I'm a brand new DM for 5e. Only brave enough to do one shots/mini adventures at the moment. Basically I'm doing it cos no one else will, but have lot of friends desperate to play haha.
I made it clear a hundred times to all players that I have my Learner plates on, so the one shots may not be perfect and sparkling.
I am not confident and get a bit nervous at the table as so much to do
Took me ages to get the nerve to even attempt it and had to end up going to a amazing D&D teaching group/workshop in the end.
They were brilliant and taught me to run a one shot, and gave me some one shot books as part of the workshop (levels 1 to 3)
They said I was good. I was DMing new players too and the staff guided them and me a fair bit, but it was all very friendly and constructive.
I have handbooks and lots of notes and have played D&D for about six years. However life and work gets stressful and I'm just not the type to remember every single detail.
I try and not keep spending ages searching through books/online at the table, but do make sure I research best I can. And always just keep talking with the players for any mistakes and missing knowledge
The teaching group built me up to be confident enough that I've run the level 1 one shot twice by myself and it went well. Wasn't perfect and me and players still missed little bits but it always went successfully. I learnt a lot already. Actually started to enjoy it.
However ran it a third time this weekend with three players (one novice, one who is rusty, and one inexperienced player). We are all friends and they are lovely as always. Said they had fun...apart from the awkwardness detailed below:
But we got joined by a self described experienced Mr Expert of all games and RPGs.... He was also a friend (supposedly) and said he wanted to support me, so I'm a bit annoyed at how he behaved!
At one point he shouted "I'm not having this in my..." and stopped himself from saying "his game" presumably. Cue everybody else looking at everyone awkwardly.
Mr Expert guy just nitpicked everything. It was different to the criticism I've had every other time, or felt that way.
He said I don't know what I'm doing. Doesn't know what I'm playing at.
Some of the rules and niggles he was throwing at me seemed ultra complicated and endless... I'd rather keep the adventure simple for me to cope with at level 1. But he wasn't having it.
I hadn't heard of some of them before, despite my years of playing, which is probably my fault I know.
Then I got a thing wrong with one of the nice guy's Paladin. I didn't realise bonus action with him can be another blow with a quarterstaff/long weapon, basically. (In my old long campaign we used quarterstaffs but our old DM didn't let us do that bonus action, so hence why I didn't clock to do it.)
It was easily sorted within 2 minutes when I agreed with nice friend that it was fine. Mr Expert rudely demanded to know if I can read, and if I bother to read any of the D&D books.
He then just kept whipping open the books about every ten minutes and 'correcting' me. Chanting "it's in the handbook, it's in the handbook, you should read it!!" He just st about took over the game, telling people what to do and roll and count (so the newish players didn't get much chance to learn either)
And throwing in sarcastic perosnal comments against me. Tone of him was so rude, I gave up and ended the adventure early.
All my shaky confidence has fled and I just feel stupid AF now.
The others want to play again and forgave my mistakes. We know Mr Expert is on holiday so we can plan it for when he's away....but I don't really want to now. The motivation is gone.
Mr Expert will trot out excuses that he's being helpful. And it's my fault for not getting it all right or remembering. And he doesn't like my rubbish kit etc
Notably he's been threatening to host an RPG for couple of years now but it never happens. He also said he hated D&D so I don't know why he invited himself tbh!
He has also steamrollered me and a young kid when we took on a game, he took all the paper sheets and now runs it all the time. Not giving us a go.
I can get over the other game....but am i right feeling he is rude to treat a DM on a novice one shot like this? And I'm right for leaving him out if I do bother again?
I asked him at one point would he like to take over running the bloody thing and he said "no no it's your adventure you do it your way" ....and then promptly went back to snapping at me ten minutes later about my pack of wolves and rearranging them and changing advantages of the players!
I'm fine to be told if it sounds if it's best I give up on DMing. I know I'm rubbish that's why I gave a disclaimer!
Or is it the player that's the worse one here?
Thanks for reading

A lot of people who DM me and comment on my videos or posts have found me because they have been broken up with. Some want their ex back, some want to be ok on their own and some want to meet someone else. All of these desires are valid, and I will always support people in getting what they want.
But with each one of these desired outcomes, the advice I give is the same. You have to learn to be your own source of security, and this involves work on your own attachment style and how you are showing up in relationships.
There’s never any judgement at all when people ask me how to get a relationship. As humans we are hard wired to be in relationships of some kind so we can survive and thrive in the world. That being said, relationship breakdowns are TOUGH. But it is absolutely possible to thrive in a break up and come out of it a newer, better version of yourself.
I’ve been through my fair share of breakups. I was left by my husband in 2016 after 15 years together and have been through more breakups than I can count with my current partner (thank god that’s all behind us now 😅). They bring up painful feelings of abandonment, fear, loneliness and a host of other things. And it’s ok to feel these things and process them fully so that you can actually move forward.
So how exactly are you supposed to thrive when the thing that terrifies you the most has happened? I want you to know that whatever happens YOU WILL SURVIVE. Even if it feels like you’re going to die without that person, you will survive this.
Here are a few things that personally helped me when I found myself alone yet again. Just as a side note, doing these practices are necessary regardless of whether you want your ex back, a new relationship or to be on your own.

1. Accept that the breakup has happened. Do not sit in denial trying to manifest over it or revise what happened. This is going to make you feel delusional and cause you to suppress your feelings.
   
2. Sit with and process your feelings about what happened. Journalling is helpful and will help you make sense of how you feel and your thoughts and beliefs about what’s going on.
   
3. This one can be triggering but no contact is necessary when you have just been broken up with. Not only does it give the other person time to sit with their own decisions, you also need your space and time to really be with yourself and let your subconscious mind know that you can show up for you and you don’t need someone else to meet that need.
   
4. Work on your own attachment style and insecurity. I have tons of videos over on my YouTube channel about how to know what your attachment style is and how to heal it. Every day think about how you can show up as being more secure.
   
5. See the relationship for what it was. Chances are it wasn’t perfect if that person has called it off. When we feel loneliness or abandonment, we tend to see the other person through rose coloured glasses which is rarely the reality. Be super honest about the relationship and see things objectively. Likewise, it’s important to acknowledge who you were in the relationship and take responsibility for your own actions and behaviour. For me, I was clingy, needy, suspicious and constantly afraid of being left. I had to address these things so that I could break these patterns for good!
   
6. Know yourself intimately. I cannot stress how important this is. Knowing all parts of yourself and why they’re there (even the parts that you don’t like 😉) will sky rocket your confidence. You will start to see yourself in a more compassionate light and see how amazing you really are. You will also be so much more aware of those destructive patterns which caused the break up in the first place
   
7. Know what your needs and boundaries are. Again, so important so that you can start to meet your own needs the best you can. This will help you drop the neediness and desperation which is blocking your manifestation.
   

Use this as an opportunity to improve yourself and get to know yourself better. Yes it’s painful, yes it hurts and acknowledge that but you can move forward and give yourself the security you crave from the other person.
Let me know your own personal practices for inner security 👇🏼

Firstly, forgive typos, using a phone - and burned 2 fingers just before on the pan cooking dinner :p
Background:
I am a late 30's female Australian. This story pertains to a family friend called B. My father and B went to university together and subsequently played football and cricket together. They both married around the same time, and his daughters are both within 2 years of myself. So B, his wife, and 2 kids have been part of our family life since childhood. Despite moving interstate back in the late 90's we always had a close family-friend relationship, which included family holidays together and frequent visits to each other's houses when I was growing up no matter where we lived.
Examples of B's behaviour:
B has been stingy his entire life. He will bring the worst bottle of wine to the party, drink all of your good wine then have the audacity to take his shit wine home. Other times he has turned up to my parent's house to stay for the weekend (7-8 hour drive between towns) for a footy match with the whole family and eat and drink them out of home. He would of course host my parents in thier town just as much, however; every time they (or we when i was younger) B would insist on going out for dinner then to only forensicly go over the bill. Nothing wrong at all with this. In fact this sounds fair EXCEPT for the fact that when he arrives at my parents house after a day where both my parents worked all he would ask loudly on arrival, "what delicious food have you made for us tonight" when my mum said, no I am tired this time we can just go out, or get some takeaway and he had a mini tantrum. There was never a time that he was tld to expect a hot meal, so no idea where that entitlement came from, my mother isnt even a very good cook!
B's Karma - The prelude
So B and his wife went on a trip to Bali with another couple (the male in this 3rd couple is a mutual friend of Dad and B from Uni and sport also). B decides that the accomodation that everyone else had was too expensive, so he booked the cheapest dive joking that he doesnt need to pay for a decent hotel as he can get in with the other 2 couple's keys. They didnt let that happen after the 2nd day when he was racking up all of his drinks to their respective rooms. He even chewed through the prepaid $100 data that mum had bought and stupidly have him the password for her hotspot (she keeps in on for her tablet and dad's phone. B said it was an 'emergency'. He used it all in one night and claimed he had no idea how (he had IT in his gov background as was not at all an idiot to data use). Anyway risnse and repeat the next day with the other couple so he had been cut off from the others for any more freeloading. They wont let him sneak in to the resort anymore so the next day he needs a new activity to fill the day.
B's Karma - The sweet sweet revenge
B is unable to join the others drinking and getting hotel massages the next day after the morning activities he partipiated in (the ones he thought were value for money anyway). He decided to go to a 'rub and tug' if you dont know what that means, google it, in Aus we also like to call it "happy endings". In true tight ass fashion B took to the operator with the cheapest rates (by maybe $2AUD). Whilst he is in there they take his wallet and proceed to rack up a $23,000 Aus dollar credit card bill! He has no idea and goes back as he was too stingy to even put international roaming for phone calls, let alone data. The group go to dinner and his card is declined, they all laugh and think it is just him being him, trying to use an old card because his isnt and has never been poor. They tell him his card has been declined multiple times and hand over the restaurant phone for him to call the bank. He is informed of the jet skis, scoooters and other gear that was purchased and that his 20k credit limit was exceeded by 3k. Anyway, he goes back and uses the restaraunt wifi and transfers some cash quietly so there werent any alarms raised. B was rather quiet and they thought he was sulking about being excluded from the hotel (his wife was still let in under the radar as it wasn't her fault B refused to pay for the hotel, and B's wife had undergoing chemo before the trip so the others insisted she be pampered and they shouted her all the hotel services legitimently - my mum refuses to scam anyone or anywhere to the point she will pay back on behalf of others if she can when people are scammed and cant afford it.
B - The boy who cried wolf:
B decides to stay at the bar as he needed the free wifi to 'sort out a couple of small financial things, nothing serious, and that he will meet his wife back at their crappy accomodation (it was on the way for the other 4 to walk her there). Anyway B ends up in the hotel lobby of where my parents and other couple are demanding he could get lift access to the floor my parents were on as he needed internet and a phone. Mum and dad were given a message along the lines of 'some guy ive seen you with said come downstairs he needs your internet and phone'. Whatever the exact words were, it wasn't even close to eliciting any sympathy response to B so they ignored it. He ended up at a bar with free wifi just to email my dad to tell him what happened and if he could let him in to use their phone and internet (it is after1am).
WHY DIDN'T HE JUST GO BUY A BLOODY SIM CARD??
He still had a perfectly fine debit card, he just refused to pay for internet or phone use overseas even when scammed $20k+.
FYI - being a credit card, he got the $$ within a month, which is expected in our country anyway.

Now that I've finished with 253 Mathilde, I'm looking for new challenges. One thing I'd like to try is a collaboration.
There are many forms that could take. We could come up with a new concept and make a pilot for a potential series and collaborate on writing and production from the start. Or work with something you've already got or I've already got. Projects with income potential preferred but not required.
It doesn't need to be anything like any of my previous series, I'd enjoy the challenge of a new genre. It could be mystery, thriller, slice-of-life, romance, comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, horror. Has to be radio drama style (not audiobooky and no found tapes/fake podcast or third person narration). And I'd like to deal with thought-provoking issues in some way (some of mine have dealt with dementia, terrorism, terminal illness, social anxiety, abortion, finding meaning, the nature of consciousness, etc).
I've got lots of time, and a tendency to get things done before I say I will. There's ~70 actors I've worked with before and can suggest for parts. I can make the show's website and wrote software to make various things easier. But you'll have to bring the marketing skills.
Would be looking to collaborate mainly through Google Docs I think. If this sounds interesting to you, tell me a little about what you've done before and what you'd like to do. I have a bucket of ideas also. I certainly don't want to limit you, but here's a few random ones from the bucket to get the creative juices flowing:

• Hostage dramedy with same captors and same negotiator but different hostages and different justification and demands each episode.
• Dead Again. Protagonist is repeating the last day of their life again and again, always dying at the end (maybe from natural causes). If series, each episode could be one re-live of the day.
• Someone in his 50s for whom all acquaintances have proved immortal so far, up to unusual ages like 115. Then suddenly a 30 year old friend dies. It throws his sense of reality off kilter, he searches for a reason, toys with the friend having deserved it, wonders if his power is gone, eventually realizes there never was a power and is forced to deal with being an ordinary mortal in a world of death.
• A (mini?)series where it takes 3 or 4 episodes of hints to discover that the protagonist is actually in an asylum.
• Something set in a post-truth world where everything you don't see in person could've been faked and probably was.
• Start a series as a sci-comedy with silly overblown space heroics. then reality starts to fall apart. realization that it's a delusion or simulation. Or, pulling back to actors.
• Story where characters are working a job but slowly realize they were abducted as their real identities begin to surface, like Voyager's Workforce or Dr Who's Human Resources except we don't know them ahead of time. Incorporate elements of "Undone" weirdness too. Begin with scene of regular office work, then introduce dis-congruous element. Maybe she ignores all the attempts to keep her from going outside and tries to go outside, discovering the door is blocked. Talks to best office friend about it. Could also have outside character who sneaks in and claims to know them.
• Start with the villain announcing the bomb will explode in 30 minutes. The heroes are tied up. they deal with their doom in real time, humorously. Or could do a short 100 second bomb countdown version for Hundred Second Theater.
• Cosmic Horror Comedy, hosted by Yog-Sothoth, featuring funny sketches about humans and great old one societies alike, with occasional guests.

Hey folks!
I'm an experienced enm practitioner who have gotten into a situation that is completely new to me and would appreciate some preemptive advice.
Short background and cast: I (36m) have been with my husband John (36m) for 17 years. He has been with his boyfriend Adrian (25-isch, m) for about four years. I used to have another bf who sadly passed very unexpectedly a year and a half ago. Since then I haven't dated a lot, but recently felt more ready and had a really great date last Friday that is not related to this situation (other than my emotions running a bit high and all over the place). We are all neurodivergent.
This weekend after the guests left a party we hosted, Adrian stayed and hung out with me and John. One thing led to another and while John was in the bathroom we started making out. This led to the best threesome I've ever had (and John agrees). Adrian also spent the night and we all cuddled and slept together. In the early hours John moved to the sofa bc he felt to warm to sleep in the bed, which kinda woke me and Adrian and we ended up having some soft cosy sex just the two of us as well. John of course knows this and is happy for us.
I really like Adrian and would like to explore what could develop between us. He is also tentatively positive and we've booked a casual lunch date this week when John won't be there.
Me and John have never dated together - we usually do a mixture of parallel and ktp - so this is completely new ground to me. I've tried to look around but most tips are about letting a third join a couple, and as their relationship is pretty solid most of that advice doesn't really apply to me I feel.
I'm giggly and excited but also a bit scared, mostly that I'll do something that impacts their relationship in a negative way. I'd love to hear from others that have gone through similar things and to get some advice on what to think about to avoid effing this up. It feels like we've got something good going so far and it could get a whole lot better or worse in the next couple of weeks...

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♡ DRACULA: A LOVE STORY ♡
A swarm of locusts is approaching the city, and Mehmed takes the main character to his castle, where she receives another vision, in which it is revealed that Elchin communicated with the bas-relief in the Soydan mansion and helped him in some way. In the Ottoman Empire, Vlad, Leo and Mehmed are captured by Iskander and receive a prophecy from Jaromir that binds their fates, while Lale again faces a dangerous ambassador in the palace. Meanwhile, in the present, Istanbul is shrouded in thick, impenetrable blackness…
♡ PATH OF THE VALKYRIE ♡
Baldr, the son of Odin and Frigga, dies, and eternal winter comes to the Nine Worlds, which is a harbinger of Ragnarok. One gives the main character a task - to get to Helheim and return Baldr from there, for which he gives her the very key that transported her to another world. The whole company goes to the Lord of the sky, who lives in the crown of Yggdrasil, for help, so that he can help them get to the roots of the great tree, where the gate to the kingdom of the dead is located. The squirrel Ratatosk helps them with this. But at the gates to Hel’s domain, the Valkyrie and her companions suddenly meet Loki…
♡ PSI Ψ ♡
Lou and Jonas go to Irma and Tom, as they suspect that they are involved in the recent search. Their guesses are confirmed – Irma and Tom are very radical. Upon arrival home, Lou is visited by hacker Foxy and asks not to do anything towards his friends, as this can harm them not only from the authorities, but also from the side of like-minded people. Ivo continues to play his game and, with the help of Lou, passes a flash drive with instructions for Foxy. And after that, the Prior meets with the Vicar and convinces him that he wants to make a coup in the Synod of Advisers for the benefit of the Church…
♡ THE DESERT ROSE ♡
MC’s next attempt to get her father to talk ends in failure, as does her attempt to find out about Caro’s true thoughts. But then there is hope to learn about the legendary Desert Rose, and the girl takes this chance, going with her friends to Merzouga, to visit a tribe of nomads. There, the characters learn more about the history of Sefer and the formation of the families that took over the city. But the information is not in vain: someone lures MC into a trap and puts her to sleep. Meanwhile, Kadir gets into trouble - an unknown person enters his room, who also needs information…
♡ ELITE TAG ♡
MC has to call on all her diplomacy to come to an agreement with the people around her: with friends, and with unexpected allies, and with Noah, trying to convince him to start his investigation and reveal the identity of the stalker, before he goes even further after the first physical attack. But not all social connections are easy: MC has to make concessions both when shooting a movie and during a loud quarrel with her best friend. Worries about relationships with others recede into the background when the girl realizes: someone is stalking her and her friends, and even in a car there is no hiding from the tail…
♡ CHASING YOU 2 ♡
MC's erotic dream ends with a terrible nightmare about the current case. Ezra agrees to help her, but not for free. Later, in the church, the murderer is exposed and she is forced to put an end to the gossip about ghosts by publicly repeating the trick with mirrors. But the mysteries of Madame d'Esperance do not end there: and in order to unravel them completely, MC has to enter into Madame's salon, where an unknown person is already waiting for the girl. The kidnapper takes her to the cemetery, and later, late at night, MC, dressed in white, wakes up right in the coffin...
♡ W: TIME CATCHER ♡
MC is introduced to Constantino, the patriarch of the vampires. He invites the heroine to a private auction near Geneva to give her the opportunity to ask collectors about Raphael. The meeting with Renato, in turn, gives more information about Madame Guusje de Boer, who also knows something about the painting. But the meeting with the woman does not bring the expected results and ends with de Boer's terrible seizure. Later, at the auction, her own curiosity leads the heroine into a trap and at the same time leads to a long-awaited goal: she is drugged, but is led to the “Portrait of a Young Man,” which had long been considered missing…
♡ KALI: FLAME OF SAMSARA ♡
Continuing her conversation with Ratan and Ram, Devi tries to come to terms with the fact of her inevitable death. However, as long as she is alive, things won’t wait for her. Deviya is invited by Vidya to a meeting of the dozen, but before that she stops by Christian to discuss the details of the search for the culprit of what happened in the Himalayas several years ago. Before the meeting, a conversation between the heroine and her friends, not intended for prying ears, is overheard by someone - and, trying to find this person, Deviya comes face to face with the famous Doran Basu in the cramped corridor of the residence…
♡ GARDEN OF EDEN ♡
The day begins with the news of Yeon-ah's disappointing diagnosis, and continues with a frank conversation with her, and then with other idols. In the evening, missed calls from Mi-yeon alarm MC and she asks Madame Park to direct all her efforts to ensure that the situation with Seo-yoon does not happen again. But all efforts are in vain - and after the idol ball and a strange conversation with Miyeon, right during Sirens’ performance on stage, the terrible news comes about the girl’s death. MC's parents are going to take her away from the agency, but she refuses, because the agency finally takes a step towards the idols and hires a mentor for them…
♡ SOULLESS ♡
Having received another lesson in the art of seduction, the heroine goes to her home to ask WalteCynthia for help. They agree and, at a meeting with Tiger, reveal their supernatural abilities in order to escape, at the same time unwittingly charming those around them. After a difficult conversation with WalteCynthia, MC goes to Ava's hotel, where they bond over a glass of wine. But then a message comes from Vincent asking for help - and that same evening he and MC find themselves at a party where she will have to distract the attention of dangerous Brother Kang…
♡ THE ONE, VOLUME 2 ♡
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With the drama reaching new highs this week I wanted to share my analysis on the girls and where I think the issues lie.

1. The girls wanted to tap into the Arab/Muslim demographic without realizing what that entails - In their minds, I think due to their very sheltered upbringing, they were under the assumption that being Arab and Muslim simply meant going to the mosque every so often, wearing “modest” clothes and sharing Eid and married life. I believe that since they are half American, they don’t deal with the hard parts of being Muslim (Leena may, as a Hijabi, but not the other two). They don’t get perceived differently in public because they’re very white and Loren even has ginger hair. They don’t get profiled by people at airports. They have essentially lived the white American version of their life and with the Gaza war, they’re realizing that the world for the rest of the Arab/Muslim world isn’t what they’ve experienced. I don’t think they realize that when you’re part of a community that has faced so much negativity and injustice, part of the role IS being outspoken and a voice for change.
   
2. The milking of their Arab/Muslim content has caught up to them - at the start, I think they were able to go by unnoticed because their following was smaller and they hadn’t yet made the connection that exploiting their religion would bring in more views. As time has gone on, people have started to notice trends in their posting. Every Ramadan, rather than observe the month and get closer to their faith, they exploit it more every year, using it as a time to promote overconsumption, wasteful spending habits, and pack on the promotional content (Loren partnering with Sephora during Ramadan was the straw that broke the camels back for me).
   
3. Once they grew their following, their content direction shifted - in my head, their plan was always to exploit the Arab/Muslim community to build a loyal following (they did this by using buzzwords in video intros like “Ramadan vlog”, “Eid clothing”, “fasting” etc) and once they had that following, they would post more general videos (we see this happening right now). I see less and less videos nodding to their culture and religion and more content that appeals to the non Arab/Muslim demographic (I’m talking outside of Ramadan - Ramadan = content cow season) . Once they had built up enough following, I think they just wanted to be like the Emily Kise Claudia Walsh’s of TikTok and slowly push the followers that built their platforms away.
   
4. Can’t deal with the heat - their biggest flaw is that they can’t handle the heat. I never understood this because as creators who did exploit their religion for content, they now get annoyed when people hold them accountable to the standard they themselves set for themselves. They never had to take the modest/muslim creator route and could’ve made basic content and occasionally answer questions about their last name being Arab and their sister wearing Hijab, but they realised early on that they’re an anomaly (esp in the west and within the content space) and anything different = shock value = views.
   

I appreciate that their religion is a huge part of who they are, but it seems they don’t want the moral responsibility that comes with being Arab Muslims in the West.

1. Greater than thou attitude - as a Muslim girl, their content doesn’t feel relatable or like a safe space for me. I don’t relate to their expensive/ overconsumption lifestyle, I don’t know any Arab or Muslim families who treat Ramadan like a commercial holiday, or anyone who sees the war in Gaza as a passing topic. It has quite literally consumed our lives. I know many girls that are Arab and Muslim who are just as beautiful, have strong faith and are educated and assimilated into the western world who don’t seem as conceited or flashy, and don’t act like know it alls to some secret society only they hold the keys to.

Let’s also not forget how they act like they know everything one day, then act aloof when they are caught promoting pro genocide brands…
What do yall think?

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Have a look at what a Diablo-like game can look like with a normalized PvP mode, (Lost Ark Warmaster 1v3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejmPDtG4A8
Of course, PoE 2 doesn't have Lost Ark's level of mobility skills, or CC modifiers, but it's not necessary and pacing is relative within reason. In fact, CC-chaining is one of the more tedious points of Lost Ark PvP.
u/rogueyoshi made a thread yesterday rightfully pointing out how PoE 2's combat elements can lend itself very well to PvP that many players have been craving for decades, but you always see downvotes and comments like this from players that have no PvP experience or a clue of how it can conceptually be brought to an ARPG like PoE 2:

I literally HATE all the people who want PvP to be part of every goddamn game no matter if it even makes sense or not. fml man, an ARPG has no business doing anything PvP related, it doesn't work. All that PvP EVER does is to interfere with game mechanics.

It's unfair to say players don't like PvP in ARPGs, when ARPG (at least Diablo clone ARPG as understood here) PvP has usually been bad until recently. These players don't understand that with a normalized Mode, it won't interfere with balancing the PvE game. Yes, it will cost GGG resources, but it also brings in a new breed of players. Players who mostly get their PvP fix from MOBAs.
Look at Battlerite as an aid in conceptualizing PoE 2 PvP: it has the control scheme. A 1v1 and 3v3 mode is definitely feasible. Such modes give all participants equal skill points and stats.
However, GGG could also implement a Duel Mode where players can challenge each other anywhere in the overworld where a perimeter spawns around 2 participants, and make their own rules, host their own tournaments against some scenic backdrops and biomes of their choosing. Blizzard's Diablo 4 game director Joe Piepiora liked this idea before the launch of D4, but Blizzard didn't even get around to adjusting resistances in D4 PvP with all the other problems they are facing. Problems with GGG might not have in such abundance. Even then, there are regular D4 PvP players, and look at how atrocious D4 PvP is.
The reason is that (aside from no normalized mode, no strict level caps in world tiers, and no balanced damage reduction), D4 PvP suffers from "loud" animations that cover lots of ground, rapidly. It's too erratic and fast, paired with brown on red visuals and VFX mess that obscures player positions. It's fine in PvE but totally jarring in PvP. There are no complex combos in D4, but GGG are evidently planning some options for PoE 2.
PoE 2- at least in early levels- doesn't have this problem. A normalized mode can still access this pacing. A semi-normalized mode can still give players access to their looted gear, while also toning down upper limits of DPS and mobility to facilitate enjoyable PvP pacing.
Lastly, if you don't want to play PvP, then don't. It won't interfere with your SSF, your PvE and your leaderboards.
If PoE 2 is highly successful and GGG somehow surprize with genius PvP modes and resources that sees new player influx and populated lobbies, then you can have 2 happy populations of players coexist under the same game title.

hello, this is my first time on this community as a poster. i want to preface this saying i do not have DID, but my partner does! it was actually his suggestion to come here
we are in a rough patch right now. my partner is the main host, and he’s been having trouble making friends since we got out of highschool, so a week ago a new alter formed as the “social one” (partner’s words). since then, he has made a friend, which is great! i’m glad he’s making friends, but there’s an issue. my partner isn’t fronting as much and has little control or say during switches (i know it’s not smth you can control, but my partner often does not realize he’s switching until he comes back)
my partner and i have always been close, like attached at the hip since we were friends and even closer when we started dating 2 years ago. before i knew of the new alter, i was not handling the (what i thought was)“ghosting” very well, mainly because of a previous negative experience with one alter i don’t get along with very well. i was very anxious and texted my partner over and over again begging for him to talk to me about what’s going on and why he’s not answering me. needless to say it’s caused a lot of anxiety and emotional distress on my side.
recently, we broke up because of this. there was very little communication between the new alter and i, so i doubt they know who i am despite me trying to explain the situation from my POV. i am familiar and have a pretty good relationship with all but one of his other alters, they know who i am and the relationship i have with my partner.
we broke up because my partner came to the conclusion that he wants to focus on the system and let the new alter “roam”. i don’t remember exactly what he said because i was crying during this, but he mentioned forcing himself to be conscious enough to talk to me is putting too much stress on the system right now.
i ofc agreed because he knows what’s best for the system and i don’t want to get in the way of that.
during the break up talk, my partner also mentioned this period being unfair to put me through and even talked about the possibility of him not coming back. this obviously concerned me and i’ve known this was a possibility since the beginning, but knowing it could happen soon isn’t something i’m mentally or emotionally prepared for. he called it a “perma switch”, where he wouldn’t be the main host anymore, but somewhere in his mind while another alter fronts. as selfish as it sounds i don’t want that to happen :(
he decided to go no contact for another week and then we’ll regroup and discuss what to do next.
i don’t want to lose my partner :( he’s my best friend and we planned to get married and move out- the whole thing planned out. now i’m preparing to lose him and everything we dreamed of.
i don’t know what to do or how to start to process everything. i’m mad and sad and scared and worried. i know none of this is his fault, i miss him so much it hurts, but there’s nothing i can do but hope for the best.
is there anything i CAN do? i don’t know where to go from here :(
i’m sorry if this post didn’t make any sense, i’m just at a loss. i’m also sorry if this is a selfish post, i’m really trying to take everything into consideration and be sympathetic/empathetic. it’s just hard hearing all this.
thank you in advance for any replies. advice, discussion, educating me- anything.

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This is a really good read I've picked up from Neon in Nervos Nation TG from a Chinese website and the browser has translated it, seems like a good translation from Brave!!! Please be aware there are a few images that cannot be transferred form this article, but if you're not caring about lines of code or any of the schematics, you can give this a good read regardless.
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Bullish; Heres the link for those that might want to cross reference
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Foreword

In the fourth round of bitcoin halving cycle, the outbreak of the Ordinals agreement and similar agreements was adopted to make the encryption industry aware of the positive externality of the security and ecological development of the bitcoin master network based on the Bitcoin L1 layer of issued assets and transaction assets. Value is the “Uniswap moment” of Bitcoin ecology.
The programmable evolution and iteration of Bitcoin is the result of market governance in the Bitcoin community, not driven by the theory of Holder of BTC, Builder of block space, etc.
At present, by enhancing the programmability of Bitcoin and increasing the utilization rate of the block space of the main network of Bitcoin, it has become a new design space for the consensus of the Bitcoin community.
Unlike Etai and other high-performance public chains, in order to ensure the simplicity and light quantification of UTXO episodes, the design space for the programmability of bitcoins is highly restricted, and the basic constraints are how to use scripts and OP Code to operate UTXO.
The classic Bitcoin programmable program has a state channel （ Lightning Network ）, customer end verification （RGB）, side chain （Liquid Network, Stacks, RootSock, etc. ）, CounterParty, Omni Layer Asser, TaproC, etc. Emerging bitcoin programmability programs since 2023 include Ordinals, BRC20, Runes, Atomicals, Stamps, etc.
After the end of the second wave of inscriptions, a new generation of bitcoin programmability programs and so on emerged, such as CKB's UTXO co-construct binding program, EVM compatible bitcoin L2 program, DriveChain program, etc.
Compared with the EVM compatible bitcoin L2 scheme, CKB（Common Knowledge Base） The Bitcoin Programmability Program is a native, safe, and non-introducing social trust hypothesis solution in the Bitcoin Programmability Modern Design Space. Compared with the DriveChain plan, it does not require any change in the level of the Bitcoin agreement.
In the foreseeable future, the programmable growth curve of Bitcoin will go through an accelerated growth stage, and the assets, users, and applications of Bitcoin ecology will usher in a massive outbreak of martial arts，The UTXO Stack of the CKB ecology will provide new Bitcoin developers with the ability to build protocols using modular stacks. In addition, CKB is exploring the integration of the lightning network with UTXO Stack, using the original programmability of Bitcoin to achieve interoperability between the new agreements.

Programmable naming space for bitcoin

The block chain is a machine for creating trust, and the main Bitcoin network is the No. 0 machine. Like all philosophy in the West is a footnote to Plato, everything in the encrypted world （ assets, narratives, block chain networks, protocols, DAO, etc. ） are derivatives and derivatives of bitcoin.
In the process of coordinated evolution of Bitcoin Maxi and expansionists, from whether the Bitcoin main network supports Turing’s complete struggle to the dispute between the isolation witness program and the large block expansion plan, Bitcoin is constantly split. This is not only creating new encryption projects and encryption community consensus, but also strengthening and consolidating Bitcoin's own community consensus, which is a process of completing self-identification while others are institutionalized.
Due to the mysterious disappearance of Satoshi Zhong, Bitcoin community governance does not exist in the governance structure of the “ enlightened monarchy ” like Taifang, but is a balanced governance model in open games by miners, developers, communities and markets. This gives Bitcoin a community consensus that once formed and is extremely stable.
The characteristics of the current Bitcoin community consensus are: consensus is not command and control, trust minimization, decentralization, anti-censorship, anonymity, open source, open collaboration, licensing exemption, legal neutrality, homogenization, forward compatibility, resources Use minimization, verification > calculation, convergence, transaction volatility、Resist DoS attacks, avoid scramble entry, robustness, consistent incentives, curing, consensus that should not be tampered with, conflicting principles, collaborative advancement, etc. [1]
The current form of the Bitcoin main network can be regarded as an example of the consensus characteristics of the above Bitcoin community. The programmable design space of Bitcoin is also defined by the consensus characteristics of the Bitcoin community.

Programmable classic design space for bitcoin

When other public chains try to be modular, parallel, etc. to explore the design space where the block chain cannot be a triangular solution, the design space of the bitcoin protocol has always focused on scripts, OP Code, and UTXO.
Two typical examples are the two major upgrades to the Bitcoin main network since 2017, Segwit hard fork and Taproot soft fork.
In August 2017, Segwit bifurcated hard, adding 3M blocks outside the main block of 1M to save the signature （ Witness）, and setting the weight of the signature data as the main block when calculating the miner’s fee 1/4 to maintain consistency in the cost of spending a UTXO output and creating a UTXO output，Prevent the abuse of UTXO to zero to increase the expansion rate of UTXO sets.
In November 2021, Taproot's soft fork was introduced by introducing Schnorr's multiple signature program to save UTXO's verification time and block space occupied by multiple signatures.
UTXO（ The unspent transaction output ） is the basic data structure of the Bitcoin main network, which has atomic, non-homogeneous, and chain-coupled characteristics. Every transaction on the main net of Bitcoin consumes 1 UTXO as input, and creates an integer n new UTXO output. It is generally understood that UTXO can be regarded as a dollar, euro and other banknotes running on the chain. It can cost, change, split, combine, etc., but its minimum atomic unit is Satoshi（sats）. 1 UTXO represents the latest state at a particular time. UTXO episode, which represents the latest state of the Bitcoin main network at a certain time.
By maintaining the simplicity, light quantification, and easy verification of the Bitcoin UTXO episode, the state expansion rate of the Bitcoin main network has successfully stabilized at a level compatible with the hardware Moore law, thereby ensuring the participation of the entire Bitcoin network nodes And the robustness of transaction verification.
Correspondingly, the programmable design space of Bitcoin is also constrained by the consensus characteristics of the Bitcoin community. For example, in order to prevent potential security risks, Satoshi Nakamoto decided to remove the OP-CAT operation code in August 2010, which is the key logic for achieving programmability at the complete level of Bitcoin Turing.
Bitcoin's programmable realization path does not use the virtual machine （VM） scheme in the chain like Taifang and Solana, but chooses to use the script and operation code （OP Code） for UXTO, transaction Input field, output field and witness data （Witness）.
The main toolboxes for programmability of bitcoin are: multiple signatures, time locks, Hash locks, process control （OP_IF, OP_ELIF）. [2]
Under the classic design space, the programmability of bitcoin is very limited. It only supports a few verification procedures, but does not support chain storage and chain calculations, and chain storage and chain calculations are precisely to achieve Turing's complete level programmability. Core functional components.

Programmable Renaissance of Bitcoin

But Bitcoin's programmable design space is not a fixed state. Instead, it is closer to a dynamic spectrum that changes over time.
Unlike the outside world's stereotype that the development of the Bitcoin main network is at a standstill, in the case of various consensus vectors limiting the design space, the development, deployment, adoption, and promotion of the new script and new operation code of the Bitcoin main network are always in progress Times，And at some point even triggered a fork war in the encrypted community （ such as Segwit hard fork ）.
Taking the Bitcoin main net script type with degree change as an example, we can clearly perceive the changes. We can divide the scripts used by the Bitcoin main network output type into three categories: original script pubkey, pubkeyhash, enhanced script multisig, scripthash, witness script witness_v0_keyhash, witness_v0_scripthash, witness_v1_taproot.
From the change trend chart of the entire historical output type of the Bitcoin main network, we observe a basic fact: the programmability enhancement of the Bitcoin main network is a long-term historical trend, enhancing the share of scripts in the original script, and witnessing the script being swallowed The share of the enhanced script. The Ordinals agreement based on Segweit's enhanced script and Taproot's witness script opened a wave of Bitcoin L1 asset issuance, which is both a continuation of the programmable historical trend of the Bitcoin main network and a new stage of programmability of the Bitcoin main network.
The Bitcoin main network operation code also has an evolutionary process similar to the Bitcoin main net script.
For example, the Ordinals agreement is to achieve its functional design by combining the Bitcoin main net script taproot script-path spend and operation code （OP_FALSE, OP_IF, OP_PUSH, OP_ENDIF）.
Before the official birth of the Ordinals agreement, the programmable classic plan of bitcoin mainly has the state channel （ Lightning Network ）, customer verification （RGB）, side chain （Liquid Network, Stacks, RootSock, etc.）, CounterParty, etc.
The Ordinals agreement sequences the smallest atomized unit of UXTO （Satoshi）, and then inserts the data content in the Witness field of UTXO, and is associated with a specific deafness after sequencing, and then the chain indexer is responsible for indexing and Perform programmable operations of these data states. This new bitcoin programmability paradigm is vividly likened to “ Golden Eagle ”.
The new paradigm of the Ordinals agreement has inspired a wider range of encrypted communities to use the Bitcoin main network block space to distribute, cast and trade NFT collections and MeMe-type Token（, which can be collectively referred to as the inscription ）. For the first time in life, you have your own Bitcoin address.
However, the programmability of the Ordinals agreement inherits the limited programmability of Bitcoin and only supports the three functional methods of Deploy, Mint and Transfer. This allows the Ordinals agreement and its followers BRC20, Runes, Atomicals, Stamps, etc. to apply only to the application scenes where assets are issued. Support for DeFi application scenes such as transactions and loans that require state calculation and state storage is relatively weak.
Liquidity is the source of vitality for assets. Due to the natural characteristics of the programmability agreement of the Ordinals type bitcoin, the reissue of the inscription assets and the provision of light liquidity affect the value of the entire life cycle of the inscription assets.
Moreover, the Ordinals and BRC20 agreements are also suspected of misusing the witness data space and objectively causing the explosion of the main network of Bitcoin.
As a reference system, the main sources of the Pacific Master Network Gas fee are DEX transaction Gas fee, L2 data availability fee, and stable currency transfer Gas fee. Compared with the Taifang main network, the income type of the Bitcoin main network is single, cyclical, and the volatility rate is large.
The programmability of the Bitcoin main network cannot yet meet the demand for the space supply side of the Bitcoin main network block. To achieve a stable and sustainable block space income state with the Pacific Master Network, the original DEX, stable currency and L2 of the Bitcoin ecology are required. The prerequisite for the realization of these agreements and applications is that Bitcoin programmable agreements need to provide Turing's complete programming capabilities.
Therefore, how to achieve the complete programmability of Bitcoin Turing in its original place, while constraining the negative impact on the size of the Bitcoin main network, has become a current manifestation of Bitcoin ecology.

Bitcoin programmable CKB scheme

At present, the complete programmable programs for the original Turing of Bitcoin are: BitVM, RGB, CKB, EVM compatible with Rollup L2, DriveChain, etc.
BitVM uses a group of OP Code in Bitcoin to build and non-logical doors, and then builds other basic logical doors with non-logical doors. Eventually, these basic logical gate circuits construct a VM native to Bitcoin. This principle is somewhat similar to the array of the Qin king of the famous science fiction novel 《 Tripartite 》. There are specific scenes in the TV series of the same name adapted by Netflix. The paper of the BitVM program has been completely open source, and is highly expected by the encrypted community. However, its engineering implementation is very difficult. It is difficult to land in the short term when it encounters problems such as data management costs under the chain, the number of participants, challenges-response interactions, and the complexity of the Hash function.
The RGB protocol uses customer end verification and one-time sealing technology to achieve the complete programmability of Turing. The core design idea is to store the status and logic of the smart contract in the output of the bitcoin transaction （Transaction）On the implementation of the maintenance and data storage of the smart contract code under the chain，The main network of bitcoins serves as the commitment layer of the final state.
EVM compatible with Rollup L2 is a quick plan to rebuild Bitcoin L2 with a mature Rollup L2 stack. However, given that the Bitcoin main network is currently unable to support fraud certification/validity certification, Rollup L2 needs to introduce the social trust assumption （ over-sign ）.
DriveChain is a side chain expansion plan. The basic design idea is to use Bitcoin as the bottom layer of the block chain, and to create side chains by locking Bitcoin to achieve two-way interoperability between Bitcoin and side chains. The realization of the DriveChain project requires agreement-level changes to Bitcoin, which will deploy the BIP300 and BIP301 proposed by the development team to the main network.
The above Bitcoin programmability plan is either extremely difficult to land in the short term, or introduces too many social trust assumptions, or requires agreement-level changes to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin L1 Asset Agreement: RGB++

In response to the shortcomings and problems of the programmability agreement in Bitcoin above, the CKB team gave a relatively balanced solution. The solution consists of Bitcoin L1 asset agreement RGB++, Bitcoin L2 Raas service provider UTXO Stack and interoperability agreement integrated with the lightning network.
Original language of UXTO: tied to the same organization
RGB++ is a bitcoin L1 asset issuance agreement based on RGB design ideas. The project of RGB++ was realized, while inheriting the technical original words of CKB and RBG. It uses RGB's “ one-time seal ” and customer end verification technology, and at the same time tied up the UTXO（ expanded version of Cell） that maps Bitcoin UTXO to the CKB main network, and uses CKB and Bitcoin chains Script constraints to verify the accuracy of status calculations and the validity of ownership changes.
In other words, RGB++ uses Cell on the CKB chain to express the ownership relationship of RGB assets. It moves the asset data originally stored at the end of the RGB customer to the CKB chain and expresses it in the form of Cell. It establishes a mapping relationship with Bitcoin UTXO, allowing CKB to act as an open database and chain of RGB assets. Settlement layer, replacing RGB client，Achieve more reliable data hosting and RGB contract interaction.
Cell is the basic data storage unit of CKB and can contain various data types, such as CKBytes, tokens, TypeScript codes or sequencing data （ such as the JSON string ）. Each Cell contains a small program called Lock Script, which defines the owner of Cell. Lock Script not only supports the scripts of the Bitcoin main network, such as multiple signatures, Hash locks, time locks, etc., but also allows a Type Script to enforce specific rules to control its use. This allows developers to customize smart contracts according to different usages, such as issuing NFT, airdropping tokens, AMM Swap, etc.
The RGB protocol adds the root of the transaction under the chain to a UTXO'output by using the OP RETURN operating code, and uses UTXO as a container of status information. Then, RGB++ map this state information container constructed by RGB to Cell in CKB, keep the state information in Cell's type and data, and use this container UTXO as the Cell state owner.
As shown in the figure above, a complete RGB++ transaction life cycle is as follows：

1. Calculation under the chain. When initiating a Tx bound by the same configuration, first choose a new UTXO btc_utxo#2 of the Bitcoin main network as a one-time sealed container, and then bind the UTXO btc_utxo#1 of the original Cell co-construct under the chain Btc_utxo#2、Using the original Cell as a CKB TX to enter the new Cel as an output to perform Hashi calculations to generate a commitment.
2. Submit Bitcoin transactions. RGB++ initiated a Tx of the main bitcoin network, which will use btc_utxo#1 bound to the original Cell co-organizer as an input, and use OP RETURN to use the promise generated in the previous step as an output.
3. Submit CKB transactions. CKB Tx calculated and generated under the chain before the execution of the CKB main network.
4. Verify on the chain. The CKB main network runs a Bitcoin main network light client to verify the state change of the entire system. This is very different from RGB. The P2P mechanism used in the verification of RGB's status change requires that the initiator of Tx and the receiver be online at the same time and only interactively verify the relevant TX spectrum.

Based on the above-mentioned tied logic to achieve RGB++, compared with the RGB agreement, while allowing part of the privacy, some new features were obtained: enhanced customer end verification of block chains, transaction folding, no ownership contract Shared status and non-interactive transfer.

• Customer end verification with enhanced blockchain. RGB++ allows users to choose to use PoW to maintain consensus security CKB verification status calculations and URXO-Cell ownership changes.
• Trading folding. RGB++ supports the mapping of multiple Cells to a single UTXO, thereby achieving the elastic expansion of RGB++.
• Unowned smart contracts and shared status. A major difficulty in achieving a complete intelligent contract for Turing in the UTXO state data structure is the unowned intelligent contract and shared state. RGB++ can use CKB's overall state Cell and Cell of Intent to solve this problem.
• Non-interactive transfer. RGB++ turns RGB’s client verification process into an option, and no longer requires interactive transfers. If the user chooses CKB verification status calculation and ownership change, the interactive experience of the transaction is consistent with the Bitcoin main network.

In addition, RGB++ also inherited the state space privatization characteristics of CKB main network Cell. In addition to paying the miner's fees for using Bitcoin main network block space, each TX also needs to pay for leasing Cell status space. The cost + this part of the cost returns to + after Cell consumption. Cell's state space privatization is a defense mechanism invented by CKB to deal with the explosion of the block chain main network. The leasers of Cell state space need to pay continuously during their use （ in the form of CKB circulation tokens inflation Value ）. This makes the RGB++ agreement a responsible programmable expansion agreement for the main network of Bitcoin, which can limit the abuse of the block space of the main network of Bitcoin to a certain extent.
To trust L1<>L2 interoperability: Leap
The tied tie of the same structure of RGB++ is a common logic for the realization of a common atom, which either occurs at the same time or flips at the same time without intermediate states. All RGB++ transactions will appear simultaneously on the BTC and CKB chains. The former is compatible with the transactions of the RGB agreement, while the latter replaces the process of customer end verification. The user only needs to check the relevant transactions on the CKB to verify whether the calculation of the status of the RGB++ transaction is correct. However, users may also use the transaction on the CKB chain as the verification basis, and use the local Tx map of UTXO to independently verify the RGB++ transaction. （Part of the functions such as transaction folding still need to rely on CKB block Hashi for anti-double flower verification ）
Therefore, the asset cross-chain between RGB++ and the CKB main network does not rely on the introduction of additional social trust assumptions, such as the relay layer of the cross-chain bridge, the centralized multi-sign vault of EVM compatible Rollup, etc. RGB++ Assets can be transferred from the Bitcoin main network to the CKB main network, or from the CKB main network to the Bitcoin main network. CKB calls this cross-chain workflow Leap.
RGB++ and CKB are loosely coupled. In addition to the assets supporting the Bitcoin L 1st floor （ are not limited to the original assets of the RGB++ agreement, including assets issued by Runes, Atomicals, Taproot Asset and other agreements ）Leap to CKB, RGB++The other support Leap to Cardan. At the same time, RGB++ also supports Bitcoin L2 assets Leap to Bitcoin main network.
Examples of extended functions and applications of RGB++
The RGB++ agreement originally supported the issuance of homogenized tokens and NFT.
The homogenized token standard of RGB++ is xUDT, and the NFT standard is Spore.
The xUDT standard supports a variety of homogenized tokens issuance methods, including but not limited to centralized distribution, airdrops, subscriptions, etc. The total amount of tokens can also be selected between the upper limit and the upper limit. For the tokens with a preset upper limit, a status sharing scheme can be used to verify whether the total number of each issuance is less than or equal to the preset upper limit.
Spore in the NFT standard will store all metadata on the chain, achieving 100% data availability security. Assets issued by the Spore Agreement DOB（Digital Object, digital object）, similar to Ordinals NFT, but with richer characteristics and play methods.
As a customer verification agreement, the RGB protocol naturally supports state channels and lightning networks, but is limited by the ability to calculate the script of Bitcoin, it is very difficult to bring assets other than BTC into the lightning network. However, the RGB++ protocol can use CKB's Turing Complete Script System to realize the status channel and lightning network of CKB-based RGB++ assets.
With the above standards and functions, the RGB++ agreement is not limited to simple asset issuance scenarios like other Bitcoin host network programmable agreements, but supports complex applications such as asset transactions, asset lending, and CDP stabilizer coins. For example, RGB++ combined with the tied logic of the Bitcoin main network, the PSBT script can realize a DEX form of order book grid.

Bitcoin L2 RaaS service provider: UTXO Stack

UTXO is the same as Bitcoin L2 Vs EVM compatible Bitcoin Rollup L2
In the market competition for the programmatic realization of Bitcoin in Turing, DriveChain and the restoration of OPCAT operating codes and other programs require very large uncertainties and unpredictability due to changes in the Bitcoin agreement layer， UTXO compatible with Bitcoin L2 and EVM in the realist route is more recognized by developers and capital. UTXO is also composed of Bitcoin L2, represented by CKB. EVM is compatible with Bitcoin Rollup L2, represented by Merlin Chain and BOB.
To be practical, the Bitcoin L1 asset issuance agreement has just begun to form a local consensus in the Bitcoin community, and the community consensus of Bitcoin L2 is at an earlier stage. But in this frontier area, 《 Bitcoin magazine 》 and Pantera have tried to set the definition range for Bitcoin L2 by drawing on the conceptual structure of Taifang L2.
In their eyes, Bitcoin L2 should have the following three characteristics：

• Use bitcoin as a native asset. Bitcoin L2 must use Bitcoin as its main settlement asset.
• Use bitcoin as a settlement mechanism to enforce transactions. Users of Bitcoin L2 must be able to force their return to their first-tier asset control （ credible or untrustworthy ）.
• Demonstrate functional dependence on bitcoin. If the Bitcoin main network fails but the Bitcoin L2 system is still operational, then the system is not L2 of Bitcoin. [4]

In other words, they believe that Bitcoin L2 should have data availability verification based on the Bitcoin main network, escape cabin mechanism, BTC as Bitcoin L2 Gas tokens, etc. In this way, in their subconscious mind, the EVM compatible L2 paradigm was used as the standard template for Bitcoin L2.
However, the weak state calculation and verification capabilities of the Bitcoin main network cannot achieve Feature 1 and Feature 2 in the short term. In this case, EVM compatible L2 is a chain expansion plan that is completely dependent on social trust assumptions，Although they are writing in white papers that future integration of BitVM for data availability verification and joint mining with the Bitcoin main network enhances safety.
Of course, this does not mean that these EVM compatibility Rollup L2 is fake Bitcoin L2, but that they do not strike a good balance between security, distrust and scalability. Moreover, the Bitcoin ecology introduces a complete solution with the Turing of Taifang, which is easily regarded by Bitcoin Maxi as appeasement for the expansionist route.
Therefore, UTXO and Bitcoin L2 are naturally superior to EVM compatible Rollup L2 in terms of orthodox and Bitcoin community consensus.
Characteristics of UTXO Stack: Fractal Bitcoin Main Network
If the Episcopal L2 is based on the fractal of the Taifang, then the Bitcoin L2 should be the fractal of Bitcoin.
The UTXO Stack of the CKB ecology activates UTXO bitcoin L2 for the developer's key and originally integrates the RGB++ protocol capability. This allows seamless interoperability between the Bitcoin main network and UTXO developed using UTXO Stack and Bitcoin L2. UTXO Stack supports the pledge of BTC, CKB and BTC L1 assets to ensure the safety of UTXO co-constructor Bitcoin L2.
UTXO Stack currently supports the free flow and interoperability of RGB++ assets between the Bitcoin Lightning Network-CKB Lightning Network-UTXO Stack parallel L2s. In addition, UTXO Stack also supports Runes, Atomicals, Taproot Asset, Stamps and other UTXO-based Bitcoin L1 programmability protocol assets to flow freely and interoperate between UTXO Stack parallel L2s-CKB Lightning Network-Bitcoin Lightning Network.
UTXO Stack introduced the modular paradigm into the construction field of Bitcoin L2, and cleverly bypassed the calculation of the Bitcoin main network status and the verification of data availability with the tie of the same structure. In this modular stack, the role of Bitcoin is the consensus layer and the settlement layer. The role of CKB is the data availability layer, while the roles of UTXO Stack parallel L2 are the execution layer.

Bitcoin's programmable growth curve and CKB's future

Bitcoin's programmable growth curve and CKB's future

In fact, there is an inherent tension between Bitcoin’s digital gold narrative and Bitcoin’s programmable narrative. Some OGs in the Bitcoin community regard the Bitcoin L1 programmable agreement that has emerged since 23 years as a new round of Bitcoin main network. Dust attack boom. To some extent, the saliva war between the core developer of Bitcoin, Luke, and the fans of BRC20, is the third world war between Bitcoin maxi and the expanders following the battle for the completeness of Turing and the block.
But there is actually another perspective that regards bitcoin as APP Chain for digital gold. From this perspective, it is the positioning of the bottom layer of digital gold to centralize the ledger, which shapes the shape of the current Bitcoin main network UTXO set and the characteristics of programmable protocols. But if I remember correctly, Satoshi Nakamoto's vision is to make Bitcoin a P2P electronic currency. The demand for programmability in digital gold is safes and vaults, and the demand for programmability in currency is the central bank-commercial bank circulation network. Therefore, the programmability enhancement agreement of Bitcoin is not an outrageous behavior, but a return to the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Drawing on Gartner Hype Cycle's research method, we can divide the Bitcoin programmability programs into 5 stages

• Technology budding period: DriveChain, UTXO Stack, BitVM, etc.
• Expected expansion period: Runes, RGB++, EVM Rollup bitcoin L2, etc.
• Foam burst period: BRC20, Atomicals, etc.
• Steady recovery period: RGB, lightning network, bitcoin side chain, etc.
• Mature plateau period: bitcoin script, Taproot script, Hash time lock, etc.

The future of CKB: OP Stack+Eigenlayer

Whether it is EVM compatible with Bitcoin Rollup L2, UTXO co-constructor Bitcoin L2, or Drive Chain and other new paradigms, Turing’s complete programmable implementation of various programs ultimately points to the Bitcoin main network as a consensus and settlement layer.
Just as the evolution of convergence has occurred repeatedly in nature, it can be expected that the trend of the complete and programmable development of the Bitcoin eco-turing will show a certain degree of consistency with the Episcopal ecology in some respects. But this consistency will not simply be based on Taifang's technology stack to Bitcoin ecology, but on the use of Bitcoin's original technology stack （ programmability based on UTXO ） to achieve a similar ecological structure.
CKB's UTXO Stack is very similar to Optimism's OP Stack positioning. OP Stack maintains strong equivalence and consistency with the Israel-Pacific main network at the executive level, and UTXO Stack maintains strong equivalence with the Bitcoin main network at the executive level. And consistency. At the same time, UTXO Stack, like the OP Stack structure, is a parallel structure.
In the future, UTXO Stack will introduce RaaS services such as shared servers, shared security, shared liquidity, and shared verification sets to further reduce the cost and difficulty of developers to start UTXO co-constructor Bitcoin L2. At present, there are a large number of projects such as the Decentralized Stabilization Coin Agreement, AMM DEX, Borrowing Agreement, and Autonomous World. It is planned to use UTXO Stack to build UTXO co-constructor Bitcoin L2 as its bottom consensus infrastructure.
Unlike other Bitcoin security abstract agreements, the CKB's consensus mechanism is a PoW consensus mechanism consistent with the Bitcoin main network, and the machine algorithm maintains the consistency of the consensus ledger. But there is some difference between CKB's tokens economics and Bitcoin. In order to maintain the consistency of block space production and consumption behavior incentives, Bitcoin chose to introduce weights and vByte mechanism to calculate state space usage fees, and CKB chose to privatize state space.
CKB's tokens economics consists of two parts: basic distribution and secondary distribution. All CKBs issued on a basic basis are fully rewarded to miners. The purpose of CKB issued in the second level is to collect state rent. The specific distribution ratio of the issued in the second level depends on the current way in which CKBs are used in the network.
For example, suppose that 50% of all circulating CKBs are used for storage, 30% are locked in NervosDAO, and 20% are fully mobile. Then, 50% of （ issued in the second level, that is, the rent of the storage state ）, will be allocated to miners, 30% will be allocated to NervosDAO depositors, and the remaining 20% will be allocated to the Treasury Fund.
This tokens economic model can constrain overall growth, coordinate the interests of different network participants （ including users, miners, developers, and tokens holders ）, and create an incentive structure that is beneficial to everyone. This is different from other L1 situations in the market.
In addition, CKB allows a single Cell to occupy a maximum state space of 1,000 bytes, which gives the NFT assets on the CKB some other block chain similar assets that do not have strange characteristics, such as the original portability of Gas fees, the programmability of state space, etc. These bizarre characteristics make UTXO Stack very suitable for building digital physical reality for the infrastructure of autonomous world projects.
UTXO Stack allows Bitcoin L2 developers to use BTC, CKB, and other Bitcoin L1 asset pledges to participate in their network consensus.
Summary
It is inevitable that Bitcoin will develop to the stage of Turing's complete programmable program. But Turing’s complete programmability will not happen to the Bitcoin main network, but under the chain （RGB, BitVM） or Bitcoin L2 （CKB, EVM Rollup, DriveChain）.
According to historical experience, one of these agreements will eventually develop into a monopolistic standard agreement.
There are two key factors that determine the competitiveness of Bitcoin programmable agreements: 1. Realization of BTC's free flow between L1<>L2 without relying on additional social trust assumptions; 2. Attract developers, funds and users of sufficient scale into their L2 ecology.
As a programmable solution for bitcoin, CKB has used the co-constructed binding +CKB network to replace the customer verification solution to achieve the free flow of Bitcoin L1 assets between L1<>L2, and Does not rely on additional social trust assumptions. Moreover, the benefit is in the spatial privatization characteristics of CKB Cell, and RBG++ does not bring pressure to the Bitcoin main network to explode like other Bitcoin programmability agreements.
Recently, through RGB++~ the first batch of asset releases, the ecological thermal start was initially completed, and the new users and a group of new developers were 150,000 new users for the CKB ecological success OnB. For example, OpenStamp, a one-stop solution for Stamps ecology in Bitcoin L1, has chosen to use UTXO Stack to construct UTXOs serving Stamps ecology and Bitcoin L2.
In the next stage, CKB will focus on ecological application construction, realizing BTC's free flow between L1<>L2, and integrating lightning networks, and strive to become a programmable layer of future bitcoins.
[1] What are the Key Properties of Bitcoin?
[2] Programmability of bitcoin
[3] ABCDE: Why should we invest in UTXO Stack
[4] LAYER 2 IS NOT A MAGIC INCANTATION
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So I reconnected with an ex from when i was 15(32 now) been talking and hanging out for about 2 months now and have been getting the feeling I'm being lead on. First off she's way out of my league as far as looks go, but we've always gotten along really well and it's not like I'm fuck ugly. She also has a pretty time demanding job, she's a deputy coroner of the county we live in, and also bartends on her off nights. So her schedule is a bit tight. But for the last 5 weeks every Saturday without fail she will bail on our plans for hanging out after 8pm. Always radio silence until around 1030 pm. The first 2 times her dad was sick and she sent pictures of being in the hospital and all that. I get that, family first, no worries. But then the last 3 times have been due to her having to either stay late at the bar or a dinner she had with the coroner's office for her new promotion. She split with a fiancé about 6 months ago. And dated a cop about 2 years ago. But recently the fiancé dropped off a bunch of his stuff at her house due to him selling his home and moving in with his dad or something. I don't ask many questions, I don't want to pressure her. But she also dated a cop 2 years ago according to her. But last night she brings up some story about him having a kid he doesn't want or whatever, not the point, brushed it off. But today we were heading to a local park to look for morel mushrooms and her Bluetooth on her car flashed "amorocito calling" he's Hispanic and she speaks a few languages. And I know enough Spanish to get the point. He calls her back to back and she's obviously texts him to get him to stop calling. Claimed it's still that contact name due to her newer camry not synching contact names...but her phone is about a month old. I'm not a dummy but I'm pretty sure I'm in some fucked up situation and don't really know any way to say "I don't like all of this give me an answer so I don't get hurt and we don't waste our time" without it sounding like I don't trust her. I like who she is personality wise and she's beautiful. But I think I might be just an emotional pay pig at this point.

I have been with my OH for 9 years now, and we have been living together for 6 of these. When we first met, I was constantly trying to put in effort with his family, offering to watch his nieces and nephews if his sisters wanted a break. I would buy them gifts and small treats whenever I knew we would be seeing them, and tried my hardest to fit in.
Fast forward to when we bought our first house together. I didn’t have much of a deposit to put in, but my OH was selling his house, so made the process easier, and regardless of the deposit input, both of us are named on our current property and I pay half of the bills.
On our move in day, his and my parents were helping us move in our furniture, only for his mom to say that it was such a great achievement for my OH to have bought the house and he would look forward to decorating it to his liking… even though I had purchased every piece of furniture for our new home. My mom took offence to this, and has refused to be in her company ever since. She finds her unbearable and disrespectful.
More recently, for whatever reason, it has become more and more obvious that his family make zero effort with me. After the home comment, I took a large step back, as it caught me off guard, and made the decision that I had done my part to ensure effort was put in, and that it was now their turn.
Ever since, I see his mom and sisters going out for lunches - no extended invitation comes my way. His sister hosted her baby shower, but didn’t bother to invite me, and whenever I’m in their company, it feels as though no one acknowledges my presence. They ask my OH how his work is, and if he’s been busy, but don’t ask me. His mom wasn’t well recently, so I messaged her to ask if she needed any groceries taken in, again, trying to help and be liked. I think the final straw was when his dad was on the phone to his uncle and when we visited recently, only for him to advise that my OH had arrived and that he was doing well… maybe he didn’t notice I was there too, standing next to him.
Only yesterday, my OH’s mom said that it’s not normal to make an effort with a daughter in law, and she would only make a point of helping if it was her son on his own.
All I have ever wanted is an extended family who would reciprocate the effort I put in with them, but sadly this isn’t the case. Is there something more I could do? Have I done something to cause them to dislike me? I don’t come from a wealthy background, and only just made ends meet when growing up, so maybe they see me as less of a person because of this?
Someone please enlighten me?!

Like all my reviews, I write them in French before. It is then translated by Google Translate. I scanned through, but let me know if there are mistakes I should correct. No review can truly describe the whole essence of a film, but it is especially true for this film. There is a lot to say about Trenque Lauquen because it is a great film, but also because it is very long (4h22min). So, I can only cover a small part of the film in this review. The point being: watch the film if you can find it!
Trenque Lauquen begins with the investigation of Laura's disappearance by Ezequiel and Rafael. The two men there search on the road from gas station to gas station, perhaps without realizing that she does not want to be found. One might believe that the film is taking the already established path of police or journalistic investigation, but it will not stop there. Without making the mystery that hangs over this disappearance disappear, he reveals himself to be terribly and methodically human. And this is perhaps one of the greatest feats of the film to show that behind each mystery that lies hidden there will above all be a human story: that we must above all not kill the human in the mystery. Quiet scenes, where Ezequiel goes to pick up his children as well as others where the characters pick flowers or chat melancholy over a beer, remind us frequently in this 260-minute film.
The first of these mysteries are the love letters Laura finds in the Trenque Lauquen library while she is preparing radio programs about women who have made history. While researching the origin of her erotic letters with Ezequiel, she falls in love with him. The letters then take on a second life in a scene between eroticism and unease where Ezequiel reads one to Laura. These letters predestinate Laura to become a second Carmen Zuna. Another woman gone just when love was blossoming. Of this love, which will not last longer than that of Brief Encounters (1945) , there will be little left in itself than a single kiss, and perhaps, the spark that will push Laura has sought further. It's not so trivial, if among the many details that Rafael, Laura's boyfriend, will not learn, there are her letters.
The second of these mysteries is the discovery of a being in the lake of Trenque Lauquen. Apparently, an urban legend which continues to give a mystical air to this town Trenque Lauquen. It quickly becomes more when Laura meets a woman who seems to be an apparition asking her for flowers. She doesn't explain it to herself immediately: this woman is both what she desires and what she wants to be. She is responsible for investigating the origin of the being that came out of the lake. The film does not sink into a fantastic dimension either, the creature will never be shown to us. The investigator, Élisa, is already in a relationship with a woman named Romina. But, this will not prevent the progression of gently melancholic and romantic scenes such as the meeting in a garden or a greenhouse, which is reminiscent of Vertigo (1958) or a scene where the two women are around a fire. During this last scene, we talk more about setting up a room for the creature than about the creature itself. This is the proposition of creating a home. This sweet part of a film which spans the last hour will, however, come to an end. And Eden, in the house for the creature will be, unused. In a scene of simplicity, but also of great beauty, Laura will open the door to see the emptiness of a missing future even through the space fully occupied by plants. Perhaps also for her, a reminder of her failed future with Rafael, and the house project with him, which had not come to fruition.
The third of these mysteries, the most underlying of all, is Laura's disappearance. The viewer who expected this mystery to be solved will return as empty-handed as Rafael on the bus. Because, like L'avventura (1960) , the film does not seek to answer the famous “what happened?” » To our morbid fascination with the disappearance of the main character. He will answer us with natural ease that it is a desire for adventure, coupled with a desire for emancipation. The message could not have been clearer in the annotations left in a book by Laura and which Rafael chose to ignore. From start to finish, Laura remains the same endearing, sociable and committed woman that the film presents us with at the beginning. And in this sense, the film remains much more optimistic than L'avventura (1960). Whatever she is looking for, she finds it. Near the end, Laura on her horse recalls Godiva. The image of the woman who stripped naked to reduce taxes for Coventry residents takes on another meaning. That of emancipation and freedom. Laura will not, however, be naked in this scene, perhaps, to spare us the misfortune of going blind like “Peeping Tom”.
Thus, Laura becomes one of the characters on her radio show about women who made history. And now it is perhaps not so trivial that the second half of the film is told through a radio recording of his adventures. In her thirst for mystery and adventure, having reached the end of what she could find in books, as evidenced by her multiple failed attempts to tell "the story of the Russian woman", she had to self-determines, reclaims its mysteries, and tells its own story. And this even if she did not want her story to be revealed to the whole world. She revealed herself to herself above all.
As the column in Cahiers du Cinéma (number 807) illustrated, Argentine cinema is in full creative ferment. With films like Trenque Lauquen leading the way, the future is sure to be bright. Their intimidating durations are only one asset among many others, notably the structure of the collective El Pampero Cine, to allow us to move away from the stifling narrative structures inherited from theater and commercial cinema to finally embrace freedom to the point of narrative and thematic view. It is quite a joy to note that to deserve a duration such as this, it is no longer necessary to be a peplum or a great romantic epic. With other directors, for example Ryusuke Hamaguchi, it now seems more than ever possible to create author frescoes.

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Granville Street Bridge

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Stanley Park

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Granville Island

Located just south of downtown Vancouver and accessible by foot traffic over the charming Granville Street Bridge, Granville Island has developed into one of the city's most popular urban destinations. The former industrial lands have been transformed into a vibrant cultural and recreational hub bursting with character. Visitors from Granville Street hotels can spend the afternoon browsing the Public Market for artisan foods, sampling tastes from diverse cafes and restaurants, or exploring the shops selling eclectic gifts and souvenirs. Numerous street performers entertain passersby throughout the lively plaza areas. Arts aficionados will also find top-notch galleries and theaters showcasing the work of local talents. A stroll along the docks offers scenic views back toward Vancouver's glistening skyline. Granville Island's compact size makes it ideally suited for leisurely days without needing transport.

Orpheum Theatre

The Orpheum Theatre, a magnificent vaudeville palace dating back to 1927, stands as a resplendent architectural gem along Granville Street. This opulent venue, with its ornate rococo interior and grand proscenium arch, transports audiences to an era of lavish entertainment. The Orpheum's storied history has seen it host a multitude of acclaimed performances, from Broadway musicals and classical concerts to comedy acts and film screenings. Today, it remains a premier cultural destination, attracting both locals and visitors alike with its diverse programming and unparalleled ambiance.
For those seeking accommodation in close proximity, Granville Street offers a plethora of hotels, ranging from budget-friendly options to luxurious retreats. These convenient lodgings not only provide easy access to the Orpheum Theatre but also place guests within walking distance of numerous other attractions, restaurants, and nightlife hotspots. Whether attending a captivating show or simply admiring the theater's grand facade, the Orpheum remains a cherished highlight for anyone exploring the vibrant cultural tapestry of Vancouver.

Conclusion

From scenic bridges and gardens to vibrant neighbourhoods and urban forests, the diverse choices within walking distance of Granville Street hotels guarantee something new on every visit. Whether enjoying world-class performing arts, browsing local artisans or appreciating Vancouver's natural beauty up-close, this bustling downtown core provides the perfect starting point for making endless memorable experiences. With so much beauty and character encapsulating this vibrant city, travellers will surely dream of returning time and again to Granville Street to uncover more of what makes Vancouver such a unique Pacific destination.

Heyo! Got a bit of a unique idea for a roleplay and decided to post it to see if anyone was interested. Few things about me is I am fairly new to roleplaying and my message lengths can range from a few sentences to a few paragraphs depending on what is needed for the scene. I enjoy writing fight scenes and fun character interactions and am ok with romance if that is something you want to include. I also prefer to play female characters.
Anyways onto the premise: Demons, fiends, devils, whatever you may call them. Terrible spirits that have haunted myths and legends since time immemorial. Once thought to be myth, now evidence of their existence is coming to light. In the recent years the Earth has been wracked with turmoil. Global warming has caused many disasters around the globe, raising the sea level drastically swallowing up many cities. The ice caps are all but melted and news of a global pandemic is beginning to spread. Not only that but World War 3 seems to be around the corner with countries such as Russia and China allying together against countries like the US and UK. Amid all this turmoil the worst news has been hidden. Strange disappearances, gruesome murders where the bodies have been horrifically disfigured. Unbeknownst to the public Demons have arrived onto the Earth. For unknown reasons these beasts have entered the mortal realm, seeking to cause as much chaos as possible during these times of strife. However their appearance is not entirely bad, as it has been beneficial for a small few. People who have been emotionally scarred, those whose souls have been tainted by trauma, or those whose hearts have been stained black are able to bond with demons. Instead of the hell beasts killing them the two beings forge a contract where the demon lives inside the persons body and in exchange they grant their host demonic powers. These people, dubbed Devilkin by government agents, have started to appear alongside the demonic rumors.
We will be playing two people whose relationship can be decided by you. Close friends, siblings, two people who have just met. Whatever you decide we find ourselves in an abandoned building on a dare. The place, rumored to be haunted, is secretly home to two ferocious demonic entities. We will be cornered by the beasts but just before they end us they find that we’re perfect hosts to become Devilkin. Why do these demons wish to become Devilkin with us? Why are demons becoming far more abundant on Earth? Why is the government covering them up? And why are there so many destructive events happening back to back? These are the questions that our characters can answer throughout the roleplay.
Overall I think it is an interesting concept and I’d love to test it out! If it was not already made obvious from the lore our characters would have to have some trauma/negative traits that they could grow out of through a character arc throughout the story. Perhaps they learn to improve themselves through caring about eachother and whatever other survivors they find as these apocalyptic events progress and things become more dire as stronger demons begin to appear. I would love to hear what character ideas you can come up with from this prompt! Feel free to shoot me a message if you’d like to try roleplaying this.