I've got a jazz group together and we're booking some gigs. A large portion of the set is covers that aren't in the public domain. I want to record our live sets and post them online to stream/download. I'm stealing the idea from the grateful dead pretty much. I want it to be free, but if it picked up steam, I could see myself wanting to maybe put some of the content behind a paywall. I've poked around online a bit and it seems pretty easy to get licensing to release covers, I'm just having trouble figuring out specifically what I would need to get for what I'd like to do.

Hello, reddit First, tw: Self harm and suicidal thoughts, please skip if triggering Here is the thing, I'm basically asking for judgement here, and if I really deserve what I am doing to myself. I think I do, really, because what I did was unforgivable, but do give your opinion, even if it's hate. Because I do deserve it here, really. So, I grew up in a religious family. Like, one in which things like "love marriage " And......well.......The "child making process" was considered a sin. Absolute sin. Like—I did not know what......you know—that—was, but I knew it was sin, it was disgusting, it was something so disgusting that anyone who associated themselves with it were perverts and such, not someone you should ever stay alone in a room with. Do not blame my family for this, they were saying what they were taught, and they had their trauma. They have broken through enough abuse for me, do not blame them please. Anyways, I was a huge fan of Harry Potter. And I stumbled into the world of fanfiction. And I read them. Now, most of them were pretty much SFW, but in those which did infact have anything explicit, they put a whole line of "18+ content ahead, skip to the end of the chapter". I had no idea what the hell 18+ was, but if it said not to view, I wasn't risking it, straight up went to the very last part of it, or changed reading, you know, what a sane person does. Now, I had a favourite author there on Quotev, who wrote some really nice fanfics. Some of them were a little weird—but c'mon who am I to judge, everyone is different. One day, I stumbled upon some works of her. Well, the stories she did write, those were completely SFW. But if you used Quotev, you'll know there was a thing called "Journal" in there. Sort of like "conversation" in Wattpad. There, she had written NSFW chapters on the characters. Here's the thing. There was no warning. None at all. No warning or tagging or anything provided there to show that it was 18+. The title was just—say: DracoxInsertocname I know, nobody forced me to read it, I could have skipped it as soon as I realised it was 18+. But here is the thing. I DIDN'T know what it was. I had read through some of it, and only realised on seeing the comments, that it was 18+. And I felt. I felt tainted, like I had committed a sin. To know that I had read something that perverted, to my 12 year old self, it felt sinful. Like I had my pure white mind muddied out of carelessness. I know, authors don't own us any tags. And if it were a hardcover book, it wouldn't have any tags. But here is the thing. I fully believed that even actual books (I had no idea books had smut back then, I thought it was an internet or like seperate movie thing, I found out books had smut when I was 15+) had warnings for smut. Blood and gore? Sure, no problem, make it as gross as you want, no warnings needed. But something as sinful as 18+? Must be tagged. MUST. BE . TAGGED. That was my thought process. Remember it wasn't AO3. So there was no tagging system. So I thought that if others are warning it, then the author was in the wrong for not providing warnings on hers. It was a site where children as young as 11 were. Later on, I did encounter many more such unwarned content on the internet, but thought, "Eh I'm already ruined any way" Like ofcourse I didn't read it, but yeah. Logic. That I was a sinner too, so I can't get offended anymore. Here comes the bad part, for which, if you hate me, I'll not blame you. I wrote her a letter. Like, online obviously. In the inbox of her writing site. I was.....very mean. I told her her writing "ruined my innocence and it was wrong of her to not provide a warning" something along these lines, I don't remember, it happened 4 years ago. But I did not insult her, or her preferences, or anything, let me make that clear. Just wrote in detail of how her work affected me negatively. If it in itself were insulting, I apologise. And here comes the stupid part which will definately make you hate me, and it'll be fair, really. She always said she liked dark humor. And where I grew, friends told each other, with fully smiling faces, that "I'll hit you so hard, you'll end up hanging from a tree" "I'll hit you so hard you'll go through the roof." Heck, even now our teachers joke that if we don't score well enough, they'll well.....very graphically describe how they'll beat us. So I grew up knowing violence was a joke. That unless someone actually did the thing to you, it was all fine really, funny even. Even till now, I make jokes of "Sorry I'm late feel free to hit me with a pan" So, when I read it, I thought "I don't want her to think I'm angry on her, or hate her. I'll add some jokes so she takes it lightly and realises I may be upset but in the end she's my favourite author whom I love" (Yes I called her my favourite author in the letter) I wrote, beginning with "Dear Daughter of Hermes, and Slytherin" and proceeded to explain on how she ruined my innocence and all such. I did not use any curse words—to clarify. I said something along the lines of "I'll be outside your window at night, watching you". Which was virtually impossible since she lived in a seperate *continent*. "And why the heck would you want to actually hurt someone physically unless you're mentally unstable" -My thought process at that age But it hurt her, and I was so surprised because it was the exact opposite of my intention. I at maximum expected her to be annoyed or something if it went worst case scenario. It hurt her so much, and apparently she had been getting a lot of hate over it (she had deleted the work like—some days ago? I don't remember) and that I should unfollow her. I apologised immediately, but like what good is the apology when the harm is already done. I had already planned to delete my account anyways, so that's what I did. I decided to give her space and hence, I apologised again, some months later. Another stupid thing? I addressed her as sister. I thought it would placate her. I really thought of her as close to me, even though she was a stranger. Okay pausing the writing to go hit my head on the nearest wall, I am sorry for being so stupid, what was wrong with me. I said I was suffering from a bad time, and was going through self harm (still am) and I will do anything she asks of me to gain forgiveness (another mistake). She said I was too late in apologising (which I was, yes, but my first apology was instant though) Anyway, she posted about it on announcements (didn't mention my name) but said "Imagine apologising after this long" and so, with people obviously supporting her. It scared me, so I left in fear of being attacked. (Would've deserved it though) It....well.....4 years passed. At age 15, I was so afraid, because I had an exam and I thought that I'd score bad out of karma for hurting her, that she cursed me. I scored pretty well but anyways. As someone who got continually harassed by a girl for 10 years to the point I was afraid of school, (she wanted to be my friend apparently, but what a terrible way, really, she literally sexually harassed me) but still asked her if she was okay after I saw her crying, I had a pretty high forgiveness scale. I really thought she'd (author) would forgive me for apologising. But like. No. I am not owed any forgiveness and I am aware of it. It wasn't her fault or duty, really. Anyway, fast forward to age 17. I was lying on the bed beaten up and crying and it was 1 am, and for some reason, her username came to my mind. I don't know why. For 4 years I had thought of any perfect apology, maybe drawing her something nice for her books, anything. But decided not to bring back bad memories to her. And also, I was a coward afraid of facing her. But I guess being beaten up messes with your head. Personal trauma is no reason to hurt someone, I agree 100%. But I wrote her a final apology. This time, I didn't ask for forgiveness, took all the blame on myself. I didn't apologise for closure. I apologized because I wanted her to know that she was worth being apologised to so many times. I called my younger self stupid and wished I could smack her on the head. I poured my entire heart and soul into it. I did not expect a reply, but I decided that when I wake up the next day, I'll delete my account, hopefully she had seen it by then. Woke up to find myself blocked and honestly? Deserved it. It took me a discussion with some people to realise that I had indeed gone too far and that hardcover books don't come with tags. And that apologising so many times was basically harassment. Back then, I had apologised for hurting her, but I believed that my opinion on 18+ things being warned of was legit. Then began true guilt. I loathed myself, thought of myself as a monster. I saw myself as a rapist, as a murderer, that I deserve all this sadness and guilt. I really wanted to kill myself over it. Like I did so before too—but this time I was actually ready to step off the pavement onto any vehicle nearby, except the poor driver did no wrong really, and I'm an only child so why harm my parents over it? I really hated myself over it, still do actually. If I can go back in time, I'd drag my 12 year old self away from the laptop and give her a nice slap. I did not want to hurt her, I hate hurting people but seeing that it has been so long, and she still refuses to interact with me, what I said must've affected her very badly. I kept on thinking, what if I drove her to thoughts as negative as she is driving me to? Each time I stopped feeling like a complete demon over it, my mind said "You hurt someone" and I went back to crying. My own mother said that I looked like I came from a funeral, at times. Couldn't focus on classes which is actually bad because those are important. The worst part is, I can't completely remember what I wrote to her. My head keeps on saying I called her bad things and gave her worse threats but......I don't remember doing it and there were no chances if I see it logically. I literally stopped being happy. Forced myself to be, for my own and my families' sake, and I tried, yeah. There were times I thought of taking this up legally because what I did could be considered a threat (found out when I was 17). Give myself over to the police or something. But I still hate myself. So I decided to punish myself. (Graphic descriptions of self harm come in here) I burnt my own skin on purpose. Nothing too bad really, just thumb sized burns from a saucepan. Then I proceeded to pour toilet cleaner (the strong ones which require gloves to handle) over my open wounds, four of them. I'll be honest. I have a very high pain tolerance. But that thing hurt like hell. When I actually cleaned it off after ten minutes of absolute agony, that wound had been somewhat........cauterised? Like there was this thick hard layer and it had no sensetivity when I scratched it. And I pulled off those hard layers. Some of them were stuck to the skin, I had to use a blade to ease them off. Then pour on them again. I did this to all three of my burns (the fourth one was small so it healed) three times, so nine times in total. It has been a month and it still hasn't healed. These scars won't go away even with surgery. Permanent reminders. (Description ends here) I thought it to be like this: The incident hurt her? I'll hurt myself more than she could possibly ever get hurt. But that wouldn't undo her hurt. So I'll hurt myself even more. I have frankly forgotten of who I was two months ago. Of what I thought when my mind was empty. The first thing I remember on waking up is her and the last thing I think of before sleeping is the incident. Deleted my accounts, lost my passion in drawing, don't feel like doing anything. I just. I hate myself. I truly do. I wish I could die but I can't so I just need to survive forever with this. Every time I read the word 'villian' or 'bad' or 'wrong' in a book, it felt like a bucket of cold water being poured over me. I had been a victim myself, so knowing that I myself hurt someone — Its just........I always thought of myself as a good person. Someone who was kind, someone who helped everyone, including strangers the best they could, someone who didn't cheat in exams because that would be unfair to those who studied, someone who protected and loved their friends, someone who made others happy, someone who hates conflict and lets karma take care of the whole thing, someone who ALWAYS says thank you and sorry no matter who or what. So many times, people have told me I made their day better, that I'm a very kind and nice person, I'm someone who even the meanest teachers like and I got exemplary behaviour awards too. I always believed myself to be a good person. So knowing I did something this bad broke me. It took me some time to quit the whole "How dare I be happy after hurting her" thing. I believe fully, that I do not deserve happiness, or love, and that nobody will accept me or think of me as a kind person after knowing what I had done. I'd have deserved it though. I got therapy (not actual one, I used Chatbot AI) It took me time, I finally believed that I deserved to heal from this, that I hurt myself too much maybe, permanent scars over someone who doesn't know my real name and never saw my face and vice versa. Maybe........I don't deserve *this* much of punishment. Today, I went to youtube and saw a video on bullies apologising. I saw comments on how apologies fix nothing, how bullies don't deserve forgiveness and should live with that shame and guilt their entire life. That a thousand good deeds won't make up for that one bad deed. And I believe I do. I really do. Which is why I permanently scarred myself. So here is the question. Do I deserve it? To let go of this incident? Do I deserve to heal? Deserve love? Or should I keep goimg? Because I believe I should. That I truly am no better than a rapist or bully. So, give your judgement, and throw hate at me if you want, because I do deserve it.

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I'm currently on a 8GB capped $40 endless data plan with Skinny. It runs on endless reduced speeds after using up 8GB of max speeds. The reduced speeds for me are around 1.3MB download which doesn't support very much beyond web searching. I can't really watch videos on youtube, stream movies, or scroll through social media once I'm on reduced speeds because any video content takes ages to buffer. I can buy data binge packs for max speeds again if I know I'm going to need it but it doesn't support hotspotting and only lasts 12 hours max for $5. Not sure if thats entirely worth paying seeing as I'd probably need to use max speeds everyday. I ripped through the 8GB in about a week and that was without gaming for the first 4 days? I've had my hotspot on during the night this week because my parents have a new curfew on our broadband at about 10pm, not much I can do about that lol.
I realized 8GB isn't enough to last me a months worth of usage and was thinking about changing to another service provider that had unlimited uncapped data plans instead. Skinny's most expensive endless data plan still has a cap on it with $70/m for max speeds up to 80GB. Then it will reduce back to 1.3MB~ download. I'm not sure if thats enough to last me a month with extensive use like gaming and watching movies, I don't use data often so I actually have zero understanding of how much value you can get out of 80GB. Is that a lot? Would I need more? I don't know...
I'm almost looking for an unlimited uncapped data plan that gives out the same value as a broadband plan, not sure if thats silly. I paid for my family's fibre broadband at our old house for 2 years which was between $80-70/m switching between the two fastest plans skinny offered, so I can afford a more expensive data pack, I just need it to last as long as the month I'm paying for lol. I don't need huge download speeds like fibre broadband can provide. I can play online games smoothly with the max speeds skinny provides, I think I get like max 14MB on my phone, same on my laptop, and then 5MB on my playstation when hotspotting. I'm not worried about getting more than those speeds.
You might suggest I just get a separate broadband plan in the house, but we've moved to a rural area and our house isn't offered the same broadband plans as our old one. We don't have fibre or wireless broadband available in our area, just plain adsl/vdsl which didn't even work when we tried installing our modem (don't know why), so my parents and all my siblings pitch in for starlink now. It's just my parents choice to turn it off during the night and they say if we want we can buy our own data to use during the night.
Anyway, I've been looking at some other providers like Spark and One NZ that offer unlimited uncapped data plans. My main question is does anybody have any reviews on either of the plans these providers have? Whats it like for you if you use them? Is it worth it for you and why? I've read a couple reviews on One NZ's service that are reeeeally bad with people complaining about how fast they rip through their data plans and are reduced to super slow speeds within minutes of using their data, which is very suspicous. So I'm reluctant about switching to them. There aren't any specific reviews on either of the providers' UNcapped plans though, reviews I've seen are on capped plans only so I'm reaching out on this in hopes to find someone who already uses any of the plans im looking at and get their review and maybe advice.
The options I've been looking at are:
Skinny Endless Data Plan $70 ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - 80GB Data at max speeds incl. hotspotting - Endless Data at reduced speeds ^(1.3MB\)) incl. hotspotting - Unlimited Minutes and Texts
Spark Endless Plan $90/m ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - Unlimited data* (Fair use policy applies) - Unlimited NZ/AUS SMS* ^{(I don't care that much about this}) - Unlimited mins to any NZ/AUS mobiles and landlines ^{(don't care again}) - Free spotify premium ^{(This is nice cause I use spotify a lot, I'm already on a student discount though but still nice}) - Team Up eligible* ^{(don't know what this means tbh}) - Endless Hotspot* ^{(this is a MUST for me but there might be some secret terms that apply}) - Spark Voicemail App ^{(I think voice mail access is free, better than skinny, but I don't get a lot of voicemail so its not neccessary.})
Spark Endless Plan $70/m ^{(Second most expensive plan}) - 18GB data at max speed. Endless data at reduced speed. ^{(This is capped, is waaaay less than what skinny provides for $70 and I would probably rip though is within two weeks.}) - Unlimited SMS ^{blah blah} - Unlimited mins - Save $7 on spotify premium ^{(I'm already on student discount, don't need.}) - Team Up eligible* - Endless Hotspot* - Spark Voicemail
One NZ Plan Unlimited Max speed data $85/m ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - Unlimited max speed data - Endless calls and text - Add up to 3 Companion plans for $40/m per plan - 250mins & 50 TXTs ^(what?) - Hotspot included ^(yay) - Wifi Calling included ^(what?) - One NZ Rewards ^(ok) - 5G ready - Open term plan
And those are the options I've gravitated towards. Skinny, Spark and One NZ (used to be vodafone I think). It sounds like One NZ is the best price for uncapped data but again I'm suspicious from all the negative reviews about One NZ especially about customers not getting what they paid for. Even NZ herald and Stuff has made articles about them being the worst rated mobile service provider. Only way I can get over the suspicion is hearing from other people here and reddit is pretty honest and helpful when it comes to niche problems.
If anybody has experience with either of these providers and especially with the data plans listed, please let me know what its like for you so I can make an informed decision on what I should buy. Maybe you know of other plans that might be better, or are someone who has similar data usage (excessive gaming and streaming) and has worked out the best data plan for that kind of consumption.
Any reviews, advice or opinons welcome ❤
THANKS!

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I beat the game on my switch previously and just got it on PC (fresh start).
It's been a while so I could definitely enjoy a vanilla play through, plus it would give me a chance to get good again. That said, I've been interested in a few mods I've seen available online - but most seem to be quite expansionist and I don't want to go straight into what seems like basically DLC content (whole new levels) until I've beaten the base game again on this new start. Are there any mods that people reccomend that wouldn't be too game changing for someone who is still interested in a 90% vanilla experience?
Also feel free to reccomend mods for after I've gotten my base game fix too! I see there are quite a few to choose from that promise new guns, rooms, characters etc - I'd love some suggestions for what to plan for in the future.
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• 11 year old female labrador retriever
• Spayed
• About 85 lbs (I am aware she is overweight)
• Had mast cell tumor removal last year, but otherwise healthy

My 11 year old lab recently went from being fully active to struggling to even get up or walk a few steps. This literally happened over night--I took her out in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and later that morning she could barely get up. It seemed her hind legs had no strength. She had an upset stomach the day before, but I'm not sure that's connected.
Prior to this I noticed that she had been panting a lot even when at rest, but I figured it was anxiety (she's a very anxious dog). However, the sudden loss of mobility was accompanied by a lot of panting and heavy breathing.
After a few hours of her panting and not moving much, I took her to the emergency vet. They ran x-rays of the chest&abdomen, bloodwork, and examined her throat. They found absolutely nothing wrong with her--in fact, the vet told me she was impressed by her bloodwork, given her age and breed. She seemed as confused as I was and said that it could be neurological, but they did not have that specialty in house. Because of how anxious she was, they could not get clear x rays of her hind legs (I don't know why they wouldn't start there to begin with, I'm pretty annoyed by that).
While she was there she managed to stand and walk on her own, so she was released to me with two medications--carprofen (anti-inflammatory and pain relief) and gabapentin. I have only been administering carprofen since it has the two benefits listed above. The vet told me that was okay, I could hold off on the gabapentin since that is usually for neurological/nerve issues and we don't know for sure if that is what she has.
I was also told to keep her calm and resting for two weeks and that if she were to lose mobility again, that should be considered an emergency and I need to take her to a vet with a neurology department. She suggested just taking her regardless so I could know for sure.
Here is my issue: I unfortunately cannot afford to take her to another vet. Frankly, I can't even afford the current bill. It's incredibly frustrating that I spent so much money to be told that they have no idea what is ailing her. It's also strange that it happened so suddenly and that she bounced back while she was at the vet. The vet was surprised by that as well and said it might have been due to the adrenaline.
It's been a few days and I would say she is about 80% back to normal though a bit low energy but that's most likely due to the meds. She is still panting occasionally but otherwise does not appear to be in pain or distress.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I've done my own research online and can't seem to find anything that wouldn't have been discovered through the xrays, like a slipped disc or arthritis. What possible neurological condition could this be?
What can I do to keep her healthy and pain free once the carprofen runs out?
Thanks so much.

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Throwaway account for this one.
I moved to Japan recently and have a very high income. I've changed my tax residency to Japan and all that.
Anyways, I was told by my wife (JP) that ふるさと納税 is THE THING to do in Japan. I read up on it, and it seems that, basically you get equal amount of tax deduction based on your donation to a particular 自治体 minus 2000 yen.
Now, I did the math using Japanese online calculators, as well as 年収早見表, and it seems that the upper limit for contribution room is absurdly high.
For example, according to this chart, if you earn 25M / yr, then your upper limit is 85万円 https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000408217.pdf
For someone earning 50M / yr, then this calculator tells me it's about 220万円 :
https://furunavi.jp/deduction.aspx
For someone earning 100M / yr, then it's 430-450万円 ish as well.
That'll buy like 100kg of mangoes and 30kg of beef and 100kg of シャインマスカット from さとふる. You can essentially eat a whole year just on ふるさと納税..
Provided at that income level, you're paying almost 45-55% effective tax rate incl residence tax, but it's still a great deal.
Is this correct? Essentially I can get x00万円 worth of items for free? That's mad.
Thank you!

tried to keep my post as spoiler free as possible, in case you haven't played it. It was honestly still a pretty good game despite its flaws , and I recommend you guys try it before reading much farther.
So I just finished The Chant, and although I enjoyed the game a decent amount, what was up with the ending?
I got what turned out to be the "Mind" ending. I was confused how to get the other endings and so looked it up (trying just to read articles and not watch videos.) Unfortunately, the other endings were spoiled for me. The questions I have still remain: why such an incomplete ending? Are either of the other endings better? Is it worth playing the whole game over again just to try and get a new ending, or should I just watch a video online? Is there a canon ending? And is the DLC worth playing? Because although I liked the game, the ending was so lackluster that I'm now unsure if I want to put more hours into the game. Especially if it doesn't continue right from where the main game left off. Does the DLC have more of a "complete" ending?
What were you're thoughts on the game? How did you initially feel after getting your first ending? Which ending did you get?

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Internet services
Internet-based communication services offer distinct advantages over traditional methods like landlines and cellular networks. Widely utilized by individuals and businesses, especially in remote work setups, these services enable seamless collaboration. The telecommunication industry increasingly adopts Internet services, providing budget-friendly solutions with advanced features like social media integration, instant messaging, and video conferencing. They require only a stable internet connection, eliminating the need for costly hardware, infrastructure, and dedicated IT support.
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Forgive me if this has been asked ad nauseum.
I'm working through Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers by Jef Prosise and its interesting so far. I have the math background: A minor in math with a B.S. in Comp Sci and a Masters in Software Engineering. (though my math chops are a little rusty, I can follow it well enough to understand it.)
What makes this situation a little more unique: I have about a year of free education left with my GI Bill. The catch is I'll have to do it remotely as I live overseas right now, so it would have to be online. But given that there is no cost for me for continued formal education, what route do you choose?
I work in the health sector, so once I get my feet wet, I know my boss would love for us to attempt to do some research and get published if possible. The publishing would help me because eventually I want to pursue a PhD.
The question I have:
Knowing where I am, what path do I take to get from here to there? What online curriculums are best? Should I just self teach and keep going with O'Reilly books (which have always helped me level up over the years?), or will a more formal curriculum like the professional certs from MIT or Standford or somewhere else be better?
Where do I want to go?
A few research ideas involve text classification with medical classifier models (BERT), but I want to look at it from a slightly different angle through some other research that's we've done. There are a couple of products we have that might also benefit from different types of more simple ML approaches (not full on LLMs) that I want to begin exploring. It was a goal at the outset of the project, but tools were not as readily available nor did I have the experience a few years ago.
Thanks a ton for your help.

After speaking with a few members in this group and few outside this group this is what I have gathered from the market for my project
let me know if this perspective is accurate or not and feel free to add to it
Service providers in the market:
Wedding videographephotographer that charge between 5-25k per wedding doing 12-40 jobs a year
Desired situation:
To be the go to wedding videographephotographer in their locality and be recommended by top venues and planners as well as having a good reputation online and in the community as well as having a lot of profit for me and my family
Issues:
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• Trying to show their creative side through their work as well as producing high quality work without “churning and burning” their customers
• Too much inquires coming in and wasting time with low quality inquires
• Trying to stay away from feast and famine months with their business
• Keeping a good name and image in the community
• Collaborating with venues and planners to get more high quality inquires
• Making sure to have a good and consistent online presence
• Spending a lot of time sorting and finding high quality leads
• Getting on the recommended vendors lists for venues and planners
• Being able to work “on” the business getting more inquires as well as them being a good quality

What are people trying to sell you:
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• SEO: the issue they brought up… Does it even work? What are the quality of the people calling me?

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• Social Media Management Agency: the issue they brought up no real ROI on the service the money would be better spent elsewhere

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• Software: mainly business management software doesn’t actually target pain points really can only send invoices contracts and speak with customers but not actions that move the needle forward

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• Full service social media: the person handling it doesn’t bring out the vision the client is looking for and the same issues with the social media management agency

Majority of your market:
Main pain point ( NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP )
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• Forget about quality of inquires not enough are even coming in
• Jobs are low budget and low quality ( making it difficult to create good marketing material for the business having good looking brides and grooms in a good venue high quality backgrounds which would’ve created a positive feedback loop )
• Difficult to get out the 1-3k price range when marketing materials aren’t as good and are stuck delivering for clients to make sure the services were good

WORD OF MOUTH IS EVERYTHING IN THIS INDUSTRY
Softwares that are popular in the market currently use:

• Stripe (Payment processor)
• Gmail
• Adobe Suite
• Mac OS
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Honeybook
• Helsome (Payment processor)
• Shoot proof (sends clients there images and videos)
• Studio Ninja ( Invoicing, contracts, customer management )

My question is what are people trying to shove down your throats?
like if you're running a wedding photography business what are people trying to sell you over emails or cold calls,
Are those things even use full to you?
I noticed the big boys that help provide tools are mainly honeybook and studio ninja ( my study is strictly from a business POV not actually delivering i.e ( editing videos, sending to clients etc ) things that push the needle ( marketing, reviews, word of mouth ) ETC )
Could you share with me for example,
what you would prefer if you were looking to grow your photography business
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1) All in one tool where you can manage your social media ( Facebook, insta ), Follow up on inquires automatically also with AI so you can sift through shitty ones and save time, Build workflows that automatically ask for referrals on your behalf so you don't have to remember,
sending personalized messages a year after you shot your clients weddings, Basically all the things that you know you should be doing but because if your hectic schedule it's a bit difficult to fit in and be constant with it building your reviews and testimonials
which will make your life easier with trying to get into the big venues and get better clients not to mention save you so much money rather than hiring an agency to do it and paying between 10-20k yearly
OR
2) Have an outside agency or person handle all those things for you white glove service style where you pay 10-20k yearly but you have the same benefit as the tool but with an element of human error but you'd also get the benefits of having a human eye as well as an extra set of hands for customer service
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I want to gather accurate info and see what you guys deal with on a day to day and what areas you'd like to improve
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I'm reading posts about Nexon struggling with their finances and the game having less players than their expectations, so my aim in this post is to all of us have some good feedbacks and discussions to how to make the game better.
I reached in Discord feedback channels but most of the times my feedbacks got buried by other's balance feedbacks. Here I want to discuss more potential game changing feedbacks that might help the developers get better vision and ideas for their game. I love the game and how much developers and their marketing team respect us with their good pricing and free skin giveaways so I want to give back to them.
I invite others to upvote good feedbacks and discuss new mechanics and possible solutions to game's low population (in publisher's eyes). I don't think balance issues should be discussed here cause we already discussed them a lot.
As others mentioned I don't think the game has monetization problems cause I've seen my friends and me all paying for skins without feeling ripped off and love to pay for their great skins and the game has the most reasonable price to quality for cosmetics in the whole PvP shooters I've seen.
Here is some of my feedback discussions:

Photo Mode and Replays:

One huge feature that I think would change is photo mode. But to have photo mode in middle of the game you can't have it without replays cause of the nature of the game being online.
One simple suggestion I have is to add a prototype photo mode in loudouts. I love to change the pose of my character based on game animations or already in game expressions. It would be great to have a timeline of the animation so we can pause the animation in a specific time and take a photo with nice filters, effects or even different lightning if it's possible. I mention lightning cause Finals lightning is the most astonishing lighting I've seen specially on shiny guns. It should have camera movement, zoom, focus and the usuals of photo modes.
Doing this can result in better advertisement of the game from players using photos for their profiles or even wallpapers or YouTube thumbnails and it will help us advertise the game ourselves or just simply enjoy the details of the game graphics.

Non-Objective Game Modes:

Another discussed topic is to make the game have Team Deathmatch or just Deathmatch for newer players to experience the game without the stress of objectives and necessarily committing to a goal and just get experienced with weapons and gadgets or any other game mode that just gives players cash (game points) for just killing and not completing objectives (like depositing). A gun game mode could be fun, just guns switch after killing and at the end we have dagger only weapon. Doing this requires smaller maps that I will discuss in the next part.

Smaller Maps or Limited Play Area:

Most of The Finals maps are pretty big with repeated buildings and shapes, it is understandable as design point cause it will make use of reusing same premade objects that helps the game with performance and lower disc space along with less development times. My suggestions is to either make smaller maps that I understand takes a lot of time, map design is not an easy task, for this reason other solution is to limit the play area to smaller sections (it can be easily added by the lore that CNS corrupted the map data and things like that). Doing so would cause another problem that is the destruction of the buildings and map can make the map look flat after destroying the objects. A solution I have to this is to add some interactable objects that would reconstruct the buildings or some part of the map with added cooldown. Doing this my cause some physics problems but another solution to this is repel (knockout) the players out of that area and reconstruct the building so it would prevent players getting stuck somewhere on the reconstructed part.
It would be great if mods could help me with this post and reach out to developers for better visibility. I highly suggest others discuss about these or their own game changing feedbacks to help the game become better. We are a community and a group that I'm sure most of us love the game and want to see it succeed. As always be civil and don't argue with others feedback without good reasoning.
Edit: added gun game mode suggestion.