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Don't get lost in the shuffle of a massive alliance... be apart of the decisions!!
All experience levels and skills are welcome!
Onyx is a US/NA based crew (EU/AU is of course very welcome) expanding to 50 players. Not 900. Not 300. Just 50.
We are an exclusive crew. No multi Org/Corp players please!
Onyx is an ACTIVE crew. Eve Online is a "daily driver" No weekend warriors please.
We are looking for industry focused players as well as PVP driven folks. The is lots of content to be had no matter your tastes. We are a diverse group that touches on many aspects of Eve to break any grind! Onyx offer's all aspect from mining, PVP, PVE explo and industry! At our core we are industry focused!
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Lurking in the discord and not engaging is not cool.
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Hi all,
In the market for a Drill. Current one is dying but in no rush to replace it. Am a homeowner, basic needs.
I saw this on HD offering both Drill and an Impact Driver, was curious how is this deal? Anything special about Memorial day/Ryobi day here or in the past it has been cheaper during Father's day or July 4?
Thank you!

Looking to buy a daily driver…
Looking for my first car, as a daily driver.
I just recently sold my first car, a 1990 NA Miata, 5 speed manual, and I’m looking now for a more practical but cool daily driver for Vancouver driving. I’ve come across these cars I’ve found on Marketplace that I think look cool and fun. Which one would you recommend for a 18 year old, part time worker, that needs a daily for everything. I like older cars as I believe they look better.
Here are the links to the listings:

1. 1997 Honda Civic: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/308553305637059/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
2. 1998 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/434617362507369/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
3. 2000 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/822254789793827/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   

Thanks for looking and I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

Good Day po!
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If naghahanap po kayo ng gadget online, mag-ingat po sa mga scammer.
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Pabago-bago po ang kanyang pangalan sa Facebook pati na po sa kanyang license and receipt. Base po sa kanyang mga account, mula daw po siya ng Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. Madalas po na may profile siya na maykasamang baby kaya mapapaniwala po talaga kayo.
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Veteran pilots looking for a smaller group to make a measurable impact or new players looking for a crew that isn't massive.
Experienced logistics & FC's are a plus!
Onyx is a US/NA based crew (EU is of course very welcome) expanding to 50 players. Not 900. Not 300. Just 50.
Onyx is a null sec crew.
We are an exclusive crew. No multi Org/Corp players here.
Onyx is an ACTIVE crew. Eve Online is a "daily driver" No weekend warriors please.
ACTIVE= logging in 4 times a week or more and engages with the group.
We are looking for industry focused players as well as PVP driven folks to protect our assets.
Skilled miners are valued.
Skilled combat pilots are valued.
ACTIVE players are valued.
Lurking in the discord and not engaging is NOT valuable.
Be valued. Be valuable. Be included. Get in on the ground floor and be a part of building something. Use the discord link to connect and ask me more questions.
Connect with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/8WMKrWWDK8
Use my Ref link to get 1 million skill points: https://www.eveonline.com/signup?invc=1b899d2f-48da-49d7-8523-82cb4455b2c9

Looking for my first car, as a daily driver.
I just recently sold my first car, a 1990 NA Miata, 5 speed manual, and I’m looking now for a more practical but cool daily driver for Vancouver driving. I’ve come across these cars I’ve found on Marketplace that I think look cool and fun. Which one would you recommend for a 18 year old, part time worker, that needs a daily for everything. I like older cars as I believe they look better.
Here are the links to the listings:

1. 1986 VW GL Turbo Diesel: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2583967138451654/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
2. 1981 Toyota Corolla: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/343560215066943/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
3. 1997 Honda Civic: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/308553305637059/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
4. 1998 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/434617362507369/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
5. 2000 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/822254789793827/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   

Thanks for looking and I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

Looking for my first car, as a daily driver.
I just recently sold my first car, a 1990 NA Miata, 5 speed manual, and I’m looking now for a more practical but cool daily driver for Vancouver driving. I’ve come across these cars I’ve found on Marketplace that I think look cool and fun. Which one would you recommend for a 18 year old, part time worker, that needs a daily for everything. I like older cars as I believe they look better.
Here are the links to the listings:

1. 1986 VW GL Turbo Diesel: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2583967138451654/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
2. 1981 Toyota Corolla: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/343560215066943/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
3. 1997 Honda Civic: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/308553305637059/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
4. 1998 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/434617362507369/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   
5. 2000 Honda Civic SI: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/822254789793827/?mibextid=HHaHfI
   

Thanks for looking and I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

I was falsely flagged as a cheater. I was playing the other night on League of Legends, trying to learn Ahri and Yummi, I was really new to the game, still am and after a 50 minute game I got disconnected and when I relogged in, I was banned! Perma-banned!
It said it was because I had third party software installed and I was accused of cheating. Which I loathe because I would never do that in a multiplayer game, it ruins the fun for everyone involved and it destroys any sense of competition.
I checked all the things I had running in the background there were: Steam (Game Client) Battle.net (Game Client) Nvidia GeForce (Driver) Intel Turbo (Graphics thing I think? I dont really know computer stuff. Maybe another driver?) Riot Vanguard (Your thing) Discord (Social App) and Google Chrome.
I contacted support, someone they didn't really help and it didn't feel like they really checked into the issue. I'm just being told I was flagged for cheating and from what I gather, they were not going to work with me for me to be able to help my own case. It felt like they sent me an automated response and I want someone to investigate this further, please.
I'm new to the game and I know I suck but I wasn't botting :( Im trying to get into the game for a friend.
Edit: if anyone from riot can help me, my tag is #Wazz and my username is Wazzupiddy
Edit: someone asked for this, i never used this before but I found my username! https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/Wazzupiddy-Wazz
Edit: Ban has been lifted by the amazing mirageofpenguins, thank you so much <3

Hey everyone, I've got the face rig working using this video from youtube. I'm trying to apply this on multiple characters. I've Shift+D all the elements from the first character, but the first control rig changes both character's faces now. And when I change the 'prop' in drivers it changes the control rig for both characters at the same time. Does anyone have any advice? Many thanks

Hello ,
This is my third edition of "Where are they now?" to this forum. Last year I wrote up The 2013 GP2 Grid. Where are they now? and the 2 years ago I wrote up The 2012 GP2 Grid. Where are they now? Today I give you the 2014 Edition! Where is the 2014 GP2 Grid now after 10 years? With the power of Google, Wikipedia, and the Internet, I summarize the aftermath of every drivers career on the 2014 GP2 grid.
🇬🇧 Jolyon Palmer - Champion turned Media Analyst. Palmer won the 2014 GP2 series after 4 years of competing, and he did it by outscoring his competition by over 45 points! After winning the title, Palmer was given the opportunity to drive for Force India at the post-season test, however an engine problem cut his test short. At the start of the 2015 season, it was announced Palmer had signed with the Lotus F1 Team as a test/reserve driver. He would partake in 5 different practice sessions throughout the year. He also started his media career the same year, by guest appearing as a commentator for the GP2 races. The preceding two GP2 champions before Palmer had yet to find an F1 race seat, and as 2016 edged nearer it seemed as though that curse would continue, but a surprise move by Grosjean moving to Haas opened up a spot at the newly branded Renault team for Palmer! Palmer made his F1 racing debut at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix to open the F1 season where he avoided Q1 elimination and finished the race in 11th. The rest of the season Palmer would struggle, and it would be standard for him to be eliminated in Q1, crash in Monaco (2 times in practice and during the race), and be outpaced and outclassed by teammate Magnussen. There was light near the end of the season when Palmer scored his first points by finishing 10th at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Palmer was given another season in F1 in 2017, but his season went just as poorly as his debut season. His teammate Hulkenberg was regularly scoring points while Palmer barely saw himself out of the points zone. Palmer admitted to overdriving the car and comparing himself himself to Hulkenberg for his poor performance. Palmer found out he lost his seat through the media rather than internally before the Singapore race, a race where he would finish a career high 6th place. The 2016 Japanese Grand Prix was the last time Palmer raced professionally. Since then, Palmer has found a lot of success as a media analyst, taking up media roles with BBC Radio, Channel 4, and has his own F1 TV show called "Jolyon Palmer's Analysis".
🇧🇪 Stoffel Vandoorne - Unsuccessful F1 driver, Successful Formula E driver. 2014 would be Vandoorne's debut GP2 season, and he started the year with a win! But then the next 5 races saw him go scoreless. Despite this, Vandoorne finished the second half of the season with 3 wins and 7 podiums. He would return the next GP2 season and dominate the field with a staggering 341.5 points, nearly 150 points over 2nd place! Despite his incredible performance, there was no space for him on the 2016 F1 grid. McLaren managed to secure him a seat in Super Formula for the 2016 season to help him "get up to speed" for 2017. But a dramatic crash for Alonso at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix opened up an opportunity for Vandoorne to make his F1 Debut at the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix where he finished in 10th place! Vandoorne would return to F1 with a full time race seat in 2017 where he finished the year with 13 points after gathering points in Hungary, Singapore, and Malaysia. His Sophomore year in Formula 1 started hot, scoring points in the first 3/4 races. The MCL33 however, in kind words, was weak, but compared to his teammate he was outqualified in every session that year. In September 2018, McLaren announced he would not longer be driving for him after the 2018 season. Shortly after that announcement, Vandoorne announced himself he was moving to Formula E with HWA. His Debut Formula E season was quite underwhelming finishing 16th in the drivers standings, but he moved to Mercedes the following season and had a much more competitive season finishing as runner-up. Since then, Vandoorne has been a regular driver in the Formula E Series with a championship to his name in the 2021-2022 season. Vandoorne has also partaken in WEC in both the Hypercar and LMP2 class since 2021. Today Vandoorne still races in Formula E with DS Penske and Hypercar in WEC with Peugeot
🇧🇷 Felipe Nasr - The Brazillian Sportscar Star. The 2014 GP2 season was the last of 3 seasons for Nasr, and he finished the season in 3rd place, narrowly losing out to Vandoorne. But that was good enough as Sauber announced Nasr for the 2015 F1 Season. Remarkably Nasr finish his debut F1 race in 5th place, a finish that would remain the highest the rest of his F1 career. He finished out the season in 13th with 27 points. He return to Sauber in 2016 but found less success. Nasr's season didn't get much better as his main sponsor (Banco do Brasil) pulled his backing leaving Nasr with no seat. Nasr did not race in 2017 aside from a Porsche Endurace Series guest outing. He mentions in this interview that leaving F1 was the lowest of lows, but in retrospect the best thing that ever happened to him. Let me tell you why, Nasr returned in 2018 with a full-time seat in IMSA SportsCar - Protype Series and won the championship. He briefly returned to single-seaters in Formula E with GEOX Dragon for 3 rounds and scored 0 points. But he jumped back to IMSA SportsCar - DPi, winning the class championship in 2021. In 2023 he won the 24H Daytona in GTD Pro class with Pfaff Motorsports. Today, Nasr leads in GTP class in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with Team Porsche Penske.
🇳🇿 Mitch Evans - One of New Zealand's Formula E's stars. Evans would finish the 2014 GP2 season in 4th place - the highest in his GP2 career as he would and he would return the next year finishing in 5th place and 12th place in the 2016 season. He did catch a break in the 2016 season winning at Austria in a Campos. He did a one off at the 2015 Le Mans Series by finishing 2nd with Jota. After his GP2 Career, Evans moved onto Formula E, joining Jaguar Racing, a seat which he still holds today. Throughout his Formula E career he has scored 11 wins and managed to finish runner-up in 2021-2022 season and third the 2022-2023 season. He has also co-founded an investment firm called Apex Capital.
🇻🇪 Johnny Cecotto Jr - Imagine if Mahaveer Raghuanathan was fast and bad at the same time, Cecotto was THAT original driver. Here's a video that summarizes him pretty well (skip to 2:00 for playstation moment). If Maldanado had a twin that was just as good and bad as himself, this is this man. Will Buxton even had enough of his nonsense. Despite all this, he finished the year in a career high 5th place! He came back for a few races in 2015, 2016, and even 2017. He didn't drive in 2017, but he did give a Ted Talk. His last professional driver outing was in 2019 in the GT4 European Series. In a recent interview of 2024, he talks how he left racing to become a fully dedicated Monaco Entrepreneur. Today he owns a series of firms, real estate, car dealerships, and aviation companies. I guess he is also the Course and Race Director for the Monaco Grand Prix now too. Oh did I mention he is also a neighbor of Charles Leclerc too?
🇲🇨 Stefano Coletti - If you thought Leclerc was the first Monegasque driver to score a win in any series at Monaco, then I must inform you that is not correct. It's actually Louis Chirion, but that was before the FIA Era. And even then Stephane Ortelli won in 2000/2001 in the Porsche SuperCup. But the first single seater driver in the FIA Era to ever win in Monaco was Stefano Coletti in the 2013 Sprint Race! Coletti returned to GP2 in the 2014 season finishing 6th overall. Following the 2014 season, he jumped to America to try out IndyCar, but that was a bit of a bust. So he returned to Europe and competed in ELMS- LMP2 and finished 3rd in the championship. This would be his last-full time drive, but he did participate in the opening round of the F2 2017 championship with Campos. Since then Coletti's only professional outings have been 4 races with Team Lazarus in Gt3 in 2020 and 2 outings in a new electric touring car series in 2021. Today Coletti is a Real Estate agent with Coletti Real Estate in Monaco with his father. He is also a neighbor of Charles Leclerc.
🇫🇷 Arthur Pic - The Younger Brother of F1 Driver Charles Pic. Pic made his debut GP2 season in 2014 in rather unspectactular fashion finishing 7th place with 1 win. He would return to the series the next year in 11th without much success aside from 2 podiums. He turned up again in 2016 but finished even lower in 14th a single podium. That would be his last season as a racing driver as he has since quit professional racing entirely. According to his LinkedIn he works at Groupe Charles Andre, a transportation and logistics company in Europe
🇮🇹 Raffaele Marciello - Your Reigning FIA GT World Cup Champion. The 2014 GP2 Season was Marciello's debut season where he finished a respectable 8th place and 1 win. He would return to GP2 in 2015 with Racing Engineering where he improved to 7th overall. He was rewarded with a testing day with Ferrari that season. He would go on to challenge for the title in 2016 but finished short and ended up 4th. Needless to say, Marciello was a bit fed up with the politics of F1, and in short had other priorities in life than chasing the F1 dream. So he moved to Sportscar in 2017, and found a lot of success too! Since 2017 Marciello regularly competes in GT Sports Cars finding wins at the FIA GT World Cup, won the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, 2021 & 2023 GT Series Endurance Cup, and 2022 ADAC GT Masters. Today he still competes in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, and has also joined WEC Hypercar with BMW.
🇲🇨 Stéphane Richelmi - If you thought Leclerc was the second Monegasque driver to score a win in any single seater series at Monaco during the FIA Era, then I must inform you that is not correct. That's right, Richelmi won the 2014 Monaco Sprint race! Unfortunately that was about the only highlight of his 2014 GP2 season. In 2015 he joined up with W Racing Team in the Blancpain GT series, scoring a single win in the seasons opener. Richelmi found more success when he switched to WEC - LMP2 class and won the series with Signatech as well as winning the 24H of Le Mans. From 2017-2019 he continued racing with Jackie Chan Racing in Asian Le Man, WEC, and 24H of Le Man all in the LMP2 class. In 2021 he joined H24 racing to race in the Le Mans Cup. Today he races in ELMS - LMP2 class with Vector Sport. Outside of racing, Richelmi owns a both a Construction Company and a Real State Agency.
🇨🇴 Julián Leal - Leal finished the year in a career high 10th place and as a test driver for the Caterham F1 Team. He would return to GP2 in 2015 with less than stellar results finishing in 14th. The following year he would compete with SMP Racing in ELMS- LMP2 in the first 4 rounds scoring 2 podiums. He would return to Columbia to compete in Touring Cars Columbia briefly. He has not returned to racing since then - as a driver at least. Today he owns a racing team called Leal Race Cars.
🇩🇰 Marco Sørensen - 2x WEC - LMGTE Pro Champion. Marco joined the season midway through the year from Formula Renault 3.5 and ended the season with a win and 11th overall. Sorensen would return to GP2 in 2015, but halfway through the season Sorensen decided to switch to GT Cars, thus ending his single seater career. He would join up with Aston Martin in WEC - LMGTE Pro class, and won the championship in 2016 and 2019-2020, and 2022 season. He has also won the 24H of Nuburgring in 2018, and 2022 24H of Le Man, both in the GT class. Today he competes in WEC - LMGT3 with D'station Racing and GT World Challenge Europe.
🇧🇷 André Negrão - 2x 24H Le Man LMP2 Winner. Negrao made his GP2 Debut in the 2014 season and finished 12th overall. He would return in 2015 but found little success finishing 20th overall, 2nd to last in full time race drivers. Negrao tried his luck with single seaters again, but this time in America through 2016 with Indy Lights finishing with 5 podiums. The team he was with, Schmidt Peterson, shut down at the end of the 2016 season. Alpine reached out though and offered him a seat in WEC, and he would race with Alpine in LMP2 from 2017-2023 finding much success, winning the 24H Le Man LMP2 class twice and even won the championship in the 2018-2019 season. He would move to Hypercar in 2021 finishing 3rd in 2021 and 2nd in 2022. However the 2023 season went quite poorly for Alpine, and they finished 18th in the standings. At the end of the season they announced Negrao would not be returning to the team. As of today, he is currently not competing in any series.
🇬🇧 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs - Driver turned Pro-Sim Owner. Hobbs found himself competing in for points at the start of the 2014 GP2 season, but as the season went on he found himself struggling. A neck injury would not help either, as he was eventually replaced in the 10th round. Quaife-Hobbs switched to GT Racing the next year in hopes for more success and competed in the GT Endurance Series for 5 rounds. He also won a single race in the British GT Championship the same year. His final professional race outing was in the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup where he scored 2 podiums. Quaife-Hobbs has not raced professionally since then and today he resides in the UK and owns a Pro-Sim Racing shop which is endorsed by many professional drivers including Lando Norris.
🇪🇸 Sergio Canamasas - This is Canamasas. This is also Canamasas. This is Will Buxton's take on who Canamasas is. And reddit's take on who Canamasas is. Anyways, that didn't stop Canamasas from being signed by Caterhams development driver program. After the 2017 season, Canamasas stopped racing, and told the media he stopped after an incident with FIA's security and doctors. Today, according to his LinkedIn, he is a CEO of a company called FACA in Barcelona.
🇮🇩 Rio Haryanto - Indonesia's only F1 Driver. Haryanto finished the year in 15th and managed to score a single podium. Haryanto still manged to get an F1 test with Caterham in the 2014 season. Haryanto would return to GP2 in 2015 and found himself 4th in the standings at the end of the season. Rumors started spreading that Manor F1 was closing in on signing Haryanto to F1, and Haryanto was about to pay €15M/year to race in F1. In the end, Manor announced that Haryanto was to be their full time driver for the 2016 season, and he competed in 12 Grand Prix's before being replaced by Esteban Ocon after his sponsorship failed to deliver on their funds. This was not the end for Rio, as he returned to racing in 2018 in the Audio R8 LMS Cup before joining T2 motorsports in 2019 in their GTWC Asia Series, scoring 1 podium. His last professional outing was in 2019-2020 in the Asian Le Mans GT Class. Today he is involved with his father's stationery company called Kiky, owns a Restaurant in Indonesia, and from his instagram just enjoying life.
🇩🇪 Daniel Abt - Yes, the same Abt family that runs Abt Sportsline in Formula E. The 2014 GP2 season was Abt's 3rd season and he mostly mingled around in the back of the field, but did have a decent stretch midway through the season. Abt moved onto WEC and Formula E following the 2014 season, joining up with none other than the Abt Team in Formula E. From 2014-2020 Abt was a full time Formula E Driver scoring 2 wins over the course of his career. Today Abt has stopped racing professionally and he works for his family owned motor-racing team and auto tuning company called Abt Sportsline, owns a clothesline, and runs a podcast.
🇨🇭 Simon Trummer - Trummer finished his 3rd season in GP2 in a career high 17th place. Trummer then moved to WEC - LMP1 with ByKolles Racing in 2015-2016. He switched to LMP2 class in 2017 without much success either and entered the IMSA SportsCar - DPi class in 2018 and 2019. He switched to LMP2 in IMSA the following year finishing 2nd overall with PR1 Motorsports. The next year he participated in the Asian Le Mans scoring 3 podiums. I couldn't find anything that he still racing today, but according to his LinkedIn, he is a Driver Coach in Switzerland.
🇯🇵 Takuya Izawa - The left field 30 year old GP2 Honda Signing. At 30 years old, Izawa entered the 2014 GP2 season as a as a Honda Development Driver, a program that Honda implemented after announcing they were returning to F1. He was no slack either, he was coming from Super Formula with 3 wins to his name and a few podiums. With his teammate being Vandoorne, it is safe to say Izawa did not turn out like Honda had hoped. But given his age, the cultural and track differences, and his first time competiting in Europe, his season wasn't as terrible as it could have been. He would return to Japan in 2015 to compete in Super Formula, but his stint away from Japan seemed to caused him more harm then good, as he struggled in Super Formula for the next 4 years. Today he is still racing at the young age of 39, in the Super GT Series, scoring a podium as recent as last year!
🇫🇷 Tom Dillmann - Dillmann was set to return to GP2 with Russian Time for the 2014 season, but the sudden death of their team principle caused Dillmann to lose his seat. Dillmann still raced in the 2014 GP2 season but only for 8 rounds with 2 separate teams. Dillmann made the switch to Formula 3.5 in 2015, where he found much better success. He won the 2016 Formula 3.5 Season and was rewarded with a Formula E drive with Venturi Racing. Throughout 2017 Dillmann made guest appearances in the Blancpain GT Series but couldnt find a full-time drive. But in 2018 Dillmann got a break and found a drive in SuperFormula with Team LeMan, initially as a substitute for Pietro Fittipaldi, and then permantley. His success over there prompted him for a full time drive with NIO racing in Formula E, but finished almost last in the standings. Nevertheless he mustered another full time drive in WEC with ByKolles Racing in LMP1 from 2018-2020. He raced in ELMS - LMP3 in 2021 and won his class in 2022. Today he races in the ELMS - LMP2 series with Inter Europol.
🇫🇷 Nathanaël Berthon - The Ice Racer. Literally. Berthon was in his second season in GP2 and scored in only 2 of his races, one of them being a sprint race win. He continued to race in GP2 until 2015. In 2014 Berthon signed with Caterham's Development Progam, which was shortlived as the team folded the same year. During this time he also competed in LMP2 and other sportscar series. In 2016 it was announced he would race in Formula E with Team Aguri, but after 3 races he and the team parted ways with each other. Since then Berthon has competed in numerous series, ranging from Ice Racing, LMP2 cars, and WTCC. He won the 2016-17 French Ice Racing championship, so that's cool. In 2022 he finished 3rd overall in the WTCC. In 2023 he competed in ELMS in LMP2 with DKR Engineering. Today he is a Eurosport TV Consultant and owns GestProtect, a biotechnology company, and Intelligent Drink, a supplement company. I am not aware of any 2024 racing drives or scheduled drives for Berthon yet.
🇺🇸 Alexander Rossi - Before Sargeant, the last American F1 driver to race was Rossi. Rossi started the season partnered with Caterham but his season was cut short when he cut ties with Caterham midway through the season. He came back to GP2 in the 2015 season finishing 2nd overall and even found himself driving in F1 the second half of the season with Manor. The following season, Rossi was named the Manor reserve driver and joined up with Andretti Autosport in Indycar - in which he would win the Indy 500 becoming the first rookie to win on this track since 2001 and the first American Rookie since 1928. From 2016-2022, Rossi continued to race with Andretti Autosport scoring championship highs of 2nd and 3rd place in '18 and '19 respectfully. Rossi continues to race in Indycar with McLaren today.
🇨🇾 Tio Ellinas - Your 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britan Champion. Tio had already tested for Marussia F1 in 2013, and he entered the 2014 season replacing Lancaster before he himself was replaced by Sorensen, but he would come back at Sochi replacing Quaife-Hobbs. He would later move to Formula Renault 3.5 in 2015 where he scored 2 wins and finished the year in 4th place. He moved onto sportscars in 2017 in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Series and in 2018 he won the championship in that series. He would continue competing in this series until 2021. This has been his last professional outing. Today, the only information I could find on him his from his private LinkedIn stating he is an Executive Director at Tio Ellinas Car Selection.
🇬🇧 Jon Lancaster - Lancaster started the year with MP Motorsport, but after 1 round was replaced by Tio Ellinas due to financial reasons. He would return in the 5th round with Hilmer scoring in points position once the rest of the year. Lancaster had better luck in 2015 with a full time drive with Greaves Motorsport in ELMS - LMP2 and won the championship. But the next year he only had 1 professional outing in the PFV V de V Endurance Series. He had no professional outings as a driver from 2017-2019 and he returned to racing in 2020 in ELMS - LMP2 with Algarve Racing. In 2021, Lancaster found a racing seat with Greystone GT in the British GT Series. In 2023 he he raced in ELMS - LMGTE Class and the GT3 Championship in the British GT Series. Today he is scheduled to race in the GT4 European Series. He also owns a Driver Development Program.
🇷🇺 Artem Markelov - Markelov, the F2 racing legend. Markelov would later become an F2 icon later on his career but in 2014 he was anything but a rookie, finishing the year with only one race in the points. He did show flashes of his talent though. For the next 6 season however, he would continue racing in GP2/F2 providing epic moments such as this, or this, or this. He brieiefly made the move to Japan in 2019 in SuperFormula, but had nothing to show but poor results. He made his final professional racing outing in 2020 in the F2 championship. So why did he stop racing? His father, Valery Markelov, was arrested and that was most likely his financial backing. Today according to his instagram, he's a dad and has since stopped racing professionally.
🇦🇹 Rene Binder - Binder started the 2014 season strong by scoring points in the first 2 races. Unfortunately that would be the only time he would score points that season. He made guest appearances in both GP2 and the re-branded F2 series until 2017. In 2016 he swapped series to the Formula V8 3.5 finishing 7th in 2016 and 4th in 2017. He jumped continents to America to participate in IndyCar with Juncos Racing but found little success. Binder returned to Europe in the ELMS - LMP2 series, a series in which he still races today. In 2021 Binder won the Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Class. Today he races with the Proton Competition in ELMS - LMP2.
🇺🇸 Conor Daly - Ever wonder why Nissany or Gelal are/was around for years? This is the American version of that in the American racing series. Before the 2014 season, he had single outing in the Indy 500, where he crashed during Free Practice. Despite that he finished 22nd in the race. The 2014 GP2 season saw him score only in one race, so Daly returned to America for the IndyCar Series in 2015 and continued racing full time there until 2017. Since 2018 Daly has made occasional outings in IndyCar for both street and oval tracks, and continues to race in IndyCar today. Daly also made his first Nascar outing in 2018, a series in which he has continued to make occasional appearances. In 2023 Daly was replaced midway through the IndyCar season. In 2024 he was not able to secure a full time drive for the IndyCar Season, but he has managed to secure a drive for the 2024 Indy 500 with Dreyer and Reinbold Racing. He also streams on twitch and has his own podcast.
🇯🇵 Kimiya Sato - Sato entered the 2014 GP2 season as the runner-up from the 2013 Auto GP series. He had previously already finished 3rd in the German F3 championship. But the 2014 season fanned out poorly for him, scoring in one race, only in GP2 though. He won the 2014 Auto GP series. After 2014, Sato returned to Japan to compete in the SuperGT series, a series in which he still competes in as of today.
🇳🇱 Daniël de Jong - de Jong finished the year 2 points, and then year after that with 1 point. His final season in GP2 was in 2016 where he scored a career high of 6 points. Between 2016-2019 he made various guest outings in Super GT, 24H GT Series, and 24H Series Continents GT3 class. Since 2020 de Jong has continued to make a single outing in the 24H GT Series GT3 class annually.
🇫🇷 Pierre Gasly - The famous Pierre Gasly was anything but famous in 2014, he had only just recently signed with the Red Bull Program and was coming off a championship winning the Formula Renault 2.0. He started 2014 in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, but for the last 3 rounds he replaced Tom Dillmann in GP2, scoring 0 points. He would return in 2015 competiting full time with DAMS where he finished the year in 8th place, but no wins, and in 2016 he would win the GP2 Championship. The next logical step after winning GP2 should be F1, no?! Like almost every other GP2 champion, he was left without an F1 season entering the 2017 season, but at the Malaysian Grand Prix he replaced Kvyat to make his F1 debut. (He was competiting in Super Formula the same year and finished runner-up). From the 2018 season and onwards, he has been a fulltime F1 driver with Red Bull and Alpine.
🇮🇹 Sergio Campana - Campana started the year in Formula Acceleration 1 (FA1), but for 2 rounds he competed in GP2, scoring 0 points. Campana then made the switch to Lamborghini Super Trofeo series from 2015-2017 amassing 1 podium during his time there. He Competed in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia in 2018 scoring another podium before making his ELMS - LMP2 debut in 2019, a series in which he competed till 2022. Today, he owns a winery in Italy and still competes in karting from his instagram
🇦🇷 Facu Regalia - Regalia was the GP3 runner-up and entered the season as a Force India driver, and thanks to their ties, was granted an F2 seat. However halfway through the season Regalia LEFT the team due to the teams poor performance. He would not race for the rest of the year. He made a comeback to racing in 2015 in Auto GP where he sat 2nd place - before the season was cut short due to lack of entries. He then partook in the 24H Series - 911 in 2016 and briefly made 3 appearances in the 2020 Formula Regional European Championship, but since then has quit professional racing. Today he is a racing coach and founder for Road To Success.
🇨🇦 Nicholas Latifi - That Latifi. Latifi participated in the last round of the 2014 GP2 season finishing 22nd and 17th. He had spent the year in FIA F3 where he finished 10th overrall. Following the 2014 season, he competed in Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2, but didnt find much success in either series. He made the full time commitment to GP2 in 2016 and spent the 2017-2019 season in F2 where he finished runner-up in the 2019 season. Williams signed him to be an F1 driver in 2020 and the rest his histroy. Today he is doing an MBA Course at London Business School which has stopped his racing career.
🇮🇹 Kevin Giovesi - Giovesi started the year by signing to Caterham's junior program, but it was short lived as the team folded at the end of 2014. Without their backing Giovesi was left without a drive most of 2015, but he secured a seat in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia in the final round scoring a podium. He re-signed for 2016 and finished the year with 2 podiums and 13th in the championship. Today, Kevin seems to be a sportscar farmer (yes, you read that right) residing in Italy judging from his instagram
🇿🇼 Axcil Jefferies - That flag is of Zimbabwae if you wernt familiar. Jefferies particpated in the first round of the 2014 GP2 season and his only highlight was this incident. From 2014-2017 he was not racing professionally at least, but he made his return in 2017 with the Lamborghini Series and finished 1st in the Middle East Series in both 2017 and 2018. He was given an opportunity to compete in the GT World Challenge in 2020 and from 2020-2024 has had guest outings in the International GT, WEC GTE, and Asian Le Mans series. Today he is racing for Iron Lynx in the ELMS - LMGT3 series.

I had always been a creative little boy who came alive in writing and in performing onstage. However, somewhere along the line I developed an obsession to be famous. I didn’t want to put in the work anymore since I felt like I worked hard all of my life–I just wanted to bypass all of that and just be at the point where I was giving my emotional Oscar acceptance speech. I still struggle with those thoughts that if I fulfill that dream I will be a content, happy, well-adjusted gentleman. I now see better that just wanting to be publicly adored and loved is a byproduct of trauma, and while I may never be a revered, rich artist in this lifetime, I want this post of my struggle with Feel Free to be my current magnum opus. It does meet the criteria of “art” since I am “pulling invisible experiences from inside of me and creating a visible artifact”, but I’ll let others decide if this is “language arts.” Really, what I am forcing myself to do is see this post as a way for me to release all of the guilt, resentment, and shame I am subconsciously holding on to. I want to heal my inner child, and to help close the emotional/psychological “hole” within me that I didn’t ask for. Maybe you, dear reader, can find something in my story to use as a weapon in your fight to cure your battle with substance use. Strap in.
“Sometimes telling your story is the one thing that will save your life.” Lidia Yuknavitch–former person struggling with loss of a child, homelessness, and heroin addiction turned mother, community college instructor, and writer. https://youtu.be/9AgCr2tTvng?si=Kq-D7Ymt7FaWzHO7
All of us are different, and every person’s struggle with Feel Free is on a case-by-case basis. Thus, I can only speak of MY experiences, but the harsh reality is that compared to how life was for a number of us as children, the world is a sadder place instead of the bright, shiny colors we thought it was while we were elementary school students. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”--Friedrich Nietzsche. It hurts like hell to suffer, but it feels good to realize that suffering is the one thing that unites all of us–-from someone on their deathbed to the financially-wealthiest person on Earth we are united in our tribulations, and we are nothing without each other.
You are NOT a bad person, and you are NOT suffering from a “moral failure” if you are hooked on Feel Free. As I discovered with a good therapist based in Austin, TX, all substance abuse is a symptom of some deeper wound. In my case the real issue is the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) diagnosed to me in 2022 due to the effects of childhood emotional, psychological, and physical abuse (hard spankings (even with belts) from my parents) that followed me into adulthood. Trauma is the REAL gateway drug, and I refuse to say that I “suffer” from addiction because I am NOT its victim–I am STRUGGLING with addiction because just like you I am a FIGHTER. Tell yourself that you currently have this trial but are STILL HERE, and celebrate yourself if all you can do right now is sit down and read this. Perfection be damned, and progress be in the limelight.
To paraphrase Dr. Gabor Mate’s claims which I find calming, “a person struggling with addiction is actually intelligent because they were searching for something to help solve a problem that is currently unbearable to them.” https://youtu.be/BVg2bfqblGI?si=1_KbtjEn9hVDXTbQ . Additionally, while I struggled with resentment and shame due to how much money and time I spent on Feel Free, I choose to adopt the viewpoint proposed by Ms. Jo Harvey Weatherford: “While addiction almost destroyed my life, it simultaneously saved it because if I didn’t have a way to check out during those painful times I don’t know how long I would have chosen to stay alive.” https://youtu.be/OJY4GkpRc7U?si=vxYvAuUexvZlnL4o
My name is Freddie, and I am working as hard and as best as I can to turn my current struggle with Feel Free addiction to something I “struggled” with--something that I fought, won, and left in the past. I was diagnosed with depression in 2006 and prescribed Citalopram (Celexa), then diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder in 2012 and prescribed Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal) and Lamotrigine (Lamictal) in lieu of Celexa. I went back to Celexa, was taken off of Trileptal and Lamictal in 2013, and then a talk therapist diagnosed me with Histrionic Personality Disorder. I first came across Feel Free in November 2021 at a gas station in Fort Worth, TX. At this time, the bottles had the silver cap, and they were advertised as a “kava” drink. I had tried kava before and loved the feeling, so I thought that that was what I was enjoying after taking the shot. When I returned to Fort Worth in December 2021 to celebrate my favorite holiday of New Year’s with friends, I used Feel Free’s store locator to find a place to purchase it. I was taken aback when I heard the employee at the headshop say, “Oh, the kratom and kava shot?” I didn’t know it had kratom in it, but there it was listed on the bottle. I, too, had tried kratom powder and loved the feeling, so I purchased the Feel Free anyway. I wasn’t as addicted to it at the time–-I could go for long periods without thinking of it nor using it.
To paint a picture of the kinds of trauma with which I went through, from 2019-2022, I dealt with (1) a job reassignment in my hometown of Corpus Christi, TX from a fifth-grade to a kindergarten teacher due to low test scores (I felt very unhappy with that decision), (2) settling for a fifth-grade teaching job at the lowest paying school district in Austin, TX due to falling in love with someone there, (3) a loss of said Austin teaching job after one month due to a principal with a bad and quick temper, (4) finding out that my gay ex-boyfriend (I’m pansexual and still struggle with embracing my sexual orientation) who was still within his first year of alcohol-addiction recovery and used me to cure his loneliness and maintain his sobriety, (5) getting dumped by him and having to move into the guest room less than two months of me moving in with him (I don’t recommend anyone to live with their ex), (6) a driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) charge because one Monday night I was so sad with my ex since he had other men come over for sex while I was still living there, (7) gaining and then losing a director position at a private tutoring center due to both COVID and because the owners of the franchise were caught money laundering, (8) a mentally unstable girl I started dating who was hard-to-please, (9) another gay ex-boyfriend who got violent due to psychosis and chased me around our apartment because he secretly stopped taking antipsychotics since he thought we was “cured” after getting involved with me (he was essentially homeless), (10) an assault with injury (family violence) charge due to me thinking that it was legal for me to put my hands on the aforementioned ex with psychosis to get him out of my home (it turns out that Texas state law is that you CAN’T put your hands on someone to get her out of your residence, but you can use a gun), (11) a bankruptcy, and finally (12) the last straw that broke this camel’s back: an English-as-an-additional-language teacher job loss at a public school district (I was blessed to get this job since some schools bar anyone for employment with an arrest on their record) due to me speaking up about the constant micro-management and workplace harassment from my department’s nervous first-year administrator. My boss was obsessed with providing exemplary test scores so much so that he would tell me things like, “I know we have this textbook adoption, but we do not want to have our students see the same thing twice. They need to see more, so start making up teaching resources on your own in your own time and assign it to the students” (I once was so nervous with meeting his demands that I left a coworker's Christmas party early on a Saturday night in order to finish his lesson plans). My complaint caught the attention of my principal’s boss, so he invited himself over to my disciplinary meeting that my principal set up with me, and this man with whom I had hardly interacted called me a “gossip”, overrode the principal, and tore right into me. My abusive boss was assigned to be the mediator at my grievance hearing, so he ultimately decided that I should not be offered a contract for the next school year as retaliation.
I had a mental breakdown after I got the phone call about the firing. There was an OrangeTheory Fitness gym down the street from my apartment, and even though it was a hot, late spring day in Austin, I put on a beanie, sweatshirt, and sweatpants and went to that intense exercise class totally fine with the fact that I could die from heatstroke. I even thought of just leaving my apartment and walking until I would collapse, get hit by a vehicle, or mugged and murdered. I felt that the emotional pain was just too unbearable.
I did not want to move back in with my family. I did not want to go back to the very people who were unaware or in denial of the abuse that they gave me in my formative years. Not only did I not know who I was, I couldn’t spend anytime searching for nor living my authentic self around them. In an attempt to try to continue making it on my own in Austin, I got a quick job at a warehouse stuffing bras while I was working through the bankruptcy proceedings. I didn’t have wireless headphones at the time, so there I was–-a college graduate/certified Texas teachecurrent master’s degree student working 40+ hours a week doing repetitive tasks with nothing but catastrophic and ruminating thoughts going on in my head. There was at least one time when I was crying softly to myself at work and hiding it from others, and I thought of taking my life numerous times.
My parents don't understand; their viewpoint is, "HOW CAN YOU BE ADDICTED?!" However, a number of peers to whom I tell my story ask, "Damn. How could you not? By the way, you are one strong motherfucker." I can say the same for you, dear reader, if you're not giving up on the fight.
Nighttime became my favorite part of the day. The arrival of dusk was like a blanket going over me as I lay in bed falling asleep. I felt like nighttime was a time where I didn’t have to be anyone nor do anything since it was a time to be asleep, but in the early nights after experiencing those traumas I would wake up every hour on the hour worried about how my future was going to play out. Would I ever get married? Would I ever have children? Would I ever own a house? Would I ever have a stable career? My well-meaning, middle-class parents inadvertently raised me to be dependent on them, and they would always come in and save me whenever they found out I was in a bind whether I liked it or not. I subconsciously became complacent towards my tough life issues because “mommy and daddy could help take care of things”, so then I questioned: what would happen to me if all of my living ancestors (grandparents, parents, etc.) died right now? Would I ever have enough money for retirement? How will my life be when I am in my 60s, 70s, 80s? In short, I stressed about having to deal with unbearable, uncomfortable future feelings and situations, so I would put on my flip-flops and walk around my complex each time I woke up in panic at one, two, three, etc. in the morning. I just couldn’t lie down still–-my mind would race as soon as I fell asleep. In fact, I think the only time I had an amazing night’s sleep during that era was when a good friend of mine came over with dinner and spent the night with me. I was the little spoon, and this upholds the scientific finding that the opposite of addiction is genuine human connection: I got my appetite back that night, and I slept so soundly in my buddy’s arms that I had an eating dream. Let’s normalize all kinds of cuddling–-platonic, same-sex, etc,–-amongst people with mutual trust. No more shame nor awkwardness about it: in fact, science shows that there is a myriad of health benefits to human touch, including a boost in the natural happy chemical of oxytocin: https://www.rwjbh.org/blog/2023/novembehugging-health-benefits/ .
Virtually every morning during that period of time I would wake up incredibly anxious, depressed–-just unbearably uncomfortable. I wouldn’t find out until later after getting the CPTSD diagnosis that I was experiencing a symptom known as “brain dysregulation”. YouTube’s The Crappy Childhood Fairy is useful in helping understand and manage that problem should you think that you are struggling with this too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez2hTvGsDK8&list=PLl504D3b_OPgb4Un9P6s3TXpihO_2KmO_). In an attempt to push forward and NOT break down at work, I experimented with drinking two Feel Free bottles ($10 each after tax) in the morning right before the workday started. This was when all of the bottles had the silver tops and the original potent mixture. It worked wonderfully until I noticed one morning that the effects wore off as soon as I got to my employer. After work I would rush to the store to buy two Feel Free “just in case” I didn’t wake up in the morning feeling fine and “normal” like I used to pre-job loss.
“Addiction is incurable, fatal, and progressive”.--The Big Book of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) I disagree with the statement that addiction is incurable since a number of people are able to abstain successfully. I disagree a little less with the idea that all addiction is fatal since it seems that some addictions would need some extreme occurrences to lead you to an early grave (cannabis?), but I was naïve about the fact that addiction is insidious and progressive. One time while the attendants were busy at the store where I would buy Feel Free, I reached over the counter and got two in an attempt to speed up the process. I realized that they didn’t notice that I had done that when I got to the cashier, so I bought two more and left with four bottles–-I realized that I only spent $20 in total for four bottles…and I also realized that I got away with shoplifting. A second addiction entered the chat...
I started shoplifting Feel Free at more and more places when I saw the opportunity. I shoplifted them from 2022-early 2024, and there were only a handful of embarrassing times when I was caught. However, in my mind, I thought that it was worth it: I would look at all of the people around me and think that they “didn’t have the problems I did”, that “I was doing what I had to do to survive”, and that “I didn’t want to take my life because someway, somehow, I was going to end up in a position of power where I could use my platform to be altruistic.” As maladaptive as it was, I felt like I deserved to do what I needed to do since it was “a matter of life and death.” I had a good therapist at the time and was working closely with her. I held on to the belief that one day I would wake up and be “cured"-–no more cravings. Yet, I thought that I could fall back on using Feel Free should my ability to cope in a healthy way not work. Every morning was the same unfortunately-–I kept waking up with dysregulated.
I took advantage of Feel Free’s policy of contacting them for a free case if a store listed on the website didn’t have the product–-I did this three times under my name until I was cut off. Once while I was on a work trip in San Antonio, TX, I used my roommate at the time who was back in Austin to contact them about a location that didn’t have it there. I pretended to use his name as mine when the guy came to drop off the case. Two a day soon became four, four became six, six became eight, etc. On three-hour drives to Corpus from Austin (and vice-versa) visiting my family I found myself stopping at gas station after gas station and shoplifting/purchasing two more just to keep the high going.
2023 was when things got worse. I had done things like drink up to sixteen bottles one day, order an Uber to take me to and from a store that had them when I didn’t have access to my car, and successfully pretending to “accidentally” walk out with a twelve-pack box from a headshop and returning to it so that I could appear as an honest customer and get a discount. I pawned a few things to get some money, and when I had little to none I kept two empty Feel Free bottles on me so that I could pull the old “switcheroo”: I would fill them with water & food coloring and place them in my left pocket. I would go to the stores knowing full well that my card wouldn’t go through and ask for two. The attendants would give them to me, and as I presented my card with my left hand, I took the two Feel Frees that had the authentic mixture and put them in my right pocket. When the card didn’t go through after multiple attempts, I would say, “Oh well” and hand them the two bottles from my left pocket filled with food coloring and water.
It’s amazing how creative a person struggling with addiction can be in order to get a fix.
I would sometimes vomit due to drinking too much Feel Free. I took my car to a cleaner a couple of times and said, “I had an iced coffee in my hand and had to brake fast due to a crazy driver, and the drink flew out of my hand onto the dashboard”. TRIGGER WARNING: If I was nauseous and had access to a large cup, I would catch the vomit, and then drink it back in order to get the high. One student made a remark to another that I “threw up everyday”.
I hated the drink, but I loved the feeling. It soon caught up to me–-I found myself on the fence about drinking them first thing in the morning, and the next thing I knew I'm on the way to the store to get them. There were times right before I would drink them where I would start retching-–there was a disconnect between my body and my mind. I drank so much that at times I would pass out on the couch, I had waxy-looking skin around my shoulders, and my skin got so dry around the edges of my lips and knuckles that they cracked and bled. In fact, one day while I was at work teaching high school students at a credit recovery school, my lip just busted open and bled. A student had to point it out since I didn’t feel anything. Another student asked, "Do you have herpes?" It hurt when he asked that, but I just ignored him and kept moving along with my job.
I mixed Feel Free with coffee, tea, fruit juices, sparkling water, and alcohol (I especially do not recommend the latter). I would have intense cravings and think about using almost constantly, and as a teacher I left work multiple times when I didn’t have to watch students to buy more so much so that I earned a reputation of being “sporadic”. One day, I had drank so much that I had a hard time walking and standing straight, so I taught my afternoon classes seated behind my desk.
The symptoms of CPTSD kept me from holding down a teaching job, and the arrests on my record kept me from getting other positions in education, but I still had a part-time job as a tutor at a private tutoring center that I was holding onto for dear live. My apartment lease auto-renewal date of November 1, 2023 was coming up, but with me being unable to manage things at that time, I had to make a hard decision about what I was going to do in expensive Austin, TX.
Finally, I hit a rock bottom. I visited my parents in Robstown in October 2023, and since I didn’t have much money on me, I stole money from both of my parents’ wallets to buy Feel Free. They found out, and that was when I decided that I needed to do something about this problem: I was going to move back in with my parents to get back on my feet in exchange for me to go to a state-funded (read “free”) detox, rehab, and sober living center in Corpus Christi, TX called Cenikor. There are a number of Cenikors here in Texas, and I recommend that resource to you if you feel like you might need it. The one in Corpus is the largest of all of them, and some people from out of state venture down here to get well–-here is the website: https://www.cenikor.org/ . I scrambled to get enough money to get me back to Austin until my next paycheck, made some excuse to my boss in order to get me transferred from the Austin tutoring franchise to the Corpus Christi one, and put in my notice that I was vacating my apartment complex. I moved back to Robstown on Oct. 14, 2023, walked into Cenikor’s detox center (kicking and screaming, mind you) as a state-funded inpatient on Oct. 16, and put on the opiate-detox protocol. I detoxed for five days, stayed for the 30-day short term rehab program, stayed an extra 30 days in the supported living program where I was required to find a job within two weeks, and then the next two weeks I was required to save up 70% of my paycheck for sober living. I then moved into Cenikor’s sober living for 30 days until one day (yep, you guessed it) I lost my part-time job that I got while in the supported living program. I started looking for another job close to my sober living on the bus (I totaled my car during active Feel Free addiction) to a required NA meeting, and halfway to the meeting the house lead of my sober living notified me via text that I was being evicted for "theft". What happened was that one of my roommates was arrested for being a pedophile, and since I needed quarters for the bus and for sober living's washer & dryer I took all of his change and his bus pass. I thought, "Well, he's never getting out of jail, and no one will miss these." Apparently my other roommate (I lived in a six-man room with bed bunks, and I was a top bunk over a primadona) knew that the other was going to jail beforehand (why the hell did he not tell the Head of House about this?) and was asked to keep an eye on his belongings. He noticed the change missing and texted me at work about it (sighs--rolls eyes). I told him, "Okay", placed it all back, and then gave him an honest apology about it saying, "That will never happen again." He told the house head anyway.
There is a bit more to the story that I haven’t put in here, and I still have a couple of bottles here and there, but it is a marked improvement from where I was in the first half of 2022. I'm not going by the NA program's ideal of continuous abstinence since I learned about progress, so I try to focus on the fact that I am "progressing"--that day in Oct. 2023 will be my "clean date" even though I had some relapses.
Please don’t make the mistake in believing that recovery is just a perfect line going straight up–it’s more than likely going to be a line that zigs and zags but is still going in an upward direction. I refuse to give up the fight: I am currently in the Narcotics Anonymous program working the steps with a sponsor, and I am doing as much as I can day by day to analyze, evaluate, and create the best version of myself.
Feel free (sighs–trigger, lol) to reach out to me should you want a partner to walk with you as you go through this hell, but more importantly, understand that you NEED to be here in this life with us. Addiction is addiction is addiction, and you stay alive, Goddamn it. Make it a goal when you are on the other side of this to use your story as a water bucket that douses those who are still burning in the hellfires of addiction.
…and if no one else has told you this, I love you because you are an extension of me as I am of you.

Hello hello hello...!!!

Sixty six queens are ready to bring it to the runway, each split into twenty semi-finals fighting for eight spots each in our finale eleganza extravaganza. Let's get right into it and meet them all!

Semi-final 1

Draw	Country	User	Artist	Song
1	Seychelles	u/Bowman3058	d4vd	Feel It
2	Jamaica	u/golden665	CIFIKA	Melody
3	Cabo Verde	u/PhillipsBM	Anitta, Brray & Bad Gyal	Double Team
4	Cuba	u/soercuk	Tele Novella	Eggs in one Basket
5	India	u/ZeRoyalSushi	Kendrick Lamar	The Heart Part 5
6	Czechia	u/fatesconsequence	Anna Sofia	I CAN'T FLY
7	San Marino	u/PercyYates	Sassy 009	Mystery Boy
8	Oman	u/BiPolarBear17	Aaliyah	More Than A Woman
9	Tuvalu	u/lissa_1111	Erika Lundmoen	Luna
10	South Korea	u/Azzbestos	Lang Lee	There is a Wolf
11	Uruguay	u/las_facepalmas	The Killers	Mr Brightside
12	The Gambia	u/fuerteesc	WOOAH	Blush
13	Mozambique	u/Sam_Esc	Kari Faux	White Caprice
14	Kyrgyzstan	u/mac1oo	Demi Yo'Ko	Woman with a Lasso
15	Christmas Island	u/XalionN	Onha	Sentiment de vie (Palapapa)
16	Poland	u/Erazed11	Vito Bambino	Wachania
17	Maldives	u/chaoticciolina	Fana Hues	Rental
18	Indonesia	u/sondercherry	Rei Ami	body bag
19	Canada	u/estoniass	Louis-Jean Cormier	L'ironie du sort
20	Mauritius	u/bvsil	moistbreezy	Planet Pleasure

Finalists voting in Semi-final 1

Country	User	Artist	Song
DR Congo	u/Chickflopia	Dani Offline	plastic/bending
Scotland	u/AwesomeJoshua	Aze	Jet Matt Set North

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Semi-final 2

Draw	Country	User	Artist	Song
1	Bonaire	u/Lux_Archives	The Pill	Bale of Hay
2	Comoros	u/Zeiskyte	Klangkarussell & GIVVEN	Afterglow
3	Isle of Man	u/DubiousEnjoyment	Samara Cyn	Moving Day
4	Malawi	u/swelldoestheskull	Ruby Throat	In the Arms of Flowers
5	Cyprus	u/snowboardking454	DanDlion	Co-Pilot
6	Argentina	u/Foobibby	Six Sex	Esa Bicha
7	France	u/slfkjia	JAY-Z (ft. Alicia Keys)	Empire State of Mind
8	Falkland Islands	u/shoyoh_	Goldfrapp	Anymore
9	Saint Lucia	u/Spooky_Squid	Mustafa	Air Forces
10	Palestine	u/Opha23	Night Tapes	Drifting
11	Moldova	u/Chimlin	Magnolia Payne	only one with a pulse
12	Latvia	u/BebeLuigi	offonoff	Moon, 12:04am
13	Jersey	u/ZwissDa2nd	Baby Tate	Jersey
14	Curacao	u/boapessoa	Angelica Garcia	Color de dolor
15	Georgia	u/Georgie-M	Brijean	Take a Trip
16	Djibouti	u/FreeCuddlesAnyone	Girls' Generation	Genie
17	Equatorial Guinea	u/jakub_chyl	MisterWives	Nosebleeds
18	Bahamas	u/Kaylaboe	Mac Ayres	Where U Goin' Tonight?
19	Liechtenstein	u/Franky494	The Scarlet Opera	Catch Me If You Can
20	Ukraine	u/j0rdy000	Lyzza	Too Slow

Finalists voting in Semi-final 2

Country	User	Artist	Song
Niue	u/Muzaxe14	noée	combien de jours
Sint Maarten	u/SandHannahtiser	Minnie Riperton	Les Fleurs

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Semi-final 3

Draw	Country	User	Artist	Song
1	Lithuania	u/MidnightLight_	BoA	No.1
2	Brunei	u/angelscherub	Cyrus Nyx (ft. Shy High)	Siyulatuh
3	Montenegro	u/alexkaragaya	TRIQUELL	Jugular
4	Saint Barthélemy	u/george_kaito	Alex G	Break
5	Madagascar	u/kazamagram	Sonikku (ft. Miss Madeline)	Lipstick Stain
6	Uzbekistan	u/Watermelon_Milk_Tea	amalia	Qizbibi
7	Belgium	u/zuperZany	BLACKSHAPE	ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL
8	Algeria	u/SergeyJorjaStan	Liv.e	Wild Animals
9	Bhutan	u/FKA-Pieck	Fishmans	Nantettano (Live Version)
10	Colombia	u/-mytearsricochet	Odesza (ft. Maro)	Better Now
11	Turkmenistan	u/Cholien99	Health	DSM-V
12	Western Sahara	u/tehhammerz	Robzzz	kusha las paya (remix)
13	Tokelau	u/SoupearJ	Yard Act	The Trench Coat Museum
14	Kenya	u/Andyssis	Roxy Dekker	Sugardaddy
15	Mali	u/theGarden530	Aziya	Chain
16	China	u/reetuss1	Perfume	Moon
17	Belarus	u/-Stanley_yelnats-	Supreme Beings of Leisure	Ain't Got Nothin'
18	Sierra Leone	u/meowing-owl	CUTTS	Honey
19	Japan	u/qyzxf	Shygirl (ft. Danny L Harle)	Encore
20	Anguilla	u/selreyes1	Alesha Dixon	The Boy Does Nothing

Finalists voting in Semi-final 3

Country	User	Artist	Song
Tonga	u/LuzTongaLaughter	yurisa	NYA?
Yemen	u/SaltyPopcorn02	Nova May	MR BUS DRIVER

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You can find a recap of our automatic qualifiers here, with a Spotify playlist here.

You can find a Spotify playlist of all songs this edition here.

Voting information

You will send in your votes and crossvotes to me - u/Chickflopia - using forms only. The forms will be attached below and can be found in the comments of this post as well as those that are on mobile.
Voting in your own semi-final: You will vote by sending in your 12, 10, 8 through 1 points as well as your 11th to 15th place. Voting in your own semi-final is mandatory, and failure to do so will result in a disqualification. Voting is through this form only.
Voting in other semi-finals: If you wish, you may voluntarily vote in the semi-finals that you are not allocated to vote in. The process is the same above; you vote by sending in your full ranking. Crossvoting is through this form only.

Deadline: Thursday, 30th May at 23:59 CEST

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I want CS so bad after suffering through 1 year of B.sc(H) Electronics from Sri Aurobindo.😭Dude ek to course itna bakwaas upar sa padhna bhi padh ta hai itna. I only considered DU after the four year degree thing ki directly mtech kar sakta hai, Verna Mera to IPU sa BCA ka plan tha. Fast forward 10 months and i am writing CUET again to get b.sc Hons CS. Mujha pata hai to vo bhi difficult hoga bhai but hand written lab files nahi banai padegi atleast. Mera last time ka marks 500/800 jispa meri friends ko last round ma milgayi CS aur meno to preference itni fuck kar rakhi thi Electronics ka alawa koi option hi nahi tha 1 round ka baad. Please b.sc CS wala lowest marks bata do apna colleges ka liya and any tips and questions ho to vo bhi bata da na aur puch Lo, respectively.

Retired, work from home or just epic amounts of free time to grow your Eve Online addiction!
Calling all experienced pilots looking for a smaller group to make a difference in or new players looking for a corp that isn't massive.
Don't get lost in the shuffle of a massive alliance... be apart of the decisions!!
All experience levels and skills are welcome!
Onyx is a US/NA based crew (EU/AU is of course very welcome) expanding to 50 players. Not 900. Not 300. Just 50.
We are an exclusive crew. No multi Org/Corp players please!
Onyx is an ACTIVE crew. Eve Online is a "daily driver" No weekend warriors please.
ACTIVE= logging in 4 times a week or more and engages with the group.
We are looking for industry focused players as well as PVP driven folks to protect our assets. We are a diverse group that touches on many aspects of Eve to break any grind!
Onyx offer's all aspect from mining, pvp, pve, explo and industry!
At our core we are industry focused!
ACTIVE players are valued.
Lurking in the discord and not engaging is NOT valuable.
Be valued. Be valuable. Be included. Get in on the ground floor and be a part of building something. Use the discord link to connect and ask any questions.
Connect with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/8WMKrWWDK8
Use my Ref link to get 1 million skill points: https://www.eveonline.com/signup?invc=1b899d2f-48da-49d7-8523-82cb4455b2c9

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Do you have epic amounts of free time to grow your Eve Online addiction??
Calling all experienced pilots looking for a midsize group to make a difference in or new players looking for a corp that isn't massive.
Don't get lost in the shuffle of a massive alliance... be apart of the decisions!!
All experience levels and skills are welcome!
Onyx is a US/NA based crew (EU/AU is of course very welcome) expanding to 50 players. Not 900. Not 300. Just 50.
We are an exclusive crew. No multi Org/Corp players please!
Onyx is an ACTIVE crew. Eve Online is a "daily driver" No weekend warriors please.
ACTIVE= logging in 4 times a week or more and engages with the group.
We are looking for industry focused players as well as PVP driven folks to protect our assets. We are a diverse group that touches on many aspects of Eve to break any grind! Onyx offer's all aspect from mining, PVP, PVE explo and industry! At our core we are industry focused!
Onyx is nullsec based with easy highsec/lowsec access. We are a welcoming group that is willing to show some newbros how to get that dank isk! Alliance activities are available but not mandatory! Yeet fleets on the regular!
ACTIVE players are valued.
Lurking in the discord and not engaging is NOT valuable.
Be valued. Be valuable. Be included. Get in on the ground floor and be a part of building something. Use the discord link to connect and ask any questions.
Connect with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/8WMKrWWDK8
Use my Ref link to get 1 million skill points: https://www.eveonline.com/signup?invc=1b899d2f-48da-49d7-8523-82cb4455b2c9

• 911 Operator
• The Amazing American Circus
• Bionic Commando: Rearmed*
• Black Book
• Epistory - Typing Chronicles (steam gift)
• Evan's Remains
• Hack 'n' Slash
• Lust from Beyond - M Edition*
• Minute of Islands
• MirrorMoon EP
• Monaco
• MudRunner
• Newt One
• Orbital Racer*
• PAYDAY 2
• Soulstice
• Space Crew: Legendary Edition
• StarCrossed
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
• System Shock Enhanced Edition
• Ticket to Ride
• Zombie Driver HD

games with * some region restrictions (no problem for EU/NA) REP