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Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 18 (April 29 - May 5)

2024.05.01 06:21 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 18 (April 29 - May 5)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for skipping last week. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
April 29
April 30
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
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2024.05.01 06:21 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 18 (April 29 - May 5)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for skipping last week. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
April 29
April 30
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
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2024.05.01 06:18 fganniversaries Fighting Game Anniversaries: Week 18 (April 29 - May 5)

Hey, yall. This is fganniversaries and apologies for skipping last week. As per usual, I will be recapping anniversaries relating to fighting game announcements/releases this week. Like always, if I missed one, do please let me know in the comments. Here would be the following anniversaries:
April 29
April 30
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
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2024.05.01 02:50 SOO4R3R-217 Hokkaido + Some Leftover Spots From Few Countries

Hokkaido, Japan:
  1. Bentley Mark VI and Continental GT (Sapporo, 2021) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0559199,141.3500007,3a,15y,89.41h,86.83t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1srPUEwWrUKBQrc_qcteQfAQ!2e0!5s20210501T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  2. Toyota GR Supra A90 (Otaru, 2021) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.198486,141.0005859,3a,15y,102.61h,87.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbHzXXJ1fovs1TG9E44Fx3Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  3. Tuned Porsche 970 Panamera 4S (Wakkanai, 2023) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@45.522288,141.9367962,3a,15y,43.52h,88.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWY0lEuf4p7hiAD7DqbXkEQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  4. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X (Hokkaido, 2014) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0490202,141.3560307,3a,15y,100.87h,84.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6pFOcr2TTRbLUp5WcHuetw!2e0!5s20140801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  5. 2008 Dodge Challenger RT (Hokkaido, 2022) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0490587,141.3558847,3a,15y,169.6h,88.03t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1szUbqw9LPGpboEtSUDVJC5w!2e0!5s20220901T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  6. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX (Sapporo, 2018) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0537178,141.3487297,3a,15y,301.8h,85.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqQdcllKcq4TK4a-tTDEBAg!2e0!5s20180701T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  7. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI (Sapporo, 2021) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0727176,141.3685359,3a,15.1y,133.6h,86.32t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skIZB1f2fNvwpisxxUDPxSw!2e0!5s20211101T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  8. BMW M3 E90 (Sapporo, 2019) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0729473,141.3697223,3a,15y,322.65h,88.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbWAKbRcY05AXwH0gPouy4g!2e0!5s20190501T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  9. Mercedes Benz S63 AMG W222 (Sapporo, 2022) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0574517,141.3503866,3a,37y,45.07h,70.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ_1Sf-9FUYfui-Si__c8Ng!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  10. Cadillac XLR (Sapporo, 2010) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0570843,141.3472916,3a,17.5y,235.93h,77.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1smz7Q4dpHshJkOhUitoOjrQ!2e0!5s20100801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  11. Audi R8 V8 Type 42 (Sapporo, 2017) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0558778,141.3469422,3a,15y,308.34h,85.82t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXKCHlQKS8ekvTqT6uzndHQ!2e0!5s20170801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  12. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX (Sapporo, 2014) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0553691,141.3469844,3a,15y,108.05h,84.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sM6UH8-eBJBWBH8Id6PxXyw!2e0!5s20140801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  13. Ferrari 488 Spider (Sapporo, 2017) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0562102,141.3226275,3a,15y,133.74h,84.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbkNk2CSittSHUzM4hE31NA!2e0!5s20170801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  14. Porsche 957 Cayenne Turbo (Sapporo, 2017) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0559313,141.3203093,3a,15y,188.97h,84.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spXix1fTBDa47MScb_TDEJQ!2e0!5s20170701T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  15. Tuned Nissan Silvia S15 (Sapporo, 2018) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@43.0560042,141.3252757,3a,35.7y,93.89h,68.6t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPHw0GIrC3sG-HKSJbIz4tA!2e0!5s20180701T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  16. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII (Chitose, 2021) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@42.797178,141.6770478,3a,15y,219.44h,87.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sLTzbB32a-Xw-GSVJyIa5Bg!2e0!5s20210801T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  17. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X (Chitose, 2020) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@42.7891803,141.6794069,3a,15y,234.67h,87.25t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sykr1WFylwQv4HELnx5zf6w!2e0!5s20201001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  18. Nissan Skyline GTR BNR32 (Chitose, 2015) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@42.7971511,141.6775959,3a,15y,194.82h,86.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5j3WQ_DeG_gare-h-utdMQ!2e0!5s20150601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  19. Porsche Macan GTS (Chitose, 2023) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@42.7838186,141.6772277,3a,15y,278.61h,85.12t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ssMraUIsp58oHyhx1pLFVzQ!2e0!5s20230801T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
Philippines:
  1. Porsche Panamera Turbo (Quezon City, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.6651369,121.0817971,3a,15y,134.2h,82.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sw5aRuxnFfDZonYx9HhssBg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
  2. 2x Mercedes Benz 170 S (Makati, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.5556236,121.0175428,3a,16.3y,109.5h,82.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBRJZ1xvXO1CLPYKqNdjZwg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  3. Maserati Levante (Makati, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.5579991,121.0248446,3a,15y,62.33h,85.68t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suB9OMrEh7fwmi88AZwrOhQ!2e0!5s20240201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  4. Bentley Bentayga II (Makati, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.5613197,121.0276944,3a,15y,186.21h,85.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sl8ConL1YcVLG9l-SFID2kA!2e0!5s20240201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  5. Toyota GR Supra A90 (Makati, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.5613197,121.0276944,3a,15y,333.94h,84.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sl8ConL1YcVLG9l-SFID2kA!2e0!5s20240201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  6. 2012 Mercedes Benz G63 AMG (Makati, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.5578049,121.0271834,3a,36.7y,128.73h,69.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syEHxpGRAy3KHxkW2AyI0JQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
  7. Tuned Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII (Quezon City, 2024) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@14.6492199,121.0742946,3a,15y,68.28h,84.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1slwmaC7OE2x6lIf0Y_Jpfag!2e0!5s20240201T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu
Ireland:
  1. Tuned Toyota Supra A80 (Kilkenny, 2009) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@52.6555843,-7.2473205,3a,15y,123.96h,82.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1srpXNj87f-0oaRbX7msU43w!2e0!5s20090701T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  2. 2017 Nissan GTR R35 (Kilkenny, 2017) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@52.6356472,-7.2511928,3a,27.1y,105.68h,76.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sR9zrxc1zOnHqioTK4KixqQ!2e0!5s20170501T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
Switzerland:
  1. Ford Focus RS Mk2 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2014) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@47.0890015,6.8064739,3a,15y,120.73h,77.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMjXnaDEi_kXR0IcHxW0hDg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  2. Renault Megane RS (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2013) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@47.0922312,6.8120819,3a,33.3y,142.69h,75.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sS5C2_aWH44y03LDSkIx56g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
  3. Renault Megane RS (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2014) https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@47.0938477,6.8213198,3a,16.2y,232.23h,85.93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-9oAP8meuAIf6Ru7CI9B3A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
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2024.05.01 01:09 Z010X Let's talk about "If you did your research..."

This is for those in the US who want to understand more, how long it has been going on, why students should not be dismissed as "uninformed", date/time contexts, availability of data, legislation, investigations and some good citations sources that are legally recognized as legitimate in both Congress and the courts including the Supreme Court. Good for parents/family/friends, students/graduates, and general tax payers.
"Did some research crowd before you _______"
Well lets hop in on the fallacy; its really pointless. I might as well carry a gallon of water in a desert with colander at best a strainer is not a bad way of looking at it. Without contexts below taken into account you wouldn't bother making it if your not just trolling or apathetic to it; fair points that is why this post is not for you. For those in the older crowd this is why you should be even more cautious making this fallacy to people like myself outside of merely stating your opinion. The problem is we are now at a point to where it is going to affect you on a common factor such as taxes (state and federal), fiscal budgets of states and federal, as well as new regulations.
Why this post: I am documenting this as part of my journey to all of you outlining on how I arrived to getting my BDoR approved, and my loans discharged as well as what is not told going through the process much less before it and about it. Not so y'all can argue with yourselves, although your free to do so, is the intent. This is for explaining to those that "don't have skin in the game" as they actually do, serving as a really formed rebuttal against news media's clear motive on emotional engagements over pragmatic information.
I am a person foremost a Dad and a professional in the economy. It has and still is painful in various ways. My perspective is that I gained far more in personal finance understanding, debt and its implications, and the struggle of getting out of it made me hungrier to succeed as well as modeling to my daughter those principals.
Time Range - When something occurs especially in law time and dates really matter. Many attorneys informed me of this not only in my child custody case, my initial attempts in bankruptcy for adversarial proceedings, your tax filings, and of course the programs forgiving loan debts. Through this process I was given advice by legal counsel so I must certainly say this is for people and in no way shape or form constitutes legal advice in your own situation nor would I irresponsibly claim otherwise.
This is short circuit number one and to prevent the same wet blanket statement as a rebuttal I am going to set a timeframe that is applicable to myself. I am mostly looking at those that graduated high school from 2000 to 2004 as well as College grads in for-profit schools prior to 2009. That does not mean others cannot benefit from it outside this time range. If you were in the earlier 2000 - 2010 surge in technology you'd also know that <15% of Americans had access to the internet during this timeframe. The internet now is not what it was back then and must be recognized as such. You'll understand why as we go through this post, specifically in the next context.
Locality (Geolocality) - Laws when passed or litigated in court against persons or entities this is important. when rulings are made, being appealed, and when they are applicable. Luckily I was raised by my mom to keep good records in her short time working as a paralegal before she opened her day care that she ran for 15+ years.
One such example is if I looked up legal documents in California yet the lawsuit is filed in Denver they will not show in CA gov databases was very common back then. Private brokers of cross-walks did exist as I later found out often behind paywalls that at the time could very well be prohibitive especially in my journey. Prohibitive in what matter you may ask? I entered the local southern California economy as a graduate in May of 2008. According to Wikipedia: In the United States, the Great Recession was a severe financial crisis combined with a deep recession. While the recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, it took many years for the economy to recover.
Now that I mentioned Wikipedia let also establish another good factor to the "Did you research" statement: Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001. Looking at the timeframe I listed earlier that'd make me a Sophmore in High School. Depending on your school's location and budget would play a role in the: Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-99 (ed.gov) which challenged schools to have internet access by 2000 putting myself as an early adopter as the library had no more than 10 computers available for student use often with time limits per student.
Ok let's take a look at this in context assuming I would "Just Google'd the college". I went to Westwood college. According to Google Trends queries to the actual college entity vs the owning company alongside state localities to understand For-Profit colleges: For-profit colleges in the United States, Alta
Such a simplified query can encompass both good or bad results for students/parents/etc as determined by Google's search algorithm implementation they had in production at that time.
I can easily say we all enjoy the Wikipedia and Google search abilities, except those that were around BEFORE IT.
Alta College became an entry in October of 2009 according to Wikipedia's version history, I attended from 2005 to 2008. Yes, you may say this is anecdotal and situational. To that however I would state in regards to the information I've listed above in terms of accessibility of information including my lack of knowledge in LLC formation therein already is grounds to the why the statement of "If you did your research" come up short. Additionally the college I attended had its first wikipedia page published in July 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westwood_College&oldid=65337438 now as I stated earlier I entered in August 2005. A good source of objective information on both companies DID NOT EXIST.
Another implicit assumption on each student would be the understanding behind incorporation, the legal benefits to do so and the implications of not doing so. Earlier I mentioned my mom owning her own business as a LLC. Oddly it never occurred to ask why'd you would have chained LLCs until I took my economics course in late 2008; I also can assert she wouldn't have been able to tell me either as she passed away in early 2008. I can firmly state it was not covered in my High School. Taking location in mind along with the time frame the Google Trend would make sense to me without this knowledge as a precaution when making my choice. If we improved American history classes to teach more about actual universities in High School as well as the business concepts of Inc, LLC, Liabilities ect we'd be more aware going forward. I cannot change the past, just learn from it. That is a point I think most can agree on. I only know this now in hindsight.
This now raises another misconception I encountered; that this is a "recent problem". No. It is not. When I researched how to approach my mounting student loan debt making $30K annually in California where my job was as a junior developer bankruptcy looked like a viable option. After speaking with several law offices I found out that was not an option. One case in particular was cited to me: United Student Aid Funds Inc. v. Espinosa (No. 08-1134). Toby J. Heytens, an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, told the justices that “there is an important public interest at stake here, which is that the Department of Education is reinsuring all of these loans.”. Um I wasn't alive in 1980 much less in school. I can clearly affirm, even under perjury, that court case was never covered in any formal school setting. I will not assume for others.
This seemed odd to me as the IRS has insolvency guidelines which must be read, signed under perjury, if you're attempting to go through bankruptcy. According to the law office I was working with this is standard procedure. During that time I did more digging and found: Getting By: Economic Rights and Legal Protections for People with Low Income - Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo - Google Books that prior to 1976 student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy like other unsecured loans. An undue hardship test was introduced for federally insured loans under five years. Higher Education Act of 1965 was a result of January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson told Congress that higher education was "no longer a luxury but a necessity" and urged Congress to enact legislation to expand access to college.\3]) Representative Edith Green of Oregon introduced H. R. 3220 this would be amended a lot through the following decades.
To me this was a pivot point in 2009 when my daughter would be born. This new sense of urgency to continue my career growth grew exponentially to say the least. I would later find out that as I did what I thought was the right thing in making more money I would eventually come into a catch-22 where I no longer could be insolvent due to income growth over my last 5 years yet not making enough to cover a realistic cost of living / quality of life. I like to call this the "green gap" where you make too much but not enough when taking the time and place of the person in question into account.
That last part is important in another way. On April 20, 2009, the United announced that Alta Colleges had agreed to pay the U.S. government $7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that Alta's Texas schools submitted false claims for federal student aid funds. The college admitted no wrongdoing and was not required to change any of its practices. 1863 was when it got passed. The laws are on the books, in Texas... GEOLOCATION matters here! Denver and California are not in Texas, nor does Alta College accept students. I realized later I was structing my searches in the context of California not Texas thus missing what could have served as a red flag and impeding troubles.
Did you also get that odd tidbit there? I went to Westwood College, owned by Alta College. Westwood College at one time had 17 campuses across California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Texas and Virginia, as well as an online campus. Westwood College offered 27 degree programs, including in business, design, technology, industrial services, justice and health care. I didn't find that correlation until after I graduated while pulling fiscal records for approaching bankruptcy for the second time which again proved fruitless for the new reason. I made too much, according to the insolvency guidelines.
Talk about looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place. Veterans with GI PAY ATTENTION HERE. These documents I found on a google query back on May 2018 listed as plain pdf files in an IIS server that didn't have directory exploration OFF so it was indexed by Google. This led me to fine the following:
United States Senate HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE Tom Harkin, Chairman Benefitting Whom? For-Profit Education Companies and the Growth of Military Educational Benefits.
Entered December 8th, 2010.
Lets get one thing straight when reviewing Congressional Investigations: Perjury is liable on both Congressional party as well as those called into testify them as well as the documents of record. Citing these documents is the same as litigating in court which carries far more weight than any news headline on repeated blast. Lets check which side of congress this falls on: U.S. Senate: About : The Supreme Court in landmark cases has broadly upheld congressional powers to conduct investigations, as long as inquiries are related to subjects on which Congress can validly legislate. During the Senate investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s, the Supreme Court held in McGrain v. Daugherty (1927) that congressional committees can issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify, and hold them in contempt if they failed to comply. In another decision, Sinclair v. United States (1929), the Court ruled that a witness who lies before a congressional committee can be convicted of perjury.
Now that we have a good citation source, unlike most news reporting, take a look at Page 3 of the report above: As a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, combined with the growing economic need for postsecondary education, over the past few years Congress has fundamentally re-examined its commitment to providing educational benefits to a new generation of veterans. With the passage of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Post-9/11 GI Bill) on June 30, 2008, almost all servicemembers, including reserve troops who serve a minimum of 90 days active duty after September 10, 2001, became eligible for educational benefits up to 36 months at an average of $458 per credit hour
This is the beginning of how this snowball started especially for me. For-Profits took advantage of Veteran GI benefits with them having to show for it as the report further explains. Additionally, this is now a PRIME target for money.
Between 2006 and 2010, combined VA and DoD education benefits received by 20 for-profit education companies increased from $66.6 million in 2006 to a projected $521.2 million in 2010, an increase of 683 percent: o Between 2009 and 2010 alone, revenue from military educational benefits at 20 for-profit education companies increased 211 percent. o In the first year of Post-9/11 GI Bill implementation, the VA spent comparable amounts ($697 million and $640 million respectively) on tuition for students attending public schools and students attending for-profit schools, but the VA funded 203,790 students at public schools compared to 76,746 at for-profits. o Revenue from DoD educational programs at 18 for-profit education companies increased from $40 million in 2006 to an expected $175.1 million in 2010, a 337 percent increase. o Revenue from VA educational programs for the same 18 for-profit education companies increased from $26.3 million in 2006 to an expected $285.8 million for 2010, including a five[1]fold increase between 2009 and 2010. o Revenues from military education benefits at 20 for-profit education companies increased more rapidly than overall revenues for every year between 2006 and 2010.
Well, what about non-veterans? Now that these companies earned the ire of Congress because the GI money for education was not being used wisely a wide range of investigations opened up starting mostly from what I found in 2009; in simpler terms after I went through the program. Another report on September 30th 2010: 9 U.S. Senate Comm. on Health, Educ., Labor & Pensions, “The Return on the Federal Investment in For-Profit Education: Debt Without a Diploma” is an excellent accompaniment.
Now lets talk sales. The how/why of students, parents and guarantors agreeing to this madness. Well if you've learned ANYTHING from the prior sections with timeframe, locality, accessible information and how to apply all of it correctly we run into a sales person's dream buffet. We can see in HELP-ALTA-000271 that distrubition of reports clearly targeted veterans which correlates the findings in the Senate's investigation.
Often what is not discussed in detail is what is covered in document HELP-ALTA-000123 Key Responsibility #2 Lead Development. An internal training shared with counselors assisting in student sign up. Cross reference this with internal document HELP-Alta-000262 (Document 10 Page 2) that outlines new hire standards to meet a volume standard of 70% to 80%. Disclosure of these internal non-public, therefore NON-RESEARCHABLE documents was done via subpoena. Begs the question: How can a student research something they don't know about. Outside of the attorneys I have met in life this is well over the head of a lot of people I have had direct interactions with however I will NOT extrapolate over the US as a whole. Use the information in context with your experience.
Next lets look at what was the motivation to "sell" the student for the signup. IN HELP-ALTA-000002 page 2 we find the following: During the first 90 days, all Admissions Representatives will receive an evaluation every 30 days using the 30-60-90 review template which will provide critical feedback on performance each 30-day period. During the initial 90 day period, the Director of Admissions will closely monitor the performance of each Representative to ensure sufficient progress is being made. Insufficient progress of the Representative can result in termination of employment.
When cross referenced with HELP-ALTA-000042 this is no longer just retention of the position at stake. We find incentives at the director level through the exec level: Motivating your Admissions Team is of critical importance to the Director of Admissions. To assist a Director to effectively recognize his/her team, Admissions has established a national recognition and awards program. For all national recognition programs, refer to the current year Recognition and Awards Guide [HELP-ALTA-000243]
HELP-ALTA-000026 lists a section for Admission Representatives to take as part of their training on Page 8: Process for Handling Objections 1) Challenge all smokescreens: Listen 2) Verify 3) Isolate 4) Resolve 5) Gain Agreement 6) Re-Close
Here we are seeing a pattern of what, myself and others MEAN by predatory. In HELP-ALTA-000265 Page 5
Standards of Performance The matrix below outlines Standards of Performance that Admissions Representatives must strive to achieve in order to contribute to the overall success of the organization. Each Standard should be used as a guideline when assigning individual goals to achieve personal success. In addition, Representatives will have standards of monthly volume and start standards for each class which are outlined on subsequent pages.
In the next section they define: Minimum Performance Guidelines The focus of all Admissions team members is on achieving the goals agreed upon with their supervisor according to the Standards of Performance. While the requirements of each office or team may vary by region and Division, the following matrix highlights the absolute minimum requirement of an Admissions Representative.
Reaching the established minimum requirements is not acceptable as standard performance; Representatives who are not progressing appropriately or fail to achieve minimum requirements are subject to corrective action up to and including termination. Guidance and feedback will be provided through One on One’s, Observations, 30-60-90 Reviews, Term Reviews, Action Plan Guides, coaching and other periodic reviews.
Yes, they were paid in accordance to how many students the admitted and compensated / terminated for it. When it became clear to the executives about retention rates they implemented a restructure to how long the programs would take in a strategy document HELP-ALTA-000067 (this is its own post in its own right).
You may be wondering, where was this taking place, this is where Step 3) Isolate takes place. I have established that locality is important. Sales taught me that is also good leverage too. First is Online which is covered in 000067. During June 2005 to October 2005 with ~20% Tv Ads, 35% Search Engine Ads, 35% in Internet Ads, Friend/Family at < 10%, Student AdvisoTeacher <5%, 0% from Employer.
This is where I made, in my life the worst mistake I have made in 18+ years. I saw the Ads on TV first during late-time hours in the Summer of 2005. I had graduated High School in 2004, now 18, working full time as data entry clerk, renting the floor from a family member (not a room, you read it right).
I watched as opiate addiction was ruining my mothers health, entering her in rehabs still holding my job down taking the bus. December 2004 I got my first ever bonus. In January I used it to get my first car as my mom urged me to get a degree. She had watched as I flipped burgers in 2003 for McDonalds to this data entry job knowing full well what CoL was in our area. Being tech savy as I built my own PCs for others, though never my own, when I was only 14 I turned to the internet to fact check these tv ads. NEVER believe what ya see on TV as the mantra. I found lots of materials of praise yet hardly anything at all in the reverse. Man if I only knew SEO tactics now as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in this industry! Doesn't do any good to think about that now though, lets go back to 19 year old me. I made an appointment, toured the campus with my mom and here is how they got me. I could earn a Bachelors in 36 months in programming.
She knew full well I had technology in my DNA feeling assured I would excel in such a field. What went through my mind wasn't salary, it was my mother's health. The admissions rep stated I required a cosigner. My mom said she'd cover it so her last child can get a good job in a now fast growing industry. We talked it over deciding to visit a local JC. Their we found that I would not be able to attend for nearly 9 months out. Seeing the price differences I said maybe that was smarter. To my surprise my mom objected with getting me degree as fast as possible was a better idea. I didn't know why she said that till much later. "You just need the degree son, sometimes employers are even ok with it not being in the same industry as what ya get it in.". I signed the dotted line...
She died in March 2008, never seeing me graduate in May 2008; I completed the degree in 2.75 years in which I overtook, getting a Bachelors, over my sister's AA which she started 5 years ahead of me. To her grave she thought through and through everything was going to turn out well for me especially given my chosen field. In that regard she was not wrong because I MADE it that way. I still to this day have never let that degree define my credentials, nor would I let it stop me from providing for my daughter.
The last point in my long post here is the statement above make one other misconception. It assumes that you have a support network. I didn't. Dad left when I was 2 and never bothered with our family or siblings. Mom passed away. Lost the grandparents to Cancer when I was 9. With my nearest family member 1900 miles away from me I instilled a do or die attitude. My wife passed in 2021 from a hit and run so it is just me raising our daughter. 4 years to go until she is 18... Want to guess what I have told her about student loans, debt and credit cards? Spoiler: NO.
When my BDoR was approved it was not to "fix" my mistake. It was a breach of contract when the school lost accreditation and no longer deemed to meet the government standard for receiving loans for education. These loans are now a ledger correction in the eyes of the government, which if you've understood my points about timeframes was setup long before I was born. Any tabs on what transpired through various lawsuits from Sallie Mae -> Navient -> now MOHELA shows poor book keeping. I will simply echo "Too big to fail". This is where older folks best be wary... You setup the systems in place, voted or didn't vote is not relevant, at best you knew and at worse you didn't pay attention when it was under your nose. The reverse is also true though. My degree is not valid either according to the government. I didn't get one for nothing or no accountability.
I often do wonder what my mom would feel like if she had seen what happened, though I am glad she didn't have to see how the good intentions paved a hellish road.
I am 1 of 43 million borrowers. If y'all interested I can do a follow up post on where the training materials were used to artificially inflate student placements in jobs or other topics. Let me know.
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2024.04.30 11:55 pillowcase-of-eels [Music/Book] Emilie Autumn's Asylum, pt. 2 – Goth violinist's psych ward memoir prompts horror and cringe in some, questionably tasteful incarceration role-play in others [Hobby History - Medium]

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Hello, and welcome to the second installment of my Emilie Autumn write-up. (Per mod recommendation, new installments will be posted every two or three days – there are seven in total.)
Emilie Autumn is a singer-songwriter with an elaborate semi-fictional universe and a complicated relationship with her fanbase. I strongly recommend you check out Part 1 🔍 before reading.
In this installment, we dive into the drama surrounding the contents of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls / TAFWVG – the half-autobiographical journal, half-historical fantasy that has defined EA's artistic output and fanbase lore for the past fifteen years. It's still more “Hobby History” than “Hobby Drama” proper, but trust me, it provides valuable context about the general vibes of the fandom.
Content Warning throughout this installment for themes of sexual and gender-based violence, including torture, sex trafficking and femicide, as well as attempted suicide, mental illness, hospitalization, and ableist discrimination; brief mention of Holocaust imagery. Oh, and obviously, spoiler alert for the whole book – but that's comprehensive investigative work for ya!
🪞 = picture / visual 🎵 = music / audio 📺 = video 📝 = primary source / receipt 🔍 = press article / write-up / further reading 🎤 = song lyrics 🐀 = anonymous fan confession 🦠 = reaction / meme

OVERVIEW: “A DOCUMENT IN MADNESS – THOUGHTS AND REMEMBRANCE FITTED” (LAERTES, ACT IV, SCENE 5)

...When the book was first released, I had only two aims - to explain myself to a growing audience that thought they knew me but didn't truly, and then to expose the corruption of the modern day mental health care system and educate in order to inspire at least a tiny bit of change. (EA answers a fan question on Goodreads, 2018 📝)
The Book begins with Emilie Autumn...
...Well, technically The Book begins with a malapropism. Wrong “foreword”, EA! 🪞 Which is our first clue that despite the myriad revised editions this book has gone through, it could probably have done with a little more initial editing, and perhaps a bit more room to reflect, between the events related and the publication of the first final draft.
Anyway, The Book begins with first-person narrator Emilie Autumn surviving a suicide attempt, stating this to her shrink over the phone soon after. Her shrink tells her that she is currently a danger to herself, and that he won't refill her prescriptions (the meds for her bipolar disorder) unless she immediately checks herself into inpatient care. And it all goes downhill from there.
The psych ward stay at an LA hospital lasts longer than the anticipated 72 hours, and proves overall more traumatic than therapeutic. An increasingly distressed Emilie suffers through the inappropriate comments of creepy doctors, the poor bedside manners and general cluelessness of emotionally numb nurses, the intimidating presence of armed guards around the hospital, being stripped of her belongings and privacy, the lack of transparency or actual care in the ward, her partner's indifference during the occasional phone call, the bad hospital food (I can see how that would suck in such a context), having to repeatedly fill out forms and questionnaires (okay, that's annoying too), a patient eating yoghurt in her vicinity (uh...) and staff members existing while fat (wait, what?). She documents the whole unpleasant experience in a journal that she has to turn in at bedtime.
One day, upon recovering her notebook in the morning, Emilie starts finding torn scraps of ancient wallpaper between the pages. They're scribbled with letters from a young woman named Emily, who is also locked up against her will in a psychiatric facility – namely, a women's insane asylum... in Victorian England. Awaiting each new time-traveling letter with bated breath, Emilie gradually learns that the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (yes, that's its actual name within the story) isn't so much a hospital as it is a dumping ground / torture dungeon. Women – who aren't so much “crazy” as unconventional and inconvenient to men – are kept in chains, subjected to leechings and ice baths, pimped out as human exhibits and sex slaves, and killed en masse in gruesome medical experiments by a psychopathic doctor who's like a Disney-villain take on Dr Mengele. “My life and hers are basically the same. Nothing has changed at all in mental healthcare,” thinks Emilie in the modern-day psych ward, as a nurse offensively tells her that it's time for art therapy.
Alright, that was a long summary, and I'm showing my bias a little bit. But the contents and tone of the book are relevant to this write-up – as are, of course, the common criticisms that arose in the years after its publication.

A (BI)POLARIZED RECEPTION

In the spirit of neutrality and historical accuracy, I will quote some 5-star Goodreads reviews that I think reflect the reasons why many people genuinely loved and continue to love the book...
I don't think I've ever read anything like TAFWVG. It is amazing, horrifying, and both a work of magical fiction and brutal honesty. I felt like for the first time I had found someone who could understand how I feel. I identified on so many levels with this book, both physically, mentally, and emotionally. I appreciate Emilie as an artist so much more now because I realize just how much of herself she puts into everything she does. (...)
What scares me is that it is so incredibly real and several times, I felt as if Emilie was speaking thoughts I've had myself. (...) So many of the things she expressed during states of depression for these characters make so much sense to me, though, and I greatly value how real and honest this is. (📝)
Having some of Emilie Autumn's actual handwriting in the book made it much more personal and made it seem much more like a journal than just any ordinary book. This is a must read for any "muffin" (Emilie Autumn fan). (📝)
...and some of the less scathing and more nuanced 1-star reviews, highlighting common complaints about the book's contents and tone:
The writing was not strong enough to handle the story being told and there were so many issues from how mental health was handled to the entitled behaviour of the main character to the treatment of all the other characters, I ended up giving up in frustration. It’s a shame as this could have been a really interesting exploration of the mental health system in America paralleled with that of the 1800s, but instead just turned into a lot of, in some cases offensive, ramblings. (📝)
I was shocked in the opening pages by the voice of the main character, and I don't think it was a technique to give her depth. It sounded like genuine elitism with the flavor of "I should be allowed to kill myself." Um. Ok??? (...) I wish the prose had been tolerable for me to get to the high concept journal entry stuff, but everything that the premise promises... from the quality of what I read, it falls very, very short. There are horrible elements to being inside an institution: it's scary, it's dehumanizing, it definitely isn't the "best" space for healing... but this author does not have the knowledge, expertise, or perspective to provide an adequate critique. (📝)
The torture and rape are mentioned as daily occurrences and, while I'm sure such things did occur in Victorian times, it was so overdone and hinted to with such macabre glee, I felt I was watching someone's sordid fantasy. (...) This is not a solemn look at mental illness from the inside. It is a glamorized, twisted, fetishist notion of mental illness and asylums which made me feel truly uncomfortable. (📝)
...I opted not to quote this one because it was too savage and not always fair, but it's a fun read.
In short, the people who enjoy the book tend to praise the engaging storyline, the witty and eloquent writing, the raw authenticity, the depths of insight, and getting to take a peek inside EA's brain. The people who don't, on the other hand, criticize the unbalanced structure, the overwrought and rambling style, the obvious distortions or straight-up fabrications (we'll get to that, all in good time), the acute main character syndrome, the seeming lack of self-awareness or appropriate research (despite claims of “historical accuracy”), the flippant and even dangerous claims about highly sensitive topics, and being made to read stuff that should probably have stayed firmly concealed inside EA's brain.
Many critics report being put off by EA's high opinion of her own intellect and booksmarts, as she routinely assumes staff members to be too dim-witted, uncultured and incompetent to be worth engaging with. (Which is a bit rich, coming from a self-tutored West Coaster who inaccurately claims to speak “the Queen's English” and misspells “in memoriam”.) She takes this disdain to... really mean places. Some readers were especially taken aback by a series of straight-up petty, out-of-left-field fatphobic jabs. 📝
Others cringed (and this is a serious problem for an author who claims to be an advocate) at EA's blatant disdain of any other form of mental illness besides her own. This mostly shines though callous and cruel descriptions of those she calls “the real crazies” – meaning the other patients. By callous, I mean she spends several paragraphs calling a detox patient cute nicknames like “the Duchess von Nutsberg”, “Miss Nuttersby” or “the Mayor of Cracktown” as she gleefully mocks her withdrawal meltdown – with a subtle dig at Courtney thrown in for good measure (second screenshot, end of first paragraph). It's one of the only instances when EA expresses sympathy for the staff; as she hears them brutalizing the problematic patient in the other room, she muses that, in their place, she would probably want to “bash [the woman's] head against the wall”. This is intended as comic relief from her own narrative.
But the most all-encompassing complaint is EA's perceived glamorization of mental anguish and extreme suffering. (Not the gross kind that's experienced by lowly crack addicts – the other kind, the refined kind.)
This complaint refers, in large part, to the book's apparent glorification of self-harm, and categorically negative depiction of psychiatric care. On top of the two main narratives, the book also included three pre-hospitalization journals – the “Cutting Diary”, the “Suicide Diary” and the “Drug Diary” – whose unfiltered, unapologetic contents (including high-contrast pictures of fresh self-harm cuts) were very polarizing.
I will note that EA herself, in interviews, has overtly stated that she's not anti-medication or therapy, and that physically hurting yourself is not a great strategy in the long run. But these nuancing statements are not present in the book. Some former fans have cited EA and her work as a reason why they delayed seeking medical help for their own self-harm and mental health issues.
The complaint also refers to the abundant depictions of tragically gorgeous women being subjected to the most odious abuse, and justifying their self-destructive tendencies as appropriate reactions to said abuse.
Mmh, what did that one Goodreads reviewer mean about “someone's sordid fantasy”...? CW for rape, torture, murder. This is the way... step inside! 🎵

PSYCHSPLOITATION EXTRAVAGANZA

Come see our girls! Crazy girls! If you're willing to be thrilled, this is a hell of a ride! Those girls! Crazy girls! They're hot! They're nuts! They're suicidal! (“Girls! Girls! Girls!”, 2012 📺🎵)
Many comparisons have been drawn with the video game Alice: Madness Returns and the movie Sucker Punch. (In fact, EA got thiiis close to accusing Zack Snyder of plagiarism📝, but wisely stopped short.) In my humble opinion, those similarities are essentially cosmetic, and don't really cut to the quick of what makes TAFWVG – and what makes it so familiar, yet so bizarre within its purported genre. So allow me to share my white-hot take on this self-published fantasy novel from the first Obama presidency.
You heard it here first, folks, and only fifteen years late: TAFWVG is basically a Sweeney Todd reskin of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtues 🔍), by the infamous Marquis de Sade.
I'm doubtful that Sade was a conscious, direct influence on EA, and the two books are obviously very different in style and explicitness – but they have many, many tropes in common. Hear me out.
Both Emily-with-a-Y and Justine are virtuous, pure-hearted heroins of singular eloquence and beauty (or, for those familiar with literary parlance, “Mary-Sues”) who have The Absolute Worst Luck. Both grew up around wealth and sophistication, but abruptly found themselves poor and alone in the world as teenagers – though both are briefly reunited with a long-lost sister during the plot. (In both cases, one sister dies. Like I said, terrible luck!) Both find themselves in a world of sin and depravity that they vehemently reject, while almost all the other characters gleefully revel in base greed, power schemes, and pure sadism.
After fleeing her convent school to escape the indecent advances of a priest, Justine is entrapped by a gang of depraved aristocrats who use her as a sex slave before having her thrown in jail as a thief. A cold, unscrupulous older woman helps her escape, and forces her to join her gang of robbers. Soon, Justine falls in with a succession of colorful maniacs, such as a medical enthusiast who wants to vivisect his own daughter, a man who rapes women specifically to get them pregnant and kill their newborn babies, and an order of lurid monks who turned their convent into a private sex dungeon.
Compare with TAFWVG:
After being groomed by a human trafficking ring fronting as a music school, Emily is sold off to a depraved aristocrat who would use her as a sex slave – and who, we later learn, murdered one of his own daughters for fun during an orgy. She escapes, but is soon arrested and jailed as a thief for stealing a loaf of bread (I suspect that may draw on another classic of French literature 🎵📺). A cold, unscrupulous older woman bails Emily out, but only for a forcible transfer to the Asylum – which her doctor-son uses as an human experimentation lab and for-profit sex dungeon. When inmates inevitably get pregnant, they are forced to receive botched abortions and hysterectomies, and various other un-sedated mutilations, from a twisted surgeon who is implied to be (gasp!) a young Jack the Ripper.
(In both cases, I personally find that it's the sheer accumulation of impossibly sordid twists that makes the reading bearable, and possibly even fun, rather than just sickening. Each new misfortune is so fantastically awful that the whole thing becomes about as poignant and realistic as The Human Centipede.)
One last intriguing detail: not only were Justine and TAFWVG both written while “inside” (the Bastille and an LA hospital, respectively), both were also reworked by their author several times after publication. And both heroins' fates somehow got worse with every re-issue! Lest we forget: one narrative is a 2009 historical fiction that was meant to champion female empowerment, sisterhood, and more compassion in the treatment of mental illness. The other is 18th century non-con porn that was so brutally graphic, so outrageously deranged, that its author was deemed a menace to society and sentenced to live out his days... in an insane asylum. (Tangent: it's even more darkly funny when you know that 1. Sade was a legit monster, a repeat offender of heinous sexual crimes, but it was the freaking book that got him locked away for good, and 2. he was arrested while on his way to submit yet another version of the manuscript.)
What's interesting is that EA explicitly addresses – and ostensibly calls out! – the exact sort of exploitation and objectification, specifically of mentally ill women, which many readers feel she enacts in the book. It was a central theme in Opheliac: here's her discussing the erotic undertones in Romantic-era depictions of dying women. 🎤 In TAFWVG, the inmates are forcibly dressed with ethereal white gowns and flowers in their hair for a human exhibit / brothel that the doctors call “The Ophelia Gallery”. 🪞 Johns frequently pay to see the girls re-enact Ophelia's death in a bathtub; Emily deems this “madness at its most perverse”.
But then again, it's a time-honored tradition for exploitation media, both fiction and non-fiction – from Reefer Madness 🔍 to Cannibal Holocaust to Michelle Remembers – to cover its ass by clamoring that it's merely "raising awareness" and "showing the truth" of the horrors it depicts in exquisite, lurid detail.

”AFFLICTION, PASSION, HELL ITSELF, SHE TURNS TO FAVOUR AND TO PRETTINESS” (LAERTES, ACT IV SCENE 5): WINNERS OF THE 'MISS UNDERSTOOD' BEAUTY PAGEANT

A number of fans certainly raised an eyebrow at this darkly fetishistic aspect 🐀 📝 of the Asylum narrative, even when they couldn't quite put their finger on what didn't sit right with them. Some wrote it off as cathartic fantasy, like a lot of EA's work. Some expressed mild discomfort, and kindly called the book “paradoxical”. Others were outright disgusted by what they perceived as blatant hypocrisy and trauma-profiteering. The concept definitely hasn't aged very well; in fact, in recent years, there's been increasing pushback 🔍 against the “insane asylum” as a setting for horror fiction. Advocates find that those stories tend to reinforce harmful stereotypes against psych patients, trivialize medical brutality as entertainment, and make it even scarier for people to seek treatment when they need it.
But! For the book's first several years of existence, this discomfort was definitely not mainstream in the fandom. In fact, it was pretty marginal – underground, even; the general consensus was that the whole thing was awesome.
Let me illustrate. Soon after the book came out, EA got a tattoo on her right bicep that read “W14A” (Emily's assigned, tattooed number in the Asylum), to symbolize how she had been “branded for life” by her hospital stay. Over the following years, she started assigning “inmate numbers”, with a similar four-digit format, to fans who requested it online or during meet-and-greets. A number of Asylum forum members started using their unique number as a username or flair; to this day, some fans still use theirs to sign comments on EA's Instagram. A fair few also got their inmate number tattooed.
There are a few reasons for this years-long honeymoon period before the first waves of outrage. First of all, “years” is how long it took before a substantial portion of the active fanbase had actually read the book. On top of dispatching delays, the first and second editions were full-color hardbacks, selling in limited pressings at about $50 plus shipping, which a lot of youngepoorer fans could not readily afford: they had to rely on second-hand accounts from the ultra-fans who did manage to get their hands on a copy. And many such ultra-fans were also young people, who may have been led to EA by their own mental health struggles, a taste for the dramatic – and in many cases, sadly, a personal history of trauma that made it easy not to be phased. To a good part of EA's audience, the blunt violence and over-the-top edginess wasn't tacky or unsettling: it was unironically cool and genuinely relatable. Cool enough to overlook the bad takes and casual bigotry, if you picked up on them at all in the excitement.
Besides, EA pushed The Book so hard, as early as 2007, that before it was even officially released in late 2009, it had become the all-encompassing framework for the entire fan experience. From the music to the stage shows to the in-group slang and lore, everything was Asylum now. So I imagine that even if you hadn't read the book, or weren't all that into it, it was kind of a “tune in or else tune out” situation.
Anyway, that's about all I can think of to explain what possessed dozens, hundreds of fans, across continents, for years, to actually cosplay as “Wayward Victorian Girls” from the story (just to reiterate: mentally ill rape-and-torture victims who, by the end, are being killed in droves and either buried in mass graves or incinerated). I'm talking madwoman tousled hair, sleep-eludes-me smoky eyes, thigh-high black-and-white striped stockings, and virginal “hospital gowns” (white slip dresses), sometimes complete with fake blood splatter. Dressing up for EA shows, or public Muffin Meetups. Posing wistfully for artsy photoshoots in empty bathtubs or childhood bedrooms – or your local abandoned house, through the metal bars of a smashed ground floor window, so it looks like you're in jail. (No, I am not going to dig through DeviantArt for evidence of my claims. I'm assuming a number of the people in those pictures now have kids and stable jobs, and I'm afraid someone might put a hit on my head for causing their blunderyears to resurface.)
Look, I'm not clutching my pearls and saying that those dreamy-edgy visuals were all horrendously insensitive or caused any tangible harm. OR that there's no merit in “shocking” or “distasteful” art that takes a controversial approach to real-world horrors, including glamorizing them.
But even as an outspoken proponent of smut and an staunch cringe apologist, I do find it a bit surreal, looking back from the year 2024, how chill most of the fandom was with the core concept of LARPing as... survivors... of mass incarceration and torture... in striped uniforms... with numbers tattooed on their bodies...? Yeaaah, this feels more and more uncomfortable the longer I think about it. Your Honor, I plead collective insanity for this one. After all, as Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “you are what you pretend to be.”
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Ah, well. Art sure is complicated! We can at least take some comfort in the fact that the Offensively Titillating material is mainly contained within the obviously fictional part of the book. Can you imagine the mess if, like the autobiographical portions, the Bedlam Softcore bits featured actual people from EA's real life?!
I mean. Given enough time, that could get pretty awkward.
...We'll circle back to that in the next installment.
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2024.04.28 19:19 pillowcase-of-eels [Music] Emilie Autumn's Asylum, pt. 1 – How one alternative musician got tangled in her own fantasy... and a decade-long passive-aggressive feud with her own fanbase [Hobby History - Long]

General Content Warning for this entire write-up, so everyone can have a good time: - Extensive discussion of topics related to mental illness, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, mania / bipolar disorder, distortion of truth, medication, involuntary hospitalization, medical abuse in a hospital setting, and romanticization of mental illness. - Non-detailed mentions of domestic violence (implied abuse by intimate partner and parents) and sexual / gender-based violence (including rape, child sexual assault, grooming, sex trafficking and torture). These last few items feature prominently in one installment, pertaining to a work of fiction; descriptions may be a bit more specific/detailed in that segment, but not graphic. - Mentions and quotes of unchill bigoted behavior, including ableism (mental and physical), white nonsense / white fragility / racism, fatphobia, prejudice against drug users.
Additional CWs may be added at the beginning of specific segments when relevant. While these are heavy topics, the tone of this write-up is generally light-hearted and aims to entertain. If this approach sounds uncomfortable or trivializing, this may not be a good read for you; please trust your gut!
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Picture this: it's the early 2010s, somewhere in the western world. Instagram is a novelty, Harvey Weinstein runs Hollywood, almost no one on Earth leans one way or the other about RNA vaccines, and Donald Trump is that one real estate guy you vaguely remember from Home Alone 2. New player Lady Gaga is the most interesting thing to have happened to pop since Madonna, and the whole industry is attempting to catch up; Miley Cyrus is the chick who used to be on Hannah Montana; Melanie Martinez hasn't hatched yet. The time of Oddball Concept Divas is dawning just below the horizon.
You're a Bowie-loving student who skipped goth night at the club to tag along with your art school friends for a very special evening. You're a giddy sixteen-year old rocking cat ears, purple Wet 'n Wild eyeliner, a polyester petticoat, and a coffin-shaped backpack. You're an effete theater kid who sewed his own waistcoat for the occasion, but won't dare wear it to school the next day. You're a buff, bearded dude in a Venom shirt who's trying not to look too excited, since your girlfriend supposedly had to drag you here. You're a slightly bemused parent leaning against the back wall of the venue, sipping a warm half-pint, wondering if this isn't all a bit dark for a tween. (“It's called 'Victoriandustrial', mom,” you've been told in the car, “and it's not dark, it's art.”)
On stage is a pink-haired woman, with red porcelain-doll lips and a heart painted on her cheek. Among a set of antique consoles, twee tchotchkes, teacups and plastic rats, she pounces and twirls in glittery platform boots, tattered striped stockings, and a tightly laced crystal-studded corset that looks like it's splattered in blood. This is ostensibly a concert, but there is no live band. Where one would expect a drum kit or a bass, three bedazzled burlesque vixens act as back-up singers and dancers, with the occasional vaudeville act – a fire-twirling number, a fan dance, throwing pastries and spitting tea into the audience. Lots of wholesome girl-on-girl kissing, too. The music on the backing track is a genre-bender of clanging beats and beeps, lofty orchestral strings, and the frantic hammering of a MIDI harpsichord, as the pink-haired frontlady sings of heartache and betrayal and drowning. Think if the Brontë sisters had invented industrial rock.
The audience gasps in excitement when the lady whips out a vamped-out wireless electric violin. With rockstar cool and virtuoso poise, she leans into the instrument, touches the bow to the strings, and tears out a single plaintive, impeccably distorted high note. Then her fingers go wild, and for a few seconds, everything is perfect suspended animation. Uncannily perfect, almost. Just behind you, you hear someone whisper: “Wait, is she miming it?”
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Forgive the theatrical intro, but I had to set the stage for... the drama. And I do mean drama in the thespian sense of the term! This, ladies and gentlemen, is a Shakespeare play: wordy and confusing, but it's neat how the main character's opening lines foreshadow the tragic climax. It's a Greek tragedy for the digital age – if, instead of killing his dad and banging his mom, after becoming king, Oedipus was doomed to becoming uniquely obnoxious. It's The Rocky Horror Show under the grim direction of Samuel Beckett. Like all good theatre, this story is about how fiction bleeds into reality – through the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and how all the world's a stage and all that.

WHO IS EMILIE AUTUMN, AND WHAT'S THE DRAMA?

Here's the Broadway Weekly blurb, so you can decide whether the show is worth your time: Emilie Autumn, also known as EA, is a US-American alternative singer-songwriter, author, and actor. She became known in alt circles in the mid-2010s for her violin skills, unique fashion, outspoken stances on feminism and mental health advocacy, and the way she dramatized and sublimated her own life story in her art. In 2009, she self-published a semi-autobiographical book that became a sort of bible to her creative universe and fandom. She toured extensively and enjoyed niche, but considerable success until the mid-2010s – with hordes of devoted fans adopting her fashion sense and lingo, and crediting her music for getting them through dark times.
For the past twelve years or so, EA has mostly been focused on adapting her book into a stage musical, releasing two more albums of songs intended for the libretto. At the time of this write-up, it has been six years since the last album and a decade since the last live show. Although she still talks about the musical as an ongoing, Broadway-bound project, in recent years, she's often gone dark for months at a time on social media. There is no forum, no large Discord, no active community to speak of; comments are restricted on her currently-inactive Instagram and blog.
Who is she hiding from, you ask? Why, you've probably guessed it: the hordes of devoted fans whom she infuriates every time she does anything.
And what are they furious about? (Or frustrated, flummoxed, or plain ol' flabbergasted?) Well, it depends who you ask. For some, it's disappointment in her artistic and marketing choices (what are fans for?). Others cite unkept promises or absurd release delays. For others yet, it's the AliBaba merch sold at jaw-dropping markups with three paragraphs of purple prose in the product description.. Or maybe it was the angry rants on Twitter? Okay, it's the casual bigotry that she staunchly denies or dismisses. It's the criticism she can't take. It's the fact that she won't stop lying about her own life! Either way, I don't personally know of any fanbase that has been so consistently exasperated, for so many years, and for such a diverse array of reasons, by their favorite artist.
In truth, each individual mini-scandal isn't all that juicy or scandalous. Nobody died, no one got sued; nothing of significant value, other than time and sanity, was taken away from anyone. What I find interesting here is the years and years of bizarre parasocial codependency (and antagonism) between a fragile woman who became addicted to her own poppycock, and an obsessive fanbase who cared way too much not to take it personally.
Before we even get to EA's relationship with her fans, you're going to need some lore about EA herself. A “Hobby History” of sorts. Strap in! There's romance, tragedy, laughter, character development, variety numbers, numerous costume changes, (actual) celebrity cameos – and based on how long this OpenOffice doc already is at the time of my writing this, we're probably going to need several intermissions too. This write-up is link-heavy, both with receipts and with additional watching and listening material. Not all of them need to be clicked in order to understand the story; I'm merely providing the rabbit holes. I've tried to make things more easily navigable by including a little glossary about the nature of links; one emoji-indicator carries over the next link until I use a different one.
🪞 = picture / visual 🎵 = music 📺 = video 📝 = primary source / receipt 🔍 = press article / write-up / further reading 🎤 = song lyrics / spoken word audio 🐀 = anonymous fan confession 🦠 = reaction / meme

BAROQUE BEGINNINGS: THE VIOLIN YEARS

VampireFreaks: Do you ever smile to yourself knowing your old music teachers might be seeing your success? EA: I smile to myself knowing they might be dead. (Long-lost interview, late 2000s)
Born in Malibu in the late 70s, Emilie Autumn, often known as EA, was originally trained as a classical violinist.
By her account, she started playing the violin at age 4, and was homeschooled at age 9 so that she could focus on her instrument. After stints at various performing arts colleges, some rather prestigious, she dropped out of formal schooling in her mid-to-late teens to embark on a solo violin career.
In 2001, after disappointing experiences with major record companies, she created her own label, Traitor Records, and released a EP of chamber music, with minor success. The stuffy industry of classical music didn't “get” the twenty-something manic-pixie-fiddler, who played Bach just a bit too fast, but with electric stage presence – wearing period corsets, combat boots, and the occasional fairy wings. But EA evidently knew that there was an audience for that somewhere.
And that somewhere – drumroll – was Illinois.
VW: What do you most hope to accomplish? EA: Everything. (‘Virtual World Radio’ Interview, 2002 📝)

ENCHANT ERA: BRUSHES WITH FAME ON FAERIE WINGS

What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep? (...) What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep? (“What If”, 2003 🎵)
Soon, EA relocated from her native California to Chicago. There, in between odd jobs, she veered away from baroque and began performing her own “fantasy rock” stylings at piano bars, holiday fairs and local venues – and building a decent following through her LiveJournal, website, and IRL friends. People loved the whole renegade genius thing, loved the violin, loved the nightingale voice, loved the fairy wings and costumes🪞, loved the handmade merch and general disdain for The Business, loved her deadpan humor and bookish nerdiness. In 2003, she released her first LP, Enchant 🎵 – an ethereal, introspective indie-pop joint, born under the sign of Imogen Heap, with a moon in Fiona Apple and Tori Amos rising.
Everything about EA's act was exquisitely DIY, personal, and intricate. For instance, the Enchant booklet folded out into a Masquerade-style puzzle of her own design.🪞 The first person to solve the puzzle would win “the Wings, Ruff, Fan and Scepter of the Faerie Queene herself” – all lovingly handmade by EA, and depicted in peak 2003 graphic design on the booklet. For months, YEARS after Enchant came out, people poured over the cryptic metaphors and literary references, the historical symbolism and visual puns of the artwork, looking for hints and patterns. They read every fan chat, every interview, every relevant Shakespeare play, hoping to decipher the inner workings of EA's mind and find new keys to the puzzle. Sure, it's been two decades now and no one's ever managed to crack the damn thing 🔍, which is by now widely assumed to be flawed and unsolvable; still, it's the kind of zany, brainy, immersive experience that tends to cultivate a niche but hyper-invested fanbase.
So it makes perfect sense that underground aficionada and internet frontierswoman Courtney Love (she haunted public AOL chatrooms as early as 1995! 🔍) would take an interest. Just a few months after releasing Enchant, EA was off to southern France to record violin and vocals for Courtney's new solo album; a few months after that, in early 2004, she joined Courtney's band on a brief tour to promote the record.
Alas, no cigar: America's Sweetheart flopped. Maybe because most of those summer recording sessions were ultimately lost to an engineering oopsie; maybe because Courtney was having an especially rough year – and going through all the “rock-bottom moments” that she would discuss in group therapy, later that fall, when she began her sobriety journey at court-ordered rehab. EA, a former homeschool kid who had never done drugs, seems to remember the tour as a generally terrifying experience; she later stated, with some bitterness, that the experience was not worth the time it had taken away from her own solo career.
But it was a good year for TV appearances! Here she is on the David Letterman Show in March 2004, rocking out on a perfectly inaudible violin as C-Love fades in and out of her own body. 📺 She also landed a cute tutorial segment on HGTV's Crafters: Coast to Coast, making sushi-shaped soap and fairy wings. In December, she accompanied Billy Corgan for a Christmas song on a Chicago station.
All of this was chronicled in quirky, wordy posts on her blog – interspersed with late-night musings about casual misogyny in the media 📝, including against Courtney, handmade crafts and clothing auctions, candid pictures of outings with friends in Chicago... as well as periodic updates on the progress of her next opus: Opheliac.
God, too much to even begin to tell right now, and I’m recording anyway, but I can give you this update: I just finished yesterday recording violin parts and backing vocals for B. Corgan’s first single (...) More later, recording piano for my new track “GOD HELP ME”…why do I torture myself with my own self-inflicted drama…or is it a way of exorcizing…yes, I’ll go with that one for now…☠ (“Whirlwind...”, December 2004)
By that point, EA was starting to be more open about her conflicted relationship with what would later be diagnosed as bipolar disorder. The galaxy-brain moments, the trance of creative frenzies, the liminal high of going three days without sleep, the magic... the crippling sensitivity, the restless anxiety, the Zoloft that one both needs and hates, the ever-lurking suicidal thoughts. As EA gradually revealed over the course of 2004, Opheliac would be an exploration of the “mad woman” archetype. The title was a medical neologism for “the syndrome of Ophelia”, as in the tragic character from Hamlet 🔍, driven to insanity and ultimate self-destruction by the fuckboys who rule her life. Here's EA explaining it in her own words. 🎤 The album would dive into how psychiatry and romantic relationships are governed by old misogynistic tropes, and how the “mentally ill” label is used to silence and downplay the justified anger and hurt of abused women.
In a striking case of life imitating art (are you picking up on the theme yet?), this concept was about to become more painfully relevant than ever to EA's personal existence.
CW: implied partner abuse, suicidal ideation.

DISENCHANTMENT: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

In the lake, you will find me Behind your house, behind your house (...) My ocean is bluer than the heart you had to break My sea is deeper than your lake (“In the Lake”, 2005 🎵)
Where were we? Ah yes, the Christmas song with Billy Corgan at the end of 2004. Around that time, EA was also recording violin parts and backing vocals for his upcoming solo album. 🎵 They had presumably connected through Courtney, they both lived in Chicago, I guess something clicked.
In January of 2005, EA abruptly went off of her meds, broke up with her live-in boyfriend-slash-bassist, packed up her violin and corsets, and moved into Corgan's mansion. In March of 2005, she posted very melancholy lyrics about drowning in a lake to haunt a deceitful lover. The post was entitled“In The Lake (The Zoloft is calling my name...)” 🎤📝. Later, after the song was released as a B-side, EA disclosed that it had been intended as a public suicide note 📝.
Blog entries from that time touched on a “whirlwind of action and emotion”, “changing residences” and feeling like “you're falling through the air, but you don't know if you'll hit the water or the rocks” 📝. But, EA being an expert vague-poster, her posts remained very elusive about what was going on, who was involved, and how it impacted her. (The specifics were pieced together years later, by fan-led forensic efforts – which, obviously, involved ascertaining the existence of an actual body of water in Billy Corgan's backyard 📝).
Whatever happened over the course of those months was never disclosed explicitly by EA, but is widely assumed to have inspired songs such as “Liar” 🎤, “Misery Loves Company”, “Let the Record Show”, and “I Know Where You Sleep”, , recorded that same spring. A solid quarter of the Opheliac tracklist – which was shaping out to be decidedly darker and grittier than Enchant.
You can lie to the papers, you can hide from the press (...) I know your tainted flesh, I know your filthy soul I know each trick you played, whore you laid, dream you stole I know the bed in the room in the wall in the house Where you got what you wanted and ruined it all I know the secrets that you keep I know where you sleep
Even as her personal blog posts grew more somber, nihilistic, and generally fed-up in the face of what she called “the worst breakdown of her young life”, even as the songwriting process had her rummage through traumatic memories [CW: CSA] 🎤, and even as the Corgan-adjacent trauma was compounded by various rushed moves and broken friendships over that summer and fall, EA remained remarkably (some might say frantically) prolific.
Other than progress on Opheliac, 2005 saw multiple violin collaborations with alternative bands, numerous auctions of, mh, visually strident “punktorian” fashion pieces 📝🪞 (“STRESS COUTURE!” 🦠📺), and an updated re-issue of her 2001 poetry collection, complete with audiobook. ("...The book has been selling like crack in a limo with Courtney Love (and believe me, I know)." - Ooooof, EA. Low-hanging fruit. 📝)
In October, she started recruiting:
WANTED: Hot goth bitch to join touring band of other hot goth bitches. (...) Must be able to: sing backing vocals in a wide range with excellent pitch, growl à la Kittie, handle minimal keyboard parts, push buttons/turn knobs with killer attitude, be extremely comfortable on stage in bloomers and a corset, reside in the Chicago area, know the difference between a crumpet and a scone, have at least one hidden talent. 📝
By winter, most of her blog post titles were written in THIS FORMAT!!!!!!!! In December, she announced that “Emilie Autumn and the Bloody Crumpets” would preview Opheliac live at the Double Door in Chicago, on Friday the 13th (ooh!) of the following month. “We are coming to destroy your world,” the post threatened enticingly. "Miss it and suffer. We really don't want to hurt you.” The flyer advertised a dress code:
Masquerade, Ophelias, green girls, Victorian insane asylum escapees, princes of Denmark, bloomered harlots and rogues – general burlesque ribaldry!
Exit diaphanous butterfly wings and elven tiaras 📺, enter the haunted murder-doll with the blood-red heart on her cheek; out with Elizabethan chamber-pop, in with Victoriandustrial. The fairy had to die to make way for the iconic, the sublime, the tragic, the ridiculous, the positively bananas...

OPHELIAC ERA: LET THE RECORD SHOW

EA: What's more interesting, and what's more fun to watch, than a crazy girl's self-destruction? Nothing. Nothing in the world. (The Opheliac Companion, 2008 🎤)
If I'm going down Then I'm going down good I'm going down Then I'm going down clean (...) The prettiest broken girl you've ever seen (“Let the Record Show”, 2006 🎵)
CW: mania, self-harm, abortion, suicidal ideation, hospitalization.
If you haven't gathered as much by now, what fans were witnessing in real time on EA's blog, without necessarily seeing it, was the ebb and flow of a months-long manic episode. That's not me armchair-diagnosing: EA herself has discussed penning and recording a lot of her best material in a trance-like rush, “when you're writing on the ceiling because there's not enough paper to contain your thoughts”.
...Once I became stable and healthy, I realized that I had no memory of how a great deal of my music had been created. I had written and even programmed most of my best work in a similar manic state, and, when stark raving sane, I didn’t know how to do it anymore, because the part of me that really composes never needed to know how to do it, it just did. (2019 Instagram post 📝)
It's not an uncommon experience for artists with bipolar disorder. Before you burn so hot that you wind up in the back of an ambulance, and/or before the pendulum swings back towards debilitating depression, the boundless energy, heightened sensitivity, and unexpected thought patterns associated with mania can lead to periods of prolific and effortless creation.
Mania also has the potential to lower your inhibitions, making you more bodacious, more quick-witted – more dazzling, more fun at parties, more dramatic. All traits that are valued in the entertainment industry, especially one that, with the rise of social media, was coming to rely increasingly on parasocial engagement and “personal branding”. Why would you refrain from oversharing, overreacting, overworking, overpromising, overcurating a fantasy image of yourself... when new industry models reward exactly that?
My point is that, in retrospect, “the end was built into the beginning”: all the things that would make fans go “What the hell, Emilie!” in subsequent years were brewing below the surface before the album even dropped.
In the summer of 2006, EA said goodbye to her Chicago friends and returned to California, where she moved in with her new beau, another Illinois-born guitarist with an impressive forehead: Brendon Small, of Dethklok/Metalocalypse quasi-fame. (If you're into that sort of thing: the orchestral strings on “Detharmonic”? Yep, that's EA! 🎵📺)
In September, Opheliac was released into the world. Expectations were high... And many sources agree it was a goddamn banger. It was ultrafemme, ultradark, unhinged, hilarious and deadly and brilliant. It had gnarly kitchen-sink drums layered under angelic string harmonies, fauxperatic swells, and guttural screaming. It had sarcastically self-aware double-entendres that were also literary references that were also musical notation jokes. You get the idea: it was the album that a small, but sizable demographic of tormented millennial teens had been waiting to obsess over. Some time in late 2005 or so, EA had signed with German label Trisol Records, which gave her access to better promotion, press coverage and touring opportunities in Europe when the album came out in the fall. By winter, she was on the cover of alternative mags, and the talk of the town on underground music webzines. Within a year, she was embarking on the first of three almost-back-to-back European tours.
It was around that time that EA started giving her fanbase a more defined, aesthetically on-brand identity. EA, funnily enough, disliked the term “fan” due to its proximity to “fanatic”, and started calling individual supporters “muffins” or the "Bloomer Brigade". (After The Book came out in 2009, they would become “Plague Rats”. You know how pets get weird if you re-name them too many times? I wonder if the same is true of fans.) Meanwhile, EA's fanbase as a collective – as well as her home, her recording studio, her online forum and her inner brainspace... – became canonically known as “The Asylum”. Cue infinite jokes about her fans being “committed.”
And they really were, in a slightly more intense way than your average indie-alternative fanbase. Many fans enthusiastically adopted facets of EA's mannerisms and lingo, which gave the fandom a definite LARP-ing bend; and the official forum did, in fact, offer a subforum for Asylum-themed role-play. (In a number of ways, the Asylum was basically Juggalos for socially anxious theater goths. Substitute the clown facepaint, Faygo, and hatchets for cheek-hearts, Earl Grey tea, and obsolete medical tools.) While there was always some side-eye at the embarrassingly candid, often very young Plague Rats who took the Asylum thing too seriously (always speaking in character and worshipping the ground Mistress Emilie walked on), a lot of people were quite thrilled to play romantic Victorian madhouse with their new favorite artist. Live shows were like costume balls. The forum thrived.
It was like Opheliac had opened a portal to this vibrant and inclusive alternate dimension, which the community was now bringing to life in the real world. And each tour brought more inmates (muffins, Plague Rats, you get it) to the Asylum. “Spread the Plague!” was the name of the game.
So, on paper, in the three years that followed Opheliac, EA kind of won the high-concept-indie-artist equivalent of the lottery. After going through her own personal hell of abuse, major upheavals and serious mental health crises, she had decided to gamble on a radically different tone and musical direction. She came out the other side with critical acclaim for her soul-baring record, tons of live shows with a badass girl squad, photoshoots so iconic they pop up on random Pinterest boards to this day, snazzy corporate sponsorships (including Manic Panic and RockLove Jewelry), and an exponentially growing fanbase who couldn't get enough of whatever she had to give. And she gave quite a lot!
Within those three years, in between tours, EA released A Bit O' This & That 🎵 (a compilation of demos and back-catalogue curiosities), Laced / Unlaced (a full-instrumental double album - one side was the baroque recordings from her late teens, the other was demented, distortion-heavy classical-prog), and three EPs packed with new songs, covers, remixes and bonus content. There was also a deluxe reissue of Enchant, without the puzzle, but with a brand new booklet of handwritten lyrics and marginalia. All came in lovely inter-matching digipaks that really made you want to collect them all – much like the handmade merch 📝🪞 that EA still sold on some legs of her tours. She spent time with the fans at most shows, eventually holding meet-and-greets and private showcases for VIP ticket-holders. She also released “The Opheliac Companion”, a kind of “director's commentary” of the album – roughly 10 hours worth of lyrical deep dives, microphone specs, tangents within tangents within tangents, and whacky (tipsy, sometimes unintelligible) banter between EA and her sound engineer🎤. On top of all that, she wrote, designed and self-published a fully illustrated 200-page coffee-table book, the first print of which sold out within a year. Not bad!
Of course, things that seem to good to be true usually are: at this stage in the story, EA is never as enthusiastically prolific as when her personal life is falling apart behind the scenes.
In the three years that followed Opheliac, along with soaring success, EA got to experience: more rapid-cycling between manic phases and the pits of depression, multiple harrowing medication adjustments, an very-much-unwanted pregnancy followed by a traumatic abortion, a suicide attempt, at least one inpatient stay, and a break-up in the aftermath of it all. There were also a few physical health scares that required hospitalization. On one occasion, she had to go off all her meds cold-turkey when they were confiscated at the EU border right before the start of a tour. In some pictures from her summer 2007 festival appearances, you can make out faint self-harm scars on her thigh through the layered stockings. (Obvious CW, for the morbidly curious.🪞(But if you weren't, would you still be reading?))
So yeah. EA was not doing great.
She didn't share any of these struggles with her fans in real time; her posts were all droll banter and updates on tours and releases. Most of what I just listed was disclosed in late 2009, in the autobiographical part of The Book. (The Book gets at least one instalment of its own. Bear with me, there's a LOT to unpack.) And The Book, while never specifying a timeline, kind of really made it sound like the Bad Stuff (the abortion, the suicide attempt, the hospital stay) had taken place a while back, before the release of Opheliac. In fact, EA plainly stated as much, citing “getting locked up and being put in the asylum" 📝 as the reason for the shift in sound between Enchant and Opheliac.
She repeatedly referred to herself as “stabilized” and “now properly medicated” in interviews. As far as the fanbase was concerned, she had triumphed over her abusers, turned trauma into beauty, and lived to pass on her story of survival. And now she had found balance and community and true acceptance of herself, all that good stuff – and all was fine and dandy within the Asylum. On stage, she sang about blind rage and all-consuming despair and general hopelessness, but she didn't actually feel like that – not anymore, right?
This narrative was both inspirational and quite convenient for the fans. We love our Mad Hatters 🎵📺, our Rainmen, our manic pixies. We love and celebrate “crazy” when it manifests as outside-the-box brilliance and/or bubbly eccentricity. But in my experience, even in spaces that ostensibly focus on "destigmatizing mental illness", positivity and support can quickly turn to rejection and awkwardness when your “quirks” manifest in more challenging ways – like through erratic decisions, aggressive or dishonest behavior, or increasingly untethered beliefs about yourself and the world. No matter how much people claim to “embrace the madness”, it just isn't that fun or in good taste for a large group to play-act ~ whimsical insanity ~ with someone who is for realsies mentally falling apart.
Before time has had time to do its thing, "revisiting your trauma" is just called ruminating. And it's rarely good for you, even when you commit some of greatest art in the process.
I think fans had to assume that there was some critical distance in EA's act, that these extreme negative emotions were all theater – because if they weren't, then the Asylum wasn't an empowering performance about healing from past hurt. It was more like a years-long reality show in which a woman picked at her wounds publicly, again and again, in real time, to the cheers of oblivious strangers who thought they were watching a play.
All I'm saying is that EA was essentially still in the thick of raw trauma when she became a poster-child for overcoming it; that the last thing a person needs, at such a vulnerable stage in their life, is an intense parasocial relationship with sad goth teenagers, let alone one centered around romanticized retellings of their own darkest moments; and that if more people had declined to actively engage in pretend-play that toed the line of self-harm... there is a chance that things might have turned out differently. Maybe EA would still be a successful musician whose career isn't plagued by conflict and mutual disappointment, and maybe some fans wouldn't have wasted years getting red in the face at an over-exposed mentally ill woman for not getting her shit together.
OKAY, THAT GOT HEAVY (and preachy), apologies and thank you for your patience. I will now quit my soapboxing, resume telling the story, and let you draw your own conclusion as our dark plot unravels.

EPILOGUE: DEAD IS THE NEW ALIVE

A quick taste of the poison A quick twist of the knife When the obsession with death, the obsession with death Becomes a way of life ("Dead is the New Alive", 2006 🎵)
I am still over-glorified My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine (“306”, 2006)
In summation: becoming an overnight success thanks to your darkest trauma will do things to person's mind.
As EA kept hyping up how much her fans meant to her, and what an amazing and inclusive and free-thinking motley crew the Asylum was, she was also growing more and more controlling of her increasingly large (and opinionated, and overall rather young) fanbase – and more generally, of the way people ought to talk to and about her.
It was during the Opheliac era that she started reveling in made-up stories about her own life. Then came the habit of losing her shit on fans that she perceived as ungrateful or disrespectful. It was also then that massive kerfuffles became routine on the merch and planning front, and EA's creative output started to routinely fall short of her promises. The more fans started raising legitimate complaints, the more defensive and uncompromising EA became in her public interactions. The more people expressed weariness of the Asylum theme, or started questioning EA's hot takes on mental health and feminism, the harder she doubled down on the Asylum lore and fictional universe. Which is where the drama really starts.
Alright, the time has come. Let's talk about The Book.
...Actually, let's not. I'm nearing my character limit, and you could probably use a break and a stretch after making it this far. This is our intermission, and we'll get to The Book in our next instalment.
Thank you for reading! Stay tuned if you're interested in how it all comes tumbling down.
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2024.04.28 06:05 omegacluster Album Anniversary List 2024-04-28

Today's anniversaries are:
1998
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2011
2015
2016
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2019
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2024.04.27 16:02 Thammarat02 Remnants of Hope: Gaming Community

Come One, Come All
Attention, GW2 players! Are you looking for a vibrant, supportive, and fun community to game with? Look no further than Remnants of Hope! We are a multifaceted gaming guild that is large enough to support all game modes, but cozy enough to care about you.
Our Guild Wars 2 Division is part of an inclusive, well-organized, and democratic gaming community which has been around since 2009. We embrace players of all ages, genders, abilities, and playstyles (read our community charter here). While we are most active 7-midnight Eastern time, we have members across North America and the world who play at a variety of times.
What's the new member experience like? Check out this post from our GW2 Forums thread:
All the Modes, for All Kinds of Players
Whether you're a PvE enthusiast, a Mists conqueror, a Raid master, or a crafty genius, we've got you covered. Our dedicated Departments offer a smorgasbord of exciting activities, catering to all skill levels and playstyles.
A Gaming Community
Remnants of Hope is not confined to GW2 alone. We are a vast gaming community that has expanded across multiple MMO’s, including Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft. People who join RoH through the GW2 Division are welcome to join other Divisions and experience all we have to offer.
Not An Average Guild
At Remnants of Hope, we're more than just gamers - we're a family. With a legacy dating back to 2009, our gaming community delivers stability and a democratic structure few guilds can rival.
We hold Division and Community elections every six months, keeping leadership fresh and avoiding burnout. A detailed Charter enables good governance and financial stability for an organization designed for the long term. A strict but fair disciplinary system ensures that any toxic behavior is addressed quickly and confidentially.
Our structure also allows a safe and joyful space for players of all backgrounds. Many of our leaders and members are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and we have players in every generation from Zoomer to Boomer. Diversity is our strength, and our commitment to antiracism, diversity, and inclusion is built into our foundation and implemented through all our policies, including accommodations as appropriate.
What To Expect
Our community is brimming with life beyond the game. Our Discord and forums serve as vibrant hubs of interaction, and we have a range of cross-community activities, including karaoke, movie nights, multi-game fashion and other shows, and casual games. We have also held meetups in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas, and even sponsored a booth at Awesome Con.
Ready to Join?
We *deeply* value our community and want to protect it from disruption and toxicity. To that end, we invite every applicant to go through a two-week trial period, which includes reasonable activity and engagement requirements, to make sure there is a good fit between you and our community. Rest assured, however, there are people here who help you throughout the process; you never just join our Discord server and fend for yourself. Many of our Trial Members appreciate the care we take in integrating new players into the guild, and you can check out what some new members have to say on our GW2 forum thread.
If all this sounds good to you, come check us out at www.remnantsofhope.com and fill out an application today!
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2024.04.27 05:54 Cosminion Survival Rates: Cooperative vs. Conventional

Survival Rates: Cooperative vs. Conventional (59/66)
Region Coop Conv +/- Period Years Source
Alberta 90.9% 63% 27.9 5-Year 2000-2005 Balta
Alberta 90.9% 63% 27.9 5-Year 2001-2006 Balta
Alberta 89.5% 63% 26.5 5-Year 2002-2007 Balta
Alberta 90% 63% 27 5-Year 2003-2008 Balta
Alberta 100% 63% 37 5-Year 2004-2009 Balta
Alberta 84.6% 48% 36.6 3-Year 2005-2008 Balta
Alberta 78.6% 48% 30.6 3-Year 2006-2009 Balta
Argentina° 89.51% N/A N/A Variable 1990-2015 Vieta
Argentina° 97.55% N/A N/A Variable 2010-2015 Vieta
Belgium 80% 68% 12 5-Year N/A Cera
Belgium 74% 68.7% 5.3 5-Year N/A Ku Leuven
Brazil
B. Columbia 66.6% 39-43% 23.6-27.6 5-Year 2000-2010 Balta 2
Canada 77% N/A N/A 40-Year 1972-2012 Richards
Canada 74.9% 48.2% 26.2 3-Year Around 2008 Richards
Canada 62% 35% 27 5-Year Around 2008 Richards
Canada 44.3% 19.5% 24.8 10-Year Around 2008 Richards
Finland
Germany 0.1% 1% N/A N/A 2005 ILO
France
France° 75% 60% 15 4-Year 1987-1991 Pérotin
France° 82.5% 66% 16.5 3-Year N/A CECOP
France° 66.1% 50% 16.1 5-Year N/A CECOP
France° 77% 66% 11 3-Year Around 2009 Oxford HB
France° 63% 50% 13 5-Year Around 2009 CECOP 2
France° 70% 50% 20 5-Year Around 2008 ILO
Italy° 87% 48.3% 38.7 3-Year 2007-2013 CICOPA
Italy° 92.59% 59.1% 33.49 7-Year 1985-1992 EURICSE
Italy° 83.18% 62.7% 20.48 5-Year 1989-1994 EURICSE
Italy° 80.56% 62.7% 17.86 5-Year 2001-2006 EURICSE
Italy°
Mondragón° 97% N/A N/A 30-Year 1956-1986 Whyte
Mondragón° 80% 55% 25 5-Year Around 2011 Co-op Law
Norway
NYC° 67% 50% 17 5-Year 2014-2019 WTFY19
Portugal 97% 80% 17 5-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Portugal 84% 45% 39 10-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Portugal 63% 20% 43 50-Year ~1995-2007 Monteiro
Québec 64% 35% 29 5-Year Around 1999 MEDIEQ
Québec 46% 20% 26 10-Year Around 1999 MEDIEQ
Québec 62% 35% 27 5-Year Around 2008 MEDIEQ
Québec 44% 20% 24 10-Year Around 2008 MEDIEQ
Québec** 51% 47% 4 5-Year 1980-1995 CA Gov
Québec** 40% 30% 10 10-Year 1980-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ 62% 30% 32 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ 53% 18% 35 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ ^ 84% 40% 44 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec^ ^ 67% 20% 47 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec" 75% 40% 35 5-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
Québec" 44% 20% 34 10-Year 1960-1995 CA Gov
UK 84.8% 41.7% 43.1 5-Year 2009-2014 UK Coop 1
UK 81.9% 41.4% 40.5 5-Year 2010-2015 UK Coop 1
UK 80.4% 44.1% 36.3 5-Year 2011-2016 UK Coop 2
UK 72.1% 43.2% 28.9 5-Year 2012-2017 UK Coop 3
UK 75.7% 42.4 33.3 5-Year 2013-2018 UK Coop 4
UK 83.3% 38.4% 44.9 5-Year 2016-2021 UK Coop 5
UK 77% 43% 34 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK° 65% 44.1% 20.9 5-Year 2011-2016 Study
UK° 56% 43.2% 12.8 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK° 70% 43% 27 5-Year 2014-2019 Study
UK* 96% 44.1% 51.9 5-Year 2011-2016 Study
UK* 91% 43.2% 47.8 5-Year 2012-2017 Study
UK* 96% 43% 53 5-Year 2014-2019 Study
UK°° 95% N/A N/A 22-Year 1992-2014 Plunkett
UK°° 99% 41% 58 5-Year 1992-2014 Plunkett
Uruguay° N/A N/A 29% ~11-Year 1997-2009 Burdín
US° 25.6% 18.7% 6.9 6 to 10-Year 1950s+ Institute
US° 14.7% 11.9% 2.8 26+-Year 1950s+ Institute
°Worker Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
*Consumer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
^Forestry Worker Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
"Agricultural Producer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
°°Community Shop Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
**Worker-Shareholder Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
^^Student Consumer Cooperatives' Survival Rates Only
Alberta: 63% figure retrieved from Canada's government website.
Germany: 1% of businesses were declared insolvent, while the figure for cooperatives was less than 0.1%.
Uruguay: LMFs have a 29% lower hazard rate than conventional firms.
A 1988 study of the "death" rates from all sources, including dissolution and conversion to capitalist firms, showed that the relative rates in France were 6.9% for labor-managed firms and 10% for capital-managed manufacturing firms; in the U.K., 6.3% for labor-managed firms to 10.5% for all industries.
Factors that contribute to the resilience of the cooperative model include greater productivity levels, a focus on community needs rather than profit, greater worker satisfaction, democratic principles, and greater employment stability.
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2024.04.26 05:55 Akachisen Busco noticia perdida del 2009-2011

Cuando era chico estuve en un accidente relacionado con el narco, el narco tomó un supermercado que si mal no recuerdo era un H-E-B. Mis padres y yo salimos por la puerta trasera y corrimos en lo que vimos llegar a los militares. Puesto que yo era chico no tengo mucha idea de lo que pasó y mis recuerdos están sesgados por el impacto que tuvo en mí, yo teniendo 3-4 años.
He buscado la noticia pero no he encontrado nada parecido y con esto me hace preguntar si alguien sabe de esto. Esto pasó entre el 2009 y el 2011 aproximadamente.
Si ayuda lo que recuerdo y me han contado es que el narco reunió tráileres en la calle y la gente entró al supermercado corriendo, posteriormente llegaron militares y hubo una balacera.
Espero alguien me pueda ayudar a recuperar la información de lo que pasó entonces puesto que quisiera completar mi idea de ese día junto si he de tener suerte encontrar una pista del señor que nos ayudó a mis padres y a mí.
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2024.04.26 02:53 AnticJester643 Por primera vez tengo miedo y no sé qué hacer

Nunca he tenido miedo a casi nada, ni a la muerte, solo el miedo que siento que casi todos tenemos que es el miedo a perder a las personas que queremos, fuera de eso, creía que no tenía ningún otro, sin embargo me di cuenta que mi mayor miedo es al fracaso.
Siempre he sido alguien exageradamente ambicioso, que vive muy rápido por así decirlo ya que he estado con la muerte muy cerca un par de veces y me he dado cuenta de lo efímera que puede ser la vida, mi meta es juntar 1M de dólares máximo a mis 30, actualmente tengo 22, no vengo de familia nada adinerada actualmente (hace muchísimos años, antes de que yo naciera, por allá de los 80s-90s si tenían muchísimo dinero llegando a ser una de las familias más adineradas de mx, teniendo refinería, casinos, hoteles, etc, fallecieron a mi abuelo, les robaron todo y quedaron casi en la calle, si nos ponemos filosóficos puede que de ahí saliera el afán mío por el dinero) cuando yo nací mi papá ganaba $800 a la semana, así que suena algo fantasioso e incluso imposible para muchos pero durante un tiempo, a mis 16-17 logré gastar bastante dinero, hubo meses que llegue a ganar $100,000 sin embargo al tener nula educación financiera y un vacío muy grande por un abandono de parte de mi mamá (eso ya se arreglo) malgasté todo, pague fiestas a personas que nada que ver, antros todos los fines, con amigos pague cuentas de $250,000 lo que para mi es la mayor estupidez, entre otras cosas, quedándome sin nada y empezando de 0. Me empezó a ir bien otra vez pero hace 2 años tuve un secuestro por estar en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado y con las personas equivocadas, duro 11 días con torturas constantes pero incluso en esa situación jamás tuve miedo, salí de eso, nunca tomé terapia ni nada, solo me “sacudí” seguí y a las dos semanas (ya que me recupere de las heridas y demás) estaba trabajando y generando de nuevo, sin embargo a partir de ahí mi vida fue un completo desastre, empezó a desmoronarse todo, tengo tdah diagnosticado desde pequeño, nunca lleve terapia pero lo había aprendido a sobrellevar, se disparó totalmente y no he sabido manejarlo, también he tenido muchísimos vacíos existenciales constantes, una rebeldía enorme con mi familia, me fui a otra ciudad a probar suerte, salió mal y regrese, termine de uber y era algo que no me gustaba, durante todo este proceso he tenido una pareja que conozco desde hace 15 años, me ha ayudado muchísimo (ha sido muy complicado ya que yo soy muy frío y necesito mi espacio muchas veces y ella es de estar pegada pidiendo atención y cariño 24/7 pero poco a poco ha funcionado) ha estado conmigo cuando no tengo ni $1, actualmente decidí aventar el uber y emprender en algo que me puede llevar a una de mis más grandes metas, soy un fanático total de los autos y mi sueño es tener un taller de tuning, arrancaré el lunes con un lavado y detallado a domicilio, sin embargo, esta semana que deje el uber y me puse a preparar todo para el negocio llegaron los miedos y las crisis existenciales “Y si no funciona? Y si me estoy equivocando?” siempre he querido ser diferente y he dicho que yo voy a lograr lo que solo el 1% de las personas logra (Y no, no lo digo por todos los tik toks que ahora mencionan esa mentalidad para vender cursos y todo eso, llevo trabajando desde mis 12 con la misma mentalidad) pero, y si lo correcto sería enfocarme en lo mismo del otro 99% de las personas? Meterme a una empresa a trabajar, sacar una casita a crédito y vivir como la mayoría de las personas (que no digo que esté mal, cada quien tiene sus metas y las cosas que lo llenan, solo es algo que no quiero) a lo mejor eso es lo correcto, me he pasado mi vida, que aún es muy corta, lo sé, pero lo que llevo de vida tratando de vivir a 500km/h buscando un sueño de algo gigante a lo que a lo mejor y nunca llego y si no llego habré desperdiciado toda una vida solo “intentando”, yo me he pagado secundaría, prepa y unas cuantas universidades fallidas, actualmente mi mamá me ha ayudado con la carrera pero ya no puedo, me quitaron la beca y es carísima para mi, es por eso que he pensado en tirar la toalla y bajar mis expectativas.
Ustedes que opinan? Debería aterrizar y bajar la velocidad? Bajar mis expectativas? Dejar de “soñar”?
Ya tengo un plan de crecimiento con el negocio, que cursos tomaré, que seguirá después de cada cosa y así, una de las ventajas del tdah es eso pues, puedes concentrarte a niveles extremos de repente y preparas un negocio en 3-4 días con cada detalle resuelto (que es mi caso actual) pero no sé si funcione, este miedo al fracaso se multiplicó por 1,000 estos días así que no se que hacer.
Les pido una disculpa si esto fue muy largo y les agradezco a los que llegaron hasta aquí y a los que me comentaran algo, solo no me desahogo casi nunca, soy extremadamente cerrado en eso, siento que no hay momento para tirarte a desahogarte, pasa algo malo y toca seguir aún con eso, sin parar a analizar emociones, así que esta vez me deje llevar un poco.
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2024.04.24 15:16 Iceman--- Battery Replacement

Hello, my cars battery (12V 84aH 760A) is throwing up errors due to its low voltage (11.4V) and even after trickle charging all day is only at 12.1V. Although only being 3 years old, I suspect it needs replacing.
My question, which I've googled with many conflicting opinions is : Can I replace the battery with a 80 aH 800A (or slightly larger) as long as its physical size is the same or do I have to have the same specs as the current battery has. I've also seen Varta Varta Silver Dynamic H3 12V 100 Ah 830 A battery for sale at a good price, which has the same dimensions.
It's for a Mercedes GLK 350 (petrol) 2009. The recommended battery is the following Varta Battery who make the official batteries for Mercedes.
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2024.04.20 15:04 Thammarat02 Remnants of Hope: A Gaming Community

Come One, Come All
Attention, GW2 players! Are you looking for a vibrant, supportive, and fun community to game with? Look no further than Remnants of Hope! We are a multifaceted gaming guild that is large enough to support all game modes, but cozy enough to care about you.
Our Guild Wars 2 Division is part of an inclusive, well-organized, and democratic gaming community which has been around since 2009. We embrace players of all ages, genders, abilities, and playstyles (read our community charter here). While we are most active 7-midnight Eastern time, we have members across North America and the world who play at a variety of times.
What's the new member experience like? Check out this post from our GW2 Forums thread:
All the Modes, for All Kinds of Players
Whether you're a PvE enthusiast, a Mists conqueror, a Raid master, or a crafty genius, we've got you covered. Our dedicated Departments offer a smorgasbord of exciting activities, catering to all skill levels and playstyles.
A Gaming Community
Remnants of Hope is not confined to GW2 alone. We are a vast gaming community that has expanded across multiple MMO’s, including Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft. People who join RoH through the GW2 Division are welcome to join other Divisions and experience all we have to offer.
Not An Average Guild
At Remnants of Hope, we're more than just gamers - we're a family. With a legacy dating back to 2009, our gaming community delivers stability and a democratic structure few guilds can rival.
We hold Division and Community elections every six months, keeping leadership fresh and avoiding burnout. A detailed Charter enables good governance and financial stability for an organization designed for the long term. A strict but fair disciplinary system ensures that any toxic behavior is addressed quickly and confidentially.
Our structure also allows a safe and joyful space for players of all backgrounds. Many of our leaders and members are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and we have players in every generation from Zoomer to Boomer. Diversity is our strength, and our commitment to antiracism, diversity, and inclusion is built into our foundation and implemented through all our policies, including accommodations as appropriate.
What To Expect
Our community is brimming with life beyond the game. Our Discord and forums serve as vibrant hubs of interaction, and we have a range of cross-community activities, including karaoke, movie nights, multi-game fashion and other shows, and casual games. We have also held meetups in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas, and even sponsored a booth at Awesome Con.
Ready to Join?
We *deeply* value our community and want to protect it from disruption and toxicity. To that end, we invite every applicant to go through a two-week trial period, which includes reasonable activity and engagement requirements, to make sure there is a good fit between you and our community. Rest assured, however, there are people here who help you throughout the process; you never just join our Discord server and fend for yourself. Many of our Trial Members appreciate the care we take in integrating new players into the guild, and you can check out what some new members have to say on our GW2 forum thread.
If all this sounds good to you, come check us out at www.remnantsofhope.com and fill out an application today!
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2024.04.19 17:04 wiklr Quiet on Set Timeline

https://i.imgur.com/yy4GzHS.png

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

References
Reddit Research

Timeline

(Note: Some Film/TV show dates are when it was released or when a documentary related person appeared in an episode)
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1990 * The Willies): Brian Peck (director & producer), Kimmy Robertson
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2019 * March 14 - JustJared Drake Bell & Josh Peck spotted at a business meeting * March 15 - Drake Bell teases Drake & Josh reboot * March 18 - Seventeen interview of Drake Bell * November 16 - All That (Revival) Season 11 airs * December 16 - Deadline reports Turner & Hooch reboot (Disney+)
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Let me know corrections / things to add. Organized references to follow.
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2024.04.18 10:57 tranquilcalm El Ejército de EE.UU. canceló el mes pasado el sistema de Artillería de Cañón de Alcance Extendido XM1299 (ERCA). El el cañón de nueva generación

El Ejército de EE.UU. canceló el mes pasado el sistema de Artillería de Cañón de Alcance Extendido XM1299 (ERCA). El el cañón de nueva generación
La única manera en que puedo describirlo en este momento es fracaso total de la organización. Ya estamos en nuestro tercer programa fallido para reemplazar el obús autopropulsado M109 de 155 mm y, como es habitual en el ejército estadounidense, la solución provisional -el M109A7, que básicamente consiste en colocar la torreta Paladin M109A6 existente en un chasis Bradley- va a acabar siendo la solución permanente.
Repasemos la historia de este fracaso generacional.
El M109 ha sido el obús autopropulsado de 155 mm del ejército estadounidense desde antes de Vietnam, con la versión original de cañón corto (bastante parecida a un 2S3 ruso) mejorada para equipar lo que entonces era un cañón muy moderno de calibre 39* poco después de esa guerra con el M109A1.
El calibre es una unidad de medida relativa para cañones de armas pesadas, en la que un "calibre" equivale al diámetro interior del cañón. Así, el cañón original de 23 calibres del M109 medía 3,56 metros (15523) y sus cañones posteriores de 39 calibres han medido 6,04 metros (155*39).
Siguieron otras mejoras, que culminaron en el M109A6, un arma moderna de finales de la Guerra Fría que en cierto modo era innovadora, pero en otros aspectos bastante anticuada. Tenía muchos componentes electrónicos nuevos... y un cañón de carga manual de los años setenta. Cuando el Paladin entró en servicio a principios de la década de 1990, la entonces Unión Soviética ya había introducido el 2S19 en 1989 (con un cañón automático de 152 mm y 47 calibres), y los alemanes estaban trabajando duro en el PzH 2000 (con un cañón semiautomático de 155 mm y 52 calibres). Ambos sistemas podían disparar el triple de proyectiles que el Paladin a distancias considerablemente mayores.
No sería un problema porque el Ejército ya estaba trabajando en un sustituto: el XM2001 Crusader, un cañón autopropulsado completamente moderno con un cañón de 155 mm de calibre 52 y un vehículo transcargador automático. Era el cañón definitivo para defender la brecha de Fulda contra la Marea Roja... lo cual era problemático en aquel momento porque esa amenaza ya no existía y doblemente después del 11-S. Así que, como muchos programas heredados de la Guerra Fría, fue cancelado por Donald Rumsfeld durante su apocalíptico mandato como Secretario de Defensa de George W. Bush.
No hay que preocuparse, ¡el Ejército tenía un plan alternativo! Se trata de Future Combat Systems, un programa que surgió porque los mandos del Ejército vieron que las Fuerzas Aéreas habían hecho del F-35 un programa demasiado grande para fracasar y pensaron que era un buen modelo de adquisición. El XM1203 Non-Line of Sight Cannon (NLOS-C), desarrollado como uno de los vehículos de combate sobre orugas de la "familia" FCS, contaba con un cañón ligero de 155 mm y 39 calibres con un cargador automático de alta velocidad y requisitos mínimos de tripulación. Habría sido el cañón ideal para el Ejército expedicionario ligero de la era posterior a la Guerra Fría... y entonces ocurrió lo de Irak. La parte mala de Irak, en la que perdíamos un centenar de hombres cada mes sin que se vislumbrara el final. Después de que los republicanos fueran derrotados en las elecciones de 2006 y Rumsfeld viera la puerta de salida, su sucesor, Robert Gates, suprimió todo el programa por considerarlo otro despilfarro de la era Rumsfeld sin valor para ganar la guerra contra el terrorismo.
Esto dejó a la flota del Ejército de Tierra de M109A6 cada vez más desgastados en la década de 2010, y se necesitaban vehículos de reemplazo. Así surgió el M109A7, básicamente un programa para instalar la torreta del M109A6 en un chasis Bradley convenientemente adaptado para facilitar el mantenimiento y recapitalizar la flota. El M109A7 no ofrecía ninguna nueva capacidad real, pero mantendría a la Artillería de Campaña en activo hasta que se pudiera poner en servicio un nuevo cañón, porque estábamos a finales de la década de 2010 y la mayoría de los ejércitos serios del planeta se habían pasado a los sistemas de cañón largo de carga automática. Así surgió el ERCA, el plan del Ejército de EE.UU. para adelantarse a la competencia con un cañón de 155 mm de calibre 58 fantásticamente largo... montado en el mismo chasis derivado del Bradley del M109A7. Si se hace un breve repaso a las AAP modernas, blindadas y de cañón largo - 2S19, 2S35, K9, PzH 2000, etc. - te darás cuenta de que todas son bastante pesadas, y la mayoría de ellas están construidas sobre un chasis de tanque o un chasis especializado de artillería pesada. Esa capacidad no es gratuita. El Ejército estaba tratando de meter un cañón de carga automática aún más largo en un chasis IFV, y se encontró con problemas fácilmente predecibles con el peso y luego - una vez que recortaron la capacidad para solucionarlo - con problemas igualmente predecibles con el desgaste del ánima dados los alcances extremos a los que estaban tratando de llevar este cañón (70+ kilómetros para un cañón aproximadamente un 10% más largo que los cañones con un máximo de la mitad). El programa se canceló el mes pasado por problemas de viabilidad técnica.
En cualquier caso, el plan actual del Ejército de EE.UU. parece ser ir a la guerra con el M109A7 y, si el rendimiento de los sistemas similares de calibre 39 en Ucrania es una indicación, perder la lucha contra la batería y conseguir un montón de artilleros muertos tripulando cañones obsoletos. A algunos de los cuales, sin duda, conocería personalmente.
Menudo fiasco.
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2024.04.18 06:33 KeNnYE_E The sound from my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen audio interface suddenly cuts out. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

please help 🙂
Lately, I've been encountering a frustrating problem with my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen audio interface: the sound cuts out suddenly. This problem can be quite annoying.
System Data:
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CONCLUSION
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Your system seems to be having difficulty handling real-time audio and other tasks. You may experience drop outs, clicks or pops due to buffer underruns. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:16:21 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Computer name: DESKTOP-676U4MA
OS version: Windows 10, 10.0, version 2009, build: 19045 (x64)
Hardware: B450 AORUS M, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
BIOS: F66
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Logical processors: 12
Processor groups: 1
Processor group size: 12
RAM: 16306 MB total
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CPU SPEED
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Reported CPU speed (WMI): 3593 MHz
Reported CPU speed (registry): 3593 MHz
Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.
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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.
Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 1135,70
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 4,069870
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1133,50
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 2,036941
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REPORTED ISRs
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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.
Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 11,261898
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0,001518
Driver with highest ISR total time: Wdf01000.sys - Motor en tiempo de ejecución del marco de controlador en modo kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0,002257
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 287373
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-1000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
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REPORTED DPCs
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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.
Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 1169,524075
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: storport.sys - Microsoft Storage Port Driver, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0,037135
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0,090255
DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 1919831
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-10000 µs): 20
DPC count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 20
DPC count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.
NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.
Process with highest pagefault count: radeonsoftware.exe
Total number of hard pagefaults 27920
Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 9104
Number of processes hit: 68
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PER CPU DATA
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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 26,198868
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 11,261898
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0,213569
CPU 0 ISR count: 194699
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1088,276092
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 9,655050
CPU 0 DPC count: 1652521
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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,281092
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 5,420540
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0,000823
CPU 1 ISR count: 903
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1075,411077
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0,042910
CPU 1 DPC count: 8942
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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,879248
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 2 ISR count: 0
CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1150,467019
CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 0,208092
CPU 2 DPC count: 65950
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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,489160
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 3 ISR count: 0
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 43,214027
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0,038826
CPU 3 DPC count: 13844
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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,828594
CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 4 ISR count: 0
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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,398055
CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
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CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
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CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 7 ISR count: 0
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CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0,032938
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CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 4,318397
CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0,044787
CPU 8 ISR count: 81726
CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 56,199276
CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0,1510
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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,533268
CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 2,374617
CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0,001092
CPU 9 ISR count: 1710
CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 78,172001
CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0,039661
CPU 9 DPC count: 8504
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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,867071
CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 3,707208
CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0,002830
CPU 10 ISR count: 4256
CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1108,054551
CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0,104632
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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,499589
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CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0,002789
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2024.04.16 12:58 gerrry14 Amortiguadores de Mercado Libre

Amortiguadores de Mercado Libre
Alguien ha comprado y utilizado refacciones de las tiendas de MELI? normalmente me voy por las cosas de marca buena pero mi situación económica no es tan buena por el momento y ya debo hacerle el cambio. Si alguien ha usado estás marcas (está es AG) pasen su experiencia por fa. Tiene una puntuación y comentarios buenos, pero quiero más opciones o ideas. Saludos.
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2024.04.15 05:53 Hayate-kun 60 most-viewed ASMR videos published on YouTube last week (2024-03-31 to 2024-04-06) [Discussion]

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468941 Latte ASMR Soft Personal Attention for Your Sleep🤎 ASMR close whispering
395127 Gentle Whispering ASMR ASMR Perfectionist Photoshoot - Hair Fixing, Scarf Draping - Soft Spoken
354481 W Magazine Delaney Rowe Explores #ASMR | W Magazine
311400 ASMR Twix ASMR Japan's BEST HIDDEN RESORT in UPWILL of Fukuoka!!! (SOFT SPOKEN JAPANESE)
296345 ASMR Anil Çakmak ASMR SLEEP MASSAGE | Amazing Barber Massage Asmr For Sleep Relief w/youngbarberveysel
289365 Jojo's ASMR ASMR | The MOST realistic 1940's VINTAGE barber haircut EVER💈(4K)
274135 Sarah Lavender ASMR ASMR Roleplay | Relaxing Cranial Nerve Exam 🩺 (whispered)
269291 Patra Channel / 周防パトラ 【ASMR】全身極楽すぎてず～っと眠れる。一度聞いたら天国な睡眠誘導。全身マッサージ/ボディーウォッシュ/耳塞ぎ/囁き/Triggers for Sleep & Relaxation【周防パトラ
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254083 Ecuador Live Esperanza's ASMR relaxation massage & energy cleansing with soft whispering sounds to help you sleep
234659 benio店長 / ASMR屋さん 【ASMR】寝れない夜に…🌙50種類＋のゾクゾクトリガー😪💤Newカメラ！(3h,囁き声,マイクトリガー)
214409 Timur Doctorov Live She lost 50kg but not her Power | ASMR Strong massage with lot's of stretching by Maria
207415 Celaine's ASMR ASMR Deep Sleep in 15 Minutes OR LESS 👀 ~Fast Paced~ ASMR FOR SLEEP
194328 beebee asmr Back to the Basics ASMR ( Mouth Sounds, Hand Sounds, Mic Triggers, Nail Clicking, Rambling )
193282 Simone ASMR Miss Simone Give’s You a Private Lesson (Personal Attention) | ASMR Teacher Roleplay
186606 TomASMR ASMR 100 Fast and Aggressive Triggers For SLEEP
184691 Diddly ASMR ASMR but your face is the mic
172890 RaffyTaphyASMR ASMR Relax Your Mind with Good Sounds (4K)
172281 ASMR KALI Papouilles et triggers pour bien dodo | ASMR
170971 Nanou ASMR Book Tapping, Tracing and Gripping! - ASMR
170595 HeyHelen ASMR АСМР ТЫ УСНЕШЬ За 15 Минут От ЭТОГО БЛИЗКОГО НЕРАЗБОРЧИВОГО ШЕПОТА 😴 ASMR CLOSE WHISPER
168866 FrivolousFox ASMR I asked AI for the PERFECT ASMR phrases... (Inaudible & Wet)
164297 Doña Esperanza ASMR Masaje ASMR y susurros de Doña Esperanza: Armonizando los Centros Energéticos del Cuerpo para dormir
157819 奈羅花 - Naraka - 【ASMR】いい音を鳴らしたい御遊び♡
157692 Cleo Abrahams ASMR: Full Service at the Vietnamese VIP Barbershop (Neck, Head, Leg Massage, Ear Cleaning, Shampoo)
154302 ASMR Glow ASMR Goodnight Kisses For a Sweet Sleep
152924 ASMR Rebecca ASMR Follow My Instructions but I Can’t Stay Focused 👾
152230 HeyHelen ASMR АСМР ПЕРЕЗАГРУЗКА 😍😎 Тебе Не УСТОЯТЬ 😴 ИНТЕНСИВНЫЕ ЗВУКИ ДЛЯ СНА ASMR TINGLES REBOOT
148733 ASMR MOOD АСМР ❤️‍🔥 НЕРАЗБОРЧИВЫЙ ШЕПОТ ❤️‍🔥 ASMR INAUDIBLE WHISPERING
144409 Chiara ASMR QUESTI MOUTH SOUNDS TI RILASSERANNO AL 99,9%! ASMR
142820 Anny ASMR ASMR ESPAÑOL / S P 1 T PAINT1NG INTENSO y REALISTA + DUERME EN SEGUNDOS (VISUALES EXTREMOS)
141508 ASMR Münür Önkan HOW ABOUT HAVING A REAL BARBER EXPERIENCE? ASMR AMAZING SKIN CARE AND MASSAGE WITH MUNUR ONKAN!
139979 Mol ASMR. ASMR español sin editar para dormir con grwm
139613 Alexandria ASMR ASMR Hot Cheeto Girl sits in back of you in class🌶️ She plays with your hair & does your makeup!😚
137830 beebee asmr Upclose Personal Attention ASMR ( Fast Hand Sounds, Unpredictable Triggers, Camera Tapping ) lofi
134383 FrivolousFox ASMR ASMR Lollipop Licking, Mouth Sounds, Inaudible Whispers, Personal Attention, etc. 🥰
133831 Jason Rupp 💈SHE DID IT ALL FOR ME. (Unintentional ASMR barber sounds to relax) Pattaya, Thailand 🇹🇭
132967 ASMR Glow ASMR Staying with You as You Fall Asleep 💚 (+Face brushing)
130893 Nefertiti ASMR ASMR Extremely Relaxing Aloe GEL Treatment, Hair wash, COCONUT Shampoo, Scalp Inspection
123695 ASMR Münür Önkan YOUR ASMR SLEEP FRIEND MUNUR ONKAN .ASMR RELAXING BEARD TRIMMING AND SKIN CARE
123613 ASMR con Noa ⭐ASMR tu PROFESORA te Enseña CHILENO [Sub]
122684 Tingting ASMR [ASMR] Sleep for The Sleepless ~ Microphone Brushing
119796 지읒asmr 지읒asmr} 향수 소리 원조 맛집
117325 Lizi ASMR ASMR Face Examination & Skin Assessment RP. Personal Attention
116055 Makayla ASMR ASMR Karen Freaks Out In Jail *She Tries To Escape ⛓️🤬 ASMR Karen Role-play
114982 Sohanna Ricci ‧₊˚ iPhone ASMR
114465 FrivolousFox ASMR No Mouth Sounds Challenge (ASMR)
113944 ASMR Undercut BS SLEEP MASSAGE ASMR | Amazing Head Massage In Real Barber Shop With Veysel and ASMR Anil Cakmak
113184 Dong ASMR *WARNING* this ASMR video will LITERALLY make YOU sleep
112036 Tiptoe Tingles ASMR ASMR Lots of Fast Hand Sounds (Snapping, Clapping, Rubbing & More) (Looped)
111404 WhisperAudios ASMR ASMR -👂EAR SPA👂
110899 Chiara ASMR HEAD, NECK AND BACK SCRATCHING AND BRUSHING ✨ ASMR
110869 ASMR Adi ASMR Unboxing IPhone 15 Pro Max
108934 Sweet Carol ASMR SPA DE MADEIRA, EXCELENTE PARA DORMIR HOJE | Sweet Carol
107970 Ale ASMR asmr TEST DE SENSIBILIDAD ASMR Ale ASMR español
107736 ラトナ・プティ -Ratna Petit -にじさんじ所属 【ASMBinaural】生配信添い寝 睡眠誘導💤吐息・囁き【ラトナ・プティ/Ear Blowing eamassage /lie down】
107403 沙汰ナキアASMR - Nakia Ch. 【KU100/ASMR】お耳がとろけるクリームのマッサージで熟睡♡Ear massage with Cream【沙汰ナキア/睡眠導入】
106630 Beaux ASMR ASMR WET SOUNDS AND MOUTHSOUNDS 💦
106100 Jason Rupp LUCKIEST MAN in the WORLD w/ 7 LADIES that DO IT ALL | Ear Cleaning, Massage (100% ASMR go sleep) 🇹🇭
104975 Yarify ASMR ASMR VAMPIRA obsesionada contigo 🖤 MOUTH SOUNDS, Brochas, Cepillo y Visuales 🖤🦇
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2024.04.14 03:26 alleybetwixt This Week In KPOP - April 13, 2024

Welcome to This Week In KPOP, a collection of everything you may have missed during the past week on kpop.

April 6, 2024 - April 12, 2024

TOP 10 STORIES

# Votes Thread Comments
1 (+2859) Aespa's Winter Reportedly Undergoes Surgery For A Collapsed Lung 212 comments
2 (+2632) TWICE Nayeon to have a comeback in June 165 comments
3 (+2392) TWICE Nayeon added to 2024 ‘Waterbomb Festival’ in Seoul performer lineup for July 7th 105 comments
4 (+2108) AQUINAS (High School Rapper 3 contestant) has come out as gay in latest Instagram post 48 comments
5 (+1995) Singer Park Bo Ram Passes Away At Age Of 30 107 comments
6 (+1612) Billlie Moon Sua and Suhyeon to resume activities with the group 77 comments
7 (+1128) Areum Reveals She's Pregnant + 2 Kids Taken Away from Her After Attempting to Take Own Life 85 comments
8 (+1077) SHINee Key and Minho have renewed their contracts with SM Entertainment 88 comments
9 (+1083) BLACKPINK LISA officially signs with RCA Records 132 comments
10 (+917) IU announced as the newest global ambassador of Estée Lauder 31 comments

TOP ANNIVERSARIES

# Votes Thread Comments
1 (+1205) Happy 12th Anniversary to EXO! 75 comments
2 (+554) Happy 8th Anniversary to NCT & NCT U! 19 comments
3 (+372) Happy 1st solo debut anniversary to CLC Yeeun! 7 comments
4 (+328) Happy 10th anniversary to AKMU! 5 comments
5 (+265) Happy 13th Anniversary to RaNia! ⭐️ 22 comments

TOP 10 PERFORMANCES

# Votes Thread Comments
1 (+347) [Performance] BABYMONSTER - SHEESH (Band Live Ver.) (MDL it's LIVE) 89 comments
2 (+341) [Performance] Debut Stage: BABYMONSTER - Intro + SHEESH @ SBS Inkigayo (240407) 152 comments
3 (+276) [Dance Practice] Chungha - I'm Ready (Dance Practice Video) 8 comments
4 (+127) [Live] H1-KEY Hwiseo (Host: Lee Mujin) - Rose Blossom, I Love You 3000 (Stephanie Poetri), You & Me (BLACKPINK Jennie), Love, ing (Ben) @ Leemujin Service Episode 109 (240409) [ENG SUB] 4 comments
5 (+115) [Live] Debut Stage: ME:I - Click (Korean Ver.) @ Mnet M Countdown (240411) 19 comments
6 (+102) [Dance Practice] KISS OF LIFE - Midas Touch (Dance Practice) 2 comments
7 (+102) [Live] ME:I - Click @ ME:I Debut Special (240410) 6 comments
8 (+99) [Performance] KISS OF LIFE - Midas Touch (HUP! Our Stage) 1 comments
9 (+93) [Performance] KISS OF LIFE - Midas Touch (M2 Relay Dance) 1 comments
10 (+90) [Performance] PURPLE KISS (Goeun, Chaein, Swan) - Voyager (MONTBEST Live) 4 comments

TOP 5 DANCE CHALLENGES

# Votes Thread Comments
1 (+145) KISS OF LIFE Julie & Belle (with PURPLE KISS Yuki & Chaein) - 'Midas Touch' Dance Challenge (240407) 4 comments
2 (+145) TXT Yeonjun (with LE SSERAFIM Chaewon) - ‘Deja Vu’ Dance Challenge (240406) 4 comments
3 (+119) woo!ah! Nana (with Rocket Punch Yeonhee & Suyun) - 'BLUSH' Dance Challenge (240406) 5 comments
4 (+100) TXT Taehyun & Hueningkai (with LE SSERAFIM Kazuha) - ‘I’ll See You There Tomorrow’ Dance Challenge (240407) 1 comments
5 (+67) TXT (TOMORROW X TOGETHER) Yeonjun (with Stray Kids Changbin) - ‘Deja Vu’ Dance Challenge (240412) 0 comments

TOP DISCUSSIONS / FEATURES

# Votes Thread Comments
1 (+109) Throwback: After School released "DIVA" this week in 2009 7 comments
2 (+32) /kpop Top Ten Tuesdays Results: DPR IAN 1 comments
3 (+23) What Are You Listening To? - April 10, 2024 32 comments

MUSIC SHOWS

Date Performances Discussion Thread Winner
20240406 Music Core Thread NCT DREAM
20240407 Inkigayo Thread (G)I-DLE
20240409 The Show Thread ILLIT
20240410 Show Champion Thread TXT
20240411 M!Countdown Thread TXT
20240412 Music Bank Thread TXT
 

NEW RELEASES

Day Artist Album Title Type Music Video Streaming
6th basecamp Beautiful 2024 Single Project single Beautiful (feat. B.I) Spotify / Apple Music
8th JO1 Test Drive Japanese pre-release single Test Drive Spotify / Apple Music
Zangman Loopy, Yoo Seungeon (EVNNE) Will Our Love Blossom? Zanmang Loopy collaboration single Will Our Love Blossom? Spotify / Apple Music
ONF Beautiful Shadow mini album Bye My Monster Spotify / Apple Music
Triple iz (Dita (SECRET NUMBER), E.Ji (ICHILLIN'), Aria (X:IN)) HALLA debut digital single HALLA Spotify / Apple Music
woo!ah! BLUSH digital single BLUSH Spotify / Apple Music
9th NCHIVE Drive debut single album Racer Spotify / Apple Music
Rolling Quartz Stand Up digital single Stand Up Spotify / Apple Music
EPEX Youth Chapter 1 : YOUTH DAYS full-length album Youth2Youth Spotify / Apple Music
Eunha (VIVIZ) Pat Pat Cliche project single Pat Pat Spotify / Apple Music
Jessi, YUNGIN, CAMO No Lowkey digital single No Lowkey Spotify / Apple Music
Yoonie (ex-Weeekly Jiyoon) Yellow Light solo debut digital single Yellow Light (feat. Yang Jeongman) Spotify / Apple Music
10th TEMPEST BANG! Japanese debut mini album BANG! Spotify / Apple Music
11th The Deep, HUNJIYA shy girl! digital single shy girl! Spotify / Apple Music
ARTMS Pre2 : Flower Rhythm debut pre-release single Flower Rhythm Spotify / Apple Music
CREZL CRE:㘉 debut mini album Forbidden Love Spotify / Apple Music
Izykite SOS digital single SOS (feat. NSW yoon) Spotify / Apple Music
ViV Bomb debut mini album Bomb Spotify / Apple Music
12th DPR CREAM savage digital single savage Spotify / Apple Music
MAX (feat. Huh Yunjin (LE SSERAFIM)) STUPID IN LOVE [Dabin Remix] remix single STUPID IN LOVE [Dabin Remix] Spotify / Apple Music
NCT DREAM iScreaM Vol.31 : Smoothie Remix iScreaM project remix single Smoothie (Arkins Remix) Spotify / Apple Music
DKZ REBOOT mini album Like a Movie Spotify / Apple Music

"This Week in KPOP" Archive

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2024.04.13 20:24 Thammarat02 Join Remnants of Hope Gaming Community!

Come One, Come All
Attention, GW2 players! Are you looking for a vibrant, supportive, and fun community to game with? Look no further than Remnants of Hope! We are a multifaceted gaming guild that is large enough to support all game modes, but cozy enough to care about you.
Our Guild Wars 2 Division is part of an inclusive, well-organized, and democratic gaming community which has been around since 2009. We embrace players of all ages, genders, abilities, and playstyles (read our community charter here). While we are most active 7-midnight Eastern time, we have members across North America and the world who play at a variety of times.
What's the new member experience like? Check out this post from our GW2 Forums thread:
All the Modes, for All Kinds of Players
Whether you're a PvE enthusiast, a Mists conqueror, a Raid master, or a crafty genius, we've got you covered. Our dedicated Departments offer a smorgasbord of exciting activities, catering to all skill levels and playstyles.
A Gaming Community
Remnants of Hope is not confined to GW2 alone. We are a vast gaming community that has expanded across multiple MMO’s, including Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft. People who join RoH through the GW2 Division are welcome to join other Divisions and experience all we have to offer.
Not An Average Guild
At Remnants of Hope, we're more than just gamers - we're a family. With a legacy dating back to 2009, our gaming community delivers stability and a democratic structure few guilds can rival.
We hold Division and Community elections every six months, keeping leadership fresh and avoiding burnout. A detailed Charter enables good governance and financial stability for an organization designed for the long term. A strict but fair disciplinary system ensures that any toxic behavior is addressed quickly and confidentially.
Our structure also allows a safe and joyful space for players of all backgrounds. Many of our leaders and members are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and we have players in every generation from Zoomer to Boomer. Diversity is our strength, and our commitment to antiracism, diversity, and inclusion is built into our foundation and implemented through all our policies, including accommodations as appropriate.
What To Expect
Our community is brimming with life beyond the game. Our Discord and forums serve as vibrant hubs of interaction, and we have a range of cross-community activities, including karaoke, movie nights, multi-game fashion and other shows, and casual games. We have also held meetups in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas, and even sponsored a booth at Awesome Con.
Ready to Join?
We *deeply* value our community and want to protect it from disruption and toxicity. To that end, we invite every applicant to go through a two-week trial period, which includes reasonable activity and engagement requirements, to make sure there is a good fit between you and our community. Rest assured, however, there are people here who help you throughout the process; you never just join our Discord server and fend for yourself. Many of our Trial Members appreciate the care we take in integrating new players into the guild, and you can check out what some new members have to say on our GW2 forum thread.
If all this sounds good to you, come check us out at www.remnantsofhope.com and fill out an application today!
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2024.04.13 00:12 Dennistheturtle A Look At First Time WWE World Champions Per Year

With Cody finishing his story at Wrestlemania 40 and winning the WWE Championship for the first time, I was wondering how often a wrestler wins their first world championship in WWE, so I got the list of all WWE champions from Cagematch (from Buddy Rogers in 1963 to Cody in 2024) and took the dates each wrestler won the WWE Championship, converted it to just the year and tallied the results. I then did this for the World Heavyweight Championship (both 2003 and 2023 versions) and the Universal Championship and shoved them all in a bar chart.
Since I'm using Cagematch, I'm ignoring all unrecognised reigns (editor: it's just Antonio Inoki). I'll also add some context to some (though I'm not a historian so it'll probably be footnotes from Wikipedia). I don't know if tape delay will cause any issues, but let me know if you find anything wrong. Also, apologies in advance if the graphs are bad quality - not sure how to export a graph from Excel Online so had to screenshot it.
WWE Championship
No. First Time WWE Champions Per Year
As you can see, there are a couple of gaps between time for a wrestler to win their first WWE World Championship.
And that is a list of all first time champions of the WWE World Championship. Next I'll be going through the secondary world titles (WHC, Universal and WHC(2023)) in one go.
World Heavyweight Championship, Universal Championship and World Heavyweight Championship (2023)
No. First Time WWE/WHC/UNI/WHC(2023) Champions Per Year
The graph is in chronological order on when they first won one of these titles, so there are some differences the the original since there are some who won the WHC before the WWE Championship. These are:
  1. Randy Orton: WHC August 2004, WWE October 2010
  2. Batista: WHC April 2005, WWE June 2009
  3. Rey Mysterio: WHC April 2006, WWE July 2011
  4. CM Punk: WHC June 2006, WWE July 2011
  5. Daniel Bryan: WHC December 2011, WWE August 2013
One thing you notice is that between 2003 and 2011, the number of first time champion changes, with only 2007 remaining the same, and 2009 decreasing. 2011 is now the year with the most first time champions, with 4 new WHC champions being crowned.
The WHC was established in September 2002 after Brock Lesnar signed an exclusive contract to Smackdown after Summerslam 2002. The title lasted until December 2013 when it was unified with the WWE Championship.
The Universal Championship was established in 2016 for the 2016 Brand Split and is currently still active, as part of the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.
The 2023 WHC was established in 2023 when no-one could beat Roman and his sporadic defences (which many have speculated would make the UWU status disputed).
I'll be listing the first time champions per year, starting with the original WHC, and try to differentiate those who are first time champions for a world title vs those who previously won the WWE Championship.
  1. 2002 saw no first time champions, as the title was given to Triple H, and held by him and Shawn Michaels (both of whom have held the WWE championship prior to this)
  2. 2003 saw our 1st first time champion, with Goldberg winning the title from Triple H at Unforgiven in September. He would lose the title back to Triple H in December at Armageddon (if I included the WCW or NWA world titles I would go crazy)
  3. Triple H would lose the title to Chris Benoit at Wrestlemania XX in March 2004, in a triple threat with Shawn Michaels. Randy Orton would then win the title from Benoit at Summerslam in August. He would then lose the title to Triple H in September at Unforgiven. The title would end the year vacated following a double fall on Raw.
  4. 2005 would start with Triple H winning the vacated title at New Year's Revolution in January before being beaten by Batista at Wrestlemania 21 following his Royal Rumble win.
  5. Batista would vacate the title due to a tricep injury, where the title was won by Kurt Angle (who had already won the WWE title before), before he lost it to our next first time winner: Rey Mysterio at Wrestlemania 22 in April, followed by our next first time winner King Booker at The Great American Bash in July. Batista would regain the title by the end of the year.
  6. 2007 starts with Undertaker winning the WHC from Batista at Wrestlemania 23 in April, having won the WWE championship already, way back in 1991. Edge would then win the WHC in May (he previously won the WWE championship the prior year in Jan 2006 with his MITB win). He would vacate the title in July 2007 due to injury. Who would win the title, previously held by main event talent such as Shawn Michaels, Undertaker and Evolution? The Great Khali would, in July on Smackdown in a battle royale (which I think was once the most viewed video on the channel), being the only first time winner in 2007. The reign would last 61 days, going back to Batista then to Edge by the end of the year.
  7. At Wrestlemania XXIV, Undertaker beat Edge in March 2008, before the title was vacated due to his submission move being too dangerous, and Edge subsequently won the title again. He lost the title after CM Punk cashed in his MITB contract in June 2008, being our next first time winner. He would lose it to Chris Jericho (previously won the undisputed WWE Championship in 2001) in a championship scramble match Punk wasn't a part of? The title would then go to Batista, to Jericho, then ending up with John Cena (previously won in 2005).
  8. 2009 saw no first time champions as the title changed between John Cena and Edge, to CM Punk and Jeff Hardy (having won the WWE title earlier in 2008), then ending with the Undertaker
  9. Chris Jericho won the title at Elimination Chamber in February 2010, and lost the title to the next first time winner: Jack Swagger, who cashed in his MITB contract in March on Smackdown. He would lose the title to Rey Mysterio at Fatal-4-Way in June, who in turn would lose the title to Kane, cashing in his MITB at MITB in July (Kane previously held the WWE title for a day in 1998). Edge would win the title again at TLC in December.
  10. 2011 sees 4 first time champions for a single title, tying 1998/1999's record (depending on where Mankind's win lies). Would this be a recreation of the Attitude Era with new stars becoming main eventers? Maybe in a different timeline. We begin with Edge having to vacate the title for using a spear in a match, and the subsequent winner of the title was Dolph Ziggler, being handed the title on Smackdown in February. He would lose the title almost immediately to Edge at the same episode. Edge unfortunately would have to vacate the title and retire in April. His childhood friend and everybody's favorite father figure, Christian (Cage) would win the vacated title at Extreme Rules, in May, being our next first time champion. He would then lose the title to Randy Orton, and at some point in Orton's reign in August, the Brand Split ended, meaning both World titles could appear on any show.
  11. In September 2011, Mark Henry would win the title from Orton at Night Of Champions, being the third new champion of 2011. He would lose the title to Big Show (previously held the WWE title in 1999), who would get cashed in by our next and final first time champion of 2011 (and the WHC): Daniel Bryan. Just for visibility here, the 2011 first time winner of the WWE Championship was Alberto Del Rio, cashing in on CM Punk.
  12. With just 2 more years until the title is unified and no first time champions, I'll list the remaining journey:
    1. 2012: Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania XXVII in 18 seconds, kickstarting the Yes Movement (Sheamus previously held the WWE Championship in 2009).
    2. 2013: Alberto Del Rio would win the title from Big Show at Smackdown in January, and would hold the title for 90 before being cashed in by Dolph Ziggler
    3. The title would then do Alberto Del Rio to John Cena to being unified by Randy Orton at TLC.
The main switches in the graph are the following:
  1. Goldberg winning the title in 2003 adds a first time winner to 2003
  2. Chris Benoit and Randy Orton's wins in 2004 adds 2 to 2004 (Eddie Guerrero and JBL)
  3. Batista's win in 2005 adds 1 to 2005 (John Cena)
  4. Rey Mysterio and King Booker's wins in 2006 add 2 to 2006 (Edge and Rob Van Dam). Kurt Angle also won the WHC in this year but he had previously won the WWE title
  5. Great Khali's win in 2007 replaces Randy Orton's first WWE win since he had won the WHC in 2004
  6. CM Punk's win in 2008 adds 1 to 2008 (Jeff Hardy). John Cena and Chris Jericho also won the WHC in this year but they had previously won the WWE title
  7. Since Batista won the WHC back in 2005, Sheamus is the only contributor with his first WWE championship win. Jeff Hardy also won the WHC title in 2009 but he had previously won the WWE title in 2008
  8. Jack Swagger's win in 2010 adds 1 to 2010 (The Miz). Kane also won the WHC title in this year but he previously held the WWE title.
  9. Dolph Ziggler, Christian, Mark Henry and Daniel Bryan's win adds 4 to the 2011, but 2 of 2011 WWE wins (CM Punk and Rey Mysterio) previously held the WHC title in 2008 and 2006 respectively, meaning Alberto Del Rio's win is the sole contributor of the WWE title to 2011
  10. Since Daniel Bryan won the WHC in 2011, his 2013 win is removed.
The Universal title currently has 3 first time champions, whilst the WHC 2023 has one first time champion. They are the following:
  1. 2016 saw 2 first time champions, in inaugural champion Finn Balor, who held the title for one day after getting injured at SummerSlam in August. The vacated title was won by Kevin Owens at the end of August on Raw. His reign would be ended by Goldberg
  2. Between 2016 and 2019, the title was primarily held by Brock Lesnar, with his 504 day reign from April 2017 to August 2018, and subsequent 2 reigns, which were broken up by Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, followed by Bray Wyatt as The Fiend, all of which are former WWE Champions prior to winning the Universal Championship.
  3. 2020 saw Goldberg win the title from The Fiend, and he was scheduled to face Roman, but due to the Pandemic, Roman pulled out and Braun Strowman beat Goldberg at Wrestlemania 36, being the next first time holder of the Universal Title.
  4. The next 4 years saw Roman returning and holding the Universal title for 1316 days, from August 2020 to April 2024, where he lost the title (also unified with the WWE Championship) to Cody Rhodes
  5. The other first time champion of 2024 (so far) is Damian Priest with the WHC 2023, who cashed in his MITB contract on Drew McIntyre (who had just won the title from Seth Rollins in front of a live crowd) at Wrestlemania XL in April 2024.
I considered going through all the different WWE Eras (Golden Era, New Generation, Attitude Era, Ruthless Aggression era etc), but I think there would be more insight if you include the intercontinental and US titles to see wrestlers rise and fall down the card.
Some Other Trivial Facts I Found
  1. Goldberg is the only wrestler to win the WHC and Universal Championship, whilst currently Seth Rollins is the only one to have won the WHC 2023 and Universal Championship. Goldberg is also the only wrestler to have won only 2 world titles to not win the WWE championship.
  2. Seth Rollins has won 3 of the 4 titles, only missing the original WHC (which he cannot win unless he invents time travel)
  3. Of the wrestlers who won the WWE and WHC, Jeff Hardy is the wrestler with the shortest time between them, with 175 days between them (winning the WWE title in December 2008 and the WHC in July 2009). The largest difference is for The Undertaker at 5604 days (November 2011 for WWE to April 2007 for WHC).
  4. Of the wrestlers who won the WHC before the WWE Championship, Rey Mysterio has the largest gap at 1940 days (April 2006 for WHC to July 2011 for WWE). The shortest gap is 609 days, accomplished by Daniel Bryan (December 2011 for WHC to August 2013 for WWE)
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