We know it's early 90's, Iraq and in the U.S and Europe fighting against the CIA.
My main questions
What happened to Bell? Dead most likely? Where will we see menendez? Since Mason is dead, can we see maybe a side mission where we go after Menendez via the target board, replaying some classic BO2 missions just remastered? Wtf is there a heist for? Secret documents stashed in a casino?
What questions do you guys have, or maybe some theories?

Everyone is always looking for that next big thing. Roaring Kitty posted about GME a year or two before the initial breakout happened. I posted about 2.5 years ago about $ELTP going CFP. So, why is $ELTP, positioned for a squeeze?
First and foremost, there are known agitators on the Ihub boards - two of which have openly admitted to shorting the stock and bragging that they can do it from outside the United States. They have infiltrated the moderator spots, just like the in GME where those in naked shorting positions were placing employees in locations to create horrible customer service experiences. For GME, the goal was to drive customers away, and it sounded crazy when first posited, but, like many conspiracy theories over the last few years, it was eventually shown to be true. For $ELTP, the main moderator deletes many positive posts, restricts posting of those in long positions or outright bans their accounts. He will send you messages bragging about the fact that you can't do anything about it. Hubris is always the last step before downfall.
I watched this stock for 3.5 years before I bought a single share. Ironically, the antics of these agitators helped clue me in on this potentially being a good stock. Once the company turned a profit - clearly amazing news for a company on the OTC, the most astounding thing happened. All the naysayers and agitators whipped themselves up in to this religious fervor. Accounts with similar names but that hadn't posted in 10 years suddenly started spam posting negative stuff about a stock...that just had incredibly positive news? That's odd. The more positive news that came out the more they started banning people and spamming negative posts. And the more I saw this, the more shares I accumulated. Then last year, $ELTP popped over 600% from it's low. It was like swatting a bee hive. The agitators went full tilt.
So, how can we profit, and how can we make these guys feel the pain? There are about 400 million shares held by execs/employees etc. that I don't think are moving. That leaves about 600 million shares. The people who have borrowed shares (hard to tell the amount since this is outside of the US and most likely outside of our ability to purvey) are going to be in an increasingly tough position if we can start accumulating all of the shares. At 10,000 people, we would need to each accumulate 60,000 shares - a cost of around $10k at current prices. 10,000 people - that's all and we can drive this thing through the roof. The best part? The CEO has stated that he expects a buyout within 2 to 2.5 years. So, we have our exit. Preferably, it would be by Pfizer (they lost a manufacturing plant in a hurricane last year and could use $ELTP manufacturing capacity) so we could swap shares instead of paying the capital gains.
I've posted my position before on here when discussing this company so that I was as transparent as possible. Going forward though, I will personally commit to $15,000 a month in purchases. I continue to say this stock is worth $1.60 ish on the low side and $10 on the high side. At 17 cents, each share would be one more little soldier fighting for my retirement.
If this gets over 2,000 likes, I'll assume I've got soldiers marching with me, and I start my $15k buy per month which I will post screenshots of every month.

This is all work travel related.
Context: I had a nonstop flight from Denver to Boston at 9:30 MST that was supposed to get back at 3:30 EST.
Story: We get on the aircraft and it immediately delays. We sit on the plane and they say they have to get a mechanic and shut down and restart the plane due to some technical issue. The process takes almost 45 minutes where they shut everything down, the plane gets uncomfortably hot and then it slowly restarts. Once this is complete, they tell us we have to get off the plane because they need to take the current plane out of service. We are informed we should wait at the gate to get updates.
At the gate the attendants inform us that they are looking for a rescue flight to assist but can’t guarantee it will happen. They also say there is the possibility to rebook to one of the existing flights Jetblue has at the airport that day. They also inform us that if they got a new plane, it would still need to fly in from Boston or LA, and take about 3 to 4 hours to arrive in Denver. As a result, I rebook.
The flight I rebook on is scheduled to depart at 1:30PM EST and arrive at JFK at 7PM EST for a 9PM connection to Boston that gets in at 10PM. While I am waiting, I speak with the attendant at the gate multiple times to make sure that my checked bag will be moved to the new flight. I am assured more than once that this is the case. This will become relevant later.
After waiting a few more hours we board the new plane. We spend over an hour taxiing on the tarmac because they shut down a runway. To give you an idea, I watched almost all of Hunger Games before we even took off. Finally, we take off for a 4-hour flight, there’s tons of turbulence and plane drops very abruptly at one point which startles every passenger on the plane and is shakey coming in. I’ve flown over a hundred times; this was the worst I experienced. Obviously, the conditions and the turbulence are not the fault of the airline, it was just another part of the story.
When I get phone service at JFK, I see that my connecting flight got pushed back to 11PM. I later find out that because we were delayed so long, we missed the connection as it left while we were getting to the gate (because apparently, they couldn’t wait 15 minutes for us to get off). Which was also likely because some inconsiderate clown started walking around and made the plane stop on the ground when they told everyone to wait in their seats. They made an announcement telling the passenger to get back in his seat and he still proceeded to ignore it and go to the bathroom or whatever he was doing and had us stopped another 5 mins.
Anyways, once we are at JFK, we were told to go to the gate to get our connecting ticket because the Denver airport could not process the connecting ticket. After waiting in a decently long line at the gate they tell us that we actually need to go to the JetBlue help desk which is on the other side of the terminal from the gate. We go down there and after waiting in line the agent is has my ID and is processing my ticket. Then her extremely rude boss/manager comes over and says she needs to stop what she is doing because she needs her to do go something else. The person assisting me tells her that she is already in the middle of processing my ticket and asks to just finish it because it will only take two more minutes. The boss says no and tells me to stand back at the front of the line and wait for someone else to become available. I can’t stress this enough; I was in the middle of being helped and had to start all over when it would have taken at most a two minutes MAX to finish the matter and process my ticket.
At this point I call customer service to explain the situation, after 15 mins get disconnected from the first agent which is just beyond frustrating and I never get a callback and have to go through all of this again. I get a $150 voucher. Everything next is after dealing with customer service and incorrectly assuming I was compensated adequately and I had one short flight and my troubles were over….
After finally getting through some of the worst service I’ve experienced at an airline, we finally get on the plane at 11…. Then we are waiting for another 45 minutes. The plane is unbearably hot. everyone is sweating and uncomfortable. Straight up torture. The staff makes an announcement telling us all to turn the AC at our seats on so the plane can cool down and then they start passing out water bottles. We find out the delay was because the pilot wasn’t there yet and they couldn’t fully turn the plane on all the way to cool it down. When the pilot finally gets there, he tells us that he was delayed on the tarmac on another flight and doesn’t understand why we were boarded in these conditions without him. He recommends we should call Jetblue to be compensated for this experience (spoiler, it didn’t matter)
Totally unrelated to airline mishaps again, to add some fun flavor to the story, while we were taxing, the gentlemen in the seat in front of me got demanded the passenger in front of him use his headphones while he was using his phone. Not unreasonable, until the second man told him to fuck off. I thought they were joking and having a friendly back and forth and thought they new each other. That was until the second guy started saying “I don’t know why you are laughing; you don’t want to start with me”. The first guy asked “was that a threat”, we then got the “I don’t make threats routine” and then as the second passenger finally got pissed enough to start putting all his stuff down as I was terrified, they were going to delay the flight again, the flight attendant rushed over and asked what was going on. Like two kids on the playground, they played dumb and were told to cool down.
Meanwhile, in the row directly behind me, I spent the whole flight listening to husband asking his wife why she ditched him for 10 hours while they were on a vacation. I can’t stress this enough, this bickering went on the rest of the flight until the husband finally asked “do you have a boyfriend, is that what is going on”.
I was sandwiched between the Jerry Springer show…
After that tremendous experience, I land in Boston, go to baggage carousel, my bags never come out. I pretty much expected that at this point. I know I made a point to go up the gate agent in Denver no less than three times to make sure my bags were being moved to the right flight. But by this point I lost all faith in anything going right for this trip. Myself and another passenger who dealt with the same wonderful day since our Denver flight got messed up, went to the Jetblue baggage service office at Logan. I found out my bag never did in fact leave Denver (shocker)! I now have to waste more of my time filing a report in the airport before I can leave. I will give kudos to the person running that though. She was the only person who was clear, concise and effectively got me through this process.
I finally get home at 2:30AM (I should have arrived home by 4PM).
The next day (around 8PM) I think things are finally going my way when I get a call saying my bag was at Logan and would be shipped Then I get the bag. Parts of the insulating rubber are ripped and scratched up which really could only happen if you were dragging it on pavement and didn’t give a shit at all. This was a year old decently expensive TUMI bag. So that’s just great Also because they probably left it out on the tarmac for hours on end in 90-degree weather, a few gifts I got melted.
I did make a point to call customer service again and explain my wonderful adventure, they decided to just hide behind their “Customer Bill of Rights” and say that there was nothing more they could do.

TLDR: I was on 3 flights that all got messed up between a technical issue that put a plane out of, a bunch of runway closures and nonstop taxiing in Denver, boarding a furnace without a pilot, dealt with terrible turbulence, some of the worst customer service I ever experienced at any airline, crazy passengers, and a lost and damaged bag and what should have been a quick 4 hour at most flight turned into a day of pure travel hell. But at least I can now entertain you with my dread.

Extra TLDR: WTF

This is all work travel related.
Context: I had a nonstop flight from Denver to Boston at 9:30 MST that was supposed to get back at 3:30 EST.
Story: We get on the aircraft and it immediately delays. We sit on the plane and they say they have to get a mechanic and shut down and restart the plane due to some technical issue. The process takes almost 45 minutes where they shut everything down, the plane gets uncomfortably hot and then it slowly restarts. Once this is complete, they tell us we have to get off the plane because they need to take the current plane out of service. We are informed we should wait at the gate to get updates.
At the gate the attendants inform us that they are looking for a rescue flight to assist but can’t guarantee it will happen. They also say there is the possibility to rebook to one of the existing flights Jetblue has at the airport that day. They also inform us that if they got a new plane, it would still need to fly in from Boston or LA, and take about 3 to 4 hours to arrive in Denver. As a result, I rebook.
The flight I rebook on is scheduled to depart at 1:30PM EST and arrive at JFK at 7PM EST for a 9PM connection to Boston that gets in at 10PM. While I am waiting, I speak with the attendant at the gate multiple times to make sure that my checked bag will be moved to the new flight. I am assured more than once that this is the case. This will become relevant later.
After waiting a few more hours we board the new plane. We spend over an hour taxiing on the tarmac because they shut down a runway. To give you an idea, I watched almost all of Hunger Games before we even took off. Finally, we take off for a 4-hour flight, there’s tons of turbulence and plane drops very abruptly at one point which startles every passenger on the plane and is shakey coming in. I’ve flown over a hundred times; this was the worst I experienced. Obviously, the conditions and the turbulence are not the fault of the airline, it was just another part of the story.
When I get phone service at JFK, I see that my connecting flight got pushed back to 11PM. I later find out that because we were delayed so long, we missed the connection as it left while we were getting to the gate (because apparently, they couldn’t wait 15 minutes for us to get off). Which was also likely because some inconsiderate clown started walking around and made the plane stop on the ground when they told everyone to wait in their seats. They made an announcement telling the passenger to get back in his seat and he still proceeded to ignore it and go to the bathroom or whatever he was doing and had us stopped another 5 mins.
Anyways, once we are at JFK, we were told to go to the gate to get our connecting ticket because the Denver airport could not process the connecting ticket. After waiting in a decently long line at the gate they tell us that we actually need to go to the JetBlue help desk which is on the other side of the terminal from the gate. We go down there and after waiting in line the agent is has my ID and is processing my ticket. Then her extremely rude boss/manager comes over and says she needs to stop what she is doing because she needs her to do go something else. The person assisting me tells her that she is already in the middle of processing my ticket and asks to just finish it because it will only take two more minutes. The boss says no and tells me to stand back at the front of the line and wait for someone else to become available. I can’t stress this enough; I was in the middle of being helped and had to start all over when it would have taken at most a two minutes MAX to finish the matter and process my ticket.
At this point I call customer service to explain the situation, after 15 mins get disconnected from the first agent which is just beyond frustrating and I never get a callback and have to go through all of this again. I get a $150 voucher. Everything next is after dealing with customer service and incorrectly assuming I was compensated adequately and I had one short flight and my troubles were over….
After finally getting through some of the worst service I’ve experienced at an airline, we finally get on the plane at 11…. Then we are waiting for another 45 minutes. The plane is unbearably hot. everyone is sweating and uncomfortable. Straight up torture. The staff makes an announcement telling us all to turn the AC at our seats on so the plane can cool down and then they start passing out water bottles. We find out the delay was because the pilot wasn’t there yet and they couldn’t fully turn the plane on all the way to cool it down. When the pilot finally gets there, he tells us that he was delayed on the tarmac on another flight and doesn’t understand why we were boarded in these conditions without him. He recommends we should call Jetblue to be compensated for this experience (spoiler, it didn’t matter)
Totally unrelated to airline mishaps again, to add some fun flavor to the story, while we were taxing, the gentlemen in the seat in front of me got demanded the passenger in front of him use his headphones while he was using his phone. Not unreasonable, until the second man told him to fuck off. I thought they were joking and having a friendly back and forth and thought they new each other. That was until the second guy started saying “I don’t know why you are laughing; you don’t want to start with me”. The first guy asked “was that a threat”, we then got the “I don’t make threats routine” and then as the second passenger finally got pissed enough to start putting all his stuff down as I was terrified, they were going to delay the flight again, the flight attendant rushed over and asked what was going on. Like two kids on the playground, they played dumb and were told to cool down.
Meanwhile, in the row directly behind me, I spent the whole flight listening to husband asking his wife why she ditched him for 10 hours while they were on a vacation. I can’t stress this enough, this bickering went on the rest of the flight until the husband finally asked “do you have a boyfriend, is that what is going on”.
I was sandwiched between the Jerry Springer show…
After that tremendous experience, I land in Boston, go to baggage carousel, my bags never come out. I pretty much expected that at this point. I know I made a point to go up the gate agent in Denver no less than three times to make sure my bags were being moved to the right flight. But by this point I lost all faith in anything going right for this trip. Myself and another passenger who dealt with the same wonderful day since our Denver flight got messed up, went to the Jetblue baggage service office at Logan. I found out my bag never did in fact leave Denver (shocker)! I now have to waste more of my time filing a report in the airport before I can leave. I will give kudos to the person running that though. She was the only person who was clear, concise and effectively got me through this process.
I finally get home at 2:30AM (I should have arrived home by 4PM).
The next day (around 8PM) I think things are finally going my way when I get a call saying my bag was at Logan and would be shipped Then I get the bag. Parts of the insulating rubber are ripped and scratched up which really could only happen if you were dragging it on pavement and didn’t give a shit at all. This was a year old decently expensive TUMI bag. So that’s just great Also because they probably left it out on the tarmac for hours on end in 90-degree weather, a few gifts I got melted.
I did make a point to call customer service again and explain my wonderful adventure, they decided to just hide behind their “Customer Bill of Rights” and say that there was nothing more they could do.

TLDR: I was on 3 flights that all got messed up between a technical issue that put a plane out of, a bunch of runway closures and nonstop taxiing in Denver, boarding a furnace without a pilot, dealt with terrible turbulence, some of the worst customer service I ever experienced at any airline, crazy passengers, and a lost and damaged bag and what should have been a quick 4 hour at most flight turned into a day of pure travel hell. But at least I can now entertain you with my dread.

Extra TLDR: WTF

When gates opened yesterday at 630p everyone went to Pantherland at the arena to get a SC Patch / to have it patched on jersey. The lines are absurdly long.
DO NOT go to Pantherland, they don’t patch there and it’s literally shoulder to shoulder packed.
There are a few signs that mention jersey patching is in section 124 literally next to ‘Inside the Boards’.
This was the main jersey patching station.
They sell the patch there or you can buy one from there so no need to go elsewhere to buy one, you can also bring one if you already have it.
There was about 30 people in line in front of me and took roughly ~35/40 min for it to end up getting mine done!!
Side note: IF you have a fanatics jersey DO NOT try to get it patched at the Pantherland at the practice facility, they will refuse to patch it (I tried to get mine done hours before the game) because they don’t have the right heat press there / they said they screwed a couple up. The Arena heat presses work great!
Edit: to mention you can bring your own patch if you’ve already bought one.

Original Prompt

Catch you on the flip side
Blake took a long inhale of his 'cigarette' and let the all natural chemicals coat his lungs. He held his breath for a little while - long enough to visibly alarm some of the other people sitting around the tavern table with him - then exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.
"Aight dudes and dudettes," he said while reaching for the beer he'd been provided, "you held up your end of the bargain so I'll hold up mine. Warnin' you landlubbers now, the story's gonna be wiggity but I swear on my plank," he pointed over his shoulder with his thumb to the broken surfboard nailed to the wall, "'sall true."
Another few gulps of beer filled the silence as Blake let the moment simmer.
"Alright, so, like I was out on my boat, the Sweet Mary Jane. Were just out there, you know, enjoying the motion of the ocean and the fresh sea air. Ahh, dude, it's just so relaxing, yanno?
"Anyway, I see some clouds comin' in and I think to myself, like, 'duuude! That'd be some tubular shit. Wish I was back at the beach'. Cuz, yanno, that far out ain't no way I'm gonna be haulin ass fast enough back to edge out a swell.
"No kidding," Blake leaned forward and pointed down at the table, his eyes slowly scanning the faces around him as he tapped its surface, "the same second I think that, I see a wall of water at least a mile high-"
"That's impossible," a gruff voice cut in. They were drowned out by a bunch of "shhh"s.
"-came rushin' at me. For a second, I thought I was a goner, but then I saw it was cresting! You dudes know what that means, right?" He grabbed his 'cigarette' and started another drag as people began to voice guesses. "It's time to surf!"
"You brought your board out on the boat with you?"
"Noooo dude. I wasn't gonna surf a huge swell like that with a board. I surfed it with the boat."
The group gasped.
"I stood in the center of Sweet Mary Jane, and let the wave take us. Up, up, up we went! Higher than the clouds! Dude, I could see the sun over the storm and it was beautiful." He took another swig of beer.
"Then it came down." He slammed the mug into the table, foam sloshing over the edges. "I tried tilting Sweet Mary Jane into the tube but it was tooooo gnarly, man."
"What happened next?" a bored man with a black goatee asked.
"I died," he whispered, "I totally died. Down into the black abyss of Davey Jane's Locker."
"You mean Davey Jones."
"Pshh, nah," Blake waved his hand dismissively, "Ain't no man can sucker as many dudes into the briny depths. Davey Jane's her name, and playin' for souls is her game.
"So I was down there and in her warm - but, still kinda cold, yanno? - embrace. I asked her 'Yo! Can I get back up to the air babe? I'm totally drownin' here.' and she was like, 'Yeah bruh, if you can tell me why you deserve it.' and I was like, 'Well maybe no one deserves life but that doesn't mean I deserve death, right?' or some of that Gandalf shit."
Blake took another hit off of his cigarette, soaking in the attention everyone around the table was giving him.
"She said, 'give me one reason why you want to live.' and, dudes, I didn't even have to think about it. I told her, 'yanno that wave that got me? Well, like, it's on its way to the beach, babe, and I wanna ride it again.' Then I opened my eyes and, get this, I was on the beach!"
"Then you grabbed your board, went out, and surfed, right?" the bored man asked, standing up.
"Dude, totally! You get it." Blake watched the bored man button up his suit coat as other people at the table started to disperse.
"Well, I've seen stranger things," the man said. "In fact, one time-"
"David? Are you coming?" a woman in a sleek black dress and veil said, wrapping her arm through the man's.
"Of course, Jane," the man said. He held a hand out to shake Blake's hand. "Until next time, Blake."
"Catch you on the flip side."
"Oh, how right you are."
Blake watched the couple leave as a chill went down his spine. He grabbed his 'cigarette' and took another drag.

Robert Cooper made his blockbuster confession on YouTube last month titled "Family First Life & Integrity Marketing Group Scammed Me - True Story" See here.

Robert followed up with a blockbuster complaint that was sent to his California Attorney General, Department of Securities and Insurance - That complaint was the subject of my previous email to you.

I highly encourage Mr. Cooper to lobby his state representative and state senator to persuade his AG to write a lawsuit referral letter. That referral to sue will be like winning the lottery.

Meanwhile, The CA AG office wrote Mr. Cooper back, thanking him for filing the complaint.

"Complaints are used to develop information about patterns of business activity which might indicate the need for formal investigation or law enforcement action by our office.

Complaints often bring early warning of what promises to be a pervasive scam or systematic violation of California law. If a pattern is discovered, what originated as a private dispute may become a matter of broad public interest and thus warrant intervention by our office under California consumer protection laws.

Please be assured that your information will be retained in our consumer files and is of importance in helping this office take appropriate action to protect consumers."

Sincerely,

ROB BONTA

Attorney General

See Robert's follow video.

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Let's get to how dumb a Family First Life / Integrity Marketing Group attorney can be.

FFL/Integrity attorney Thomas J. Sisco, Esq, emailed Mr. Cooper a lawsuit threat. Telling Mr. Cooper to not engage in concert with *** **** in making "disparaging statements about FFL to state and federal regulators."

FFL/Integrity attorney Sisco threatens to add Mr. Cooper to an ongoing lawsuit against a party that Mr. Cooper has no contact with.

"As FFL gathers more information related to your involvement with *** ****, it may become necessary to add you as a party to the ongoing lawsuit against him"

In any case, there is no ongoing litigation against *** **** anyways. Major legal malpractice. An attorney lying in a lawsuit threat is grounds for making a Bar Complaint. Obviously, Mr. Cooper will be forwarding this lying legal threat to his state Attorney General.

Here is the latest video that lambastes Patrick Bet David, of PHP Agency, an Integrity Marketing Group Company for being a major scammer of Latina females - View here

An epic video that is a direct message to government investigators and prosecutors to tie in Integrity Marketing Group's Chairman of the Board, NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Steve Young to the crimes of Family First Life. View here

And finally, Thomas Schumacher of Ohio tells his story how he got scammed by Family First Life. Obviously, Mr. Schumacher is setting the stage for a lawsuit to win big money! View here.

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Integrity Marketing Group News: Steve Young's company sued the owner of the domain name claiming that this domain that was bought and used by Sunil Bheda from 1996 should be transferred to Integrity Marketing Group for no compensation.

Essentially, Steve Young's Scammers wanted to steal from Sunil.

The judge sided with Sunil and then Steve Young's Scammers, Integrity Marketing Group, bought the domain from Sunil. A happy ending.

I am sure that Sunil was "a bit pissed off" and made a hefty profit.

Going forward, Integrity Marketing Group will be rebranding itself as the "The Integrity Company." A huge LOL.

A more appropriate name would be "Steve Young's Scammers."

See Video

Appreciate any advice here. My wife, who is not a frequent flyer, is on two itineraries. Both round trip. PHL-LAX and LAX-HND. Outbound from PHL is scheduled to arrive 9:39 PM; next leg to HND leaves at 1:20 AM. I’m not familiar with LAX.

1. Does she have enough time? I gotta think over 3.5 hours is fine, no?
   
2. I don’t believe she’ll be able to access her boarding pass on the app for the HND flight. Does she just find an AA desk on the other side of security or will she need to exit and return after getting her boarding pass? She has only carryon and is TSA. Or can she get her HND boarding pass in PHL?
   

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

Call to Action

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

Recent Events

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

The Downsides

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

GameStop vs Roaring Kitty?

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

MOASS

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

The Petition

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

To the Longgggg crowd

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

To the Master Plan / Merger Inbound crowd

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

My preemptive answers to the FUD accusations

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

I have been practicing 2 to 4 times a week sometimes. I am able to pop up and feel that im relaxed in my stance and in my control of the board. I am learning and practicing to go by the side of the face of the wave.
I still feel i am not "trimming" . Maybe I need to insert the inner rail of the board in the wave. But im still tryint to figure out.
I am currently riding a 9. I find it great but its becoming a problem for turning quick to catch waves. I have tried an 8 before with good results but stayed at the 9 bc i felt i needed to learn better first

I recently graduated from D-CO 3-11, and wanted to give a break down.
BLUF: read the ISAP over a few times before arriving. Re-orient yourself with skill level one tasks. Ensure you can climb rope and can meet H&W standards.
Please message me directly if you have any follow on questions.
The cadre are great. They are all pretty seasoned in the nuances of this school. Most importantly - they care. Don’t be that guy who constantly tosses shade their way. That want the best for you- it’s often the people straight out of basic who try to highlight the cadres’ shortfalls (which are often caused by higher).
ARRIVAL: Day 0 / or your report date - you’re going to arrive, draw linen, and get your temporary room. You will most likely only be in this room for a day or 2 before you’re assigned your platoon. That’s the only thing that occurs on your initial day besides marching to Chow. So you probably should sign in as late as possible.
Day 1 - Phase up ACFT bright and early. According to the NEW ISAP - you have to PASS (minimum of 60 points in each event) to phase up. If you don’t - not sure if you’re going back to the crib or being a holdover in HHC until you can pass. I wouldn’t risk it though. You then follow this up with briefings all day (pretty much for the entire week).
Day 2 - HT & WT. We had 1 absolute fat ass get sent home. Not sure if they make exceptions for people who are close. But obviously if you can get 80 points in each ACFT event and a 540 overall- you’re g2g regardless of your tape. Followed by more briefs and paperwork.
SKIP to Day 4-ish - black to gold event. This is your phase up to earning your black ASCOT. It’s where you do this extremely lame PT event where you’re being yelled at by your cadre like it’s basic training. You scamper around the parade field and conduct some mundane exercises. It’s not hard like they talk it up to be. And you end with this 100m-ish low crawl across the parade field and get this rah rah speech by the battalion commander.
At the end of week 1 - ON THE WEEKEND - we conduct the Leader’s Reaction Course. It’s where you work together to overcome some scenario with barrels, rope, and a bunch of other stuff to get from one side to the other. Lame and underwhelming. Also - there’s water there, so try not to get wet.
During week 2, we began morning PT. It’s at 0500 every morning (after hospital corner-ing your beds). Typically it goes to about 0615, and it’s student led. We topically ran around the foot print twice a week and utilized the beaver fit twice a week. I don’t know if we ever did 5 PT sessions in an entire week.
Also during week 2 - you begin history. You’re taught by 2 professors for the first part of each day, and then you have a underwhelming class presented by the cadre for the latter portion of the day. At first - the history content seems a little overwhelming. However - just focus on the content that’s in red (REMEMBER THIS) and the practice questions he does at the end of each lesson. And you’ll be FINE. Make flash cards of the above /\ - study every day for like a hour, and you’ll ace it. Don’t do the nightly readings, you’ll waste your time.
Week 3 - we continued history classes until we took the test on Friday. He does a minimum review pre test - and then we got after it. EASY TEST IF YOU PUT IN THE WORK. REMEMBER- only focus on what’s in red, the practice problems, and understand a general synopsis of how each battle event / correlates with the prescribed term.
After week 3, we conducted our first peer eval. Who ever finishes last (out of the squad), received a spot report. 3 spot reports and you go to the whole person concept board at the end of the course. (Which can lead to recycle.)
During the weekend of week 4 - we conducted the Bolton Obstacle Course. Each company had different standards for the course, so it’s hard to say what’s pass or fail. However - I’d highly suggest you be able to climb monkey bars and climb up a rope before you arrive. All in all - easy course. We didn’t lose anyone.
Week 4 - we conducted land navigation. We arrived Monday and left Friday. However, you leave Saturday if you have to re test. It’s a field environment out there. So you are sleeping outside. (Maybe bring an after market tarp to ensure you’re absolutely rainproof if they let you). Schedule went as followed:
Day 1: cadre led Day 2: buddy teams Day 3: practice test Day 4: test Day 5: re test
You have to find 4/7 points. And if you pass the pre-test, it counts as your test. EXTREMELY easy course.. also each point has coordinates written in sharpie on it from prior OCs. And if the point has your grid on it 3+ times, it’s your point. Don’t second guess it. The course is super long though- so expect to get 10K + on your legs EACH day. Only 1 person in our class failed this.
We also received our history scores back following landnav. 52 people failed the first time and only 2 people double no go’d.
Between weeks 4-7, it’s pretty un-eventful. You do take a few tests: call for fire, tactics, EIB Tasks (I forgot the actual name for these) and the 4 mile. You also conduct your ACFT for OML (25% of your grade) and 9 mile ruck.
Call for fire and tactics have Quizlet practice exams which are pretty identical to the actual test, so I suggest to definitely study that. 4 mile is on a cinder track which is 1 mile per lap. Most importantly during these weeks you conduct your OPORD (pass/fail) and you begin rehearsing your SQD STX.
For the EIB tasks (once again, I forgot the actual name for this event), you cleadis-assemble/re-assemble/functions check a 240/249/M4. Pretty low threat. They also demonstrate how to do so beforehand and you’ll get plenty reps.
You’ll receive classes pertaining to the OPORD and Battle Drill 2A (the BD you conduct for STX), BUT I highly suggest you put in your own work in order to understand and master the two. There are great YouTube videos pertaining to the two on The University of Iowa’s ROTC page. Also, you can better learn about Squad Attack in the Ranger Handbook and ATP 3-21.8. For your OPORD, you are given a company level OPORD prior and pitch at PLT level to a single cadre. You are allowed to use your shell. However, they want to see concept sketches in conjunction with.
For SQD STX, it’s highly advised to develop TLPs and SOPs amongst your SQD in order to easily navigate through the intricacies of the lane: LDAs, “leaders recon”, FOOM, battle field handover, fire commands, actions on, BDAs, etc etc etc.
YOUR GARRISON OPORD IS DIFFERENT THAN YOUR OPORD FOR STX.
Week 7-8 is SQUAD STX - which is like 25% of your OML. It’s a total of 2 working weeks with a weekend refit back at the footprint in between. On site - when it’s your squad’s term, each member of the squad gets a look at Squad leader, A TL, and B TL. There are also like 6-8 different lanes, so there is a ton of variation in terms of movement distance, terrain, objective, MSRs, etc etc. It’s fairly straight forward though: you have 90 minutes upon reception of your FRAGO (you’ll build your initial OPORD day prior) to finalize/pitch your OPORD to your squad in conjunction to a terrain model, conduct rehearsal, begin movement, conduct leaders recon, actions on objective, and treat casualty/EPW. It’s easy - we had zero double go’s and maybe 6 re-testers all in all.
We hit the 12 mile ruck back from STX. Was tough for some people due to degraded conditions and on a hilly course.
Week 9- we received our branches. Talent based branching changed the game. We were the first class to participate in this. I would say 90% of the class received their top 3 choices. We also conducted the battle analysis this week - but rumor is their changing the format to a memorandum? Prior, we wrote a 500 word essay (in the army writing style) on a battle pertaining to a tactical topic. I think we had nearly 50 first time failures.
Week 10 - We took our tests on Training Management and Justice/Leadership. Both of these tests were fairly tough, but manageable. Ensure you pay attention to the slide decks and quiz lets.
Week 11 - We went on the staff ride.
Week 12 - We processed out mainly. We also had our formal (spouses can come) and had our family day the day before graduation. Graduation is on a Friday.
Please message directly if you have any questions. Extremely easy course! Just put effort in and you’ll pass in flying colors. In service people - be patient and just develop Stockholm syndrome. O9S - just be number and go with the flow.
Also- idc about grammatical errors in this, so don’t come at me.

"Damn it!" Subaltern Gallos cursed. "Remind me to shoot that signals tech when we get back. Four lights my ass - that DropShip was carrying an Awesome and a Catapult!" He spoke into the TDF's general channel, alerting his lance mates to the situation they found themselves in. His Wolverine 6K was commanding the TDF force protecting this planet - a light weight lance consisting of a Phoenix Hawk that was currently down for repairs, a Wasp 5D, and a Grasshopper 5H. The three units up and running were alerted by the space port control tower that an unknown DropShip had appeared in scope, and was burning hard for the river deltas with an estimated 145 tons of BattleMech. The intelligence indicated an unknown Mercenary force consisting mostly of lights on a raid of the chemical plants.
That was not the case.
Gallos scanned the broken terrain he was quickly racing towards. Ahead of them, the 80 ton Awesome was cresting a large hill, dominating the landscape, and his battle computer indicated that a Catapult was off to the west of the Awesome. They seemed to be maneuvering to cover each other. He opened a general channel, "Unknown Awesome, you are intruding on the Taurian Concordat. Identify yourself and power down your BattleMech."
"You realize that won't work right?" Amanda drawled over the line, as she wove her Wasp deftly through the trees and foliage. The lonely static on the general line proved her right. Gallos decided not to respond to her inquiry. She was not expecting a reply.
"We've got this!" Thomas was a gun ho MechWarrior, and his Grasshopper had been his father's, and before that his grandmothers. Legend had it she had taken it from a pirate after pinning his hand to a wall with a machete and convincing him that his other hand was worth the activation passcodes. Thomas could be equally convincing when needed.
Both seemed eager, so Gallos raised his Mech's hand to signal engagement. This was met with the Awesome firing at extreme range to boil armor off his left leg. Gallos stumbled forward while he and Thomas responded with their large lasers. "Amanda, go around get in his rear!"
"On it boss!" Amanda sounded almost cheerful, as her Wasp leapt over the rough terrain, it's powerful Jump Jets letting it easily cross everything.
"Okay, we're going to force our way forward, keeping the Catapult on the other side of these hills."
"Sounds good!" Thomas advanced forward, his missiles following his laser. They were landing occasional hits on the Awesome.
The return fire was devastating, stripping armor off of the Grasshopper followed by LRMs from the Catapult. "Oh crap! I'm losing armor quick!" Thomas called out.
Gallos made a decision. The Catapult had to go down. "Break away Thomas! Fall back and circle around. Amanda, back him up!"
Both machines turned on a dime and shot off to north west. The Awesome was struggling to advance forward over the rough terrain, and Gallos bee lined around a large hill. His plan was to keep the Awesome interested and aware he was a threat. Thanks to the long range of the engagement, his heat was beyond manageable. Clouds of steam rising over the hills indicated the Awesome was also dealing with it's own heat. Gallos observed his two MechWarriors engage with the Catapult.
Amanda was leaping from cover to cover, expertly dancing her away over the terrain firing occasionally with her medium laser. Landing on a hill, she turned to fire her laser at the Catapult as it struggled through the water, and it fired all four of his back, as well as three PPC shots from the Awesome. Twisting and leaning to the side, Gallos knew that she grinned as every shot missed her and their attention caused them to ignore the Grasshopper. The two of them managed to get the Catapult out of the water, and their firing and maneuvering caused him to ignore the rough terrain and trip.
Gallos knew that the Catapult would be finished so he moved forward to engage the Awesome, who had anticipated this and had turned to face him. Swearing quietly he lifted his laser and fired, followed by medium lasers and SRMs - to be met with a brutal two PPCs. Pounded back on his heel, he lost his balance and fell, stripping armor from his left arm and smashing his head into the neurohelmet.
A few seconds later, as he struggled to fall back through the forest, PPC shots tearing up the terrain around him, the blasts stopped and the general channel opened up, "Subaltern Gallos, we are offering to end hostilities and withdraw if you wish." An unknown and gravely voice asked. They did not identify themselves, and Gallos struggled to identify the accent. He checked his computer, and saw that the Catapult had been savaged - the left arm completely destroyed, and the LRM with it. No BattleMech was worth missile propellant.
Gallos spit the blood out of his mouth and opened the channel. "Granted. Withdraw. And don't come back."
The Awesome said nothing. It just turned and marched away, the Catapult limping behind it, left torso a gaping wound from Amanda's surgical precision with her lasers. He switched back to the TDF channel, "Alright, let's get home."
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This was a fun game, but it wasn't Alpha Strike! No one played it who showed up! So what I was hoping was going to be an Alpha Strike game was a regular CBT game! My opponent was new, but had two helpers. He had an Awesome (3/5) and a Catapult (4/5). I had all 4/5 pilots in a Wasp (medium laser, two small lasers, 1 flamer variant), a Wolverine 6k (Large laser, no jumps), and a stock Grasshopper.
This was a rough fight. That Awesome had range and accuracy, even when calling indirect attacks for the Catapult. My armor was being stripped away for most of the game, which was about eight turns.
He was absolutely afraid of my Wasp getting behind him, however, and that ended up giving me an advantage. He kept his Awesome back and moved his Catapult forward by turn 4. That allowed me to maneuver my Wasp across the board with the Grasshopper (now missing a huge amount of armor) and beat down his Catapult. I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with my Grasshopper, but I was able to land some powerful hits with my Wasp, stripping away rear armor, taking out their LRM, and a Jump Jet.
To do that I had to push my Wolverine into a man-to-man knife fight with the Awesome, which was brutal on the Wolverine. I lost a ton of armor, but no crits, fell down, and managed to take a pilot hit. Thankfully I was able to stumble back into shelter.
Out of time, and with his Catapult facing certain destruction, he requested a retreat which the Taurians were willing to grant.
This battle came down to two factors: 1) initiative. I won more than I lost, allowing me to better control the terrain; 2) Maneuvering. This was a terrible map for both of us, but my two jumpers gave me an advantage here. I could respond to their movement, and choose my terrain. I lost initiative four turns in a row and had to retreat backwards for a while, but that actually worked in my favor as he moved his Catapult into a bad position - expecting to win initiative again. I knew where he was going to go, moved appropriately and was able to savage his catapult.
Amazing game. All introtech. CBT is so much fun even at the introtech level.

Is there such a thing as finding too much treasure?
Previous part: 8.9.
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The new room could only be described as unfinished, you thought to yourself. You were passing under an arch of a building on your way through here and saw that hanging from it were supposed to be two drooping ropes with flags(or whatever this is supposed to be), but instead, you saw a purple digital polygonal imitation of it.
Other purple digital polygonal objects took the appearance of other real things in the area, but they lacked the what?-factor of the digital floating purple particles or what was going on with the ceiling of the room as it was a just purple grid. (Welcome to the AR world Jeremy. Glitchtrap's twisted wonderland.)
But this was all a distraction from the newly introduced threat in the form of Moon, as now you sought targets that prevent his deadly approach to your ride, all while you heard his chuckles.
In the next room, the situation was the same, except you saw different varieties of purple digital things pouring into the area. (Nice! it's the Princess Quest 3 purple pattern from Vanny's room and the purple arching energy from the wrecking ball in Roxy Raceway! I didn't notice them on the first watchthrough of the game, so it's nice to see and know what that connection is. Though now that I'm thinking about it, it's so weird that Princess Quest 4 shows no connection to anything, unlike its prequel.
Is it because the FNAF6's Pizzeria is so digitally distorted by Glitchtrap in the network that it doesn't show the tell-tale signs of the AR world or is it because the Pizzeria's sub-network isn't as connected to the greater network. Hmm... Something to look into later.)
As you continued to move through the area you saw more and more purple things just crawling throughout as you kept alert for specific targets to stall Moon. (Where in the world is this place? There's no such location we visit in Ruin that has this much wrecking ball energy flowing through it.)
But as you gazed about, you immediately spotted a blue blast-shaped button ahead and above on an arch. It's just like what the "message" depicted! Quickly you pointed your hand cannon at it and shot a couple times until you hit it. You were definitely on the right track now.
Passing under it, you were getting close to the double doors that lead to the next area, though curiously you saw purple digital particles that unlike before, were dripping from the ceiling like the floor above you was flooded.
(Okay, the only place that had to drip purple particles like this was the Upper East Server. That in addition to the purple grid on the ceiling above us, tells me we're directly under it, or really near to it. That sorta makes sense, because Foxy Log Ride is in/next to Glamrock Salon which is right next to the Upper East Server. It's so cool to be able to piece that together!)
But surprisingly, after going through those double doors, you were right back on the track heading towards a familiar area you had been to the first time you did this. Did the alternate paths weave in and out of the standard path? That must be it, you thought as you got all of the targets and headed to the next area where the train robbery scene takes place.
Immediately, after the lights flickered back on from the transitional darkness but before you enter the train robbery. You spotted another Helpy cutout and quickly shot it before you passed it.
Passed the train robbery scene is where you expected the path to diverge to the glitched route as you had taken to calling them, and lo and behold, as soon as you had gone through the train and through the double door at the end of it, you found yourself in a new area.
You heard Captain Foxy's voice once again as you entered the new route. "We be not responsible for any maimings that might happen on this here path." If you haven't already had a trip through an alternate path before, you're sure you'll be questioning how you would be maimed during the ride.
Your ride strolled ahead and entered chambers where you now had to shoot the targets to closed doors and block the Moon, rather than to earn points. However, as you did this, you heard people's laughter replacing the general ambiance of the ride. (I wonder if there's something with this.)
In these chambers, you shot another blue blast-shape button that you saw above near the ceiling, while you defended yourself from Moon's relentless drive to get to you on the ride.
But you eventually persevered through it all and made it back to the normal track again where you collected yourself by shooting at targets without worrying about the threat of Moon. But too soon to you, you found another Helpy cutout, which you shot of course, and was once again heading towards the dangerous alternate path. (Oh, I forgot to mention that these specific Helpy cutouts can be found in the original Pirate Ride in Help Wanted. And in Monty Golf and Superstar Daycare in Ruin. I wonder if Vanny had moved them there after the Help Wanted 2?)
This time noted by Captain Foxt with a simple "Overboard!"
The alternate path this time had no laughing ambiance and had you getting up close and personal with a dancing Moon unless you shot all the targets to make him go away from the platforms near where your ride gets the closest to them by turning on the lights. (Hmm... could this be a point against 1983 Moon? Why would 83 Moon be affected by light still? Also, is the laughing important? A hint to something?)
Another blue blast-shaped button was found and shot while on this path of constant danger, but with skill, awareness, and luck, you managed to get through it all. (Yeah I know there are gravestones in this specific area, but I'm not sure if it's referencing the missing 5 plus Charlie gravestone or if it's just props.)
Now you were back on the normal track, and as went through the next two areas you knew that the ride was coming to an end as you came upon the familiar comforting scene of Foxy and Chica along with other animals surrounding a cake and celebrating as you heard Captain Foxy say, "And the real treasure was friendship along."
(Both the scene and Captain Foxy's exact words are a call back to the original Pirate Ride in the first Help Wanted)
But as you stared at the scene, you finally realized that the cake itself had a blue blast-shaped button on it and proceeded to shoot it. To think that you were looking at it and didn't even realize it the first time you came through here. But now it's all over and you can finally see your improved score and get back to the restaurant.
Yet, as the lights flickered off and you moved forward in the darkness, you noticed something was wrong. The western-theme ambiance that was always there on the normal path came to an abrupt halt and left only silence and the everpresent noise of shifting water in its departure.
Suddenly the three spotlights lit up the path ahead of you, revealing to you a treasure chest on a miniscule island under the third one. As your ride got close to it, you noticed a couple of broken wooden boards on the side of the island, next to a crumple Pirate Foxy Flag.
As your ride came to a stop right next to the wooden box, it unexpectedly opened. (waaaaaaaait a minute! ITS THE CORN MAZE BOX!!! It's redesigned, but it's definitely it! Coincidently or is it Intentional? It has to be, they could have used an actual treasure chest for this, so it has to be intentional. Why? Memory Dolls... memories... William's Mask! It's the key to Glitchtrap!)
Gently, softly, the box's lid came open and a green costumed hand came out from the darkness within. The hand smoothly snaked out of the box until it was outstretched to you, revealing to you the treasure that it held in its palm. It was a doll, an unusual one at that, as it looked to be made by crocheting some wool into a human figure plushie. But stranger than that was the fact that it was wearing a Foxy mask.
You didn't know why, but you reached out to the hand, and hesitantly, grabbed the doll and watched as it poofed into purple smoke. The hand, with no doll in its grasp, sleeked backed into the box as the lid closed itself and your surroundings plunged into darkness.
Next thing you knew, the sound of celebrating cries filled your ears as you were back into the GAME WON! void. Stunned by the sudden change in your surroundings, you automatically hit the button for the crane machine to receive your prize with no thought. Your prize this time was a poster for Ballora titled DANCE!
Yet even though it was something new and interesting, your mind refused to be distracted from the bizarre event that just happened seconds ago. But no matter how much you tried to wrap your head around it, no matter how many times you tried to make sense of it, all you could blankly think is, what?
You felt strange, but you knew you had to keep moving forward. So you pressed the RETURN TO HUB button and returned to darkness to go back to the restaurant. Still, the sight of the Foxy doll never once left your mind.
Remember Jeremy? (the achievement for collecting the memory doll)
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The achievement has twisted this Help Wanted phrase into a question. And finally, an answer was given to another. Everything is starting to make sense, but joy am I finding too much stuff! I reached my limit a couple Parts ago and now I'm beyond that!
But thankfully. Thankfully! we reached the end of Foxy Log Ride and now I can talk about Vanny, Vanessa, Jeremy, the Memory dolls, and even Glitchtrap now, because why not. What other discoveries while mentally exhausted from this stuff!
Don't worry, I know not to burn myself and take breaks. But still, I eventually have to come back to finish this, and that in itself creates mental fatigue. So let's finish this by starting with the long overdue conclusion of Double-V!
The last time we talked about this, I ended it by saying we'll go through the contradictions of Vanny's and Vanessa's character hinted in Ruin and Help Wanted 2. However, I want to go back a bit to when we were first introduced to Vanny as a character in Help Wanted the Curse of Dreabear.
It's only a few lines of dialogue, so it won't be long. Besides, Vanny apparently being a different person than Vanessa, means we can't exactly apply one's characteristics to the other. With Vanny only having so few lines and cameos in Security Breach, she is basically, completely unknown to us.
So what dialogue we know comes from her, needs to be under even heavy scrutiny for any hints of the personality and characteristics of our new villain.
Before we even start with her dialogue, something interesting has already happened in the preceding events. By finding and resembling the secret tapes and doing exactly what Tape Girl says in the final tape we attain the glitchy Glitchtrap plushie
"There is a way to kill it. It wants to escape. To escape through someone. Someone plugged into this game. That's you now. You have to let it begin the process of leaving through you, then use the disconnect switch that I've embedded by the main stage. Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. Play the music and flip the switch*.* That will cause a hard restart of the game and flush the memory, effectively killing it, I hope. I don't know when it will come for you." -Tape 16
Now, we already know that this does not work at all in the slightest, as this method instead has Glitchtrap trapping and locking you up as he is let out of the game through the player's body that he now has control of. Digital Consciousness Transfer.
Next with the installment of the DLC, we acquire William Afton's old mask from the Corn Maze minigame after finding all four keys and the secret glitchy fifth key and head to the cellar where we discover the mask on a table on a candle.
With both of the items together worn and held respectively, we can hear the secret dialogue and the voice of Vanny for the very first time.
“Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.”
This means that the event that Vanny met Glitchtrap was, in fact, the ending of Help Wanted where you follow through on Tape Girl's deceptive instructions on digital transferring with Glitchtrap!
But right here, is where a slight problem occurs in the narrative of Vanny's story in the games. Vanny still has control of her body, she's still capable of defying Glitchtrap. Something that's been made clear to me through both Ruin and Help Wanted 2, is that Glitchtrap doesn't control Vanny at all.
Does he influence her? Yes. We see that in the way her costume is directly referencing him and the way she moves and dances.
Does he control her, however, that is where things get shaky. Because at this point in time, there hasn't been a single instance where Vanny is seen as someone being controlled.
Remember, we can't use anything that has to do with Vanessa to show that Vanny is being manipulated or controlled. So where in the new era games can you find Glitchtrap controlling Vanny?
You can't.
Does this mean she's doing this out of her own will? That is something that might've been more nuanced than what we all had perceived. Because I did it again, I've found more stuff! This time it's something important that everyone has missed in Help Wanted and it might well be the true origins of Vanny.
You see the base game of Help Wanted actually has a third ending to it. Or at least something that should be an ending. Besides, just completing all the minigames to get stuffed inside Freddy and following Tape Girl's 16th tape instruction, there's something else you can do that involves Glitchtrap.
That is let Glitchtrap complete the process of leaving through you.
I'm sure some of you are confused by what I'm talking about, but it's the sequence where you press the button and flip the switch, leading to the ending where Glitchtrap locks you up. I'm saying instead of doing that, do nothing and watch what happens next.
A blaring noise could be heard asGlitchtrap stretched his hand out to you. He spoke distortedly and unintelligible, while green cones of energy flowed out from him and toward you. In seconds, Glitchtrap's eyes turned red, the blaring noise increased its volume, and the energy cones became purple while your view became clouded in a purple haze. Soon purple spots began to appear on Glitchtrap's body, as the noise became too loud to your ears, and the energy cones became red as your vision was almost nothing but purple. Soon even Glitchtrap started to disappear into the purple as his body became pixelated by the purple, leaving only his general outline until even that became purple.
Finally, after your purple vision grew flickering bright and the blaring noise ceased, your vision slowly returned to you, accompanied by music and the sound of static from a monitor. (That's the same music that plays if you press the button on the side of the monitor and the static sound you're hearing is specifically from FNAF's 2 game over static.)
At first, your purple view distorted itself with pixels before the purple started to fade slightly as you could see the hub world. But your perspective was wrong, you were staring from the opposite side of where you were sitting, while the place you once stood at was empty.
Your vision, still overlayed with purple while distorted and pixelated, looked down as you brought your hands up. Your hands which were always outlined and seethrough, now looked solid and were covered by gloves of a familiar costume that you were just staring at a couple seconds ago.
As the purple started to overwhelm your distorted and pixelated vision again as you stared at your— Glitchtrap's hands, your mind was finally able to recognize the words that were being spoken to you by him.
"Can you hear me?"
If you want to see this for yourself, then I have two Youtubers that I managed to find, that did this. 99TH VR and 8-bitRyan.
After this, you're taken to the GAME OVER void. But what's unique about this void is that the monitor here never displays any quotes, no matter how many times you do this.
This ending that should've been, along with what "Tape Girl" said before finally reveal what exactly Vanny is.
"—Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. —." -Tape 16
A merger, a fusion of two different beings, that's what Vanny is! This is why I was having so much trouble trying to figure out how Vanny came to be from the two "endings" we get from Help Wanted. The answer is neither of the two. She mostly came from the failed Tape Girl instructions scenario where Glitchtrap completes his merger with someone to get out of the game.
It also explains why we see gigantic Vanny in Help Wanted 2's consequences ending and adds even more reason why an altered EnemyBasic appears on her wall in the AR world! Vanny herself is not infected as we first believed, but rather a fused entity between Glitchtrap and someone else.
With this origin, she would still be able to traverse and interact with things connected to the network if she's plunged into it.
And considering what she's wearing in Security Breach and that the Security Mask and the occipital transponder are a technology that exists now in the current FNAF lore. She has every way she needs to stay connected to the Pizzaplex's network. But let's get back to her dialogue and dissect it.
"Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.”
We can immediately pinpoint a characteristic of Vanny with the entirety of this dialogue, willing and eager to please. I would also put young in that description, but I don't if it's because she's actually young here or that the voice actress has a bit of a youth tone to their voice.
Anyway, the "Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it" part of her dialogue was already analyzed by me before, but let me elaborate on something I've been thinking about.
William's Mask has to be in the current Fazbear Entertainment's possession because the pizzaplex hasn't been built yet or is in the middle of being constructed by the time of Help Wanted's development or release since Cassie herself refers to it as an "old headset game", so the Security Mask isn't around just yet.
What I'm thinking here is that Vanny had come across it sometime to use as a reference for her costume. And make no mistake, Vanny's mask is making a callback to it as it's only a slight redesign and recolor to make it her own. Even Cassie makes notes of Vanny's mask being similar to the Security Mask by how she mistakes them for being the same.
But that doesn't sound right. Vanny wasn't working with Fazbear Entertainment when she met Glitchtrap, just under them through the second development team. Plus, most of the game was developed under a different team until it was in its beta version while Vanny's team had just come in to finish it to release it.
We have already seen what an object created solely by Glitchtrap looks like in Help Wanted in the form of his plushies, so we already know that he didn't recreate the mask in the game.
So maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way. Both the mask and Grimm Foxy show up in Princess Quest, and we have already established how both important relate to William and Glitchtrap. And both are what are needed to destroy Glitchtrap.
Where did we first see that Mask? Not in the Help Wanted base game but in the Halloween DLC. That means the game was still being worked on even after its release, so Vanny would've had time to model this mask into the game. But why? I think these game-over quotes that show up only in Dreadbear are a clue.

• Report glitches before they spread.
• Don't look behind you.
• It's only a dream.
• Where am I?
• Purging system...

The report glitches quote, easily fits with what Vanny is talking about in with the "No, no one suspects anything." The "Where am I" part is intriguing, but I don't think I can pin that to Vanny. Hmm... I wonder if this is where our Golden Princess comes to be. It's something to look into later.
It's the "Purging system" part that is what I want to focus on here. This provides the needed explanation for things being the way they are now. Glitchtrap, the one that's not merged into Vanny, might've started running rampant during the DLC development, causing either Fazbear Entertainment or Vanny's development team to focus entirely on shutting him down.
The purging of the system might've been their solution for him. This might've worked too if Vanny wasn't already created by the time of the purging. And since Vanny is working under Glitchtrap here, she would've been in the perfect position to take Glitchtrap and everything he contains out of Help Wanted and into a developing game called Princess Quest(Working Title). Though, Vanny might've rushed the job under such circumstances, taking part of The Curse of Dreadbear's code along with Glitchtraps into the new game.
But that's all for now, I'll talk about that more when we get Princess Quest 4.
"I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.” This right here, more than anything, tells us that Vanny is not so much reluctant but more following in the Glitchtrap's order than we all first believed. But we shouldn't be so surprised about it.
Vanny's previous alias, "Reluctant Follwer", didn't come from any of the games, books, or even Scott's website but instead came from voices.com, a website Scott uses to find voice actors. The name is used as a guide for the actor and a descriptor for how the voice should be toned and acted.
The name is an oversimplification of a character for how they're going to sound in the one game they appear in, not all. So the name "Reluctant Follwer" would've only applied to Vanny in this game.
And as we see from Security Breach, Vanny is anything but reluctant to follow Glitchtrap's order. Yet after that game and as of Ruin and HW2, that name might been more appropriate now than it was back then as there appears to be a rift now between the two. But more on that at a later.
One last thing. With this origin in place, we now have another explanation for why we only hear Vanny's side of the conversation and not Glitchtrap's. We are hearing Glitchtrap's side of that conversation, he is her. It's the reason why her voice becomes echoey in her final word, fun.
Now let's finally get into the ties between Vanessa and the villains. Though...
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Shoot! I made it too big again! Continue on here Part 8.999

I got my first ever salary after completing my undergrad and postgrad. I took my family out to dinner today to a 5 star hotel. I took the bill from my father's hand as I said I'll be handling it today and paid for it. Here it's why it was special for me.
I come from a poor family. This tale is from when I was 6 or 7. I was out with my father to his office and while returning, I said that I was hungry and we went a street side shop, I ate happily. My father didn't eat. After completing the meal, he asked me if I wanted to eat more but I said no. We then boarded the public bus, he took out wallet and emptied it for the bus fare. I asked then how we would have gone home if had paid for extra food which I said no to, he just smiled and never gave me a response. I always had a lot of conflicts with my father, but that incident always reminded of the great father he is and I will never be as selfless as him. So, when I took the bill today and made the payment, he gave the similar warm smile like the one he gave me on that bus. I did it guys, he didn't say anything to me after that. I hope he is proud of me.

First, photos: https://imgur.com/a/p259MBW
Second, the blog I based my work on (I expanded on the Double True Bypass Loop Pedal): https://www.ashleyjsaunders.com/blog/build-true-bypass-loop-pedal/
Third, the old posts:

1. Some Questions
   
2. Update...
   
3. Ugh—
   

Fourth: The basic story, after my last post, is that I couldn't get signal through and I couldn't figure out why. I checked every connection with a Multimeter and everything SEEMED right.
My friend was at a guitar shop, mentioned my build, and the guy there said "Prolly a grounding issue." Being the smug asshole I am, I thought "Well it's grounded well, so no idea why but that's not it." But I set it aside for a week+, thinking I'd come back to it.
The night before last, I woke up at 2am with a realization: it IS a grounding issue— because the jacks I used (you can see them in the pics) are finicky as all get out. You see, I assumed the two closest were connected and the two further were connected (sleeve and tip) but it turns out that's not true, at least with this batch or whatever I purchased. Indeed, half the time, you could plug a cable in, check continuity, and it only popped up on ONE prong and not the other.
On the "output" side, I realized I had grounded everything to the prong that DID NOT connect (for whatever reason) to the plug when it was plugged in. Ran a quick bus bar wire between the two "grounds" and bam— worked perfectly!
So at that point three switches were working but Loop Four was not. That's when I realized I did indeed have a short. A quick heat up with the soldering iron and a quick pull and bam— fixed! Has been working great since!
Changes I'd like to make in future builds (if I do them for friends or something):

1. The 1032L enclosure is nice, but it's super tall and I feel like there's a good amount of wasted space. Width and depth are great but I would love an enclosure that's half the height. We shall see— any recs are welcome!
   
2. I need less fussy jacks. I think just these jacks will work much better.
   
3. The bus wire is pretty great! And I could well use more of it next time.
   
4. I suspect having spent $4 on these 3pdt PCBs would have helped a ton.
   
5. Would LOVE to find a switch or relay system so I can have softer clicks. Not a huge deal, but would just make everything feel nicer.
   

Finally, thanks everyone for your support. I'm just doing this for fun, so I didn't want it to be stressful, so it was nice to vent/share ideas here and get feedback over the last weeks.
Right now, it's sort of...midboard? And just connected to modulation and my delay (drives running into it, straight out to amp after). It's working great!

Every person has a psychic ability, and there are many examples for this psychic test: when you meet someone that you recently thought about, or had strange dream at night which turned to be real in the morning, or just an unexplained mystery. The little psychic events happen all the time even without our notice.
Would you like to chat with online psychics? check this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/freepsychicreadings4u/comments/1d1tkzo/need_answers_now_chat_with_online_psychics_247/
Further more, there are no random coincidences everything happens from a reason and it is the result from out past actions and our future destiny that always changes. A psychic test will help you to discover if you have these tendencies and if not you can always practice and improve your skill and intuition. In order to do so, you have to decide what you are good in, what attracts you the most. It can be dream interpretation, tarot reading, remote viewing, healing, Ouija boards and many other forms that will help you to see from beyond.

Through the years scientists invented many psychic tests, the basic assumption was that gifted human beings will perform better that the average person in predicting the future. The results have to be more than just guesses and convince that they can keep on doing so consistently for long time with minimum errors. As you know spiritualism is not an accurate science but still when it comes to the numbers and probabilities it can prove to be right in some cases when the results are unambiguous. A famous experiment is the Zener cards test. The cards have different and simple pictures on them and you have to guess what the pictures are without seeing them.

There are other psychic tests which try to discover if you can change things with the power of the mind – Telekinesis. A subject of this experiment sits in front of a machine that dropping ping pong balls from a tunnel to the ground. In the end of this device there is a funnel with intersection so the ball can fall to the right basket or the left one. Now, by the law of nature half of them should reach to the left side and the other half to the right side. It doesn’t have to be exactly fifty- fifty percentages but a number that coming close to this. Someone with psychic power can change these result by concentrating that the majority of the balls will fall to a certain basket, something like 70% or even 80%. In the end only few people managed to do it successfully. But you can try similar test too.

You can also write a psychic journal, a notebook with all the details about what occurs in your daily life; it should be very detailed and encompass everything. This will help you to remember but also to see things that you are not aware of them in the exact moment they happen. It is like having a dream journal that helps you to interpret your thoughts from your deeper mind. Sometimes mystery phenomena come across us and we don’t always feel it and even if we do, we can forget about very fast. So it is a great tool to test and analyze the way you interact with the energies of the universe.

Developing your psychic perception is not easy but it can really be done. You can do it on your own, learn about it from the internet and books. You can also have special training and join few courses, lectures and programs that will connect you much better to the spark of your mystery life.