Brownie auto film

Hey ya'll,
Going to Italy for a few weeks, and am bringing my X-pro 3 and my Canonet film camera. I want to only bring one lens for the X-pro, and I have the 18mm f2 and the Voigtlander 27mm f2 manual focus to choose from. I love the Voigtlander, but have not had it very long and have not done the manual focus thing too much yet. I'm obviously comfortable with manual focus in general on film cameras, but the whole focus peaking thing is kinda new to me.
I'm wondering if sticking with the 18mm is better, not only because it'll give me a wider focal length than the Canonet (it's 40mm fixed), but also just the option to auto focus sometimes.
On the other hand, the Voigtlander is way smaller, and has a bit of magic it seems.
I suppose there are no right or wrong answers here, but what would you do?

Photos and timestamp (last picture): https://imgur.com/a/7MBXhT6
For sale is an Olympus OM-1 paired with an Olympus H.Zuiko 24mm f2.8.
Askings:
Bundle $100 shipped
Body: $50 + shipping
Lens: $60 + shipping
Shipping is a $10 flat rate through USPS. PayPal G&S. Everything is negotiable.
Camera is in rough shape cosmetically but seems to operate as intended. I picked this one up from a local photographer who was selling his gear and he mentioned he had it professionally CLA'd a few years ago. I have a copy of my own and all speeds seem to be accurate and I cannot find any indication that it won't perform properly when put to use. However, since I have not yet tested it with film I cannot guarantee that everything works perfectly; for such reason I am selling it as is and will not be accepting any returns.
Camera fires, all speeds work, advancing lever is smooth. Viewfinder is clear and bright, no dust; there seems to be a very faint spot of prism degradation on the lower left that is hard to capture in photos, but it is a miniscule spot. Light seals are brand new.
Leather throughout the body is a bit rough, with some corners peeling off a little bit; there's one corner on the front lower right side that has a piece missing and reveals one of the body screws, which I believe resulted from the last maintenance the camera received. It has some stains where the hot shoe mount used to sit on. There is a scratch on the black piece on top of the advancing lever from where they probably unscrewed it to do maintenance. The timer functions properly and as intended.
The light meter seems to be inaccurate, mostly indoors. It turns on and will react to changes in speed and aperture, but is a few stops underexposed when used indoors. It seems to be more accurate outdoors when there is more light to take in, as it is usually one stop or half a stop off from my external light meter. I would not rely on the internal light meter for shooting.
Olympus OM-SYSTEM H.ZUIKO AUTO-W 24mm f2.8.
The lens is fair condition, but I have not tested it either and cannot guarantee the image quality that will come from it. However, the imperfections in the glass aren't apparent unless you shine a very bright light directly to the elements. There is haze to be found mostly on the front element, slight haze on the rear element. There are a couple specks of dust that are noticeable on the back element. There are some scratches throughout the body of the lens. The rubber ring to control the focus is coming loose, but stays in place (used some glue to glue it at specific spots around the ring). Lens will only come with a front cap and will be attached to the camera during shipping.
Focusing is smooth. Aperture is smooth and clicky. Aperture blades are clean and free of oil. Apertures work properly and open and close when camera fires.
All in all I personally believe that if put to use the camera would perform properly, but there is no way to know until film is developed from it; so please be aware that the camera is untested and it's reliability or functionality are not being guaranteed whatsoever. Buy at your own risk.
Feel free to send me a message if there are any questions or concerns that I may assist with. Thanks for looking.

So I recently tried starting a very lightly modded playthrough. I'm not new to modding games so I'm fairly confident I'm installing them correctly, but I have a suspicion that I'm missing some dependencies or perhaps my game is just bugged. I've tried installing one mod at a time, and each one gives me a list of errors (I will post an example of one at the bottom). I even tried installing some utility mods for allowing other mods to communicate and supposedly eliminate some of these errors, and I even got errors with just those utility mods. I've done a ton a research and still came up empty handed. p.s. I have installed and ran script merger which does detect the mods but tells me there is no conflicts.
Example of errors I get:
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(60): Unable to find suitable operator 'OperatorLogicAnd' for given types (void, String)
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(85): Property 'comboStatus' exists but was not imported from C++ code.
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(116): Property 'comboStatus' exists but was not imported from C++ code.
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(151): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(164): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(307): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu\igmutilities.ws(425): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\localizedcontent.ws(28): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\localizedcontent.ws(38): I dont know any 'Platform_Xbox_SCARLETT_ANACONDA'
Error [content0]game\localizedcontent.ws(39): I dont know any 'Platform_Xbox_SCARLETT_LOCKHART'
Error [content0]game\quests\quest_function.ws(8865): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\quests\quest_function.ws(8976): I dont know any 'DT_SSD'
Error [content0]game\scenes\scene_functions.ws(1124): I dont know any 'DT_SSD'
Error [content0]game\gameplay\ghosts\ghost.ws(39): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\r4player.ws(3473): Could not find function 'MonsterCategoryToOilNames'
Error [content0]game\player\r4player.ws(10132): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(497): Function 'ClearTriggerEffect' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(498): Function 'ClearTriggerEffect' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1910): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1911): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1945): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1966): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1973): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1974): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1986): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(1987): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(2003): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(2014): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(2018): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(2076): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(2077): Function 'SetTriggerEffect' does not take 3 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(3487): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(3493): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\player\playerwitcher.ws(3500): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\projectile\playerboltprojectile.ws(254): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\gameplay\items\itementity.ws(458): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\gameplay\items\itementity.ws(464): Function 'HapticStart' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\commongame.ws(350): Could not find function 'UpdateAO2CorrespondRT'
Error [content0]game\photomodemanager.ws(103): Could not find function 'Activate'
Error [content0]game\photomodemanager.ws(131): Function 'PauseGameplayFx' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\photomodemanager.ws(137): Function 'PauseGameplayFx' does not take 1 param(s)
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\autosavewarningmenu.ws(38): I dont know any 'Platform_Xbox_SCARLETT_ANACONDA'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\autosavewarningmenu.ws(39): I dont know any 'Platform_Xbox_SCARLETT_LOCKHART'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\autosavewarningmenu.ws(45): I dont know any 'Platform_PS5'
Error [content0]game\gui\main_menu\ingamemenu.ws(1344): To few params in call to function 'LoadGameInit'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(36): Could not find function 'SetPhotomodeMenu'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(37): Could not find function 'SetEnabled'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(45): Could not find function 'SetEnabled'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(53): Could not find function 'SetFov'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(56): Could not find function 'SetTilt'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(59): Could not find function 'SetExposure'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(62): Could not find function 'SetHighlights'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(65): Could not find function 'SetSaturation'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(68): Could not find function 'SetVignette'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(71): Could not find function 'SetContrast'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(74): Could not find function 'SetTemperature'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(77): Could not find function 'SetChromaticAberration'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(80): Could not find function 'SetFilmGrain'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(85): Could not find function 'SetDofEnabled'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(89): Could not find function 'SetDofEnabled'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(93): Could not find function 'SetAperture'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(96): Could not find function 'SetFocusDistance'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(101): Could not find function 'SetAutoFocus'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(105): Could not find function 'SetAutoFocus'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(254): Could not find function 'GetFocusDistance'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(261): Could not find function 'GetExposure'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(262): Could not find function 'GetContrast'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(263): Could not find function 'GetHighlights'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(264): Could not find function 'GetTemperature'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(265): Could not find function 'GetSaturation'
Error [content0]game\gui\menus\photomodemenu.ws(266): Could not find function 'GetChromaticAberration'
Error [content0]game\gui\popups\overlaypopup.ws(70): Could not find function 'GetIngameMenu'
Error [content0]game\gui\popups\overlaypopup.ws(139): Could not find function 'GetIngameMenu'
Warning [content0]engine\environment.ws(30): Global native function 'EnableDebugOverlayFilter' was not exported from C++ code.
Warning [content0]engine\environment.ws(32): Global native function 'EnableDebugPostProcess' was not exported from C++ code.
Warning [content0]engine\showflags.ws(11): Global native function 'DebugSetEShowFlag' was not exported from C++ code.

Does anyone know a fix? I've found several posts with this issue and tried all the recommended solutions. Hard reset, disable all auto modes/intelligent scene, enabled all modes, film maker mode etc.
Issue keeps happening regardless of content that I watch. Any time the scene gets dark, the colors briefly become very vivid and then switch back.

Ovviamente dato il titolo devo dare del contesto. Sono insieme a questa ragazza da circa tre anni. È a distanza, ma niente di impossibile ovvero 2 ore di auto tra regioni confinanti.
Purtroppo nel 2022 sua madre è venuta mancare e giustamente ha passato tanto tempo nel peggiore dei modi. Nei miei confronti è diventata molto appiccicosa, al limite di soffocare ogni mio momento libero, ma data la gravità della cosa non mi sono mai stufato o scazzato e ho cercato di darle tutto il mio amore e e sostegno. Ci scrivevamo messaggi lunghissimi, facevamo l’amore, e cercavamo di attraversare il dolore facendo cose insieme che sia vedere un film a distanza o leggere gli stessi libri. La cosa ha funzionato per un anno. E diciamo che lei si è ripresa un po’. Dopo un anno ha avuto un attacco di panico che le ha fatto venire ipocondria e acceso la paura di morire e altri traumi. Ovviamente il tutto era anche durante l’anniversario della morte della madre. Dopo l attacco di panico ha seguito una psicologa e da lì è iniziata a cambiare. Lentamente i messaggi lunghi da parte sua sono scomparsi, le nostre conversazioni lunghissime e telefonate sono diventate più corte. Il sesso è sparito. E dorme di più. Va a dormire presto. Ecc ecc. all’inizio sapendo della madre e di tutti questi problemi sono stato calmo e tranquillo per mesi. Ma lo status appiccicosa variato a uno status più distaccato mi spaventa molto. Ho affrontato molte volte la situazione con lei, ho un carattere forte, le ho detto che se sta male con me deve dirmelo. Se si è stufata. Se ha trovato un altro. Perché sono diventato anche mezzo paranoico vedendo i cambiamenti. Lei prova a rassicurarmi dicendo che è colpa del periodo e non mio, ma questo periodo tra qualche mese compierà un anno. E mi fa male aver vissuto un anno praticamente in simbiosi e un anno praticamente in maniera molto più fredda. So che la depressione e l’ansia soprattutto nelle donne possono distruggere la libido, quindi non mi spaventa la mancanza di sesso. Ma a volte è tanto giù e mi parla monosillabica, come se fosse indifferente a me. Mi arrabbio ma mi controllo. Tanta rabbia repressa non è mai affiorata contro di lei, perché sta male e lo so per certo. Ma vivo malissimo questo periodo col comportamento nuovo.
Vorrei un parere esterno, ho provato a parlarci tante volte ma lei è chiusa. Diciamo che è venuto fuori che con la psicologa ha capito che deve prendersi tempo per se stessa. Che vuol dire magari non stare sempre al telefono, avere del proprio tempo libero, avere le sue cose. E mi sembra sacrosanto, anche io ho milioni di interessi e voglio coltivarli senza essere sempre con la mia ragazza. Ma vederla così concentrata su se stessa un po’ mi crea paura, no non perché sono un uomo bigotto che ha paura della donna indipendente ma perché finora non era mai così. Ma posso capire che la scomparsa della madre. La psicologa. Lattacco di panico possono davvero cambiare una persona.
Credo anche che il nostro primo anno lei abbia quasi soffocato il suo dolore, e ora sta venendo fuori con tanta potenza quel dolore legato al lutto. Non posso comprenderla perché ho ancora i miei genitori, ma posso capire che sia devastata.
Non voglio che le mie insicurezze mi facciano male, non voglio che questi problemi ci mettano troppo alla prova. Io la amo e voglio stare con lei nel bene e nel male. Qualche consiglio?
Evitate solo di dirmi che devo parlarci, ci ho provato in tutti i modi. A volte si scaldava a a volte ci siamo confrontati positivamente. Ma le cose sono così ora

I have a Ricoh 500G that I just shot a roll with. I shot most of the roll in auto aperture mode(shutter priority). I realized later that my cameras auto mode is faulty. Looks like it’s stuck at f16 in auto mode. So I’ve essentially shot the majority of my roll at f16 1/125. Superia 400 shot outside on an overcast day. So I’m expecting a lot of underexposed photos. Should I get it developed normally and hope for the best or should I perhaps push the film?

Details here. It seems to come with an updater that only patches the parts of the program that need updating- for me that was ~100MB and too seconds.
Quick update- there are reported issues with AMD GPUs crashing. I'd skip 314 if you are on AMD until that is resolved.
Anyway here's what's new:
Improvements and Bug fixes:

• Correctly copy event properties of an Adjustment Event when a new event is created as a result of a split operation
• Fixed crash which may occur when user tries to open help but help is not available
• Media with mono audio now plays audio back at proper rate
• AVC media with format profile of High@6 now is imported as expected
• HEVC MOV media now imported with proper aspect ratio
• Stereo AC-3 in MP4 container now reads audio properly
• Resource leak that caused UI to become mangled is now fixed
• Prevent crash which may occur when application is brought back into focus
• MXF media is now decoded properly
• HEVC 4:2:2 CPU media now decodes as expected
• Fixed problems with errors in decoding with NVidia GPUs
• Context menu is missing when right clicking on meters
• Proper handling of Alpha channel with Adjustment Events
• Fixed a continuity problem with keyframes in the color correction plugin
• Copy attributes function in Titles and Text plugin no longer throws an exception when multiple fonts are used
• The Auto Correct function in the Stereoscopic 3D Adjust plugin no longer causes a freeze or crash
• Canon 600d media decoding errors are now fixed
• Rendered audio is no longer out of sync
• Fixed issues with MKV files with improper thumbnails, playback issues and memory usage
• Fixed crash inside of the video cache manager
• AI Upscaler no longer distorting output when scaling is between 1.1 and 1.25
• Fixed a crash which may occur after undo/redoing shortly after bringing VEGAS back into focus
• Improve speed when application comes back into focus
• Fixed AMD pixelization problems

Known issues:

• Blue and Red colors may be swapped in VEGAS Effects and HitFilm when using recent AMD Adrenalin drivers. It is recommended to revert the driver to version 23.7.2 to avoid this problem
• Project versioning has been incremented. This means that you will not be able to open project files created or saved with build 300 (and later builds) with older builds of VEGAS Pro 21 or VEGAS Pro 20 or earlier
• Projects with large amounts of media that contain a large amount of metadata may take a substantial amount of time to open
• The preference to unload media when the VEGAS application loses focus has been turned off, which may cause some problems if you are editing the same media in multiple applications at the same time.
• Some long GOP MXF files may show corrupted frames on Nvidia GPUs

You may download this update via the auto-update feature or directly from here.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/update-vegas-pro-21-build-314--145714/

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Today's anniversaries are:
2007

• Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain (Rock)
  
• Megadeth - United Abominations ()
  

2013

• Red Seas Fire - Exposition (Metal)

2015

• Spectral Lore - Voyager (metal, ambient, electronic, space music, Αθήνα) Read our review.

2017

• Carl King - Grand Architects of the Universe (metal, dweezil zappa, marco minnemann, mark borchardt, mike keneally, morgan agren, music, prog, sir millard mulch, thomas lang, travis orbin, virgil donati, Los Angeles)
  
• Master Boot Record - 486DX (metal, alternative, avant-garde, black metal, chiptune, chiptunes, classical, cyberpunk, death metal, doom metal, electronic, experimental, industrial, progressive metal, rock, synthwave, Rome)
  
• Reversal - Finding It and Losing It (electronic, experimental, bass music, indie, jazz, Montreal)
  
• Somnium nox - Terra inānis (atmospheric black metal, black metal, metal, post black metal, atmospheric post black, experimental, hardcore, heavy metal, noise, post hardcore, progressive metal, sludge metal, thrash metal, Sydney)
  
• Ühtceare - La inexorable amargura en la existencia (Demo) (atmospheric black metal, metal, ambient black metal, industrial, Buenos Aires)
  
• Why Oceans - Inmost Dens of Emilie (soundtrack, ambient, cinematic, classical, film, instrumental, melancholic, post rock, post-rock, postrock, Macao)
  
• 嵯峨岚山 (Cuó'é lán shān) - Demos (metal, progressive rock, instrumental, progressive, progressive metal, Beijing)
  

2018

• Azeotropes - Azeotropes (free jazz. improvised music, jazz, Metz)
  
• Chris Pitsiokos Unit - Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years (experimental, avant-garde, free funk, free jazz, funk, improvisation, jazz, noise, noise rock, New York) Read our review.
  
• Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication (atmospheric black metal, australia, black metal, claret ash, metal, chaos, Canberra) Read our review.
  
• Forest of Grey - Crypsis (metal, black metal, blackgaze, cascadian black metal, post-metal, psychedelic, Seattle)
  
• Forgotten Silence - Kras (metal, art, avantgarde, death, progressive, rock, Brno)
  
• Leviathan Owl - Love for the Other (progressive rock, rock, alternative rock, berklee college of music, instrumental, instrumental rock, math rock, post rock, post-rock, United Kingdom) Read our review.
  
• Shishko Disco - Shishko Disco (jazz fusion, neo-rock, world, gnawa, world fusion, Berlin) Read our review.
  
• Timōrātus - The Great Mortality (black metal, christian, metal, concept, concept album, death metal, doom metal, grindcore, husband and wife, multigenre, storytelling, Louisville)
  

2019

• Green Milk from the Planet Orange - Third (alternative, hardcore, heavey metal, heavy metal, progressive rock, toyko, hardcore, math rock, Tokyo)
  
• Incipient Chaos & Defenestration - Terre noire & Genocidal Heresy (black metal, death metal, metal, ambient, traditional music, Angers)
  
• Lynxx - The Home of the Headhunter (electronic, ambient, experimental-electronic, fantasy, field recordings, soundscapes, soundtrack, synth, tape, Pittsburgh)
  
• Robert Landfermann, Ingrid Laubrock, Achim Kaufmann, and Tom Rainey - Topaz (experimental, jazz, contemporary, free, improvised music, Köln)
  
• Ruby My Dear - Phlegm (breakcore)
  

2020

• Auto Kat - Elements of Music (jazz fusion, electro-jazz)
  
• Berried Alive - Fuego (metalcore)
  
• Binary Code - Mementō morī (progressive metal)
  
• Christian Rønn & Aram Shelton - Multiring (modern jazz)
  
• Ciolkowska - Психоделия (Psixodelija) (psychedelic rock)
  
• Crazy Doberman - Illusory Expansion (free jazz)
  
• Dinosaur - To the Earth (modern jazz)
  
• Dumb Waiter - Tsk (math rock, jazz fusion) Read our review.
  
• Eishan Ensemble - Afternoon Tea at Six (modern jazz)
  
• Grindboy Advance - Blastbeat Hyper Combo Finish! (cybergrind)
  
• Heron - Time Immemorial (doom metal)
  
• In Common - 2 (modern jazz)
  
• Infant Island - Beneath (blackgaze, post-hardcore)
  
• Iscle Datzira - Turu (experimental jazz)
  
• Kamasi Washington - Becoming (jazz, soundtrack)
  
• Lucas de la Rosa - Sunlight Highlights (progressive metal)
  
• Lucian Ban, John Surman, and Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Folk Songs: The Béla Bartók Field Recordings (modern jazz, folk)
  
• Moses Sumney - Græ (art rock, pop) Read our review.
  
• Muga - Chants de femmes des Asturies (folk) Read our review.
  
• Neige morte - ⅠⅠⅠⅠ (black metal)
  
• Patchwork - Patchwork (contemporary classical)
  
• Pattern-Seeking Animals - Prehensile Tales (progressive rock)
  
• Pilori - A nos morts (blackened grindcore)
  
• Sebastien Ammann's Color Wheel - Resilience (experimental jazz) Read our review.
  
• Sixth Circle - Pacified / Conjuring (darkwave)
  
• Sophie Min Orchestra - 선구자 (Seonguja / Bellwether) (jazz fusion)
  
• Tim Stine Trio - Fresh Demons (modern jazz)
  
• Time Bomb - Frozen Meat Conspiracy (mathcore)
  
• Tithe - Penance (blackened deathgrind)
  
• Tropos - Axioms / 75AB (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Иван Гребенщиков (Ivan Grebenščikov / Ivan Grebenschikov) - Sense and Sensitivity (contemporary classical)
  
• Катерина Зяблюк (Kateryna Zjabljuk / Katherine Zyabluk) - Borders Make You Grow (modern jazz)
  
• 大友良英 (Ōtomo Yoshihide) & Chris Pitsiokos - Live in Florence (experimental jazz)
  

2021

• Button Masher - Super Song Force (pop, chiptune)
  
• Joel Kent - Paper Dragon (nu prog)
  
• Panopticon - … And Again into the Light (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Radiant Knife & Woorms - Split (post-metal)
  
• Rïga - Amorphée (experimental electro)
  
• The Strangement Society - Radio Pulsars (avant-garde jazz)
  
• 陳陽熙 (Chan Teruki) - Seven Compositions from 上水 (Shàng shuī / Sheung Shui) (progressive rock)
  

2022

• Ben Woods - Dispeller (indie pop)
  
• Cosmic Epiphany - Labyrinth (progressive metal)
  
• Jannis Sicker Septett - Ages (modern jazz)
  
• Martin Küchen, Agustí Fernández, and Zlatko Kaučič - The Steps that Resonate (free improvisation)
  

2023

• Mystery - Redemption (progressive rock)
  
• Scud - Ⅲ (hardcore)
  
• Мор (Mor) - Стужа (Stuža) (progressive black metal)
  

Poco c65: upto 16 gb ram ( 8 virtual) upto 256 gb rom (upto 1Tb expandable storage)
MediaTek Helio G85 (more than 280k antutu score)
90hz refresh rate big screen display 17.12cm (6.74"inch)
5000mah battery (type c cable ) Side mounted fingerprint sensor
(Things i like most in poco☝🏾)
Samsung A05: (i'm tired to write main point , I'll copy paste now)
DISPLAY - 17.13 Centimeters (6.7"Inch) PLS LCD Display, HD+ Resolution with 720 x 1600 Pixels , 260 PPI with 16M Colours and 60Hz Refresh Rate
CAMERA - 50MP (F1.8) Main Camera with Auto Focus + 2MP (F2.4) Depth Camera 8MP (F2.0) Front Camera
INTERFACE & PROCESSOR - Android 13, v13.0 Operating System having One UI Core 5.1 platform with MediaTek Helio G85 Processor 2GHz, 1.8GHz 12nm Octa-Core Processor
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Last week, General Motors announced that it would end production of the Chevrolet Malibu, which the company first introduced in 1964. Although not exactly a head turner (the Malibu was “so uncool, it was cool,” declared the New York Times), the sedan has become an American fixture, even an icon, appearing in classic films like Say Anything and Pulp Fiction. Over the past 60 years, GM produced some 10 million of them.
With a price starting at a (relatively) affordable $25,100, Malibu sales exceeded 130,000 vehicles last year, a 13% annual increase and enough to rank as the #3 Chevy model, behind only the Silverado and the Equinox. Still, that wasn’t enough to keep the car off GM’s chopping block. The company says that the last Malibu will roll out of its Kansas City, KS, factory this November; the plant will then be retooled to produce the new Chevy Bolt, an electric crossover SUV.
With the Malibu’s demise, GM will no longer sell any sedans in the U.S. In that regard, it will have plenty of company. Ford stopped producing sedans for the U.S. market in 2018. And it was Sergio Marchionne, the former head of Stellantis, who triggered the headlong retreat in 2016 when he declared that Dodge and Chrysler would stop making sedans. (Tesla, meanwhile, offers two sedans: the Model 3 and Model S.)
As recently as 2009, U.S. passenger cars (including sedans and a plunging number of station wagons) outsold light trucks (SUVs, pickups, and minivans), but today they’re less then 20% of new car purchases. The death of the Malibu is confirmation, if anyone still needs it, that the Big Three are done building sedans. That decision is bad news for road users, the environment, and budget-conscious consumers—and it may ultimately come around to bite Detroit.
When asked, automakers are quick to blame the sedan’s decline on shifting consumer preferences. Americans simply want bigger cars, the story goes, and there’s some truth to it. Compared to sedans, many SUV and pickup models provide extra cargo space and give the driver more visibility on the highway. In a crash, those inside a heavier car have a better chance of escaping without injury—although the same can’t be said for pedestrians or those in other vehicles. (That discrepancy inspired a headline in The Onion: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident.”)
This narrative of the market’s dispassionate invisible hand tossing the sedan aside holds intuitive appeal, but it leaves gaping holes. For one thing, federal policy has, in many ways, ]distorted the car market to favor larger vehicles](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution). Fuel economy regulations, for instance, are more lenient for SUVs and pickups than they are for smaller cars, nudging automakers to produce more of the former and fewer of the latter. Another egregious example: Small business owners such as real estate agents can save thousands of dollars by writing off the cost of their vehicle—but only if it weighs more than 6,000 pounds, a stipulation that effectively excludes sedans entirely.
Carmakers, for their part, powerfully influence consumer demand through billions of dollars spent on advertising. Because SUVs and pickups are more expensive and profitable than sedans, manufacturers have a clear incentive to tilt buying decisions away from small cars and toward larger ones (which helps explain ad campaigns designed to confer an undeserved green halo on SUVs).
Even those who don’t want a big car may feel pressure to upsize, if only to avoid being at a disadvantage in a crash or when trying to see what lies ahead on the road. Such people find themselves trapped in a prisoner’s dilemma, preferring that everyone had smaller cars, but resigning themselves to buying an SUV or pickup since others already have them.
For all these reasons, modest-size sedans like the Malibu are disappearing from American streets, supplanted by SUVs and pickups that seem to grow bulkier with every model refresh. (The Chevy Bolts produced at GM’s Kansas plant will be bigger than the previous Bolt model, which was retired last year.) This pattern of ongoing vehicle expansion, a trend I call car bloat, is especially advanced in North America, but it’s visible worldwide. In 2022, SUVs alone comprised 46% of global car sales, up from 20% a decade earlier.
From a societal perspective, the decline of the sedan is a disaster. Consider road safety, an area where the U.S. underperforms compared to the rest of the rich world, especially for pedestrians and cyclists (deaths for both recently hit 40-year highs). Larger cars have bigger blind spots, convey more force in a collision, and tend to strike a person’s torso rather than their legs. They’re also heavier, with propulsion systems that guzzle more gasoline (or electrons) to move, producing more pollution in the process. Their weight also catalyzes the erosion of tires and roads, spewing microscopic particles that can damage human health as well as aquatic ecosystems.
Despite the myriad problems of car bloat, the federal government has taken no steps to restrain it. In the absence of regulations or taxes, carmakers have ample reason to abandon their sedan models in favor of SUVs and trucks. The higher margins of larger cars is especially precious now, as the Big Three scrabble for money to invest in electrification and autonomous technology, as well as to pay for the rising costs of wages and benefits that they agreed to last fall during negotiations with the United Auto Workers.
Realistically, it would be a Herculean task to pivot back toward selling small cars, even if American automakers wanted to. Although adept at selling high-priced, feature-laden SUVs and trucks, they’re far less experienced at the low-margin, high volume business of producing cheaper small cars. That is one reason (though hardly the only one) that China’s booming market for EVs, including many modest-size and affordable models, is sowing fear throughout Detroit—and in Washington, too.
Where does the shift from sedans toward SUVs and trucks leave everyday Americans? With a strained wallet, for one thing. With its MSRP starting at $25,100 the Malibu has been one of the most affordable U.S.-produced cars, costing barely half as much as the average new vehicle, which exceeded $47,000 in February (the Malibu is also at least a few thousand dollars cheaper than the Bolt that will replace it at the Kansas factory).
Especially when factoring in higher interest rates and spiking insurance premiums, cars are becoming a financial strain for many Americans. According to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the average annual, inflation-adjusted cost of owning a vehicle and driving it 15,000 miles hit $12,182 in 2023, an increase of over 30% in just six years.
Over time, the elimination of sedans leaves the Big Three vulnerable if consumer preferences shift away from enormity. “Legacy car companies haven’t done a great job of thinking long term,” said Alex Roy, a cohost of the Autonocast podcast. “Gutting lineups is probably good for manufacturing efficiency, but not having one vehicle in a given product segment is short-sighted.”
Due to sprawled development patterns and woefully underfunded transit, many American families will still want a car even as they become more expensive. But, as I argued previously in Fast Company, a surge in vehicle prices could compel some households to swap a second or third car for a minicar or e-cargo bike that offers limited range, but costs only a fraction as much. Already, golf carts are popping up in places far removed from the retirement and beach communities where they have been a mainstay: In New Orleans, they’ve become so popular that the city is adopting new ordinances.
With the Malibu’s death, is clearer than ever that Detroit has abandoned the affordable sedan. They may yet live to regret it.

I've been putting off the last serious problem, oil burning, since although it's annoying having to add 1Q every 500-1500 miles, I've never noticed loss of power or any other changes in the way my car behaves since I started driving it regularly 11 years ago. By the way, my last oil change was on 2024-11-09 at 141899. There's currently 143435 on the odometer and I've added 2.5Q of oil in all that time. The oil on the dipstick and in the crankcase are exactly the same color as the 5W-30 Valvoline high mileage synthetic I've been adding. 143435-141899 = 1536 or 1Q per 614 miles. Until that change, I was religious about sticking to the 3 month change schedule and I never even came close to exceeding 3k miles between changes.
What happens is, I'm 99% sure the following events cause oil to burn or otherwise get sucked into a place it doesn't belong:

• each the idle RPM ticks downward because the ECT reached the next breakpoint. E.g. when I cold start, it goes to 2K rpm then drops to ~1300. It then slowly drops by what appears to be solid multiples of 100 until it's fully warmed up
• when I put it in reverse, there's a brief but noticable cloud, then nothing
• when accelerating after idling for a while

The last point is the most dramatic. Last night I had the car running in the AutoZone lot for 15 minutes with no smoke or exhaust odors and when I pulled out I was followed by enormous blue clouds for probably half a mile.
Sometimes I notice a few drops of oil next to the right front tire (passenger side) immediately after parking, but it clearly doesn't keep dripping. I confirmed the drain plug replacement works by letting it sit on white concrete for 4 days and it was totally dry.
The reason I'm thinking it's the cover gasket is because I've been reading threads and watching videos and I'm seeing a pattern here. The mildness and infrequency of burning; the deposition of black sludge on the intake manifold and all around the cover seam. I even made a video, although it's kinda hard to see anything thanks to the extreme contrast ratio of filming outside at noon in direct sunlight.
https://youtu.be/KOSU4jrmpyk
Of course, I've already tried pulling the spark plug things (I don't know what they're called), but none of them were budging with the amount of force I was willing to use. Should I wait until the car is cool before checking for oil?
If you actually watch that 45 second video of mine, I'd also appreciate anything else you notice, except for the old compressor wire, which I simply left in the right forward lighting loom since it'd probably take 10 hours to get it out without chopping it up, which I would end up doing and probably cut one of the other wires...
Edit after pulling the [spark plug boots]? out and finding no oil:
I should mention that in 2010 or so, coolant flooded the passenger side foot well and several things were replaced as a result. I know the water pump and heater core were replaced because I have those receipts, but since my temperature gauge goes to about 33%, I think that means the ECTS and thermostat was also replaced. I should also note that as far as I know, my cooling fan has never kicked on because the PCM detected it was overheating. When idling in summer without the AC on, the temp gauge will climb to 50% over the course of 1-2 minutes then either stop or slow down, meanwhile coolant starts slowly pulsing out of the reservoir cap. I've had to add about ¼ cup of coolant 4 times in the past decade, which was always after coolant light starts blinking.
So there are two points to that last wall of text paragraph: that the smoke is definitely not coolant and that whatever it was that caused the cabin coolant leak could have potentially damaged the head gasket? I'm just hoping this is something simple enough to fix in e.g. the AutoZone parking lot.

ganz unten steht die lange version in kurz wer nicht alles lesen möchte aber danke an alle die sich die zeit nehmen zum lesen und antworten denn ich könnte es nicht und genau darum geht es ich(23) fühle mich seit monaten einfach nur leer, kraftlos, schwach, unmotiviert und down und das auf einem level das echt nicht ertragbar ist. es macht mich richtig wütend, dass ich nicht einfach besser drauf sein, mehr energie haben kann. und schlimm ist auch ich kann keinen genauen grund nennen. es ist einfach alles. das leben, die arbeit, berufsschule und alles was dazu gehört. ich war schon immer kein besonders fleißiger mensch. es kommt ganz drauf an wer mir beim arbeiten zuschaut aber grundsätzlich mache ich nie mehr als nötig. das war auch in der schule schon so. viel lieber verbringe ich zeit mit tagträumen, musik, dösen und filme, games, social media. dieses verhalten hat sich besonders seit der 9. klasse verstärkt bis ich irgendwann die schule in der 12. kurz vorm abi abgebrochen hab weil ich mich nicht mehr anstrengen wollte weil mir das abi einfach nicht genug wert war. es war auch eine gute entscheidung. schule hat mich einfach krank gemacht. das lernen von etlichen dingen die man überhaupt gar nicht wissen will usw
naja ich war dann ein halbes bis ganzes jahr arbeitssuchend und habe dann ein föj in nem tierheim gemacht. 30h woche, keine hausaufgaben, keine formeln, keine definitionen auswendig lernen. stattdessen tiere füttenr und streicheln. es war toll auch wenn ich manchmal morgens durchgehangen hab oder nach den ersten 3h schon nach hause wollte.
dann war ich wieder ne zeit lang arbeitssuchend und bin jetzt in einer ausbildung fachkraft für veranstaltungstechnik. ich dachte mir ich mag und mache selbst musik und bühnenshows sind cool und theater und konzerte also geil lern ich doch wie mans macht. es war auch toll am anfang. ich hab ne ganze menge gelernt. das erste mal in meinem leben viel und hart gearbeitet. erste eigene wohnung. endlich ohne eltern usw. mein ausbilder schlug vor erst ein jahr praktikum zu machen und dann ausbildung also machte ich das auch. so. dann erstes lehrjahr. auf einmal musste man was wissen. zusammenhänge kennen. seine arbeitsstunden aufschreiben und auch noch jeden tag was man gemacht hat ins berichtsheft. bab und wohngeld beantragen. bürgergeld(weil bab nicht reicht) und alle 3 wochen zur berufsschule. soweit so gut. war ein mega jahr. zeugnis nur 1 und 2, neue freundin kennengelernt, mir gings wirklich unfassbar gut
aber seit dem 2. lehrjahr wird alles nur noch schlimmer und ich weiß keinen ausweg. berufsschule: meik halbjahreszeugnis ist voller 4ren. ich langweile mich zu tode sobald es um zahlen, formeln und berechnen geht und ich krieg es absolut nicht hin zeit und motivation zum lernen zu finden. so viele bereiche die man kennen muss. lichttechnik, tontechnik, bühnentechnik, kameratechnik, statik, elektrotechnik, schutz und sicherheit, wirtschafts und soziallehre. es ist einfach zu viel. viel zu viel. ich will das alles überhaupt gar nicht wissen. betrieb: ich habe absolut gar kein verständnis für leute die 40h woche arbeiten. für mich steht fest. nie wieder. das geld ist mir sowas von egal. ich steh um 6 auf. rack mich ab. fertig um 16. einkaufen. essen machen duschen. erholen von 8h arbeit. bisschen zocken und handy und ab pennen weil man hat nur noch 6h bis man wieder raus muss. mein ausbilder hat mich auch etwas gedrängt den führerschein zu machen(hieru muss man sagen dass meine eltern mich auch schon mit 18 bei der fahrschule angemeldet hatten ohne dass ich wollte und mir ein auto geschenkt hatten ohne dass ich wollte. 2 anläufe gabs aber ich habs nie auch nur bis zur theorieprüfung geschafft weil ich null motivation habe auto zu fahren. ich wills einfach gar nicht. die ganzen regeln und funktionen zu lernen ist so eine quälerei für mich) aber jetzt bin ich wieder dabei. diesmal sogar mit fahrstunden. bin aber auch schon im 2. von 2 jahren fahrschule und hab so 40% bei der scheiß app. naja. ich fühl mich einfacg nur müde, kraftlos, energielos, motivationslos, ich schaff es kaum meinen körper zu bewegen und mit der einstellung geh ich jeden tag zur arbeit. ich meine ja sie ist ganz cool, interessant, macht auch mal spaß. aber 8h jeden tag...? das ist so unmenschlich
gesundheit: ich habe massive schlafprobleme, hatte ich aber schon immer. ich kann einfach nicht einschlafen. frühestens kann ichs 23 uhr versuchen und selbst dann brauch ich locker ne stunde bis ich einschlafe. ich bin nachts nie müde genug um mich einfach hinzulegen und einzuschlafen. und dabei schlafe ich tagsüber soo selten. ich ernähre mich mitlerweile nur noch von junkfood und zucker weil das mein comfortfood ist und ich absolut null zeit und motivation fürs kochen nehmen möchte. ich habe eine normale figur, ein wenig fett, ein wenig muskeln. ich mag meinen körper aber ich merke wie er krank ist. ich schaffe es vlt alle 3-4 tage mich zum duschen zu prügeln
sozialleben: ich hab ne gute menge guter freunde. wir hören uns fast jeden tag im discord aber selbst das hat extremst nachgelassen weil ich mich selbst so sehr stresse. meine freundin und familie wollen auch was von mir haben und ich würde es ihnen so gern geben aber ich fühl mich einfach zu scheiße und down. ich will mich nicht mit ihnen treffen wenn ich so deprimiert bin und es macht mich so wütend dass arbeit und berufsschule mir diese schönen sachen kaputt machen.
ich lasse mein berichtsheft liegen bis ich so 2-3 monate im verzug bin um dann unter stress alles nachzuarbeiten weils mich so runterzieht dass ichs immer wieder aufschiebe. ich lerne nie für schule weils mich einfach nicht genug interessiert und mich schlechte noten noch mehr demotivieren zu lernen. ich hab das gefühl ich hab so unfassbar wenig ahnung obwohl ich bald schon 3 jahre in diesem beruf arbeite. meine wohnung ist grauenvoll. ich schmeiße müll einfach so in die ecke. pfand und glasflaschen stapeln sich genau wie schmutzige und saubere wäsche die ich einfach so auf den boden werfe. es macht mich so traurig wie ich mit meiner schönen wohnung umgehe weil ich genau weiß wie viel wert es ist eine trockene warme wohnung überhaupt zu haben.
ich vernachlässige eigentlich alles in meinem leben, einschließlich mir selbst und es wird eher schlimmer als besser. ich flüchte mich in comfortzonen von mir aber das viel zu lange und das verschlimmert meine lage noch. ich weiß mir geht es schlecht und will so sehr dass es anders ist und doch fehlt mir jegliche energie und motivation um was zu tun, dass ich mir lieber einfach sage "scheiß drauf. wenns nicht klappt dann ist es eben so". mir gings seit jahren nicht so schlimm und ich weiß einfach keinen ausweg falls jemand irgendwie ideen hat was meine lage ist und wie ich da raus komme bitte bitte ich brauche hilfe

I just downloaded the free trial of NLP, with the intention of probably buying the full version today unless something pops up that's a deal breaker.
My workflow to this point for color negative film has been as follows, using Vuescan and my Nikon Coolscan 4000:

1. Put strip in scanner and select a small area of film base to lock the exposure and film base color for that roll
2. Scan using the generic color negative preset, saving 48bit RGB TIFF files. Cropping, and attempts at color balance (using white balance or sometimes just manual adjustments) always happened in Vuescan. None of the film emulsion presets ever gave good results, so I never used them. Sometimes a scan would come out better with "auto levels", sometimes the "correct fading" checkbox made it better... I was really flying by the seat of my pants. Almost always I found that infrared cleaning did an excellent job removing dust and scratches automatically.
3. Final adjustments to colocontrast/sharpness in Lightroom (the imported files were positive TIFFs, so I could basically treat them like digital photos at that point).

I have had mixed results with this method. Some scans came out really great and some I just couldn't get a good result from, even when I knew the film was fresh, well-developed, density was good, etc.
Today I took my first crack at the NLP recommended workflow:

1. Set the scanner to "image" (rather than color negative) mode, so it's no longer adjusting or inverting. Output is 48bit RGB raw DNG now.
2. Preview a frame, select the entire thing (including border), and use that to lock the exposure for the roll. There's no longer an option to lock film base color since Vuescan isn't doing any processing of color.
3. Scan everything raw like that, then import into Lightroom.
4. Use the NLP plugin in Lightroom to process the frames - this does the inverting, color balancing, etc.

The results are obviously, clearly, far and away much better. The colors look like they should. I'm blown away.
BUT! Despite the advantages, my RAW scans don't seem to be getting the infrared clean treatment. Dust is everywhere on the frames, way too much to spot out manually.
Obviously I could make some improvements on physically cleaning prior to scanning, but I know that Vuescan can do the job - I just don't know how to get dust deletion done prior to spitting out a RAW scan.
If I can crack this and make sure my RAW scans have dust deleted before export, I'll buy NLP immediately. It's obviously an order of magnitude better than anything I've been able to achieve with color negative film to this point.
Anyone care to share a workflow that is successfully including automatic dust removal?

If you would like to buy, please check my thread on /gamesale.
  Photos upon request.
 

Storage Solutions	Condition
Thin Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	New. Clear front, black back
Standard Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	New. Clear front and back
Genesis/Famicom Retro Protection	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
Super Famicom Cartridge Retro Protection	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
SNES Cartridge Retro Protection	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
NES Cartridge Retro Protection	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector

 

amiibo	Condition
Tears of the Kingdom Link	Loose
Ocarina of Time Link	Loose
Majora's Mask Link	Loose
Smash Bros. Link	Loose
Skyward Sword Link	Loose
Zelda & Loftwing	Loose
Wind Waker Link	Loose
Wind Waker Zelda	Loose
Twilight Princess Link	Loose
Wolf Link and Midna	Loose
Callie	Loose
Marie	Loose
Inkling Boy [Neon Green]	Loose
Inkling Girl [Neon Pink]	Loose
Inkling Squid [Neon Purple]	Loose
Splatoon 2 Pearl	Loose
Splatoon 2 Marina	Loose
Splatoon 3 Inkling [Yellow]	Loose
Splatoon 3 Octoling [Blue]	Loose
Splatoon 3 Small Fry	Loose
Zelda Loftwing	New In Box
Sanrio amiibo cards	Sealed Pack
Mario Cereal Box	Cereal Removed/Flattened
Isabelle Summer Outfit	Open Box
Cyrus/K.K./Reese	New In Box/Damaged box
Tom Nook	New In Box
Mabel	New In Box

 

Digital Codes	Condition
SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD-STANDARD EDITION-US	Switch Digital Code

 

Figures	Condition
Chrono Trigger Chrono (Crono)/Robo/Eira (Ayla) Formation Arts Figure	Loose figure, most limbs are detachable by design, no missing parts
Pit Figma Figure	First Edition, Open Box, Contains everything but AR cards
Lillie (Pokemon) Nendoroid	Sealed. US edition from the Pokemon Center
Pixel Pal Mega Man	Sealed, damaged box
Pixel Pal SMB3 Mario	Sealed
Pixel Pal SMB3 Luigi	Sealed
Tracer Nendoroid (730)	Sealed
Tracer (Blizzard Entertainment Cute But Deadly Series 2 Vinyl)	Loose figure

 

Switch	Condition
Adventure Acedamia	Sealed
Atelier Ryza 3	Complete in Box
Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack	Sealed
Bendy and the Ink Machine	Complete in Box
Cruel King and the Great Hero Storybook Edition	Complete in Box
Ender Lilies	Sealed, Japan Import
Grim Fandango Remastered	Complete in Box, no slip cover
Labyrinth of Refrain	Loose
Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom	Sealed
Metroid Dread Collector's Edition	Sealed, a few dings associated with shipping
Monster Hunter Stories 2 Collector's Edition	Sealed
The Mummy Demastered	Complete in Box
River City Girls	Complete in Box, US Copy, Best Buy Variant
Shadowverse Champion's Battle	Loose
Shantae	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge	Sealed
Shantae Collector's Edition	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge Collector's Edition	Sealed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection	Sealed
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap	Complete in Box
Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution	Loose

 

Wii	Condition
Batallion Wars 2	Game and Case
Castle of Shikigami III	Complete in Box
Okami	Game and Case

 

WiiU Games	Condition
Batman Arkham City Armored Edition	Sealed
Disney Infinity 2.0	Sealed
Nintendoland	Complete in Box
Star Fox Guard	Complete in Box
Turbo Super Stunt Squad	Complete in Box, Art/Manual damage

 

DS	Condition
Animal Crossing Wild World	Game, Case, and inserts. No Manual
Final Fantasy Fables Chocobo's Dungeon DS+	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Izuna 2 The Unemployed Ninja Returns	Loose
Super Scribblenauts	Loose

 

3DS	Condition
Kid Icarus Uprising (Japanese)	Game, Manual, and Case (No Big Box)
Kid Icarus Uprising	Complete in Box, Includes Big Box, Stand and AR cards
Senran Kagura Deep Crimson Double D Edition	Sealed

 

GBA	Condition
Car Battler Joe	Loose. Label imperfections
Chocobo Land A Game of Dice	Loose
Lady Sia	Loose, EU import
Lady Sia	Loose. Label imperfections
Super Mario Advance	No label

 

GB	Condition
Alleyway	Loose
Kid Dracula	Loose

 

NES	Condition
Adventure Island II	Loose
Faria	Game and Box. Box has some wear
Kid Icarus	Game, Box, and Manual; Box shows wear; Protective case for box and manual included
Rainbow Islands	Loose
Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt	Loose

 

SNES	Condition
Metal Marines	Loose
Secret of Mana	Loose
Super Punch-Out	Loose
Super Scope 6	Loose
Wild Guns	Loose, Bad Label Damage

 

Gamecube	Condition
Cubivore	Loose disc
Pikmin	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Star Fox Assault	Loose disc
Resident Evil 0	Player's Choice, Case and Discs, no manual
Resident Evil	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Resident Evil	Complete In Box
Resident Evil 4	Complete In Box, Disc 2 has label wrinkles
Super Mario Sunshine	Game and case, no manual

 

Sega Genesis	Condition
Jurrassic Park	Loose cartridge, Sharpie on Label
Phantasy Star IV	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Quackshot	Complete In Box
Rocket Knight Adventures	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Spider-Man	Loose cartridge, Label Damage

 

Sega Saturn	Condition
NiGHTS Into Dreams	Complete in Box, Not for Resale Edition
Night Warriors Darkstalkers' Revenge	Loose

 

Sega Dreamcast	Condition
Project Justice	Complete in Box, page 2 detached from manual.
Power Stone 2	Loose

 

PSP	Condition
Daxter	Loose, Greatest Hits, Not For Resale
Power Stone Collection	Loose
Silent Hill Origins	Game and Case

 

PS1	Condition
Castlevania Chronicles	Complete in Box
Chocobo Racing	Loose
Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Chocobo's Dungeon 2	Complete in Box, Manual is badly water damaged
Dark Stalkers	Loose slim case version
Dark Stalkers 3	Disc and Manual, no back art
Rival Schools	Complete in Box
Silent Hill	Loose disc, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile	Discs and Case, no manual
World of Dragon Warrior Torneko The Last Hope	Loose
Xenogears	Complete in Box

 

PS2	Condition
Avatar The Last Airbender	Disc and Case
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Bully	Greatest Hits, game & artwork
Burnout 3 Takedown	Complete, Water Damage on back cover art
Burnout Dominator	Case and Disc, Disc has superficial scratches but still boots
Castlevania Curse of Darkness	Loose, Disc has light scratching
Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Dragon Ball Z Budokai	Complete in Box
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Final Fantasy X	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Final Fantasy X-2	Complete; Greatest Hits
Haunting Ground	Complete in Box, Water Damage on art and manual
Killzone	Complete in Box
Grand Theft Auto Vice City	Disc, Case, Poster, No Manual
.Hack Infection	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Mutation	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Outbreak	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Quaratine	Discs and Case, no manual
Marvel vs Capcom 2	Cracked Disc, won't boot for me. Comes with case, no manual
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2	Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground 2	Complete in Box
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Resident Evil Dead Aim	Game and Case, No manual
Scarface	Complete; Greatest Hits
Simpsons Road Rage	Loose, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile 2	Complete In Box, some wear on the artwork and manual
Tekken Tag Tournament	Disc and Case, Greatest Hits, Full side Movie Gallery sticker on DVD face

 

PS3	Condition
Sports Champions	Complete in Box

 

PS4	Condition
APEX Construct	Sealed
Gravity Rush Remastered	Loose
J-Stars Victory VS+	Loose
SteamWorld Dig 2	Sealed

 

PS5	Condition
Battlefield 2042	Complete in Box
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Deluxe Eiditon	Sealed

 

XBOX One	Condition
Watchdogs	Sealed

 

Consoles	Condition
Monster Hunter Rise Edition Switch	New in Box (No game code)
Oculus Quest 1	Complete in Box
Playstation 2 w/FreeMcBoot	Original PS2 "Fat" system. Won't read PS1 or blue PS2 discs. Laser could be ready to go bad, or just need re-alignment. Comes with a Yellow PS2 Memory Card that has FreeMcBoot on it. Free McBoot will allow you to to play games off of a hard drive if desired. No cords/controllers included.
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Edition OLED Switch	New In Box
SNES Jr.	Includes Deck, RF Coax Cable, Third Party AC Adapter, and Third Party Controller. Small crack on the corner.
Splatoon 3 Edition OLED Switch	New In Box

 

Controllers	Condition
FortniteWildcat Joy-Con Set	Comes from the Fortnite Edition Console, never used
Joy-Con Grip	Bagged/Unused - Came with console
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Left Controller	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Right Controller	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Platinum Gamecube Controller	Third Party, no nintendo logo, wired, good condition
Joy-Con (Left/Gray)	Good, no drift
Joy-Con (Right/Neon Red)	Good, no drift, Factory refurbished
SNES Controller	Third Party, no nintendo logo
SPIN Z WiiU Pro Controller	Black, Near Mint

 

Misc.	Condition
Chocobo White Mage Plush	Good
Chocobo Mystery Dungeon Everybuddy Pin	Thief costume
Chocobo's Dungeon Card Game Monsters Expansion Pack	Sealed
Black MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
Yellow Nyko MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
The Art of Splatoon 2	Sealed
Mario Kart 8 Target Pre-Order Keychain	Sealed. Cut in the film.
Nintendo Switch AC Adapter	Gently used
Nintendo 64 Memory Jumper Pack	OEM/Authentic Regular Pack, not to be confused with the expansion
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pre-Order Coin	Sealed
Breath of the Wild Sheikah Coin	From BotW Special Edition, Good condition
Pokken Art Cel Pre-Order Bonus	Sealed
Blastoise New 3DS Plates	Plates are mint and unused
Nintendo 3DS Stand	OEM, Came with Kid Icarus Uprising
Kid Icarus Uprising Players Guide (Imported from Japan, no AR cards)	Shows a little wear
Kid Icarus AR Card Set (205/404)	Contains 249/402 different North American (AKDE) cards, no duplicates. An itemized list can be provided upon request.
Kid Icarus AR - Pit Rally Cry Sealed Pack	Sealed pack of cards that contains AKDE-403,014,086
Shantae Risky's Revenge 2 LP Soundtrack Vinyl	Sealed
Super Mario Wonder Framed Art Print	Comes from Best Buy, Sealed
Tears of the Kingdom Pin Set (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Art Book (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Poster (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Portal 2 Wheatley LED Flashlight	Sealed

 

Cases/Boxes/Inserts	Condition
Chrono Trigger Manual	SNES, Slight Wear
Chrono Trigger Orange Border Map	Slight Water Damage, 2 Pin holes in the folds, frame optional
Chrono Trigger Green Border Map	Slight Water Damage
Disgaea 1 Rosen Queen Edition	Everything but the game
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	Greatest Hits Artwork
Shantae Slip Cover	Limited Run Nintendo Switch 5 Game Slip cover with protector
Burnout Revenge	PS2 case and manual
Doom Eternal Steelbook	PS4 Sealed, no game
Dot Hack (.HACK) Infection	PS2 case and manual
Dot Hack (.HACK) Mutation	Empty Case only
Dot Hack (.HACK) Outbreak	PS2 case and manual
Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	PS2 Greatest Hits Case Only, damaged clips but artwork is in good shape
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition	Includes everything but the game
Metroid Dread Special Edition	Box only, damaged from shipping
God of War Chains of Olympus	Case and Manual Only
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	PS2 case only, 'Not For Sale' version
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Nintendo Switch ConsoleBox Only	Empty Box, good condition
Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
Pokemon Dialga & Palkia Switch Lite Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
Rival Schools Front Artwork	Just the front artwork
Fortnite Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
The Witcher III Wild Hunt	Empty Case, good condition
Tears of the Kingdom Steelbook (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Empty Case, Mint
Witch's Wish Box	Empty Box, good condition

 

Freebies	Condition
Playstation 2 IDE Connector	Upgraded my HD Adapter to SATA, these are the old/leftover connectors.
Nintendo Switch Cart Caddy	3D Printed. Holds 16 carts. Can connect to an OEM dock.
Yoshi Mario Kart Keychain	Good
Small Jotaro Kujo Figure	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
Large Jotaro Kujo Figure	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
2 Cartridge DS Travel Case	2 Cartridge DS Travel Case
4 Cartridge DS Travel Case	4 Cartridge DS Travel Case
Wonderswan Display Stand	3D Printed. Does not fit Wonderswan Crystal
Lavos Figure	3D printed in PLA Wood Filament. Not my model, found on thingiverse.

 

Wants	Console
Kid Icarus Uprising AR Cards: AKDE-025 AKDE-039 (Will consider others)	None
Asheron's Call Memorabilia	PC
Game & Watch Devices (Excluding 35th Mario & Zelda editions)	G&W
Trip World	GB
Classic NES Series: Excitebike	GBA
Classic NES Series: Dr. Mario	GBA
Classic NES Series: Pac-Man	GBA
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble	GBA
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge	GBC
R.O.B. Accessories	NES
Yo Noid	NES
Pirates Of Dark Water	SNES
Chrono Trigger Box/Inserts	SNES
Marvel Super Heroes War of the Gems	SNES
Ribbit King	NGC
Mario Wonder Cards/Pins Pre-Order Bonuses	None
Metal Gear Acid	PSP
Racing Lagoon	PS1
Parasite Eve 2	PS1
Red Ninja (Art/Manual)	PS2
Night Warriors Darkstalkers Revenge (Case & Manual Only)	Saturn
Wonderswan Games	Wonderswan
DS Download Station 1-8,10,11,12,14,16,17,20	DS
Oni	PS2
Sega Master System Games	Master System
ROG Ally Extreme	PC

Prices are subjective, negotiable, and do not include shipping.   If you would like to trade, check out my thread on /gameswap.   Also accepting Cashapp and Venmo.   One Freebie per order.   Photos upon request.
 

Storage Solutions	Price	Condition
Thin Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	1/per	New. Clear front, black back
Standard Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	1/per	New. Clear front and back
Genesis/Famicom Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
Super Famicom Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
SNES Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
NES Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector

 

amiibo	Price	Condition
Tears of the Kingdom Link	25	Loose
Ocarina of Time Link	25	Loose
Majora's Mask Link	30	Loose
Smash Bros. Link	20	Loose
Skyward Sword Link	20	Loose
Zelda & Loftwing	15	Loose
Wind Waker Link	20	Loose
Wind Waker Zelda	20	Loose
Twilight Princess Link	50	Loose
Wolf Link and Midna	25	Loose
Callie	20	Loose
Marie	20	Loose
Inkling Boy [Neon Green]	15	Loose
Inkling Girl [Neon Pink]	25	Loose
Inkling Squid [Neon Purple]	17	Loose
Splatoon 2 Pearl	20	Loose
Splatoon 2 Marina	20	Loose
Splatoon 3 Inkling [Yellow]	22	Loose
Splatoon 3 Octoling [Blue]	20	Loose
Splatoon 3 Small Fry	20	Loose
Zelda Loftwing	30	New In Box
Sanrio amiibo cards	12	Sealed Pack
Mario Cereal Box	15	Cereal Removed/Flattened
Isabelle Summer Outfit	40	Open Box
Cyrus/K.K./Reese	18	New In Box/Damaged box
Tom Nook	12	New In Box
Mabel	9	New In Box

 

Digital Codes	Price	Condition
SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD-STANDARD EDITION-US	10	Switch Digital Code

 

Figures	Price	Condition
Chrono Trigger Chrono (Crono)/Robo/Eira (Ayla) Formation Arts Figure	100	Loose figure, most limbs are detachable by design, no missing parts
Pit Figma Figure	90	First Edition, Open Box, Contains everything but AR cards
Lillie (Pokemon) Nendoroid	300	Sealed. US edition from the Pokemon Center
Pixel Pal Mega Man	30	Sealed, damaged box
Pixel Pal SMB3 Mario	30	Sealed
Pixel Pal SMB3 Luigi	30	Sealed
Tracer Nendoroid (730)	30	Sealed
Tracer (Blizzard Entertainment Cute But Deadly Series 2 Vinyl)	8	Loose figure

 

Switch	Price	Condition
Adventure Acedamia	30	Sealed
Atelier Ryza 3	90	Complete in Box
Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack	40	Sealed
Bendy and the Ink Machine	30	Complete in Box
Cruel King and the Great Hero Storybook Edition	60	Complete in Box
Ender Lilies	55	Sealed, Japan Import
Grim Fandango Remastered	45	Complete in Box, no slip cover
Labyrinth of Refrain	65	Loose
Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom	60	Sealed
Metroid Dread Collector's Edition	110	Sealed, a few dings associated with shipping
Monster Hunter Stories 2 Collector's Edition	160	Sealed
The Mummy Demastered	55	Complete in Box
River City Girls	120	Complete in Box, US Copy, Best Buy Variant
Shadowverse Champion's Battle	15	Loose
Shantae	50	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge	50	Sealed
Shantae Collector's Edition	150	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge Collector's Edition	150	Sealed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection	30	Sealed
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap	40	Complete in Box
Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution	18	Loose

 

Wii	Price	Condition
Batallion Wars 2	11	Game and Case
Castle of Shikigami III	75	Complete in Box
Okami	10	Game and Case

 

WiiU Games	Price	Condition
Batman Arkham City Armored Edition	40	Sealed
Disney Infinity 2.0	15	Sealed
Nintendoland	10	Complete in Box
Star Fox Guard	10	Complete in Box
Turbo Super Stunt Squad	200	Complete in Box, Art/Manual damage

 

DS	Price	Condition
Animal Crossing Wild World	35	Game, Case, and inserts. No Manual
Final Fantasy Fables Chocobo's Dungeon DS+	25	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Izuna 2 The Unemployed Ninja Returns	70	Loose
Super Scribblenauts	5	Loose

 

3DS	Price	Condition
Kid Icarus Uprising (Japanese)	40	Game, Manual, and Case (No Big Box)
Kid Icarus Uprising	120	Complete in Box, Includes Big Box, Stand and AR cards
Senran Kagura Deep Crimson Double D Edition	75	Sealed

 

GBA	Price	Condition
Car Battler Joe	180	Loose. Label imperfections
Chocobo Land A Game of Dice	15	Loose
Lady Sia	30	Loose, EU import
Lady Sia	50	Loose. Label imperfections
Super Mario Advance	13	No label

 

GB	Price	Condition
Alleyway	5	Loose
Kid Dracula	240	Loose

 

NES	Price	Condition
Adventure Island II	25	Loose
Faria	200	Game and Box. Box has some wear
Kid Icarus	180	Game, Box, and Manual; Box shows wear; Protective case for box and manual included
Rainbow Islands	35	Loose
Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt	10	Loose

 

SNES	Price	Condition
Metal Marines	90	Loose
Secret of Mana	55	Loose
Super Punch-Out	25	Loose
Super Scope 6	22	Loose
Wild Guns	270	Loose, Bad Label Damage

 

Gamecube	Price	Condition
Cubivore	350	Loose disc
Pikmin	50	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Star Fox Assault	30	Loose disc
Resident Evil 0	15	Player's Choice, Case and Discs, no manual
Resident Evil	25	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Resident Evil	27	Complete In Box
Resident Evil 4	30	Complete In Box, Disc 2 has label wrinkles
Super Mario Sunshine	40	Game and case, no manual

 

Sega Genesis	Price	Condition
Jurrassic Park	10	Loose cartridge, Sharpie on Label
Phantasy Star IV	70	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Quackshot	40	Complete In Box
Rocket Knight Adventures	37	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Spider-Man	12	Loose cartridge, Label Damage

 

Sega Saturn	Price	Condition
NiGHTS Into Dreams	40	Complete in Box, Not for Resale Edition
Night Warriors Darkstalkers' Revenge	50	Loose

 

Sega Dreamcast	Price	Condition
Project Justice	225	Complete in Box, page 2 detached from manual.
Power Stone 2	90	Loose

 

PSP	Price	Condition
Daxter	10	Loose, Greatest Hits, Not For Resale
Power Stone Collection	30	Loose
Silent Hill Origins	50	Game and Case

 

PS1	Price	Condition
Castlevania Chronicles	165	Complete in Box
Chocobo Racing	55	Loose
Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon	20	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Chocobo's Dungeon 2	70	Complete in Box, Manual is badly water damaged
Dark Stalkers	70	Loose slim case version
Dark Stalkers 3	50	Disc and Manual, no back art
Rival Schools	130	Complete in Box
Silent Hill	105	Loose disc, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile	325	Discs and Case, no manual
World of Dragon Warrior Torneko The Last Hope	90	Loose
Xenogears	150	Complete in Box

 

PS2	Price	Condition
Avatar The Last Airbender	10	Disc and Case
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance	17	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Bully	15	Greatest Hits, game & artwork
Burnout 3 Takedown	11	Complete, Water Damage on back cover art
Burnout Dominator	9	Case and Disc, Disc has superficial scratches but still boots
Castlevania Curse of Darkness	60	Loose, Disc has light scratching
Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Dragon Ball Z Budokai	11	Complete in Box
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	15	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Final Fantasy X	6	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Final Fantasy X-2	6	Complete; Greatest Hits
Haunting Ground	300	Complete in Box, Water Damage on art and manual
Killzone	15	Complete in Box
Grand Theft Auto Vice City	10	Disc, Case, Poster, No Manual
.Hack Infection	20	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Mutation	45	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Outbreak	65	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Quaratine	300	Discs and Case, no manual
Marvel vs Capcom 2	60	Cracked Disc, won't boot for me. Comes with case, no manual
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2	10	Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground 2	24	Complete in Box
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Resident Evil Dead Aim	50	Game and Case, No manual
Scarface	40	Complete; Greatest Hits
Simpsons Road Rage	15	Loose, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile 2	40	Complete In Box, some wear on the artwork and manual
Tekken Tag Tournament	10	Disc and Case, Greatest Hits, Full side Movie Gallery sticker on DVD face

 

PS3	Price	Condition
Sports Champions	10	Complete in Box

 

PS4	Price	Condition
APEX Construct	15	Sealed
Gravity Rush Remastered	60	Loose
J-Stars Victory VS+	30	Loose
SteamWorld Dig 2	20	Sealed

 

PS5	Price	Condition
Battlefield 2042	20	Complete in Box
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Deluxe Eiditon	150	Sealed

 

XBOX One	Price	Condition
Watchdogs	15	Sealed

 

Consoles	Price	Condition
Monster Hunter Rise Edition Switch	420	New in Box (No game code)
Oculus Quest 1	180	Complete in Box
Playstation 2 w/FreeMcBoot	80	Original PS2 "Fat" system. Won't read PS1 or blue PS2 discs. Laser could be ready to go bad, or just need re-alignment. Comes with a Yellow PS2 Memory Card that has FreeMcBoot on it. Free McBoot will allow you to to play games off of a hard drive if desired. No cords/controllers included.
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Edition OLED Switch	400	New In Box
SNES Jr.	120	Includes Deck, RF Coax Cable, Third Party AC Adapter, and Third Party Controller. Small crack on the corner.
Splatoon 3 Edition OLED Switch	400	New In Box

 

Controllers	Price	Condition
FortniteWildcat Joy-Con Set	120	Comes from the Fortnite Edition Console, never used
Joy-Con Grip	8	Bagged/Unused - Came with console
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Left Controller	115	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Right Controller	115	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Platinum Gamecube Controller	20	Third Party, no nintendo logo, wired, good condition
Joy-Con (Left/Gray)	35	Good, no drift
Joy-Con (Right/Neon Red)	35	Good, no drift, Factory refurbished
SNES Controller	10	Third Party, no nintendo logo
SPIN Z WiiU Pro Controller	25	Black, Near Mint

 

Misc.	Price	Condition
Chocobo White Mage Plush	20	Good
Chocobo Mystery Dungeon Everybuddy Pin	5	Thief costume
Chocobo's Dungeon Card Game Monsters Expansion Pack	25	Sealed
Black MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	20	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
Yellow Nyko MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	20	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
The Art of Splatoon 2	300	Sealed
Mario Kart 8 Target Pre-Order Keychain	10	Sealed. Cut in the film.
Nintendo Switch AC Adapter	20	Gently used
Nintendo 64 Memory Jumper Pack	20	OEM/Authentic Regular Pack, not to be confused with the expansion
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pre-Order Coin	15	Sealed
Breath of the Wild Sheikah Coin	25	From BotW Special Edition, Good condition
Pokken Art Cel Pre-Order Bonus	7	Sealed
Blastoise New 3DS Plates	200	Plates are mint and unused
Nintendo 3DS Stand	30	OEM, Came with Kid Icarus Uprising
Kid Icarus Uprising Players Guide (Imported from Japan, no AR cards)	30	Shows a little wear
Kid Icarus AR Card Set (205/404)	600	Contains 249/402 different North American (AKDE) cards, no duplicates. An itemized list can be provided upon request.
Kid Icarus AR - Pit Rally Cry Sealed Pack	20	Sealed pack of cards that contains AKDE-403,014,086
Shantae Risky's Revenge 2 LP Soundtrack Vinyl	55	Sealed
Super Mario Wonder Framed Art Print	25	Comes from Best Buy, Sealed
Tears of the Kingdom Pin Set (The Legend of Zelda)	20	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Art Book (The Legend of Zelda)	65	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Poster (The Legend of Zelda)	20	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Portal 2 Wheatley LED Flashlight	120	Sealed

 

Cases/Boxes/Inserts	Price	Condition
Chrono Trigger Manual	100	SNES, Slight Wear
Chrono Trigger Orange Border Map	80	Slight Water Damage, 2 Pin holes in the folds, frame optional
Chrono Trigger Green Border Map	80	Slight Water Damage
Disgaea 1 Rosen Queen Edition	150	Everything but the game
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	5	Greatest Hits Artwork
Shantae Slip Cover	100	Limited Run Nintendo Switch 5 Game Slip cover with protector
Burnout Revenge	5	PS2 case and manual
Doom Eternal Steelbook	15	PS4 Sealed, no game
Dot Hack (.HACK) Infection	20	PS2 case and manual
Dot Hack (.HACK) Mutation	20	Empty Case only
Dot Hack (.HACK) Outbreak	30	PS2 case and manual
Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	10	PS2 Greatest Hits Case Only, damaged clips but artwork is in good shape
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition	100	Includes everything but the game
Metroid Dread Special Edition	5	Box only, damaged from shipping
God of War Chains of Olympus	15	Case and Manual Only
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	5	PS2 case only, 'Not For Sale' version
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Nintendo Switch ConsoleBox Only	90	Empty Box, good condition
Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	20	Empty Box, good condition
Pokemon Dialga & Palkia Switch Lite Box Only	30	Empty Box, good condition
Rival Schools Front Artwork	25	Just the front artwork
Fortnite Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	20	Empty Box, good condition
The Witcher III Wild Hunt	20	Empty Case, good condition
Tears of the Kingdom Steelbook (The Legend of Zelda)	30	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Empty Case, Mint
Witch's Wish Box	50	Empty Box, good condition

 

Freebies	Price	Condition
Playstation 2 IDE Connector	Free with purchase	Upgraded my HD Adapter to SATA, these are the old/leftover connectors.
Nintendo Switch Cart Caddy	Free with purchase	3D Printed. Holds 16 carts. Can connect to an OEM dock.
Yoshi Mario Kart Keychain	Free with purchase	Good
Small Jotaro Kujo Figure	Free with purchase	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
Large Jotaro Kujo Figure	Free with purchase	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
2 Cartridge DS Travel Case	Free with purchase	2 Cartridge DS Travel Case
4 Cartridge DS Travel Case	Free with purchase	4 Cartridge DS Travel Case
Wonderswan Display Stand	Free with purchase	3D Printed. Does not fit Wonderswan Crystal
Lavos Figure	Free with purchase	3D printed in PLA Wood Filament. Not my model, found on thingiverse.

 

As If It Were Kismet: Prologue
Matt tore through the brush, blind in the dark. He didn’t care where he was going. He only knew he needed to be elsewhere. Far from here.
Behind him a creature howled that shocked his mind. It’s form was cruel and dangerous, though female. Nothing like the young woman she had once been. Nothing but a girl, a small and slight female.
It’s guttural growls and howls only grew closer as Matt tried to pick between seeing where he was going and getting away. The few times he looked he caught sight of the creature behind him. Hopping through the air with a speed that told him he was being toyed with. As if he were a mouse being played with by a cat.
But the reflex in him to run kept him going. His adrenaline going as hard as it could. The tightness and burning in his core tensing and locking up as his legs felt like there were being burned from within while taking on more of a heaviness.
His lungs were starting to betray him as he tried to gulp big breaths of air but only rapid and shallow breaths were all that he could manage. His brain was starting to burn….and then he was falling.
Falling down the side of a hill he saw the creature dart in a spring towards him, imperceivably fast almost. Catching him in mid air it seemed.
Managing to wrap its body around him and cushion his impact against the ground as they rolled. His mind barely took in what was happening during the roll. Only starting to understand what was happening once they were still.
The creature's triple D-cup breasts were unmistakably pressed hard against his back as he laid facing up at the night sky.
For a few seconds the world stilled and the needle light pain hitting the center of his brain took over for the cooking heat his brain had felt. His whole body felt heavy and reluctant to move.
Even if he could have really moved, a dull ache came over his limbs making them feel stilled and trapped as if by immeasurable amounts of sand that had engulfed him.
Slowly the arms holding him started to move. Moving so the creature's hands could start exploring him. Causing Matt to unstoppably let out a pathetic moan that made him go cold inside as hands lifted up his shirt and started to touch his exposed stomach and then his chest.
He would have whimpered so pathetically had he not still been in the depths of terror.
As its hands felt and groped his pecs he tried to situp as if to get away. For his efforts, his reward was a hand around his throat and a collection snarls and growls against his ear. A beastly, guttural voice spat words at him while somehow holding a feminine tone.
“Don’t move….I don’t know if I can calm down…”
Her words were not helped by her moans in his ear and the subsequent kissing of his ear. The flesh of his ear going between her lips as she moaned and seemed to pant. Releasing it and licking the side of his face with a moist warmth. He could feel its spittle, viscous and coating his flesh where the tongue touched. He could smell something in his saliva. Something that subtly entranced him.
Matt went stock still with fear and the confusion of mixed arousal. He barely perceived her right hand traveling lower on his body. A surprised moan and shudder echoed in the night from Matt’s lips as she took ahold of him. Her hand above his pants but still….stimulating him.
A light squeezing and almost probing of her digits kept him aroused and confused within her grasp. Resigning himself to the strange fate, Matt looked up at the stars as his mind tried not to shatter under the strange maelstrom of events and sensation that had started mere minutes ago.
His mind was only more confused as a slight figure, feminine in build, how it seemed to thunk the ground audibly as she landed on her feet out nowhere. Her knees barely bending under the pressure of the landing. Yet dirt was kicked up anyways and some of it onto Matt. Feeling it pepper his shirt and pants as it fell.
The figure, lit only faintly by moonlight, roared some dark tone Matt could only perceive as a demon as her eyes went bright with a crimson light. A light in the darkness that should not have been. “Let him go you bitch.” Was its words following the roar. Spittle escaping its mouth with faint droplets hit Matt's face.
The creature holding him by his throat and crotch seemed to tighten the grasp of both hands as it roared back. “HE IS MINE!”
The figure paused with a moment's hesitation. He was also her quarry. She had felt his fear without him knowing. His confused arousal. His fear. His terror.
And now he laid at the center of a struggle between two monsters. Unsure of who he wanted to win.
As If It Was Kismet Ch. 1
Matthew Berkshire hadn’t seen his mom in two years. Not that he had seen her much over the last six years.
A messy divorce between messy people and mom’s chaotic want for a life in Alaska had been one of the most…upsetting times in life. Setting him up for so much of what had defined his life thus far but then that had really started two years before he ever turned.
His ear buds were basic and simple. A part of cheap five pack, common for his life as he was known to lose little things. Small things. They had a mix of metal and hard rock playing in them. Some classics, some alternative. Whatever made him feel something, anything. Even if it was hate. Anger. Rage. It was better than feeling numb. Not belonging.
The escalator down to his lone bag to go with his lone carry on showed his mom waiting for him. His had a type, that’s for damn sure. Not that it helped him in the genetics department as he was stuck at 5’9” to go along with his mother’s five foot even as his dad stood six foot. Forever leaving him to feel small, to pale, under his dad’s shadow. Did he ever stand a chance?
The guy next to her with the unkempt former seventies porn stache was “Dave.” He’d met him twice when his mother came and visited him in Florida. To his credit the guy didn’t look annoyed. Kind of concerned kind of which made Matthew want to break his frozen look but he was well practiced. Having removed any note of sadness from his face through much…tribulation.
His mother’s look on her face betrayed a hint of worry as the bruises on his face lightly showed up close. Saying his name was his like a distant echo that belonged to someone else.
Dave cut in and pulled out his right headphone. “What the hell bud, they knock you hard enough to hurt hearing? Your mom’s asking how you are doing.”
Matthew pulled out the other bud and grunted an empty “sorry.”
“You still have bruises after two week? What did they do to you?” His mom’s voice was full of worry. Something he hadn’t heard in….too long. Too long to make him feel anything. To ever make him believe there was any sincerity to her words. To not think her voice and mannerisms were an act. An act by someone who…wasn’t really there.
“It’s only fair. I took a nose. Fractured a couple orbital bones. Left one with having to get his jaw wired shut. And one will never walk right again for what I did to his knee cap.” Matthew said it all with a bored and disinterested tone. Perhaps well rehearsed.
“My man, handing out ass kickings, not bothering to take names.” Dave was quick to be the typical man’s man about it. Matthew wasn’t quite done yet. Lifting up his shirt to expose the right side near his kidney. Revealing a nasty scar from a six inch blade. “Luckily they gave me this first so they could rule it all in self-defense. The fuck didn’t get it in more than inch before I ruined his knee cap and then I took the nose of one of the fucks holding me.” Now he chose to smile keeping the well practiced dead look in his eyes.
No retorts. No questions. Just horrified looks on their faces. As he liked. As he preferred. They could hate him. They could be disgusted by him. But by God they would fear him.
“Well the doc did a good job sewing you up.” Dave commented uncomfortably. “Dissolving sutures. Ain’t they grand.” He smiled again and let it abruptly fall off his face and started walking to the carousel for the baggage claim.
Waiting and making small talk with Dave as his mother stood in silence. He was not the little boy she abandoned. The little boy she left with an angry man. While never hitting him. Left him in constant fear till he turned twelve and just didn’t care anymore. Something snapped. Broke. And he didn’t care if he died. Didn’t care if he stole. Didn’t even care if he killed. He just knew not to get caught. Something left over from his grandfather’s wisdom which came to make more and more sense with each passing year of life since that thing inside him broke.
Finally his bag came around and Dave went to try first to grab it but Dave practically leapt ahead of him. “Is that your grandfather’s rucksack bag?” his mother asked in a perplexed voice.
“Figured it’s been around since Viet Nam. So it’d serve me better than any of the worthless stuff they called luggage.” Dave commented after Matthew’s words. “Well hell yeah I still got mine from Desert Storm. You know the first one.” Dave laughed and Matthew eyed him oddly. Be it in the south or whether it was Alaska, country boys are country boys he guessed.
The car ride to the two people’s house, as Matthew thought of them. Was uneventful and full of vistas he imagined metropolitan types wetting themselves over. At most they meant isolation to him. Furtherness from the world as there were no mountains in Florida. And what mountains he had last seen in another state had been when he was eight. Another life, to Matthew it felt like. A life alien to him.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 2
Dave and his mom’s place was some two story type tucked into a tree line far up an elevated point. It was by no means the highest point in the mountain but it certainly felt up there.
Rocks were where the driveway should have been Matthew thought. Grabbing his backpack and rucksack from Dave’s jeep was no hard thing for him. Matthew was in formidable shape for someone his age, maybe even five years older. He had gotten a mix of fairly big shoulders and arms along with the chest to go for it when compared to most kids his age. A side effect of working out at least twice a day. First thing in the morning, some time in the evening, and the school’s gym when had had a good semester in school before he had to leave Florida.
Dave tried to come up and help him but Matthew walked past him towards the house. His mom was not sure what to make of his demeanor. Matthew was not the sweet kind boy he had once been. But she had been gone from his life essentially for a long time.
Ushering him into the house she cracked some joke he did not hear. He was too busy looking about and seeing a mix of old outdated decorating mixed with the strange and odd flair of his mother. Color contrasting against drab and dated. Like brightly painting over an old home that was falling apart he thought.
“Your room is this way Mattie.” His mom brightly intoned.
Without expressing any interest he followed his mother. Still faced and nonplussed. Just going along with the current. Pushed and pulled with its roll like a piece of driftwood.
The room was simple. A single small bed. A set of rubber weights with a curl bar and barbells. “Your dad said you were into weight lifting so we got you a bunch of stuff. Dave says it looks like his department’s gym almost. The woman’s smile felt very alien to him.
“Thank you. I appreciate it. I’ve got most of my stuff from home.” Matthew starting unpacking his rucksack and pulled out cables of repetitive and mixed colors. A single plastic barbell handle. The ruck sack could be filled with water bottles for added weight during pushups he figured. Remembering a Michael Keaton movie he watched with his dad post-Batman movies where he played a convicted killer using plastic bags filled with water for weights.
Matthew caught movement outside his lone fairly large window that could let him step out onto the roof of the house given its layout.
He saw a number of people running together through what he guessed was the backyard of the property, not that it had any fences to mark boundaries
They wore clothes that looked similar yet different from each other at the same time.”Oh those are the Johnston’s. Really nice bunch of people. Been on the mountain for a long time Dave tells me.”
Matthew looked at the group of people running and noticed the lack of resemblance. “They are related?” Matthew quizzically asked. Seeing a black and possibly a hispanic person amongst the bland looking white people.
“Oh well they are all adopted but for one or two of them…besides the parents of course. The family has a long tradition of taking in orphans they say. Real nice of them to do that don’t you think.”
Matthew looked at his mother and the hosier accent made no sense to him as he arched his left eye brow. Her and his dad were both from Florida. Born and raised. Sure her parents were from New York city but…
Matthew shook his lightly without turning to look at his mother as his vision was grabbed by one of the runners in particular. A girl of moderate height. Soft brunette. A plain beauty he figured with a slim build….and lack of remarkable breasts and rear to make any note of but….girls in general were his type at his age.
She was pretty enough. He couldn’t deny that but he found himself transfixed by her visage.
But the way she turned and looked at him, especially at that distance felt very disconcerting to him. Even if she was smiling like…she was a taste of a bright shiny day. Somehow.
Matthew’s mom noticed the exchange and smiled to herself with closed lips. “Oh that’s Vicky. She’s your age I think. Very sweet girl, who does the charity functions. You know bake sales, blood drives, car washes and the like. I think you should get to know her. Might be good for you.”
A truck horn sounded a couple of beeps in rather succession. “Oh that must be Mack, he said he might come by later this evening but he seems early.”
Matthew’s mother turned and left his room. Leaving Matthew to exchange a few looks with the alluring Vicky as she turned her head away from him to talk to the others in her group and look back at him.
Still Matthew’s left eyebrow was arched. In a way that reminded him of Spock from Star Trek that he and his grandpa used to watch on some streaming service or another.
As he heard ambient chatter elsewhere outside the house he figured to check it out as the alluring sight of Vicky would be around he figured. It was dull to stare at artwork. He was a boy who preferred jet skis and the like. Something he could ride and enjoy immensely. Even if at times it got him stabbed.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 3
Matthew sauntered out of the house and down the rockway that stood in for a driveway.
A few new people had come over from what he could first surmise of the situation. As he got closer it was obvious they were indigenous people. A couple of grown men…and a girl?
She was mousey. Maybe five foot. Hiding behind glasses and a big camo jacket that was far too big for her. It looked made for a grown man and the backwards trucker hat on her head kept her long black a beautiful mess of sorts.
She was cute in a way. A little androgynous but she had a cute energy to her. She reminded him of the more tomboyish Puerto Rican girls he had gotten into back in Florida. Given the deer corpses in the back of the truck….probably more dangerous to play with given the men in her family.
Small chatter passed between the adults when the girl noticed but turned away, trying to hide the tiny hint of a smile.
“Oh Mattie, this is Mack. He works with Dave at the sheriff’s department and John, he’s with fish and wildlife.” Matthew nodded at his mom’s words with some blankness as he looked at the deer the in the back of the pickup truck.
“Gale tells us you hunted with your dad some in Florida and Georgia.” Mack offered with a light hearted laugh camouflaged by his big simple and cheery but husky way he spoke.
Looking in the back of the truck he spoke. “We used lever action thirty-thirties and Mosin Nagants in seven-six-two-fifty-four-rimmed.” Mack and John whistled in an exaggerated fashion. Leaving Matthew to wonder if they were mocking him.
Mack spoke. “Well we just used thirty-odd-six in a custom gussied Garand.” That caught Matthew’s attention. “You have a Garand…” Matthew finally demonstrated interest in anything. “My dad has an SVT-40 and a Hakim 8mm but he always wanted a Garand but was too cheap to buy one.”
Gale, his mother, chimed in loudly. “Oh his Dad loved his guns but was such an odd duck about how he bought or why he bought them. Never made sense to me how he wasn’t a collector but he didn’t get the latest and greatest.” Gale laughed uncomfortably. At least it seemed that way to Matthew.
Matthew pointed to the girl with an underhanded pointing hand. “And who is this? A cute little mute mouse or does she have a name?” Dave and the other men laughed.
Mack again spoke. “Well you people call her Rebecca, she’s my adopted daughter.” Matthew was taken aback by what he heard. “You people?”
Rebecca kindly spoke with a soft but almost melodic voice as she struggled to maintain eye contact. “White people or rather not members of our tribe. It’s just easier to appease the colonizer kind of thing. Borrowed from when the Jesuit missionaries chased us up here.”
Mack stepped in. “It’s just easier to have white people names than have them try to say our tribal names. And we don’t want them shortening or Anglicising our names kind of thing.” Rebecca stepped back into the conversation cutting off her adopted father. “It’s an insult to our history basically.”
Matthew cocked his head sideways raising his eyebrows shortly before letting them drop. “Well as soon as I’m eighteen I’m out of here and back to Florida so I’m a sort of involuntary colonizer of sorts. So I won’t be taking any of your land from you. The Seminoles on the other hand are still shit out of luck.”
Rebecca’s smile caused Matthew to reflexively smile. Mack made the moment more awkward. “See Becca, I told you someone off the reservation would like you some. You just have to be creative.” Mack laughed in a chiding manner…Matthew presumed. He sensed that he was the butt of some kind of cultural joke. Like marrying a white guy was some sort of insult or mark of shame. That kind of thing.
Rebecca turning away from him was not something he had been expecting. Her then getting in the truck in a huff left the group in a silence for a moment.
Dave spoke to break the awkward silence. “Well just bring the truck to work on Monday and leave it for me to grab up.” Mack acknowledged Dave and they started to get off as Rebecca looked at Matthew for another instance. Matthew couldn’t look away for some reason as the two seemed to lock eyes for an instance.
Till Vicky and family seemed to come jogging down the road. While Matthew’s eyes diverted from Rebecca’s. Hers did not till she realized he was looking elsewhere. And her vision found Vicky and what had been a hint of smile on her face turned glum and disappointed.
Matthew did not look away from the vision of Vicky but instead of a starry eyed fool looking longingly. It was a baffled look. Well baffled for him, with his eyes drawn narrow and night with a focus.
There was something about her…he couldn’t quite put a name too. The way she appeared to him. One second brunette. The next second blonde or blonde like. As if the color appeared in her air and disappeared in fractions of seconds. Much the same way her body almost seemed to…shift…very subtly…smoothly. A nicer bum. Larger breasts. And then back to a simple and plain form. Feminine no doubt. Attractive. But not so…remarkable.
As If It Was Kismet Ch 4
The next two days passed without incident. Nothing of any real substance or challenge to note.
Matthew got settled somewhat and started working out almost immediately. Exploring around the woods but Dave told him not to go far. Especially without a hunting rifle. Dave had left a simple semi-auto Winchester out for him. His bear gun as Dave referred to it with its four round magazine. But Matt figured till he got some practice with the rifle to leave it alone. He made a hiking stick like his grandpa taught him and treated it over a low fire. He would take some electrical tape for the end his hand would grip around. Plenty enough to ward off anything smaller than a bear he figured.
The ride to school was a pain in the neck but simple enough. Dave would let him use a clunker pickup truck he had laying around. It wasn’t pretty but it would get him to and from. Even if it was from the eighties and still backfired on occasion. But for now Dave and his mom took him on their way to the sheriff’s department.
It wasn’t much of a school. It wanted to be modern but its fifties original construction was very obvious. It serviced the pipeline families and familys’ of fisherman who worked the seasons in between their time at the pipeline.
Matt was to report to the principal for some reason Dave and his mom wouldn’t share. Which annoyed him but he figured it was to read him the law of land. Small towns with their big views of the outside world and like.
Dressed in jeans, a grey sweatshirt under a light jacket with steel toed boots set him more apart then he expected. His buzzed head didn’t help matters. Already he was feeling like a stranger in a strange land but he was quite strange after all. And he liked it that way. Normal people were so pathetically disappointing to him.
A secretary or assistant or some such led him to the principal’s office. Where it reeked of real wood that was old and fabric and upholstery that needed to be updated for the last twenty years, Matt figured.
“This is Matthew Berkshire, Principal Andrews.” The man was turned with his back to the door and he was quick to wave her off as he turned her around.
He was an older man. Fat and large. Tall with a body built like he had once been fit and a demeanour of annoyed and irate already as he fixed Matt with a scowl and look of disgust. Another worthless government whore. Matt thought to himself. His father and his grandfather had bestowed unto him a natural disrespect for government workers and the figures that wore unjustified authority as a shield but pretended the weight of the state was not at their back ready to crush all who resisted. Little figures of valor pretending to be mighty and alone but acting with the tyranny of the state and all the backing.
“Mr. Berkshire, please sit down.” His tone wasn’t unusually hostile, just gruff. As if he had better things to do.
Matt complied and took a seat in the chair while maintaining a friendly facade. Not everyone was an enemy. And not everyone needed to be an enemy. Even if anybody could be any enemy. There was no reason to make enemies you didn’t have to. Another of his grandfather’s bastardised wisdoms.
“Well I looked over you file and you have quite the history Mr. Berkshire.” Matt resisted qiuping back a joke. Instead he waited for Principal Andrews to continue as he remained nonplussed and looking as if he felt no need to respond. A simple head tilt with dead eyes looking back at the principle as if he was not even there would suffice.
Matt’s reaction or lack of a reaction rather made Principal Andrews only narrow his eyes with examination. He was not used to a kid not responding to him. Especially with his gruff and hard act going on.
“Well by all accounts you moved here after some problems at your last school. A fight broke out and you did some real harm to your fellow students it appears.” Of course, he would take the side of the perpetrators. School administrators always did. Especially when they weren’t white. Just a fact of the times. Cowardice and pathetic mediocrity was the way they leaned, like good government workers sucking the dick of Big Daddy government. Worthless whores.
Matt chose to reply. “Oh you mean the criminals that stabbed me. Got arrested at the hospital and then pled to felonies. Yeah Florida, with the American counties are good like that.” Principal Andrews went real still. No shame. No fear. No penitence. He didn’t like that.
“Well be it as it may Mr. Berkshire we don’t tolerate that kind of behaviour here…” Matt cut him off responding with a deadpan tone. “You mean self-defense meant to save one’s own life while the cowardly and pathetic school workers look on with zero interest but to keep their money rolling in and will allow known gang members with records of violent acts and crimes that should have them expelled many times over, where in certain Democrat counties such cowardice and idiocy empowered a couple school shooters?”
Principal Andrews looked at the Matt with a note of disgust. “Look here Mr. Berkshire, your beliefs matter not one bit here. This isn’t Florida. We don’t like our way of life being disrupted by outside agitators who have problems with authority.”
Matt did his best not to roll his eyes and let the older fat man drone own as he dead-stared him. Lifeless and without emotion.
The man came to a finish and Matt spoke up without having listened to him or paid him any attention. “Great now that’s taken care of. Can I please get to class and finish my sentence of two years at your wonderful school?”
Principal Andrews huffed and snorted before calling in Vicky. Vicky stood in the corner after entering with a quiet and seamless presence. Matt felt disturbed and tried not betray his feelings as the young Vicky was perceived and not perceived to be moving.
Principal Andrews made the introductions and Matt nodded back. She was to be his chaperone for the day. They had the same classes and she was to show him the ropes so to speak. The ins and outs of the school. The locations of their classes.
He recognized her. It was hard not to. The way her appearance seemed to shift fluidly almost. The petite and skinny brunette ever so lightly had a big bust and blonde hair with curves added when she seemed to shift before his eyes. Like watching a film but each frame had a different person.
Matt didn’t say anything about it. Even if he did he would only be acknowledging his crazed state, if he had one. If.
Unlike an obedient puppy dog he got up in a slow and awkward fashion and followed behind her as his oddly disproportionate frame allowed. Causing her a note of concern for some reason. As if she was seeing something she shouldn’t have been….Or he was just weird. And Matt could admit to himself he was just weird. Part of his charm, he would jest about it at times. Not that he had many people to jest to now.
As If It Were Kismet Ch. 5
Following Vicky into the hall off to their first class was simple. She exchanged small talk and he slightly smiled as if to obviously suggest he was just being polite.
Inside his head, Matt was trying to figure out if he was having a psychotic break. The way Vicky looked kept changing and he looked at the other people around him and they stayed the same.
He was searching his mind as they were walking. And thus he wasn’t paying attention to where he was looking and so fell to his face forward over his feet seemingly out of nowhere.
A series of laughs erupted as it sunk in that he was obviously tripped. Like in prison this was a challenge to his superiority. If he let this pass he would be mocked and sneered at by this same group of boys. He wouldn’t walk to them like he was going to do nothing like a little bitch.
In a rage he turned and punched the stomach of the first face he saw. Some typical blonde haired wannabe jock. He knew from experience not to aim for the ribs. Instead he needed to aim for where he thought the belly button was.
Yells and screams blindly echoed around him as his after the punch he followed up his elbow of the opposite arm slamming into the face of the jock. Harder than a fist, the elbow struck the jock’s jaw and seemingly dropped him against a locker. Just in time to catch an errant and soft punch to the nose that sure enough hurt but did little to slow him down as his dad had taught him to fight through the pain. Blood and scars happened. They were a natural consequence of life to a man.
Taking the punch and falling further into his red state Matt headbutted the punch thrower before another guy arm bared his throat from behind. Which he managed to get his grip on the arm over a letterman jacked and jerk the unprepared boy to the side with him still latched on.
A few feet away from the lockers Matt knew his only chance was to jump and push off the lockers and knock the boy to the ground and so he did. He heard a thunk of the boy’s skull bouncing off the ground and he turned to pull out of the grapple.
The beatings he had taken from his father, the grapples, being choked unconscious. Had prepared him for fighting little bitches who didn’t know what a fight was. It wasn’t gay porn with rabbit punch fists flying.
Blood was running down his face and the pain started to hit him as the threats had been eliminated. Only then did he remember to breathe. Taking breathes as Vicky came up to him with tissues and took a hold of his nose.
“Owww owww owww what the fuck my nose could be broken.” He said to Vicky as she pulled his head up and back.
“It’s ok Carl. It’s done.” Matt tried to look to see who Vicky was talking to. It was a boy taller than his 5’9” by more than a small margin. The boy eyed him bored and annoyed before speaking. “What happened here?” An unoriginal line but one Matt couldn’t be a smart aleck about. “Well you see there was an outbreak of tripping and we all tripped over my dick. It happens.” Matt was about to laugh when Vicky seemed to pull up while still gripping his nose causing Matt no small amount of pain which he audibly evidenced.
Vicky spoke in a tone he wasn’t expecting. As if she was accustomed to issuing orders. “Keep Iris away from the hall till we sanitize the site. We have blood from at least three people contaminating the site. And have Jake bring me a spare jacket and shirt for this moron.”
Carl seemed to acknowledge her orders and seemed to blink away. Maybe the punch hit harder than he expected. He had no time to wonder as Vick took her hand away from his and pushed him against the lockers. With ease he had not been expecting from her form and stature.
Before he could respond Vicky licked his blood covered chin and then his lips and spoke to him. “Focus on me you little blood bag.” Her tone had an annoyed yet feminine sneer.
“Look into my eyes. Look at me. You belong to me. You are just another food source in a collection of food sources.” Her eyes were a beautiful hazel Matt thought. Almost green. Pretty like jewels in some old treasure collections. The eyes he could get lost in before kissing her. Finally Vicky was just a slight and petite brunette and he thought she was beautiful.
She would make a hell of a girlfriend. Some cute thing he could see laying on the beach in Florida on their sides laughing and smiling before trading light kisses while hands wandered innocently. Before his mind could drift further he felt her lips on his. It took him a second to mentally grasp the kiss but his arms were around her back as her hands were at his sides. His eyes reflexively closed as he saw hers close.
It was ineffable to Matt. Beyond words, what was happening. The kiss, the moments beforehand. The way his brain tickled with electricity and gentle warmth. He had never had a kiss like this and he had traded more than a few kisses with at least a few girls.
The kiss was like a warm bath with his consciousness slipping beneath the surface. Their lips only parted to try new angles and approaches as Matt struggled to take in breath. It was a moment he could have stayed trapped in for….he didn’t know. But a curt throat clearing by another girl pulled them out of the moment.
The girl was taller than Vicky. Blonde. With slight curves. Vicky addressed her bewildered and gobsmacked, and perhaps a bit embarrassed. “Tina?”