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Glock 17 Gen 3 Slide with Trijicon HD Night Sights

• Slide and barrel are EOM
• Internals are aftermarket (same spring weight specs)

~~$320~~ $295 OBO

Looking to preferably trade (or sell) some OOP books I have for some OOP books I'm looking for. Here are the books I have to trade:

• Batman: the Golden Age Omnibus Vol 9 ($185)
• Wolverine Omnibus Vol 1 - First Printing ($145)
• Inferno Omnibus ($145)
• Secret Warriors Omnibus - Original Printing ($70)
• Secret Warriors Omnibus - New Printing ($52)
• Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol 5 ($52)
• Sins of Sinister ($40)
• 100 Bullets Omnibus Vol 2 ($40)
• X-Factor Epic Collection Vol 1: Genesis and Apocalypse ($20)

Note: Only selling 1 of the 2 Secret Warriors Omnibus
For pricing I took the average of the last few eBy sold listings (excluding shipping) and took 20-25% off that. Shipping from Canada is costly so please add ~$15-20 for shipping to USA. Feel free to make me an offer.
Refer to the linked pictures for the condition of any books or feel free to ask for additional clarifying pictures.
Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/WIy2p91
Books I am interested in:
Image OHCs

Kill or be Killed Deluxe
Fade Out Deluxe
Fatale Deluxe Edition Vol 1
Fatale Deluxe Edition Vol 2
Criminal Deluxe Edition Vol 3
The Complete Phonogram
Marvel OHCs
Daredevil Vol 1 (Kevin Smith) OHC
X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine OHC
Marvel Omnibus
All-New Wolverine Omnibus
X-Men Legacy Legion Omnibus
X-Statix Omnibus
Fantastic Four By Waid & Wieringo Omnibus
Uncanny X-Force Omnibus
DC Omnibus
Sleeper Omnibus
Batman by Paul Dini Omnibus
DC OHCs
Superman - Kryptonite: The Deluxe Edition
Man and Superman: The Deluxe Edition
Batman: A Death in the Family - The Deluxe Edition

Originally posted on "ask a priest" reddit and cross posted here for any experience laity may have with any of the questions I have or if there is a Priest on here that would like to field these questions
I am unsure if the answers to the questions I have will be practically usefulness or not, as the answers will probably dictate my wife's thoughts and motivations about this, but it might be and as the spiritual leader of our marriage I want to get some answers for her and I have curiosity about the nature of catholic cannon law anyhow, (philosophy BA I think the history of it compaired to modern practice and interpretation interests me as a intellectual persuit). I hope this thread can help me find some answers and be an interesting non judgmental conversation. Warning... it might be a long one... I will also leave out a lot of the spiritually significance unless it is relevant to cannon law.
For background I (m38) grew up non denominational christian, baptised at 4 (baptist at the time) and remained so for almost 3 decades. Around 2017 I was introduced to Messanic Judaism and by 2020 I was practicing Judaism and had renounce my Christiananity on a path towards Judaism and I will have my Bar Mitzvah at the age of 39. I was previously married in a christian church in 2011, separated from my ex wife 2020 and finnally got a divorce in 2022 (custody battle delayed the divorce greatly).
My wife (f42), was born and raised roman catholic and was actively practicing most of her life. However down her maternal line her grandmother is Jewish making her Jewish. In 2018 she separated from her then husband (heavy drug use and probably infidelity) and moved from the east to west coast. Got a legal separation then. She never got an annulment but got a legal divorce a while before I did.
My ex wife left our marital home in june of 2020, I met my now wife shortly there after. By Oct 2020 we begain living together. At this point we were regularly going to our Synagogue but she was not going to mass. Since then we have been to a handful of service over the years as something she finds confort in even as we fully embrace Judaism as our practice and the way we choose to serve and honor Yeshua ("jesus"). We were legally married by a Rabbi in a Jewish ceremony March 26, 2023. By both US law and any interpretation of Torah we are married.
My wife would like to still beable to attend AND take sacrament every once in a while. We have no intention of regular practice but its something that she is deeply connected to still and calls herself both a catholic and a Jew. But she has not be able to legally take communion for years and would like to. I believe you may beable to predict some of my questions, also feel free to correct any of my misunderstandings or misinterpretations of cannon law as I will include those in my question.
We did speak to a priest some time ago before we were married about thr process of annulments and marriage in the catholic church but some of the situation has changed since then and my understanding of cannon law and also increased since then. But from what I understand, according to the catholic church and cannon law we are still married to our exs and are essentially co habitating and this currently prevents her from taking communion. The only way for her to be in "a state of grace" and thereby beable to take communion is if we were to get annulments and then get married in the catholic church, but that poses a myriad practical problems, including ones that may be impassable for the church to perform a marriage mass for us, and that is what my questions are about. All of these questions are assumed to be the case if we are granted annulments, (which that would take a while the process seems needlessly extensive for something that is normallt granted) or if some sort of dispenation could be given to solve that or any of hte other hurdles here.
As I understand a catholic can marry a non catholic as a sacrment if they have been baptised in a christian church, which I have, but I have also renounced my Christiananity, is the fact that I was at one time a baptised chrstian whats important or what I am currently practicing? Alternatively if a catholic, marries a Jew (or other non Christian religion) I have read it is not done as a sacrment, can a catholic living with a non Christian spouse return to a "state of grace"?
As I understand it would require us to return to a "state of grace" for 6 months. We have no desire to lie to a preist to get them to perform the ceremony. This would involve not co habitating or at least litrally refraining from sexual relations for those 6 months. Neither one of those options are valid or even something we would remotly consider. Even if we consider it ourselves, which would be utterly ridiculous, under the eyes of G-d we are husband and wife and it would actually be forbidden by Torah for us to refrain for that time frame or reason. Assuming we did get annulments would a priest perform a marriage mass still if we made no changes to our home or sex life?
I understand there is a requirement for us to commit to raise our children catholic, but her sons are grown, raised Catholic but now agnostic, my son is 4 years old and we are raising him Jewish. However we cannot have any children of our own medically so there will be no children from our marriage. Would a commitment need to be made about my son? Or is this only in regards to children born to the union?
Again neither one of us intend on regular practice of catholicism but my wife would like to continue to come to mass every once in a while and partake, she would like to regain and maintain a state of grace with the church but we will not violate the sanctity of our marriage for that nor do we want to lie to a priest about our life or intentions.
All answers are appreciated and if there is any consiteration of dispensations or indulgances (do those still exisit?) that might help us in this situation that information would also be appreciated and helpful.
Thank you and G-d bless.

have a fitbikeco str 2018 and want to upgrade to a bigger frame, (bsd sureshot, from i think 20.5 to a 21.3). already had the bb,cranks,chain,sprocket and pedals changed, but is there anything else i need to buy if i change it

Do I think she have the best chance to join smash bros? No especailly since sonic is around as much I don't like his presentation in smash bros but that doesn't stop me to hope about it, I am planning to do for carol and milla though not neera lee and why PJiggles video on octolinks will explain to you, I am doing it assuming either smash 6 will have the same physics as ultimate or of she join to ultimate deluxe type of deal, no smash 4, melee, brawl and whatnot without further ado:
Lilac will be the second fastest character in the game with a ground mobility of 1.3 times of captain falcon but in order to access it, she to gain enough momentum to pull it off, and she have very high mobility being 0.9 of yoshi's,
Compare to sonic she a far more rushdown based chacter, having a mix up playstyle of kung fu user and a ballerina type of moveset, being a brawler that have some swordie esque gameplay with her generally disjointed hitboxes which while slower than the avrage brawler make up for high damage without sacrifice too much speed and range.
Her main strengths come from her combo game, high mobility and balanced air physics, great recovery, and among the best shield pressures in the game.
Her main weaknesses are her survivability being the 6th lightest character in the game, mid air commands grabs can make her time harder, and while she not lacking in out of shield options from front and above behind is a different story with pancaking since her back air is somewhat narrow.
She will excel against charactera who have poor disadventage, lackluster recovery or short range like wolf, bayonetta, byleth, greninja, terry, and young link to name a few, and will struggle against characters who can stand up against her reach and speed like mythra, cloud, roy and meta knight with by far her worst matchup is sora for having, really most of the tools to counter her gameplay.
She have two jumps and would have the ability to wall jump.
Gimmicks:
1.Lilac her an energy meter that have 10 ticks to let the player know their state of how much they can use her specials, besides parried down special all of her specials are rely on the meter with neutral B can be used for 5 seconds, side B 10 times, up B will drain all if you allow it to get fully though you have a way to cancel before it all drained, and 2 times for down B.
2.lilac have a special technique called the parry jump or PJ for short, after parrying an attack she can jump while carrying the I frames of the parry allow her mix up to break out of disatventage and overall being less predictable with the main weakness it require a timing of 4 frames during a parry so you need to be ready, she can also cancel the PJ for another thing like a double jump, an air dodge, and attacking but she will lose the I frames in the process of choosing one of those options.

I am unsure if the answers to the questions I have will be practically usefulness or not, as the answers will probably dictate my wife's thoughts and motivations about this, but it might be and as the spiritual leader of our marriage I want to get some answers for her and I have curiosity about the nature of catholic cannon law anyhow, (philosophy BA I think the history of it compaired to modern practice and interpretation interests me as a intellectual persuit). I hope this thread can help me find some answers and be an interesting non judgmental conversation. Warning... it might be a long one... I will also leave out a lot of the spiritually significance unless it is relevant to cannon law.
For background I (m38) grew up non denominational christian, baptised at 4 (baptist at the time) and remained so for almost 3 decades. Around 2017 I was introduced to Messanic Judaism and by 2020 I was practicing Judaism and had renounce my Christiananity on a path towards Judaism and I will have my Bar Mitzvah at the age of 39. I was previously married in a christian church in 2011, separated from my ex wife 2020 and finnally got a divorce in 2022 (custody battle delayed the divorce greatly).
My wife (f42), was born and raised roman catholic and was actively practicing most of her life. However down her maternal line her grandmother is Jewish making her Jewish. In 2018 she separated from her then husband (heavy drug use and probably infidelity) and moved from the east to west coast. Got a legal separation then. She never got an annulment but got a legal divorce a while before I did.
My ex wife left our marital home in june of 2020, I met my now wife shortly there after. By Oct 2020 we begain living together. At this point we were regularly going to our Synagogue but she was not going to mass. Since then we have been to a handful of service over the years as something she finds confort in even as we fully embrace Judaism as our practice and the way we choose to serve and honor Yeshua ("jesus"). We were legally married by a Rabbi in a Jewish ceremony March 26, 2023. By both US law and any interpretation of Torah we are married.
My wife would like to still beable to attend AND take sacrament every once in a while. We have no intention of regular practice but its something that she is deeply connected to still and calls herself both a catholic and a Jew. But she has not be able to legally take communion for years and would like to. I believe you may beable to predict some of my questions, also feel free to correct any of my misunderstandings or misinterpretations of cannon law as I will include those in my question.
We did speak to a priest some time ago before we were married about thr process of annulments and marriage in the catholic church but some of the situation has changed since then and my understanding of cannon law and also increased since then. But from what I understand, according to the catholic church and cannon law we are still married to our exs and are essentially co habitating and this currently prevents her from taking communion. The only way for her to be in "a state of grace" and thereby beable to take communion is if we were to get annulments and then get married in the catholic church, but that poses a myriad practical problems, including ones that may be impassable for the church to perform a marriage mass for us, and that is what my questions are about. All of these questions are assumed to be the case if we are granted annulments, (which that would take a while the process seems needlessly extensive for something that is normallt granted) or if some sort of dispenation could be given to solve that or any of hte other hurdles here.
As I understand a catholic can marry a non catholic as a sacrment if they have been baptised in a christian church, which I have, but I have also renounced my Christiananity, is the fact that I was at one time a baptised chrstian whats important or what I am currently practicing? Alternatively if a catholic, marries a Jew (or other non Christian religion) I have read it is not done as a sacrment, can a catholic living with a non Christian spouse return to a "state of grace"?
As I understand it would require us to return to a "state of grace" for 6 months. We have no desire to lie to a preist to get them to perform the ceremony. This would involve not co habitating or at least litrally refraining from sexual relations for those 6 months. Neither one of those options are valid or even something we would remotly consider. Even if we consider it ourselves, which would be utterly ridiculous, under the eyes of G-d we are husband and wife and it would actually be forbidden by Torah for us to refrain for that time frame or reason. Assuming we did get annulments would a priest perform a marriage mass still if we made no changes to our home or sex life?
I understand there is a requirement for us to commit to raise our children catholic, but her sons are grown, raised Catholic but now agnostic, my son is 4 years old and we are raising him Jewish. However we cannot have any children of our own medically so there will be no children from our marriage. Would a commitment need to be made about my son? Or is this only in regards to children born to the union?
Again neither one of us intend on regular practice of catholicism but my wife would like to continue to come to mass every once in a while and partake, she would like to regain and maintain a state of grace with the church but we will not violate the sanctity of our marriage for that nor do we want to lie to a priest about our life or intentions.
All answers are appreciated and if there is any consiteration of dispensations or indulgances (do those still exisit?) that might help us in this situation that information would also be appreciated and helpful.
Thank you and G-d bless.
PS I will probably cross post this to catholicism as well.

hi, iv got a odroird xu4 with two usb hard drives attached, runing ubuntu some how during an upgrade i lost my two usb drive, lsusb picks them up but when i do a mount -a i get :
odroid:~$ mount -a
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root
odroid:~$ sudo modprobe fuse
modprobe: FATAL: Module fuse not found in directory /lib/modules/5.4.256-427
lsusb : Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0080:0578 Unknown External USB 3.0
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0bc2:3322 Seagate RSS LLC SRD0NF2 [Expansion Desktop Drive]
@odroid:~$ uname -a
Linux odroid 5.4.256-427 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 11 16:20:24 UTC 2023 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
iv tryed reinstalling fuse but i get the same error, bar reinstalling how can i fix this?

I already made the first post regarding episode 1 and 2, here are the links, if you are interested:
https://www.reddit.com/PolinBridgerton/comments/1d8p07y/analysing_thematic_imagery_of_season_3_episode_1/
https://www.reddit.com/PolinBridgerton/comments/1daa5se/analysing_thematic_imagery_of_season_3_episode_2/
Same note as before: I do not claim all of these thoughts as originals of mine, I am not taking credit for noticing what others already noticed, and feel free to credit those who were first in comments. Also feel free to comment what you see and I do not! Or challenge me or mine.
I shall do my best to deliver analysis of the fourth episode before part 2 drops.
General imagery of the season so far (feel free to skip if you read the last post or posts):
The main thematic imagery of this season is reflection; how characters are perceived by others and how they deal with those perceptions. It ties to both leads, who were given roles by society which they must fight from time to time, and how society’s perception of them changes and controls them. Mirror imagery was important throughout the previous season not only for Pen and Colin, however in this season in particular, mirror imagery appears very often, and I expected it to continue (ehem ehem).
Tied closely to reflection imagery, we see the dichotomy of light and shadows. This dichotomy is alluded to by titles of 3 episodes of the whole season; and through this dichotomy, social roles and expectations are established. Colin is in the light, showered by compliments from members of the Ton, while Pen is forced to be in the shadows. She uses the shadows as LW to her advantage, while Colin uses his power within the light to his advantage.
The general idea is that Pen needs to decide whether she wants to stay in the shadows, which might be easier, or whether she is willing to take a risk by stepping into the light. Other characters are also haunted by their reflections. I shall dive into it in each episode.
Episode 3: Forces of Nature
While the second episode heavilly relied on the dichotomy of the day and the night to showcase masculine and feminine power, the third episode features dichotomy of nature and humanity. I have very briefly touched upon it in previous analysis regarding the promenade, when Pen asks whether she can learn to flirt through books and the moment was juxtaposed with the nature behind our leads.
It is not a new dichotomy for the show. We can for example remember the ending of episode 6 from previous season ("Animals require no contracts or dowries. The hen and a rooster make no vows. Leave it to people to complicate matters with their ceremonies and their cakes.").
The nature represents the attraction and longing, while the humanity represents either obstacles in following our desires, or simply a rationale to be "sensible" instead. Lady Whistledown acknowledges that people can somewhat triumph ("Humankind has accomplished extraordinary feats in its attempt to compete against nature."), but the episodes concludes that not only will the nature win in the end, the battle does not even include the nature, but the people who fight themselves. Basically concluding that there are no winners.
"All of man's greatest inventions are nothing more than a distraction from which is most natural to us. Our instincts. The innate animal impulse that is inside even the most sophisticated of us. For all is said and done, our nature will always win out."
Both Penelope and Colin fail to fight their own feelings in this episode.
While the natural forces refer to inner desires, we might focus on the literal natural forces which symbolize them: the Featherington garden (aka the place of crime), and the fire; the most featured in this episode, though, is the wind. The natural force which ensured the first meeting of our leads and (at least according to the books and trailer for part 2), caused Penelope to fall for Colin, as he (literally) fell from his horse.
I shall get to it more later. Let's go again scene by scene.
Third episode begins with Colin's dream. Dreams are of course heavilly linked with both Colin, Pen and their desires. Ironically, Colin's dream represents his waking up Marina alluded to in the last season ("You are a boy, caught up in his own fantasies... You need to wake up, Colin!").
While Penelope stopped dreaming and gave up on her "fantasy" after Colin's comment in the end of season 2 ("I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington, not in your wildest fantasies."), Colin is awaken at the same place, in a cheeky way, by his dream.
The Featherington garden represents crucial moments of their relationship so far. Firstly, it was the place where he broke her heart by his statement, and sparked her intention to marry. Secondly, of course, it was the place where they came to their agreement, with her agreeing to move from him by accepting his help, while he put himself in a vulnerable position to face feelings he did not acknowledge before. Thirdly, it is the place where he was forced to face his feelings VERY directly by agreeing to kiss her.
Colin's subcontious wants to "repair" the moment. It is cheeky for Colin to apologize for the late hour, which might have been appropriate for their last meeting, as well.
Fans have had a lot of fun dissecting Colin's psyche, as Colin's dream features basically every cliché of a raunchy romance novel, which is, of course, very intentional. The first shot features the fire burning, symbolizing Colin's realized feelings. The fog might either allude to the mystery whether Colin's love is requited, or to form a "protection from the gazes of others".
This episode offers a lot storytelling through clothing with Colin especially, and I shall dive to each of his looks. Generally speaking, Colin trades vulnerability for his armor repeatedly in the first half of the episode, culminating in his Innovations Ball look, which I find the most vulnerable.
Colin in his dream is dressed similarly as he was in the end of episode 2, however, his neck is now bare, alluding to his vulnerability. Pen's neckline is lower, her loose hair as well as the fit of the gown make it seem like she is in her nightgown. Still, it is very respectable look for a wet dream, likely to showcase and hammer that Colin did not found vulnerability anew, not sexual desire.
I find it interesting that the shot does not start with Colin walking into the frame, who is the one dreaming, but with Penelope. Perhaps the intention was to try to mess with fans and give them the impression it is Pen who dreams. Colin does not get confirmation of her feelings until he admits his. Again, Colin is the vulnerable this time, not Penelope. The scene focuses much more on her pleasure than his, either to again fool the audience, or again, to sell the difference.
As Colin wakes up, we get more visual clues in the globe and the map, likely alluding to his travelling experience, which are connected to his sexuality. The other is, of course, that his blanket is yellow, a color tied to Pen (resembling the shal Violet has in the portrait, again to sell the paraller of the couples, even before Violet states it to the audience at the end of this episode). He looks to the window, which might allude to him trying to find her, as she lives accross the street, which he likely did for the first time in last episode, or trying to find the light, representing a) his social role as a popular charming rake, and b) his masculine power.
Gregory's injury might thematically tie to multiple things. Gregory was established as a cupid, who pierces Colin's heart, and who now can't do so, meaning that Colin is trapped. Gregory can also represent Colin himself as he can't even properly eat with his injury, which was something Colin also mentioned of not being able to do so. We know that Gregory falls injures the hand before he has a chance to see the balloon, which might foreshadow the ending of the episode, when Colin tries to find the answer, only to not get it and be hurt.
Colin comes to the drawing room in a brown vest. The color of the vest reminds me of his pirate coat, and I wonder whether it is basically his "casual armor", the one he wears around his family now, not wanting them to know of his feelings. It is also worth pointing out that when Colin walks in, he goes to his brothers who sit seperately from the sisters and the mother, almost to shocase Colin's tendency to trying to follow male squad, even the toxic one.
Our dearest prophetess Hyacinth strikes again by mentioning Penelope. It is worth noting that while Colin is distressed, he still realizes that he likely hurt Eloise by commenting on Lady Whistledown finding about their ordeal, and seems to attempt to follow her to make sure she is fine. Colin can't refer to Penelope as his or as a friend, so he opts to refers to her as the acquaintance of the whole family and sips the tea this time. Colin's drinking is a recurring gag this season, showcasing his growing attraction towards Pen.
From the Queen's and Agatha's meeting, we get an interesting gag of the male suitors being thrown. Penelope fell for Colin when he fell from the horse, which is rather cheeky to remember when the one falling this time is Debling.
Penelope leaves her room just in time for her to a) be reminded of the importance of producing an heir, b) be reminded of her reasons she intended to find a husband, hearing her sisters. I believe that it is Eloise's comment that sparks Pen's hope to find a husband once again, as she gets her blessing. Penelope knew she couldn't stay away for long, but to keep her column, not because she gained hope.
It is quite reasonable that Penelope chose to promenade after week in her room. We are left to wonder why Colin choose to do so and if he was perhaps trying to see her. However, from his expression, I do believe that he was surprised to see her. Colin is the one who follows Pen this episode, showcasing the change in the dynamic. Penelope often followed him instead in the previous episode.
Penelope's styling seems very childish, with her ribbons, hair to the side and pinkish and lilac tone of her dress, perhaps a visual way for her to distance herself from the ordeal and that kiss. Colin is wearing the style akin to previous seasons, with his armor being left home. They are children once again. The willow the meet under might symbolize innocence, protection, childhood, as it somewhat shields them from the Ton. The long distance show might allude to them suddenly feeling a gap between themselves, or perhaps a need to keep their distance after the whole ordeal.
It is cheeky that Penelope relies on her double identity when asked for a reasoning. She might have just as easily pointed out the Ton itself, instead, she uses Lady Whistledown she disparaged in the last episode. Just as Colin refered to the Pen in regards to all Bridgertons, Penelope refers to her and his family regarding the embarassment. Pen thanking Colin for his kindness is of course very funny paraller to her comment about his cruelty in episode 1; a comment which might have hurt him the same.
Debling starts the episode as the hunted "prey", not only as Cressida (and later Pen) is after him, but by himself, as he wants to find a hiding place. However, Debling of course changes into the "predator" later.
Stowell House in general does not seem particularly inviting. It either displays mirrors or the "prey" on the walls, signalling Pen's entrapment. Penelope does not hide even in her corner, where she is found by the toxic buddies.
Penelope assures her mother that Ton will likely be distracted by the new scandal. Portia of course does not know that it is Penelope herself who is Lady Whistledown, and who might have a chance to publish such a scandal, but only if Pen leaves her hideout. Pen later offers social contagion as a joke, which might be a fun way of alluding to her double identity, as she holds a bit of power regarding social assesment.
Mirror imagery is quite cheeky regarding our leads and Debling. Pen's back is seen in mirror behind her, which might signal that she is currently social outcast, still uncomfortable after the incident, or visual signal of Pen hiding her identity.
With Colin's arrival, it is Pen who looks at him first, just when he looks at Eloise. Colin notices and continues to look, while Pen looks away and hides as a "prey". Colin turns away and we see a glimpse of him in the mirror. Pen fell first, but he fell harder. Colin flees the mirror, as he will continue to do so in this episode, following her.
Debling does not mind the mirror at all (something he seems to share with Agatha and Benedict) and as Pen becomes more comfortable, the mirror seems to dissapear from the shot. It is worth pointing out that both Colin and Debling have waistcoats with yellow ornaments, alluding to both of them being interested in Pen.
Colin is accompanied by the candles both when Eloise mentions Penelope, as well as when he is "assessing his pupil", alluding to his growing love. I do not think it was unintentional to have Alice mention his "kindheartedness", after Penelope thanks him for his "kindness". Not only do both mention the possibility of a different suitor, they also use similar language when speaking of Colin's role in it, rubbing the idea deeper.
Even more cheeky is that Alice does not refer to Penelope by name, only as a pupil, while Colin comments on it as "gossip" finding their home. Colin refers to Whistledown when asked about Penelope; while Pen is, of course, both subject of the gossip as well as its source as lady Whistledown.
Eloise'a and Cressida's scene alludes to Eloise walking to the crossroads and choosing a path she might regret. Eloise does not help Cressida much, but it is enough for her to easily win over Pen at first.
Finally, we get likely the most in face reference of the episode: Hawkins Balloon, with its blue and yellow stripes. It likely symbolizes our leads, with Colin seeing the balloon (aka embracing the opportunity of them becoming a couple), while Pen ignores it in favour of Debling.
Colin arrives in his armor, aka with his pirate coat firmly on. But his defence crumble rather quickly. He follows Penelope immedietely. At first, he follows her instruction to focus on sweets, but more and more into the scene, he just begins to look at Pen, the only exception is when Pen compliments Debling, as he feels a need to hide his feelings.
Colin loses his battle while seeing Pen eating the cake. The cake symbolized sex even back in 102, when Pen asks Marina how did she become pregnant. What is striking, though, that the next time Colin is shown on screen, he took off his coat and seems to finish Penelope's cake. Colin lets his armor down, just before his heroic moment.
The balloon is representation of a human attempt to "triumph" over the nature, to "conquer the wind". Funnily, as Colin with the help of his squad protects the balloon and wins over the wind, he loses his own battle against it internally, as the wind represents his desire for Penelope. Colin finds courage and allows himself to be vulnerable (by leaving the pirate coat, his armor, behind in the arms of one of his toxic buddies), only for him to find Penelope in Debling's embrace. Eloise and Cressida's remarks might be quite cruel foreshadowing for the later events. "It is good thing no one was injured." "Who says I wasn't?"
The distress of Colin at Innovations Ball is implied with his darker waistcoat, bare neck and him adjusting his jacket. Colin attempts his best to smile for Eloise, but it is a rather unsuccesful attempt. If I dare say, Colin seems like he is attending funeral. His question whether a man can be pensive is rather interesting, not only as it is pun on Penelope's name, but as Colin asks basically if he can be himself.
Penelope and Portia ignore the lamp, the sorce of fire and light, which I would argue, represents the love between Pen and Colin.
Benedict refers to Francesca as "his shield" from the debutantes, and we see Benedict succeeding in fleeing the debutantes with the sister by his side. Eloise, on the other hand, leaves Colin to them, leaving him "unprotected". This is hammered with Violet, who without the children by her side, becomes the target of Marcus. It is no wonder Francesca finds her man when she is allowed to return to her familiar shadows, with fireplace representing love, passion and desire once again. Benedict, too, fails to "battle the nature", as he finds himself in the embrace of his newest partner, after he meets her at the staircase, with her looking down on him.
As the debutantes ask Colin if he is as heroic on the dancefloor, Colin moves his head instead of answering, while we get the shot of Pen holding her own dancecard. It is quite clear. Colin is losing his chance.
While Penelope's and Cressida's race is for comedic effect, it showcases that a lot of times, women fight over guys they might even want, just because they fear someone else will snatch them. While Cressida is pressured to be married, no one points out that she almost married Jack last season, someone who turned out to be a schemer. Daphne won her own "race", only to end up with Simon. Cressida fails to gain Colin's attention in season 1 and 2 mostly due to her treatment of Penelope and Daphne.
Penelope finds herself on the crossroads between Colin and Debling. She chooses to look at Colin, showcasing to the audience that Pen is romantic at heart. While Colin answers the question of debutantes, he is in fact encouraging himself, but as he can't help but look at her, she takes it as his confirmation of wishing her good luck as a mentor. Just as Pen unknowingly let Colin down in willow scene with her words, Colin just done the same. Cheekily, Debling asks whether Pen has trouble with the balloon, while she answers "not at present". As she gave up on Colin in that instance.
Penelope herself pretends to love nature to secure herself a naturalist, ignoring her own desire to be with Colin. Ironically, she secures the naturalist by openly stating she does not really care about nature, when she cares about what nature represents in this episode. Debling giving Pen lemonade ties narratively to Pen leaving the lemonade at the table during the Full-Moon ball, as well as her leaving it at drawing scene with Colin.
I believe that Debling caught on Colin's feelings at this instant. The reason I believe so is that Pen's dance card was still blank and Pen gave Colin time to react. Debling did not ask Penelope for dance beforehand, and she hoped that Colin would speak... which is something Colin might have realized once Penelope gives Debling his hand and dance card is visible to him.

I’m looking into a career in IRS-CI, but I had a couple questions that are a bit of an oddity and I can’t find answers for elsewhere.

1. I’m a member of the Guard. Can anyone speak to how the being a traditional guardsman has affected their career in the feds? Especially in 1811? Obviously, you can’t be fired because of missing work for guard duties but can’t it still have a negative mark in your career?
   
2. My wife will be going to radiology school for the next two years, so in that time frame I don’t want to have to head off to FLETC. Would it be smart to apply for a normal IRS examiner job with the desire and hope to move over to IRS CI within the next few years? Is it easy to make that move? Or should I begin applying now and just take the chance. From what I’ve seen, it looks like the hiring, even if accepted, takes an ungodly amount of time.
   
3. I’m about to start studying for the CPA. Will the CPA help whatsoever? I currently have a masters degree in accounting, focused in forensic accounting.
   
4. Lastly but not least, I’m always curious to hear people’s experience at Glynco. I’ve been through basic training and a decently rigorous tech school at this point, do any of those compare?
   

Thank you for any and all help.

We moved in our new home and for the past couple of week I started setting up all my smart home tech I brought with me. This is when I stumbled into some weird issue that blocks me from having smart lights:
Since the switch boxes for our wall switches are too small I can not put Sonoff or Shelly or any other smart relay behind them. So I thought I would put them in the ceiling outlets next to the lamps. I already pulled the extra wire to power the relays through the conduits and had the relays connected.
Now here is the fun fact: The relays turn on immediately when I reconnect power and do not react to the physical switches. When measuring the switching wire there is 230V but as soon as I put some load on it the voltage breaks down.
My layman conclusion is that there seems to happen some capacitive coupling along the 3-5 meters where the live and switching wire run next to each other. Since I assume the relays do not put any load onto the switching wire, the voltage induced triggers the relay. I am sure I can not be the only/first one to have this issue but I must have searched for the wrong terms online.
I would rather not spend a fortune on new physical smart switches (there are a lot of them at our place) which also would most likely not be compatible with the Gira System 55 covers/frames that we have.
So how do people fix this in the smart home world?

I have 178 seconds worth (@60 fps) of 3840x2160 png frames (10681 total) and a 178-second stereo mp3 music file from the Free Music Archive. My goal is to upload the highest possible quality video (both image and audio quality) so that the resulting YT product will look and sound its best. My OS is Linux Mint 21.3 with kernel 5.15. The man page for ffmpeg provides a lot of detail, and even has a sample command line for turning many frames into a video, but as a spoiled boomer I hope to be spoon-fed what the command line for my case should look like. Here's what I have so far:
ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 60 -i ./frames4K/animated/L01game%05d.png -i ./music/musicfile.mp3 -frames:a 10681 -s 3840x2160 L01game4K.mp4
which I would execute within the parent folder of /frames4K and /music. But how do I specify the H.264 video codec? How do I specify the AAC-LC audio codec? Should my upload be HDR or SDR? What do those mean? How do I set a video bitrate of 53 to 68 Mbps? An audio bitrate of 384 kbps? Should I explicitly set the aspect ratio of 16:9? Do I need to set the color space to BT.709? All these specs are taken from the YouTube help page for "recommended upload encoding settings"
Most importantly, what did I completely miss? Thank you.

This was originally posted by u/ObjectivePea516 and u/RhinoRev40 who posted to relationship_advice
Original Post May 2nd, 2024
u/ObjectivePea516
My boyfriend of 9 months purchased a home and said he bought it with “me” in mind as we have talked about a future and wanting to have a family. We have had many serious talks about our relationship and we’ve both met each other’s families. He previously lived in a home for several years and has always thought about changing his living situation and also wasn’t sure if he even wanted to stay to live in the same city. To my surprise, he went to see a house without me knowing and put in an offer. Long story short his offer was accepted and he’s made comments about how he thought about this house for us eventually. I’m not sure how to feel about it, I’m really happy that he got a house he really likes and at the price he got it for. But I feel we’re not there yet to move in with each other. Also, in no way did I have a say in the decision of this house or the location so I don’t think him to say he got the house with “me” in mind is fair. He hasn’t considered the commute for me to travel to work or anything that would be considered specifically to actually having me in mind. He bought this home one block away from his previous house as he will be renting out that home now, so this home by default is a great location for him overall. I’m not sure how to feel about his comments and his expectations with me and the house.
Additionally, I am a student and the closing of his house happened to be the very busiest week of exams and assignments I had due. We had conversations about how I could not help him move and there seemed to be an understanding, that week consisted of working on a presentation, studying for an exam and working on a paper. Any other free time I had I invested in self care such as working out or doing yoga. However, on one of those days I posted a selfie where I was proud to have accomplished so much in the morning before going into work and he got extremely upset about this. He went on to say I didn’t care to help him move and that I didn’t want to help him move essentially and made a huge deal about it as he bought this house with “me” in mind. What do you think of this?
Edit to give more context:
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• The house was bought entirely with his money. I have zero financial contribution to this.

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• We never talked about a specific time frame when I would move in. It was a discussion about how it’s something we both would want eventually

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• We did talk about how I would contribute when that time comes, in which I mentioned expenses such as hydro, utilities, internet etc..I also made it clear that in no way was I expecting a free ride and not to contribute anything. That’s just not my character.

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• The selfie that was posted was a close up shot of my face with sunglasses on and enjoying my coffee! I had made a list of accomplishments of tasks I did that day and wrote it in this picture: “meal prep ✅, work out ✅, coffee ✅, sunshine ✅… great way starting my day so far!”

UPDATE: How would you feel if your boyfriend (M38) of 9 months purchases a home and says it’s for you (F34)? We Broke Up! May 17, 2024
Original post
https://www.reddit.com/relationship_advice/s/qlMCWJePi8
I realized that when we talked about the reality of me moving in with him, I mentioned that I could sell all my furniture but would want and need to keep my desktop computedesk, his response to me was that he wouldn’t let me have my own room for that and to get a laptop instead. The man has an entire room dedicated to his sneakers. When I also mentioned the commute and how I’d have to pay for parking, as I take the subway to work currently, (not a big deal in comparison to paying for the mortgage, but still an expense) he said there could be days he could drive me, then followed it up with “but you don’t ever drive me to work”.
He did not buy the house with “me” in mind at all. It’s clear that this is HIS house and he wasn’t going to share his space in any other way besides how he wanted it.
We had plans for me to come over on a specific day but had also fought. I admitted and apologized that I could have put my anger aside and came to help. However, I wanted reassurance that he understood that if I have my own priorities and we discussed this, he cannot throw it in my face and tell me I did not meet his needs. I’m not saying of course that in any in case I would not drop something for my partner in an emergency. I did not feel that he understood this. And when I tried to explain this he said that I was “retracting my apology”..I just kept feeling constantly misunderstood and having to defend myself in this relationship with other issues as well. That was the end of that. Better to cut it off sooner than later and before taking the relationship to the next level of commitment. It definitely sucks.
AND I showed him this thread in which he of course was upset, says he felt betrayed. He called me “entitled” as he thinks I am saying I he bought it FOR me, which I am not in any way. He’s missing the point for this post in which I think he doesn’t want to take accountability for not acknowledging he was wrong for throwing it in my face. The main point was guilt tripping and using the “I bought it with you in mind” response. Because clearly, even if the commute was not in mind (currently, I live in an expensive area so to not buy a house here is a valid point), the ability to actually live with him was not with me in mind! He really absolutely did not care about me as a person and my needs or even can understand what a real relationship is. He skimmed through all 565 comments and screenshotted the best ones that validated him and sent them to me to prove, he’s a “good guy”.
MY SIDE: My ex ( 36 not 34F) made a post saying I ( 42/M) told her I bought her house and has blocked me from commenting. How about I share some context? May 18th, 2024
u/RhinoRev40
Her post: https://www.reddit.com/relationship_advice/s/ooTwyFNwWk She only showed me this a few days ago, but for the past couple of weeks my now ex gf has been curating the truth to extract as much validation as she can from this situation, and has prevented me from commenting or sharing my side.
She admits that I actually said - that I bought a house with us in mind. I did say that. When i first met her, I was moving away to LA. I had already lived in a home that was paid off for 12 years, but when i met her; i decided that maybe it's best and continue to build a life here, and should things work out, we could figure out a future together.
I had been looking at the market and one day, an amazing house came on the block, for 300k less than it was a months ago. I pounced and went to see it. That night i told her i saw a place, i even sent her the photos and said, i'm going to place an offer, which i did.
She seemed to love the place and see how much of an upgrade it would be from my current place - this is a 2M house, with 4 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and most importantly, a garage as my cars kept getting stolen since i didn't have one at my current place.
There was never mention of us moving in together right away, at the time we were together for 6 months, wayyyy too soon. We weren't even saying "i love you yet" - and i did say that once actually, and she just didn't return it anyways.
That being said, since we spend 95%% of our time sleeping at my place when we see each other once a week, figure this would be good for us, and when it is time, we could move in together there and go from there.
She loved the place, from what she said, this was supposed to be a positive.
Now let's rewind though.
3 months into the relationship, she asked to borrow 4000$. I was not comfortable with it, but as usual, she made herself seem so much in need, that I couldn't say no and just break up with her there, but now I realize i should have. She guilted me sayinf that couples have to work together and be there for each other and all that jazz.
The fact is, within those first 3 months, i had brought her to LA while i had to be there on business and the total cost of the week that she was there was around 3K. Then, over xmas, we went to another city, another 2-3K, as well as a punta cana vacation for 7K. So after all that is when she decided to ask me, and you don't need to be a genius to realize thst she chose me because clearly, she pinned me as having the money to.
Had this been my wife or long term gf, this wouldn't of been an issue, but 3 months in - this was a big flag and i talked to her about it. As usual, and as a pattern throughout this relationship, she would get extremely angry, lose her cool and make me feel bad for "questioning her character".
So, fast forward to me actually moving into this house over a 3 week period. She helped none whatsoever, never offered and my own family, friends, and people who were working at the house asked me about it apl the time. Oh she has school, oh she texts me though and so on. Completely MIA until of course friday or saturday night where she wanted to go for dinners or go to shows - that we did, of course.
One day, once her exams had tailed down and she told me she was waking up early to write a photo, i saw that she posted a sunshine kissed selfie saying: yoga! Meal prep! Coffee! Sunshine!
And i wrote her privately: " you know, i feel you could have at least offered to help in some way today". Again, she loses it, tells me : " you know you don't have to tell me something just because it bothers you" and then eventually she says, and i will never forget this ever : " don't you think you're expecting a little much of me for 7/8 months of dating"?
I was shocked. For some reason, pressuring your bf for a 4000$ loan 3 months in, but offering help in any way over a 3 week period is too much.
I called it off, decided i don't need her and this relationship wouldn't work with this set of values we don't share.
A couple of days later, after trying whatever she could to flip this whole fight on me, constantly chaging the goal post as a pattern i had identified and made her aware of repeatedly over those 7/8 months, she eventually showed up unannounced, apologizing profusely, and apparently seeming to genuinely recognize that it wasn't right, and she could have offered.
I took some of the responsibility once she did, and said that maybe, i could have been more direct as to when and how.
We resolved, we started to laugh again, this was a fight that we would "learn from" we both said.
Well, last week we disagreed for another simple issue, and she blew up as she does, yelling, calling my life chaotic, calling me eveything she can think of, and then says she resents me for wanting her to help with the house when she had exams!
Basically she took back the apology fully and stormed out of the house, i did not chase her. I did not text her, and i did not want to negotiate at all anymore.
The next morning she said she acted like that because i told her she was fucked. Tbh, i don't remember saying that, but i probably did as she was having a massive blow up.
I apologized for saying that she is fucked because afterall, whatever i do is in my control and tried my very best to get her to see that blowing up like that, is her behavior to be accountable for.
That's when she shared the original thread... again - no words, shocked that for a couple of weeks in the background she had been farming all these comments about me, sharing our personal stuff and curating it in a way to make herself look like, you guessed it, a "victim" whose boyfriend "bought her a house"?
We met off hinge. She asked to borrow 3K from me 3 months in, and I told her since then that it just didn't look good at all, and I'd hate to have something like that i couldn't even share with my friends / family.
The facts are that she only shared as the relationship went on:

• she is over 40k in debt

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• Got fired from her nursing job because the educator had it in for her

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• Missed out on receiving funding from the school because of their online portal

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• Wasn't able to apply to graduate because the school didn't let her know properly

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• Hates her parents even though they gabe her a car, paid for her exams and other failed attempts at schooling in the past

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• Told me that her last relationship was "toxic" and she didn't see a future with him but stayed with him for 3 years and when they broke up, he threatened to jump off their building, same building she currently lives in - where 1 bedroom costs more than my previous mortage did for the 12 years that i paid it.

Overall, yes i had reason to play it slow with her. I didn't want her moving in on a technicality, or making me responsible for all her bills or getting trapped if things didn't work out.
I didn't buy her a house, i bought my house, in cash, paid in full and she was well aware that.
I bought a house because I had settling down in my current city in mind after meeting and had hoped it would work out.
But here she is complaining about if she would have an office in it, for...nursing?
A shoe room? I have 25 pairs of shoes in a closet. The spare bedroom would be for a baby's room, possibily if my future half is comfortable with that. Discussions would be had but i realized that discussions would never be had with her.
She has rage in her mind, a wild sense of entitlement and at present time is currently getting evicted from her apartment, and has no full time job but all the time in the world to make reddit posts for validation.
This problem is solved, she is not going to move in, and i am accountable for my house and hope she becomes accountable for "her house".
I welcome any comments / questions but i know I was dealing with a highly problematic person who will never truly realize her ways.
I am not the original poster. Please don't contact or comment on linked posts

1. Picture: At two places where the door Seal Is broke off i for some time have these Black spots. Wondering if Its accumulated dirt or mould.
   
2. and 3. Picture: Window frames. Several spots like these usually at similar places where some window mechanisms Are.
   

Thanks for help.

Replacing 2014 Infiniti qx80, likely within 6 weeks before we need to replace tires. (We are not counting on any trade in value.) It is my primary car. We used it to carry our kids, friends, sports equipment, luggage, dog, etc.
Now our oldest drives his own car, so the car I need will 90% of the time be used to commute round trip to work (<10 mi) and run errands. The other 10% will be for our family of 4 full sized people carting to baseball tourneys, driving to international airports (1.5-3 hours away) with 4 full size suitcases, shortish family road trips with 60 lb dog (all if I buy a big enough car).
Husband drives BMW 750. Very roomy but not great for carting stuff.
I’ve decided I don’t need a full size suv - that would be overkill for the vast majority of the time. But still want to have room to cart stuff when needed. However I am uninspired by mid sized cross over suvs. I like frame on body suvs.
We have been looking in the luxury segment but that isn’t an absolute. Cross overs in consideration:

• Genesis gv80 based upon car and driver report, but would prefer 2nd row captains which will come shortly with the coupe. It was fine but not necessarily inspiring. Worried about quality and reliability
• Audi q5/7. Had q5 prior to Infiniti. Liked it but now I’m meh about it.
• BMW x5/x7 also meh

The above comments aren’t super helpful other than I’m just not excited by mid size cross over suvs.
Any ideas? Buy a Tesla to commute and a truck to haul stuff even though we don’t really have space for a 4th car? Is there an suv I should consider outside of luxury?

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are putting together a book for game makers that aims to show how we can sustainably make games for sustainability. All perspectives and authors are welcome and we can offer support with writing as well as potentially expand the deadline somewhat. There is less than one week left until the deadline for the cfp below right now.
Patrick

Call for Abstracts – Towards Sustainable Game Design: The Game Needs to Change
Book chapter for an edited collection
Publisher: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group)
500 word abstract deadline 15th of June 2024.
There are NO submission or processing fees for accepted manuscripts.
Mission:
Join us in contributing to a groundbreaking collection of research and white papers aimed at exploring the intersection of games and sustainability. We invite abstract submissions from both industry professionals and academics passionate about effecting positive change in the gaming sphere. Together, we’re making a book about moving beyond mere greenwashing to collectively work towards systemic solutions. Let’s make games toward a sustainable world, sustainably!
In this upcoming publication, we seek to distinguish genuine sustainability efforts from mere green-washing tactics prevalent in the industry. Our editorial team will meticulously review abstract submissions, selecting those with potential to offer substantive insights and practical solutions to the pressing challenges of sustainability in gaming and a compelling vision for how we can achieve a sustainable future.
Our goal is to empower individuals and organizations across the games industry who are eager to make meaningful contributions towards sustainability. Through a blend of industry expertise and scholarly research, our book aims to provide actionable strategies and real-world examples to guide readers in integrating evidence-based sustainability principles into their professional endeavors and work for real, systemic change.
Possible Topics Include but are not Limited to:
• Systemic approaches to sustainability
• Production, processes and material conditions
• Telling Stories for a Sustainable Future
• Integrating Environmental Messaging and Learning into Game Mechanics
• The unique challenges of games
• Stories and visions of a sustainable game industry and future
• Discipline-specific methods and practices
• Impact-focused research on games and sustainability
• Analyzed experiences or stories of designing for sustainability
• Retrospectives on industry practice for sustainability game design
• Collaborations between research and industry teams
• Design theory or design practice theory
To have your essay or research considered, please submit a 500 word abstract by 15th of June 2024. Email abstracts with the title “book submission” to Clayton_Whittle [at] outlook.com
The Book:
For industry professionals, this book is a way to highlight both the challenges you are facing and your approach to them, to connect it to evidence-based research. For researchers, organizers, and activists, this offers the possibility for real-world impact and a chance to apply your findings in a concrete and impactful way. For all of us, it presents a chance to work with like-minded individuals on suggesting pragmatic solutions and to build a community for sustainability in the games industry.
As a book aimed at advising practice, essays and research will be organized into topic-focused sections. The editors will work with authors to organize essays appropriately. Editors will also provide a structure for each topic-focused section that frames the work of authors in the context of real-world stories, practical examples, and actionable advice. To facilitate this connected organization, and to also make sure that each contributor knows what is being said in the chapters before and after their own, we are planning a digital meeting between the editors and the contributors for each topic. In this meeting, we will give feedback to each other’s draft texts, find connecting points, and strengthen the argument of the book, while meeting the people who are working in our exact field.
In order to respect your time and work, and to make such a meeting possible within the time-frame of the editing process, the editors are aiming for a fast turn-around for submissions within 2-3 weeks.
Contributions:
Chapters will be max. 8000 words written in accessible language. Shorter contributions, especially practice-based and design work, are also explicitly welcome. Specialist terms and concepts will be explained and there will be no assumption that the reader is a researcher or specialist in a given development field. That said, it will be possible to use scientific and other references. About 50 illustrations in black and white are available for the entire book. We accept submissions with multiple authors as well as more than one submission per author.
Given that we are expecting contributions from a variety of fields, chapters can look quite different from each other. Some might be academic text while others can be an explanation of a successful organization process or advice for impactful design. We strive to accommodate these differences in the structure of the book and encourage submissions with practice-based topics. The editors offer support to contributors who are not necessarily used to writing in order to support such submissions and help you tell your story. What exact form this support will take will be based on the need of contributors in collaboration with the editor team.
We’re very interested in contributions and perspectives from those actively working on game development projects, and we also recognize that game industry professionals may not have as much experience with the writing and editing processes involved with this project compared to contributors with a more academic background. As a 15-year game industry veteran who has more recently learned to research, write, and publish work in this space, editor Trevin York is on hand to support contributors who are similarly interested in sharing their processes through these types of written projects.
Editors and Publisher:
The book is to be published by CRC Press, in the Tyler and Francis Group, in 2026 with a release during GDC. The printed book will have the following ISBN: 9781032836195. It is edited by Dr. Patrick Prax, Dr. Clayton Whittle, and Trevin York. Patrick is Associate professor of Game Design at Uppsala University and has been working with sustainability in game design education and the game industry. Clayton is the co-chair of the IGDA Climate SIG and Ph.D. research consultant for transformational games. Trevin is the founder & director of Dire Lark, a game design for change studio. Clayton and Trevin are also the first authors of the Environmental Game Design Playbook by the IGDA Climate SIG.
Timeline:
• Submission deadline for abstracts: 15th of June 2024
• Submission format: 500 words excluding literature
• Editor feedback: acceptance within three weeks, 7th of July
• Peer feedback on in-progress chapters: 15th of October, submission 10th of October
• Full chapter submission deadline: 2nd of December 2024
• Feedback within six weeks, 15th of January
• Final submission deadline to editors: 15th of March 2025
• Final Print Deadline: 01 May 2025
• Publication: GDC 2026
Abstracts with the title “book submission” to be emailed to: clayton_whittle [at] outlook.com
Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions at all!
Thanks,
Patrick, Clayton, and Trevin
Editors
Patrick Prax
Associate Professor at the Department of Game Design
Uppsala University, Sweden
patrick.prax [at] speldesign.uu.se
Latest Publication:
From Talking about Loot Boxes to Discussing Political Economy: Conceptualizing Critical Game Literacy
gamevironments No. 17 (2022): Special Issue "Social Justice"
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/180

So my goal weight is 180 and last Friday I weighed in at 199.6 (onederland!!!!). I had tears in my eyes if I’m being honest 😂 my start weight was 242-245 and since I’m naturally very muscular, 180 is actually very small for my frame. Today I weighed in at 200.2 :/ My goal was always to use this as a tool and then quit and I didn’t want to go over 5mg. Well, I’ve been on 5mg for 4 weeks (today would be the 5th) now and I’m considering moving up to 5.5 or even 6. I have 3 full vials (so 3 months of 5mg) left and wasn’t planning on getting anymore but just titrating down instead. My start date was march 3. This is the first time I’ve stalled but I’m SO CLOSE to my goal I think I might move up slightly just bc I’m almost there!!! I guess I’ll be ordering more medication after all 😅 ALL that rambling to say, circling back to post medicine. What are the supplements we are taking after we quit tirz to keep ourselves in check? Before this I had pre diabetes, super high cholesterol and just an in general lack of self control. I’ve heard berberine mentioned and I know staying on top of fiber is important, anything else? And lastly, can anyone who has stopped medication but kept weight of weigh (lol) in? Like how has your routine changed, how are you feeling, how hard was it? Long post, thanks for reading ❤️