How I passed the NCLEX in 85 without buying resources (eg. Uworld), cause some of us are broke! This is a long post but I wanted to be detailed for those who are super worried and want specifics!
1 Mark K: keep in mind that they are a bit old, the principles are generally the same though and was a helpful refresher. Lectures can be found online along with his lecture notes (search "Mark K free online").

• Create your own notes: I followed his notes but also made my own on a separate doc, it made it easier for me to navigate and allowed me to add in extra info from other resources (add info learned from practice questions!). I listened to the lectures once. Then I went over my notes a couple days before my exam, highlighting the key info I kept forgetting. The day before my exam I only reviewed the info I highlighted.
• Main topics from him that came up on my exam included adrenal/thyroid issues (eg. Cushing's), peds development + teaching (Piaget), and maternity.
• Warning: you will still need to supplement your studies. He only goes over a handful of conditions. Go through every body system after starting practice questions and write down pertinent conditions, just know what each are in general.
• Note: Mark K uses brand names. NCLEX only uses generic. You also do not need to remember lab values for next-gen!

2 Practice questions

• I searched up/downloaded a bunch of old Uworld. Also try extra searches online such as "free Uworld practice questions online". I downloaded the 2015 PDF doc from "PDFCOFFEE.com", and got to about page 1500 before my exam + did some other PDFs. Warning: some online links are finicky and you have to play around with them/delete many popup tabs.
• When self-scoring, remember SATA questions now give partial points (search up scoring rules).
• Nurselabs: I ran out of time to use this, but used it a bit during school. Tons of free questions + rationales.

3 Free trials

• After you have done a ton of PDF questions, do free trials. You want to do these near the end when you have a decent understanding of question format. Trials will give you exposure to the NCLEX testing format.
• Archer: has a great "24 hr" free trial. You can use it for longer than 24hrs but the question bank will reset meaning it may give you previously tested questions.
• NCLEX BootCamp: also a good free trial. I really liked that many questions have videos of people actually doing the questions/explaining them. It also has a readiness exam.
• Uworld: this trial is not as good but, free is free. It had 50 questions, many of them testing the same topics.
• FYI: if you end up wanting to buy them, there are many discount codes floating around Reddit.

4 Extra resources/tips/info

• Videos: obviously search up videos for topics you need clarification (eg. simple nursing, level-up RN)
• Saunder's textbook (bad idea, big waste of time imo): after Mark K I thought having a good baseline of the material would be best before doing practice questions so I started studying the textbook. It has waaaay too much info that's too specific, you'd never remember all of it. Went through half and it didn't help me answer a single question. It could be helpful for topic clarification but I thought videos on x2 speed were better. If you do want it, it's free on LibGen.
• NCLEX Crusade 7 day training YouTube: when I started questions I was miserable! I was getting everything wrong at first :(. That's why it's best to jump right into questions after Mark K cause they test on the most RANDOM shit that you cannot possibly create a baseline for it all. Learn how to answer questions based on type/format. I watched Crusade x2 speed which gave some helpful tips on how to prioritize. They are long, he stops a lot so you have to skip a lot, only watch if you have time.
  • Important tip: use M-ABC's and Maslow's hierarchy (pain is considered psychological not physical), for prioritization ask "is this a normal finding for this condition?", NCLEX is a "perfect" world.
• Vocab list: make a list of common term you keep forgetting. Questions are hard to answer if you don't know what the symptom means. Go over them a few days before your exam.
• Suffixes: very important to know! It's the best way to get through pharm. NCLEX also tests a lot on procedures. Learn ending such as "itis", "ectomy", "scopy", "otomy".
• Note conditions you see over and over in practice questions. For me i noticed: myasthenia gravis, guillian barre, diverticulosis/itis, pancreatitis, appendicitis, sickle cell. For Canadians, note scope differences between UNAs (HCA), LPNs, RNs.
• NCLEX sample: while they don't have answer keys, the NCLEX website has samples of the exams. Read through a couple just to get a sense of differences between the official thing and practice questions (don't read them all cause the no answers will just freak you out).
• Ask a friend!: there is no shame in asking friends who have written the exam already if you can use the remainder of their test bank subscriptions. I ended up doing one readiness exam thanks to a friend.

5 Overall

• I was answering average 40-50% questions correctly for about 2 weeks at the very beginning and averaged 70-80% correctly near the end. I studied 1 month and 2 weeks while working full-time.
• You will feel like you still know nothing and that you are guessing everything because the questions are so random, that's normal. Honestly, I almost feel like the NCLEX was just made to force us to study instead of testing our nursing knowledge.
• Lastly, believe in yourselves! Hope this was helpful! Good luck!

I had an extensive list of pre-made households to put into my town (like when you go into Edit Town and there are families there to insert into houses), but I can't seem to find where they are saved.
I've checked Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves and SavedSims, but its not in there. Where else might these hangout?
I did try searching online, but couldn't find an answer :( Thanks!

I would rather keep my personal story brief. I was neglected by my parents, but learned a lot of things about setting boundaries, avoiding validation seeking from them and being confident in doing things on my own. However learning to notice them doesn't mean I started doing them to the fullest.
I know that the best option is to avoid toxic people by going no contact, however that option for me is currently not so simple to implement. I am currently with my parents. My mother is the most troublesome from the couple. She neglects not only my emotions, but my personal space as well. She basically tries to treat me like a child - cleaning stuff that are mine; touching and moving my stuff; cleaning my room etc. without being asked to do so.
I've spoken to her on her behavior. Not surprisingly, it was as if I just spoke to the wall. The thing that bothers me is that this exact behavior is the reason I avoid taking action - because I expect someone else to come and do it. I even tried to battle with myself on that as to do the things before she did them, but then I felt as if I was doing it to be validated by her so it felt even weirder to convince myself like that.
I've done some research before to hear other people with similar struggles on YouTube and I've heard the suggestion to "Act as if your parents were dead". I started taking more action in doing so and I want to learn if there is something else that I might do to help me do the things I am supposed to do without thinking about my parents so much.
I never tried to connect with people who've had similar struggles like mine online, but today I had a fierce talk with my father that made me upset so I went online to search on the topic and found out this reddit community. I just want to ask you guys if any of you knows any mind-shifts that help you to stop waiting on someone else to do something for you or to wait for someone else to show you how to do it.
I do know the simplest answer is "Just do something" but I've been doing something for a long time now and it sometimes seems that I am just stuck in an endless loop, always thinking "I'm acting foolish as someone will come and do the thing for me" in the back of my mind.
Stay strong ❤️

i’m so uneducated with herpes. and for some reason i can’t find any answers online. my fiance wrestled in highschool and got herpes. he always would get his breakouts on his forehead or ear. it’s been 8 years together and i’ve not contracted it. his last break out was in october 2023. well we go to the beach last week and had to walk a long distance and he developed what we thought was just “chafe”. for three days he complained his balls were bothering him and how bad he was “chafing”. we’ll finally i said let me see it and i find a raw skin from the chaffing but below it i see a cluster of what immediately i thought were warts, warts but some of them were like open?? like a open pore that’s dilated??? i said holy shit are you sleeping with someone else you have genital warts???!! and he’s protesting that no absolutely not it’s probably just foliculitis. i googled up foliculitis and felt total relief because it did kinda resemble foliculitis more. well anyhow i told him he needed to go to urgent care to confirm this. so he goes, and the doctor says he thinks it’s herpes but offered a culture to be taken. culture has been taken and we get the results tomorrow. in the mean time i’m literally going insane. i’m thinking the forehead herpes was HSV 1, and he had spread it by itching his forehead when it had a breakout and then itching his balls???? but his last outbreak was in october and this is break out on his balls is happening right now?? does HSV 1 turn into HSV 2 once it’s on the genitals???? i’m shocked his doctor didn’t question him more about sexual health history, i asked my fiancé - did the doctor tell you how you got this? and he said no. what i did find online said that you CAN get HSV 1 on your genitals but only through contaminated oral sex…. ??? i literally have never had a herpes outbreak ever. so NOT FROM ME!!! please help me i need to know how he got this…..for my own health.

So i'm trying to sculpt a model. It's my first time doing it, but I've went through guides online which do a great job, and i get how to use it.
You might be asking at this point what is the issue then? The answer is i have no real idea.
When i use any of the sculpting tools on any of the basic shapes. Nothing happens. Until i use it on any of the edges of the shape.
Which do have an effect. That being a large chunk of the shape is removed. No matter the tool i use, or the size, and strength it's set on.
It gives the exact same result every time. Iv'e tried looking through anything online to see if anyone had similar problems, or ways to avoid it.
Yet there's nothing relating to the issue i am having at all. It's getting frustrating, and i hope at least someone here can tell me.
What i'm doing wrong here

Im (50m) a stay at home dad. Before we had kids I worked in IT and made decent money. Then my wife got a job opportunity in another country. I quit, we moved and i used the opportunity to do something else, and started my own online business. Then we decided to have kids and I stayed at home with the baby, while also managing the business at night, after wife got home. We ended up having 2 kids. Business went bankrupt during the pandemic and since then I’m exclusively a SAHD.
My kids are 13 and 9.
In the country where I live, it’s very common for an expats spouse be a stay at home as the salary of the spouse who got the jobs be enough for the family. But in all cases I know, I’m the only man who became the stay at home, all other cases it was the woman who followed the husband due to his job.
During this journey, I heard lot of things.
Here are actual things I heard (and my answers)

• wow your living the dream, fucking around the whole day while your wife works and pays the bills.

Yes I’m living the dream, but I’m not fucking around. Taking care of the kids is actual work, and a damn hard one. And A very important one too: you’re raising the future.

• who wears the pants in your house huh? Does your wife allow you to go outside? Do you ask her permissie?

My wife is not my owner or boss. My wife is my partner. Me and my wife are a team, each one doing their part for the the family. I’m not less (or more) of a man because I happen to not conform to your gender stereotype

• you don’t know what you’re doing, a man can’t take proper care of q child (not actually said on this words, but countless women expressing this on several ways to me)

No one is born knowing how to take care of a child. Everyone has to learn. Women learn. Men learn too. I learned, just like everyone else, woman or man, does. And I know better than you how to take care of MY kids, thank you very much.

• oh, it’s okay, you’re one of the moms too (said by another mom during a parents meeting were I was the only man present)

No, ma’am, I’m a parent too. But I’m a dad not a mom. Thank you for trying to make feel welcome, tho.

• aw you’re so great! It’s wonderful you help your wife so much.

I don’t help my wife. I raise my kids (as she does too btw).

• it’s fantastic what you do!

If you mean that dedicating my time to raise my kids full time is fantastic, thank you. It’s a very hard job, and I’m proud of doing it. But I hope you say that to women who do the same too.

Hello all! I'm trying to start a small business and I'm very confused about where to start. I want an LLC to protect myself from any liability, but since I move around a lot, it would be very expensive to constantly register as a foreign LLC in new states. For my business I would be selling products online. I would store the products at my own house and ship them out to customers from home. Would I have to register as a foreign LLC in the state I live if I am simply shipping products out from my house? I have asked chat gpt and searched Google but haven't gotten any conclusive answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Anyone know what it is called? All I know is that it is not Ylang Ylang by FKJ, which is a common answer seen for the question online

I am planning to use Ryan air in the next few days. It’s my first time using them and I wanted to know whether it was allowed to wear a bag or would it be regarded as extra luggage? I’ve gone for the free small bag luggage and I’ve looked online but can’t seem to find a definite answer.
Thanks!

I have a dilemma… I really struggle with retaining what I’ve learned in maths lessons, and when I attempt to self study.
For some background, I’m a year 11 student currently sitting my GCSEs (UK). In year 10 and 9, I was only getting 8s and 9s in exams and topic tests. My mental health has always not been so good, but in year 11 it moderately worsened, and I missed a good number of lessons due to mostly unrelated doctor’s appointments. I find that now whenever I try to learn a new concept, I understand it well immediately, and can answer a few questions with 100% correctness but sometimes as quickly as a few minutes later I forget some of the steps that I’ve learnt. When I’ve searched for generic answers to this problem online, I’ve seen the suggestions of repetition of questions for mastery but it’s not even like I can, as I have to simply relearn the steps or the concept entirely. This could be somewhat normal, but I’m worried that my mental health conditions have negatively impacted my ability to do Maths, which would be a major shame because it is a subject I find a lot of beauty in.
I’ve been planning for a while to do Maths and Further Maths for A-Level but this is making me increasingly anxious that I won’t be able to do so. Additionally, my teacher has been ill for a good portion of the school year, and isn’t the best at explaining concepts (my previous teacher was better at doing so). Is there anything I can do to fix this??

Heyo, I just wanted to ask how the virtual variant of it works. Are the lectures all recorded? Do you guys suggest taking them online? I see that the online HSS 1101 and 1100 is from 7pm-9:50pm, is that something to be worried about? Thank you for answering my questions!

Hey everyone,
I'm applying for a US Passport Card for the first time. I already have a valid US passport (which I got a year ago, not renewing it right now), so I won't be sending my passport with the application.
Which form do I use to apply for the Passport Card by itself? I am 20 years old (if that matters). Would I use the DS-82, a new passport application form, or something else?
I'd appreciate any help anyone can provide!
EDIT: I already tried searching this online and couldn't find any answers which is why I posted this question.

A friend of mine. Too afraid to say anything. I want to post this para makita niya opinion ng iba.
This effing driving school sa Gensan, kumikita ng almost 100-200k in net every month, has my friend, a very gifted yet gullible fellow, working like a slave for 7,500 a month.
Ito job description niya from least to worst:
Social Media Manager: He literally put the business on the map. SEO, Video editing, you name it. He maintains that everyday, that diligent fool.
Customer Service: Online and Front Desk, siya subject matter expert. Kabisado niya lahat promise. His voice and the way he talks is half the reason why people enroll in their overpriced courses. Did I mention phone calls?
Instructor: He teaches the seminars cause the school is too CHEAP to pay for an actual instructor.
Admin: He does the payroll, he does the class schedules, he does the compliance for LTO and TESDA, and Assessment center audits, accreditations, and all other paper BS. He made an automated excel spreadsheet that made things hell easier.
Liaison Officer: External affairs? He's the guy they send. Cause he KNOWS EVERYTHING there is to know about managing a school.
Operations Manager: All employees depend on him. Everything day to day, siya in charge.
Extra shit: Answered his boss's exams, assignments, and quizzes for two semesters. Made all the materials for Training Methodology sa TESDA para ma qualify boss niya (to anyone who knows this, alam niyo na Hindi joke makapasa sa TM. He was forced to do all that para makapasa boss niya) Stupid intellectual prosti.
Working hours Niya? Monday to Sunday. 8am to 5pm. Starts his time by CLEANING LIKE HE'S THE JANITOR. Friend ko siya pero you idiot! (I know you'll read this someday)
OT? Thank you. Holidays? Ano yun? Baka may room and board? Naga bayad siya, 1,500 pa bawas sa 7,500 Niya every month. Siempre utilities din bawas sa sahod niya.
Overworked, underpaid, undervalued. Pagagawan siya ng hundred pager module tapos thumbs up lang reply sa kaniya.
Boss niya nag hire ng baguhang part timer, binayaran ng 7,500 isang buwan din. Naghire ng bantay sa siomai, 7,000 bayad. Gusto na magpaka deads ng friend ko eh.
Ambilis mag deduct kapag late kasi ganun daw pag corporate. Pero kapag OT, holidays, or weekends, family daw sila kaya tulungan.
Benefits are deducted regularly, nakita ko payroll. Pero he showed me proof na hindi rin binayaran yung pagibig, sss, philhealth nila. Proof in the form of recorded phone calls from those agency looking for their representative to come and pay.
Nakita ko siya recently, his eyes are lifeless. Nangigigil ako sa awa at badtrip.
Paano ko ba maconvince to na magquit na?

(Thank you to the person who answered my other post, I'm just trying to get more advice.)
This is the cat: https://imgur.com/1SAzQih
I don't know if you can tell here, but he is a very small cat. The vets think he's 5-6 months old, which being new to cats I'm not sure if they are half grown by then or how much bigger he will get.
Here are the questions I have, I will probably think of more after I post this.
Sometimes when he wants to play, he gently bites my hand. He is not trying to hurt me, but I worry that maybe I shouldn't allow him to do it. And if not, what should I do? Just take my hand away?
He doesn't bite hard or use his claws whatsoever when he plays with my hand, but he does when he plays with other toys. I find this really interesting, what a smart guy. Who taught him this, if anyone? His mother? Some human who raised him and lost him somehow? Does he just know?
Note: I'm not at all sure where he came from, he wandered to my doorstep and I had him checked for a microchip, posted him around online, and now I'm just letting him stay.
I'm clumsy and he is a similar color to much of my home's flooring. He will sit just behind my heel, or inches from my toe and I will bump him with my feet. He's obviously frightened, sometimes I'm sure it hurt. Will he learn to be careful? I'm trying to be extra slow and cautious, too, of course.
Is feeding him different kinds of wet food a bad idea? Should he only eat one brand? I got him a variety from the pet store but he's having some digestive problems, I think they might be just from the antibiotics he was on (he was sick when he got to me). But I wonder if it's me changing the different brands. I was just trying to see what he likes best, and I've narrowed it down to 3.
He brings me toys and sets them by my feet. Is he just giving me presents, or does he want me to play with him, toss them around and stuff?
I have very little experience with owning a cat, (sad story warning) several months ago an old lady cat showed up and I started trying to help her get better, she was in bad shape. She got to looking pretty nice and healthy for a bit, and then she had a stroke that paralyzed her and I had to take her in. She was such a nice pet, I've had other kinds of pets but usually found cats to be kind of scared of me. She wasn't, she was the cuddliest girl. (Here she is: https://imgur.com/k8BADoZ) About a month ago this guy shows up with snot all over his face, so I started getting him taken care of and named him Booger. That's all the experience I have other than holding a few kittens and scaring some unsuspecting cats trying to make friends as a kid! Thanks for any advice!

TL;DR - I cannot summarize this post because I feel that it is necessary to read it entirely in order to fully understand the point I am trying to make. If you do not like this post that is ok, but if you decide to downvote it, please read it entirely before doing so. Thank you.

Call to Action

SuperStonk, since the beginning we have always strived to do everything in our power to protect our investments. We migrated subreddits multiple times, we established backup communication outlets, we moved brokerages and called them to demand our shares not be lent out, we backed up our DD, and eventually we learned about direct registration and DRSed our shares. If we take a step back in time to when we originally started to DRS our shares, there were two main reasons for it: the obvious one was to attempt at locking the float, but the other reason was to protect our shareholders rights. Now that we are in the end game, why should we stop now? I know there are a wide range of opinions on GameStop's recent corporate actions. The events that have occurred over the past few weeks have left thousands of shareholders with concerns. You may not agree with them, but the reality is that they are there, and they are real shareholders. I've read through their comments all over this subreddit, as well as everywhere else. My goal with this post is to remind everyone that we as shareholders have the right to let our voices be heard. We own billions in this company, and our voices are more powerful than some of you may think. This is the exact reason I created this petition, to express my concerns to GameStop. I also emailed GameStop investor relations.

Recent Events

A few weeks ago, Roaring Kitty returned and lit the internet on fire with a barrage of memes on X. Perhaps he knew something was coming. Around the same time, the volume and volatility of the stock came to life like it hasn't in years. It is clear as day that this increase in volume and volatility has nothing to do with Roaring Kitty, but rather there's something under hood occurring that is driving the price action. Whether its obligations from leaps, swaps, ETF rebalancing, or any of the other many possibilities, its clear something big is happening. During the week of May 13-17, the price of GME actually touched $80. By May 17, the price had fallen and was consolidating in the $30 range, when GameStop announced a 45 million share "at-the-market offering" and "first quarter preliminary results". On May 24, GameStop announced the completion of the share offering, having raised $933.4 million. The "acquisitions and investments" language in the filing led many to speculate that maybe GameStop needed to quickly raise capital for a merger deal that was already underway, perhaps to be announced the week of earnings and the annual shareholder's meeting.
After a brief silence, Roaring Kitty posted his absolutely insane position to SuperStonk for the world to see. At this point, the behavior of MSM and various actors on social media made it clear that whoever is on the other side of that bet is very, very scared. This past week, we saw the volume and volatility of the stock begin to churn again. By Thursday, June 6 we were seeing violent upward price action in the stock. After this price action had already begun, Roaring Kitty scheduled a livestream on his YouTube channel for the next day, July 7 at noon est. Again it was clear that something under the hood was driving the stock, as it began before Roaring Kitty posted his livestream. During after hours Thursday night, the price hit over $60. On Friday morning, GameStop announced another 75 million share "at-the-market offering" and disclosed their first quarter results, even though those had previously been scheduled to release on June 11.

The Downsides

Although GameStop adding a few billion dollars to the balance sheet is extremely bullish for the long-term outlook of the company, that doesn't mean it didn't come without downsides. Once the current share offering is completed, the result will be a combined 120 million new shares sold into the market, representing an almost 40% dilution. This obviously adds liquidity to the stock, which is upsetting to many because we spent 3 years DRSing at least 75 million shares, which had resulted in GME becoming very illiquid. In particular, I feel the need to call into question the timing of the second share offering, as that is what bothers me the most. Going into Friday, it really looked like that run had legs, and there was a ton of hype in anticipation of Roaring Kitty's stream. GameStop chose to announce the share offering before pre-market trading on Friday morning, and by market open the price of the stock had fallen dramatically. This resulted in a huge loss of call premium in GME, on a Friday, and the same day as Roaring Kitty's livestream no less. Call holders aside, I have to question this timing even from the perspective of the company's best interest. Could GameStop have raised more capital, with fewer shares, if they had waited until a later time/day? We can tell by the volume on Friday that something was still churning under the hood. Let's imagine the potential if they let the stock run, let Roaring Kitty do his thing, and let all of those calls expire in the money to drive the price action into next week. For me, and many of the comments I've seen, this timing is very troubling.

GameStop vs Roaring Kitty?

The interpretations of Roaring Kitty's ATM meme, his memes the morning of the first 45 million share offering (May 17), and his "Happy Birthday from GameStop" comment in his livestream yesterday are still being debated. To me, his memes the morning of May 17 seemed negative. He posted a crying meme face under the Kitty mask, and the first meme of that morning was the only one off-schedule that entire week. His birthday comment yesterday also seemed like blatant sarcasm to me "wrap it up in a gift or some shit". Thus, I personally think these offerings surprised him, but that is just my opinion, I could be completely wrong.
Is all of this part of some master plan that is yet to be revealed? Is each party simply acting in their own best interest? Or is there something more going on here? Unfortunately, I don't have those answers, but I feel like the question is important at this stage in the game, so I wanted to at least mention it.

MOASS

There's been some controversy lately between those that are more interested in the long-term potential of GameStop vs those who are here for MOASS. For me, it has always been about MOASS, and after MOASS of course a lot of those gains will go right back into GME. If you're in the MOASS camp with me, don't fret, I still think MOASS is very much on the table, it could even be right around the corner. There are a lot of possibilities that could play out over the next few weeks. We know something big is still churning in the stock, Roaring Kitty's 120,000 calls don't expire until June 21, and the shorts are terrified. It is very possible that the stock will start running hard as soon as GameStop lets us know that the share offering is complete.
Although it may seem that way, my main goal with this petition and post is not to criticize GameStop's recent corporate actions, as that won't really result in anything productive anyways. Instead, I want to focus on voicing my concerns about the possibility of similar actions moving forward, particularly the next few weeks. For this reason, I left all of my opinions from this post out of the petition. I tried to keep it to one simple statement that I hope most can agree with. We do not have a once in a lifetime in front of us, we have a once in history opportunity in front of us. Roaring Kitty is back, he holds 120,000, and the stock is alive. It is time for MOASS. It is time to let our voices be heard. Let the stock run.

The Petition

I created a petition through Change.org, here is the url: https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-gamestop-board-of-directors
Here are the contents of the petition:
Petition to the GameStop Board of Directors
I am a shareholder of GME stock, and I am petitioning the GameStop Board of Directors to not release another "at-the-market offering" or unscheduled negative press release at a pivotal moment of the next significant movement of the stock.
I want to be clear, I have no intention of seeking or taking any legal action with this petition. I will not be submitting it any court. It is simply a public, online petition that I created to let my voice be heard. I know that many shareholders have chosen to remain anonymous (myself included). If you'd like to sign it, you can sign it with your name or anonymously (I created and signed this petition with the name "Anonymous Shareholder").
If you want to sign it, but you have additional concerns, feel free to express that via the "Reasons for signing" comment section.
If you don't want to sign it, but you have your own concerns, know that you can always email GameStop's investor relations. I did.
If you do not agree with this petition and you don't want to sign it, that is perfectly ok. Please be respectful to those with concerns.

To the Longgggg crowd

I know that some of you have an investment thesis that is more interested in GameStop's long-term potential. You think GameStop will become GameShire Stopaway. I hope you're right, and you have every right to your own investment strategy. However, you have to understand that years ago many got involved in this play for MOASS. We should've been paid in January of 2021, but here we are. We still want see the shorts' demise, and we still want to be paid.

To the Master Plan / Merger Inbound crowd

I know many of you think everything is part of a master plan that has yet to be revealed. Some of you think GameStop is going to announce some kind of merger or acquisition very soon. Well, I hope you guys are right, as I would profit greatly if you are! My argument to you is that if there is already a deal that is done and yet to be announced, or a master plan already in motion, then this petition/post is not going to change that in any way. The goal of this is to simply voice concerns just in case we have fallen off the tracks. I know you're zen, but please don't just downvote this post to oblivion and scream FUD. There are other shareholders out there with concerns who may want to see it.
"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst."

My preemptive answers to the FUD accusations

I know the accusations are coming, but here's the deal, I've been here the whole time. I'm not telling anyone to sell. I'm not price anchoring. I'm not just upset because I lost money on calls. Full disclosure, I sold my call position at market open on Friday for a small profit (although I feel for any of you who didn't make it out ahead, I've been there and I feel your pain). I've held DRS shares for a long time, and I'm not leaving. Roaring Kitty's livestream was amazing. Roaring Kitty is not a market manipulator, he is the most legendary investor of all time and he simply posted his position online for the world to see. MOASS is inevitable. Ape no fight Ape. Wen Lambo.
This is not financial advice. Don't take advice or invest your money based on the speculation and ramblings of a dumb ape on the internet.

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One thing that I'm not getting here is why Vanessa is even a part of Vanny or Glitchtrap's situation since Double-V is true. When I originally thought up Double-V, I was originally thinking that Vanessa and Vanny were two different people and/or were sharing the role of "Vanny".
It's just one of them was more willing than the other to be a part of Glitcthtrap's machinations than the other. I didn't put too much thought into it, but it was something I wanted to look for until that Security Team revelation came about.
But now I'm left with this puzzle piece called Vanessa that I'm not quite sure what to do with now that I know that Vanny is an entirely separate person from her.
She has to be involved with Vanny and Gltichtrap somehow. Maybe the therapy tapes will help.

• CD 1-Therapist: — but a routine check of your online history has revealed that you spend quite a bit of time with someone in an encrypted conversation. We have transcripts, and I’ve read them, but it’s not clear what you’re talking about in these conversations. I can’t make sense of it. You must be getting something from these that I’m not getting. Right? Who are you talking to in these?

These are all things that would've pointed toward Glitchtrap if I didn't know better. So it's someone else doing this? Why and why her?

• CD 5-Therapist: — Apparently, the IT department has put together a pretty lengthy report chronicling non-job-related communications that have been coming to your computer. — what bothers me about what I read is that the messages you're getting seem very manipulative in nature. —You know who I'm talking about. What you might not know is that this person who's been sending you messages has been hacking into your personal files too.
• CD 5-Vanessa: Lots of people know more than I do. Sometimes I need to listen.

So Vanessa knows who's doing this to her. But she's been refusing to listen to them before and is now being worn down by the spamming messages sent to her. But the fact that she doesn't react to the news that they are digging into her personal life is very concerning!
Also, after going through Vanny's secret dialogue in Help Wanted, Vanessa's overall demeanor in both Security Breach and the Retro Cds clashes hard with Vanny's in both games. Where Vanny sounds and reads eager and nervous, Vanessa is defiant and reluctant with depressed undertones.
Is Vanessa really infected with Glitchtrap?
Yet now that I'm thinking about it, Glitchtrap has no need to do this as him sitting through Vanessa's therapy session with her would give him this info if she was infected. Who's ever doing this doesn't much about her, but would very much like to. Is it Vanny or Gregory...
Wait, hold on. Vanessa's first therapist mentioned that messages were encrypted and couldn't make out what the conversation was about. But the second therapist can understand these messages to know that they're manipulative in nature. Are these two different messengers?!
" I’ve read them, but it’s not clear what you’re talking about in these conversations. I can’t make sense of it. You must be getting something from these that I’m not getting." - The first Therapist
"but what bothers me about what I read is that the messages you're getting seem very manipulative in nature." - The second Therapist
What changed? Hmm... What exactly is an encrypted conversation? Maybe explaining that will help.
Encrypted text messaging is a method of secure communication that converts your messages into code. This means that only the recipient with the correct decryption key can read it. - Google
That sounds like what the first Therapist is referring to, but she mentions that they got the transcripts for it. Does that mean that got the code or the decryption key to read it? No, she says transcripts, which means the code itself.
But whatever the first Therapist saw in that transcript was legible enough to read and comprehend. This means the conversation wasn't in computer coding that would require someone in the tech field to decipher it, but just ordinary talk that's hard to understand what it's about.
Okay, that clears things up, they're still the same messenger.

• CD 11-Therapist: So, on your breaks, it looks like you were shopping for a costume. you purchased some fake fur material.
• CD 11- Vanessa: I can't talk about this. He said he would always be watching. He could be here or there or anywhere in between.
• CD 11-Therapist: No, that's not what I mean. You can't just ignore an issue. You have to face your memory of the experiences and process them so you can let it go. So you don't get triggered anymore. you can use this sort of self-dialogue to release these things
• CD 11-Vanessa: I don't like doing that.

This one conversation right here throws everything about Double-V out of whack. Why is Vanessa buying fake fur material? And for the very first time, we know the gender of who's messaging her along that he said that he would always be watching her.
Again the "he" here, and the "he will always be watching" part allude to Glitchtrap at first glance. And again, it can't be him because he should be within Vanessa since they merged in Help Wanted! Even if you dismissed the ending I proposed for Vanny and went with the ending where she gets locked up by Glitchtrap, it still wouldn't be him messaging her about watching here because he would be in her body!
And like I already said before, Vanessa has shown no memory problems or bodily control problems, which would've suggested Glitchtrap's control. No, this means that Gregory is doing all of this.
But why is he going after Vanessa? Geez, It's been a while since I even thought about his past before Security Breach. I forgot how much of a black hole of questions he is, regarding the lore. I'll give my updated thoughts about him after the Double-V revelation later.
For now, after going through all of Gregory's dialogue in Security Breach. It looks like he's not quite aware of the ongoings within the Pizzaplex and is shocked by the level of security can employ later in the night. There may actually be a hint of his hacker background in his dialogue if you squint. And Gregory has absolutely no idea what the rabbit laddy's name is until he gets to Fazerblast.
As for Gregory's involvement with Vanessa... Huh, that's weird. Gregory doesn't say Vanessa's name even once in Security Breach. Matter of fact, after the beginning sequence where Vanessa confronts Freddy about him, Gregory just stops talking about or even mentioning her for the rest of the game. This includes the confrontation that leads to her locking him up in Lost and Found and after it...
No matter how you slice it, Gregory's silence about her is super loud with alarm bells. Sure, he dismisses her as working with Vanny in the beginning, but it shouldn't mean that she should be an afterthought to him! Like, Gregory only talks about or mentions "the rabbit lady" after the beginning of the game.
In fact, if we were to rank every important character that Gregory talks about or mentions in his dialogue for Security Breach from most to least, it would look like this.

1. Freddy - 33 times
2. Vanny - 6 times
3. Chica - 6 times
4. Roxy - 4 times
5. Monty - 3 times
6. Moon - 3 times
7. Vanessa - 3 times
8. Burntrap - 1 time

That's absurd! Especially since she's the only other human worker in the Pizzaplex, besides Vanny, who encounters and confronts him. Like, he doesn't even try to communicate with her at all during the entire game!
Even when discovering Vanny's hideout in Fazerblast and Freddy suggests that Vanny is Vanessa due to deduceing Vanny's name being a combination of Vanessa + Bunny, Gregory remains silent about it! No, "Oh maybe you're right." or "That sounds too simple to be right", but instead there's no response to what might be the identity of your pursuer!
It's like he doesn't want to talk about her...
He knows her, he has to know Vanessa! Yet, he said, "I don't know who she is, but she's trying to get me!" to Freddy. Is he lying? No, he just knows about her.
​

• CD 14-Therapist: —They report that they've caught you on camera, or at least it appears to be you. — Well the techs are convinced that you've hacked into their system many times. — the electronics you like? I saw in your file that you have developed software programs that talk to you and repeat phrases, right? The program asks you questions and prompts you for responses. It's kind of like your own self therapy, isn't it? Another way of talking to yourself to work things out, right? When I saw some of your recent encrypted conversation logs, that's what I thought I was looking at. It felt like I was watching someone go back and forth in their own head, but the text found something that's different than that. When I read what they found, at first I thought I was looking at more examples of you just talking with yourself. Then I realized it was different. When I study this, it sounds like there is someone else responding to you. Who is it?

This is either hinting towards Gregory talking directly to Vanessa or Glitchtrap. But something that confuses me is why the therapist has or even be able to see Gregory's encrypted conversation logs?
I'll admit that I'm ignorant about therapy, but should your therapist have access to stuff you created outside of therapy? Unless Gregory created the program on a computer in therapy. It could explain how he's gotten access to Vanessa's files. But I'll drop that talk for now.
Something that's being made clear to me now is that Vanessa is not as connected to the villains as Gregory is, as she's more surprised by the changing of therapist than he is. In fact, Gregory knows why the therapists are disappearing, knows exactly when the therapists do something that would cause them to disappear, and doesn't seem upset when they show up mangled and dead.
But more than anything, Gregory knew Vanny long before Security Breach started. There's no reason why Gregory would know Vanny has enough control over the Pizzaplex to cut off Freddy from the network, in just one encounter. If anything, he should have assumed she was some weirdo stranger in the Pizzaplex that the security and the police needed to take care of.
But he already knew that Vanny had power in the Pizzaplex, maybe not the full scope, but enough to know that if she and he ever came into conflict with one another that ended with her wanting to hurt him then he needed to get out of the Pizzaplex.
Funnily enough, this actually lines up with the first-ever trailer for Security Breach, where Vanny says: "Gregory, I may have lost my temper earlier. But it was just a glitch!" Which implies they talking neutrally before whatever made Vanny lose her temper." Again, I'm not using this as evidence as it's been cut, instead, I'm suggesting that the idea might have merit.
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• CD-Therapist: — I have this still shot the techs pulled from the security footage that recorded you in the pizzaplex. That's you, isn't it? I know this image is distorted but I think it looks like you. And you're not alone here. You're talking to someone, or something. it's hard to tell. What are those things? They almost look like rabbit ears. What? You find that amusing? Well I guess it is.

I had always flipped-flopped between the mysterious person being either Glamrock Bonnie or Vanny. Both are connected to Glitchtrap, so either would fit here as Glitchtrap wouldn't be captured by a camera. But with the new evidence I've discovered, Vanny fits as Gregory's mysterious rabbit correspondent in the Pizzaplex.
But what about Vanessa? Is Gregory hacking into her files or is it Vanny and Glitchtrap? Or perhaps Gregory is hacking into her files on behalf of Glitchtrap and Vanny. Either way, Vanessa is getting dragged into Gregory and the Villian's group chat.
Speaking of the therapy, if we take into account the Retro-CD's numbering system the first two numbers are the patient ID number, and the last two numbers are the number of times both Gregory and Vanessa have been to therapy, then we can uncover some invaluable information.
Gregory has been in therapy longer than Vanessa and he was also in therapy before her too. But combining this CD's numbering system with a theory from the Talesbook story, GGY, that Gregory only goes to therapy on Sunday. Then Gregory has been going to therapy for a year and a half.
And if Vanessa is following the weekly therapy session pattern, then she's only been going to it for a little more than half a year. This means she started her therapy just about after Gregory hit his half-year mark for therapy. In addition to all that, Vanessa stopped going to therapy once she was transferred to a new location and never met the fourth and final therapist of the CDs.
Just something you all should keep in mind.
But Gregory definitely knows about her at the very least. That knowledge, I guess, is the reason why he's so shocked to see her face under Vanny's mask in the "To The Rooftop" ending. He knows that Vanessa and Vanny are two different people, but doesn't know that they look alike because he never encountered Vanny before Security Breach without her mask or costume.
On the subject of costumes, I still got no answer for Vanessa's purchase of fake animal fur or what's even happening with her now.
To be honest, this would be so simple and easy if Vanessa was just Vanny. But like as I have shown many times before in both this series and the previous one, simple and easy answers are not always the correct ones.
So, instead of looking for signs of the villain's goal with Vanessa in the lore. Let's look at the similarities and differences between the double Vs.
Vanessa's characteristics are.

• Depressed
• Has anxiety issues
• Tired (It's something that has been mentioned by the first and third therapists in CD-1 and CD-10. But seems to have more to do with the messages she's getting than how she usually is.)
• Likes the blue sky
• Likes to sit outside and read
• Watchful about her calorie intake
• Likes flowers or at least the sweet smell of them
• Doesn't like dark basements
• Oh, and hates kids

Vanny's characteristics are.

• Loves Pizza, especially pepperoni (Huh, no wonder she likes Chica)
• Absolutely, does not care about her calorie intake or a healthy diet (Seriously, Girl has gone full gamer mode with the amount of Fizzy Faz, straw drinks, and pizza boxes in areas with her presence in them)
• Hobbies in painting or graffiti
• Likes or used to like Glitchtrap or maybe William Afton (I talk about this in the secret ending)
• Loves Fazbear Entertainment (Vanny uses red spray paint in Ruin and has drawn two hearts on the FAZ ENT. Logo in the main Lobby)
• Likes Toy Chica
• Likes the Daycare Attendant (She seems to be fond of Moon more)
• Likes to read, or at least, read about the World History of Fazbear Entertainment
• Likes Flowers, a specific species of them(that I can't determine right now)
• Likes summer
• Is a mechanic or roboticist or both (She making something in Ruin Fazerblast and has turned Ruin Monty into her lapdog among other things)
• Super lazy (This one may or may not be true, but unless there's a good reason why she refuses to clean up her room in Fazer Blast, this is staying right here as far as I'm concerned)

Wow, I did not realize we already knew this much about Vanny just from the environment storytelling of the games until I listed them!
Anyway, as you can see, there are some very similar likes between the two and very stark differences in traits as well. I'm not about to list them to save word space, but instead, I want to answer a question. Could Vanessa still be Vanny despite their differences? This isn't so much for me, but for the people who believe Vanny = Vanessa despite my Double-V evidence.
At first, I thought there might've been a chance for that as they both like flowers, to read, and enjoy the outside, or at least the summer in Vanny's case. But now, after listing everything out they're just too different to say they're the same.
Even if we say that Vanny's love of pizza, general bad diet, and trashy room is the result of Vanessa coping with her depression and her situation with Glitchtrap and that her graffiti is the by-product of therapy, along with her interest in growing flowers. That doesn't negate the fact that in Ruin when given the chance to express her anxiety, Vanny doesn't take it.
If you don't know, on the wall where Vanny drew her face next to a slice of pizza in the main lobby near the Superstar Daycare entrance, there is a painted graph. The artist who made the graph also wrote on the right side of it; "TAG YOURSELF".
On all four sides of the graph, the artist made the furthest sides of them represent something. The top Y-axis is Wizard, the bottom Y-axis is Cedar, the left X-axis is Filled with a word that ends in a y, and the right X-axis is Filled with anxiety.
What this graph is showing, or what the artist trying to convey with it, is that each of the four points represents not quite the opposite thing but the furthest thing from each other. Of which, Vanny decided to tag herself on the [furthest left X-axis](https://imgur.com/j9ND1V3\), not the right.
This tells us that Vanny feels the furthest thing from anxiety. Something Vanessa, no matter if she's under Glitchtrap's control or not, would be constantly feeling as she suffers from it.
As for what she's feeling, I don't know, the word on the left graph is unreadable and covered by Vanny's face to make it almost impossible to decipher. But what I do know without a doubt, is that Vanny and Vanessa are indeed, two different people with some common likes and polar opposite traits.
So after everything I've talked about in the last three? four? However many parts I've been going over Double-V, what is the best possible answer for the "To The Rooftop" ending stinger. Why do Vanny and Vanessa look alike?
I tried, I really did. I looked for as much possible evidence for anything that doesn't just make me give up and say "She's a Fazgoo clone!" or "She's a robot!"
If Vanny was a stranger who mimicked Vanessa's face, then that's cool and horrifying, but only where it concerns Vanessa herself. (The horrifying part, not the cool part.) It doesn't give us reasons why she would do it in the first place or a way to connect it to the greater lore and Glitchtrap, besides she's a human Mimic. Basically, it lacks motivation from everyone in the Villian party.
So it leaves me with no other conclusion except for one.
Back when the marketing for Security Breach was building up to its release. Steel Wool released four old Freddy cartoon episodes on their YouTube channel. Each episode hides a teaser image for the lore, including a character from the games with words, along with a character stinger at the end.
The last carton, which is the most distorted one, just so happened to include Vanessa as the hidden teaser, and Vanny as the character stinger at the end. And before you all jump the gun, previous episodes have already established that the hidden character teasers have no correlation to the ending Character stinger.
Now, the words in the Vanessa teaser image are quite interesting. It includes "Test and Rat" in the upper right corner, "Pool" in the bottom left corner, and "Bleak Reactant".
Test and Rat could be Test rat or Laboratory rat (Lab rat) as in the species of rat that are bred and kept for scientific research. Lab rat here can also be referring to Vanessa being a lab rat for the villain's experiment for something.
Using that explanation, "Pool" would then mean group or pool of people, which means number of people available for an organization or group to use. So Pool would mean that Vanessa was chosen out of all the Fazbear employees or people in general to be used for the experiment.
This leaves us with Bleak Reactant, which the definition of reactant is a substance that takes part in and experiences change during a reaction, while the definition of bleak could mean lacking vegetation (an area of land), dreary (a room), miserable(the weather), or unfavorable (outcome.)
All of this together means that Vanessa was chosen by the villains out of a group of people to be used for an experiment. An experiment of a change in Vanessa that predicted an unfavorable outcome for the villains.
Vanessa was going to be the next Vanny or maybe something else.
That gives a reason why the villains were so interested in her, why she would be shopping for a costume, why she would be at the Pizzaplex, and why she would be still connected to the villains when someone else is Vanny.
But the reason she was chosen in the first place, why her out of a group of people that might've included Gregory in it too, is because the one who chose her was her own twin sister.
If anyone remembers my only Ruin theory then you would remember my mentioning of Glitchtrap's and Vanny's conversation from Scott's website from a Security Breach poster.
Glitchtrap: "Stay the course."
Vanny: "I will."
Glitchtrap: "Focus on my voice."
Vanny: "I will."
Glitchtrap: "Don't let anyone lead you astray."
Vanny: “I won't.”
Glitchtrap: "Have you selected one?"
Vanny: "I have."
In my theory, I proposed that Gregory was the one that Vanny mentioned selecting here. But now, with all the revelations and new information gained, I believe Vanessa works better here. Vanny would've chosen someone for an experiment that she personally knew of or gotten to know, and who better than her own sibling that she grew up with.
Remember, Vanny is just starting out in her following of Glitchtrap. So would be new to the whole evil thing. And most of the time, the people close to you are the ones that would most likely commit a crime against you.
As for the twin sister thing, it actually didn't come from the "To The Rooftop" ending, but a discussion from the GTlive stream where Mat hosted a little get-together with some of the FNAF YouTuber theorists after Security Breach. There, John Fuhnaff suggested the idea for it from the VR Sisters boss from the Security Breach game Scott made when Security Breach got delayed again.
It's something that I saw some merit in after I discovered the Vanny ≠ Vanessa and after disproving in my head that Vanny wasn't Tape Girl either. The best part of the twin sister thing is that there's no need to throw out all that we know from Vanessa's therapy sessions as they both share the divorced parent's backstory.
As for which is the order twin between the two, I believe Vanessa is the oldest since it makes sense that her father would use the oldest to testify against their mother as she would better understand his instructions. Plus it provides a potential grudge from Vanny to Vanessa for what happened to their mother and a misguided parental affection for Glitchtrap. Unless Vanny's just a fangirl of William Afton, which could be the case.
Also, this means that the reason Vanessa looks the way she does in "To The Rooftop" end credits is because she looking at her dead sister. Oof, I realized that this also means she would've been the one who finds what's left of her in the "Disassemble Vanny" ending too. No wonder Faz Ent. is temporarily closed if they find that one employee is disassembled and the other one is having a mental breakdown from it in the morning.
But what about the "Redemption" ending? We know that by beating PQ3 both Glitchtrap and Vanny are defeated in it. What happens to her then? Where did she go? Hmm... I'm not sure.
What happens when someone is unmerged after being merged for a long time? Unlike Vanessa, we know that Vanny lives in the Pizzaplex. Even by Ruin and Help Wanted 2, she's still living in the building despite its condition so she probably needs time to think and process what happened to her and what's she done. Oh, and therapy. And a house.
But I think that just about wraps everything up for— Wait, HW2's Candy Cadet story! I forgot all about it! I know some people mentioned that the second story had to do with Vanessa, Gregory, and Gltichtrap. Let me skim through that real quick for clues.
Oh. Oh, that's really interesting... But it along with the Jeremy and the Memory dolls can wait until after next time. Sorry for the little to no pictures, I needed space to fit everything in one post and wanted to get everything about Double-V out of the way before I go on hiatus.
Don't worry it has nothing to do with burnout. It won't be too long either, though knowing my track record when saying that, you probably don't believe me.
Truth is, I've been severely neglecting my YouTube channel, and should really start catching up the YouTube version of my series with the online version. Plus, I've got more "Prove it!" to work on.
But most important of all, my birthday is coming up, and I don't want to work, think, or have anything to do with my FNAF stuff on that day. So! Feel free to read and become full with these last few Parts until I come back with more.

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Also, the workload seems WAAAY off. The estimate says 15-20 hours a class, but it takes me more like 40-60 just to read and do assignments!
Udacity and Coursera are cool for certificates, but a whole university degree should be way more, right? UoPeople has a ton of awesome student programmers and volunteers - what if we all brainstormed to make learning more interactive?
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