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2024.06.09 10:27 TheNobleMaster789 Hear me out, Doctor Who - HSR crossover.
I feel like the fandom crossover is going to be so small that few people will even know what Doctor Who is but I gotta write this somewhere.
I was sitting at my desk listening to the Doctor Who OST, as one does. And for some reason my head just suddenly became completely fixated on the notion of the Doctor and the Tardis running into the Astral Express on a misadventure somewhere somehow. Hell it wouldn't even be the first train in space the Doctor has ended up on.
And given his propensity to completely shattering time despite his efforts to the contrary, you could concoct just about any justification for his brief appearance there and frankly it'd make more than enough sense to be as 'Canon' as a crossover could be.
I didn't really lock in a specific doctor per se, maybe it could even be a unique one to HSR idk. My favourites are 10, 11 and 12 so one of them definitely was at the top of my list.
I was even brooding on the abilities the Doctor would have, and while I'm not about to come up with a whole ass build, this is what I was picturing in my head :
Imaginary or Quantum damage maybe? Definitely one of those two in my head.
Skill - Something very similar to Silver Wolf I imagine? A little magic with the sonic screwdriver to implant a weakness on an enemy?
Ultimate - Perhaps something employing the Tardis? In my head it's something like 'Foresight' which will give the entire team 1 or 2 guaranteed 'dodges' of enemy attacks? Essentially a tank focused skill that with careful timing could negate big enemy attacks? Probably way too OP though, I'm no balancing expert.
Attack - Kinda hard to say, the Doctor isn't the most violent guy, so I will admit, not much idea what his attack animation or theme would be.
But I mean c'mon, imagine Welt and the Doctor interacting, or just how much the Doctor's constant travelling and the like could practically fit him in perfectly as a temporary guest of the Express, passing through, helping out. Just as he always does.
I admit, I don't have much of a plot in mind for this, and I feel like I've caused two entire fandoms to cringe a little on the inside, but someone out there might just see the potential of what I'm putting on the table here!
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I was sitting at my desk listening to the Doctor Who OST, as one does. And for some reason my head just suddenly became completely fixated on the notion of the Doctor and the Tardis running into the Astral Express on a misadventure somewhere somehow. Hell it wouldn't even be the first train in space the Doctor has ended up on.
And given his propensity to completely shattering time despite his efforts to the contrary, you could concoct just about any justification for his brief appearance there and frankly it'd make more than enough sense to be as 'Canon' as a crossover could be.
I didn't really lock in a specific doctor per se, maybe it could even be a unique one to HSR idk. My favourites are 10, 11 and 12 so one of them definitely was at the top of my list.
I was even brooding on the abilities the Doctor would have, and while I'm not about to come up with a whole ass build, this is what I was picturing in my head :
Skill - Something very similar to Silver Wolf I imagine? A little magic with the sonic screwdriver to implant a weakness on an enemy?
Ultimate - Perhaps something employing the Tardis? In my head it's something like 'Foresight' which will give the entire team 1 or 2 guaranteed 'dodges' of enemy attacks? Essentially a tank focused skill that with careful timing could negate big enemy attacks? Probably way too OP though, I'm no balancing expert.
Attack - Kinda hard to say, the Doctor isn't the most violent guy, so I will admit, not much idea what his attack animation or theme would be.
I admit, I don't have much of a plot in mind for this, and I feel like I've caused two entire fandoms to cringe a little on the inside, but someone out there might just see the potential of what I'm putting on the table here!
2024.06.09 09:30 -CORSO-1 1x Godot Super Wizard (Revshare) Flashy & pretty remake, 90's Top Down, super/hypercar racer with bizarre twist.
(OPEN & LOOKING)
Hello!LONG POST! Image heavy (and shitty loading times). 5 Pages! Apologies for the length, trying to pre-empt your questions and show fixed scope.
Request:
Game Synopsis:
Citing the Original Game:
Just flick through these next two videos, no need to watch to completion. This is to show you how dated they are.
Long Play video of original Game: Amiga Super Cars 2:
Earlier Super Cars 1: Long Play Video
Proof of Concept Test Video:
Concept Video
Proof of Concept, Playable Game:
Playable Game Link
Some of the old video’s on there show the lo-res flippers, water cannons, pits, pins, rough roads, trains, etc, in working order.
Synopsis of Theme:
This one would be more or less representative of a special type track (due to location).
Katawarra mine
Plug-In, Multi-Prop-Installations (shopping centre test), farmland, pushroads and cutaway view of mountains.
Plug In Building Test
Jungle scene free-drive
Overview of Game ‘Chunks’:
On the roads, there are props, you plough into them for rewards, and special things called ‘chits’. Props are fences, oil drums, wood piles and anything that looks like it needs a good smashing.
Ultimately, Chits are used in a mini game (like Wheel of Fortune), to earn higher grade parts, cash prizes and even a better car than your current season’s level cap.
There’s a parts shop, a car shop, a Tv studio(for the WoF bit) and your assembly garage.
When you complete a season, if you make it into the top 3 racers at the end, you can upgrade to the next season D -> C. That means better and faster cars, higher grade engine parts, more challenging drivers, more tracks and bigger prizes on the Wheel of Fortune spin mini game. And you keep going until you reach Ultra class, where you’re driving monstrous hypercars against the best to win the entire full season.
It is meant to be a difficult game, just like the original. Practice makes Perfect.
Market Expectations:
Steam stats
What Happened and why am I doing this:
(https://www.reddit.com/roguelikedev/comments/1aeaoo8/2024_in_roguelikedev_monstergirl_resonance_call/ )
Had to stop. Looked at Godot for continuation, seriously impressed, started learning it, WOW. Decided to build a racer for shits and giggles and to learn from it. Ok, fun, easy, cool, and then decided to upgrade it with pretty graphics and decent gameplay. Game testers went nuts, I went nuts. Too much fun.
But, I’m long suffering from a sleep disorder. So re-re-re-learning Godot between medical hiatuses isn’t fun. However I can churn out art and Godot prop code no matter my condition.
I’m still a beginner at Godot, an advanced coder in VB6, I can prototype well. HOWEVER, I’m better at smashing out tracks worth of art, cars portraits, cars sprites, car cutaways and Godot track and props setup.
What I am NOT good at is the higher order setup of minimising repeat code and proper setout of node hierarchies (I haven’t learned it yet). I’m tired of bashing my head against, all the old vector math, engine math, gearing data and power curves. (I graduated that stuff at University too many years ago.)
I’m looking for someone who likes THAT, car-frictiony-enginey-handling-math. Someone who likes building car-part-shop-garage-drag-drop-thingy-interfaces. Someone who enjoys a good thrash and smash car game with a penchant for comedy and silliness. Someone who’ll also help with all the OTHER things needed to put a game on Steam and random marketing functions. Someone who knows how to handle multi-packed scenes and not build shit code.
As needed, I’ll be covering ALL the art, all the interface art, you-name-it, you just make it work. I’ll also be building and drawing all the tracks. Ideas and creation for silliness, wackiness, interesting tracks, cool props, etc, will be a duo effort for building them. If you have art skills too, great, join in.
Do note: I’m aiming at hand-drawing 50 tracks in grand total, their props and variants. This is an astronomical amount of work. I WILL get burnout, and the contingency is to ask the audience for fun and silly ideas too. This way, the track-select-bucket can be filled over time. Even after Steam’s Early Access commences. Seriously, you’ve got to go above and beyond to stand out nowadays.
Have SQLite skills? Good, because we will be using it.
Build Time:
Goal Post 1:
Goal Post 2:
Goal Post 3:
Marketing:
Sound:
Revshare:
You won't be 'just' coding. Wherever we can both cover each other's backs to smash things out as fast as possible, you'll need to be flexible. Game's are not just coding and artwork.
I expect you to be proactive because I’ll have my hands full with art and technical props.
Let’s do our best to get it over the line.
Response:
Timezone:
About you:
Corso
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2024.06.09 08:59 TheWorstThingy [MS] Prosopagnosia v. Cotard's Syndrome
Content Warning: This story contains themes of mental health issues, suicide and physical violence.
Prosopagnosia v. Cotard's Syndrome
My new doctor - a bright and friendly guy named Sarbjit - took the time to explain his diagnosis to me. He told me my condition was mental, not physical, but it was hard to pay attention to everything he said because my left arm was numb and rotting from the inside out. I smiled and nodded and then when I got home I looked up Cotard’s Syndrome online. Here is what Wikipedia had to say on it.
“Cotard's syndrome, also known as ‘Cotard's delusion’ or ‘Walking Corpse Syndrome’, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.”
I don’t know. Sounded extremely strange to me. I just knew my left arm was dying. Maybe my liver too. I used my right arm, the good one, to open my mail. Most of it was just the normal stuff but when I saw the letter from the Supreme Court of the State of New York I got a little worried. I was here legally - a citizen for almost ten years now - and I knew my rights but being summoned to testify at this criminal trial was a bit unnerving. I didn’t like it. I just try to do my best in this life and mind my own business and not cause problems for others.
When my trial appearance date arrived two months later I took the subway downtown and left my assistant, Stavvy, in charge of the office that day. I sat there on a hard wooden bench in the courtroom all morning listening to the testimony of other witnesses but I wasn’t called to the stand until sometime after we returned from lunch. Eventually, the lawyer for the defense called my name.
She mispronounced it of course - people here always mispronounce Albanian names - so I wasn’t surprised when she called me Mister Shka-Rell-Eee. My surname is Shkreli, after the place where my family comes from, and the proper pronunciation contains only two syllables - Shkrell-Eee. I was trying to hold my left arm in place when she asked her opening question.
Where was I at the time of the murder?
“Well, Miss Anderson” - I pronounced it Ahnd-REE-Sawn, drawing out the first and last syllables while placing too much emphasis on the middle one, intentionally - “I am not entirely certain. That was over a year ago and I travel all around this city on a daily basis for my job. I work in computer repair and IT support and I have customers in all five boroughs.” (This wasn’t exactly true. I wasn’t really willing to travel to Staten Island.) We had spoken four months earlier when she informed me of the questions she intended to ask at trial but I was fairly oblique then and I intended to remain so now. I had bigger problems. Could these people not see that my left arm was rotting away?
She looked at me with a furrowed brow and briskly walked back to the defense table, picked up a leather-bound notepad and opened it.
“Mister Shkreli, when you and I spoke on June 18th you confirmed that you were just leaving a client’s office, TRG Commercial Realty, located at 223 Broome Street here in lower Manhattan at approximately 3:30pm that day, shortly before the incident at issue took place less than one block away. Is that not correct?”
I turned up my native eastern European accent a bit and repositioned my left arm in my lap. I could barely feel it at that point. What was wrong with these people?
“If you say so. Like I said, that was over a year ago and it was just another workday for me.”
She stared at me for a beat or two longer than necessary and then flashed a quick look towards the jurors before continuing.
“Well yes, Mister Shkreli” - again it was Shka-Rell-Eee - “You did tell me that and I do have a recording of our conversation, which you consented to before we began, if the court would like this to be entered into evidence?”
She looked at the judge and the judge looked at me.
“Mister Shkreli,” - he too pronounced it Shka-Rell-Eee - ‘Are you refuting the testimony that Miss Anderson is referencing during your preliminary deposition or can we just move on at this point? If counsel for the defense claims to have this recording I am fairly certain this is true. Will it be necessary to enter this recording into evidence at this time or are you willing to acknowledge Miss Anderson’s claim?”
I repositioned my left arm in my lap and nodded.
“That’s fine, Your Honor. As I said, it was just another workday for me but if Miss Anderson says that is what we discussed I am sure she is probably right.”
The judge nodded back at me. “Very good. Let’s proceed then.”
Miss Anderson walked back to the defense table and dropped the leather-bound notepad before continuing with her final question for me, looking annoyed.
“Picking up where we left off, Mister Shkreli, can you please describe for the court what happened immediately after you left the offices of TRG Commercial Realty at 223 Broome Street on the date in question, October 22nd of last year?”
I didn’t like the way that she was trying to fence me in but I wasn't particularly concerned. I had bigger problems.
“Well, like I said, I don’t really remember that day. There was nothing memorable about it. It was just another day.”
She stared at me for a few seconds then flashed a quick look at the jury box with her eyebrows raised before returning her attention to the judge. “No more questions, Your Honor.”
I was dismissed from the stand but asked to remain in the courtroom as she called her next witness; a small, frail woman from Queens about my same age named Maureen Stewart. She had an odd, twitchy nature about her. I wanted to get home. I wanted to relax.
“Miss Stewart, can you please tell the court where you were on October 22nd of last year at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon?”
The witness looked down for a moment and then glanced towards the judge before removing the slightly confused look from her face and responding in a semi-automated tone.
“Yes, Miss Anderson. At that time, I was just leaving my day shift at the FedEx Office Store (she pronounced it ‘Staw’ in her thick New York accent) on Broome Street and I was walking towards the station for the Six Train to begin my ride back home.”
The attorney for the defense took a momentary pause and then asked her next question.
“And can you please tell us what happened then?”
The witness looked down again and then looked back at the judge, then the jury and, finally, at me. I didn’t like the way she looked at me.
“Yes, as I was leaving my workplace I crossed the street and I remember walking past the entrance to a narrow alleyway where I heard a commotion taking place. It made me stop and look for a second or two but I didn’t want to get involved so I just kept on walking towards the subway and I didn’t think too much about the whole thing until the Homicide detectives contacted me a few days later after they pulled the security camera videos. I came down to the police station the day after that and gave my statement. That was just over a year ago.”
Miss Anderson took a moment to stare at me. I didn’t like that either. I adjusted my left arm in my lap. It was completely numb.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. Can you please be a bit more specific about what you saw occurring in that alleyway?”
Again, the witness looked down at the floor and then her eyes shot all around the courtroom before she responded.
“Well,” she said, before taking a brief pause. “At first I thought it was just a little scuffle but when I saw the shorter man in the black jacket punch the tall man in the belly a few times I saw some blood starting to spread on the side of his white button-down shirt and I saw what looked like a small knife or something in the shorter man’s hand. The tall thin man looked like he was starting to fall. I remember looking around for a police officer but I certainly wasn’t gonna do anything about it by myself. I mean, what could I do? When I didn’t see no one who could help I just kept on walking towards the subway. I guess I should have done more but I was scared and I just wanted to get back to Forest Hills to pick up my daughter from daycare before five o’clock.”
I glanced at the defendant seated at the table on the left. He looked both hopeful and nervous at the same time, but in a subtle way, like he didn’t want to appear to be either. He kept his head down and never once glanced towards the jury box. Miss Anderson asked her final question.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. And do you see the man in the black jacket who stabbed the victim, Mister Baronston, on that day last October here in the courtroom now?”
Again the witness looked down at the floor between her feet for a moment and then looked back up, right at me. I felt my blood stop flowing through my veins, or at least through my left arm and the top of my right leg, when she raised up her hand and pointed her index finger at me.
“It was that man, there,” she said.
Miss Anderson nodded and paused for a moment, satisfied, letting it sink in for the jury members. I was stunned. The stylish defense attorney in the toney, expensive clothing began walking back in my direction and she too pointed an accusatory finger.
“If it pleases the court, let the record show that Miss Stewart has identified Mister Jack Shkreli as the attacker who she witnessed in the-”
Just then the witness on the stand, Miss Stewart, pointed her finger at the judge without really looking at him and suddenly blurted out, “Or him. It might have been him too. I’m not 100% sure...”
Miss Anderson paused, clearly nonplussed, and just stared at her witness. The judge also looked baffled for a second or two and then leaned over and whispered something to his court assistant and the two of them shared a quiet smirk.
Then the witness pointed at one of the jurors, a man in the front row about my size.
“Or him. It could have been him. I’m just not sure...” Then she went silent, as did the rest of the courtroom for a few moments. The State’s Attorney, a heavy-set bald man, broke the silence pretty quickly as he rose to his feet.
“Your Honor, the State would like to move to dismiss this witness along with all previous testimony.” He paused briefly and took a deep breath, choosing his next words.
“While we appreciate Miss Stewart’s willingness to appear at trial today, I think it’s clear that her recollection of events is…uncertain at best.” He glared at the defense table for a moment, then added “I’d just like to remind the court that Mister Shkreli” - and God bless him, he pronounced my two-syllable surname correctly - “is not on trial here and if this witness cannot distinguish the man she saw that day from yourself or a random member of our jury panel I don’t think we can accept this testimony or any further testimony from this witness.”
He hung his head respectfully, with the tiniest little smile on his face. He already knew he had won this argument and the judge quickly agreed, telling the jury to disregard what they just heard. Miss Stewart was dismissed from the stand and the defense had no other witnesses left to call. Less than two hours later the jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant on all counts and the courtroom was cleared. The sentencing hearing would take place at a later date and I was not required to be there. My right leg was starting to feel numb by then but I still managed to get back to the office in time for Stavvy to head home at the end of his shift to make dinner for his kids. His wife was killed in a car accident two years earlier. He was a hard worker and I really liked him.
That night, back at my apartment, I did some research online and learned about a rare mental disorder known as Prosopagnosia. Here is what Wikipedia had to say.
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g. object discrimination) and intellectual functioning remain intact.
It all sounded pretty strange to me but if the doctors say it’s real who am I to argue? Apparently it is well documented in the DSM-5. I don’t know if this is the reason why I was able to walk away from the courtroom without consequence at first but I think it is the most likely explanation. I only know that when I left my client’s offices at TRG Commercial Realty on that day just over a year ago and hailed a cab I was stunned and confused when Mister Baronston, a complete stranger with a hostile face, suddenly attacked me, claiming that it was his cab and not mine.
He was bigger than me, tall and thin but strong, and I would have just given up the cab and caught the next one but he was clearly already very angry about something. When he backed me towards the alley, shoving me and then punching me around my head and neck, my backpack tumbled open and I saw my wallet and phone and some other items come crashing out onto the pavement. It was just a stupid and unnecessary altercation, the kind of thing that probably happens on the streets of this city every day, sadly. Too many people, not enough space. I did my best to fight back and protect myself but he was a good deal bigger than me.
Then I was getting punched some more and thrown against the alley wall as people passed by, disinterested, and I just instinctively reached into my jacket pocket and pulled out the pen knife that has been attached to my keychain for years. Before I really knew what was happening it was open and then my right hand was growing warm and red and slick with his blood. Then I was moving again, not looking back.
What an odd thing. I remember seeing Miss Stewart stopping there on the sidewalk to look from the mouth of the alley that day. Of all the passers-by, she was the only one who paused to look at us, at me, right as I desperately punctured Mister Baronston’s rib cage for the fifth or sixth time with my little penknife and he began to drop, but she averted her gaze after a few seconds and moved on and then I was rapidly heading in the opposite direction. This is a huge city and I never expected to see her face again. Fortunately, she was apparently never really able to see mine.
Anyway, I have more important problems to worry about at this time. Stavvy received a letter from the Manhattan DA’s office yesterday ordering him to appear at a grand jury hearing next month related to my involvement in Mister Baronston’s death. He showed it to me. More importantly, my left arm is just about gone now, my right leg is quickly starting to feel the same way and in just the last day or two I have begun feeling that strange tingling sensation in the tips of the fingers on my right hand. I know my liver is failing. It won’t be long now.
I scheduled a meeting with my lawyer in the morning to legally put the business and the rest of my assets in Stavvy’s name in my will. I have no family here anyway and almost no relatives who I remain close with back in Albania or Montenegro anymore. Stavvy is a good man and he has kids to feed and I have already lived a full life.
So yes, I will just leave it all to him and after that’s done I think I will get the old Ford minivan that we sometimes still use for the business and drive it out to the George Washington Bridge while I am still able. I know that when I stop it and get out and leave it there on the center-span I will screw up traffic badly and inconvenience a lot of people but I can’t worry about that. I have to do what I have to do. There’s no point in waiting for this to get worse. I can barely feel the fingers on my right hand and I don’t have much time left.
Maybe I should have told the truth at the trial. I don’t know. I think I was just too distracted by all of my health problems. I didn’t really have any choice at the time. I don’t have any choice now. I’m actually surprised that I lasted this long. I was certain that I would already be gone a few months ago but I feel I have done my best with this life.
As my people back in Albania say, Mos pyet si vdiq, por si rrojti!
“Do not ask how he died, but how he lived!”
THE END
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Prosopagnosia v. Cotard's Syndrome
My new doctor - a bright and friendly guy named Sarbjit - took the time to explain his diagnosis to me. He told me my condition was mental, not physical, but it was hard to pay attention to everything he said because my left arm was numb and rotting from the inside out. I smiled and nodded and then when I got home I looked up Cotard’s Syndrome online. Here is what Wikipedia had to say on it.
“Cotard's syndrome, also known as ‘Cotard's delusion’ or ‘Walking Corpse Syndrome’, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.”
I don’t know. Sounded extremely strange to me. I just knew my left arm was dying. Maybe my liver too. I used my right arm, the good one, to open my mail. Most of it was just the normal stuff but when I saw the letter from the Supreme Court of the State of New York I got a little worried. I was here legally - a citizen for almost ten years now - and I knew my rights but being summoned to testify at this criminal trial was a bit unnerving. I didn’t like it. I just try to do my best in this life and mind my own business and not cause problems for others.
When my trial appearance date arrived two months later I took the subway downtown and left my assistant, Stavvy, in charge of the office that day. I sat there on a hard wooden bench in the courtroom all morning listening to the testimony of other witnesses but I wasn’t called to the stand until sometime after we returned from lunch. Eventually, the lawyer for the defense called my name.
She mispronounced it of course - people here always mispronounce Albanian names - so I wasn’t surprised when she called me Mister Shka-Rell-Eee. My surname is Shkreli, after the place where my family comes from, and the proper pronunciation contains only two syllables - Shkrell-Eee. I was trying to hold my left arm in place when she asked her opening question.
Where was I at the time of the murder?
“Well, Miss Anderson” - I pronounced it Ahnd-REE-Sawn, drawing out the first and last syllables while placing too much emphasis on the middle one, intentionally - “I am not entirely certain. That was over a year ago and I travel all around this city on a daily basis for my job. I work in computer repair and IT support and I have customers in all five boroughs.” (This wasn’t exactly true. I wasn’t really willing to travel to Staten Island.) We had spoken four months earlier when she informed me of the questions she intended to ask at trial but I was fairly oblique then and I intended to remain so now. I had bigger problems. Could these people not see that my left arm was rotting away?
She looked at me with a furrowed brow and briskly walked back to the defense table, picked up a leather-bound notepad and opened it.
“Mister Shkreli, when you and I spoke on June 18th you confirmed that you were just leaving a client’s office, TRG Commercial Realty, located at 223 Broome Street here in lower Manhattan at approximately 3:30pm that day, shortly before the incident at issue took place less than one block away. Is that not correct?”
I turned up my native eastern European accent a bit and repositioned my left arm in my lap. I could barely feel it at that point. What was wrong with these people?
“If you say so. Like I said, that was over a year ago and it was just another workday for me.”
She stared at me for a beat or two longer than necessary and then flashed a quick look towards the jurors before continuing.
“Well yes, Mister Shkreli” - again it was Shka-Rell-Eee - “You did tell me that and I do have a recording of our conversation, which you consented to before we began, if the court would like this to be entered into evidence?”
She looked at the judge and the judge looked at me.
“Mister Shkreli,” - he too pronounced it Shka-Rell-Eee - ‘Are you refuting the testimony that Miss Anderson is referencing during your preliminary deposition or can we just move on at this point? If counsel for the defense claims to have this recording I am fairly certain this is true. Will it be necessary to enter this recording into evidence at this time or are you willing to acknowledge Miss Anderson’s claim?”
I repositioned my left arm in my lap and nodded.
“That’s fine, Your Honor. As I said, it was just another workday for me but if Miss Anderson says that is what we discussed I am sure she is probably right.”
The judge nodded back at me. “Very good. Let’s proceed then.”
Miss Anderson walked back to the defense table and dropped the leather-bound notepad before continuing with her final question for me, looking annoyed.
“Picking up where we left off, Mister Shkreli, can you please describe for the court what happened immediately after you left the offices of TRG Commercial Realty at 223 Broome Street on the date in question, October 22nd of last year?”
I didn’t like the way that she was trying to fence me in but I wasn't particularly concerned. I had bigger problems.
“Well, like I said, I don’t really remember that day. There was nothing memorable about it. It was just another day.”
She stared at me for a few seconds then flashed a quick look at the jury box with her eyebrows raised before returning her attention to the judge. “No more questions, Your Honor.”
I was dismissed from the stand but asked to remain in the courtroom as she called her next witness; a small, frail woman from Queens about my same age named Maureen Stewart. She had an odd, twitchy nature about her. I wanted to get home. I wanted to relax.
“Miss Stewart, can you please tell the court where you were on October 22nd of last year at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon?”
The witness looked down for a moment and then glanced towards the judge before removing the slightly confused look from her face and responding in a semi-automated tone.
“Yes, Miss Anderson. At that time, I was just leaving my day shift at the FedEx Office Store (she pronounced it ‘Staw’ in her thick New York accent) on Broome Street and I was walking towards the station for the Six Train to begin my ride back home.”
The attorney for the defense took a momentary pause and then asked her next question.
“And can you please tell us what happened then?”
The witness looked down again and then looked back at the judge, then the jury and, finally, at me. I didn’t like the way she looked at me.
“Yes, as I was leaving my workplace I crossed the street and I remember walking past the entrance to a narrow alleyway where I heard a commotion taking place. It made me stop and look for a second or two but I didn’t want to get involved so I just kept on walking towards the subway and I didn’t think too much about the whole thing until the Homicide detectives contacted me a few days later after they pulled the security camera videos. I came down to the police station the day after that and gave my statement. That was just over a year ago.”
Miss Anderson took a moment to stare at me. I didn’t like that either. I adjusted my left arm in my lap. It was completely numb.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. Can you please be a bit more specific about what you saw occurring in that alleyway?”
Again, the witness looked down at the floor and then her eyes shot all around the courtroom before she responded.
“Well,” she said, before taking a brief pause. “At first I thought it was just a little scuffle but when I saw the shorter man in the black jacket punch the tall man in the belly a few times I saw some blood starting to spread on the side of his white button-down shirt and I saw what looked like a small knife or something in the shorter man’s hand. The tall thin man looked like he was starting to fall. I remember looking around for a police officer but I certainly wasn’t gonna do anything about it by myself. I mean, what could I do? When I didn’t see no one who could help I just kept on walking towards the subway. I guess I should have done more but I was scared and I just wanted to get back to Forest Hills to pick up my daughter from daycare before five o’clock.”
I glanced at the defendant seated at the table on the left. He looked both hopeful and nervous at the same time, but in a subtle way, like he didn’t want to appear to be either. He kept his head down and never once glanced towards the jury box. Miss Anderson asked her final question.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. And do you see the man in the black jacket who stabbed the victim, Mister Baronston, on that day last October here in the courtroom now?”
Again the witness looked down at the floor between her feet for a moment and then looked back up, right at me. I felt my blood stop flowing through my veins, or at least through my left arm and the top of my right leg, when she raised up her hand and pointed her index finger at me.
“It was that man, there,” she said.
Miss Anderson nodded and paused for a moment, satisfied, letting it sink in for the jury members. I was stunned. The stylish defense attorney in the toney, expensive clothing began walking back in my direction and she too pointed an accusatory finger.
“If it pleases the court, let the record show that Miss Stewart has identified Mister Jack Shkreli as the attacker who she witnessed in the-”
Just then the witness on the stand, Miss Stewart, pointed her finger at the judge without really looking at him and suddenly blurted out, “Or him. It might have been him too. I’m not 100% sure...”
Miss Anderson paused, clearly nonplussed, and just stared at her witness. The judge also looked baffled for a second or two and then leaned over and whispered something to his court assistant and the two of them shared a quiet smirk.
Then the witness pointed at one of the jurors, a man in the front row about my size.
“Or him. It could have been him. I’m just not sure...” Then she went silent, as did the rest of the courtroom for a few moments. The State’s Attorney, a heavy-set bald man, broke the silence pretty quickly as he rose to his feet.
“Your Honor, the State would like to move to dismiss this witness along with all previous testimony.” He paused briefly and took a deep breath, choosing his next words.
“While we appreciate Miss Stewart’s willingness to appear at trial today, I think it’s clear that her recollection of events is…uncertain at best.” He glared at the defense table for a moment, then added “I’d just like to remind the court that Mister Shkreli” - and God bless him, he pronounced my two-syllable surname correctly - “is not on trial here and if this witness cannot distinguish the man she saw that day from yourself or a random member of our jury panel I don’t think we can accept this testimony or any further testimony from this witness.”
He hung his head respectfully, with the tiniest little smile on his face. He already knew he had won this argument and the judge quickly agreed, telling the jury to disregard what they just heard. Miss Stewart was dismissed from the stand and the defense had no other witnesses left to call. Less than two hours later the jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant on all counts and the courtroom was cleared. The sentencing hearing would take place at a later date and I was not required to be there. My right leg was starting to feel numb by then but I still managed to get back to the office in time for Stavvy to head home at the end of his shift to make dinner for his kids. His wife was killed in a car accident two years earlier. He was a hard worker and I really liked him.
That night, back at my apartment, I did some research online and learned about a rare mental disorder known as Prosopagnosia. Here is what Wikipedia had to say.
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g. object discrimination) and intellectual functioning remain intact.
It all sounded pretty strange to me but if the doctors say it’s real who am I to argue? Apparently it is well documented in the DSM-5. I don’t know if this is the reason why I was able to walk away from the courtroom without consequence at first but I think it is the most likely explanation. I only know that when I left my client’s offices at TRG Commercial Realty on that day just over a year ago and hailed a cab I was stunned and confused when Mister Baronston, a complete stranger with a hostile face, suddenly attacked me, claiming that it was his cab and not mine.
He was bigger than me, tall and thin but strong, and I would have just given up the cab and caught the next one but he was clearly already very angry about something. When he backed me towards the alley, shoving me and then punching me around my head and neck, my backpack tumbled open and I saw my wallet and phone and some other items come crashing out onto the pavement. It was just a stupid and unnecessary altercation, the kind of thing that probably happens on the streets of this city every day, sadly. Too many people, not enough space. I did my best to fight back and protect myself but he was a good deal bigger than me.
Then I was getting punched some more and thrown against the alley wall as people passed by, disinterested, and I just instinctively reached into my jacket pocket and pulled out the pen knife that has been attached to my keychain for years. Before I really knew what was happening it was open and then my right hand was growing warm and red and slick with his blood. Then I was moving again, not looking back.
What an odd thing. I remember seeing Miss Stewart stopping there on the sidewalk to look from the mouth of the alley that day. Of all the passers-by, she was the only one who paused to look at us, at me, right as I desperately punctured Mister Baronston’s rib cage for the fifth or sixth time with my little penknife and he began to drop, but she averted her gaze after a few seconds and moved on and then I was rapidly heading in the opposite direction. This is a huge city and I never expected to see her face again. Fortunately, she was apparently never really able to see mine.
Anyway, I have more important problems to worry about at this time. Stavvy received a letter from the Manhattan DA’s office yesterday ordering him to appear at a grand jury hearing next month related to my involvement in Mister Baronston’s death. He showed it to me. More importantly, my left arm is just about gone now, my right leg is quickly starting to feel the same way and in just the last day or two I have begun feeling that strange tingling sensation in the tips of the fingers on my right hand. I know my liver is failing. It won’t be long now.
I scheduled a meeting with my lawyer in the morning to legally put the business and the rest of my assets in Stavvy’s name in my will. I have no family here anyway and almost no relatives who I remain close with back in Albania or Montenegro anymore. Stavvy is a good man and he has kids to feed and I have already lived a full life.
So yes, I will just leave it all to him and after that’s done I think I will get the old Ford minivan that we sometimes still use for the business and drive it out to the George Washington Bridge while I am still able. I know that when I stop it and get out and leave it there on the center-span I will screw up traffic badly and inconvenience a lot of people but I can’t worry about that. I have to do what I have to do. There’s no point in waiting for this to get worse. I can barely feel the fingers on my right hand and I don’t have much time left.
Maybe I should have told the truth at the trial. I don’t know. I think I was just too distracted by all of my health problems. I didn’t really have any choice at the time. I don’t have any choice now. I’m actually surprised that I lasted this long. I was certain that I would already be gone a few months ago but I feel I have done my best with this life.
As my people back in Albania say, Mos pyet si vdiq, por si rrojti!
“Do not ask how he died, but how he lived!”
THE END
2024.06.09 08:44 SchlongBerry Which mod this mechanic(food rotting)
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2024.06.09 08:36 hellopeach181818 Teachers who have worked in childcare (or anyone really) ….. I need advice
I am currently a college student majoring in elementary education. I have always wanted to be a teacher because I love kids and helping others learn. I also want to be a mom one day! I have had a practicum in my education courses (like student teaching but not quite) which I loved (only half days & a couple times a week.) I got a job as a daycare worker to grow my experience with children. While I do like the kids and somewhat enjoy the job, after back to back 10 hour shift days it is just so hard. At the end of the day I am exhausted and I question how I made it through the day and if I can physically do it again. It’s only my first week though so I know adjusting can be hard. I also came down with an awful cold which isn’t making matters better. It’s making me wonder if I need to rethink going into teaching or if I just need to give it some time. I feel like I am too far into my education at this point being halfway done to change majors. I don’t even know what else I would do if it weren’t teaching. In the daycare I have worked with toddlers to preschoolers and while I find joy in all ages, I also find challenge and exhaustion. I also never got formal training they just threw me in there. I don’t know if it’s the age group, the management, the long hours, or if I’m not cut out to be a teacher.
Have any teachers worked in childcare and loved teaching but struggled with working in childcare?? What do I do? Do I need to rethink my major or is childcare different enough than k-6? I really need some guidance!
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Have any teachers worked in childcare and loved teaching but struggled with working in childcare?? What do I do? Do I need to rethink my major or is childcare different enough than k-6? I really need some guidance!
2024.06.09 08:20 FreeBirdInCages I (19M) confessed to my bestfriend (18M) that I've fallen for him. He said he is Bi but only dates girls. How do I move on?
I am a bit scared to open up about this but I have nowherelse to go. My country is operating under Shariah and our psychologist department are mostly trained under Ministry of religious affairs. English is also my second language
There's also going to be a lot of weird... Things in this story but bare with me.
So Ive just met him (I'll call him Alex) last January when we started college. And he came to me first because he saw on my laptop wallpaper is an image of an obsucre Japanese wrestler who we both quickly learn we have a crush on. He was more open about it than I was. We became friends from here. He also said I look really cute and well... My stomach was full of butterflies.
From there we hangout outside of class when we can (we're both taking different subjects). And we learnt a lot about eachother. We like the same things, the same kpop/jpop group, like the same food, etc etc etc. We even kinda delve into wrestling themed uhmm... Fetish video. Of 2 guys. Like... I dont know, I guess I didn't even need to ask his preference.
He would prioritize me over his two bffs that he knew since middle school. I dont hang with them.
So just last 2nd June. I decided to confess my feelings and he said he always knew but (Please help me understand this) he said he is Bi, he only sexually likes boys but he cannot get in a relationship with one, only girls. And he finds me attractive, but he doesn't want a relationship. He hasna crush on one of his 2 bff.
I was confused and heartbroken all in once that I acted out ugly.
He kept telling me we're still bestfriends, and Im very very important. He won't stop hanging with me but what the fuck am I supposed to do? I can't pretend that everytime I see him, I love him. Im able to just act normal around him now, but I sense I won't be rational when he gets a girlfriend or something.
Im sorry this is everywhere. I never intended to ever date or come out to anyone. I've just accepted that being gay here is a crime but now... The first time Im willing to ended this way.
What do I do? Where do I go from here?
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There's also going to be a lot of weird... Things in this story but bare with me.
So Ive just met him (I'll call him Alex) last January when we started college. And he came to me first because he saw on my laptop wallpaper is an image of an obsucre Japanese wrestler who we both quickly learn we have a crush on. He was more open about it than I was. We became friends from here. He also said I look really cute and well... My stomach was full of butterflies.
From there we hangout outside of class when we can (we're both taking different subjects). And we learnt a lot about eachother. We like the same things, the same kpop/jpop group, like the same food, etc etc etc. We even kinda delve into wrestling themed uhmm... Fetish video. Of 2 guys. Like... I dont know, I guess I didn't even need to ask his preference.
He would prioritize me over his two bffs that he knew since middle school. I dont hang with them.
So just last 2nd June. I decided to confess my feelings and he said he always knew but (Please help me understand this) he said he is Bi, he only sexually likes boys but he cannot get in a relationship with one, only girls. And he finds me attractive, but he doesn't want a relationship. He hasna crush on one of his 2 bff.
I was confused and heartbroken all in once that I acted out ugly.
He kept telling me we're still bestfriends, and Im very very important. He won't stop hanging with me but what the fuck am I supposed to do? I can't pretend that everytime I see him, I love him. Im able to just act normal around him now, but I sense I won't be rational when he gets a girlfriend or something.
Im sorry this is everywhere. I never intended to ever date or come out to anyone. I've just accepted that being gay here is a crime but now... The first time Im willing to ended this way.
What do I do? Where do I go from here?
2024.06.09 08:10 Flares117 Where do you think the Velvet Room is in P6, and how do you think Persona fusions/summoning will work since it changes from game to game depending on the theme.
To summarize what most fans know, but for the newer ones.
P3 : Accepting Death - Hence evokers are gun and by shooting it represents you accepting death. The Velvet room is an elevator reaching the final destination.
P4: Rejecting Fate/Destiny : Hence breaking/crushing cards symbolizes rejecting pre ordained destiny. You are in a limo traveling to your destination.
P5: Public perception/cognition, tearing off the mask you put on in public and revealing your true self. You are in jail for numerous thematic reasoning besides the plot, as your true self is caged. You kill/execute personas to combine them vs card mixing like the prev 2.
My thoughts on P6 based on what we think we know
Main color theme is Green. P3 was blue, P4 Gold, P5 Red.
Green - Thematically the color for Envy, Greed (money), Nature, Abundance, growth, and health.
There are many ways we can interpret this, either A. supposedly leaks that it will take place in a tertiary school like college may be true, maybe it takes place in a Business School or an MBA program or trade school (doubt). Standard highschool setting where maybe social media is a core plot point like some theories (I also doubt)
My thoughts : Envy - Not exactly pure social media, but the Envy one feels trying to measure up to others on social media and influencers who portray their life as glamorous. Core plot point would to be accepting your life as is and not try to emulate someone else. However, that would bring it too close to P5's theme. So I might be off.
Option 2 . Growth - My best theory - Combined with the above, its more likely its showing your character growing which if it is NOT a HS setting, could be evolving a character. My biggest hope is Growth is the theme and that means the protag can be a past Persona child now young adult. Ken Amaki, Nanako, Maiko, etc are all in their 20s lorewise. Could be the theory of dual protagonists meaning let's say Ken and Nanako. Both close to the protags in P3/P4. They both have to live up towards their heroes, being the proganists of those games. In the end they will realize they are their own heroes as well, unique to them.
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P3 : Accepting Death - Hence evokers are gun and by shooting it represents you accepting death. The Velvet room is an elevator reaching the final destination.
P4: Rejecting Fate/Destiny : Hence breaking/crushing cards symbolizes rejecting pre ordained destiny. You are in a limo traveling to your destination.
P5: Public perception/cognition, tearing off the mask you put on in public and revealing your true self. You are in jail for numerous thematic reasoning besides the plot, as your true self is caged. You kill/execute personas to combine them vs card mixing like the prev 2.
My thoughts on P6 based on what we think we know
Main color theme is Green. P3 was blue, P4 Gold, P5 Red.
Green - Thematically the color for Envy, Greed (money), Nature, Abundance, growth, and health.
There are many ways we can interpret this, either A. supposedly leaks that it will take place in a tertiary school like college may be true, maybe it takes place in a Business School or an MBA program or trade school (doubt). Standard highschool setting where maybe social media is a core plot point like some theories (I also doubt)
My thoughts : Envy - Not exactly pure social media, but the Envy one feels trying to measure up to others on social media and influencers who portray their life as glamorous. Core plot point would to be accepting your life as is and not try to emulate someone else. However, that would bring it too close to P5's theme. So I might be off.
Option 2 . Growth - My best theory - Combined with the above, its more likely its showing your character growing which if it is NOT a HS setting, could be evolving a character. My biggest hope is Growth is the theme and that means the protag can be a past Persona child now young adult. Ken Amaki, Nanako, Maiko, etc are all in their 20s lorewise. Could be the theory of dual protagonists meaning let's say Ken and Nanako. Both close to the protags in P3/P4. They both have to live up towards their heroes, being the proganists of those games. In the end they will realize they are their own heroes as well, unique to them.
- Velvet Room - Jet/Airplane - To reach destination like prior titles and will be more extravagant. I think if the protags of Ken/Nanako, they are totally rich as fuck due to their connections. Ken was a former Shadow Operative traveling the world as in P4A. Nanako is totally CEO in training at Junes.
- Summoning - Breaking/tossing/destroying your smart phone with an image or NFT of your Persona on it. Would be funny if all the Persona's were NFTs. To symbolize rejecting social media or going off the grid. Idea 2 - Disfiguring yourself in some manner, whether it be through a blade or whatever dark aspect the Persona writers come up with. As the prior idea is too tame vs p3/p5. Meaning not caring about how other's perceive you.
- Combining - I like to believe P5 combining thing is due to a plot point and cards will come back. Or you use your phones to combine pfps of personas.
- Endgame dungeon farming location - P3 - Tatarus (tower), P4 (TV land), P5 (Mementos underground dungeon). P6 - It's a very very very big Airport you have to fight through the terminals. Or a giant Airplane in the sky, but that might be controversial cause 9/11. That said, it is Persona, would not be surprised.
2024.06.09 07:41 Sweet-Count2557 15 Best Places to Get Scientific With Kids in Nyc
 | 15 Best Places to Get Scientific With Kids in Nyc Are you ready to embark on a scientific adventure with your kids in the vibrant city of New York? Well, hold onto your laboratory goggles because we've got a thrilling lineup of the 15 best places where young minds can dive deep into the wonders of science.From interactive exhibits that will leave them in awe to STEM centers that will ignite their curiosity, we've got it all covered. So, put on your thinking caps and get ready to explore a world of discovery and exploration that will captivate both young and young-at-heart.Key TakeawaysThere are several top science museums near NYC, including the New York Hall of Science, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Illusions, Museum of Mathematics, and Liberty Science Center.These museums offer a range of interactive exhibits, hands-on activities, and educational experiences for kids and adults.In addition to museums, there are also science-centered stores in NYC, such as Astro West and Evolution, where collectors can find minerals, fossils, and unique artifacts.NYC also has STEM centers and maker spaces like Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Beam Center, Robofun, Dazzling Discoveries, and The Geek Forest, which provide STEM education, classes, and workshops for different age groups.New York Hall of ScienceThe New York Hall of Science, located in Flushing, Queens, offers an exciting and interactive experience for both children and adults alike. At the Hall, visitors can explore hands-on exhibits and learn about sustainable farming. With over 400 activities and interactive exhibits, there's something for everyone to enjoy.One of the highlights of the New York Hall of Science is the Connected Worlds exhibit. This immersive experience allows visitors to interact with a digital ecosystem, where their actions have real-time effects on the environment. Kids can learn about the delicate balance of ecosystems and the importance of conservation through this engaging exhibit.Another exciting feature of the Hall is Rocket Park Mini Golf. This 18-hole miniature golf course combines the fun of a game with the educational aspects of space exploration. Each hole is themed after a different rocket or spacecraft, providing a unique learning experience as you make your way through the course.But the New York Hall of Science isn't just about fun and games. It also offers opportunities to learn about sustainable farming through its exhibits. Visitors can explore the Science Barge, a sustainable urban farm powered by renewable energy sources. Here, you can discover how technology can help us live more sustainably and learn about innovative farming techniques.American Museum of Natural HistoryAs we move from exploring the New York Hall of Science, let's now venture into the fascinating world of the American Museum of Natural History. This iconic museum, located on the Upper West Side, offers a multitude of interactive exhibits that will captivate both kids and adults alike. Here are five reasons why the American Museum of Natural History is a must-visit destination for anyone interested in science and exploration:Dinosaur fossils: Step back in time as you come face-to-face with the towering skeletons of T-Rex and Triceratops. The museum's extensive collection of dinosaur fossils is sure to ignite the imagination of young paleontologists.Space exploration: Journey through the cosmos at the Hayden Planetarium, where you can witness breathtaking shows that transport you to distant galaxies. Learn about the wonders of our universe and the latest discoveries in space exploration.Hands-on learning: The museum offers a range of interactive exhibits that allow visitors to engage with scientific concepts firsthand. From the Discovery Room, where kids can touch real specimens, to the Hall of Biodiversity, where they can explore Earth's diverse ecosystems, there are endless opportunities for hands-on learning.Educational programs: The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to STEM education and offers a variety of programs for students of all ages. From workshops and camps to school field trips, these programs provide engaging and immersive experiences that inspire a love for science and exploration.Special exhibitions: In addition to its permanent collections, the museum regularly hosts traveling exhibitions that bring new and exciting experiences to visitors. From exploring the depths of the ocean to uncovering the mysteries of ancient civilizations, these special exhibitions offer a fresh perspective on the world around us.With its interactive exhibits, educational programs, and captivating displays, the American Museum of Natural History is a treasure trove of scientific knowledge. Whether you're a budding scientist or simply curious about the wonders of the natural world, this museum is sure to leave you in awe.Museum of IllusionsGet ready to be amazed at the Museum of Illusions, where optical illusions come to life and challenge our perception of reality. This unique museum offers a fascinating exploration of the science behind illusions, while providing plenty of fun photo ops for the whole family to enjoy.At the Museum of Illusions, you'll have the opportunity to experience mind-bending illusions that will leave you questioning what you see. From rooms that defy gravity to mirrors that distort your reflection, each exhibit is designed to showcase the tricks our minds can play on us. But don't worry, there's a scientific explanation behind every illusion, and the museum provides explanations to help you understand the science at work.To give you a taste of what you can expect at the Museum of Illusions, here's a sneak peek at some of their most popular exhibits:ExhibitDescriptionScience Behind ItAmes RoomStep into this room and watch as people shrink or grow in size right before your eyes.The room is cleverly designed with distorted walls and floors to create an optical illusion of changing heights.Infinity RoomEnter this room and be captivated by an endless reflection of yourself in every direction.Mirrors are strategically placed to create the illusion of infinite space.Rotating TunnelWalk through this tunnel and feel like you're being spun around, even though you're standing still.The tunnel is designed with a spiral pattern that tricks your brain into perceiving motion.With its combination of entertainment and education, the Museum of Illusions offers a truly unique experience for families looking to have some fun while learning about the science behind illusions. So grab your camera and get ready to explore the fascinating world of optical illusions.Museum of MathematicsAfter exploring the fascinating world of illusions at the Museum of Illusions, it's time to venture into the realm of numbers and shapes at the Museum of Mathematics. At this innovative museum, kids can engage in a variety of hands-on math activities that make learning fun and exciting. Here are some highlights of what the Museum of Mathematics has to offer:Mathematical Puzzles: The museum is filled with mind-bending puzzles that challenge kids to think critically and problem solve. Whether it's solving a Rubik's Cube or unraveling a complex maze, these puzzles will keep young minds engaged and entertained.Hands-on Math Activities: From building geometric shapes with magnetic tiles to exploring the concept of symmetry through interactive exhibits, the museum provides a wide range of activities that allow kids to explore math in a tangible and interactive way. They can even participate in live demonstrations and workshops led by math experts.Interactive Displays: The museum features a range of interactive displays that bring mathematical concepts to life. Kids can manipulate shapes and patterns, create their own fractals, and even experience the thrill of riding a square-wheeled tricycle on a specially designed track.Math Art: The Museum of Mathematics also showcases the beauty of math through its collection of math-inspired artwork. Kids can marvel at intricate sculptures and stunning visual representations of mathematical concepts, inspiring them to see the artistic side of numbers.Real-world Applications: The museum highlights the practical applications of math in everyday life. Kids can explore how math is used in architecture, design, and even music. They can also learn about the role of math in technology and innovation, fostering a deeper appreciation for the subject.With its engaging exhibits, challenging puzzles, and hands-on activities, the Museum of Mathematics is a must-visit destination for kids who want to explore the wonders of math in a fun and interactive way. So grab your little mathematicians and get ready for an educational adventure like no other.Science BargeThe Science Barge in Yonkers, New York, offers visitors a unique and sustainable experience that showcases the power of renewable energy and urban farming. As you step aboard the barge, you'll be greeted by a lush and vibrant oasis floating on the Hudson River. This self-sustaining farm relies on renewable energy sources to power its operations and provides a fascinating insight into sustainable farming practices.One of the highlights of the Science Barge is its hydroponic greenhouse. Instead of soil, plants are grown in water enriched with essential nutrients, allowing them to thrive without the need for traditional farming methods. This innovative approach not only conserves water but also reduces the need for pesticides and herbicides, making it an environmentally friendly alternative. Kids will love getting up close and personal with the plants, learning about the science behind hydroponics, and even tasting some freshly grown produce.The barge also features solar panels and wind turbines that generate the energy needed to power the farm. This renewable energy system not only reduces the barge's carbon footprint but also serves as an educational tool for visitors to learn about sustainable energy sources. It's a hands-on experience that shows how we can harness the power of nature to create a greener and more sustainable future.The Science Barge is more than just a farm; it's a living laboratory where kids and adults alike can explore the intersection of science, technology, and sustainability. From workshops and guided tours to interactive exhibits and educational programs, there's something for everyone to learn and engage with.Liberty Science CenterAs we explore the world of science and sustainability on the Science Barge, our next stop takes us to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey. Here, we've the opportunity to dive into a wide range of interactive exhibits with our kids, making learning a fun and engaging experience.At the Liberty Science Center, we can explore exhibits that showcase the wonders of our planet and the universe. From the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere to the thrilling Infinity Climber, there's something for everyone. We can learn about the Hudson River ecosystem in the 'Our Hudson Home' exhibit and even participate in interactive skyscraper exhibits to understand the engineering behind these towering structures.One of the highlights of our visit is the chance to learn about sustainable farming, just like we did on the Science Barge. The Liberty Science Center provides valuable insights into how sustainable farming practices can have a positive impact on the environment. We can discover the importance of renewable energy sources and how they can power urban farms, promoting a greener and more sustainable future.Getting to the Liberty Science Center is a breeze, as it's easily accessible via the Path to New Jersey and light rail. And with the center constantly hosting traveling exhibitions, there's always something new and exciting to experience.With so much to see and do, it's impossible to see everything in just one visit. So, let's grab our kids and embark on an adventure of exploration, discovery, and scientific wonder at the Liberty Science Center.Astro WestLet's now explore the fascinating world of Astro West, a store in the Upper West Side of NYC that specializes in minerals, fossils, and meteorites, offering a wide range of unique items for collectors. Astro West is a treasure trove for anyone interested in celestial collectibles and stellar souvenirs. From stunning crystals to ancient fossils, this store has something for everyone.To give you a taste of what Astro West has to offer, here is a table showcasing some of their most intriguing items:ItemDescriptionPriceMeteoriteA piece of outer space that has fallen to Earth, providing a tangible connection to the cosmos.$100-$500Ammonite FossilThe spiral-shaped remains of an extinct marine animal, perfect for fossil enthusiasts.$50-$200Quartz CrystalKnown as the "master healer," quartz crystals are believed to have powerful energy properties.$20-$100Trilobite FossilThese ancient arthropods roamed the seas hundreds of millions of years ago. A true fossil marvel.$30-$150Whether you're a seasoned collector or just starting your journey into the wonders of the universe, Astro West is the place to find unique and captivating pieces. The store's knowledgeable staff can guide you through their vast inventory and help you find the perfect addition to your collection. Plus, their prices are reasonable, making it accessible to all.Astro West is more than just a store; it's a gateway to a world of discovery and imagination. So, if you're looking for celestial collectibles or stellar souvenirs, make sure to visit Astro West and let your scientific curiosity take flight.EvolutionAfter exploring the fascinating world of Astro West and its celestial collectibles, let's now journey into the realm of Evolution. Evolution is the scientific study of how living organisms have changed over time, and it plays a crucial role in understanding the origins and adaptations of all life forms.Here are five key aspects of Evolution that will help you dive deeper into this captivating subject:Origin and Adaptation: Evolution explores how life on Earth originated and how different species have adapted to survive in their environments. It delves into the processes of natural selection, genetic mutations, and environmental pressures that shape the characteristics of living organisms.Genetics: Genetics is a fundamental aspect of Evolution, as it examines how genetic information is passed down from one generation to the next. Understanding the principles of inheritance and genetic variation helps scientists unravel the mechanisms behind evolutionary changes.Evolutionary Biology: This branch of biology focuses specifically on the study of Evolution. It investigates the patterns, processes, and mechanisms of how species evolve and diversify over time, shedding light on the intricate web of life on our planet.Fossil Record: Fossils provide tangible evidence of past life forms and allow scientists to reconstruct the evolutionary history of different species. By studying fossils, researchers can uncover clues about extinct organisms and their relationships to present-day species.Comparative Anatomy: Comparative anatomy examines the similarities and differences in the anatomical structures of different species. By comparing the anatomy of various organisms, scientists can uncover evolutionary relationships and trace the development of traits across species.Exploring the fascinating world of Evolution will open your eyes to the intricate processes that have shaped life on Earth. From the origins of life to the incredible adaptations of different species, Evolution offers a captivating glimpse into the wonders of the natural world.Brooklyn Robot FoundryWe were thrilled to discover the Brooklyn Robot Foundry, a STEM education center in Gowanus, Brooklyn, where kids can explore the exciting world of robotics and engineering through hands-on classes, camps, and workshops. At the Brooklyn Robot Foundry, children have the opportunity to engage in hands-on learning activities that foster creativity, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking.One of the key benefits of STEM education is that it prepares children for the future by equipping them with the skills needed in an increasingly technology-driven world. The hands-on learning activities at the Brooklyn Robot Foundry allow kids to actively participate in the learning process, gaining practical experience and developing a deeper understanding of STEM concepts. By building their own robots and engineering projects, children are able to see firsthand how science, technology, engineering, and math are all interconnected.The Brooklyn Robot Foundry offers a variety of classes, camps, and workshops tailored to different age groups, ensuring that children of all ages can benefit from their programs. Whether it's building a robot that can navigate a maze or designing a circuit that powers a lightbulb, the hands-on nature of the activities at the Brooklyn Robot Foundry keeps kids engaged and excited about learning.In addition to the educational aspect, the Brooklyn Robot Foundry also fosters a sense of community. Children have the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers, sharing ideas and learning from one another. This not only enhances their social skills but also teaches them the value of teamwork and cooperation.Beam CenterContinuing our exploration of STEM education centers in NYC, let's now turn our attention to the Beam Center, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The Beam Center is a unique space that offers a wide range of interactive installations and apprenticeship opportunities for young minds to explore and create.Here are some highlights of what you can expect at the Beam Center:Interactive installations: The Beam Center is known for its captivating and interactive installations. From large-scale sculptures to immersive multimedia experiences, these installations provide a hands-on approach to learning and creativity. Kids have the freedom to explore and interact with these installations, fostering a sense of curiosity and discovery.Apprenticeship opportunities: At the Beam Center, high-school-aged apprentices have the chance to work on real-world projects alongside skilled professionals. Through these apprenticeships, young individuals gain valuable technical skills and hands-on experience in fields like woodworking, metalworking, electronics, and more. It's an opportunity to learn by doing and be part of a collaborative and supportive community.Hands-on workshops: The Beam Center offers a variety of hands-on workshops that cover a wide range of topics. From woodworking and robotics to digital fabrication and coding, these workshops provide an engaging and interactive learning experience. Kids have the freedom to experiment, problem-solve, and unleash their creativity in a supportive environment.Community events: The Beam Center hosts community events that bring together kids, families, and educators. These events provide opportunities for collaboration, networking, and showcasing the incredible work that young minds have accomplished. It's a chance to celebrate the power of creativity and innovation.Science education: Beyond the hands-on experiences and apprenticeships, the Beam Center is also committed to building science educators. They offer training programs and resources for teachers, empowering them to incorporate hands-on and project-based learning into their classrooms.The Beam Center is a place where freedom, creativity, and learning come together. Whether your child is interested in art, science, technology, or all of the above, the Beam Center offers a dynamic and inspiring environment to explore, create, and grow.RobofunLocated in the Upper West Side of NYC, Robofun is a STEM-focused learning center that offers a wide range of classes and workshops for preschool-aged children, igniting their curiosity and passion for robotics and technology. At Robofun, kids have the opportunity to participate in STEM inspired art activities while exploring engineering concepts.Robofun's classes and workshops are designed to engage children in hands-on learning experiences that foster creativity and critical thinking. Through activities like building robots with LEGO bricks and programming them to perform tasks, children develop problem-solving skills and gain a deeper understanding of engineering principles. The center also offers stop-motion animation classes, where kids can bring their own stories to life using technology and their imagination.What sets Robofun apart is its emphasis on combining science, technology, engineering, and art. By integrating art into STEM activities, children are encouraged to think outside the box and approach challenges from different perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach not only enhances their creativity but also helps them develop a holistic understanding of how different disciplines intersect and complement each other.Whether it's constructing a robot, designing a stop-motion animation, or engaging in other STEM activities, children at Robofun are encouraged to explore, experiment, and express themselves freely. The center provides a supportive and inclusive environment where kids can unleash their creativity and develop a lifelong love for science and technology.Dazzling DiscoveriesAt Dazzling Discoveries in the Upper West Side of NYC, we offer a variety of after-school classes, camps, and drop-in workshops for both kids and adults, providing engaging and hands-on learning experiences in subjects like sewing, coding, and more.Here are some reasons why hands-on learning is so beneficial for kids:Active Engagement: Hands-on learning actively engages kids in the learning process, allowing them to explore, experiment, and discover new concepts on their own. This active engagement enhances their understanding and retention of the material.Practical Application: Hands-on learning allows kids to apply what they've learned to real-life situations, helping them see the relevance and practicality of science education. This practical application fosters critical thinking and problem-solving skills.Creativity and Innovation: Hands-on learning encourages kids to think outside the box, fostering creativity and innovation. By engaging in hands-on activities, kids can explore their own ideas and find unique solutions to problems.Collaboration and Communication: Hands-on learning often involves group work, promoting collaboration and communication skills. Kids learn to work together, share ideas, and communicate effectively, which are essential skills for success in the scientific community and beyond.Long-lasting Interest in Science: Hands-on learning ignites curiosity and fosters a love for science among young minds. By providing engaging and interactive experiences, kids are more likely to develop a lifelong interest in science and pursue further education and careers in STEM fields.At Dazzling Discoveries, we believe in the importance of science education for young minds. Our hands-on approach ensures that kids not only learn scientific concepts but also develop essential skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.Come join us and let your child's imagination soar!The Geek ForestAfter exploring the benefits of hands-on learning at Dazzling Discoveries, let's now venture into the exciting world of The Geek Forest. The Geek Forest is a haven for geek culture and education, where children and adults alike can immerse themselves in technology and creativity. At The Geek Forest, the possibilities are endless, as they offer a wide range of classes and workshops on video game development, coding, 3D art, and animation.To give you a glimpse into the diverse offerings at The Geek Forest, here is a table showcasing some of their most popular classes:ClassAge RangeVideo Game Development8 and upCoding6 and up3D Art10 and upAnimation12 and upWith these classes, The Geek Forest aims to foster a love for technology while encouraging creativity and critical thinking skills. They understand that geek culture is not just about consuming media, but also about actively participating and creating in the digital world.The Geek Forest is a place where freedom is celebrated. It provides a safe space for individuals to explore their passions and learn at their own pace. Whether your child is a budding programmer or an aspiring artist, The Geek Forest offers a supportive environment where they can thrive.Science-Centered Stores in NYCIf you're in NYC and looking for a unique and educational shopping experience, explore the fascinating world of science-centered stores. These stores not only offer a wide range of products, but also provide an opportunity to learn and explore the wonders of science.Here are five reasons why science-centered stores in NYC are worth a visit:Exploring the science behind optical illusions in NYC: The Museum of Illusions in Chelsea is a must-visit for anyone interested in the intriguing world of optical illusions. This store provides a fun and quirky experience, with explanations of the science behind each illusion. Get ready for some mind-bending photo-ops!Collecting unique artifacts and fossils in science-centered stores in NYC: Astro West in Upper West Side and Evolution in Soho are two science-centered stores that specialize in unique artifacts and fossils. From bones and mounted insects to minerals and meteorites, these stores offer a treasure trove for collectors and science enthusiasts alike.Learning while shopping: Science-centered stores go beyond just selling products. They provide educational resources and information about the items they offer. Whether it's a book on dinosaurs or a kit to conduct experiments at home, these stores are a great way to learn while shopping.Supporting local businesses: By visiting science-centered stores, you aren't only supporting local businesses but also contributing to the promotion of science education. These stores often collaborate with schools and educational institutions, making a positive impact in the community.Inspiring curiosity and creativity: Science-centered stores are filled with fascinating objects and materials that can spark curiosity and creativity in both children and adults. From intricate fossils to colorful minerals, these stores offer a world of inspiration for aspiring scientists and artists.STEM Centers and Maker Spaces in NYCSTEM Centers and Maker Spaces in NYC offer a wealth of opportunities for hands-on learning and creative exploration in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. These spaces aren't just for kids, as there are also maker spaces for adults and STEM programs specifically designed for teens.For adults who are interested in tinkering and creating, there are several maker spaces in NYC that provide the tools and resources needed to bring ideas to life. These spaces often have workshops and classes where adults can learn new skills and collaborate with others who share their interests. Whether it's woodworking, electronics, or 3D printing, there are maker spaces in NYC that cater to a wide range of interests.Teens who are passionate about STEM subjects can also find a variety of programs and resources in NYC. Many STEM centers offer specialized programs for teens, where they can engage in hands-on projects and experiments, work with cutting-edge technology, and learn from experts in the field. These programs often focus on real-world applications of STEM principles, allowing teens to see the relevance and impact of their studies.STEM centers and maker spaces in NYC provide an environment that encourages freedom and creativity. They offer a space where individuals can explore their interests, learn new skills, and collaborate with others who share their passion for science and innovation. Whether you're an adult looking to pursue a new hobby or a teen seeking to deepen your understanding of STEM, these centers and spaces in NYC are sure to inspire and ignite your curiosity.Frequently Asked QuestionsAre There Any Special Discounts or Promotions Available for Admission to the New York Hall of Science or Any of the Other Science Museums in Nyc?There are special offers and discounts available for admission to the New York Hall of Science and other science museums in NYC.Promotions for the New York Hall of Science can vary, so it's best to check their website or contact them directly for the most up-to-date information.Other science museums in NYC may also offer special discounts or promotions, so it's worth exploring their websites or contacting them to see what deals are available.Are the Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History Suitable for Children of All Ages, or Are There Specific Exhibits Geared Towards Younger or Older Kids?At the American Museum of Natural History, you won't believe the incredible exhibits suitable for all ages! From towering dinosaurs to mesmerizing space shows, there's something for everyone.Younger kids will love the interactive learning experiences, like the Discovery Room and the Butterfly Conservatory.Older kids can explore the Hall of Human Origins and delve into the mysteries of the universe at the Hayden Planetarium.Get ready for a mind-blowing adventure that will ignite curiosity and inspire young minds!Can Visitors Take Photographs Inside the Museum of Illusions, or Is Photography Prohibited?At the Museum of Illusions in NYC, photography is allowed! You can capture all the fun and quirky photo-ops with your camera. It's a great way to remember your visit and share the science behind each optical illusion with your friends and family.Does the Museum of Mathematics Offer Any Programs or Workshops Specifically Designed for Adults, or Are They Primarily Focused on Children?At the Museum of Mathematics, they offer programs and workshops specifically designed for adults, in addition to their focus on children. It's great to see that they cater to all age groups, providing opportunities for adults to engage in STEM learning.As for STEM centers and maker spaces in NYC, it's important to note that age restrictions may vary. Some places like Brooklyn Robot Foundry and Robofun offer classes for preschool-aged children, while others like Beam Center and The Geek Forest are geared towards high-school-aged apprentices.Are There Any Restrictions on the Age Range for Children Attending Classes or Workshops at the STEM Centers and Maker Spaces in Nyc?Age restrictions vary among STEM centers and maker spaces in NYC. Some centers offer classes and workshops specifically designed for certain age groups, while others have programs that cater to a wide range of ages. It's important to check with each center to understand their specific age requirements and offerings.Additionally, some centers may offer discounts and promotions for certain age groups or specific workshops. It's always a good idea to inquire about any available discounts when booking classes or workshops.ConclusionIn the bustling streets of NYC, there's a world of discovery waiting for young minds.From the awe-inspiring exhibits at the New York Hall of Science and the American Museum of Natural History to the hands-on activities at STEM centers like the Brooklyn Robot Foundry, children can explore the wonders of science and ignite their imaginations.So, come and join us on this scientific adventure, where curiosity knows no bounds and the love for learning is nurtured.Let's inspire a lifelong passion for science together! submitted by Sweet-Count2557 to worldkidstravel [link] [comments] |
2024.06.09 07:37 wreked88 Olszewski at D23 + new work (Gallery of Lights) in late 2024
From their email:
The 2024 Disney 23 Expo: This year's D23 event will take place on August 9th, 10th and 11th at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA. Bob, again, will be sharing a booth in the "Emporium" section of the event with his friends and model train experts, Lowell and Barb Smith.
~Please be advised that the D23 Team discourages carry-ins for signing by the artists, but Bob will be glad to sign purchases of his art that are made at the show.~
New Olszewski Works of Art: At this writing Bob is finishing his work on the 2nd of 5 new Disney inspired Gallery of Lights which are due to be released at the Disney Theme Parks in late 2024 and into 2025. Look for future emails from us for information as each new release is issued complete with photos, sizes and pricing. To hear more from Bob himself regarding these new releases, be sure to stop by his booth at D23.
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The 2024 Disney 23 Expo: This year's D23 event will take place on August 9th, 10th and 11th at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA. Bob, again, will be sharing a booth in the "Emporium" section of the event with his friends and model train experts, Lowell and Barb Smith.
~Please be advised that the D23 Team discourages carry-ins for signing by the artists, but Bob will be glad to sign purchases of his art that are made at the show.~
New Olszewski Works of Art: At this writing Bob is finishing his work on the 2nd of 5 new Disney inspired Gallery of Lights which are due to be released at the Disney Theme Parks in late 2024 and into 2025. Look for future emails from us for information as each new release is issued complete with photos, sizes and pricing. To hear more from Bob himself regarding these new releases, be sure to stop by his booth at D23.
2024.06.09 07:15 wsppan Today In Phishstory - June 9th
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Phish, Tuesday 06/09/2009 (15 years ago) Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 2009 Early Summer Tour
Set 1 : Kill Devil Falls , The Moma Dance , Sample in a Jar , Stash , Dog Faced Boy , Gumbo , Tube , Lengthwise , Divided Sky , When the Cactus is in Bloom 1 , Bold As Love
Set 2 : Backwards Down the Number Line > Ghost > Fast Enough for You , Halley's Comet > Maze , Alaska 1 , Theme From the Bottom , Golgi Apparatus , Possum
Encore : Loving Cup
1 Phish debut.
Jamchart Notes:
Backwards Down the Number Line - "Type I" version with great strumming by Trey and a short outro jam that > to "Ghost."
Show Notes:
This show featured the Phish debuts of When the Cactus is in Bloom and Alaska. Before Dog Faced Boy, Trey explained that while living with Fish, he wrote Dog Faced Boy, Tube and Gumbo based on entries in one of Fish's journals. During Dog Faced Boy, Fish left his drum kit and lay down in front of the stage because he didn't need to sing the song. Lengthwise (performed a cappella ) was played for the first time since July 28, 1998 (235 shows). Bold as Love was played for the first time since October 6, 2000 (74 shows).
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Phish, Friday 06/09/2000 (24 years ago) On Air East, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, , Japan
Gap Chart, Tour: 2000 Summer Japan Tour
Set 1 : Axilla > Taste , Billy Breathes , Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus > Funky Bitch , The Moma Dance > First Tube > Chalk Dust Torture
Set 2 : Tweezer , Bouncing Around the Room 1 , The Mango Song , The Squirming Coil > Gotta Jibboo > Meatstick 2 > Tweezer Reprise
Encore : You Enjoy Myself
1 Brief outro solo from Trey, which replaced the usual closing guitar lick. 2 First Meatstick to feature Japanese lyrics.
Jamchart Notes:
Funky Bitch - Atypically improvisational must-hear monster.
Chalk Dust Torture - Winning fans in Japan. This huge first-set-closing version raises hell and ends, but then there's a second ending that concludes cacophonously.
Tweezer - Atypically slow but monstrously improvisational version that has several peaks and valleys before speeding-up and concluding in a melodic, triumphant, must-fucking-hear manner.
The Mango Song - Ending jam segment stretches the limits of the basic jam with some nice rhythmic variation, but still stays "in bounds."
You Enjoy Myself - Deeeep, funky jam/groove, and the return of the B&D; segment!
Show Notes:
The Moma Dance included Funky Bitch teases and Tweezer included Funk #49 teases. This was the first ever Meatstick to feature Japanese lyrics and Trey flubbed the words while attempting to sing them. Bouncing included a brief outro solo from Trey, which replaced the usual closing guitar lick. This show was re- broadcast on Japanese television.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Phish, Friday 06/09/1995 (29 years ago) Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1995 Summer Tour
Set 1 : My Friend, My Friend , Divided Sky , Strange Design > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Theme From the Bottom , Taste , Sparkle > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2 : Split Open and Melt , The Wedge , Scent of a Mule , Cavern > David Bowie , Acoustic Army , Sweet Adeline , Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore : The Squirming Coil
Jamchart Notes:
Run Like an Antelope - Unusual jam. Sort of off-key. Sort of evil. Dissonant and anti-melodic. No real peak; it just fades into "Rocco."
Split Open and Melt - Improvisational playing in several sections tests the rhythmic and melodic standards for "SOAM" in this solid version.
Show Notes:
Part of the soundcheck's jam consisted of 25 or 6 to 4.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Phish, Thursday 06/09/1994 (30 years ago) Triad Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1994 Summer Tour
Set 1 : Llama , Guelah Papyrus , Rift , Down with Disease > It's Ice > If I Could > Maze , Fee 1 , Suzy Greenberg
Set 2 : Split Open and Melt , Glide > Julius , Halley's Comet -> Scent of a Mule , Ginseng Sullivan 2 , Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Golgi Apparatus
Encore : Highway to Hell
1 Trey sang verses through megaphone. 2 Acoustic and without microphones. Fish on Madonna washboard.
Jamchart Notes:
It's Ice - Good rocking jam with excellent Fish and solid Trey (of course Page is great).
Mike's Song - The 1st jam is rocking and ass kicking, with a clever little "Tweeprise"-like walk up. The 2nd jam is basically a non-vocal version of something very "Simple"-like. Just listen and you'll hear it. The return to "Mike's" has more crazed '94 scream-infused power action.
Show Notes:
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Ginseng Sullivan was performed acoustic without microphones and featured Fish on Madonna washboard.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Phish, Saturday 06/09/1990 (34 years ago) The Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1990 Tour
Set 1 : Possum , Lawn Boy > Reba , Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer , Uncle Pen > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
Set 2 : Whole Lotta Love Jam > Harry Hood , The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > La Grange , Fee -> Foam , The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope , Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up , Harpua , Good Times Bad Times
Encore : Take the 'A' Train > Contact
Jamchart Notes:
Foam - -> in from "Fee." Groovy and excellent Page section with solid backing from Mike and Fish. It's all good from there.
Run Like an Antelope - Good exploratory version that gets nicely beyond the standard. Great tension, dissonance and experimental jamming.
Show Notes:
Harpua included Funkytown teases and 'A' Train contained a Dixie tease from Trey. The band launched into the second set-opening Whole Lotta Love Jam as the DJ had been spinning the original Zeppelin version. The opening act was The Aquarium Rescue Unit.
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Trey Anastasio Trio, 2023-06-09 Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-trio-june-09-2023-mission-ballroom-denver-co-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This show featured the debuts of Where They'll Find Us, Perseid, Monsters, Oblivion, The Well, and Ether Edge, the first public performance of The Greater Good (which had previously been played on October 16, 2020 during the Beacon Jams), and the Trey Anastasio debut of Halfway Home (previously only performed by Ghosts of the Forest and Phish). Perseid had evolved from Forward People, which had been released as a single in 2021. The first Perseid was unfinished due to technical issues. Air Said To Me was performed for the first time since December 31, 2006. What's Done was last played on February 28, 2010. Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in The Greater Good. Ghost's lyrics were changed to "the story of Fish in Telluride."
Trey Anastasio Band, 2006-06-09 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-09-2006-verizon-wireless-amphitheatre-charlotte-charlotte-nc-usa.html
Tour: TAB - Early Summer 2006 Tour
Show Notes: This single set performance was as the opening act for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the performance do not circulate.
Trey Anastasio Band, 2002-06-09 Tower City Amphitheatre, Cleveland, OH, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-09-2002-tower-city-amphitheatre-cleveland-oh-usa.html
Tour: TAB - The Dectet Summer 2002 Tour
Show Notes: The rendition of "Plasma" from this gig appears on Trey's live CD of the same name. Trey performed "Ray Dawn Balloon" acoustic.
Mike Gordon, 2015-06-09 The Pageant, St. Louis, MO, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-june-09-2015-the-pageant-st-louis-mo-usa.html
Tour: Mike Gordon - Summer 2015 Tour
Show Notes:
Jazz Mandolin Project, 2004-06-09 32 Bleu, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-june-09-2004-32-bleu-colorado-springs-co-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Jazz Mandolin Project Summer 2004 Tour
Show Notes:
Page McConnell, 2007-06-09 Bogart's, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/page-mcconnell-june-09-2007-bogarts-cincinnati-oh-usa.html
Tour: Page McConnell Spring & Summer 2007 Tour
Show Notes: This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the show do not circulate.
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Phish
Gap Chart, Tour: 2009 Early Summer Tour
Set 1 : Kill Devil Falls , The Moma Dance , Sample in a Jar , Stash , Dog Faced Boy , Gumbo , Tube , Lengthwise , Divided Sky , When the Cactus is in Bloom 1 , Bold As Love
Set 2 : Backwards Down the Number Line > Ghost > Fast Enough for You , Halley's Comet > Maze , Alaska 1 , Theme From the Bottom , Golgi Apparatus , Possum
Encore : Loving Cup
1 Phish debut.
Jamchart Notes:
Backwards Down the Number Line - "Type I" version with great strumming by Trey and a short outro jam that > to "Ghost."
Show Notes:
This show featured the Phish debuts of When the Cactus is in Bloom and Alaska. Before Dog Faced Boy, Trey explained that while living with Fish, he wrote Dog Faced Boy, Tube and Gumbo based on entries in one of Fish's journals. During Dog Faced Boy, Fish left his drum kit and lay down in front of the stage because he didn't need to sing the song. Lengthwise (performed a cappella ) was played for the first time since July 28, 1998 (235 shows). Bold as Love was played for the first time since October 6, 2000 (74 shows).
Listen now at Phish.in!
Gap Chart, Tour: 2000 Summer Japan Tour
Set 1 : Axilla > Taste , Billy Breathes , Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus > Funky Bitch , The Moma Dance > First Tube > Chalk Dust Torture
Set 2 : Tweezer , Bouncing Around the Room 1 , The Mango Song , The Squirming Coil > Gotta Jibboo > Meatstick 2 > Tweezer Reprise
Encore : You Enjoy Myself
1 Brief outro solo from Trey, which replaced the usual closing guitar lick. 2 First Meatstick to feature Japanese lyrics.
Jamchart Notes:
Funky Bitch - Atypically improvisational must-hear monster.
Chalk Dust Torture - Winning fans in Japan. This huge first-set-closing version raises hell and ends, but then there's a second ending that concludes cacophonously.
Tweezer - Atypically slow but monstrously improvisational version that has several peaks and valleys before speeding-up and concluding in a melodic, triumphant, must-fucking-hear manner.
The Mango Song - Ending jam segment stretches the limits of the basic jam with some nice rhythmic variation, but still stays "in bounds."
You Enjoy Myself - Deeeep, funky jam/groove, and the return of the B&D; segment!
Show Notes:
The Moma Dance included Funky Bitch teases and Tweezer included Funk #49 teases. This was the first ever Meatstick to feature Japanese lyrics and Trey flubbed the words while attempting to sing them. Bouncing included a brief outro solo from Trey, which replaced the usual closing guitar lick. This show was re- broadcast on Japanese television.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Gap Chart, Tour: 1995 Summer Tour
Set 1 : My Friend, My Friend , Divided Sky , Strange Design > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Theme From the Bottom , Taste , Sparkle > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2 : Split Open and Melt , The Wedge , Scent of a Mule , Cavern > David Bowie , Acoustic Army , Sweet Adeline , Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore : The Squirming Coil
Jamchart Notes:
Run Like an Antelope - Unusual jam. Sort of off-key. Sort of evil. Dissonant and anti-melodic. No real peak; it just fades into "Rocco."
Split Open and Melt - Improvisational playing in several sections tests the rhythmic and melodic standards for "SOAM" in this solid version.
Show Notes:
Part of the soundcheck's jam consisted of 25 or 6 to 4.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Gap Chart, Tour: 1994 Summer Tour
Set 1 : Llama , Guelah Papyrus , Rift , Down with Disease > It's Ice > If I Could > Maze , Fee 1 , Suzy Greenberg
Set 2 : Split Open and Melt , Glide > Julius , Halley's Comet -> Scent of a Mule , Ginseng Sullivan 2 , Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Golgi Apparatus
Encore : Highway to Hell
1 Trey sang verses through megaphone. 2 Acoustic and without microphones. Fish on Madonna washboard.
Jamchart Notes:
It's Ice - Good rocking jam with excellent Fish and solid Trey (of course Page is great).
Mike's Song - The 1st jam is rocking and ass kicking, with a clever little "Tweeprise"-like walk up. The 2nd jam is basically a non-vocal version of something very "Simple"-like. Just listen and you'll hear it. The return to "Mike's" has more crazed '94 scream-infused power action.
Show Notes:
Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Ginseng Sullivan was performed acoustic without microphones and featured Fish on Madonna washboard.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Gap Chart, Tour: 1990 Tour
Set 1 : Possum , Lawn Boy > Reba , Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer , Uncle Pen > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
Set 2 : Whole Lotta Love Jam > Harry Hood , The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > La Grange , Fee -> Foam , The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope , Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up , Harpua , Good Times Bad Times
Encore : Take the 'A' Train > Contact
Jamchart Notes:
Foam - -> in from "Fee." Groovy and excellent Page section with solid backing from Mike and Fish. It's all good from there.
Run Like an Antelope - Good exploratory version that gets nicely beyond the standard. Great tension, dissonance and experimental jamming.
Show Notes:
Harpua included Funkytown teases and 'A' Train contained a Dixie tease from Trey. The band launched into the second set-opening Whole Lotta Love Jam as the DJ had been spinning the original Zeppelin version. The opening act was The Aquarium Rescue Unit.
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Trey Anastasio
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-trio-june-09-2023-mission-ballroom-denver-co-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This show featured the debuts of Where They'll Find Us, Perseid, Monsters, Oblivion, The Well, and Ether Edge, the first public performance of The Greater Good (which had previously been played on October 16, 2020 during the Beacon Jams), and the Trey Anastasio debut of Halfway Home (previously only performed by Ghosts of the Forest and Phish). Perseid had evolved from Forward People, which had been released as a single in 2021. The first Perseid was unfinished due to technical issues. Air Said To Me was performed for the first time since December 31, 2006. What's Done was last played on February 28, 2010. Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in The Greater Good. Ghost's lyrics were changed to "the story of Fish in Telluride."
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-09-2006-verizon-wireless-amphitheatre-charlotte-charlotte-nc-usa.html
Tour: TAB - Early Summer 2006 Tour
Show Notes: This single set performance was as the opening act for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the performance do not circulate.
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-09-2002-tower-city-amphitheatre-cleveland-oh-usa.html
Tour: TAB - The Dectet Summer 2002 Tour
Show Notes: The rendition of "Plasma" from this gig appears on Trey's live CD of the same name. Trey performed "Ray Dawn Balloon" acoustic.
Mike Gordon
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-june-09-2015-the-pageant-st-louis-mo-usa.html
Tour: Mike Gordon - Summer 2015 Tour
Show Notes:
John Fishman
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-june-09-2004-32-bleu-colorado-springs-co-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Jazz Mandolin Project Summer 2004 Tour
Show Notes:
Page McConnell
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/page-mcconnell-june-09-2007-bogarts-cincinnati-oh-usa.html
Tour: Page McConnell Spring & Summer 2007 Tour
Show Notes: This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the show do not circulate.
2024.06.09 07:08 vanessabaxton All the questions and answers to the Stuart AMA - 2024/06/06 - 2/2
| Number | Question | Answer | Topics | Answer Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | What happened to the coc/supercell support? They are just closing the Tickets (to many cases bla bla.) | There's been an unfortunate bunch of situations behind the scenes that have impacted our support recently. It's not good enough and its frustrated us on the Clash team too. Supercell's Player Support team does have a bunch of great smart people and with recent new joiners, I believe they will figure out better ways to give you all the high quality support you deserve. | Player Support Issues | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dg3so/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 52 | Do you guys have some idea or plan to update the XP system in Clash of clans I mean other supercell games have already done that so, can we see some updates to the XP system? Also are you guys planing to add more leagues in the game? | Your individual player XP isn't very meaningful or important in the game. I'm not sure we'd remove it but it's more likely make it less prominent and not on the main screen than make it more important. | Player XP System | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dk9l3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 53 | The last couple AMAs you guys talked about the Invitation of new members getting a revamp, can you give us a little bit more info about that? | We've been working hard on this and had been hoping to get this in for our June update. Unfortunately it wasn't quite done in time. We probably will share the idea in the next few eeks and get some feedback before launching it in a future update this year. | Quality of Life | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d1lm9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 54 | Hello Stuart. What is the difference between a general manager and a community manager? Do you make the updates for the game? Also when will customer support for clash of clans be improved? People have been complaining about customer support and how hard it is to actually get to a human to help them with their problem | My role as General Manager is to make sure we have the right team to take care of everything that goes into making and running Clash, and making sure the team has everything they need to do their best work in all of their individual fields. Our Community managers are focused on being the bridge between our team and you players. Making sure we hear your thoughts on what we're doing, as well as making sure you hear what we're up to. Whether that's through our own channels directly or by helping our creator community. The only hands work for updates I do today is writing a bunch of the in-game texts still. The funny jokes, those are the ones I write honest, the ones that aren't funny, yeah those are somebody else. 😅 | Quality of Life | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d392x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 55 | Esteemed Sir I do beseech thee, with all the humility and earnestness of my heart, to consider the addition of a confirm button for the purpose of signing up to the revered "Legend Leagues" within thy esteemed game. Such a feature would surely be a boon to all who partake in the grandeur of thy creation, providing clarity and assurance to the valiant players.Thy consideration in this matter would be met with the deepest gratitude and enduring loyalty of thy devoted community. Yours in earnest supplication, Andy | Esteemed Andy, I must kindly ask, is this a problem one has been encountering since farming in "fake legends" to get that little bit extra sweet ore? Your faithful servant, Stuart | Quality of Life | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d4wd5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 56 | Why does quick army queue fixed troops, instead of building the army I want, discarding and recylcling what's already there ? | We've got revamps to army training planned which should solve this problem for you (and some others). It'll probably launch alongside the TH17 update if things go to plan. | Quality of Life | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d62fa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 57 | Can we perhaps see more QoL changes/editions to clan capital in the future such as co leaders and above being able to see who donated last to a building (to see if there are trolls purposefully putting their gold in expensive stuff/obstacles that the leaders don't want to invest into for now), being able to save army compositions, buttons to help navigate through the districts more efficiently, among other things? 1.5. When capital hall level 11 comes and new buildings and district hall levels being added, where do you think players would get the new buildings? Are we gonna be getting a shop of some kind for those, since having more ruins wouldn't make much sense and could ruin base layouts? 2. With the recent balance changes nerfing a lot of the defenses, players have been complaining that the game is getting too easy and the strategic aspects of the game is being compromised in favor of catering to a more general audience that doesn't have the time to learn complex attack strategies. What do you think about that, and do you think you guys can find other alternatives to create a balance between being strategic gameplay and casual appeal? 3. What year do you think was the greatest for Clash of Clans, and has 2024 been a great year for the game so far? 4. Do you keep any pets, and if so, what is it? 5. What do you think about the mobile gaming scene nowadays, and what factors do you think have made Clash of Clans be able to stand out from its competitors? 6. Are there any concepts that you (or the team) really like, but ultimately couldn't make it into the game due to it having fundamental issues that makes it either very difficult to balance, going against the game's inherent designs, or other reasons? | Picking a few to answer We're currently focusing on the Home Village but figuring out how we'll keep on top of Capital QoL and other improvements. 1.5 In the past we've talked about doing some kind of defence swapping mechanic where you could move defenses between districts (similar to swapping defenses in Builder's Base). There'd need to be some kind of restrictions as we do like each district having its own identity and specialities. We had a troop concept based on the Blob, which absorbed things and got stronger and stronger. It was impossible to balance as it was getting stronger whilst the base got weaker. | Quality of Life, Clan Capital | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d8frz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 58 | Thanks Stuart for this AMA. I have a few questions: Will supercell continue to cater towards the casuals? I understand that casuals are the high spenders but back in the days, coc used to be a strategy based game. Let's say you have the capacity to make any changes to the game you want. What would you change and why? I'm sure you play the game. Do you support strategic rushing or maxing every townhall? Why? How exactly are balance changes done? Like based on what data? Can we expect another collab anytime soon? | Clash has and always will be a game for a ton of different people for different playstyles. We'll do our best to keep adding things for different folk and let people customise their own experience. I'd love for Clash players to be able to make their own troops + defenses and come up with their own wild creations. This is a game where y'all make stuff for one another and it'd be great to go even more in that direction. I've always moved up to the next Town Hall when I feel done with the current one. I think that's the best way to play and that's gonna be different for different players. It's a combination of subjective feedback and looking into the use and 3 star rates of different things. Root Rider isn't the troop with the highest win-rate in legends, that's Super Barbarian, but it is used more often. We never want one strategy to be so dominant that you feel you must play that way. | Quality of Life, Game Development | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dbkoy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 59 | Hello there Stuart, thanks for taking the time to do an AMA, I have several questions, both in and outside the game. I'm an Alliance Admin, can we see changed to the reddit recruitment system? I have spoken with many different large and small families or alliances, we all agree that the Reddit Recruitment System needs changing, some moderators seem to abuse their power and only favour Recruitment posts from Reddit based clans, many alliances and families have been banned from recruiting there without much reasons. Root Riders. They have been a challenge to balance, have you ever considered changing the housing space capacity? I don't understand how Root Riders are 12 housing space less than Electro Titans. Any plans to potentially revert a nerf or two and increase the housing space? That would balance the meta out and see other attacks shift back into the meta. Coming from an Alliance point of view, can we see love for the larger Alliances and Families in the community, currently supporter codes are only for Clash Content Creators and other significant parties like Clash King, but I feel like us Alliances and Families do create strong communities and provide a lot for the community. If the larger communities could be allowed Creator Codes we could create more events and host more giveaways for our members. Long story short, any plans to add larger Communities to the Supporter Code system? Or working with the larger Communities in other unique ways that can be positive both on a small and large scale? What is the Clash Teams plans for Quarter 3 and 4 of the year? Anything big we can keep our eyes out for? | We'll keep an eye on how the Root Rider does after the current balance changes. But housing space adjustment is for sure an option, and it's been something we've done in the past. | Recruitment, Troops, Alliances | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7d51eq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 60 | Why is Supercells activity on Reddit so low since Darian left? | I just went over to Ferri and Frame's desks to pass on this message and they promise to be more active! | Reddit Activity | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dgake/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 61 | will there ever be some reduction in the time/cost of laboratory upgrades, or possibly an opportunity for a 2nd lab upgrade slot outside of just using the goblin builder? lab upgrades tend to take longer for me than anything else. secondly, in town hall 16 i can see an attempt to save space in the base by combining defenses. are there more planss to compress the base further so new defensive buildings can be built without overcrowding being a problem? finally do you think there will be a crimson and black themed town hall because that would be sick | Lab times take a bit longer than buildings because most players don't use every troop/spell/siege so don't worry about finishing those before moving on up to the next Town Hall. We added Research Potions for Raid Medals so players wanting more balance could get there. But we'll keep monitoring player progress to make sure this stays healthy (and there's definitely some Town Halls more unbalanced than others). | Research Upgrade Times | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dkv7a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 62 | Hey I’m pretty sure you already heard this but the RR nerf didn’t work. | It's early days but in the stats it does seem to be working. We'll see where it settles and decide what to do next. | RR Nerf Effectiveness | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dqape/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 63 | Any plans to increase the 30s scout time in legends league / friendly challenges? With all of the decisions to make at th16 it’s becoming increasingly difficult to come up with a suitable plan in time | We have something coming in the June update that can help you use the scout time more effectively. But we discussed increasing it at the same time and ultimately decided not to. The worry of having too long a scout time is everyone feels they have to use it, and attacking takes longer. We will see how things go after the June update and decide if further changes are needed. | Scout Time in Legends League | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dpq8q/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 64 | Will we ever get more housing space for spells? | We don't plan to but I'd never say never. | Spell Housing Space | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dn703/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 65 | Would you consider allowing players to use one supertroop per week for free? I feel like they are very underused due to the 25k DE price, and this would make attacks more fun | Yeah we're not happy with the Super Troop system either. Trying to think of how we'll change it so they're more widely enjoyed. | Super Troop System Changes | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7de3gn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 66 | Is there going to be a possibility to test out new equipment on a high/maxed out level before having to invest resources into them? For example in friendly challenges? Or with a magic item that maxes equipment for a certain time period? I was thinking about letting us play with them in the playground like super troops | That's an option we've been thinking about too. | Testing New Equipment | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7diop?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 67 | Hi Stuart, do you plan on implementing a tournemant mode or some other kind of mode, where troops and buildings are differently balanced, so it is more challanging for the top players and the casuals are still able to have fun? | Answered this elsewhere but we're adding a Hard Mode for this purpose. Hope you enjoy it. | Tournament Mode | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dboqa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 68 | How far in advance do you think of the next town hall’s theme? | Our art team had something rough in mind even while thinking of the TH16 theme. They started refining that more earlier this year. | Town Hall Themes | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7ddt4t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 69 | Was the design of any of the troops based off anyone that worked in Supercell? For example, if the giant was an exaggerated caricature of a large redhead in the Clash team | I don't think so, but I only joined in 2017 so didn't meet everyone who was here in 2012 | Troops | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dabhx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 70 | Hey! Why don't we have the Clash of Clans user interface good looking as any other supercell games out there. I mean every other supercell game animations and user interface are an absolute pleasure to watch. How do you feel about these things to be added into the game. Redesigned Clan Chat with better functionality and animations. Emotes availability in clan chat, War spectating etc. Clan Name Change Clan Banner Change with some sort of animations and other added features. Do you think the overall game user interface needs an overhaul. I think it has become sort of boring interacting with the same user interface over the years. Adding specific eye candy elements could make it a little bit more eye pleasing. Thanks! | We're one of the company's oldest games and we also have the most screens and features. We have recently hired some more folk to help us improve our UI/UX and are also working on some technical improvements to make it easier and faster for us to refresh our UI + UX. | UI/UX Improvements | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dp6gu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
| 71 | Maybe think of other creative ways to merge defenses, like turning wizard towers into superwizard towers, maybe 2 teslas into a megatesla and so on, the more unique defenses in the village, the better! | [ Removed by Reddit ] | Unique Defense Ideas | https://www.reddit.com/ClashOfClans/comments/1d9ggko/comment/l7dillj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
2024.06.09 07:05 Aros001 I disagree that [SPOILER] was Horikoshi subverting expectations.
Every now and then I'll see someone say that All Might not dying in the final arc was Horikoshi trying to subvert expectations but I disagree. And I don't mean in the "Oh, I'm so smart. I knew he wouldn't do it." sort of way.
Killing off the mentor character is a common trope in a lot of media. Certainly. But not doing that doesn't inherently mean that the story is subverting expectations, since no matter how common or uncommon a trope or plot point may be it is the story itself that sets what the audience is to expect. For example, if any given series suddenly kills off a character who had more story left to tell, that's typically a subversion of expectations. But if Game of Thrones does it, that's not a subversion of expectations because that series set the expectation very early on that anyone could die. Even if it's extremely uncommon to kill off characters like that in most other series, GOT killing off characters like that isn't a subversion of our expectations, it is meeting the expectations it has set for us.
All Might not dying in the battle of Kamino Ward? THAT was a subversion of expectations. The series up until that point had been pushing the idea that he didn't have much time left, that eventually Midoriya might be left all on his own, and things were building up to the reveal of his old archenemy, All For One, with the confrontation finally coming in Kamino Ward. We the audience were expecting him to die in that battle because the story had led us to believe that it was going to happen. Compare that to, say, Jiraiya from Naruto. Killing off the mentor was just a common trope back when that series was coming out but we still weren't exactly terrified that Jiraiya was going to die during the search for Tsunade or most of the arcs prior to Pain's because the story had given us no reason to believe it'd do such a thing. So having All Might live on after Kamino Ward, only now powerless and unable to save the day on his own anymore, was a subversion of what we were expecting.
But by contrast, him being saved and surviving in the final arc of MHA isn't a subversion of expectations, because that was a possibility the story had been pushing for us to expect.
Ever since Kamino Ward the story has been addressing how useless All Might felt not being able to save everyone and solve everything on his own like he used to, how he potentially "missed his chance to die", and of course Nighteye's prediction about his death. The idea is that instead of going out in a blaze of glory with his legend intact if he'd died in Kamino Ward, if he were to die now it would be unspeakably gruesome and a death without point, just tragedy. Combine that with All Might's vow to keep living for Midoriya's sake, his and Midoriya's promise to keep fighting fate, and All Might doing whatever he can to support those inspired by him even in spite of his powerless state, and the series is essentially building up to a fork in the road in the lead up to All Might and AFO's final confrontation in the final arc.
We're not specifically expecting All Might to die like we were for Kamino Ward, nor are we specifically expecting him to live. Rather we are waiting to see which path the story will go down because it has established BOTH as two very reasonable expectations for us to have as to the outcome of the confrontation. All Might lives and it's a triumph, because the characters managed to beat back fate, or All Might dies and it's a tragedy, because their actions still weren't enough to beat fate. And given the general tone and themes of the series the former was obviously more likely, but even if the latter had occurred it wouldn't have been a subversion of our expectations because the story had been telling us to expect that as a potential outcome.
A subversion would have been more along the lines of something like AFO successfully killing All Might but in the process of doing so his Rewind Quirk affects All Might too and not only brings him back to life but also restores his body to his pre-injured state. All Might dies AND lives, which is not something we would have been expecting, regardless of how the series' internal logic could technically have it make sense.
For another comparison, let's look at Chainsaw Man. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
Since basically her introduction the story heavily implies that, no matter how nice she may act towards Denji, Makima is very dangerous and not to be trusted. But even so,>! the complete slaughter she orchestrated of everyone Denji had come to care about was a huge subversion of expectations, since the story had been leading us to believe that we would have more time with those other characters, at least until their inevitable confrontation with the Gun Devil, who we likewise thought was going to be the big boss but turns out to already be basically another tool in Makima's arsenal!<.
Again, when Game of Thrones kills off significant characters, that's not a subversion of expectations because that series trains you to expect such deaths as the norm. But in Chainsaw Man, even with some character deaths already under its belt, it never led you to expect anything like what Makima did to so many significant characters, thus why their deaths and that entire tragic situation was a subversion.
Or, as a lighter example since I know some are split on how they feel about Chainsaw Man's part 2, how about the Dragon Scroll from the first Kung Fu Panda? The power being inside the character all along is certainly not a new trope, but the scroll being blank is still a subversion of the expectations the story had been building up for the audience throughout the movie until that reveal. Everyone, from Tai Lung to Shifu to Tigress and thus even Po believe that the Dragon Scroll is something mystical that will grant literal power to whoever reads it. The only one who knew the truth was Oogway and he always chose his words carefully in order to not give away the deception.
The scroll being just empty shiny paper fits very well with the movie's main themes and ideas, as well as much of the general philosophy of martial arts, but it is still a subversion of expectations because of what we'd been made to expect by the story.
Heck, what about Alien? In plenty of horror movies it's fairly common for the main character to survive until the end even when all the other characters get killed off, but if you watch the movie Ripley is not initially set-up and established like she's the main character. Rather, that would be Kane. He's the one we enter the movie with and who's perspective we spend a decent deal following around until the Facehugger latches onto him. Kane initially seems like he's our protagonist and thus it's a subversion of our expectations, as the movie set them up, for him to be the first one to die.
In all these examples we are set up to expect a certain payoff, thus why it's a subversion when we get something else, while All Might not dying in the final arc isn't a subversion of expectations because that was a potential payoff we were set-up to expect for that storyline.
TL;DR: Just because certain tropes or plots are common doesn't mean a story subverted expectations by not doing them. It depends on what the story itself actually set you up to expect.
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Killing off the mentor character is a common trope in a lot of media. Certainly. But not doing that doesn't inherently mean that the story is subverting expectations, since no matter how common or uncommon a trope or plot point may be it is the story itself that sets what the audience is to expect. For example, if any given series suddenly kills off a character who had more story left to tell, that's typically a subversion of expectations. But if Game of Thrones does it, that's not a subversion of expectations because that series set the expectation very early on that anyone could die. Even if it's extremely uncommon to kill off characters like that in most other series, GOT killing off characters like that isn't a subversion of our expectations, it is meeting the expectations it has set for us.
All Might not dying in the battle of Kamino Ward? THAT was a subversion of expectations. The series up until that point had been pushing the idea that he didn't have much time left, that eventually Midoriya might be left all on his own, and things were building up to the reveal of his old archenemy, All For One, with the confrontation finally coming in Kamino Ward. We the audience were expecting him to die in that battle because the story had led us to believe that it was going to happen. Compare that to, say, Jiraiya from Naruto. Killing off the mentor was just a common trope back when that series was coming out but we still weren't exactly terrified that Jiraiya was going to die during the search for Tsunade or most of the arcs prior to Pain's because the story had given us no reason to believe it'd do such a thing. So having All Might live on after Kamino Ward, only now powerless and unable to save the day on his own anymore, was a subversion of what we were expecting.
But by contrast, him being saved and surviving in the final arc of MHA isn't a subversion of expectations, because that was a possibility the story had been pushing for us to expect.
Ever since Kamino Ward the story has been addressing how useless All Might felt not being able to save everyone and solve everything on his own like he used to, how he potentially "missed his chance to die", and of course Nighteye's prediction about his death. The idea is that instead of going out in a blaze of glory with his legend intact if he'd died in Kamino Ward, if he were to die now it would be unspeakably gruesome and a death without point, just tragedy. Combine that with All Might's vow to keep living for Midoriya's sake, his and Midoriya's promise to keep fighting fate, and All Might doing whatever he can to support those inspired by him even in spite of his powerless state, and the series is essentially building up to a fork in the road in the lead up to All Might and AFO's final confrontation in the final arc.
We're not specifically expecting All Might to die like we were for Kamino Ward, nor are we specifically expecting him to live. Rather we are waiting to see which path the story will go down because it has established BOTH as two very reasonable expectations for us to have as to the outcome of the confrontation. All Might lives and it's a triumph, because the characters managed to beat back fate, or All Might dies and it's a tragedy, because their actions still weren't enough to beat fate. And given the general tone and themes of the series the former was obviously more likely, but even if the latter had occurred it wouldn't have been a subversion of our expectations because the story had been telling us to expect that as a potential outcome.
A subversion would have been more along the lines of something like AFO successfully killing All Might but in the process of doing so his Rewind Quirk affects All Might too and not only brings him back to life but also restores his body to his pre-injured state. All Might dies AND lives, which is not something we would have been expecting, regardless of how the series' internal logic could technically have it make sense.
For another comparison, let's look at Chainsaw Man. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
Since basically her introduction the story heavily implies that, no matter how nice she may act towards Denji, Makima is very dangerous and not to be trusted. But even so,>! the complete slaughter she orchestrated of everyone Denji had come to care about was a huge subversion of expectations, since the story had been leading us to believe that we would have more time with those other characters, at least until their inevitable confrontation with the Gun Devil, who we likewise thought was going to be the big boss but turns out to already be basically another tool in Makima's arsenal!<.
Again, when Game of Thrones kills off significant characters, that's not a subversion of expectations because that series trains you to expect such deaths as the norm. But in Chainsaw Man, even with some character deaths already under its belt, it never led you to expect anything like what Makima did to so many significant characters, thus why their deaths and that entire tragic situation was a subversion.
Or, as a lighter example since I know some are split on how they feel about Chainsaw Man's part 2, how about the Dragon Scroll from the first Kung Fu Panda? The power being inside the character all along is certainly not a new trope, but the scroll being blank is still a subversion of the expectations the story had been building up for the audience throughout the movie until that reveal. Everyone, from Tai Lung to Shifu to Tigress and thus even Po believe that the Dragon Scroll is something mystical that will grant literal power to whoever reads it. The only one who knew the truth was Oogway and he always chose his words carefully in order to not give away the deception.
The scroll being just empty shiny paper fits very well with the movie's main themes and ideas, as well as much of the general philosophy of martial arts, but it is still a subversion of expectations because of what we'd been made to expect by the story.
Heck, what about Alien? In plenty of horror movies it's fairly common for the main character to survive until the end even when all the other characters get killed off, but if you watch the movie Ripley is not initially set-up and established like she's the main character. Rather, that would be Kane. He's the one we enter the movie with and who's perspective we spend a decent deal following around until the Facehugger latches onto him. Kane initially seems like he's our protagonist and thus it's a subversion of our expectations, as the movie set them up, for him to be the first one to die.
In all these examples we are set up to expect a certain payoff, thus why it's a subversion when we get something else, while All Might not dying in the final arc isn't a subversion of expectations because that was a potential payoff we were set-up to expect for that storyline.
TL;DR: Just because certain tropes or plots are common doesn't mean a story subverted expectations by not doing them. It depends on what the story itself actually set you up to expect.
2024.06.09 05:49 TheShad0wKnight THEORY - Indigo Park may be a true Mascot Horror
So Ive had this theory for a while and wanted to know the communities thoughts, my theories involve the characters/mascots and how they exist.
So to begin its obvious these things are living, we see them have blood (when Mollie died) but definately act like their animal counterparts. But even after death I dont think this is the end for characters like Mollie and them showing up.
So how are they living? Well they are human but have been fused and mutated with their costumes. The game has many connections to theme parks such as disney which are popular for their costumed perfomers and I think the park wanted them to be more authentic.
"But how would that happen?" You may ask, well I think it could connect to Salem. When we first see Salem its in the destroyed room while on the train then later seeing her in the arcade game where they turn Mollie evil with potions and I think it may be deeper in reality than we may think.
Maybe some scientists or something were working on ways of making their costumes sentient and more alive and came up with a potion that had some name involving Salem (Y'know company synergy) and using it on their employees to merge them with the mascot suits, causing a hatred for Salem as thats what the procedure involed leading to the destroyed room.
Well what do you think? Is this a good theory? Anyone have anything to add?
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So to begin its obvious these things are living, we see them have blood (when Mollie died) but definately act like their animal counterparts. But even after death I dont think this is the end for characters like Mollie and them showing up.
So how are they living? Well they are human but have been fused and mutated with their costumes. The game has many connections to theme parks such as disney which are popular for their costumed perfomers and I think the park wanted them to be more authentic.
"But how would that happen?" You may ask, well I think it could connect to Salem. When we first see Salem its in the destroyed room while on the train then later seeing her in the arcade game where they turn Mollie evil with potions and I think it may be deeper in reality than we may think.
Maybe some scientists or something were working on ways of making their costumes sentient and more alive and came up with a potion that had some name involving Salem (Y'know company synergy) and using it on their employees to merge them with the mascot suits, causing a hatred for Salem as thats what the procedure involed leading to the destroyed room.
Well what do you think? Is this a good theory? Anyone have anything to add?
2024.06.09 05:45 JessiJStan Trip report for [Kings Dominion]
![Trip report for [Kings Dominion]](https://preview.redd.it/ypjsk0nowg5d1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d95885bb404729d36d2da49c57941e67be7f1557 "Trip report for [Kings Dominion]") | Hey guys! Checking in from Virginia today. Kind of an impromptu trip as my roommate has family up here, and she had to come up for the weekend, so we made the most of it! A few general comments, then coaster ranks and reviews to follow. submitted by JessiJStan to rollercoasters [link] [comments] General This park is really beautiful. I don’t see that mentioned here a lot! It’s so well maintained and has a great wooded setting. The ride ops though, really seem overworked here. Sending trains out every 4 minutes was good for them it seemed. No more than two workers in the station at a time for any ride really sucks on a Saturday. Not sure if this is a trend here but it is well past school time, so i’m surprised by this. Also jesus, the crowd here is just so disrespectful? The amount of times the ops had to tell teenagers to get off the handrails and the line cutting was crazy. Really felt like I was at SFoG. They stopped four different rides on the lift hills to force people to put phones away. Like how hard is it? Will you die without it for five seconds?? This somewhat put a damper on what was, mostly, a good day. Coasters (Ascending order of ranking) Reptilian (#103) x1 I know this is a classic and a dying model, but it didn’t do much for me. It was okay, but nothing to write home about. Apple Zapple (#101) x1 This wild mouse braked HARD. The models with the big drop to start are usually my favorites, but alas, we were braked time after time. Anaconda (#97) x1 This really wasn’t bad in the way I thought it was gonna be. I knew its reputation of being rough (my whole party wouldn’t ride it with me lol). But it wasn’t headbanging central if you rode defensively a bit. I’m also a bit taller, so my ears don’t rest between the restraints. HOWEVER, this ride is boring for the most part. So much filler and not enough anything else. The corkscrews over the water saved this from being sub 100. Grizzly (#96) x1 The retrack was nice! I will say I don’t think I gave this a fair ride. Sat somewhere near the middle bc this was rushed and the last ride for half our party, so they wanted to leave soon. Back row would probably give some air, but this didn’t. I’ll have to give it another shot sometime, but for now it’s here. Racer 75 (#90) x1 Another classic, another eh? ride. Racer at Kings Island runs better, faster, and gives some air. This just meanders around for a bit. It’s nowhere near rough, but hey, sometimes roughness gives the false impression of forces lol. Backlot Stunt Coaster (#79) x1 I do think this is the worst of the three. It ran a bit rougher than the rest and no theming aspects seemed to be running. Not much else to say. Tumbili (#65) x1 Now we are getting to the interesting stuff. Somehow this is my first free spin! Mostly due to the fact that I’m nowhere near any Six Flags parks besides SFoG. I feel like I got a really good ride on this one. Flipped at least 4 times. The first being so disorienting. 10/10 for the gimmick, but that really is all it is. Dominator (#45) x1 I know a lot of people call this the best flourless in the country, but Kraken still has it beat for me. The ops were tough on this one, not gonna lie. Trains every 5 minutes if they were lucky. Not having the straight drop does hurt it a bit. Cobra roll was great, first corkscrew great, but the rest was a little run of the mill B&M. It’s also weird this is the park’s only B&M ever. Well, till next year. Project 305 (#9) x3 I greyed out for my first time here! I really am surprised they haven’t reprofiled this thing to appeal to the masses. It could have a large overback or something, but I can appreciate them not doing so. This is my least favorite drop on a giga, but damn the intensity on this is unworldly. The switchbacks are so well done. Even better than Mavericks IMO. Part of me wants to say this is a front row ride, but I’d need more rides to decide. Twisted Timbers (#5) Another park, another top RMC. How does a hundred foot ride keep that level of speed and intensity for that track? Riding this thing at night is great bc its sense of speed is doubled. I know it’s somewhat of a one trick pony, but it’s the second best at that trick in my opinion. Second only to AF1 for airtime intensity. The barrel drop adds a new dimension, along with the zero-g roll. I do think a low to the ground stall would’ve pushed this ride to even better. Good lord though, the lap bars just don’t move, so if you have room, be ready to be flung into them over and over. Overall I need to come to this park on a slower day and get more of a picture of its identity and its rides. Some, I feel like I got great rides, some I don’t think I saw them at their best. I’m excited for the new wing coaster though! It seems like they have started pouring the footers, so it’s most likely happening soon! Feel free to share any comments or questions and happy riding y’all! |
2024.06.09 05:36 SatisfactionLeather7 Valarr III - Some Make Wedding Plans, I Drink and I Fight. (OPEN)
In the Sands of Dorne they organised a party. In the ruins of a fish-keep, they plotted something. Valarr had been invited to one, but not the other and he had little reason to believe he ever would have been. Alas, it was not his place to bemoan, he had his role in life, and that was to be the Master of Ships. But when there was no war and trade flowed freely, what then?
Valarr used that time to simply enjoy the city he helped build up.
In his manse, just north of the Red Keep, Valarr had a plethora of amenities. it was his own personal keep among the city. He had a forge for his own needs, a small fighting arena in a garden, fit for duels, but little larger. He had a neatly arranged aforementioned garden, with the flowers arranged in beautiful and fragrant sections. But there remained a theme, white and blue on one side, black and whiten on the other. For the Seahorse and the wolf.
Beyond those gardens where paved paths intersected around a heart tree he had planted for his wife, there were small glass houses. Some for growing, most for simply resting in the sun with a modicum of privacy. He knew his halls were stalked by spies at all times, but that was of little bother. If they wanted his secrets, they mostly only needed ask.
Within the manse itself, the building was of three stories. The bricks were painted in a Myrish style, turned the turquoise of his house colours, and dusted with white to cool the colour. Rounded domes sat on the roofs and there was a tower a few stories higher where he could sit and enjoy the view of the city, from a much less lofty spot than in his room in the Red Keep. Here, his family stayed, they trained, they rested, and in the case of some of his children, they moped... in fact most did that these days.
It was his way to watch his children thrive, but this place did little for them.
He was still however, master of ships and beyond that, he was a fighter, and so, he would take his own stress out.
"Why me?" Asked his daughter.
"You are the least involved so far," Valarr quickly replied, the steel of his blade cracking against her own. She darted back quickly, fast as ever. But even as she invested in the duel, she did not carry a sense of interest. Not yet.
"You could have asked Laena then. She's been a moping bitch since the feast," she snapped back, lunging in, slashing twice, but being dodged once and deflected the second time.
Valarr held firm as she retreated again, this time with her brows further furrowed. More than usual anyway. Which was an achievement to say the least.
"I could have, but then I would be ignoring all of my children. And now that Rhaegal is back, there is less time for each, so yes. Here I am, dueling you, because at least this way, my daughter can have something to do."
She frowned, "I have... I have heaps I can do," she snapped and she stabbed in, her thinner, longer blade coming at him swiftly. Though he simply whipped his sword up and swatted it aside. Quickly, he stepped in, dagger point angled at her chest.
She stopped, stance held, and then she looked down and with watery eyes she dropped her practise sword and for a moment just stood there. He reset his stance, and sheathed his dagger. Then, he returned his sword and hers tot he rack and walked back to her, putting an arm around her shoulder.
"You're a fool," he sighed, "but you are my youngest fool. Don't be discouraged by defeat, be empowered by it... come, let us go and see what trouble awaits."
"It's not fair," she moped, though she did not break free.
"I'm better than you, and much older. I'm going to win more often than not," he corrected, and she grimaced.
"Still."
"Even still... the world isn't fair, my love. But preparation and practise go a long way to equalising the woes of the world."
Still, he saw her mouth, and he just rested his hand on her head.
"Like Maegor, you'll be better than me one day."
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Valarr used that time to simply enjoy the city he helped build up.
In his manse, just north of the Red Keep, Valarr had a plethora of amenities. it was his own personal keep among the city. He had a forge for his own needs, a small fighting arena in a garden, fit for duels, but little larger. He had a neatly arranged aforementioned garden, with the flowers arranged in beautiful and fragrant sections. But there remained a theme, white and blue on one side, black and whiten on the other. For the Seahorse and the wolf.
Beyond those gardens where paved paths intersected around a heart tree he had planted for his wife, there were small glass houses. Some for growing, most for simply resting in the sun with a modicum of privacy. He knew his halls were stalked by spies at all times, but that was of little bother. If they wanted his secrets, they mostly only needed ask.
Within the manse itself, the building was of three stories. The bricks were painted in a Myrish style, turned the turquoise of his house colours, and dusted with white to cool the colour. Rounded domes sat on the roofs and there was a tower a few stories higher where he could sit and enjoy the view of the city, from a much less lofty spot than in his room in the Red Keep. Here, his family stayed, they trained, they rested, and in the case of some of his children, they moped... in fact most did that these days.
It was his way to watch his children thrive, but this place did little for them.
He was still however, master of ships and beyond that, he was a fighter, and so, he would take his own stress out.
"Why me?" Asked his daughter.
"You are the least involved so far," Valarr quickly replied, the steel of his blade cracking against her own. She darted back quickly, fast as ever. But even as she invested in the duel, she did not carry a sense of interest. Not yet.
"You could have asked Laena then. She's been a moping bitch since the feast," she snapped back, lunging in, slashing twice, but being dodged once and deflected the second time.
Valarr held firm as she retreated again, this time with her brows further furrowed. More than usual anyway. Which was an achievement to say the least.
"I could have, but then I would be ignoring all of my children. And now that Rhaegal is back, there is less time for each, so yes. Here I am, dueling you, because at least this way, my daughter can have something to do."
She frowned, "I have... I have heaps I can do," she snapped and she stabbed in, her thinner, longer blade coming at him swiftly. Though he simply whipped his sword up and swatted it aside. Quickly, he stepped in, dagger point angled at her chest.
She stopped, stance held, and then she looked down and with watery eyes she dropped her practise sword and for a moment just stood there. He reset his stance, and sheathed his dagger. Then, he returned his sword and hers tot he rack and walked back to her, putting an arm around her shoulder.
"You're a fool," he sighed, "but you are my youngest fool. Don't be discouraged by defeat, be empowered by it... come, let us go and see what trouble awaits."
"It's not fair," she moped, though she did not break free.
"I'm better than you, and much older. I'm going to win more often than not," he corrected, and she grimaced.
"Still."
"Even still... the world isn't fair, my love. But preparation and practise go a long way to equalising the woes of the world."
Still, he saw her mouth, and he just rested his hand on her head.
"Like Maegor, you'll be better than me one day."
2024.06.09 05:25 MichaelAftonXFireWal 30 Thomas and Friends Questions.
So I saw Cinder and Ashes UK's Video where he was asked 30 questions about Thomas and Friends, and I decieded to ask those same questions to you guys here, as well as give my Own Answers to those questions as well. So here we go.
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Questions:
- Who is Your Favorite Character?
- What is Your Favorite Episode?
- What is Your Favorite Season?
- Who is Your Favorite Narrator?
- What is Your Favorite Location?
- What is Your Favorite Theme?
- What do You Think is The Funniest Moment?
- Who is Your Least Favorite Character?
- What is Your Least Favorite Episode?
- What is Your Least Favorite Season?
- Who is Your Least Favorite Narrator?
- What is Your Favorite Special?
- What is Your Least Favorite Special?
- Which Character do You Think is Overrated?
- Which Character do You Think is Underrated?
- Who is Your Favorite Stemie?
- Who is Your Favorite Diesel?
- Who is Your Favorite Rolling Stocks Character?
- Who is Your Favorite Non Rail Character?
- Who is Your Favorite Human?
- Who is Your Favorite Hit Era Newbie?
- Who is Your Favorite CGI Newbie?
- What is Your Favorite Song?
- What Is Your Least Favorite Song?
- How Did You Get Into Thomas?
- Do You Keep Up With The Current Series?
- Do You Have Any Headcannons?
- What is Your Favorite Piece of Fanmade Content?
- What is an Unpopular Opinion You Have?
- If You Could Rewrite One Episode What Would It Be and How?
My Answers:
- Edward.
- All at Sea.
- Season 3.
- George Carlin.
- Welesworth.
- The Viaduct and Harbour Theme.
- The Ending of Panicky Percy when James came along demanding to know why he wasn't invited (The only thing from that god awful episode that I thought was funny).
- Denis The Lazy Diesel.
- Edward Strikes Out.
- Season 12.
- Pierce Brosnan
- Blue Mountain Mystery.
- Misty Island Rescue.
- Gordon.
- Paxton.
- Edward.
- Mavis.
- Toad.
- Either Harold, Cranky, or Bertie.
- The Earl of Sodor Sir Robert Norramby.
- Rosie.
- Victor.
- Night Train.
- I Don't Know.
- DVDS I had When I was Little.
- No.
- No.
- Enterprising Engines by EnterprisingEngines93.
- I don't think I have any.
- Edward Strikes Out. Replace Edward with James.
2024.06.09 05:12 Maryberry_13 [Canada’s Wonderland] trip report!! First one of the year, woop woop!!
![[Canada’s Wonderland] trip report!! First one of the year, woop woop!!](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/OAAFpXuiJSckwmiaZIjI_Q9MSWNiZwxzrs3swsy4Ybg.jpg "[Canada’s Wonderland] trip report!! First one of the year, woop woop!!") | First of all, today was freaking awesome!! First time going to the park this early and I’m SO glad we kicked off the season like this. Best day ever. To get into it, I finally got to meet up with a fellow thoosie friend after interacting with him for so long. We had a blast. submitted by Maryberry_13 to rollercoasters [link] [comments] We went on: Tundra Twister Dragon Fyre 2x White Water Canyon Snoopy’s Racing Railway (boy, am I about to gush about this ride). Backlot Stunt Coaster Solo rides on Psyclone 2x Solo ride on Leviathan We didn’t get Fast Lane so we only went on the first five rides together. Still a very fun day. I got my first ride on WWC and boy, did we get soaked. We had a fun ride with four other boys and we were all laughing each time one of us got wet. Psyclone’s ops were extremely slow and it was pretty obvious one of them was new. I sympathize with her but it was just little things like struggling to lift up everyone’s restraints, failing to do proper restraint checks, etc. so operations took longer than normal. She was slowly getting it together though, it’s normal for a new person. She handled it well. It was a bit frustrating but I understood. Also, Levi’s ride ops made me and two other girls wait for two trains to enteexit the station before letting us get our things?? We were all confused and at first, we thought our stuff got stolen. Not once have I ever been told to wait for trains to enter and exit before I was able to grab my stuff but alright. It was even weirder because they unlocked the other bins. Oh well. We also got a super crazy ride on Tundra. It was a blast. Dragon Fyre is slowly growing on me as well. Gotta keep your head back though. SNOOPY’S RACING RAILWAY WAS AMAZING. First of all, the theming was chef’s kiss. The ride itself really brought out our inner child. We booked it to Kidzville lol. We couldn’t get to ride the other big two due to long waits. We skipped on The Bat as well. I was so upset when I found out my sister and her friend got free Fast Lanes after Sledgehammer broke down. Of course they used it on Yukon. Definitely getting on Yukon when I go back in three weeks. TIL, rain days are actually pretty fun as well as solo rides. Levi was HAULING during that rain shower and riding Psyclone in the rain too was the perfect ending to the night. Started off nice and sunny at first but got rainy and very cold later on. However, today was awesome. We got to talk to some nice people today (we talked to a lady about Skyrider in Yukon’s line before we gave up on waiting). Like I said though, awesome start to the season!! |
2024.06.09 05:07 Mediocre_Law_5557 Kengan Ashura 83rd OC I've ever made
Name: Leka "The Earth Shaping Demon" Mudo-Kure
Age: 32
Height: 7 foot
Weight: 525 lbs
Appearance: A big hulking pound of Half Samoan Half Japanese Muscle wearing Shorts made for someone of his size and width with a short beard and Tribal Tattoos over his entire body with Black Scarlia eyes
Personality: He is about pride in his power, his people, and how he uses it making it so that he only uses the Kure Clan Style Moves and Techniques tgat he knows of if the opponent is deemed worthy enough to fight at full power but still has a massive amount of Pride in his own family's power to defeat his opponent.
Backstory: Born from the Love of a Kure Woman and a Mudo Man(Don't ask but yes Removal does occur in the Bedroom) Leka grew up in a very very strong household so he grew up with being trained by his Father and his Mother throughout the day so whenever he grew up he was a powerhouse that couldn't be stopped as he decimated the underground fighting arenas until some people from higher-up places came to offer a deal of millions of dollars to be their fighter at a famous fighting tournament held on an island but he refused the money offer as he agreed to fight for them as long as he fought strong opponents he would fight for them.
Fighting Style: Mudo Family Style/Kure Clan Style/Boxing(Boxer-Puncher)
Special Moves: Wai- The user goes limp to disperse the impact of an opponent's attacks.
Hau- Which consists of bending and diverting the flow of an attack.
Maungamanawa- Shifts the flow of the power of his enemy's blow to reduce the damage and then returns the attack to the opponent by combining Wai and Hau together.
Removal- His Removal rate is 30%.
Buddha's Death(AKA Buddha Killer)- An elbow uppercut to the opponents head.
Death Charge(AKA Depth Charge)- An Armor piercing blow to the liver.
Earth Scrapper- A leg sweep that can throw off an opponent's balance for a follow-up.
Hard Slam- A shoulder tackle.
Universe-Shaking Supreme Fang(AKA Heaven-Shaking Supreme Fang)- A downward elbow strike to the nape of the neck used as a counter to his opponents.
Mountain Destroyer(AKA Mountain Breaker)- A double punch to the head and chest of his opponent.
Spear Thrust(AKA Leg Thrust)- A heel kick to the chest of his opponent.
Feats: He's broken through bank vaults so that those who make the vaults can make them stronger while only using Hard Slam.
He flattened a Bank Truck with Mountain Destroyer that was going Top Speed.
Weaknesses: His movement speed is slower but don't think that means his attacks are as slow.
His size doesn't allow for good maneuvering.
Representing Fujiko Locks & Vaults
Theme Entrance: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
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Age: 32
Height: 7 foot
Weight: 525 lbs
Appearance: A big hulking pound of Half Samoan Half Japanese Muscle wearing Shorts made for someone of his size and width with a short beard and Tribal Tattoos over his entire body with Black Scarlia eyes
Personality: He is about pride in his power, his people, and how he uses it making it so that he only uses the Kure Clan Style Moves and Techniques tgat he knows of if the opponent is deemed worthy enough to fight at full power but still has a massive amount of Pride in his own family's power to defeat his opponent.
Backstory: Born from the Love of a Kure Woman and a Mudo Man(Don't ask but yes Removal does occur in the Bedroom) Leka grew up in a very very strong household so he grew up with being trained by his Father and his Mother throughout the day so whenever he grew up he was a powerhouse that couldn't be stopped as he decimated the underground fighting arenas until some people from higher-up places came to offer a deal of millions of dollars to be their fighter at a famous fighting tournament held on an island but he refused the money offer as he agreed to fight for them as long as he fought strong opponents he would fight for them.
Fighting Style: Mudo Family Style/Kure Clan Style/Boxing(Boxer-Puncher)
Special Moves: Wai- The user goes limp to disperse the impact of an opponent's attacks.
Hau- Which consists of bending and diverting the flow of an attack.
Maungamanawa- Shifts the flow of the power of his enemy's blow to reduce the damage and then returns the attack to the opponent by combining Wai and Hau together.
Removal- His Removal rate is 30%.
Buddha's Death(AKA Buddha Killer)- An elbow uppercut to the opponents head.
Death Charge(AKA Depth Charge)- An Armor piercing blow to the liver.
Earth Scrapper- A leg sweep that can throw off an opponent's balance for a follow-up.
Hard Slam- A shoulder tackle.
Universe-Shaking Supreme Fang(AKA Heaven-Shaking Supreme Fang)- A downward elbow strike to the nape of the neck used as a counter to his opponents.
Mountain Destroyer(AKA Mountain Breaker)- A double punch to the head and chest of his opponent.
Spear Thrust(AKA Leg Thrust)- A heel kick to the chest of his opponent.
Feats: He's broken through bank vaults so that those who make the vaults can make them stronger while only using Hard Slam.
He flattened a Bank Truck with Mountain Destroyer that was going Top Speed.
Weaknesses: His movement speed is slower but don't think that means his attacks are as slow.
His size doesn't allow for good maneuvering.
Representing Fujiko Locks & Vaults
Theme Entrance: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
2024.06.09 04:08 RowdyFortnite Summary of President John F. Kennedy's First Term (1961-1965) // Echoes of November
 | President John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States submitted by RowdyFortnite to Presidentialpoll [link] [comments] Cabinet Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Secretary of State: Dean Rusk Secretary of the Treasury: C. Douglas Dillon Secretary of Defense: Robert McNamara Attorney General: Robert F. Kennedy Postmaster General: J. Edward Day (1961-1963) replaced by John A. Gronouski Secretary of the Interior: Stewart Udall Secretary of Agriculture: Orville Freeman Secretary of Commerce: Luther H. Hodges Secretary of Labor: Arthur Goldberg (1961-1962) replaced by W. Williard Wirtz Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Abraham Ribicoff (1961-1962) replaced by Anthony J. Celebreeze Ambassador to the United Nations: Adlai Stevenson II In the weeks leading up to the start of his presidency, Kennedy went about assembling a cabinet meant to balance various political factions. With a cabinet consisting of liberals and Stevenson allies such as Stevenson's close friends J. Edward Day and Arthur Goldberg along with Stevenson himself as Ambassador to the UN. Kennedy also selected Republican C. Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury in an attempt to calm a Wall Street anxious of the Democratic return to power. However the most influential members of the administration came not from the cabinet but from some of Kennedy's closest advisors such as National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy and staffers Ted Sorenson ,Larry O'Brien, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, Pierre Salinger, General Maxwell D. Taylor and W. Averell Harriman. The most prominent cabinet members proved to unsurprisingly be President Kennedy's brother Robert F. Kennedy as Attorney General and the "Whiz Kid" Ford executive Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense. Sources have described President Kennedy's management of the administration as the "wheel with all spokes leading to Kennedy" with President Kennedy assuming an increased amount of involvement compared to his predecessor President Eisenhower. President Kennedy with Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara Domestic Policy -Upon taking office President Kennedy unveiled his ambitious "New Frontier" program, in the sprit of Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights" and Truman's "Fair Deal", both of which failed. The fight for New Frontier policies has been a brutal one with a coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans opposing the President every step of the way. However some of the early accomplishments included a federal minimum wage increase, housing act that allocated federal aid for urban renewal and housing, yet these were soon met with crushing blows to the New Frontier with both President Kennedy's massive education funding bill and healthcare for the elderly bill being killed by the conservative coalition. Lacking the support to accomplish the more idealistic of his policy proposals, recently President Kennedy has instead opted to focus on poverty as the central theme of the New Frontier, with sources confirming it will be the central theme of President Kennedy's re-election campaign domestically. -Economically President Kennedy has fully endorsed Keynesian economics, emphasizing economic growth over inflation or deficits. To this end President Kennedy has received much of the credit for the soaring economy, with GDP, production and sales in major industries skyrocketing compared to the Eisenhower years. President Kennedy's economic program has been especially popular due to his major tax cuts across the board, however this has also come with a government budget of over $100 billion with the U.S. running a peace time deficit for the first time in American history. -In the early days of his Presidency, Kennedy largely avoided the issue of civil rights, seeing it as an issue that would only drive a wedge between him and the southern Democrats that would be necessary for his re-election campaign. However soon the civil rights movement would force President Kennedy's hand as freedom riders being attacked by mobs finally force Attorney General Kennedy into deploying Marshals to protect them. After much criticism from civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, in 1963 Kennedy finally take major action by proposing a constitutional amendment outlawing poll taxes which was ratified in January 1964. After this victory Kennedy began to become more actively involved and in June 1963 federalized the Alabama National Guard to force Governor George Wallace of Alabama to allow black students to attend the University of Alabama. That very night Kennedy took to the television delivering a speech outlining his administrations new civil rights objectives seeking to fully end segregation in the U.S. and secure voting rights for African Americans in the south. This would mark a turning point in the Kennedy Presidency as his approval rating in the south crashed and southern Democrats vowed to oppose the President at every turn. The August 1963 "March on Washington" created momentum for Kennedy's Civil Rights legislation. This momentum would ultimately not lead to success though as amendments and additions tacked on by conservatives sunk the proposed "Civil Rights Act" before it made it out of committee. Heading into 1964 the administration has elected to table the Civil Rights legislation as they fear another drawn out battle with Congress would damage the President's re-election odds as polls already show a majority of Americans feel the President has pushed to hard for the legislation. -One of the surprising focuses of Kennedy's term has been the attention given to NASA and space policy. In the early days of his term it seemed the organization would see it's crewed space exploration program dismantled, however out of respect to Vice President Johnson (who was the White House's point man for NASA) the decision was delayed. During this time the Soviet Union once again made world headlines, this time by putting the first man in space with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. This blow to American prestige has inspired an all out space race, with President Kennedy going as far as to pledge to put an American on the moon. With increased attention and funding, NASA administrator James E. Webb has been thrust into one of the most important roles in the administration. -On other issues, President Kennedy has signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at reducing wage inequality between genders following the release of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women's report which was chaired by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt before her death in 1962. On the issue of crime, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has led a vigorous prosecution and targeting of organized crime, leading to some controversy for the administration with the targeting of unions around the country, specifically the Teamsters, with dozens of Teamsters already jailed. This testy relationship with the unions has caused some concern in the upcoming 1964 election as Teamster head Jimmy Hoffa has reportedly expressed a desire to "cause as much embarrassment as he can" to the President, a feeling said to be shared by Alabama Governor George Wallace who appears to be currently assembling a campaign staff. President Kennedy with Civil Rights leaders following the March on Washington Foreign Policy -On foreign policy (specifically regarding the USSR) President Kennedy shifted away from former President Eisenhower's policy of brinksmanship towards a more conventional arms policy termed "flexible response". In pursuing this policy, Kennedy oversaw a buildup of special operations forces and elite units. However Kennedy also pursued further nuclear armament and it's said the nuclear capacity of the U.S. has increased by over half compared to the Eisenhower years. In addition to this policy, Kennedy also established the "Peace Corps" (led by his brother in law Sargent Shriver) with young American volunteers going into developing countries and teaching English, helping infrastructure development, food and aid deliveries, etc. This program has been a highlight of the reelection campaign as "Peace" has been the main foreign policy message. -In the final days of the Eisenhower Administration, plans had been carefully crafted by the CIA to overthrow Marxist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, with a counter-revolutionary forced funded and trained by the CIA in Florida in anticipation of a US backed invasion of the island by these fighters. When presented with the plan upon taken office, Kennedy eagerly signed off due to his hardline campaign stance against Castro, despite warnings from some members of the State Department. On April 17th 1961, 1500 fighters swarmed the island hoping to quickly inspire an uprising to overthrow Castro, however no such revolt occurred and instead the invaders found themselves pinned down with American air support having been pulled by President Kennedy out of fear of exposing the American sponsorship of the invasion force. As such the force was quickly defeated and Kennedy would be forced to pay over $53 million in return for the surviving members of Brigade 2506. The aftermath of the failed invasion actually saw Kennedy's poll numbers rise as he took full responsibility for the failure and received vocal support from former President Eisenhower and former Vice President Nixon. This would however be the start of a split between Kennedy and the CIA, State Department and the Joint Chiefs as Kennedy felt he had been hung out to dry by the diplomats and military, instead relying on White House advisors and staffers for major decisions from then on. -In the months following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, fears rose among Cuban and Soviet officials of the U.S. planning another invasion prompting increased economic and military aid to Cuba from the USSR. As part of this aid, dozens of Soviet missiles and bombers were shipped to Cuba, along with around 100 tactical nuclear weapons. On October 14th 1962, American U-2 spy planes photographed the missile sites being built conforming to the Kennedy administration that Cuba indeed had offensive nuclear weapons. Despite considering immediate airstrikes, on October 22nd President Kennedy would announce in an address to the nation a naval blockade to intercept any further Soviet arms shipments. The nation would hold it's breath for a week, enduring a string of fearful headlines including Soviet ships approaching the blockade, an American spy plane being downed and even false reports of war already breaking out. Finally on October 28th Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba with President Kennedy issuing a public promise not to invade Cuba. With the "Cuban Missile Crisis" over the nation would favorably react to Kennedy's handling of the crisis with yet another major approval rating boost energizing the White House. -Despite all the attention being focused on Cuba throughout Kennedy's first term, another country has seen a growing communist threat, Vietnam. As the communist Viet Cong increasingly threatened the capitalist South Vietnam regime, Kennedy increased the amount of American military advisors in the region from 11,000 to 16,000 over the course of 1963 however remained reluctant to dispatch any American combat troops. In August 1963 a series of crackdowns on Buddhist monks ordered by South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem led to new Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. being tasked with getting the President to step down. Diem resisted these calls from the U.S. however leading Ambassador Lodge to advise the only way Diem would leave office would be by military coup. Despite this assessment from Lodge, the Defense and State department provided the White House with starkly different pictures of the situation in South Vietnam, leading the President to send General Maxwell D. Taylor and Secretary of Defense McNamara on a fact finding mission to the country. This mission seemed to confirm the reports from the State Department of an increasingly weakened position of the South Vietnam military in fighting the Communist guerillas. With President Diem finally losing American backing, on November 1st 1963 South Vietnam generals would arrest and execute Diem. Wishing to put the Vietnam issue on the backburner for the 1964 election, Kennedy would recall 1,000 of the advisors previously dispatched after the Taylor-McNamara mission. -With more than 20,000 fleeing East Berlin to West in mid-1961 and U.S. military spending ratcheting up with President Kennedy specifically indicating the funds would be spent securing West Berlin, on August 13th 1961 the Soviet Union began construction of a wall separating East Berlin from West Berlin and blocking passage between the two halves of the city. Despite receiving criticism for allowing the wall to go up, Kennedy would strike back in a June 1963 tour of West Berlin saying "Democracy is not perfect, but we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in". One of Kennedy's major accomplishments leading up to the 1964 elections has been a nuclear test ban treaty which was signed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk along with his Soviet and British counterparts on August 5th 1963, banning the testing of nuclear weapons on the ground, in the air or underwater. President Kennedy authorizing the naval blockade of Cuba Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justice Hugo Black Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter (retired in 1962) replaced by Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg Associate Justice William O. Douglas Associate Justice Tom C. Clark Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan Jr. Associate Justice William J. Brenan Jr. Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (retired in 1962) replaced by Deputy Attorney General Byron White Associate Justice Potter Stewart Kennedy would have the opportunity to fill 2 Supreme Court vacancies in his first term, first with the retirement of Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (a key swing vote on the court) citing exhaustion from a heavy workload and stress. Kennedy would tap Deputy Attorney General and former NFL star turned lawyer Byron White who had worked on the Kennedy campaign and served as Deputy Attorney General under Robert F. Kennedy. The second vacancy would come when Associate Justice of 23 years Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter would leave large shoes to fill as the leader of the conservative faction in the Court (despite being an advisor to FDR and progressive lawyer) who had notoriously feuded with the Courts liberals such as Associate Justices Black and Douglas along with Chief Justice Warren himself, describing Warren's work as "dishonest nonsense". Frankfurter's retirement would come because of a stroke and President Kennedy would nominate another member of his administration, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg to the position. Overall the Court continues to be extremely liberal with Harlan being the only Justice considered a "conservative". President Kennedy with former Secretary of Labor and current Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg A November Day in Dallas One of the more widely discussed events of President Kennedy's first term come from a relatively unimportant trip to Dallas taken on November 22nd 1963. A little before noon the President arrived from Forth Worth Texas with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally and met Vice President Johnson at Love Field in Dallas Texas. Kennedy would spend around 10 minutes greeting the crowd at the airfield before departing for the Dallas Trade Mart building in his 1961 Lincoln Continental. With the motorcade running behind schedule the crowds lined along the motorcade route eagerly waited hoping to catch a glimpse of their President. At one such location along the motorcade route, one eager spectator in Dallas' Dealey Plaza would be momentarily distracted by some shining object out of a window of the Texas schoolbook depository building. Initially disregarding it, after 5 more minutes of waiting for the motorcade the observer again would glance up and observe what he described to officer Marion Baker as a "man with some type of rifle in the window of the depository". Heading out to the street Baker would see the man, holding a 6.5mm Carcano rifle, aimed directly at the incoming Presidential motorcade. In horror Baker would observe the police motorcycle come into view, with President Kennedy waving to the crowd just a few cars back. With only seconds to spare, Baker would draw his revolver and open fire at the open window of the schoolbook depository building. The following 30 seconds would become some of the most important in American history, as the excited crowd gathered to see President Kennedy would flee in terror at the series of gunshots. Upon hearing the gunshots, Secret Service agent Clint Hill would jump from the car behind the President and shove President Kennedy down into the seat as a series of gunshots from the sniper rained down upon the car, striking Governor Connally and fatally wounding agent Hill as he gave his life protecting the President. The motorcade would rush to the Dallas Parkland hospital with the President soon guarded by a brick wall of Secret Service. Officer Baker would rush into the schoolbook depository where employees franticly milled about, some unaware of the attempted assassination from their very building. Baker and Depository superintendent Roy Truly would begin to comb the building for the would be assassin with Baker radioing for backup to cover the entrance. There the 2 would encounter Lee Harvey Oswald, who Truly identified as an employee and was soon allowed to leave the building were he would take a taxi back to his boarding room in Dallas. Their error in letting Oswald leave would soon become clear when Officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed while approaching Oswald who resembled the description of the shooter given by witnesses. Just 30 minutes later Oswald would be in custody after a shootout at a movie theatre where Oswald had barricaded himself in. Immediately questions about the motive would arise however to this day Oswald has denied any involvement despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While describing himself as a "marxist not a communist" suspicion turned to communist agents and the USSR, however investigation thus far seems to indicate Oswald acted alone and not as part of a broader conspiracy as Oswald has shown a history of mental instability including multiple court martials as a U.S. Marine and a defection to the USSR before deciding to return to the United States, in addition authorities now believe Oswald had previously unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker (a known segregationist and critic of Kennedy). Nonetheless this chapter of John F. Kennedy's presidency would go down in history as one of the closest to success assassination attempts on a U.S. President. Would-be assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald |
2024.06.09 03:41 Consistent_Help_9146 Should I be concerned? Almost 5 yr old still not pee trained
I've been trying to potty train my almost 5 year old since he was 2.5. He still struggles with pee accidents. He just barely stopped having poop accidents the beginning of this year (so at least we have made that progress!). He will always tell me when he has to poop and is amazing about that. He can independently use the potty all by himself if I tell him to go. But he will never initiate going pee. He relies on me to tell him when to go and has to go every 90 minutes to stay dry. I tried having him use a potty watch for all of preschool to make him more independent but he always ignored it. He will only go if someone tells him to.
We have tried naked from the waist down which worked. But then tried for like 5 months straight doing no underwear under loose pants or loose boxers and he still constantly peed in those. I make him clean up his wet underwear and make the clean up process long but that hasn't affected him at all. I don't know why he won't ever tell me when he has to pee? Should I be concerned? Could there be something medically wrong? The pediatrician did tests and said everything was normal but I'm wondering if we should see an urologist just in case?
He starts kindergarten this year and I'm really worried. I'm really hoping the school will be able to have an aide remind him. But who knows if they will be able to do that. I plan to talk to them.
Anything I can do to help him? Or any words of encouragement? Someone who can relate? I am out of ideas and don't know what to do at this point.
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We have tried naked from the waist down which worked. But then tried for like 5 months straight doing no underwear under loose pants or loose boxers and he still constantly peed in those. I make him clean up his wet underwear and make the clean up process long but that hasn't affected him at all. I don't know why he won't ever tell me when he has to pee? Should I be concerned? Could there be something medically wrong? The pediatrician did tests and said everything was normal but I'm wondering if we should see an urologist just in case?
He starts kindergarten this year and I'm really worried. I'm really hoping the school will be able to have an aide remind him. But who knows if they will be able to do that. I plan to talk to them.
Anything I can do to help him? Or any words of encouragement? Someone who can relate? I am out of ideas and don't know what to do at this point.
2024.06.09 03:40 L_U_C_1_F_E_R_ How to test that SBMM in Unranked is currently off
 | This is one of the most controversial themes that get some people seriously ticked off… 😂 Most of people are always hoping for easy ways to bring home the bacon… it is why we have evolved such huge brains according to latest studies… 🤣 Not to use tools, not to survive in tough changing environments - but to outcompete other humans… human brain is 3 times of chimpanzee… chimpanzee brain is also huge, as they need to outcompete other chimpanzees… 🤯 With that said, here we go: SBMM MYTH - it currently works in Unranked!? This may have been so before the Epic separated the BZB to Ranked (SBMM) and unranked (20 humans random fill minimum + <=80 bots) I also heard the same myth when playing squads with some of the top 10 rated (and top 10 Win Counts holders) squad players. They used a trained account (losses only, with few wins) to supposedly lower the quality of their lobby. To me it looked like BS - I believed that they won most of the time because they were better than the average random squads fill. To test this, I had created an account with a single Solo Win and a single Solo Kill (to avoid division by 0 issues) and accumulated more than 1000 losses (including more than 1000 duos losses) and deaths with it. Then I paired up with this account and observed the random quality of the opposition. (Did not matter who was the lobby lead.) To me this is a clear, observable, scientific proof that SBMM in Unranked currently does not work. You can test this easily for yourself, first look up the account on fortnitetracker: I REST IN PEACE Check the stats. Then let me know and I would friend you with it and start a duos game for you. If you win 3 out of 3 I would totally change my mind. Also facts against SBMM: I am definitely not the best Solos Unranked player out there, yet even while always playing with Cross-play on (cannot disable it on Android): 1. My best Solos Win Streak is 12 (Unbelievable with SBMM working) 2. My best All Platforms Solos TRN Rating is 11 3. My best Touch Solos TRN Rating is 1 5. My best Touch Solos Season Wins placement was 1 (last season) … Bottom line, if you want easy wins, either: 1. Be a member of a well coordinated squad, or: 2. Play on any Apple platform while they are still stuck on Chapter 2 Season 3, or 3. Play limited pool Solos on XBOX or PS4 submitted by L_U_C_1_F_E_R_ to Fortnite_mobile [link] [comments] |
2024.06.09 03:12 Due-Revolution-9379 Independent Game Studio seeks 2D Artist & Designer for Feminine Clothing Design.
Independent Game Studio seeks 2D Artist & Designer for Feminine Clothing Design.
Looking for:
* 2D Artist & Designer for drawing clothing. From concept to finalized sprite assets.
Employment Type:
* Long-term at-will contract
Budget:
* Between 200 to 1200 USD, bi-weekly. Determined by your level of expertise and availability.
Work commitment:
Online portfolio required; include links.
Must work effectively both independently and within our remote Discord team.
Strong design and artistic skills in drawing female human forms, designing, and coloring clothing.
Minimum 5 years as an independent contractor (Fiverr, Upwork, social media, personal websites).
Interest in a long-term role with professional creative growth opportunities within a start-up.
Regular check-ins and design reviews with the Art Director.
Experience with AI generation (Midjourney or SDXL) preferred.
Ability to recreate high-fidelity drawings from reference materials.
Comfortable with NSFW themes preferred (tasks may vary).
Photoshop experience required.
Animation experience is a plus.
(CC Clothing Design)
You will design clothing for our in-game models, collaborating with other artists and reviewing your work with our art director. Our models consist of over 200 sprites, each representing different body parts in various animation positions. We need an artist with a strong clothing design sense to recreate 2D anime-style outfits from reference for each layer on the body (e.g., sleeves on arms, shoes on feet). We will train you in and the expectation is that you will produce 1 outfit approximately per week.
(Environmental Artwork)
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Looking for:
* 2D Artist & Designer for drawing clothing. From concept to finalized sprite assets.
Employment Type:
* Long-term at-will contract
Budget:
* Between 200 to 1200 USD, bi-weekly. Determined by your level of expertise and availability.
Work commitment:
\* +6 MonthsRequirements;
Online portfolio required; include links.
Must work effectively both independently and within our remote Discord team.
Strong design and artistic skills in drawing female human forms, designing, and coloring clothing.
Minimum 5 years as an independent contractor (Fiverr, Upwork, social media, personal websites).
Interest in a long-term role with professional creative growth opportunities within a start-up.
Regular check-ins and design reviews with the Art Director.
Experience with AI generation (Midjourney or SDXL) preferred.
Ability to recreate high-fidelity drawings from reference materials.
Comfortable with NSFW themes preferred (tasks may vary).
Photoshop experience required.
Animation experience is a plus.
(CC Clothing Design)
You will design clothing for our in-game models, collaborating with other artists and reviewing your work with our art director. Our models consist of over 200 sprites, each representing different body parts in various animation positions. We need an artist with a strong clothing design sense to recreate 2D anime-style outfits from reference for each layer on the body (e.g., sleeves on arms, shoes on feet). We will train you in and the expectation is that you will produce 1 outfit approximately per week.
(Environmental Artwork)
We need help with drawing a isometric style map. We would like for you to combine your drawing skills with AI to produce a detailed overworld map for our game's world.Contact via DM, or on discord @ Snackcoom