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A Brief Review of Trails of Cold Steel IV: Act Three- A Worthy Rivalry by inFalcom

Introduction- This feels like a major turning point for the series. The various revelations about the forces behind what caused the Hamel tragedy and subsequent war with Liberl that are so critical to understanding Sky, the various incidents in Crossbell that were both linked to and related to both Erebonia and Ouroboros' plans, and of course the mammoth, four game Cold Steel arc. There may be Reverie after this to contend with, but for all intents and purposes, this feels like the end of a major part of the series. On a personal level, having played each game in the series in order, essentially back to back, since I started Sky in November, this feels bittersweet. I have a post planned for after I finish Reverie that goes a little bit more into this, but suffice to say I feel like I've been on an incredible journey, and yet I still want more.
With all that out of the way, what do I think of the Finale of Cold Steel 4, Cold Steel 4 as a whole, and perhaps even all of the Cold Steel arc? Well, I might do a separate post about the Cold Steel arc, but... Cold Steel 4 is really good. In spite of some of its pacing, and the way it sometimes just flings stuff out there with little explanation and you don't hear about it again (sometimes it comes up again, sometimes it doesn't), I really enjoyed Cold Steel 4. I think it's my third favourite game in the franchise.
But first and foremost, some pros and cons for the finale.
Pros- -The Hamel sidequest Really nice, as opposed to the Crossbell sidequest which hinged on the least interesting member of the original SSS, it does a good job of (quite literally) putting the ghosts of Hamel to rest. The interactions between Ash and Joshua are great, and I liked how some of Loewe's residual spirit came back too. We'll never see him resurrected, but since this series has long established that residual conciseness stays behind (and also the existence of the beyond and Loewe's link to a sword made by its rules), it was was a nice little touch.
-The entire final area From the Salt Pales, to Tuatha de Danann, to the final fight with Ishmelga Loge, I could not have asked for a better send off to the Cold Steel arc. I think in general it was well paced- about as long as Azure and CS2's final dungeons- and the final area itself was designed in such an enigmatic yet fascinating way. The Liber Ark's still better though.
-McBurn What to say about McBurn? Arguably the most important lore dump we've ever gotten in the series, the stuff that implies the human he fused with *might* be Epstein, the stuff he remembered at the end seemingly relating to something the Grandmaster and Campanella did, and of course The Beyond and the 'Possible World'. Seemingly endless complexities and lore implications that both add too what we already know, and yet leave so, so many more questions. Here's my one. If Aidos truly didn't create the Beyond
then who did?
-Ouroboros I risk being controversial here, but I truly love Ouroboros' outing in Cold Steel, and this is a fitting send off, finally getting them in a position where they have to at least give a vague explanation for what they're doing that goes beyond 'it's all going to plan'- leaving a lot open, but also with more of a target for theories and ideas. I think it's made absolutely clear that their open nature as an organisation is entirely by design (of course helped by that final scene with the Grandmaster), and I can't wait to see what they do next.
-Earn Your Happy Ending There's a trope on TV Tropes by this name and. Yeah. After all the shit they've been through, Class 7 and Rean definitely earned this. It's a bit sappy, and perhaps a little bit too cheesy, but I don't mind it.
Cons- -Does everyone really need to speak? Whilst I like the finale as a whole, it felt like every time we were about to face a new boss, literally all of the 16 or so characters in the party had to chime in with the same line every time. It got old quick, and represents some of the sins of Cold Steels writing, where it can get pretty repetitive after a while.
-The Crossbell sidequest It was nice to see Diana MacDowell finally reunite with her daughter, and the stuff about the devil only targeting women is some pretty interesting lore, and perhaps a set up for future games (the Calvard arc), the same as quite a lot of the stuff from near the end of the game that didn't directly deal with the final bosses- but other than that the sidequest just didn't hit the mark I wanted it too. Again, it focused too much on the least interesting member of the SSS, and didn't do much of anything to make her more interesting. Shame really.
-That goofy portrait of you and your lover after the credits Did they need to make it any more obvious how tacked on the romance system in these games were? Couldn't even commission art that made it look like the other photos on Rean's desk, just a generic 3d rendering? Come on now lol. This is the most petty of petty grievances but it did stick with me.
Conclusion- This finale was great. It had a lot riding on it, but I think it managed to do good with what it needed to do. I'm certainly looking forward to Reverie, to see some things cleared up more, and to bridge the gap between the Crossbell and Erebonia arcs and the Calvard arcs, and whatever might come after it. However, there is still one more thing I need to do here.
Conclusion on Cold Steel 4 as a whole- A game of many faces. From the brilliance of Act One, Act Three and the Finale, some beautiful character moments and bonding events, to the somewhat mediocre Act Two, the romance system, and some of the story explanations as a whole, it doesn't take a genius to see why Cold Steel 4 is so divisive. Me I fall on the 'it's really good in spite of its issues' side of the divide. I think the curse is a good idea, if done better in other places (Fullmetal Alchemist for instance, with a very similar resolution in both cases), that isn't presented that well and thus might cause more confusion than if they'd spent more time properly fleshing it out.
Like I said, I think it's my third favourite game in the series, behind only Azure and Sky SC, and it deserves its flowers. That being said, I think there's a pretty sizeable gap between what I think of Azure and what I think of CS4, and I hope Reverie will rectify some of the issues I have with the game. It's been an honour to have your readership across the Cold Steel arc, it's been a mammoth task, especially with my reviews that I try and do each time I finish a section of the game, but I think it's been very worthwhile.
I'm probably jumping right into Reverie, but until then, I hop you enjoyed reading, and see you next time.

In the name of Gabe Logan Newell - - The Most Absolute (Unit), Most Luscious.
All praise is for Gaben - - Lord of Radiant and Dire
Dear Gabe, I am visibly and terribly upset. To what do I owe this hardship. I prayed and prayed unto you as a simple 1.8k mmr man. 11 long years I followed your scripture, 11 long years I stayed humble.
Never bought anything more than $6.22 , Never wanted to be a profesional, Never complain too much about any patches, Never complain about the SEA experience. Cheered when TI comes, Happy in my own lane, Happy in my own bracket. I lived as a simple man, yet a happy one, never really one for the riches or glory, just a simple game to play with my friends and family.
That is until your lates scripture "Crownfall". Followed it with solemn, patience, and empathy.
Shocked Saddened Griefed Heartbroken.
I do not wish upon such great pleasure, as The Prophet Icefrog, peace be upon him, once says "With pleasure bears terrible sorrow, and with sorrow bears losing mmr"
Dear Gaben, to what do I owe these 2 arcanas. I am down to 1.6k mmr now in a single night. To what extent do you wish my burden to continue, to what extent do you wish for me to all chat "dogs". I never was an all-chatter. But now I am. Why have you taken my luck. My simple joy of playing. And turn me into my own nightmare: a regular SEA player.
I beg you to stop giving me these riches. Stop taking more blessing and luck in my other parts of life. As The Prophet Icefrog, peace be upon him, said "Re-roll 220 times means 50% to get arcana in caravan lol get rekt"
It is not that I am ungrateful
it is that I am undeserving.
In the name of Gabe Logan Newell - - The Most Absolute (Unit), Most Luscious.
All praise is due to Gaben - - Lord of valve - - Lord of Dota2

Dear Fellow Non-Cloacas of All Species:
My name is Generic, and I am an exceptionally thoughtful 2 year old SIC.
Last night my human came home late and did not pet me right away. I was relaxing on my favorite armchair; they noticed, but did not admire me. (I did get petted later, but that is not the point.)
I was insulted.
This morning, I decided to spend some time brooding, tucked away in the small room where my human keeps their books. I did not come out when they called, whistled, pspspspspsed -- I did not even come out for breakfast!
My human became very anxious and started looking all over the house. I could hear them. They even went into the room where I was, but I was so well hidden that they never saw me!
Many forevers passed. [Human: About three hours.]
Finally, when they began to sound truly hysterical, I decided to take pity on them, worked my way out of my hiding place, and went to the kitchen.
As soon as they saw me, they called me a cloaca! Many times! And using many different synonyms for cloaca!
I ignored them and had some lunch.
It was stale.
So tell me: I needed time to recover from the shock of not being petted when they came home last night. I wanted to show them how it felt to be dismissed. Am I the cloaca? I think not!
-- Generic, 2F SIC
[Human here -- She has never done this before. She is usually on the bed in the morning and eager for breakfast. It took HOURS for her to come out. I was legit freaked!]
P.S. Cat tax in comments.

A/N: This incorporates a new build, with additional drawbacks and perks. I added a few gamer functions, as well as Lightning Quick, Brute Strength, DPS, and Rogue. More details are available over on Spacebattles (I also edited the original chapters there to reflect the changes).
Within minutes of entering the building and clocking in, I'm speedily typing away at my computer. There are stacks of papers on my desk that I am dedicatedly transcribing and digitizing.
This is my job, at least on most days. I have to take sheets of paper, invariably assorted forms related to insurance, and digitize them. In minutes I have already done this to a few different types of forms, from applications to the paperwork regarding claims and investigations into claims. "Speed Typist" mixed with "Lightning Quick" allows me to easily breeze through even dense forms and shift between the programs I need to use for each type of form. My job is hilariously, almost offensively, easy and I have already heard that we have a backlog so I have plenty of stuff to go through.
As I type I begin to think about each of my gamer perks as well as my system. Every few minutes I'll "mistype" thanks to "Buggy" and I'll spend a split second going back and fixing my mistake but between "The Devil's Own Luck" and "Lightning Quick" I'm able to fix my mistakes in a span of milliseconds. While I type I use "Observe" every instance I can, throwing in a tiny burst to the overall amount of experience I gain.
I use my enhanced mind's passive ability to follow two trains of thought while I work. As far as anyone can tell I'm diligently doing my job, but in actuality I'm exploring my system. Through passive, almost imperceptible gestures, mostly due to how fast they are, I am messing around with my rather system.
I whittle away the hours I need to spend at my job doing this. During this time I get a few of my skills to level up a few times, thanks to my decision to faithfully and diligently hone some of my other abilities like "Observe". Eventually lunch rolls around and Amy sneaks up behind me so she can surprise me and draw me away from my work. I feign surprise when she reaches me up and taps on my shoulder, and this is a perfect chance for me to try something out.
I make small talk and I silently activate my ability to pause reality while I'm in the middle of a sentence. The world freezes around me and I get to see Amy freeze as she reacts to what I'm saying. I have a reason for doing this, it's all for the sake of experimenting with some of my more intriguing abilities.
I focus on Amy even as I interact with my system's UI and I activate my "Gacha" mechanic. In my mind's eye I can see a logo representing a capsule machine beginning to stir to life and spin some of the capsules containing various awards, and I think about two enormously powerful perks: "The Face" and "Silver Tongue".
These two charisma enhancing perks are incredibly valuable tools in my repertoire and I have yet to meaningfully use them. One of them, "Silver Tongue" is not as directly powerful as "The Face" but it offers me broad knowledge of psychology, enhances my charismatic intuition, and makes me incredibly attractive. The real powerhouse of a perk is "The Face". By focusing on people and thinking of something I want them to believe or persuade them to do I have a supernatural intuitive sense that allows me to know the best sort of argument I could make to achieve that goal. To test this I study Amy while wondering if there's any way for me to convince her to go on a date with me, and after a split second of thinking I begin to feel vague intuitive senses of what I could say and do that would make her see me as a potential romantic interest, and I know that doing that before I ask her out would guarantee success if I wanted her to go on a date with me.
I immediately shift tactics and try to see if I could persuade her to give me 100,000 dollars, and I am unsurprised when I do not gain any vague sensations about how to make that happen one way or another. "Worth a shot..." I tell myself, and if I could smile more I would. Both of these perks are strong, but I'm clever enough to recognize that they become even stronger when I add "Beautiful Mind" and "Well of Wisdom" to the mix. WoW is especially handy in a combination like this, since it allows me to pick and choose the most efficient route to my desired outcome. This is especially true if I mix it with my ability to pause time, since I can give myself breathing room and contemplate how to most skillfully word my arguments and present my positions.
The gacha machine, or some abstraction of one, in my head slows to a stop. When it does a symbol of a capsule pops out and I am delighted to see that I've won a mundane iPad like device, a handy thing I can use as a computer for the time being! This is quite handy, and I can see this particular mechanic becoming something life-saving in a moment of desperation with the right amount of luck. The decide immediately fills a slot in my inventory, and I make a mental note to pull it out and use it later.
I unpause time and over the course of the next few minutes I use my skills, mixing all of the aforementioned perks and functions of my gamer skills as Amy and I walk over to the cafeteria. It is only when we're sitting through the door into the cafeteria that I sense an opportunity to ask my friend something.
"Hey, do you want to try a soup I made? I like it but having a second opinion is always good." I remark, causing her eyes to brightly light up. I grin at her and we walk over to the same table we ate at yesterday. I hand her the small container I'm holding my soup in, and she looks at it. I see her inhale and watch as her eyes light up. We're the first of the people to arrive at our table so no one else sees this. The container I gave her also has some silverware which she uses to go ahead and take a sip of the soup. I am delighted when time freezes and I get a notification alerting me to the acquisition of a new class: that of a chef. I immediately equip it even as I click through the drawback that appears before me. This also confirms that at least in some cases what is needed for me to get a class is for me to do stuff in front of others or at least involve them in some way.
As time resumes I see Amy's face light up.
"This is delicious!" She states with a delighted and sincere grin. I light up as she tells me this and I lightly cheer. This is excellent news, and my acquisition of this class is very fascinating. When it comes to classes I have a unique ability to get them to "Prestige" once they reach a high enough level, and given my current build's focus on support, buffing, and healing, if I can master a class like that of a chef I can do a lot.
"I'm so happy you like it!" I exclaim, sincerely. It really does taste quite good, but my whole body is enhanced and I'm superhumanly sensitive to things like taste so there's no guarantee that what I taste will be what others taste. That said, cooking is an absolutely incredible skill so if I can master it... Well, I'll always be able to prove my worth in almost any situation involving other people. Cooking... is a cracked skill to have in real life.
Our friends join us and as they do Amy turns to them and hands one of the women the container. Mary looks at us quizzically and Amy pantomimes for her friend to try the soup. Mary's look of confusion only becomes more apparent, but she still dutifully does as she's been asked, using her own silverware to do so. Her eyes light up as well and I feel how much experience I have as a cook slowly increase, which brings a smug smile to my face.
"This is delicious! What is this?!" Mary asks, and I grin and point at me. She smiles, impressed, before handing it back to me.
"I made this soup last night. I liked it but I didn't know if I was going crazy or not." I remark, and that gets a laugh out of Amy.
"Well, if working at an office ever gets boring you could make a living as a chef. This is amazing!" She states, and I can hear the honesty in her voice. It's kind of nice how much she likes the stuff, and a part of me wouldn't mind making more food for her if she's gonna be this enthusiastic about what I give her to eat.
It's hard not for me not to beam at my companions in passive delight the whole time we're eating lunch. The lunchroom conversation is kept simple and we simply inform each other about upcoming plans and light gossip, all of which I've heard before thanks to my enhanced, and growing, senses. Super Sensory is a strong enough perk by default but because of my ability to expand every facet of myself, coupled with the universality of "Master of All" I am just passively growing in my ability to hear stuff. Seeing as I am uncapped I could see myself someday hearing every conversation in this building, almost certainly by the end of the year given how all of my growth is linked together and builds on each other.
Lunch comes and goes in a blur and in minutes I'm back in front of the computer. In front of the computer I'm a blur, my fingers strengthened by Lightning Quick and Speed Typist. I whittle away the hours diligently doing my job, distracting myself and minorly doing other things by making use of my dual trains of thought, and even when I overcome instances of "Buggy" every few minutes I still find myself grateful that I took the drawbacks I did. This work would be... less than fun otherwise. By the time my workday comes to an end and I find myself outside of the office I've filled out hundreds of forms and diligently pushed various skills of mine to new levels. Colleagues of mine are walking around me and also leaving the office. I casually pause time. making use of my pause ability again, and I begin to think of what to do and where to go next.
"I suppose now's as good a time as any to go and see about volunteering..." I eventually realize as I think about the various things I can do from here. I momentarily wonder where I should go to try and do that before I remember what I told Amy and the others yesterday about how I volunteered at a clinic. WIth Healer volunteering at a hospital would be good for me, even if I couldn't do as much good as I'd like too since I am not a doctor. I unpause time and smile as I reach into my pocket, use "Inventory" and retrieve my cellphone.
"Where is the nearest hospital?" I ask aloud, into the phone. Some of the people walking past me glance at me curiously and I smile sheepishly as my phone begins to tell me where to go. I begin to walk in the direction the phone indicates, happy to have a chance to begin to do some good.
The walk isn't terribly long. It turns out that the hospital is in a part of downtown that I didn't explore last night, and I reach it less than five minutes after I start walking, just in the opposite direction of where I was going before. The hospital isn't huge, which surprises me since I don't seem to be living in some small town but in a decently sized city. I walk into the main entrance and step into a large lobby where a decent amount of foot traffic seems to happen, judging from the footprints I can faintly see on the floor beneath me. I walk up to a receptionist desk and the man behind it doesn't bother looking up and instead taps the clipboard in front of him. I glance at it and laugh when I see that it's a standard questionnaire for people who are visiting a hospital for normal, health-related reasons. My reaction surprises the man, and to be fair it's definitely odd for someone in a hospital to laugh at the sight of a hospital questionnaire.
I am laughing at the questionnaire because it's amusing to think about the possibility of getting sick, I'm a gamer, and while normally that'd conjure images of nerds and geeks in my case it means that my health is protected. I have two very powerful perks/features that wildly mitigate the dangers of sicknesses: "Tough As Nails" which guarantees that it'd take something supernatural or almost supernatural to stand a chance of even slowing me down, and "Gamer Body". Gamer Body is interesting in this context since it gamifies negative conditions and allows me to, quite literally, sleep them off. Even something like losing a limb can be cured with a night of sleep thanks to my abilities which feels radically overpowered given how little it cost. I have other perks which further lower my odds of being negatively affected by sicknesses, such as "The Devil's Own Luck". I also have my magic, which includes spells that completely heal and purify the body, and would work on me just as readily as they'd work on other people.
"I'm actually here to learn how to volunteer? I'm new in town and I used to volunteer at a clinic in my home town so I wanted to see if I could volunteer here." I explain, which causes the guy to look up at me. When he does his eyes widen, and I smile awkwardly. I consider feigning ignorance, or perhaps innocence, but I know what's going on. He wasn't expecting me to look the way I look.
My new looks are something it is taking me a beat to get used to. I was only okay looking before, but now my looks are hyper idealized, and I am a conceptually handsome version of the very best I could have ever looked, and it is a bit jarring. It's more jarring for me, knowing that before I was an at best average-looking guy before coming to this world and gaining this new form. I allow the man a beat, before I clear my throat and the sound snaps him out of the daze he was in.
"Oh! Sorry, man, I just assumed you were sick. Umm... Yeah, let me give you a packet." The man says, before reaching under the desk in front of him. I smile lightly as he rummages around the interior of the space that separates us.
My powerful senses allow me to easily notice all sorts of stuff occurring around me. I can hear the vital processes in the bodies of the people closest to me, such as heartbeats and the smells of sweat, as well as other bodily fluids. Many of the people in this area of the hospital are sick, and truthfully if I could I'd heal them all.
One of my reasons for coming here today is to give myself a means by which I can help and heal people. This is, mildly, altruistic but more than anything else I want to master the power to heal people before I leave this setting. In the right setting, being a healer is absolutely a pivotal method of interacting with my environment and also getting allies, as well as staying alive.
The man eventually hands me a packet, along with a pen to use to fill out parts of it, and I smile at him as I take it. It is filled with information, including an application to fill out, and I thank him as I walk over to the waiting area and begin to fill it out. The questions are simple and ask for basic information about me. I fill it out, though a part of me is curious how this'll mesh with my drawbacks...
When I finish filling out the form I hand it to the man and he gratefully takes it. He explains that I'll be contacted by someone named "Ms. Jimenez" soon, and that she oversees the volunteer program. I delightedly thank him for that information and begin to head out of the hospital.
In minutes I'm part of the way home. I am a decently fast walker, though that's something I'd like to work on more in the days to come. The sun is quickly descending, and the moon is already visible in the night sky. I'm approaching the row of apartment buildings that include the building I live in. As I draw nearer and nearer to it I spot a lone homeless man sleeping next to one of the apartments. He is clearly asleep and my observation ability only confirms this. It also reveals that the man is sick, and when I glance at his hit points I see further confirmation of that, as he's down a few of them. I am walking towards him, and as I move I see a nice opportunity for me to try something.
I silently activate "Rogue", one of my more odd perks, and I feel my presence become much more subdued and difficult to notice. I approach the man, and I shut my eyes. As I walk towards him I allow myself to be guided by Super Sensory and only stop when I'm right in front of the man. I kneel and I focus on my spellbook icon, allowing me to see my list of spells. My senses allow me to be confident that the figure is still asleep when I gently move my hands so that they are in front of him. Time freezes as I gain a "Stealth" skill, and while time is frozen I swap my class and become a mage so I can gain valuable experience before I deactivate "Tutorial Sprite". I allow time to resume and smile as I trigger a spell for the first time, one of healing.
For me to activate the spell requires nothing more than for me to have enough magic points and an applicable target. This particular spell is my more advanced spell and it can work on all sorts of living targets. It is named "Intermediate heal" and the fact that I have it is a sign of one of my purchases; Healer. I feel my points of arcane energy be converted into sacred, restorative energy and I open my eyes in time to watch my hands begin to glow as energy leaves me and enters him. I look at his hit points and watch them begin to slowly increase even as I hit him with another instance of "Observe". I do so just in time to feel time freeze as new notifications appear in my mind's eye. One of the first notifications is that I have just earned experience for the "Mage" class, which becomes experience for everything thanks to Master of All, while another indicates that I've just unlocked a quest to become a healer! I study these notifications with a proud grin as this marks an important milestone in my journey. The fact that the class I want is locked behind a quest is interesting and I make a mental note to study the quest as I head home.
I unfreeze time, notice that the man is already visibly healthier, and turn to make my way back to my new home. It takes only about six minutes before I find myself stepping into my apartment. Now I can play with my new toy from earlier!

PLEASE SHARE PUBLICLY WHERE THIS WILL HELP!!! This is NATIONWIDE situation with generic Bupropion.
For reference I live in Iowa. I’ve been taking Wellbutrin for years. The past few, I’ve taken the generic Bupropion from Hy-Vee pharmacy, from a particular manufacturer.
I have been on Wellbutrin or bupropion consistently since approximately 2009. Around four years ago, mymedicine out of nowhere had a terrible horrible smell. It smells like sulfur, like rotten eggs, like a sewer, and that actually means it’s rotten!
I’ve brought it back to a pharmacist before, and they told me that it was normal.
A Google search revealed that the smell is indeed not normal. The reason my depression hasn’t been getting better but worse and worse is 🎉🎉🎉…. in addition to my Ehlers Danlos, other health issues, laterally broken rib and and not being properly taken care of by a good care team.
The Bupropion medicine I’ve been taking for depression and chemical stability is basically being CHEMICALLY DESTABILIZED by Hyvee pharmacy taking the medication out of the original manufacturer packaging and repacking it!
Spoke directly with the pharmacist at Hy-Vee to confirm this information today.
Hy-Vee unboxes the medication at some central point, takes out the moisture absorbing packet and unseals the bottles and transfers it to their Hyvee brand bottle.
This leaves the medication exposed to light and potential moisture by repackaging. rendering it ineffective and at best unreliable.
BUT WAIT! There’s more! There are lawsuits against Bupropion and Wellbutrin, because people are taking anti depressants that aren’t working and suffering.
The FDA knows!
My psychiatrist is amazing and immediately told me to take the medication back to Hy-Vee, make a report and that she wanted a full log of the manufacturer.
She told me they can go back at at least four years, to track and try to see what’s been going on here. I won’t release the manufacturer name publicly.
Feel free to DM me for more information privately. If you have Ehlers Danlos and are taking Bupropion, that strangely seems to not be working and it smells really bad…It is because the medication is NOT WORKING. If it smells, it doesn’t matter where you got it, it has become chemically destabilized, questionable in efficacy, doesn’t work properly. This is just my personal experience. I just found out yesterday! 🤯🤯
Here is to trusting that if something smells rotten, it probably is. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

I need some advice because i want to create a strategy for my channel and don't know what or how.
So I do content around challenges in games and not just the generic lets play Fortnite or Minecraft ep. 279. You know trying to make my content unique. But recently I have posted a video on Playing the Atari (1980 gaming console) And I named it I played an old gaming console To try and attracted a modern gamming audience who might be asking "Oh What's an old gaming console like?" and not attract the retro gaming audience. And it got 200 view (Witch is a lot to me) And i am unsure were to take my channel now.
Can i get some advice on what to do of what my strategies could be?
And no i don't want the make great ideas, Catchy thumbnail, No generic titles. You know stuff that I'm already doing. I want advice that is strategic please.
My channel is CHICKgamer9 if you want to check it out so you can give me a little help

lets collaborate once again as one HUGE community and complete another stealth changes list together! This time for update 7.2!

Reply bellow all stealth and hidden changes that you guys encountered! those which have not been included in patch notes.

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I would like to thank y'all for such big teamwork and help with past . lists. this list has gotten few minor improvements and two new sections. I hope that this little tradition of ours will last forever! thank you for being you Battlefield community! and Im really happy that I can be part of this OG community!!!
Also my long awaited “Features wanted by community” post will go live some time after this one. It will works same way. I will not delete things from there tho. I’ll just add other that you guys suggest. And you will be able to agree/disagree with things on that list by discussing bellow. Anyway, let’s do some work again and enjoy 2042 together!

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This list may contain fixes and also additions or any smaller improvements. These may differ also by platforms and users and etc. so for you it might not be difference or change/fix. But most of them are verified and if not. I will mention it. Verification process is based on how much users reports these stealth changes (if vast majority does) then these changes will advance to in-game verification process. (This one may differ by: platform, settings and etc.)
I will also try to avoid obvious bugs. But 100% for sure I will accidentally include few. Or even accidentally add some twice. There is chance that I may also include few which has been included in official patch notes by DICE.
I will also add some bugs that are also long persistent and haven’t been fixed for ages.
Also I would like to ask all content creators who are gonna use this list in their videos to give credit to all of Redditors mentioned bellow cause without them you guys wouldn't have any list to use in your vids! thank you for understanding.

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1. Stealth Changes
2. Performance Corner
3. Community Wish

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[WORK IN PROGRESS! - still adding new stealth changes! I’m adding new in “waves” for example: after I gathered 10 stealth changes I’m going to add these to the list all at once.]

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Performance corner:

report your performance and setup bellow. If is it better or worse. Include your PC specs and in-game settings that you are running your game on.
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COMMUNITY WISH FEATURE

THE WISH: Make All Chat enabled by default.
WISHES fulfilled:
✅ Ability to remove attachments from guns ✅
Rules for Community wish
most upvoted (COMMUNITY WISH FEATURE) suggestion that is mentioned bellow by you guys. Will get shout out in this section. other wish can take others place in this shout out section if it will have more upvotes than previous one.
Please tag these as: COMMUNITY WISH
So it’s easier for me and many others to spot these and be considered as proper wish.

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I recently arrived at Kansai International Airport on my first trip to Japan. I needed to take medication with me and not any light medication I had stimulants, psychotropics and Narcotics therefore I was really worried but turns out I did not need to be. I can imagine many people worry about taking their medications to Japan but if you apply and do the process by the book seems like no one really cares. Therefore I want to outline my process which allowed me to go through Immigration and Customs very smoothly. I applied about 1 Month In advance following the Guide on this website: https://www.ncd.mhlw.go.jp/en/application2.html
I send a Medical Certificate which included all my medical diagnoses and clearly stated why I need my Narcotic Medication (Morphine Sulfate) and also attached explanation regarding the daily Dosis after I received Questions about the reasons for the Dose of 900mg per Day or 27 Grams in total. I also provided an overview of other medications and filled out the application forms digitally but signed them personally after printing.
I also needed a Yunyu Kakunin-sho for my Methylphenidate and Diazepam as well as my Opipramol and Trimipramin I applied for 100 Tablets of Methylphenidate and 50 Tablets of each of the other medications. I also provided a Medical Certificate as well as detailed description of the Medication, which means Packaging, Producer and Generic Name as well as Dosage and Efficacy. I also presented my onwards Itinerary to prove I need the amount of medication.
In General I tried to have them as much Information as possible. Also I got Copy’s of the actual Prescription before leaving. I printed every application.
I received my Yunyu Kakunin-sh which I applied for on the 20.04 on the 22.04.
I applied for the Import Certificate on the 03.04 and needed to add documents on the 16.04 after they had questions regarding my diagnosis and the amount. I needed to completely renew the application via Email to the Osaka Narcotics Control Department. They were really supportive and helpful even though I got worried after not having received any documentation until a week before my Trip last week but they send me the approval documents 2 Nights before the start of my trip.
I assume that because of the huge amount of Morphine they considered my application very carefully which I actually appreciate.
What surprised me was the airport I had to check that I was carrying Narcotics and immigration didn’t even asked anything. And when I was at customs he also directly wanted to send me on my way. I was irritated I always thought that Japan has strict customs laws - I told him that I have Narcotics his demeanour changed a little to more serious showed him the certificate - the only wanted to see the first page of six pages and opens my bag to show him the medication he looked and give me a good to go. He did not count or verified any of the Medications - I know Japan is a trust based society but that was really surprising for me.
If you have any questions let me know :)

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Our kitty has been on a daily dose of Fluticasone (generic Flovent) for a couple years now and she started losing a lot of her fur on the areas adjacent to her nose. We use the Aerokat chamber and bought a cover for it but it doesn’t seem to be helping. Had anyone else had the same issue? Her vet has not been very helpful. We’ve also tried antibacterial and antiseptic ointments, wipes, and an antibiotic shot and nothing seems to help, this has been going on for almost a year now.

A great deal of AGP content is portrayed as a man who doesn't necessarily want to become a woman becoming a woman. These scenarios are typically some kind of magical curse or science experiment gone wrong or something like that. Basically, it seems like it's more often an unwilling subject, at least at first. However, a comments section may be chock full of "I wish that were me"-adjacent statements, as though the commenters not only wish to become a woman but (most likely) wish to be a part of the entire scenario, initial unwillingness included.
It's quite rare to see actual POV AGP erotic content. Even lazier content like TG captions are not usually written in second person or even first person, and I'd be willing to bet that the most common perspective is third person for captions and literature. There's an exception of CYOA slop, but even those have a tendency to be in third person. It's usually about some bland guy with a white name who ends up being TGed.
This brings me to the main point and question: are AGPs attracted to the scenario of someone becoming a woman just as much as or even more than themselves becoming a woman? I know, for myself, that it can still be attractive to see the former, although I also greatly enjoy the latter. It just seems interesting that there is less AGP content than expected that captures the "literally being a woman" side of things (although there still is a reasonable amount out there.)
I do get that it could be a way to have generic characters to self-insert as. But still, it seems strange to have such a bulk of third person perspective content given a desire to embody something. The very nature of it seems to show the regular heterosexual desire (arousal while viewing a woman) just with the AGP twist.
Anyways, I'm curious about how many find it attractive to see another man transforming into a woman. Is it less so, about the same, or even more so than you yourself being a woman? Is that just because you imagine yourself in their place or is there more to it?

TLDR - I rant about not understanding userspace tools that well and then ask "how can I reason about being efficient at doing linux things and how can I quickly gain insight that answers critical questions - why does this exist? why is this the best approach? how does it work?"
I fully expect that the answer to this is because "because things are harder to manage at the kernel level" but I'm still interested in the details.
I'm a computer science major that used to work on web backend before slowly moving towards systems-level programming. I mostly write C++ now (completely self taught) and have taken up learning linux tools like tmux, vim, sed, awk and also nice community-developed tools like fzf and zoxide to ease my dev workflow.
One thing I find in common between everything linux (or should I say posix) related is that there seems to be a large paradigm shift away from web-oriented languages that drive fast software development. A huge side effect seems to be modularity.
I'm struggling to put into words what I mean here so I'll lead by examples. Rather than being about *why* I should use it, linux-based software seems to be "we exist and if you think you might need us, start reading manpages". There seems to be an implicit trust that the software maintainers have made good decisions that isn't exactly user-facing.
Take tmux for example. I recently tried to implement primeagen's harpoon workflow - which in 1 sentence makes tmux sessions accessible through pre-homerow (and also vim buffers). I mucked around with trying to make sessions sort themselves temporally like :choose-tree does before realizing that choose-tree has its own internal implementation that for whatever reason isn't publicly available. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that is powerful because of its configurability. Wouldn't it benefit users to control the main display board?
C++ might be another example. The language is massively obfuscated as I'm sure many of you know, and I've spent many nights reading books on move semantics, generics, template argument deduction, you name it (scott meyers and vandervoorde ftw). And yes C++ isn't linux specific but I feel follows very similar systems principles in regards to its development (and is in fact tied very closely with microarch)
The common thing I'm seeing here is the word *why*. I feel that if documentation or discussion around the language started with justification for it being there in the first place, that all reasoning follows.
I also find it hard to believe that learning linux tools isn't the kind of skill that applies to "fear not the man who practices a thousand kicks ones but one kick a thousand times". I see linux tools as just that - tools, an end to a means - and don't see the merit of spending dozens of hours learning the intricacies of some tool when it just needs to do one thing well (core linux principle). Kind of like how the best mathematicians and learners don't memorize proofs but instead make things intuitive to them so that they can rederive them at a whim.
Another aspect that systems-level dev that I think does differently is incorporate many more "paradigms" into their workings. Whereas high-level languages like Java, golang, python have a "shtick" (garbage collection and strong typing, easy scripting language with duck typing, etc) the tree of concepts seems to branch much more heavily. I feel that the latter is much more economical especially when my job is to get a certain thing done, not learn obscure things (thought it is fun)
A final point that I might make is that the linux ecosystem of tools constantly makes me feel like I don't understand what I'm doing. I have a feeling that the right workflow is something like trying new things on a need-to basis but I constantly feel like I don't know what's going on even after reasonably understanding what terminal multiplexers, tiling window managers, shells, temrinal emulators, etc are. I feel that one of the hallmarks of a good engineer is being able to answer the 5 key W's - why, what, how, etc. My answer is mostly "because I don't understand the linux ecosystem to be able to justify why what I am doing is efficient" - and "I find it hard to believe there is something better) is not adequate justification
So, all of this might be a massive skill issue. And I'm sorry if this comes of as demeaning in any way to you guys but time is fleeting and as much as I love tinkering with my config and learning obscure stuff I think it's in my best interest to be learning efficiently so I can be the best engineer possible.
So, I am curious as to two things

• how do you go about reasoning through doing linux stuff?
  
• why aren't linux tools more modular, task-motivated, and better documented?
  

This chapter is probably not the coolest in all stormlight archive but it's the most emotional for me. We get to be with our Bois from bridge 4, spend time with them, each of them gets their own time (the main guys anyway) and I really loved it. This chapter makes me smile, feel sad, and cheer for them.
We follow the POV of Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor (yes I take pride for having rock's real name memorize). And we got to see our Bois from bridge 4 training and learning how to inhale stormlight together with some new recruits. While my wholesome Horneater prepares dinner for them, he nearly unalived the lopens cousin for adding spice to a drink but it actually makes the drink better and Rock has to refrain from throwing him off the cliff.
We got to see the lopen being the lopen. He's just showing off and when his lashing fails, he explains to the "earth" how much he loves her and will not leave her for the sky is so hilarious plus he has hands now.
We also had a really wholesome moment with Rock and Renarin. My baby boy Renarin approached bridge 4 eagerly but he still shows a small amount of hesitance. Rock gave him something to do and Renarin did it happily and we got to see how wise Rock is, he knows when to push someone to talk and wait for them to talk. Renarin expressed that now that bridge 4 are becoming windrunners and him as a truthwatcher doesn't fit it and got to see Rock explains that him being a different radiant doesn't mean he's not bridge 4, like rock who does not fight, like Dabbid who does not speak, hobber who can't walk, and Rlain who is a parshman. No matter how different they are, or how strange, or how weird they are all bridge 4 and so was Renarin. This is my favorite scene in the chapter, I really loved it and when Renarin walks to Rlain and just sits there, it was so fitting for both of them it made my heart melt. This made me shout BRIDGE 4 (and the salute) in my room.
Hobber was so desperately trying to inhale stormlight and when he did he was overjoyed that he called all bridge 4 attention. Everybody gathered around him cheering him and the lopen made his first bridge 4 salute with two hands! It makes the scene more emotional. I found myself cheering and jumping for the Bois and so happy for hobber to finally walk again after his incident with Szeth from WoR.
While bridge 4 is training Rock saw a group of honorspren in a couple of plateaus away, there was a big honorspren in human size, I call her mama honorspren. Rock gave respect to them and they watched bridge 4 for a while.
Lastly, it was so heartwarming to see rock finally united with his family and we got a peak at his backstory. When they go back Rock insisted on carrying the bridge for this is their LAST BRIDGE RUN! Because the next time they move, they take to the sky as windrunners! I was so sad and happy that this is their last run.
I am so proud of bridge 4 coming from one of the most difficult times in their life, to being body guards to the kings and finally becoming radiants. I have never felt more emotionally attached to any group in a book unlike bridge 4. I'm excited to see where their journey will bring them.
Journey before Destination radiant.

As a fan who grew up with the original series which opened my eyes on the power of storytelling, I m sorely disappointed.
To the creative directowriter: Story is king.
What the hell? How can you go from a simple but elegant and emotionally resonant black and white sketches with music score rivaling to Hans Zimmer to these disgustingly ugly cut scenes? I understand you might want to take a new direction but after watching a few test runs, nobody had the balls to stand up to Cunningham and said "bro... what the #!@$?" and change direction?
What is wrong with you? The end of Homeworld 2 opened so many possibilities for a sequel and you picked the worst. How can you transform such an original idea where everybody was emotionally invested in and turn it to a dollarstore production with a cartoony villain and an uninspiring hero (I already forgot her name). I didn't even understand or care what was her problem!
How many time do we have to see the protagonist "acting" with her eyes closed as if someone pooped in that tank with her hair flowing around her head with pre-hardware rendering hair physic? Did you have a professional team at your disposal or you just borrowed your cousin's access to Vancouver Film School's computer lab on the weekend? The reason you are trying so hard to force people to feel something because the story, the struggle, the arc are so weak and they fail at every imaginable level.
Less is more. Much more.
I will never forget the impact of the first and the second game. I will never forget how I almost cried at the "She insisted that she would be the last person to disembark and set foot on the homeworld". Perhaps Rob Cunningham, time for you to disembark from the franchise and let someone else more talented helm it. You are no Karan S'jet to take this franchise home.
I am not the one dwelling on the past, I am just disappointed on what the "future" just offered me for 220$. But I will swallow this bitter pills and go play again homeworld 1 and 2 remastered.
P.S. Scarring on ships are a good idea until you are so good at the game and capturing all enemies capital ships. When they survived after 1 or 2 battles, all you see are a bunch of burnt steaks on the screen (See picture). I literally headed into the final missions with 16 "burnt steaks" destroyers, not ships. This passed quality inspection?
/quietly shake my head

Hello All,
Recently switched over from Manjaro and just cannot get steam working well at all. Using Proton tried installing both .deb and flatpaks with the same results.
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64 Kernel: 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic CPU: Intel i7-4790 (8) @ 4.000GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Here is the output of dmesg grep -i nvidia
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[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic root=UUID=2c3ad99b-c756-4f3e-a9f5-1bcd37bef189 ro quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1 vt.handoff=7
[ 0.053956] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic root=UUID=2c3ad99b-c756-4f3e-a9f5-1bcd37bef189 ro quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1 vt.handoff=7
[ 7.177423] audit: type=1400 audit(1715736724.317:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe" pid=381 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 7.177427] audit: type=1400 audit(1715736724.317:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe//kmod" pid=381 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 7.701112] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 7.701123] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[ 7.816256] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
[ 7.818883] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[ 7.820202] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input17
[ 7.820300] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input18
[ 7.820339] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input19
[ 7.820391] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input20
[ 7.934705] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 550.67 Tue Mar 12 23:54:15 UTC 2024
[ 7.944353] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 550.67 Tue Mar 12 23:29:25 UTC 2024
[ 7.946900] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[ 7.966017] caller os_map_kernel_space+0x124/0x130 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
[ 8.628675] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[ 8.662801] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[ 8.741132] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 235.
[ 20.251305] [drm:nv_drm_master_set [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership
```
Here is `ls mod grep nvidia`
``` nvidia_uvm 4927488 0
nvidia_drm 122880 9
nvidia_modeset 1355776 12 nvidia_drm
nvidia 54116352 210 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video 73728 1 nvidia_modeset
```
Any thoughts, I am working on trying out older kernels to see if those worked for me, I also installed the 470 driver with no luck.
Thanks in advanced!

WARNING: This story contains strong language, mild violence & fictional political radicalism.
(Note, this story portrays the human side in a morally negative light. If you do not like that, then turn back now.)

ULJJAK KASERKOR, ANDZAKTAR, THE HOMEWORLD, ANDZAK EMPIRE, 11,772 A.C. 

Standing in the centre of the Andzak Governing District, in the heart of the Andzak Empire, is the Tree of Civilisation. While there is no direct translation into Human Standard, the meaning of the tree, including its name, stood for the long continuity of Andzak civilisation and the Andzak Empire.
Surrounding the tree were the marvellous palaces of the Imperial Government, the Imperial Advisory Council directly appointed by the emperor among them. The palaces were meant to be opulent and expensive, as if you were a lowly governor coming in from the Outer Provinces, the rows and rows of perfectly symmetric crystalline walls combined with the mirrors to allow the Andzak aristocracy to witness the superb influence of the Imperial Authorities.
Looking into those spotlessly clean mirrors was me, Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. According to Imperial audits of my activities, I am a "sub-par administrator, foreign to both the Andzak Empire and it's traditions, and the Andzak aristocracy" as Councillor Dlirij once said. In short, they've been looking for an excuse to exile me to a low-ranking advisory position on a third-band world out in the middle of nowhere.
And, as such, I am keeping this diary to myself, so in the event that Councillor Dlirij or one of his cronies tries to bring up charges against me, I am capable of fighting them effectively.
So, what am I doing, thousands of lightyears from my homeworld looking up at the Tree? I am here to report to the Advisory Council of an intense gamma-ray disturbance next to the uninhabited system of [UAG-2113]. Gamma ray disturbances of this scale usually mean the development and testing of superluminal weapons, which are severely restricted under the [Interstellar Accords].
Superluminal weapons are capable of obliterating entire solar systems if given enough energy. The most powerful superluminal weapon ever tested by the Andzak Empire vaporised 3 light-years of space, and fried every unprotected electronic within 117 light-years.
So this means it is understandable that the Empire might be concerned by yet another civilisation in hold of these excessively powerful weapons, especially if they don't know who has them, and they're being tested in the Centauran Reserves, an area that has barely been explored by the Empire due to the Centauran Pandemic a hundred years ago.
By my side, is the Military Advisor Vraxh Huljukrj. To be honest, we don't get along, and while I technically outrank him, stripping him of his rank would be an essential guarantee that the Regional Military Consul would be pissed. Vraxh has gotten into the Armed Forces through nepotism with the Consul.
"So you're bothering the Advisory Council with third-world bullshit just because one sensor buoy near a system nobody's ever heard of in the middle of fucking nowhere read some extra spicy particles?"
Vraxh, for whatever reason, still won't understand the severity of the situation, despite me having explained it to him at least a hundred times over the past 2 weeks we've been travelling here.
"I have explained this to you half a dozen times Vraxh, if you pester me about this decision one more time I will eject the rest of your belongings into space!"
To be honest, I haven't been particularly kind to him either. He kept bugging me with intentionally annoying overexaggerated questions over the 2 weeks we've been travelling here, so while he was in the bathroom, I ejected the bed in his room into the vacuum of space. While he wasn't amused, I found it incredibly funny.
"Okayy, fuck! Fine.."
Maybe I'll have even garnered his false support when the aristocrats in the Advisory Council wonder what I'm doing there.
Me and Vraxh right behind me walked up to the meetings desk. Behind the desk, is a short and relatively aged Andzakian in the uniform worn by imperial servants. He is looking at his holopad, appearing to have not noticed the two borderworlders at the desk. I attempted to grab his attention.
"Hello, sir?"
The imperial servant didn't appear to be surprised, and just looked up at the two with a condescending glare, confirming that he did infact know they were there, and just didn't pay any attention.
"Imperial Advisory Council case #1,714?"
He said the words sharply, as if he had already thought of them hours in advance.
"Yes, sir. A gamma ray disturbance in syste-"
"I don't care. Wait in the lobby, when you are called, arrive on time."
The servant interrupted me rudely, before pointing at a sitting area in the lobby.
I walked over to the lobby and sat down, with Vraxh reluctantly following me. After half an hour of awkwardly silent waiting, the loudspeaker in the lobby called,
"Uljjak Kaserkor and Vraxh Huljukrj, attend conference chamber C-1 immediately."
I immediately got up pulling Vraxh with me, before hastily making my way over to the conference chamber.
The guards at the door opened the heavy chamber doors with a loud thunk.
Sitting in the furthest conference seat was- god damn it, I shouldn't have come!
Sitting in the fanciest conference seat of them all, was Councillor Dlirij, with the biggest shit-eating grin I've ever seen.
"Deputy Governor Uljjak Kaserkor. What matters do you disturb the Advisory Council with this time?" Dlirij said, in generic aristocratic government drone.
I steeled myself with my own government training, before responding through nearly clenched teeth,
"Councillor Dlirij, thank you for coming to address my meeting."
Saying it was my meeting whilst also not using the formal address style was something I knew would piss Dlirij off, but thankfully he couldn't do anything about it according to the formal rules of the palace.
Indeed, Dlirij's grin reduced and he just looked me in the eyes, before saying,
"Deputy Governor, get straight to the point. What do you have to show me?"
I laid out a briefcase on the table, opening it and beginning to explain.
"3 weeks ago, an intense gamma event occured in the uninhabited system [UAG-2113], 3,679 light-years from the Homeworld."
I took a deep breath.
"As you would know as a Councillor, Councillor Dlirij, gamma-intense events in this fashion nearly always signal the activation of a superluminal weapon, legally considered an ultraintense weapon by the Interstellar Accords and thus prohibited for any Interstellar State to possess them aside from the Andzak Empire, the Union of Galactic Republics, and the Ksirlok Dependency."
I paused.
"I am requesting an Advisory Council initiated investigation into what caused the disturbance. If this is not achieved, it could be greatly threatening to the order in the Galaxy."
I then handed Dlirij the papers, which he started to look through.
In the silence while Dlirij looked through the papers, Vraxh had said nothing. I gave him a subtle glare for him to contribute, which he did. He reluctantly said, without thought,
"Councillor Dlirij, the Military Consulate will be the next to be contacted, if we do not succeed here."
I was not pleased with what Vraxh had said. He tried to challenge the Councillor's authority with a threat to go to the military establishment if we got nowhere here. I opted to remain silent though.
Dlirij looked at Vraxh with a glare of anger, before looking back down at the papers.
A few more awkward minutes passed, before Dlirij passed the papers back to me.
"So, you spend 2 weeks travelling to the Imperial Homeworld and the most honourable palaces of the Empire, with your little sidekick, just to bother me, Hasjaxhar Dlirij, with gamma radiation readings from one isolated buoy, nevertheless in the Centauran Reserves, where it has been proven by the Imperial Surveying Authority that there is no intelligent life?"
Dlirij's hand moved underneath the table.
"Councillor Dlirij, I believe you are mistaken by what I have given an explained to you, please-"
At this moment the guards burst through the door, before knocking us both out with the butt of their plasma rifles.
...

SEVEN FOUR EIGHT, NEW YORK CITY, TERRA, ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE, 147 A.R. 

"...Comrades! On this date, July 16th, 147 years since the Revolution, humanity has taken yet another great leap under the leadership of the State. On this day, we have successfully detonated a superluminal weapon."
"A weapon that breaks the laws of the universe, a weapon that propels an object at thousands of times the speed of light, before dropping it back into realspace just before it hits its target. A weapon that, prior to today, the distant enemies of humanity cannot have dreamed of. A weapon that has just obliterated the Wolf 359 star system. Due to the ingenuity of our technology, not only do we get to witness the flash of our excellence, but we can also observe from this distance with our electronics intact!"
"Today, from this date, humanity is not only indivisible, but invincible! We, led forwards by the State, shall never be destroyed by those distant in the void, and our Black Banner shall soon fly on every planet in the Milky Way!"
The crowd cheered.
From my position, it looked fairly typical for a propaganda gathering. Soldiers surrounding the speaking Party official on a tall podium, with the Black Banner of the Almighty Celestial State flying calmly but sternly in the wind. Mounted to structures surrounding the gathering area are various slogans of the Celestial State, among them "HUMANITY INDIVISIBLE" and "THE STARS ARE OURS".
Truth be told, I am not an avid supporter of the ideology or the State. I come from a rural background in the middle of nowhere in North America, and have only joined the Armed Forces because the Party Militia showed up for their quota of soldiers.
In the State, all jobs are connected to, and thus in support, of the Armed Forces. While I was perfectly happy to continue living a solitary life with my family in rural America, I honestly didn't have much choice, and so here I am.
After the gathering, we are told to go back to our barracks and thus be assigned roles by the commanding officer.
I come through the door, and am immediately escorted to the commanding officer with two elite Party Militia members to my side.
"Soldier #7,487,782,311. Due to demand, you are being changed from Military Communications to Reconnaissance starting immediately. You will be transported to the Orbital Station, before boarding a Javelin class reconnaissance ship. The ship will not set sail into the void immediately, so the new crew can get accommodated."
"Got it, commissar. I will be ready in 5 minutes."
The commissar seemed to offer a pleasant nod, before stamping my identity card with the official Government stamp. It read,
"ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE
#7,487,782,311
APPROVAL TO LEAVE THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT
ISSUED BY C.O. #2,349,522 - IF DISCREPANT CONTACT NUMBER ON SLIP"
I packed all of my belongings into a state-issued carrying pack.
Looking at how many belongings I have, pretty much just my uniform and Communication Device made me reminiscent for a time I never lived. How was the world before the Revolution? According to my family, the world was far better before the Revolution. They even had food that they could buy from private individuals, and not just State rations, which I find hard to believe.
The Communications Device had a light next to it's camera that blinked red every few seconds. This was to indicate that the camera was actively recording and watching me. I decided to stop thinking treasonous thoughts, and finished folding and packing my uniform, before taking my carrying pack with me.
After leaving the barracks, I walk past a building with the Emblem of the Celestial State painted on one of the walls, with artistic sunrays surrounding it. There are soldiers saluting the emblem, surrounded by armed party militia, while reciting the pledge of loyalty. I continue walking between two barracks towards the rocket area.
This base is lucky specifically to have it's own dedicated orbital rocket area. If I was stationed out west, I'd likely have to spend hours in the back of a troop transport vehicle being driven to the nearest site.
After a few minutes of walking down the bleak path, I reach the rocket area. There are people queuing to get in the rockets, and I join the queue. All of the soldiers infront of me look at the very least uncomfortable, and some look terrified. While looking ahead of me, a place ahead of me I see a vaguely familiar face.
"Eight one four, do I recognise you?"
His eyes go wide, and he recognises me almost immediately.
You see, this is a childhood friend of mine. Was my neighbour, in the rural countryside and the absence of the state, fuck, even when some parts were controlled by the Resistance, we could play forbidden games from the pre-revolution world.
I moved away from him probably 4 or 5 years ago with my family, which ended up being a mistake. It was in a larger community where the Guards showed up and conscripted me alongside a number of my family members.
"Yes, yes! I recognise you! An-"
Without even thinking, I cover his mouth with my hand.
"Don't!"
His face goes white and he realises the mistake he was about to make, and thus addresses me the proper informal way.
"Seven four eight, how have you been?"
"I've been decent. Can't say too much to be honest. Just bumbled around trying to look for something to do. Then I ended up here. You know how that's like."
Eight four one chuckles.
"Yeah, I know how it is."
We both tried to avoid treasonous language, which prevented us from having a meaningful discussion. It was nice to catch up though.
The line slowly moves forwards. I am close enough to the entrance of the orbital craft to hear a commotion ahead involving my friend.
"Soldier #8,142,327,494! Present your identity documents!"
The Soldier ruffles through his carry pack looking for his identity documents, and after a while, finds them.
"Eight one four! These documents do not have the commissar stamp!"
Two militia members point their service rifles at my unfortunate friend. I am enraged and know what is about to happen, but there is nothing I can do. I look around and see the guardsmen in the guards building, as well as a few guards snipers in watchtowers above us.
I helplessly watch as a third guardsman knocks him to the ground with the butt of his rifle, before he is hand and leg cuffed and escorted away. New militiamen come out of the guards building to take up their positions. I just silently hang my head, performing a neutral expression.
I arrive at the front of the line.
"#7,487,782,311! Your permission slip!"
I feel for it in the pocket in my pants, as that's where I left it.
Except, my pocket is flat, with no identity documents, I frantically feel inside the pocket, and do not feel them.
My face goes white and it feels like my knees are about to give way.
I look inside my carry pack with the guard giving me an intense stare. I find my documents, and hand them to the guard. He checks and verifies them, and I am let past. While walking past the guard, I hear over my shoulder from the other guard,
"Seven four eight. Do not forget the location of your identity documents next time. You know the consequences."
I walk aboard the ship without holding up the line, and sit down in a cramped troop transport seat. It wouldn't matter, entering orbit only takes a few minutes.
I look out of the orbit craft door towards my friend being escorted away into the distance, he gives me one final, depressed look, before him and his escort round the corner.
After a few minutes, the last soldier in the line is boarded onto the ship, and a loudspeaker voice calls to the gathering area that the ships will be leaving.
The landing door closes and the ship shudders. Due to the lack of windows, I have no idea what is going on outside. I am pressed back and down into my seat, as the ship accelerates into the sky.
The acceleration gradually slows until I can only feel the shudder of the ship fighting the atmosphere as it leaves. Gradually, gravity weakens and I begin to feel no weight in my seat.

EIGHT ONE FOUR, NEW YORK CITY, TERRA, ALMIGHTY CELESTIAL STATE, 147 A.R. 

As I round the corner, I see my friend's look on his face. Steeled sadness. I appreciated it in a world of no emotion.
The guardsmen around me had tied my leg cuffs too tightly but were also forcing me to hurry up and walk at their speed.
As I am forced underneath the temporary holding shelter, my leg cuffs are cuffed to a support beam of the structure. The guards then walk into the commissar's office, while a guard in a watchtower keeps an eye on me.
I see the landing ship my friend is on slowly start hover into the sky. Blue plasma shoots out of its 4 engine ports. It stops increasing in altitude, turns around and rapidly accelerates. I see it shoot off into the distance with a vapor cone around it's tail. The extremely loud rumble of it's engines slowly gets quieter and quieter, until it disappears from view.
The guards return from the commissar's office.
Both with neutral steeled expressions return to the shelter. I am held down and injected with a needle, and my vision slowly fades to black.

Becoming
imagine this scene: driving down an immortalized wish, every tender piece in this image dissolving into fragments softer than flesh. you’re waiting for something stronger as you find yourself loitering in the corners of that daydream, life blooming into the start of infinity. TAKE 2 & you are reborn.
imagine this scene: a childhood shattering into glaring constellations & suddenly you cannot grasp every shift undoing on your skin like a parasite. you are slicing another dream into pieces until everything coalesces & you see the creases on your fingers- your mother used to say those lines are the pathways where spirits roamed, finding home inside you like a god. TAKE 3 & you are reborn.
bask in this memory: a carcass of a past life burying itself beneath the soil & you inhale the phantom embedding itself in the air: it reeks of time & oak & rotting memories, every heaven lacing its chrysalis of a child around your body & finally you are infinite. you can feel something destructive taking root in your body but you cannot name this enigma- all you know is that you will dust the debris in its wake. TAKE 4 but you’re still you like all the life before the storm.

tl;dr we got an ACH debit for $1500 more than rent should be according to our lease.
We received an email from our management company in March saying they were transferring ownership to a new company starting in May. They needed our bank account information so the new company could do ACH debit. We discussed and went with it. We got a phone number and name for the new company.
Starting late April we began calling the company to see how we would pay rent. The number was for a generic call center that never called us back. No mail or email with information about the new company. We needed repairs in early May; no one came. Ended up calling 311 for a hot water issue.
Today, we received two debits (two leaseholders) that add up to $1459 more than the amount in our lease. We called the same number and a variety of tenant hotlines to report, and disputed the charges with our banks, but have never been able to get in touch with the so-called landlord or company.
What recourse do we have? Anyone been in a similar situation?

Ali Baba: The Ali Baba is a type of amusement ride consisting of a stationary horizontal gondola with a 360 degree swinging pendulum.
Alpine Slide: A summer toboggan is an amusement or recreational ride which uses a bobsled-like sled or cart to run down a track usually built on the side of a hill.
Booster (Fabbri): Booster in an amusement ride made by Fabbri.
Bumper Cars: Bumper cars or dodgems are the generic names for a type of flat amusement ride consisting of multiple small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator.
Condor: The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower".
Hayride: A hayride, also known as a hayrack ride, is a traditional American and Canadian activity consisting of a recreational ride in a wagon or cart pulled by a tractor, horses or a truck, which has been loaded with hay straw for comfortable seating.
Motion Simulator (like The Simpson Ride)
Rotor: The ride was first demonstrated at Oktoberfest 1949 and still appears in numerous amusement parks. The Rotor is a large, upright barrel, rotated to create an inward acting centripetal force supplied by the wall's support force.
Zipper: Most models of the Zipper follow a similar basic format: A long, rotating, oblong boom with a cable around its edge that pulls 12 cars around the ride.

Maybe I just haven't tried enough of the skincare 10% versions, but most recently I've been using The Ordinary's 10% suspension for Azelaic Acid.
Well, I wanted to try the 15% prescription strength so asked my PCP to write a script for the generic finacea - so just generic 15% azelaic acid gel tube. Insurance even picked up the bill, so it was $10 for a 50g tube!
I've now been using it for a couple of days and I like it SO MUCH more than The Ordinary's. It goes on so smooth, even though it's a gel it feels more like a light lotion or cream. It dries nicely, is not quite at 'matte' as the name-brand lower potency stuff, and frankly is less irritating.
Imagine that - cheaper, generic, larger tube, nicer feel & application, less irritation!
What other secrets are out there where the cheaper & more potent version of a product is substantially better than the 'fancy' stuff?