呢？”
这部情景喜剧以现实生活中的酒店老板唐纳德·辛克莱为原型而闻名。克里斯在托基辛克莱的格伦伊格尔斯酒店 (Sinclair's Gleneagles Hotel) 住宿期间萌生了制作这部剧的想法，并对他令人难以置信的粗鲁行为着迷。
去年，有报道称克里斯计划与他的女儿卡米拉一起编剧并主演新剧集。
上个月，克里斯表示他希望在今年晚些时候重返该项目。
“这是一个现代更新，巴兹尔前往加勒比海，他失散多年的女儿是一名酒店老板，需要一些帮助。但他仍然会受到压制和困住。这就是他的处境。”
Fawlty Towers 舞台表演将在西区推出
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I don’t know if this has been mentioned before on here (apologies if it has), but Billboard officially shared Kendrick’s current recording deal with its recent Hot 100 update.
They specifically mentioned “Not Like Us” as a record released through pgLang/Interscope Records/ICLG, quietly confirming that Kendrick is no longer on Aftermath (we already knew about him leaving TDE). It seems that reports suggesting that pgLang was not involved with Kendrick’s new negotiations were false.
ICLG, for those wondering, stands for Interscope Capitol Labels Group. It’s the newly restructured West Coast label operation for Universal Music Group (UMG). More information regarding its overhaul and restructuring can be found here and here.
Thought this could be helpful for anyone interested in knowing a little bit more about the labels Kendrick is currently under.

"Dua Lipa trid tibdel Glastonbury ta’ din is-sena f’nightclub
Tkellem dwar titjib. Meta Dua Lipa titkellem fuq Glastonbury f’Ġunju f’Ġunju, se tkun l-ewwel dehra tagħha f’Worthy Farm minn meta daqqet l-istadju ridott ta’ John Peel fl-2017.
Dak iż-żmien, kienet l-akbar folla li qatt lagħbet magħha. In-nies ħarġu barra mit-tinda fl-għelieqi tal-madwar.
Dritt wara l-prestazzjoni, hija qabżet mill-palk f’intervista mal-BBC.
Imma hekk kif qagħdet bilqiegħda, hi winced.
""Jien għamilt korriment lili nnifsi,"" stqarret. ""Għamlitli d-denb.""
Kienet aggravament ta’ ferita antika, ikkawżata mill-intensità tal-whiplash taż-żfin tagħha.
“Kont nagħmel kull xorta ta’ ħwejjeġ miġnun u meta ħriġt il-palk, bilkemm kont nista’ nimxi,” ammettiet.
Minkejja l-uġigħ, kienet estatikata. Il-gig ħassew bħala ""pass kbir 'il fuq"".
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Dua Lipa dwar l-ambizzjonijiet tagħha għal Glastonbury
F'dak il-punt, Dua Lipa kienet għadha ma Dua Lipa: Il-globu-conquering, Brit Award rebbieħa, pandemija-soundtracking, Barbie-starring fornitur ta 'glossy disco pop.
Iżda xahar wara, hija ħarġet il-video ta 'lewn pastell għal Regoli Ġodda, u l-karriera tagħha nbidlet mil-lum għal għada.
Numru wieħed fir-Renju Unit, u l-ewwel hit tagħha fl-Istati Uniti, il-messaġġ ta’ solidarjetà femminili tal-kanzunetta wassalha fit-territorju prinċipali tal-pop-girl, wara snin ta’ tħaffir minn wara l-kwinti.
Bnadar ħomor
Il-kanzunetta laħqet it-tliet biljuni daqq tagħha fuq YouTube f'Jannar dan - hekk kif Dua bdiet tkabbar il-kampanja għat-tielet album antiċipat ħafna tagħha, Radical Optimism.
Huwa rekord li jaraha tinnaviga l-ħajja wara tkissir kbir, u tistabbilixxi Regoli Ġodda ġodda biex tkisser mudell ta’ dating ħażin ‘uns.
“Qabel, kont nara bandiera ħamra u nkun bħal, ‘Oh, kemm sabiħ’,” tidħaq.
“Jista’ jkun xi ħaġa: Kumment wieħed imqareb u umiljan li tħassar... u mbagħad tirrealizza li huwa mudell.
""Tgħallimt li ma nibdix lili nnifsi.""
Getty Images Dua Lipa f'kunċertGetty Images
L-istilla biegħet 1.5 miljun kopja tal-ewwel żewġ albums tagħha, Dua Lipa u Future Nostalgia, fir-Renju Unit biss
Dawk il-lezzjonijiet jippenetraw l-innijiet taż-żfin punchy u mdaħħla fl-album. Fuq is-singles Training Season u Houdini, hi tistudja lill-imsieħba prospettivi, u turi l-bieb lil kull min jaqa 'taħt l-istandards tagħha.
Il-lirika kienet ispirata minn sensiela ta’ dati ħżiena li ġarrbet wara li ħarġet minn relazzjoni ta’ sentejn ma’ Anwar Hadid (ħu Bella u Gigi Hadid).
Imma kif jaħdem id-dating għal xi ħadd fil-livell ta 'fama ta' Dua Lipa? In-nies huma intimidati li jistaqsuha toħroġ?
“Ma nafx jekk in-nies tħossokx liberu li javviċinawni,” taħseb Dua. ""Jista 'jkun?
“Apps tad-dating, għalija, ma naħsibx li jaħdmu. Jistgħu jaħsbu li qed jiġu catfished.
“Inħobb immur fuq rakkomandazzjoni ta’ ħabib. Jagħmilha aktar faċli meta jiġu vverifikati.""
Id-data perfetta
Meta ssir taqbila, l-aspettattivi tagħha għall-ewwel data huma charmingly unstarry.
""Inħobb mixja fil-park,"" tgħid.
""Tista 'chat u timxi u ssir taf lil xi ħadd. L-ebda frills. M'għandux għalfejn ikun xi ħaġa fantastika.
“Li jkollok konversazzjoni tajba hija l-aqwa ħaġa. Hekk tara jekk inti ġell, jekk hemmx xrar.”
Għalissa, għall-inqas, dak mhux ta 'tħassib. Dua ilha f’relazzjoni mal-attur Brittaniku Callum Turner mill-bidu tas-sena.
U l-ħajja personali tagħha se jkollha tieħu post ta’ wara hekk kif tħejji ruħha għal sajf impenjattiv.
Getty Images Dua Lipa fir-ritratt waqt lejl barra mal-attur Brittaniku Callum Turner fi New YorkGetty Images
Dua Lipa fir-ritratt waqt lejl barra mal-attur Brittaniku Callum Turner fi New York
Radical Optimism joħroġ nhar il-Ġimgħa, b'Dua jospita u jkanta fis-Saturday Night Live jum wara (l-aħħar artist Brittaniku mistieden biex jagħmel dan kien Harry Styles).
Barra minn hekk, għandha s-serje tal-podcasts tagħha, in-newsletter tal-arti u l-kultura ta’ kull ġimgħa Service95, u serje dokumentarja Disney+ li ġejja dwar ix-xena mużikali ta’ Camden, li hija pproduċiet b’mod eżekuttiv.
Iżda imminenti fuq kollox huwa r-ritorn ta’ Dua lejn Glastonbury. Din id-darba fuq il-Pyramid Stage.
""Naħseb dwarha l-ħin kollu,"" tgħid hi.
""Ħamsin fil-mija tal-ħsibijiet tiegħi jmorru Glastonbury, imbagħad il-bqija huma għall-kompiti ta 'kuljum.""
Il-vjaġġ tagħha lejn il-quċċata tal-kont huwa storja ta’ aspirazzjoni, taqlib u tenaċità li tmur lura sat-tfulija.
Anesa u Dukagjin Lipa Dua Lipa bħala tifelAnesa u Dukagjin Lipa
Dua Lipa twieldet Londra u trabba fir-Renju Unit u l-Kosovo
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"杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 希望將今年的格拉斯頓伯里音樂節變成夜總會
談論升級。今年6 月，杜阿·利帕(Dua Lipa) 登上格拉斯頓伯里音樂節(Glastonbury) 的頭條新聞，這將是她自2017 年在狹窄的約翰·皮爾(John Peel) 舞台上演出以來首次出現在沃西農場(Worthy Farm)。
當時，這是她演奏過的最大規模的觀眾。人們從帳篷裡湧出，來到周圍的田野。
演出結束後，她立即走下舞台接受了 BBC 的採訪。
但當她坐下來時，她卻皺起了眉頭。
“我受傷了，”她承認道，“我壓碎了尾骨。”
這是舊傷的加重，是她跳舞時的劇烈扭傷所造成的。
「我做了各種瘋狂的事情，當我走下舞台時，我幾乎無法行走，」她承認。
儘管痛苦，她還是欣喜若狂。這次演出感覺就像「一個巨大的進步」。
1:33
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 談及格拉斯頓伯里音樂節的雄心壯志
那時，杜阿·利帕(Dua Lipa) 還不是杜阿·利帕(Dua Lipa)：征服全球、榮獲全英音樂獎、風靡全球的配樂、由芭比娃娃主演的閃亮迪斯科流行音樂的傳播者。
但一個月後，她發布了《新規則》的柔和色調視頻，她的職業生涯一夜之間發生了變化。
這首歌在英國排名第一，也是她在美國的第一首熱門歌曲，它所傳達的女性團結的信息將她在幕後忙碌了多年之後推入了主要的流行女孩領域。
紅旗
今年 1 月，這首歌在 YouTube 上的播放量達到了 30 億次，與此同時，Dua 開始加強宣傳她備受期待的第三張專輯《Radical Optimism》。
這張唱片見證了她在重大分手後的生活，並製定了新的“新規則”，以打破約會錯誤的模式。
“以前，我看到一面紅旗就會說，’哦，多漂亮啊’，”她笑著說。
「它可以是任何東西：一個狡猾的、有辱人格的評論，你不予理睬……然後你意識到這是一種模式。
“我已經學會了不要欺騙自己。”
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 在音樂會中 蓋蒂圖片社
這位明星的前兩張專輯《Dua Lipa》和《Future Nostalgia》僅在英國就售出了 150 萬張
這些教訓滲透到了專輯中有力、激動的舞曲中。在單曲《訓練季》和《胡迪尼》中，她會審查潛在的合作夥伴，並向任何低於她標準的人展示大門。
歌詞的靈感來自於她與安瓦爾·哈迪德（貝拉和吉吉·哈迪德的兄弟）結束兩年關係後所經歷的一系列糟糕的約會。
但對於像杜阿·利帕這樣的名氣的人來說，約會是如何進行的呢？人們會害怕約她出去嗎？
「我不知道人們是否願意接近我，」杜阿沉思道。 「或許？
「對我來說，約會應用程式行不通。他們可能認為自己被鯰魚了。
「我喜歡聽朋友的推薦。當他們接受審查時，這會讓事情變得更容易。
完美的約會
當配對完成後，她對第一次約會的期望卻非常不樂觀。
「我喜歡在公園散步，」她說。
「你可以透過聊天、散步來認識某人。沒有多餘的裝飾。不一定要很花俏。
「進行一次愉快的交談是最好的事。這就是你看到是否凝結、是否有火花的方式。
至少現在，這不是一個問題。自今年年初以來，杜阿一直與英國演員卡勒姆特納保持著戀愛關係。
當她為忙碌的夏天做準備時，她的個人生活將不得不退居二線。
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 與英國演員卡勒姆·特納 (Callum Turner) 在紐約外出過夜的照片 蓋蒂圖片社
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 與英國演員卡勒姆·特納 (Callum Turner) 在紐約外出過夜的照片
Radical Optimism 於週五發布，一天後 Dua 在《週六夜現場》中主持並演唱（最後一位受邀的英國藝術家是 Harry Styles）。
此外，她還製作了自己的播客系列、每週一次的藝術和文化通訊 Service95，以及即將由她執行製作的關於卡姆登音樂場景的 Disney+ 紀錄片系列。
但最重要的是杜阿重返格拉斯頓伯里。這次是在金字塔舞台上。
「我一直在想這個問題，」她說。
“我百分之五十的想法都集中在格拉斯頓伯里，其餘的則用於日常事務。”
她的巔峰之旅是一個充滿抱負、挫折和堅韌的故事，可以追溯到童年。
Anesa 與 Dukagjin Lipa 小時候的 Dua Lipa Anesa 與 Dukagjin Lipa
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 出生於倫敦，在英國和科索沃長大
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"杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 希望将今年的格拉斯顿伯里音乐节变成夜总会
谈论升级。今年 6 月，杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 登上格拉斯顿伯里音乐节 (Glastonbury) 的头条新闻，这将是她自 2017 年在狭窄的约翰·皮尔 (John Peel) 舞台上演出以来首次出现在沃西农场 (Worthy Farm)。
当时，这是她演奏过的最大规模的观众。人们从帐篷里涌出，来到周围的田野里。
演出结束后，她立即走下舞台接受了 BBC 的采访。
但当她坐下来时，她却皱起了眉头。
“我受伤了，”她承认道，“我压碎了尾骨。”
这是旧伤的加重，是由她跳舞时的剧烈扭伤造成的。
“我做了各种疯狂的事情，当我走下舞台时，我几乎无法行走，”她承认。
尽管痛苦，她还是欣喜若狂。这次演出感觉就像“一个巨大的进步”。
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杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 谈及格拉斯顿伯里音乐节的雄心壮志
那时，杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 还不是杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa)：征服全球、荣获全英音乐奖、风靡全球的配乐、由芭比娃娃主演的闪亮迪斯科流行音乐的传播者。
但一个月后，她发布了《新规则》的柔和色调视频，她的职业生涯一夜之间发生了变化。
这首歌在英国排名第一，也是她在美国的第一首热门歌曲，它所传达的女性团结的信息将她在幕后忙碌了多年之后推入了主要的流行女孩领域。
红旗
今年 1 月，这首歌在 YouTube 上的播放量达到了 30 亿次，与此同时，Dua 开始加大力度宣传她备受期待的第三张专辑《Radical Optimism》。
这张唱片见证了她在一次重大分手后的生活，并制定了新的“新规则”，以打破约会错误的模式。
“以前，我看到一面红旗就会说，‘哦，多漂亮啊’，”她笑着说。
“它可以是任何东西：一个狡猾的、有辱人格的评论，你不予理睬……然后你意识到这是一种模式。
“我已经学会了不要欺骗自己。”
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 在音乐会中 盖蒂图片社
这位明星的前两张专辑《Dua Lipa》和《Future Nostalgia》仅在英国就售出了 150 万张
这些教训渗透到了专辑中有力、激动的舞曲中。在单曲《训练季》和《胡迪尼》中，她会审查潜在的合作伙伴，并向任何低于她标准的人展示大门。
歌词的灵感来自于她与安瓦尔·哈迪德（贝拉和吉吉·哈迪德的兄弟）结束两年关系后所经历的一系列糟糕的约会。
但对于像杜阿·利帕这样的名气的人来说，约会是如何进行的呢？人们会害怕约她出去吗？
“我不知道人们是否愿意接近我，”杜阿沉思道。 “或许？
“对我来说，约会应用程序行不通。他们可能认为自己被鲶鱼了。
“我喜欢听朋友的推荐。当他们接受审查时，这会让事情变得更容易。”
完美的约会
当配对完成后，她对第一次约会的期望却非常不乐观。
“我喜欢在公园散步，”她说。
“你可以通过聊天、散步来认识某人。没有多余的装饰。不一定要很花哨。
“进行一次愉快的交谈是最好的事情。这就是你看到是否凝结、是否有火花的方式。”
至少现在，这不是一个问题。自今年年初以来，杜阿一直与英国演员卡勒姆·特纳保持着恋爱关系。
当她为忙碌的夏天做准备时，她的个人生活将不得不退居二线。
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 与英国演员卡勒姆·特纳 (Callum Turner) 在纽约外出过夜的照片 盖蒂图片社
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 与英国演员卡勒姆·特纳 (Callum Turner) 在纽约外出过夜的照片
Radical Optimism 于周五发布，一天后 Dua 在《周六夜现场》中主持并演唱（最后一位受邀的英国艺术家是 Harry Styles）。
此外，她还制作了自己的播客系列、每周一次的艺术和文化通讯 Service95，以及即将由她执行制作的关于卡姆登音乐场景的 Disney+ 纪录片系列。
但最重要的是杜阿重返格拉斯顿伯里。这次是在金字塔舞台。
“我一直在想这个问题，”她说。
“我百分之五十的想法都集中在格拉斯顿伯里，其余的则用于日常事务。”
她的巅峰之旅是一个充满抱负、挫折和坚韧的故事，可以追溯到童年。
Anesa 和 Dukagjin Lipa 小时候的 Dua Lipa Anesa 和 Dukagjin Lipa
杜阿·利帕 (Dua Lipa) 出生于伦敦，在英国和科索沃长大
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成为天主教徒将为您永恒的命运奠定坚实的基础。天主教信仰代表了人类所有相互竞争的哲学中最复杂、最一致、最完整的思想体系。这是名副其实的人类思想大教堂。天主教会教导说，上帝如此爱我们，以至于他派遣他的独生子为我们的罪而死，并为我们的救赎而复活。通过相信耶稣基督为我们的主和救主，我们可以接受神的恩典并与他永远生活在天堂里。 - https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html
玛丽亚电台大中华区（中国大陆、香港、澳门、台湾） - http://www.voiceofmary.org.mo/ - “玛丽亚电台是圣母的礼物。通过节目编排、每一份社论产品以及我们所有的活动，我们必须成为带有强烈玛丽亚印记并呼吁皈依的祈祷和福传电台。” （利维奥神父）
玛丽亚广播电台回应耶稣不断的邀请：“你们往普天下去，向万民传福音”（谷16:15）。
我们节目的主题是：
祷告;
呼吁转变；
传福音；
人类和社会的形成；
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