Va percentage rate for heart disease
Easy to Use Web Calculators
2018.08.22 14:25 ihateleague1 Easy to Use Web Calculators
A subreddit for linking useful web calculators for everyday problems. This could be anything from a mortgage calculator to a body fat calculator and so on.
2024.05.18 22:36 BatAdministrative230 1 month in...is this normal??
So I started taking Tirz compound 10mg at the starter 2.5 doses. The first 3 shots (weeks) I thought this stuff was AMAZING. Lost 11 lbs already. Now...after my last shot, the 4th one, I don't know what happened but on the 3rd day after eating HALF a slice of pizza, I felt SO sick. So nauseous, tired, bodyaches in my lower back and hips, weird heart rate, chills, diarrhea all day and just so uncomfortable. Today is day 7- where I'm supposed to take my 5th shot but I still feel like garbage. Not as bad as I did, but still nauseous. No appetite and when I do eat a small amount my stomach feels awful. I feel weak despite drinking lots of water and coconut water. I feel like I'm going to have diarrhea but nothing happens.
I'd like to chalk it up to a poorly chosen pizza slice but...feeling this bad for 4 days afterwards?? I don't know what to think. Maybe my body is in shock now that a full month of Tirz has built up? Has anyone else dealt with suddenly being sick on the 4th dose?
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I'd like to chalk it up to a poorly chosen pizza slice but...feeling this bad for 4 days afterwards?? I don't know what to think. Maybe my body is in shock now that a full month of Tirz has built up? Has anyone else dealt with suddenly being sick on the 4th dose?
2024.05.18 22:35 Kindly_Challenge_426 Mummy, My Daddy Is A Billionaire CEO -NOVEL REVIEW
I started reading this Novel and the first and second chapters were good however everything after those chapters was NONSENSE. The plot is like this, "Debby Alessandro received a sudden text from her fiancee that he had annulled their engagement. Heartbroken, she ran to her bestfriend's house to cry out her sorrow, but she unexpectedly saw her fiancée and her bestfriend having s*x. She felt like her heart was being butchered by a heartless murderer. Having nowhere else to run to, she landed in a club where she angrily and recklessly drank herself into a stupor. She unexpectedly woke up naked beside a strange man. She immediately parked her stuff and left the country. She came back five years later with her handsome boy. She didn't expect her son to get her in trouble by deflating one of the tires of a Mercedes-Maybach. How will she deal with the fact that the owner of the Mercedes-Maybach was not only her CEO but that he also has a striking resemblance with her son?"
This story had the potential to be good however the plot was wasted. I understand that there are bound to be misunderstandings between the leads however not every other chapter. The male lead is brainless even though he has a lot of power. What's even worse is that he doubted the female lead time and time again only to get proved wrong countless times, I think by now he should have unwavering trust in the female lead. Why is it that he is always clouded by anger continuously fails to discern the truth and gets easily manipulated by others when he has the power to uncover stuff and make a better judgment? I have never seen such an incapable CEO. Next is the female lead. The female lead has no backbone and can't stand up for herself. She is easily manipulated and plotted against. Although she knows it is a trap, she sits there, and it leads to her being prosecuted by the villains. All she does is beg and plead that she is innocent. By now she should be able to stand up for herself man geez. She needed to be stronger.
If I had to rate that book out of 5, it would be given a 0.5 because that story was ridiculous. Hats off to the author because at least you tried but you need to work on your grammar issues and plotting for a successful storyline that hooks your readers. Sadly, I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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This story had the potential to be good however the plot was wasted. I understand that there are bound to be misunderstandings between the leads however not every other chapter. The male lead is brainless even though he has a lot of power. What's even worse is that he doubted the female lead time and time again only to get proved wrong countless times, I think by now he should have unwavering trust in the female lead. Why is it that he is always clouded by anger continuously fails to discern the truth and gets easily manipulated by others when he has the power to uncover stuff and make a better judgment? I have never seen such an incapable CEO. Next is the female lead. The female lead has no backbone and can't stand up for herself. She is easily manipulated and plotted against. Although she knows it is a trap, she sits there, and it leads to her being prosecuted by the villains. All she does is beg and plead that she is innocent. By now she should be able to stand up for herself man geez. She needed to be stronger.
If I had to rate that book out of 5, it would be given a 0.5 because that story was ridiculous. Hats off to the author because at least you tried but you need to work on your grammar issues and plotting for a successful storyline that hooks your readers. Sadly, I would not recommend this book to anyone.
2024.05.18 22:29 Tesa_Tesanovic1988 Unlocking FDI potential in growth markets with RWA tokenization
 | Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a driving force behind economic growth. Four experts in the field – Henrik von Scheel, Paul Lalovich, Emilija Vukovic, and Tesha Teshanovich – outline how the innovative concepts of FDI-as-a-service and real world asset (RWA) tokenization can help growth markets beef up their FDI attractiveness. submitted by Tesa_Tesanovic1988 to Tokenization [link] [comments] The primary objective of FDI is to secure capital for investment. When conducive conditions are in place, FDI has the potential to foster job creation and sustainable development by enhancing an economy's productive capacity. Still, regulatory hurdles, political instability, currency fluctuations, economic uncertainties, infrastructure limitations, cultural differences, and legal issues often hinder this goal. https://preview.redd.it/a4vajp7uv81d1.jpg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb84d502fc0753f00532cff2fdbbac0fbe57ecb4 Overcoming the obstacles of FDI requires innovative solutions that address the needs of investors, companies, and regulators. By engaging with local suppliers and forming partnerships with domestic businesses, foreign-owned companies can create additional benefits for the host economy, such as productivity spillovers through various channels. According to FDI Markets, companies worldwide announced over $1.33 trillion worth of greenfield foreign direct investment in 2023, marking an increase of nearly 4% from the previous year. The growth markets opportunityWe consider growth markets among the most undervalued asset classes worldwide, characterized by strong and improving earnings growth and financial metrics such as return on equity, free cash flow yield, and dividend yield. These markets benefit from an economic growth advantage over developed ones, with growth rates in emerging economies outpacing those in developed markets.This growth trend is not solely reliant on China; other factors contribute, resulting in an upward trajectory for economic growth in growth markets while growth in developed markets decelerates. Globally, growth economies have typically rebounded from the global financial crisis faster than more advanced economies. Consequently, it's unsurprising that companies in developed nations are increasingly seeking avenues to expand their presence abroad. This quest for new growth opportunities has brought attention to foreign direct investment policies worldwide, offering a promising outlook for investors. According to the research conducted by Kearney, findings indicate a strong sense of investor optimism, with the potential for further growth over the next three years. A high percentage of respondents stated their intentions to boost their foreign direct investment in the coming years, and most expressed the view that FDI would play a more critical role in enhancing their corporate profitability and competitiveness over the next three years. The realization of FDI advantages also hinges on the purpose behind the investment. Without responsible business practices and thorough research, FDI may lead to unintended consequences for the recipient nation. The presence of foreign multinational corporations can occasionally spark concerns regarding their potential social and environmental implications, particularly concerning the erosion of labor standards and their involvement in the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. Bringing FDI inChallenges facing foreign direct investment include navigating complex regulatory frameworks, cultural differences, and political instability in some regions.Developing countries encounter significant hurdles in attracting foreign direct investment, hindering their ability to fully capitalize on the associated benefits. In the past, developing countries have struggled to attract consistent foreign direct investment that could serve as a steady catalyst for economic growth, especially in sectors beyond oil and gas. Additionally, foreign investors have shown restrained interest due to concerns regarding regulatory and political risks and shortcomings in economic fundamentals such as infrastructure and human capital. Investors in developed nations, where most private capital is concentrated, might lack familiarity with growth markets and developing economies. Consequently, the perceived risks associated with conducting business beyond their accustomed environment could lead to higher risk premiums. This, in turn, has the potential to render projects non-bankable or non-viable for investors. However, developing nations should remain focused on enhancing the enabling environment. By doing so, they can attract greater private investment and ensure that these investments yield optimal outcomes and returns. This, in turn, fosters a cycle of increased investment. To stimulate increased FDI in developing countries, mechanisms for de-risking are essential. De-risking involves reallocating, sharing, or mitigating the existing or potential risks linked to the investment. In contrast, financial de-risking utilizes financial strategies to mitigate or diminish the risks linked with projects. This often entails public entities like donor governments, multilateral development banks, development financial institutions, and climate funds incentivizing private investors to invest capital by agreeing to assume a portion of the risk. De-risking can encompass various tactics, including debt, equity, and guarantees, distributing the risk among involved parties, or transferring it to a third party. The operational frameworkFDI has been increasingly utilized as a significant service for economic development, underscoring its crucial role in driving global economic growth and prosperity.A critical aspect of this entails reimagining the operational framework – essentially redesigning the approach through which the country attracts foreign direct investment. In numerous transformations, countries may need to reconsider their fundamental approach to FDI attraction and reassess their value proposition: identifying the appropriate target investor segments to engage with, the incentives and services to provide, and the model that can optimize FDI inflows and economic benefits. Moreover, FDI can act as a channel for the transfer of technology and aid in expediting digital transformation. It can enhance economic integration by bolstering access to global markets. Additionally, FDI plays a crucial role in supporting economies during and after economic downturns. FDI as a service aims to outline the structure of tasks, responsibilities, and relationships between stakeholders, allowing for clear delineation of connections between its constituent investors and host countries. Providing foreign direct investment as a comprehensive, end-to-end service enhances the potential value realized in growth markets. When executed effectively, this service facilitates seamless processes throughout the investment cycle, establishes methods for minimizing inefficiencies and maximizing effectiveness, sets standards for processes, integrates feedback mechanisms to encourage continual improvement, and optimizes handling of exceptions. Although the potential for FDI spill-overs is widely recognized, it's important not to assume their positive impacts. The realization of FDI benefits in the host economy relies on various factors, including the competitiveness of local producers, the strategic decisions of foreign-owned firms, and the technological disparities between domestic and foreign-owned firms, thereby affecting the absorptive capacity of local producers. FDI-as-a-serviceThis is where FDI-as-a-service comes in. This strategic approach involves top-down planning to optimize the outcomes of the investment portfolio by efficiently developing and delivering projects, with the aim to de-risk projects, scale investments, and optimize the overall outcome.Providing FDI as a service through end-to-end solutions significantly leverages tokenization to transform and democratize foreign direct investment in growth markets. Tokenization enables the fractional ownership of real-world assets, providing increased liquidity and democratizing access to sustainable investments for a wider range of investors. This process enhances asset management by enabling the automation and standardization of key operations through smart contracts. Crucial steps such as compliance verifications, investor credential checks, and dividend distributions are automated, drastically reducing the burdens of manual documentation and inconsistent records. Blockchain technology facilitates rapid settlement, reducing risks associated with counterparty transactions. Its transparency and traceability ensure that each transaction is logged, simplifying audits and enhancing accountability, which in turn helps prevent fraud and strengthens transactional integrity. The efficiencies gained through tokenization make the markets more accessible, lowering minimum investment sizes, diminishing geographical barriers, and allowing a wider range of participants. This increases both market volume and liquidity. Tokenization also supports nearly instantaneous settlements, further enhancing liquidity and benefiting both investors and traders. By converting tangible and intangible assets into digital tokens, tokenization revolutionizes access to investments. It allows for fractional ownership, enabling the division of high-value assets into smaller, more affordable units. This transformation opens up investment opportunities to a broader, more diverse audience, democratizing access and reducing entry barriers, making it an ideal strategy for attracting FDI into emerging markets. Tokenization on the blockchainTokenization of real-world assets, as part of FDI-as-a-service, involves converting tangible and intangible assets into digital tokens on a blockchain. These assets can include traditional ones like real estate, agricultural products, mining commodities, financial assets like equities and bonds, or even intellectual properties such as digital art.This process may involve assets that are simultaneously represented in traditional record systems (off-chain), or those exclusively managed on the blockchain (on-chain). The tokenization process generally unfolds in four essential steps, each critical to ensuring the asset's successful digital representation and integration into growth markets through FDI services. Tokenization of real-world assets as part of FDI-as-a-service boasts significant advantages, notably the democratization of access which potentially enhances liquidity through the fractionalization of assets, or the division of ownership into smaller, more manageable shares. This process can simplify previously labor-intensive manual procedures, reducing costs and making investment opportunities accessible to smaller investors within certain asset classes. Nonetheless, regulatory constraints may limit access to these investments, often restricting tokenized assets to accredited investors. Although fractionalization enhances liquidity and is an attractive proposition, the distribution of tokenized assets must achieve a much larger scale to fully realize true democratization of access. Furthermore, in the context of FDI as a service, the blockchain technology underlying the tokenization of real-world assets ensures complete transparency and immutability regarding ownership, transactions, and crucial market data, all verifiable by any participant. We are confident in the future of tokenized assets. One estimate suggests the market could even grow 30-fold by 2030, when it may reach a value of over $28 trillion.Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a driving force behind economic growth. Four experts in the field – Henrik von Scheel, Paul Lalovich, Emilija Vukovic, and Tesha Teshanovich – outline how the innovative concepts of FDI-as-a-service and real world asset (RWA) tokenization can help growth markets beef up their FDI attractiveness. The primary objective of FDI is to secure capital for investment. When conducive conditions are in place, FDI has the potential to foster job creation and sustainable development by enhancing an economy's productive capacity. Still, regulatory hurdles, political instability, currency fluctuations, economic uncertainties, infrastructure limitations, cultural differences, and legal issues often hinder this goal. Overcoming the obstacles of FDI requires innovative solutions that address the needs of investors, companies, and regulators. By engaging with local suppliers and forming partnerships with domestic businesses, foreign-owned companies can create additional benefits for the host economy, such as productivity spillovers through various channels. According to FDI Markets, companies worldwide announced over $1.33 trillion worth of greenfield foreign direct investment in 2023, marking an increase of nearly 4% from the previous year. The growth markets opportunity We consider growth markets among the most undervalued asset classes worldwide, characterized by strong and improving earnings growth and financial metrics such as return on equity, free cash flow yield, and dividend yield. These markets benefit from an economic growth advantage over developed ones, with growth rates in emerging economies outpacing those in developed markets. This growth trend is not solely reliant on China; other factors contribute, resulting in an upward trajectory for economic growth in growth markets while growth in developed markets decelerates. Globally, growth economies have typically rebounded from the global financial crisis faster than more advanced economies. Consequently, it's unsurprising that companies in developed nations are increasingly seeking avenues to expand their presence abroad. This quest for new growth opportunities has brought attention to foreign direct investment policies worldwide, offering a promising outlook for investors. According to the research conducted by Kearney, findings indicate a strong sense of investor optimism, with the potential for further growth over the next three years. A high percentage of respondents stated their intentions to boost their foreign direct investment in the coming years, and most expressed the view that FDI would play a more critical role in enhancing their corporate profitability and competitiveness over the next three years. The realization of FDI advantages also hinges on the purpose behind the investment. Without responsible business practices and thorough research, FDI may lead to unintended consequences for the recipient nation. The presence of foreign multinational corporations can occasionally spark concerns regarding their potential social and environmental implications, particularly concerning the erosion of labor standards and their involvement in the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. Bringing FDI in Challenges facing foreign direct investment include navigating complex regulatory frameworks, cultural differences, and political instability in some regions. Developing countries encounter significant hurdles in attracting foreign direct investment, hindering their ability to fully capitalize on the associated benefits. In the past, developing countries have struggled to attract consistent foreign direct investment that could serve as a steady catalyst for economic growth, especially in sectors beyond oil and gas. Additionally, foreign investors have shown restrained interest due to concerns regarding regulatory and political risks and shortcomings in economic fundamentals such as infrastructure and human capital. Investors in developed nations, where most private capital is concentrated, might lack familiarity with growth markets and developing economies. Consequently, the perceived risks associated with conducting business beyond their accustomed environment could lead to higher risk premiums. This, in turn, has the potential to render projects non-bankable or non-viable for investors. However, developing nations should remain focused on enhancing the enabling environment. By doing so, they can attract greater private investment and ensure that these investments yield optimal outcomes and returns. This, in turn, fosters a cycle of increased investment. To stimulate increased FDI in developing countries, mechanisms for de-risking are essential. De-risking involves reallocating, sharing, or mitigating the existing or potential risks linked to the investment. In contrast, financial de-risking utilizes financial strategies to mitigate or diminish the risks linked with projects. This often entails public entities like donor governments, multilateral development banks, development financial institutions, and climate funds incentivizing private investors to invest capital by agreeing to assume a portion of the risk. De-risking can encompass various tactics, including debt, equity, and guarantees, distributing the risk among involved parties, or transferring it to a third party. The operational framework FDI has been increasingly utilized as a significant service for economic development, underscoring its crucial role in driving global economic growth and prosperity. A critical aspect of this entails reimagining the operational framework – essentially redesigning the approach through which the country attracts foreign direct investment. In numerous transformations, countries may need to reconsider their fundamental approach to FDI attraction and reassess their value proposition: identifying the appropriate target investor segments to engage with, the incentives and services to provide, and the model that can optimize FDI inflows and economic benefits. Moreover, FDI can act as a channel for the transfer of technology and aid in expediting digital transformation. It can enhance economic integration by bolstering access to global markets. Additionally, FDI plays a crucial role in supporting economies during and after economic downturns. FDI as a service aims to outline the structure of tasks, responsibilities, and relationships between stakeholders, allowing for clear delineation of connections between its constituent investors and host countries. Providing foreign direct investment as a comprehensive, end-to-end service enhances the potential value realized in growth markets. When executed effectively, this service facilitates seamless processes throughout the investment cycle, establishes methods for minimizing inefficiencies and maximizing effectiveness, sets standards for processes, integrates feedback mechanisms to encourage continual improvement, and optimizes handling of exceptions. Although the potential for FDI spill-overs is widely recognized, it's important not to assume their positive impacts. The realization of FDI benefits in the host economy relies on various factors, including the competitiveness of local producers, the strategic decisions of foreign-owned firms, and the technological disparities between domestic and foreign-owned firms, thereby affecting the absorptive capacity of local producers. FDI-as-a-service This is where FDI-as-a-service comes in. This strategic approach involves top-down planning to optimize the outcomes of the investment portfolio by efficiently developing and delivering projects, with the aim to de-risk projects, scale investments, and optimize the overall outcome. Providing FDI as a service through end-to-end solutions significantly leverages tokenization to transform and democratize foreign direct investment in growth markets. Tokenization enables the fractional ownership of real-world assets, providing increased liquidity and democratizing access to sustainable investments for a wider range of investors. This process enhances asset management by enabling the automation and standardization of key operations through smart contracts. Crucial steps such as compliance verifications, investor credential checks, and dividend distributions are automated, drastically reducing the burdens of manual documentation and inconsistent records. Blockchain technology facilitates rapid settlement, reducing risks associated with counterparty transactions. Its transparency and traceability ensure that each transaction is logged, simplifying audits and enhancing accountability, which in turn helps prevent fraud and strengthens transactional integrity. The efficiencies gained through tokenization make the markets more accessible, lowering minimum investment sizes, diminishing geographical barriers, and allowing a wider range of participants. This increases both market volume and liquidity. Tokenization also supports nearly instantaneous settlements, further enhancing liquidity and benefiting both investors and traders. By converting tangible and intangible assets into digital tokens, tokenization revolutionizes access to investments. It allows for fractional ownership, enabling the division of high-value assets into smaller, more affordable units. This transformation opens up investment opportunities to a broader, more diverse audience, democratizing access and reducing entry barriers, making it an ideal strategy for attracting FDI into emerging markets. Tokenization on the blockchain Tokenization of real-world assets, as part of FDI-as-a-service, involves converting tangible and intangible assets into digital tokens on a blockchain. These assets can include traditional ones like real estate, agricultural products, mining commodities, financial assets like equities and bonds, or even intellectual properties such as digital art. This process may involve assets that are simultaneously represented in traditional record systems (off-chain), or those exclusively managed on the blockchain (on-chain). The tokenization process generally unfolds in four essential steps, each critical to ensuring the asset's successful digital representation and integration into growth markets through FDI services. Tokenization of real-world assets as part of FDI-as-a-service boasts significant advantages, notably the democratization of access which potentially enhances liquidity through the fractionalization of assets, or the division of ownership into smaller, more manageable shares. This process can simplify previously labor-intensive manual procedures, reducing costs and making investment opportunities accessible to smaller investors within certain asset classes. Nonetheless, regulatory constraints may limit access to these investments, often restricting tokenized assets to accredited investors. Although fractionalization enhances liquidity and is an attractive proposition, the distribution of tokenized assets must achieve a much larger scale to fully realize true democratization of access. Furthermore, in the context of FDI as a service, the blockchain technology underlying the tokenization of real-world assets ensures complete transparency and immutability regarding ownership, transactions, and crucial market data, all verifiable by any participant. We are confident in the future of tokenized assets. One estimate suggests the market could even grow 30-fold by 2030, when it may reach a value of over $28 trillion. |
2024.05.18 22:27 sexlights Is it possible to have Pneumonia without a cough?
I've had night sweats, low grade fevers and been SOB for over a weak. Heart rate very high too. Is it possible that you can have pneumonia without any coughing? Anyone else have something like this. I wish I would have asked for a chest XRAY when i was at the doctor the other day but just got labs. The only think was elevated lymphocytes.
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2024.05.18 22:27 Downtown-Package5883 16 having heart trouble
As the title states I am 16 years old and I keep having weird things happening revolving around my heart. In 2022 I had a brief fainting spell but that was ruled to be anxiety related.
As of now, my trouble started yesterday. I got home from a 3 mile hike and a trip to Panera (I got the bacon macaroni) with friends. I was sitting at my desk drawing for about an hour and a half before my heart started randomly pounding. I got up and immediately felt dizzy and nauseous. I went downstairs where I felt even more nauseous and my mom said that I looked pale. Following this, I went upstairs and laid down. My heart pounded for another 30 minutes before I fell asleep for about 2 hours. Nothing notable happened after I woke up.
Then today I was home alone. I fell asleep on my couch watching smiling friends around 2 PM. I woke up at 3 PM with my heart rate slightly elevated but not too much. I laid there for a little bit before walking into my kitchen where I suddenly got extremely dizzy and had to brace myself on my counter. I waited until my dizziness lessened before walking upstairs at which point once I reached my room and got extremely dizzy once again. My vision blurred a little bit and I fell on my bed. I got up and walked downstairs. My heart was pounding so hard it was shaking my necklace against my chest. I called my dad and he advised that I call 911 if it gets worse. After this I laid myself down on my bed until my heart stopped beating so fast.
My house is air conditioned, I'm underweight (135lbs 6'1). I was not at all anxious during either of these events.
Help
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As of now, my trouble started yesterday. I got home from a 3 mile hike and a trip to Panera (I got the bacon macaroni) with friends. I was sitting at my desk drawing for about an hour and a half before my heart started randomly pounding. I got up and immediately felt dizzy and nauseous. I went downstairs where I felt even more nauseous and my mom said that I looked pale. Following this, I went upstairs and laid down. My heart pounded for another 30 minutes before I fell asleep for about 2 hours. Nothing notable happened after I woke up.
Then today I was home alone. I fell asleep on my couch watching smiling friends around 2 PM. I woke up at 3 PM with my heart rate slightly elevated but not too much. I laid there for a little bit before walking into my kitchen where I suddenly got extremely dizzy and had to brace myself on my counter. I waited until my dizziness lessened before walking upstairs at which point once I reached my room and got extremely dizzy once again. My vision blurred a little bit and I fell on my bed. I got up and walked downstairs. My heart was pounding so hard it was shaking my necklace against my chest. I called my dad and he advised that I call 911 if it gets worse. After this I laid myself down on my bed until my heart stopped beating so fast.
My house is air conditioned, I'm underweight (135lbs 6'1). I was not at all anxious during either of these events.
Help
2024.05.18 22:23 Pal4Palestinians Israel Cancer doctor admits they used to have one of the highest skin cancer rates because of light skinned Europeans
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2024.05.18 22:23 Pal4Palestinians Israel Cancer doctor admits they used to have one of the highest skin cancer rates because of light skinned Europeans
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2024.05.18 22:22 Kindly_Challenge_426 Mummy, My Daddy is A Billionaire CEO- BOOK REVIEW
I started reading this Novel and the first and second chapters were good however everything after those chapters was NONSENSE. The plot is like this, "Debby Alessandro received a sudden text from her fiancee that he had annulled their engagement. Heartbroken, she ran to her bestfriend's house to cry out her sorrow, but she unexpectedly saw her fiancée and her bestfriend having s*x. She felt like her heart was being butchered by a heartless murderer. Having nowhere else to run to, she landed in a club where she angrily and recklessly drank herself into a stupor. She unexpectedly woke up naked beside a strange man. She immediately parked her stuff and left the country. She came back five years later with her handsome boy. She didn't expect her son to get her in trouble by deflating one of the tires of a Mercedes-Maybach. How will she deal with the fact that the owner of the Mercedes-Maybach was not only her CEO but that he also has a striking resemblance with her son?"
This story had the potential to be good however the plot was wasted. I understand that there are bound to be misunderstandings between the leads however not every other chapter. The male lead is brainless even though he has a lot of power. What's even worse is that he doubted the female lead time and time again only to get proved wrong countless times, I think by now he should have unwavering trust in the female lead. Why is it that he is always clouded by anger continuously fails to discern the truth and gets easily manipulated by others when he has the power to uncover stuff and make a better judgment? I have never seen such an incapable CEO. Next is the female lead. The female lead has no backbone and can't stand up for herself. She is easily manipulated and plotted against. Although she knows it is a trap, she sits there, and it leads to her being prosecuted by the villains. All she does is beg and plead that she is innocent. By now she should be able to stand up for herself man geez. She needed to be stronger.
If I had to rate that book out of 5, it would be given a 0.5 because that story was ridiculous. Hats off to the author because at least you tried but you need to work on your grammar issues and plotting for a successful storyline that hooks your readers. Sadly, I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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This story had the potential to be good however the plot was wasted. I understand that there are bound to be misunderstandings between the leads however not every other chapter. The male lead is brainless even though he has a lot of power. What's even worse is that he doubted the female lead time and time again only to get proved wrong countless times, I think by now he should have unwavering trust in the female lead. Why is it that he is always clouded by anger continuously fails to discern the truth and gets easily manipulated by others when he has the power to uncover stuff and make a better judgment? I have never seen such an incapable CEO. Next is the female lead. The female lead has no backbone and can't stand up for herself. She is easily manipulated and plotted against. Although she knows it is a trap, she sits there, and it leads to her being prosecuted by the villains. All she does is beg and plead that she is innocent. By now she should be able to stand up for herself man geez. She needed to be stronger.
If I had to rate that book out of 5, it would be given a 0.5 because that story was ridiculous. Hats off to the author because at least you tried but you need to work on your grammar issues and plotting for a successful storyline that hooks your readers. Sadly, I would not recommend this book to anyone.
2024.05.18 22:19 HildebertTheCraven How hard is it to win with Shield Bros & Swordlances when throwing, close range two handers and most meta builds are banned? (Day 150 Monolith)
Swordlances and Shield Bros (that actually attack) have gotten a lot of criticism in the BB community, but how bad are they really?
I wanted to find out, so I did a run where I banned most of the meta builds, as well as throwing weapons and close range two handers. I also banned gunners, qatal duelists, mace duelists and cleaver duelists. I also banned berserk and killing frenzy as I wanted to experience the stamina system without relying on berserk recover.
Reach weapons were allowed as their damage is more in line with other weapons. Possibly a mistake though, as they circumvent the weirdness of the stamina system.
Standard pure defense tank builds and normal banner builds were allowed, in order to keep the test focused on the performance of the other builds. Sword duelists were allowed as a filler option for bros without the stamina to do anything else, flail duelists were allowed for guys with bad melee skill.
This started off as a challenge run but it turned into more of a build testing experiment as the off meta builds turned out to be strong enough that it wasn't really much harder than a normal run (until the end). So I fought certain battles multiple times for testing purposes, but still let bros die normally.
Team composition:
4 Attacking Shield Bros, 4-6 frontline Swordlances, 1 Normal Banner, 1 Normal Tank, rest filler in the form of sword duelists & flail duelists. One Shield Bro was also a spearman. Two Swordlances were semi ranged units with around 46 ranged skill and carried crossbows so enemy parties with weak ranged would advance normally. Exact builds in pics.
Team Part 1
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Team Part 2
Results:
This team actually had a relatively easy time with most fights, getting in ~215 fights by day 149 and finding / buying 33 famed items while only finding a few champions and only buying a few good items. Core bros from early in the game hit level 15. I am not a speed runner or super high fight density player, so that's a decent result for me, which indicates the team was actually surprisingly strong.
Builds:
Frontline Swordlance:
This made up the bulk of my damage. While swordlance has gotten a lot of criticism, frontline swordlance just seems like a good tempo build for most of the game. Aside from gunners, it's simply the easiest way to AOE without requiring high stats or good armor. You can use a daytaler with mediocre starting stats for swordlance, while AOEing with a two hander requires a much better recruit who can survive a fair amount of enemy contact.
Winning against large numbers of humanoid enemies in early high tier camps is largely based on morale checks and getting fearsome procs. Using AOE abilities is a good way to get fearsome procs. Obviously it clears out weaker enemies and that lowers the morale of stronger enemies. But the damage doesn't really fall off too badly until you get to the most heavily armored enemies. It's even fine vs Chosen as you can use the increased reach and mobility to focus fire and get in multiple AOEs and stay out of trouble. Maybe vs later Chosen camps past day 150 that would become more difficult.
In general, with pathfinder + polearm you almost always get at least one attack in and you can focus fire very easily, while keeping your damage bros safe, which goes a long way in terms of tempo compared to other builds that have more dead turns.
Swordlance is also good against beasts like Lindwurms as many beast fights seems to favor the strategy of walk forward, hit with reach weapon, walk out of attack range. You can just AOE the lindwurms down while your damage bros are perfectly safe.
Is it better than Javelins? Probably not, javelins are OP, but it uses a much easier to obtain recruit type and it does have advantages in some fights compared to javelins, as in many of the more risky mid game camps the enemy likely has more range than you, forcing you to advance. Swordlance can simply walk right up to the walls and reap away, while throwers have trouble setting up throwing lanes and one range attackers get clogged up and can't attack.
Swordlance can also invest in a full set of defenses and survivability perks. (That's why it's "Frontline Swordlance".) It doesn't have to waste a scarce backline spot but can safely take contact from even Chosen temporarily, as long as it's not getting swarmed by them. So the more relevant comparison is Swordlance vs Dodge Quickhands. In that comparison Swordlance seems to have a lot of advantages while the disadvantages are minor (especially since in a normal run you can just keep a two handed axe as backup.)
Swordlance damage only really became a problem vs masses of uncontrolled, heavy armor enemies, like if you fight all the Ancient Undead at the same time in Monolith (more on that later). However, in normal fights Ancient Honor Guards aren't challenging due to predictable AI and by day 150 Orc Warriors are still in relatively small numbers and are easily controlled and their morale is easily broken. I guess if you played super late swordlance might start to struggle in some larger camps.
Swordlance build: Poleshield:
Stole this build from this subreddit, thanks! Most of the time he plays as a normal swordlance, but he has the option to swap to a heater shield when he gets stuck in melee and needs the defense. Start with swordlance out, swing (5 ap), swap to shield (4 ap). End turn. Next turn, wait with relentless as shield stays out, swap to swordlance at the end and swing (4 ap + 5 ap). Next turn you will go before slower enemies so you can swing again and put your shield up for the rest of the turn. Most swings hit while shield is up. For most of the game this wasn't needed very often and he instead used a 4 ap weapon as a sidearm so he could dump his stamina into damage as quickly as possible. He tries to stay out of trouble so he doesn't need the shield. However on Monolith or in dangerous situations the shield option did come in handy. One polearm swing per turn isn't great damage, but with AOE it's not horrible and the shield does a lot to keep them alive until they can get out of trouble (can reach 50 defense with dodge). It's also helpful to have the shield out when you use recover.
Swordlance build: Fake Ranged Tempo Poleshield:
If you aren't going to build ranged units, you probably want a couple of fake ranged units, otherwise enemies with minor ranged abilities (like orc young with javelins) won't walk up to you as they normally do. Just take a mediocre ranged recruit with high based ranged skill and get him up to 46 ranged skill, then put the rest of the stats in melee. Start the fight with a crossbow in hand so it's loaded. The AI treats it as a normal ranged unit and will advance normally. You still have to advance if they have a lot of ranged so it's the same as normal runs. He can actually hit quite often with his crossbow vs certain enemies. Bags and belts performed great on these guys but duelist was for a specific weapon and probably shouldn't be taken normally. One died but he had similar stats.
Shield Bros:
While four shield bros that attack plus a tank and a tank banner (who usually just stands there holding the banner) is overkill (or uhh underkill) in terms of low damage defensive units, the shield bros performed surprisingly well in terms of tempo, even though I was never able to find an ideal candidate for a battleforged hammer + shield bro.
In a normal run it often takes a quite a long time to find candidates who can hit a stat line like 85/35 at level 11 to qualify as fatigue neutrals, which means that you can end up with a team full of nimble damage dealers with few defense bros aside from the tanks. That delays your ability to shift to optimal tactics, where the front line is made up of high defense high armor bros who take most of the enemy attacks, while the damage dealers stand in safer positions and try to only get attacked by one enemy at a time.
A unit who wouldn't quite measure up as a fatigue neutral can be made into a Shield Bro instead and he'll have plenty of defense to fill a front line spot and stand up against 3 enemies or more, while still contributing some damage over time.
Probably the most desirable attacking shield bro is a battleforged hammer shield bro, but that only works with high fatigue backgrounds, I didn't get the right recruits for that so I was forced to compromise on my shield bro builds.
Shield Bro Build: Fatigue Neutral Iron Lungs:
Stamina management is a huge problem without access to two handed weapons. Getting attacked by a lot of enemies quickly uses up a lot of stamina and only a small percentage of recruits can have enough stamina to tank in battleforged armor and still swing two times per turn. I never really found many skilled recruits with a high stamina pool like that.
Battleforged is still essential though. Bros with iron lungs can be fatigue neutral and swing certain weapons twice per turn, every turn. Normally that's limited to cleavers and swords, but if you get famed weapons you can expand the list of one handed fatigue neutral weapons. I was lucky enough to get famed weapons for these two, although they were not great ones.
Defensively, these guys performed better than the numbers indicate as they didn't take any bleeds, injuries or fearsome checks. And while their defense is only in the mid 50s with shield, that still makes them significantly tankier than a normal fatigue neutral. Their damage is pretty bad but it adds up in the course of long fights, so I think you'd lose tempo in most fights if you substituted pure defensive tanks. In Monolith they could survive for many rounds tanking up to 7 ancient undead at a time, which nimble or nimbleforged bros could not handle.
With recruiter retinue it makes sense to check a lot of guys for traits anyway and this can be a high impact way to use some guys with iron lungs and mediocre stats. It's a bit niche but I would consider using this build in a normal run, especially if I got an appropriate famed weapon and didn't need a duelist. One of these guys started as a 55*/2* Iron Lungs Daytaler, his performance as a damage sponge + damage over time was solid in this build, but as a duelist he'd have been mediocre and used up a lot of tools. In this run more damage was needed, but in a normal run there is usually a shortage of high defense forged units.
Shield Bro Build: Hammer Shield
One handed Hammer still performs well even without double grip or duelist. Destroy armor still does a lot of armor damage on the appropriate enemies and the regular attack will always proc fearsome, which often means he can simply walk up to an orc warrior or chosen and rout him with a couple hits, while having 60 defense.
This run didn't really maximize the strengths of the hammer shield bro, ideally he'd be a high stamina background in forged armor and he'd be paired with high damage teammates like a barbarian two handed axe that just need a little armor softening.
Nimble and nimbleforged are definitely fine for large camps at 150 days of scaling and earlier but if the late game camps scale to the point where he has no choice but to be focus fired by many high damage enemies, then you'd want a forged bro instead. Mine started to run out of steam when fighting both undead groups at once in Monolith. Still, this is a build I would routinely consider adding to the line up. Another great reason to build this is that Nimble Hammer Shield combines well with Spear + Shield, which is great for mid game tempo.
Shield Bro Build: Spear Specialist
Spear specialist performs a similar role to the indomitable tank, but becomes available earlier. Due to the way the AI works he can often hold off as many as 4-6 enemies for several turns. The spear specialization perk is very valuable as you can continue to refresh spearwall even while tanking another enemy, often you can arrange it so the only available spot for an enemy to attack is next to the spearman, causing several enemies to waste their turns trying to move in. Two handed enemies like chosen and berserkers are particularly crippled as they can only move one tile and attack, so you either force them to waste their turn by moving, or if they walk into spearwall they lose their turn if the spearman hits even once. The spearman singlehandedly increases the number of camps that will be profitable for your team. Spear combines well with shield and hammer in the classic Spear Hammer Shield Build from early BB, giving you something to do when you are done spearwalling. Will build again.
Weaknesses and Monolith:
I did multiple Black Monolith fights for testing purposes.
https://preview.redd.it/tgvvrj14881d1.png?width=1779&format=png&auto=webp&s=a58156df46337efd136bccea6564799c81e2abf2
I'm aware of two strategies for Monolith, with one being significantly easier than the other.
The "Speedrun" strategy (seen in Shringshring's video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayh35O9mLUw&t=8429s) involves splitting the undead into two groups by running the tank to the top left corner of the map, while the rest of the team retreats towards the bottom left corner of the map. The fight plays out as two separate fights with a break in between. It is reliable if you move like he does, the necrosavants may attack if your team spreads out too much though. Even if you only move a little bit though, it's enough to split the undead as long as the tank makes it to the corner.
The other strategy is the "Normal" or "Hard Mode" strategy for Monolith, where the tank runs approximately 4 hexes towards the top of the map and the team retreats approximately two hexes to the left. The fight starts sooner and it is possible for the tank to die relatively quickly. You need either a good tank to last a long time or a good amount of damage, otherwise you can end up facing both undead groups at the same time. This is the more difficult strategy but high damage late game teams with good tanks can handle it fine.
The Shield Bro + Swordlance team doesn't have any problem with Monolith with the speedrun strategy. It's true that the swordlances feel a bit weak against the ancient honor guards, but there isn't excessive pressure on the team so it can take the time to set up good AOEs with swordlances, weaken armor with hammer bros and focus fire. It plays out like two normal fights back to back.
However, when trying to brute force both Ancient Dead groups with the "Hard Mode" strategy, the team finally starts to show its weakness. The team takes 20 to 21 rounds to beat Monolith using this strategy. That's much slower than normal for Monolith. The Battleforged fatigue neutral shield bros performed well, surviving for many rounds while getting hit by up to 7 ancient honor guards at a time, but having the fight take so long leaves more time for things to go wrong and win rate on Monolith was probably only about 60% with this strategy, as there was a risk of the tank going down early. This could have been reduced with a better tank and/or more potions. Fighting both undead groups + necrosavants all at once was too much for the team to overcome reliably. Swordlances ran out of stamina and got stuck in non optimal positions for AOE, hammers were not able to eliminate Honor Guards quickly enough on their own. It may also have been a mistake to go from 5-6 Swordlances in most normal fights to only 4 in the Monolith, by benching the faked ranged for newly trained high defense bros, as there was a real lack of damage for the "Hard Mode" strategy.
While there isn't much reason to do the "Hard Mode" strategy instead of the "Speedrun" strategy, this still hints at a weakness that might show up in certain extremely highly scaled camps late in the game, like very late sea of tents. Just not enough damage vs armor, plus tons and tons of armored enemies pushing in too fast, getting in contact with vulnerable nimble units. However the amount of orc warriors that spawned in early game Sea of Tents were no problem at all, swordlance guys could just keep a tier 2 hammer in the pocket and easily rout them with fearsome after routing the young and berserkers.
Finally, fighting both undead groups at once illustrated some problems with the stamina system in this game as it relates to 4ap weapons. I left the sword duelist option available for filler bros with lower stamina who couldn't do anything else. Normally the build performed fine, however when there was an extremely high density of enemies and the sword duelist was getting attacked a lot he quickly ran out of stamina and could rarely regain enough to swing twice. He could either use recover, which was never needed in any other fight, or he could stand there and swing only once like an idiot. I gave them reach weapons for just this reason, but it was kind of a crutch to play around this imbalance of the stamina system, that's why two handed weapons are so good after all. In the Speedrun strategy when the undead were split into two groups, the sword duelists had no problems as they could take positions where only small numbers of enemies could swing at them.
Conclusion:
The meta builds exist for a reason of course, but the Devs generally did a great job balancing this game and you can definitely make a lot of non-meta builds work. Sometimes they even feel quite strong. However, when designing your non-meta builds keep in mind the imbalances with the stamina system. For a tanky character with a high stamina pool who uses high stamina cost moves, like the Hammer Shield Bro, taking a turn to recover doesn't feel too bad. But pathfinder based 4 ap builds that don't use much stamina in normal fights can find their offense shut down if they let a lot of enemies swing at them. That kind of limits the value of high defense and high durability on this kind of unit and makes me want to avoid putting 4 ap weapons on them, even though it seems more thematic than giant two handed weapons.
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I wanted to find out, so I did a run where I banned most of the meta builds, as well as throwing weapons and close range two handers. I also banned gunners, qatal duelists, mace duelists and cleaver duelists. I also banned berserk and killing frenzy as I wanted to experience the stamina system without relying on berserk recover.
Reach weapons were allowed as their damage is more in line with other weapons. Possibly a mistake though, as they circumvent the weirdness of the stamina system.
Standard pure defense tank builds and normal banner builds were allowed, in order to keep the test focused on the performance of the other builds. Sword duelists were allowed as a filler option for bros without the stamina to do anything else, flail duelists were allowed for guys with bad melee skill.
This started off as a challenge run but it turned into more of a build testing experiment as the off meta builds turned out to be strong enough that it wasn't really much harder than a normal run (until the end). So I fought certain battles multiple times for testing purposes, but still let bros die normally.
Team composition:
4 Attacking Shield Bros, 4-6 frontline Swordlances, 1 Normal Banner, 1 Normal Tank, rest filler in the form of sword duelists & flail duelists. One Shield Bro was also a spearman. Two Swordlances were semi ranged units with around 46 ranged skill and carried crossbows so enemy parties with weak ranged would advance normally. Exact builds in pics.
Team Part 1
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Team Part 2
Results:
This team actually had a relatively easy time with most fights, getting in ~215 fights by day 149 and finding / buying 33 famed items while only finding a few champions and only buying a few good items. Core bros from early in the game hit level 15. I am not a speed runner or super high fight density player, so that's a decent result for me, which indicates the team was actually surprisingly strong.
Builds:
Frontline Swordlance:
This made up the bulk of my damage. While swordlance has gotten a lot of criticism, frontline swordlance just seems like a good tempo build for most of the game. Aside from gunners, it's simply the easiest way to AOE without requiring high stats or good armor. You can use a daytaler with mediocre starting stats for swordlance, while AOEing with a two hander requires a much better recruit who can survive a fair amount of enemy contact.
Winning against large numbers of humanoid enemies in early high tier camps is largely based on morale checks and getting fearsome procs. Using AOE abilities is a good way to get fearsome procs. Obviously it clears out weaker enemies and that lowers the morale of stronger enemies. But the damage doesn't really fall off too badly until you get to the most heavily armored enemies. It's even fine vs Chosen as you can use the increased reach and mobility to focus fire and get in multiple AOEs and stay out of trouble. Maybe vs later Chosen camps past day 150 that would become more difficult.
In general, with pathfinder + polearm you almost always get at least one attack in and you can focus fire very easily, while keeping your damage bros safe, which goes a long way in terms of tempo compared to other builds that have more dead turns.
Swordlance is also good against beasts like Lindwurms as many beast fights seems to favor the strategy of walk forward, hit with reach weapon, walk out of attack range. You can just AOE the lindwurms down while your damage bros are perfectly safe.
Is it better than Javelins? Probably not, javelins are OP, but it uses a much easier to obtain recruit type and it does have advantages in some fights compared to javelins, as in many of the more risky mid game camps the enemy likely has more range than you, forcing you to advance. Swordlance can simply walk right up to the walls and reap away, while throwers have trouble setting up throwing lanes and one range attackers get clogged up and can't attack.
Swordlance can also invest in a full set of defenses and survivability perks. (That's why it's "Frontline Swordlance".) It doesn't have to waste a scarce backline spot but can safely take contact from even Chosen temporarily, as long as it's not getting swarmed by them. So the more relevant comparison is Swordlance vs Dodge Quickhands. In that comparison Swordlance seems to have a lot of advantages while the disadvantages are minor (especially since in a normal run you can just keep a two handed axe as backup.)
Swordlance damage only really became a problem vs masses of uncontrolled, heavy armor enemies, like if you fight all the Ancient Undead at the same time in Monolith (more on that later). However, in normal fights Ancient Honor Guards aren't challenging due to predictable AI and by day 150 Orc Warriors are still in relatively small numbers and are easily controlled and their morale is easily broken. I guess if you played super late swordlance might start to struggle in some larger camps.
Swordlance build: Poleshield:
Stole this build from this subreddit, thanks! Most of the time he plays as a normal swordlance, but he has the option to swap to a heater shield when he gets stuck in melee and needs the defense. Start with swordlance out, swing (5 ap), swap to shield (4 ap). End turn. Next turn, wait with relentless as shield stays out, swap to swordlance at the end and swing (4 ap + 5 ap). Next turn you will go before slower enemies so you can swing again and put your shield up for the rest of the turn. Most swings hit while shield is up. For most of the game this wasn't needed very often and he instead used a 4 ap weapon as a sidearm so he could dump his stamina into damage as quickly as possible. He tries to stay out of trouble so he doesn't need the shield. However on Monolith or in dangerous situations the shield option did come in handy. One polearm swing per turn isn't great damage, but with AOE it's not horrible and the shield does a lot to keep them alive until they can get out of trouble (can reach 50 defense with dodge). It's also helpful to have the shield out when you use recover.
Swordlance build: Fake Ranged Tempo Poleshield:
If you aren't going to build ranged units, you probably want a couple of fake ranged units, otherwise enemies with minor ranged abilities (like orc young with javelins) won't walk up to you as they normally do. Just take a mediocre ranged recruit with high based ranged skill and get him up to 46 ranged skill, then put the rest of the stats in melee. Start the fight with a crossbow in hand so it's loaded. The AI treats it as a normal ranged unit and will advance normally. You still have to advance if they have a lot of ranged so it's the same as normal runs. He can actually hit quite often with his crossbow vs certain enemies. Bags and belts performed great on these guys but duelist was for a specific weapon and probably shouldn't be taken normally. One died but he had similar stats.
Shield Bros:
While four shield bros that attack plus a tank and a tank banner (who usually just stands there holding the banner) is overkill (or uhh underkill) in terms of low damage defensive units, the shield bros performed surprisingly well in terms of tempo, even though I was never able to find an ideal candidate for a battleforged hammer + shield bro.
In a normal run it often takes a quite a long time to find candidates who can hit a stat line like 85/35 at level 11 to qualify as fatigue neutrals, which means that you can end up with a team full of nimble damage dealers with few defense bros aside from the tanks. That delays your ability to shift to optimal tactics, where the front line is made up of high defense high armor bros who take most of the enemy attacks, while the damage dealers stand in safer positions and try to only get attacked by one enemy at a time.
A unit who wouldn't quite measure up as a fatigue neutral can be made into a Shield Bro instead and he'll have plenty of defense to fill a front line spot and stand up against 3 enemies or more, while still contributing some damage over time.
Probably the most desirable attacking shield bro is a battleforged hammer shield bro, but that only works with high fatigue backgrounds, I didn't get the right recruits for that so I was forced to compromise on my shield bro builds.
Shield Bro Build: Fatigue Neutral Iron Lungs:
Stamina management is a huge problem without access to two handed weapons. Getting attacked by a lot of enemies quickly uses up a lot of stamina and only a small percentage of recruits can have enough stamina to tank in battleforged armor and still swing two times per turn. I never really found many skilled recruits with a high stamina pool like that.
Battleforged is still essential though. Bros with iron lungs can be fatigue neutral and swing certain weapons twice per turn, every turn. Normally that's limited to cleavers and swords, but if you get famed weapons you can expand the list of one handed fatigue neutral weapons. I was lucky enough to get famed weapons for these two, although they were not great ones.
Defensively, these guys performed better than the numbers indicate as they didn't take any bleeds, injuries or fearsome checks. And while their defense is only in the mid 50s with shield, that still makes them significantly tankier than a normal fatigue neutral. Their damage is pretty bad but it adds up in the course of long fights, so I think you'd lose tempo in most fights if you substituted pure defensive tanks. In Monolith they could survive for many rounds tanking up to 7 ancient undead at a time, which nimble or nimbleforged bros could not handle.
With recruiter retinue it makes sense to check a lot of guys for traits anyway and this can be a high impact way to use some guys with iron lungs and mediocre stats. It's a bit niche but I would consider using this build in a normal run, especially if I got an appropriate famed weapon and didn't need a duelist. One of these guys started as a 55*/2* Iron Lungs Daytaler, his performance as a damage sponge + damage over time was solid in this build, but as a duelist he'd have been mediocre and used up a lot of tools. In this run more damage was needed, but in a normal run there is usually a shortage of high defense forged units.
Shield Bro Build: Hammer Shield
One handed Hammer still performs well even without double grip or duelist. Destroy armor still does a lot of armor damage on the appropriate enemies and the regular attack will always proc fearsome, which often means he can simply walk up to an orc warrior or chosen and rout him with a couple hits, while having 60 defense.
This run didn't really maximize the strengths of the hammer shield bro, ideally he'd be a high stamina background in forged armor and he'd be paired with high damage teammates like a barbarian two handed axe that just need a little armor softening.
Nimble and nimbleforged are definitely fine for large camps at 150 days of scaling and earlier but if the late game camps scale to the point where he has no choice but to be focus fired by many high damage enemies, then you'd want a forged bro instead. Mine started to run out of steam when fighting both undead groups at once in Monolith. Still, this is a build I would routinely consider adding to the line up. Another great reason to build this is that Nimble Hammer Shield combines well with Spear + Shield, which is great for mid game tempo.
Shield Bro Build: Spear Specialist
Spear specialist performs a similar role to the indomitable tank, but becomes available earlier. Due to the way the AI works he can often hold off as many as 4-6 enemies for several turns. The spear specialization perk is very valuable as you can continue to refresh spearwall even while tanking another enemy, often you can arrange it so the only available spot for an enemy to attack is next to the spearman, causing several enemies to waste their turns trying to move in. Two handed enemies like chosen and berserkers are particularly crippled as they can only move one tile and attack, so you either force them to waste their turn by moving, or if they walk into spearwall they lose their turn if the spearman hits even once. The spearman singlehandedly increases the number of camps that will be profitable for your team. Spear combines well with shield and hammer in the classic Spear Hammer Shield Build from early BB, giving you something to do when you are done spearwalling. Will build again.
Weaknesses and Monolith:
I did multiple Black Monolith fights for testing purposes.
https://preview.redd.it/tgvvrj14881d1.png?width=1779&format=png&auto=webp&s=a58156df46337efd136bccea6564799c81e2abf2
I'm aware of two strategies for Monolith, with one being significantly easier than the other.
The "Speedrun" strategy (seen in Shringshring's video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayh35O9mLUw&t=8429s) involves splitting the undead into two groups by running the tank to the top left corner of the map, while the rest of the team retreats towards the bottom left corner of the map. The fight plays out as two separate fights with a break in between. It is reliable if you move like he does, the necrosavants may attack if your team spreads out too much though. Even if you only move a little bit though, it's enough to split the undead as long as the tank makes it to the corner.
The other strategy is the "Normal" or "Hard Mode" strategy for Monolith, where the tank runs approximately 4 hexes towards the top of the map and the team retreats approximately two hexes to the left. The fight starts sooner and it is possible for the tank to die relatively quickly. You need either a good tank to last a long time or a good amount of damage, otherwise you can end up facing both undead groups at the same time. This is the more difficult strategy but high damage late game teams with good tanks can handle it fine.
The Shield Bro + Swordlance team doesn't have any problem with Monolith with the speedrun strategy. It's true that the swordlances feel a bit weak against the ancient honor guards, but there isn't excessive pressure on the team so it can take the time to set up good AOEs with swordlances, weaken armor with hammer bros and focus fire. It plays out like two normal fights back to back.
However, when trying to brute force both Ancient Dead groups with the "Hard Mode" strategy, the team finally starts to show its weakness. The team takes 20 to 21 rounds to beat Monolith using this strategy. That's much slower than normal for Monolith. The Battleforged fatigue neutral shield bros performed well, surviving for many rounds while getting hit by up to 7 ancient honor guards at a time, but having the fight take so long leaves more time for things to go wrong and win rate on Monolith was probably only about 60% with this strategy, as there was a risk of the tank going down early. This could have been reduced with a better tank and/or more potions. Fighting both undead groups + necrosavants all at once was too much for the team to overcome reliably. Swordlances ran out of stamina and got stuck in non optimal positions for AOE, hammers were not able to eliminate Honor Guards quickly enough on their own. It may also have been a mistake to go from 5-6 Swordlances in most normal fights to only 4 in the Monolith, by benching the faked ranged for newly trained high defense bros, as there was a real lack of damage for the "Hard Mode" strategy.
While there isn't much reason to do the "Hard Mode" strategy instead of the "Speedrun" strategy, this still hints at a weakness that might show up in certain extremely highly scaled camps late in the game, like very late sea of tents. Just not enough damage vs armor, plus tons and tons of armored enemies pushing in too fast, getting in contact with vulnerable nimble units. However the amount of orc warriors that spawned in early game Sea of Tents were no problem at all, swordlance guys could just keep a tier 2 hammer in the pocket and easily rout them with fearsome after routing the young and berserkers.
Finally, fighting both undead groups at once illustrated some problems with the stamina system in this game as it relates to 4ap weapons. I left the sword duelist option available for filler bros with lower stamina who couldn't do anything else. Normally the build performed fine, however when there was an extremely high density of enemies and the sword duelist was getting attacked a lot he quickly ran out of stamina and could rarely regain enough to swing twice. He could either use recover, which was never needed in any other fight, or he could stand there and swing only once like an idiot. I gave them reach weapons for just this reason, but it was kind of a crutch to play around this imbalance of the stamina system, that's why two handed weapons are so good after all. In the Speedrun strategy when the undead were split into two groups, the sword duelists had no problems as they could take positions where only small numbers of enemies could swing at them.
Conclusion:
The meta builds exist for a reason of course, but the Devs generally did a great job balancing this game and you can definitely make a lot of non-meta builds work. Sometimes they even feel quite strong. However, when designing your non-meta builds keep in mind the imbalances with the stamina system. For a tanky character with a high stamina pool who uses high stamina cost moves, like the Hammer Shield Bro, taking a turn to recover doesn't feel too bad. But pathfinder based 4 ap builds that don't use much stamina in normal fights can find their offense shut down if they let a lot of enemies swing at them. That kind of limits the value of high defense and high durability on this kind of unit and makes me want to avoid putting 4 ap weapons on them, even though it seems more thematic than giant two handed weapons.
2024.05.18 22:18 woozels Can MAOIs be metabolized ultra-fast similar to other ADs?
I've been on 90mg of Phenelzine for a while now with great success for anxiety but only mild-moderate benefits for depression. It's maybe got me 60% better but I'm still not great and I have 0 motivation.
What has always confused me, is that I've never had orthostatic hypotension, and my general blood pressure has also not changed at all. From my understanding, these drugs (MAOIs) were originally used to treat high blood pressure because they're known to substantially lower blood pressure. I've seen many anecdotal reports here on Reddit of some people getting 80 systolic...
90mg of Phenelzine has increased my heart rate by about 30 bpm but it's had no effect at all on my blood pressure, and again, no orthostatic hypotension either. I've also read multiple studies on NCBI showing that MAOIs reliably lower both blood pressure and heart rate.
So, to my question - can you be an ultrarapid metabolizer of these drugs? It's making me wonder if my body is not having a therapeutic exposure or something. Based on how MAOIs work (disabling the MAO enzyme) I wasn't sure if metabolism comes into play or not.
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What has always confused me, is that I've never had orthostatic hypotension, and my general blood pressure has also not changed at all. From my understanding, these drugs (MAOIs) were originally used to treat high blood pressure because they're known to substantially lower blood pressure. I've seen many anecdotal reports here on Reddit of some people getting 80 systolic...
90mg of Phenelzine has increased my heart rate by about 30 bpm but it's had no effect at all on my blood pressure, and again, no orthostatic hypotension either. I've also read multiple studies on NCBI showing that MAOIs reliably lower both blood pressure and heart rate.
So, to my question - can you be an ultrarapid metabolizer of these drugs? It's making me wonder if my body is not having a therapeutic exposure or something. Based on how MAOIs work (disabling the MAO enzyme) I wasn't sure if metabolism comes into play or not.
2024.05.18 22:18 KaiserLissie My German Shepherd has been diagnosed with Heart Failure. He won't eat anything. Any advice?
Hello thank you for letting me post. I have a 13 year old German Shepherd, neutered, male 38kg. He recently went off his food which is not like him at all as he used to eat anything and everything. Took him to the vets and they were concerned about his breathing and heart rate. They scanned him and diagnosed him with Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure with enlarged left atrium and reduced systolic function EF 20%. He has been put on medication vetmedin 10mg twice daily, furosedale 80mg twice daily and digoxin 125mcg twice daily. It's been 8 days since he was diagnosed and started treatment. He takes all his meds with cheese but his heart rate is still racing at over 200+ and hasn't come down at all. He still climbs the stairs once a day to go to bed upstairs (he doesn't settle downstairs and doesn't sleep) I'm not sure what I can do to help him best now that he has been diagnosed with those conditions and so am after advice on how best going forward. We were told prognosis of 6 months. On top of that he is still not eating. He seems not interested in food. We managed to get some cod fish down him today but that's all he's eaten in the last 4 days. I've tried baby food, cat food (which he did take initially but then stopped), wet dog food, bone broth, chicken but he just doesn't want to know. Any advice on what I can try that could get his appetite going? I'm really concerned. He was seen by the vets today as he had a holter monitor over the last 24 hours. We haven't got the results yet. I did mention about him not eating but they didn't say anything. He means the world to me and I'll try anything to make him feel better.
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2024.05.18 22:17 TheBlaringBlue Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Analysis & Pseudo-Review)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is such a good game despite being so… well… basic.
It’s simple — almost overly so — yet it is beloved by so many seasoned and experienced gamers.
What I got curious about after playing the game myself and reading a number of pseudo-reviews online was how exactly it achieved this.
How did a package so entry-level-looking garner such respect by 201 and 301 students?
--
The ‘Fields’ region is a great example of Kena’s dichotomy.
It’s gorgeous and inviting, with sea-foamed vistas, lush landscape and rushing waterways. There’s a even a big, lovable pet bull towering over the myriad of cute little Rot dudes scampering through the foliage. The whole place is just friendly.
Why then, does it end up being one of the game’s longest, deepest and most complex sections? Consider its many scattered puzzles, which ask you to combine platforming, archery, environmental awareness and combat proficiency. There’s even a handful of red herring platforms that you can’t properly interact with until later in your puzzle solving endeavor.
The ‘Fields’ are a microcosm of the game as a whole. A childish, Pixar-esque shell which, when uncovered, reveals a complex, involved gameplay experience underneath.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits invites you to be a kid, but treats you like an adult. This is something very few games manage — or even attempt — and it’s what makes Kena so unique, memorable and special.
--
Kena crushes its tone and aesthetic on all fronts to create something that’s desirable and attainable to a group outside of hardcore gamers.
Kena’s visuals are youthful and welcoming by using cartoonish and fairytale-esque art design. The game’s companions do the same — the Rot are your constant brigade of adorable little plush-like, Pikimin-esque comrades who hop as you walk, munch on berries, clumsily trip over each other, and squeak in pitches that can only described as ‘cute.’ You can even give them little hats to wear. They’re pets and it’s all so mired in youthful innocence that I cringe even typing it.
From a distance, Kena appears childish and immature based on its outward appearance. That is, until you peel back its outer layer.
--
The game looks like something your five-year-old might enjoying toying with on your iPad, “you-got-games-on-yo-phone?” style. But there are four elements in its building blocks that make it a game not optimized for your five-year-old on their own;
As far as the game’s story is concerned, it may begin bright and innocent enough, but it deals not-abstractly with death and loss.
Consider that all three boys you meet in the early game — Taro, Benni and Saiya are actually dead, I-see-dead-people style. Consider also that Kena’s entire journey revolves around the loss of her own father and her desire to reconnect with him.
Additionally, it is Toshi’s selfishness and his desire to be the hero that actually ends up bringing death and destruction to his village when he jumps the gun and kills and the mountain spirit in cold blood.
Merciless affronts on nature and an up-front dealing with death and grief are not exactly for the young of age, despite their youthful packaging.
Puzzles
It would be a waste of word count to explain in detail the steps necessary to complete certain puzzles in Kena just as a set of examples to prove the point.
If you’ve played or watched gameplay, you know the puzzles are surprisingly involved, consisting often of multiple steps to complete that build on each other and require the use of all of your abilities in tandem.
One of the bigger “ah-hah” moments I recall was when I realized I could order my Rot minions to move objects while Kena stood on top of said object in order to give me a leg up to jump to a previously unreachable ledge.
Platforming
Speaking of ledges, jumping to and from them is tight and precise in Kena.
Platforming challenges are often timed (your aura-bomb weapon only activates platforms for specifically-timed bursts). Combining their scheduled nature with the need to rotate them via precise archery, mid-air grappling segments and more makes for a movement experience that is involved enough to demand the player’s full attention for every tick of the clock.
Kena and her world’s gravity also have a decided, predictable weight to them that’s not exactly forgiving, meaning the act of jumping to and fro is exact while also requiring exactness.
Combat
Fighting the enemies of Kena is similarly involved.
The cadence with which the game throws opponents your way combined with the complexities of dealing meaningful damage to said opponents creates a combat scenario which demands the player fluidly wield and swap between both melee and ranged options while carefully managing space on the battlefield.
Kamikaze-style enemies often rush Kena in carefully-spaced and well-timed waves, while enemies with shields and shells hide their weak points from visibility. Enemies like this require certain sequences to beat — be it a well-placed bomb and arrow combo, a parry, or a maneuvering to an enemy’s backside.
Boss encounters lean into these mechanics but also present new wrinkles — The Hunter fight asks the player to rethink their tactics and find a way to deal with an airborne opponent who is apt at dodging bombs and arrows, for example.
The final few bosses ask you to take everything you’ve learned throughout your journey and apply it all at once, and if you don’t… it’s defeat for Kena.
--
The above sounds like I’m describing a souls-like with platforming elements as the ‘fresh take’ in addition to the enrapturing combat.
Games that provide this much of a challenging, involved experience are typically darker in tone — be it music, environment, or what-have-you. I don’t think too many people would call Kena ‘hard,’ but these are the same people who died 10+ times to The Hunter or Corrupted Toshi.
If this game had a darker, moodier skin, would more people describe it as hard or not for the faint of heart?
In this way, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It is accessible to new players and younger gamers due to its pleasing and friendly atmosphere. But by its conclusion, it is likely to season them into better gamers. If a newbie gamer picks up Kena, they’re in for a surprise and (hopefully) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
On the other hand, Kena is a worthwhile experience for veteran gamers if they drop their toxic masculinity and play a goofy kids game with a female protagonist. This is a game that will undoubtedly earn their respect by requiring their attention, precision and commitment throughout its experience. Like the newbie gamers, gaming veterans are in for a surprise and (certainly) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
--
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a good experience for everyone. By balancing being adorable with being difficult, it earns the respect and appreciation of everyone who plays it. Its accessibility makes it easy to recommend to anyone and the game thus earns itself a bigger audience as a result.
Its narrative and gameplay might not separate themselves in terms of newness from a saturated market, but the surprise and delight the game provides delivers an experience to its players that isn’t typical of the space.
By striking the balance between wolf and sheep, Kena elevates its quality to something beyond just the content within.
--
…and yet…
I can’t help but think, as I summarize this article, that if a game is for everyone, doesn’t that, on some level, mean it is also for no one?
I mean, when you look at the game’s narrative or gameplay, it’s not exactly reinventing the wheel here. In fact, Kena does just about nothing new. It spits out the same exact version of a game we’ve been playing for decades in the form of Tomb Raider or Uncharted or The Legend of Zelda or God of War.
Critically speaking, both the gameplay and narrative are pretty damn milquetoast.
You’re in a world infected by some arbitrary Darkness and since you’re Special and The Chosen One™ it’s your job to go around cleansing the world of evil using a combination of environmental platforming, lever and pressure plate puzzle-solving and lock-on-based, sword-swinging driven combat.
It wouldn’t be difficult to make the argument that Kena is bland.
But the discourse around the game just isn’t about that.
The game’s scored an 81 on Metacritic and has a 92% positive review rating on Steam at time of writing. It recouped its development costs in just one month, meaning every sale since then is hitting the bottom line.
People like this game.
Or, maybe, it was something else.
In fact, yeah, I can confidently say it was. It’s a game reviewer’s buzzword, but it’s oh-so apt here: polish.
--
The entire experience of playing Kena is smooth. There are no framerate drops, no bugs, no broken quests or puzzles, no desynced dialogue and facial animations. Not a single hiccup to speak of.
The game features exacting archery, precise platforming, telegraphed and accurate hitboxes, as well as an unimpeding camera, responsive and weighty combat and legible visual design that accurately communicates with the player.
You can move through Kena virtually unobstructed (until you come across a puzzle you can’t solve, but that’s your problem, not the game’s). Everything is built carefully and gels together in a cohesion that works so fluidly that playing Kena is simply frictionless.
The game’s developers — Ember Lab — nailed the fundamentals, paid attention to detail and play-tested perfectly. Their effort to go above and beyond saved this game from sinking into the obscurity of being completely and utterly Mid.
--
It’s frictionlessness that elevates Kena beyond itself. It makes the game greater than the sum of its parts. It makes Kena a complete, finished and polished experience.
Kena presents itself like it’s Disney Pixar’s latest goofy-ass, lame-ass, sub-par video game, but lying underneath the childish aesthetic is a challenging and engaging experience that’s not only a boon for all audiences of gamers, but a worthwhile one thanks to its extreme polish and dedication.
You should play it.
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It’s simple — almost overly so — yet it is beloved by so many seasoned and experienced gamers.
What I got curious about after playing the game myself and reading a number of pseudo-reviews online was how exactly it achieved this.
How did a package so entry-level-looking garner such respect by 201 and 301 students?
--
The ‘Fields’ region is a great example of Kena’s dichotomy.
It’s gorgeous and inviting, with sea-foamed vistas, lush landscape and rushing waterways. There’s a even a big, lovable pet bull towering over the myriad of cute little Rot dudes scampering through the foliage. The whole place is just friendly.
Why then, does it end up being one of the game’s longest, deepest and most complex sections? Consider its many scattered puzzles, which ask you to combine platforming, archery, environmental awareness and combat proficiency. There’s even a handful of red herring platforms that you can’t properly interact with until later in your puzzle solving endeavor.
The ‘Fields’ are a microcosm of the game as a whole. A childish, Pixar-esque shell which, when uncovered, reveals a complex, involved gameplay experience underneath.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits invites you to be a kid, but treats you like an adult. This is something very few games manage — or even attempt — and it’s what makes Kena so unique, memorable and special.
--
Kena crushes its tone and aesthetic on all fronts to create something that’s desirable and attainable to a group outside of hardcore gamers.
Kena’s visuals are youthful and welcoming by using cartoonish and fairytale-esque art design. The game’s companions do the same — the Rot are your constant brigade of adorable little plush-like, Pikimin-esque comrades who hop as you walk, munch on berries, clumsily trip over each other, and squeak in pitches that can only described as ‘cute.’ You can even give them little hats to wear. They’re pets and it’s all so mired in youthful innocence that I cringe even typing it.
From a distance, Kena appears childish and immature based on its outward appearance. That is, until you peel back its outer layer.
--
The game looks like something your five-year-old might enjoying toying with on your iPad, “you-got-games-on-yo-phone?” style. But there are four elements in its building blocks that make it a game not optimized for your five-year-old on their own;
- Narrative
- Puzzles
- Platforming
- Combat
As far as the game’s story is concerned, it may begin bright and innocent enough, but it deals not-abstractly with death and loss.
Consider that all three boys you meet in the early game — Taro, Benni and Saiya are actually dead, I-see-dead-people style. Consider also that Kena’s entire journey revolves around the loss of her own father and her desire to reconnect with him.
Additionally, it is Toshi’s selfishness and his desire to be the hero that actually ends up bringing death and destruction to his village when he jumps the gun and kills and the mountain spirit in cold blood.
Merciless affronts on nature and an up-front dealing with death and grief are not exactly for the young of age, despite their youthful packaging.
Puzzles
It would be a waste of word count to explain in detail the steps necessary to complete certain puzzles in Kena just as a set of examples to prove the point.
If you’ve played or watched gameplay, you know the puzzles are surprisingly involved, consisting often of multiple steps to complete that build on each other and require the use of all of your abilities in tandem.
One of the bigger “ah-hah” moments I recall was when I realized I could order my Rot minions to move objects while Kena stood on top of said object in order to give me a leg up to jump to a previously unreachable ledge.
Platforming
Speaking of ledges, jumping to and from them is tight and precise in Kena.
Platforming challenges are often timed (your aura-bomb weapon only activates platforms for specifically-timed bursts). Combining their scheduled nature with the need to rotate them via precise archery, mid-air grappling segments and more makes for a movement experience that is involved enough to demand the player’s full attention for every tick of the clock.
Kena and her world’s gravity also have a decided, predictable weight to them that’s not exactly forgiving, meaning the act of jumping to and fro is exact while also requiring exactness.
Combat
Fighting the enemies of Kena is similarly involved.
The cadence with which the game throws opponents your way combined with the complexities of dealing meaningful damage to said opponents creates a combat scenario which demands the player fluidly wield and swap between both melee and ranged options while carefully managing space on the battlefield.
Kamikaze-style enemies often rush Kena in carefully-spaced and well-timed waves, while enemies with shields and shells hide their weak points from visibility. Enemies like this require certain sequences to beat — be it a well-placed bomb and arrow combo, a parry, or a maneuvering to an enemy’s backside.
Boss encounters lean into these mechanics but also present new wrinkles — The Hunter fight asks the player to rethink their tactics and find a way to deal with an airborne opponent who is apt at dodging bombs and arrows, for example.
The final few bosses ask you to take everything you’ve learned throughout your journey and apply it all at once, and if you don’t… it’s defeat for Kena.
--
The above sounds like I’m describing a souls-like with platforming elements as the ‘fresh take’ in addition to the enrapturing combat.
Games that provide this much of a challenging, involved experience are typically darker in tone — be it music, environment, or what-have-you. I don’t think too many people would call Kena ‘hard,’ but these are the same people who died 10+ times to The Hunter or Corrupted Toshi.
If this game had a darker, moodier skin, would more people describe it as hard or not for the faint of heart?
In this way, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It is accessible to new players and younger gamers due to its pleasing and friendly atmosphere. But by its conclusion, it is likely to season them into better gamers. If a newbie gamer picks up Kena, they’re in for a surprise and (hopefully) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
On the other hand, Kena is a worthwhile experience for veteran gamers if they drop their toxic masculinity and play a goofy kids game with a female protagonist. This is a game that will undoubtedly earn their respect by requiring their attention, precision and commitment throughout its experience. Like the newbie gamers, gaming veterans are in for a surprise and (certainly) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
--
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a good experience for everyone. By balancing being adorable with being difficult, it earns the respect and appreciation of everyone who plays it. Its accessibility makes it easy to recommend to anyone and the game thus earns itself a bigger audience as a result.
Its narrative and gameplay might not separate themselves in terms of newness from a saturated market, but the surprise and delight the game provides delivers an experience to its players that isn’t typical of the space.
By striking the balance between wolf and sheep, Kena elevates its quality to something beyond just the content within.
--
…and yet…
I can’t help but think, as I summarize this article, that if a game is for everyone, doesn’t that, on some level, mean it is also for no one?
I mean, when you look at the game’s narrative or gameplay, it’s not exactly reinventing the wheel here. In fact, Kena does just about nothing new. It spits out the same exact version of a game we’ve been playing for decades in the form of Tomb Raider or Uncharted or The Legend of Zelda or God of War.
Critically speaking, both the gameplay and narrative are pretty damn milquetoast.
You’re in a world infected by some arbitrary Darkness and since you’re Special and The Chosen One™ it’s your job to go around cleansing the world of evil using a combination of environmental platforming, lever and pressure plate puzzle-solving and lock-on-based, sword-swinging driven combat.
It wouldn’t be difficult to make the argument that Kena is bland.
But the discourse around the game just isn’t about that.
The game’s scored an 81 on Metacritic and has a 92% positive review rating on Steam at time of writing. It recouped its development costs in just one month, meaning every sale since then is hitting the bottom line.
People like this game.
Quick aside from me here on something that made me smile — when double-checking the score on Steam for the above info, I found these as the first two reviews at the very top of the queue: “yo wtf. bought this game to chill, why does it feels like im playing souls-like difficulty ass game HAHAHAH.” “Don’t be fooled by the graphics. This game can be a challenge at times, but it is worth the experience.”So maybe being an experience for everyone really was the kicker?
Or, maybe, it was something else.
In fact, yeah, I can confidently say it was. It’s a game reviewer’s buzzword, but it’s oh-so apt here: polish.
--
The entire experience of playing Kena is smooth. There are no framerate drops, no bugs, no broken quests or puzzles, no desynced dialogue and facial animations. Not a single hiccup to speak of.
The game features exacting archery, precise platforming, telegraphed and accurate hitboxes, as well as an unimpeding camera, responsive and weighty combat and legible visual design that accurately communicates with the player.
You can move through Kena virtually unobstructed (until you come across a puzzle you can’t solve, but that’s your problem, not the game’s). Everything is built carefully and gels together in a cohesion that works so fluidly that playing Kena is simply frictionless.
The game’s developers — Ember Lab — nailed the fundamentals, paid attention to detail and play-tested perfectly. Their effort to go above and beyond saved this game from sinking into the obscurity of being completely and utterly Mid.
--
It’s frictionlessness that elevates Kena beyond itself. It makes the game greater than the sum of its parts. It makes Kena a complete, finished and polished experience.
Kena presents itself like it’s Disney Pixar’s latest goofy-ass, lame-ass, sub-par video game, but lying underneath the childish aesthetic is a challenging and engaging experience that’s not only a boon for all audiences of gamers, but a worthwhile one thanks to its extreme polish and dedication.
You should play it.
2024.05.18 22:17 TheBlaringBlue This Game is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Analysis & Pseudo-Review)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is such a good game despite being so… well… basic.
It’s simple — almost overly so — yet it is beloved by so many seasoned and experienced gamers.
What I got curious about after playing the game myself and reading a number of pseudo-reviews online was how exactly it achieved this.
How did a package so entry-level-looking garner such respect by 201 and 301 students?
--
The ‘Fields’ region is a great example of Kena’s dichotomy.
It’s gorgeous and inviting, with sea-foamed vistas, lush landscape and rushing waterways. There’s a even a big, lovable pet bull towering over the myriad of cute little Rot dudes scampering through the foliage. The whole place is just friendly.
Why then, does it end up being one of the game’s longest, deepest and most complex sections? Consider its many scattered puzzles, which ask you to combine platforming, archery, environmental awareness and combat proficiency. There’s even a handful of red herring platforms that you can’t properly interact with until later in your puzzle solving endeavor.
The ‘Fields’ are a microcosm of the game as a whole. A childish, Pixar-esque shell which, when uncovered, reveals a complex, involved gameplay experience underneath.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits invites you to be a kid, but treats you like an adult. This is something very few games manage — or even attempt — and it’s what makes Kena so unique, memorable and special.
--
Kena crushes its tone and aesthetic on all fronts to create something that’s desirable and attainable to a group outside of hardcore gamers.
Kena’s visuals are youthful and welcoming by using cartoonish and fairytale-esque art design. The game’s companions do the same — the Rot are your constant brigade of adorable little plush-like, Pikimin-esque comrades who hop as you walk, munch on berries, clumsily trip over each other, and squeak in pitches that can only described as ‘cute.’ You can even give them little hats to wear. They’re pets and it’s all so mired in youthful innocence that I cringe even typing it.
From a distance, Kena appears childish and immature based on its outward appearance. That is, until you peel back its outer layer.
--
The game looks like something your five-year-old might enjoying toying with on your iPad, “you-got-games-on-yo-phone?” style. But there are four elements in its building blocks that make it a game not optimized for your five-year-old on their own;
As far as the game’s story is concerned, it may begin bright and innocent enough, but it deals not-abstractly with death and loss.
Consider that all three boys you meet in the early game — Taro, Benni and Saiya are actually dead, I-see-dead-people style. Consider also that Kena’s entire journey revolves around the loss of her own father and her desire to reconnect with him.
Additionally, it is Toshi’s selfishness and his desire to be the hero that actually ends up bringing death and destruction to his village when he jumps the gun and kills and the mountain spirit in cold blood.
Merciless affronts on nature and an up-front dealing with death and grief are not exactly for the young of age, despite their youthful packaging.
Puzzles
It would be a waste of word count to explain in detail the steps necessary to complete certain puzzles in Kena just as a set of examples to prove the point.
If you’ve played or watched gameplay, you know the puzzles are surprisingly involved, consisting often of multiple steps to complete that build on each other and require the use of all of your abilities in tandem.
One of the bigger “ah-hah” moments I recall was when I realized I could order my Rot minions to move objects while Kena stood on top of said object in order to give me a leg up to jump to a previously unreachable ledge.
Platforming
Speaking of ledges, jumping to and from them is tight and precise in Kena.
Platforming challenges are often timed (your aura-bomb weapon only activates platforms for specifically-timed bursts). Combining their scheduled nature with the need to rotate them via precise archery, mid-air grappling segments and more makes for a movement experience that is involved enough to demand the player’s full attention for every tick of the clock.
Kena and her world’s gravity also have a decided, predictable weight to them that’s not exactly forgiving, meaning the act of jumping to and fro is exact while also requiring exactness.
Combat
Fighting the enemies of Kena is similarly involved.
The cadence with which the game throws opponents your way combined with the complexities of dealing meaningful damage to said opponents creates a combat scenario which demands the player fluidly wield and swap between both melee and ranged options while carefully managing space on the battlefield.
Kamikaze-style enemies often rush Kena in carefully-spaced and well-timed waves, while enemies with shields and shells hide their weak points from visibility. Enemies like this require certain sequences to beat — be it a well-placed bomb and arrow combo, a parry, or a maneuvering to an enemy’s backside.
Boss encounters lean into these mechanics but also present new wrinkles — The Hunter fight asks the player to rethink their tactics and find a way to deal with an airborne opponent who is apt at dodging bombs and arrows, for example.
The final few bosses ask you to take everything you’ve learned throughout your journey and apply it all at once, and if you don’t… it’s defeat for Kena.
--
The above sounds like I’m describing a souls-like with platforming elements as the ‘fresh take’ in addition to the enrapturing combat.
Games that provide this much of a challenging, involved experience are typically darker in tone — be it music, environment, or what-have-you. I don’t think too many people would call Kena ‘hard,’ but these are the same people who died 10+ times to The Hunter or Corrupted Toshi.
If this game had a darker, moodier skin, would more people describe it as hard or not for the faint of heart?
In this way, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It is accessible to new players and younger gamers due to its pleasing and friendly atmosphere. But by its conclusion, it is likely to season them into better gamers. If a newbie gamer picks up Kena, they’re in for a surprise and (hopefully) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
On the other hand, Kena is a worthwhile experience for veteran gamers if they drop their toxic masculinity and play a goofy kids game with a female protagonist. This is a game that will undoubtedly earn their respect by requiring their attention, precision and commitment throughout its experience. Like the newbie gamers, gaming veterans are in for a surprise and (certainly) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
--
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a good experience for everyone. By balancing being adorable with being difficult, it earns the respect and appreciation of everyone who plays it. Its accessibility makes it easy to recommend to anyone and the game thus earns itself a bigger audience as a result.
Its narrative and gameplay might not separate themselves in terms of newness from a saturated market, but the surprise and delight the game provides delivers an experience to its players that isn’t typical of the space.
By striking the balance between wolf and sheep, Kena elevates its quality to something beyond just the content within.
--
…and yet…
I can’t help but think, as I summarize this article, that if a game is for everyone, doesn’t that, on some level, mean it is also for no one?
I mean, when you look at the game’s narrative or gameplay, it’s not exactly reinventing the wheel here. In fact, Kena does just about nothing new. It spits out the same exact version of a game we’ve been playing for decades in the form of Tomb Raider or Uncharted or The Legend of Zelda or God of War.
Critically speaking, both the gameplay and narrative are pretty damn milquetoast.
You’re in a world infected by some arbitrary Darkness and since you’re Special and The Chosen One™ it’s your job to go around cleansing the world of evil using a combination of environmental platforming, lever and pressure plate puzzle-solving and lock-on-based, sword-swinging driven combat.
It wouldn’t be difficult to make the argument that Kena is bland.
But the discourse around the game just isn’t about that.
The game’s scored an 81 on Metacritic and has a 92% positive review rating on Steam at time of writing. It recouped its development costs in just one month, meaning every sale since then is hitting the bottom line.
People like this game.
Or, maybe, it was something else.
In fact, yeah, I can confidently say it was. It’s a game reviewer’s buzzword, but it’s oh-so apt here: polish.
--
The entire experience of playing Kena is smooth. There are no framerate drops, no bugs, no broken quests or puzzles, no desynced dialogue and facial animations. Not a single hiccup to speak of.
The game features exacting archery, precise platforming, telegraphed and accurate hitboxes, as well as an unimpeding camera, responsive and weighty combat and legible visual design that accurately communicates with the player.
You can move through Kena virtually unobstructed (until you come across a puzzle you can’t solve, but that’s your problem, not the game’s). Everything is built carefully and gels together in a cohesion that works so fluidly that playing Kena is simply frictionless.
The game’s developers — Ember Lab — nailed the fundamentals, paid attention to detail and play-tested perfectly. Their effort to go above and beyond saved this game from sinking into the obscurity of being completely and utterly Mid.
--
It’s frictionlessness that elevates Kena beyond itself. It makes the game greater than the sum of its parts. It makes Kena a complete, finished and polished experience.
Kena presents itself like it’s Disney Pixar’s latest goofy-ass, lame-ass, sub-par video game, but lying underneath the childish aesthetic is a challenging and engaging experience that’s not only a boon for all audiences of gamers, but a worthwhile one thanks to its extreme polish and dedication.
You should play it.
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It’s simple — almost overly so — yet it is beloved by so many seasoned and experienced gamers.
What I got curious about after playing the game myself and reading a number of pseudo-reviews online was how exactly it achieved this.
How did a package so entry-level-looking garner such respect by 201 and 301 students?
--
The ‘Fields’ region is a great example of Kena’s dichotomy.
It’s gorgeous and inviting, with sea-foamed vistas, lush landscape and rushing waterways. There’s a even a big, lovable pet bull towering over the myriad of cute little Rot dudes scampering through the foliage. The whole place is just friendly.
Why then, does it end up being one of the game’s longest, deepest and most complex sections? Consider its many scattered puzzles, which ask you to combine platforming, archery, environmental awareness and combat proficiency. There’s even a handful of red herring platforms that you can’t properly interact with until later in your puzzle solving endeavor.
The ‘Fields’ are a microcosm of the game as a whole. A childish, Pixar-esque shell which, when uncovered, reveals a complex, involved gameplay experience underneath.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits invites you to be a kid, but treats you like an adult. This is something very few games manage — or even attempt — and it’s what makes Kena so unique, memorable and special.
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Kena crushes its tone and aesthetic on all fronts to create something that’s desirable and attainable to a group outside of hardcore gamers.
Kena’s visuals are youthful and welcoming by using cartoonish and fairytale-esque art design. The game’s companions do the same — the Rot are your constant brigade of adorable little plush-like, Pikimin-esque comrades who hop as you walk, munch on berries, clumsily trip over each other, and squeak in pitches that can only described as ‘cute.’ You can even give them little hats to wear. They’re pets and it’s all so mired in youthful innocence that I cringe even typing it.
From a distance, Kena appears childish and immature based on its outward appearance. That is, until you peel back its outer layer.
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The game looks like something your five-year-old might enjoying toying with on your iPad, “you-got-games-on-yo-phone?” style. But there are four elements in its building blocks that make it a game not optimized for your five-year-old on their own;
- Narrative
- Puzzles
- Platforming
- Combat
As far as the game’s story is concerned, it may begin bright and innocent enough, but it deals not-abstractly with death and loss.
Consider that all three boys you meet in the early game — Taro, Benni and Saiya are actually dead, I-see-dead-people style. Consider also that Kena’s entire journey revolves around the loss of her own father and her desire to reconnect with him.
Additionally, it is Toshi’s selfishness and his desire to be the hero that actually ends up bringing death and destruction to his village when he jumps the gun and kills and the mountain spirit in cold blood.
Merciless affronts on nature and an up-front dealing with death and grief are not exactly for the young of age, despite their youthful packaging.
Puzzles
It would be a waste of word count to explain in detail the steps necessary to complete certain puzzles in Kena just as a set of examples to prove the point.
If you’ve played or watched gameplay, you know the puzzles are surprisingly involved, consisting often of multiple steps to complete that build on each other and require the use of all of your abilities in tandem.
One of the bigger “ah-hah” moments I recall was when I realized I could order my Rot minions to move objects while Kena stood on top of said object in order to give me a leg up to jump to a previously unreachable ledge.
Platforming
Speaking of ledges, jumping to and from them is tight and precise in Kena.
Platforming challenges are often timed (your aura-bomb weapon only activates platforms for specifically-timed bursts). Combining their scheduled nature with the need to rotate them via precise archery, mid-air grappling segments and more makes for a movement experience that is involved enough to demand the player’s full attention for every tick of the clock.
Kena and her world’s gravity also have a decided, predictable weight to them that’s not exactly forgiving, meaning the act of jumping to and fro is exact while also requiring exactness.
Combat
Fighting the enemies of Kena is similarly involved.
The cadence with which the game throws opponents your way combined with the complexities of dealing meaningful damage to said opponents creates a combat scenario which demands the player fluidly wield and swap between both melee and ranged options while carefully managing space on the battlefield.
Kamikaze-style enemies often rush Kena in carefully-spaced and well-timed waves, while enemies with shields and shells hide their weak points from visibility. Enemies like this require certain sequences to beat — be it a well-placed bomb and arrow combo, a parry, or a maneuvering to an enemy’s backside.
Boss encounters lean into these mechanics but also present new wrinkles — The Hunter fight asks the player to rethink their tactics and find a way to deal with an airborne opponent who is apt at dodging bombs and arrows, for example.
The final few bosses ask you to take everything you’ve learned throughout your journey and apply it all at once, and if you don’t… it’s defeat for Kena.
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The above sounds like I’m describing a souls-like with platforming elements as the ‘fresh take’ in addition to the enrapturing combat.
Games that provide this much of a challenging, involved experience are typically darker in tone — be it music, environment, or what-have-you. I don’t think too many people would call Kena ‘hard,’ but these are the same people who died 10+ times to The Hunter or Corrupted Toshi.
If this game had a darker, moodier skin, would more people describe it as hard or not for the faint of heart?
In this way, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It is accessible to new players and younger gamers due to its pleasing and friendly atmosphere. But by its conclusion, it is likely to season them into better gamers. If a newbie gamer picks up Kena, they’re in for a surprise and (hopefully) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
On the other hand, Kena is a worthwhile experience for veteran gamers if they drop their toxic masculinity and play a goofy kids game with a female protagonist. This is a game that will undoubtedly earn their respect by requiring their attention, precision and commitment throughout its experience. Like the newbie gamers, gaming veterans are in for a surprise and (certainly) delight when they find something deeper than that which they first expected.
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a good experience for everyone. By balancing being adorable with being difficult, it earns the respect and appreciation of everyone who plays it. Its accessibility makes it easy to recommend to anyone and the game thus earns itself a bigger audience as a result.
Its narrative and gameplay might not separate themselves in terms of newness from a saturated market, but the surprise and delight the game provides delivers an experience to its players that isn’t typical of the space.
By striking the balance between wolf and sheep, Kena elevates its quality to something beyond just the content within.
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…and yet…
I can’t help but think, as I summarize this article, that if a game is for everyone, doesn’t that, on some level, mean it is also for no one?
I mean, when you look at the game’s narrative or gameplay, it’s not exactly reinventing the wheel here. In fact, Kena does just about nothing new. It spits out the same exact version of a game we’ve been playing for decades in the form of Tomb Raider or Uncharted or The Legend of Zelda or God of War.
Critically speaking, both the gameplay and narrative are pretty damn milquetoast.
You’re in a world infected by some arbitrary Darkness and since you’re Special and The Chosen One™ it’s your job to go around cleansing the world of evil using a combination of environmental platforming, lever and pressure plate puzzle-solving and lock-on-based, sword-swinging driven combat.
It wouldn’t be difficult to make the argument that Kena is bland.
But the discourse around the game just isn’t about that.
The game’s scored an 81 on Metacritic and has a 92% positive review rating on Steam at time of writing. It recouped its development costs in just one month, meaning every sale since then is hitting the bottom line.
People like this game.
Quick aside from me here on something that made me smile — when double-checking the score on Steam for the above info, I found these as the first two reviews at the very top of the queue: “yo wtf. bought this game to chill, why does it feels like im playing souls-like difficulty ass game HAHAHAH.” “Don’t be fooled by the graphics. This game can be a challenge at times, but it is worth the experience.”So maybe being an experience for everyone really was the kicker?
Or, maybe, it was something else.
In fact, yeah, I can confidently say it was. It’s a game reviewer’s buzzword, but it’s oh-so apt here: polish.
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The entire experience of playing Kena is smooth. There are no framerate drops, no bugs, no broken quests or puzzles, no desynced dialogue and facial animations. Not a single hiccup to speak of.
The game features exacting archery, precise platforming, telegraphed and accurate hitboxes, as well as an unimpeding camera, responsive and weighty combat and legible visual design that accurately communicates with the player.
You can move through Kena virtually unobstructed (until you come across a puzzle you can’t solve, but that’s your problem, not the game’s). Everything is built carefully and gels together in a cohesion that works so fluidly that playing Kena is simply frictionless.
The game’s developers — Ember Lab — nailed the fundamentals, paid attention to detail and play-tested perfectly. Their effort to go above and beyond saved this game from sinking into the obscurity of being completely and utterly Mid.
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It’s frictionlessness that elevates Kena beyond itself. It makes the game greater than the sum of its parts. It makes Kena a complete, finished and polished experience.
Kena presents itself like it’s Disney Pixar’s latest goofy-ass, lame-ass, sub-par video game, but lying underneath the childish aesthetic is a challenging and engaging experience that’s not only a boon for all audiences of gamers, but a worthwhile one thanks to its extreme polish and dedication.
You should play it.
2024.05.18 22:07 ZealousidealShake410 Forerunner 245 music
I’m so disappointed in this watch. I got it in August. Barely wore it because the band caused irritation if I wore it too long.
Started working out again so I started wearing the watch again. The HR doesn’t work correctly. It’s way off. I have done soft resets. Hard reset. Toggled heart rate on and off. Other settings on and off. Deleted APP. Cleaned the watch.
It’s less than a year old. Barely worn. When I reached out to get a replacement or repair - all they cared about was the band causing irritation. Then they need me to call them. After spending a bunch of time already with their “chat” they wanted me to wait for an email to make an appointment for them to call me. So I wasted all that time just for them to want me to make an appointment about the freaking strap irritation.
Have others had this problem? Did you figure out a fix or did I waste hundreds of dollars on garbage? I’m to the point I just want a different watch. These brands I used to think were reliable - are just crap. Oh yeah… the other issue with this company now that I’m thinking about it. It used to sync with my health/scale app. But now they want me to “manually” update or buy THEIR scale. My husband told me to spend the extra money for an Apple Watch. I should have totally listened. His watch is still kicking 5 years later. Mine is pointless 9 months later.
Other question - has anyone actually successfully gotten their watch repaired/replaced? How many hoops did you have to jump through? How many more steps after - wait for an email so we can “make an appointment”?
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Started working out again so I started wearing the watch again. The HR doesn’t work correctly. It’s way off. I have done soft resets. Hard reset. Toggled heart rate on and off. Other settings on and off. Deleted APP. Cleaned the watch.
It’s less than a year old. Barely worn. When I reached out to get a replacement or repair - all they cared about was the band causing irritation. Then they need me to call them. After spending a bunch of time already with their “chat” they wanted me to wait for an email to make an appointment for them to call me. So I wasted all that time just for them to want me to make an appointment about the freaking strap irritation.
Have others had this problem? Did you figure out a fix or did I waste hundreds of dollars on garbage? I’m to the point I just want a different watch. These brands I used to think were reliable - are just crap. Oh yeah… the other issue with this company now that I’m thinking about it. It used to sync with my health/scale app. But now they want me to “manually” update or buy THEIR scale. My husband told me to spend the extra money for an Apple Watch. I should have totally listened. His watch is still kicking 5 years later. Mine is pointless 9 months later.
Other question - has anyone actually successfully gotten their watch repaired/replaced? How many hoops did you have to jump through? How many more steps after - wait for an email so we can “make an appointment”?
2024.05.18 22:06 lolswainbot World Beast: Ti4mat
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“World Beasts… are innately different to humans and other forms of 'life'. Those created in the Goddess’s image are bound only by fate and time, able to lead their own destiny if they will it so. For us, it’s different. We are born with a function in mind — a purpose. Sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it’s not.
I still have no clue why Har-Meggidos was created.”
Sacrosanct was still unsure whether to engage or not — whether this was his battle to fight. Such indecisiveness faltered his flames, but noticing that Blodelshein was about to be crushed by one of the chunks, he quickly pushed her out of the way with a dive but got squashed into a bloody pulp himself.
“Sacrosanct!”
While the white-haired girl continued the battle, Sacrosanct soon lifted the mass, covered in his own blood. The hero spat out a dozen teeth from his mouth, though they soon healed back thanks to his flames. Now he was truly fired up.
However, he was not quite ready yet. It would take a few more steps to enter the ‘LIMITLESS’ state.
The dual-wielding warrior ran up Tiamat’s right arm while massively damaging it along the way. The light katana moved like a needle, while the longsword swung like a hammer; the two weapons synergized in a negative tempo, creating a dissonance of destruction.
Meanwhile, Sacrosanct stretched, ran in place, push-ups, sit-ups, jumping-jacks, all in impossibly quick succession. His heart rate began to increase rapidly, and so did the fire surrounding him.
The golden-eyed swordswoman was able to stab the World Beast Directly in its forehead, and while it caused excruciating agony and great damage, it was still not yet enough as roots sprouted from the wound and knocked her all the way to the ground, where a wooden spike much larger than she awaited.
Meanwhile, Sacrosanct began to sing to himself… No, he created rhythms. Songs? Humming? It was strange how he seemed to be listening to something in his head, but it was somehow working as his flames grew multiple times in size.
The girl quickly turned to face the ground using the weight of her swords, and in the split second before contact, her blades cut the spike directly in half, landing in its new crevice. However, the broken spike was then coiled in vines, and was shut in a matter of microseconds by the pressure surrounding it, and the hero was forced to struggle to keep herself uncrushed.
Meanwhile… Sacrosanct was finally ready — with just one more step. Now he took a good look at his enemy, the colossal demonic titan, much stronger than him; of course, he could beat her. He was Sacrosanct. With this newfound confidence, the hero began to concentrate the massive flame surrounding him toward himself, compressing the heat. Soon, a massive flash of light blinded the spectators, including Tiamat, and from the blinding light emerged Sacrosanct. The hero was now surrounded by an electrical storm running throughout his body, as well as blue flames contrasting with the previous red. He was not just any other hero, he was THE hero. He was Sacrosanct.
“Alright, bring it on!”
Tiamat could not fully gauge the hero’s strength and instead chose to finish the girl off by crushing her completely with her fist. However, as she turned her attention away, the World Beast was suddenly kicked in the face, snapping her massive head instantly. He was fast.
The World Beast quickly composed herself and healed her neck. Demonic spiders began to emerge from her wings; perfect for dealing with pests. However, Sacrosanct was no mere fly, and he began to easily set the spiders ablaze with his contagious flame, which then spread to the World Beast’s hair.
“Let’s go!”
While Tiamat was distracted by the flames, Sacrosanct lept from her shoulder directly toward the spike in which the katana-wielding hero was imprisoned. The sheer impact of cannonballing into the wooden structure was enough to blow it open, and the warrior was freed.
“You still haven’t told me your name yet!”
“...?”
The two looked up to see that Tiamat had already fully recovered. There must’ve been some way to kill her, for why else was she reincarnated?
“...Acata, could you tell us how you defeated her preciously?” asked Blodelshein in her native tongue.
The girl turned to find the source of the voice, but none lay in sight.
“I’m speaking to you telepathically. I’m afraid I won’t be much of a help — the demon lord has a powerful soul. Anyways, you said you met her before right? Then you must be the 15th hero, the one who defeated this demon lord. How did you do it?”
“...It was not I who killed Tiamat,” said Acata, “I suppose you could say that the entire world killed her.”
“...So you’re saying you lured her here without a plan to kill her?!”
“The plan is to slice and dice until it is done.”
“...”
It seemed that Blodelshein was surrounded by true warriors.
Now killing her was no longer an option, the best they could do would be to immobilize her until a method was found. However, things would not be so simple as Tiamat began to attack once again, interrupting the hero mid-thought.
A slit positioned directly at the centre of Tiamat’s breast opened like a vertical eye, and from the entrance began to stream a river of energy, the current of which soon turned into a torrent, then a storm. The energy began to form a sphere in the form of fire, like the heavenly ornament in the sky. The heroes could already feel its heat from the ground. As the World Beast began to power this attack, Sacrosanct came up with a brilliant plan — a Sacrosanct original.
“Alright, hero, I’ll neutralize this blast, then you attack her directly in that weird source — that must be her core or something!”
“...Fine.”
In the heat of the battle, language barriers can be fatal. As such, instead of listening to the words themselves, Acata decided to simply react to Sacrosanct’s action. Judging from his tone, it seemed that he had prepared a plan. Though she did not understand what his course of action would be, there was no other choice as the inevitability of decimation loomed over them.
Tiamat soon released the attack, and Sacrosanct released an attack of his own as well. All the flames surrounding him concentrated on his two fingers outstretched toward his target, leaving the rest of his body vulnerable and bare. As it was compressed into an atomic volume, it instantly flipped from a bright white to a blackhole void surrounded by dark lightning.
“Go!”
As the pseudo-sun continued to approach, the grass began to wilt and burn. However, neither Sacrosanct nor Acata moved an inch. Sacrosanct’s black hole was soon consumed by the flame, but Acata knew that his act was not yet over. The dark elf began to immediately calculate in his mind the time required for the sphere to reach the centre of Tiamat’s sun, and soon activated his spell:
“⌈Nuclear Starburst⌋!”
The black hole immediately increased a thousandfold in volume, completely enveloping Tiamat’s attack. It then folded in upon itself, erasing both attacks from existence. While Tiamat was shocked, Acata took no time to hesitate. She tested Sacrosanct’s theory by leaping a thousand paces into the air and plunging both her blades into Tiamat’s chest — the source of the strange energy.
As Blodelshein watched on from behind the rubble, she sincerely hoped that this would be the end. It did seem that the damage was massive, and the World Beast began to disintegrate as it wailed in pain. However, it soon clenched its teeth, and through its bloodied eyes, cast a desperate spell.
From the slit emerged a sphere — a flesh-pink, translucent sphere. Acata could see that her sword was stuck deep into it, and she could almost see inside, a small world. Like a minature garden, a microcosm…
A massive flash of light enveloped the area, and all three heroes were blinded. Through the brightness, however, Blodelshei,n could catch glimpses of stars passing by her, turning into lines, as if travelling through space.
Within the microcosm, three shooting stars — never seen before — entered the world.
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“World Beasts… are innately different to humans and other forms of 'life'. Those created in the Goddess’s image are bound only by fate and time, able to lead their own destiny if they will it so. For us, it’s different. We are born with a function in mind — a purpose. Sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it’s not.
I still have no clue why Har-Meggidos was created.”
- Reginn Magina, World Beast, when asked about World Beasts
Sacrosanct was still unsure whether to engage or not — whether this was his battle to fight. Such indecisiveness faltered his flames, but noticing that Blodelshein was about to be crushed by one of the chunks, he quickly pushed her out of the way with a dive but got squashed into a bloody pulp himself.
“Sacrosanct!”
While the white-haired girl continued the battle, Sacrosanct soon lifted the mass, covered in his own blood. The hero spat out a dozen teeth from his mouth, though they soon healed back thanks to his flames. Now he was truly fired up.
However, he was not quite ready yet. It would take a few more steps to enter the ‘LIMITLESS’ state.
The dual-wielding warrior ran up Tiamat’s right arm while massively damaging it along the way. The light katana moved like a needle, while the longsword swung like a hammer; the two weapons synergized in a negative tempo, creating a dissonance of destruction.
Meanwhile, Sacrosanct stretched, ran in place, push-ups, sit-ups, jumping-jacks, all in impossibly quick succession. His heart rate began to increase rapidly, and so did the fire surrounding him.
The golden-eyed swordswoman was able to stab the World Beast Directly in its forehead, and while it caused excruciating agony and great damage, it was still not yet enough as roots sprouted from the wound and knocked her all the way to the ground, where a wooden spike much larger than she awaited.
Meanwhile, Sacrosanct began to sing to himself… No, he created rhythms. Songs? Humming? It was strange how he seemed to be listening to something in his head, but it was somehow working as his flames grew multiple times in size.
The girl quickly turned to face the ground using the weight of her swords, and in the split second before contact, her blades cut the spike directly in half, landing in its new crevice. However, the broken spike was then coiled in vines, and was shut in a matter of microseconds by the pressure surrounding it, and the hero was forced to struggle to keep herself uncrushed.
Meanwhile… Sacrosanct was finally ready — with just one more step. Now he took a good look at his enemy, the colossal demonic titan, much stronger than him; of course, he could beat her. He was Sacrosanct. With this newfound confidence, the hero began to concentrate the massive flame surrounding him toward himself, compressing the heat. Soon, a massive flash of light blinded the spectators, including Tiamat, and from the blinding light emerged Sacrosanct. The hero was now surrounded by an electrical storm running throughout his body, as well as blue flames contrasting with the previous red. He was not just any other hero, he was THE hero. He was Sacrosanct.
“Alright, bring it on!”
Tiamat could not fully gauge the hero’s strength and instead chose to finish the girl off by crushing her completely with her fist. However, as she turned her attention away, the World Beast was suddenly kicked in the face, snapping her massive head instantly. He was fast.
The World Beast quickly composed herself and healed her neck. Demonic spiders began to emerge from her wings; perfect for dealing with pests. However, Sacrosanct was no mere fly, and he began to easily set the spiders ablaze with his contagious flame, which then spread to the World Beast’s hair.
“Let’s go!”
While Tiamat was distracted by the flames, Sacrosanct lept from her shoulder directly toward the spike in which the katana-wielding hero was imprisoned. The sheer impact of cannonballing into the wooden structure was enough to blow it open, and the warrior was freed.
“You still haven’t told me your name yet!”
“...?”
The two looked up to see that Tiamat had already fully recovered. There must’ve been some way to kill her, for why else was she reincarnated?
“...Acata, could you tell us how you defeated her preciously?” asked Blodelshein in her native tongue.
The girl turned to find the source of the voice, but none lay in sight.
“I’m speaking to you telepathically. I’m afraid I won’t be much of a help — the demon lord has a powerful soul. Anyways, you said you met her before right? Then you must be the 15th hero, the one who defeated this demon lord. How did you do it?”
“...It was not I who killed Tiamat,” said Acata, “I suppose you could say that the entire world killed her.”
“...So you’re saying you lured her here without a plan to kill her?!”
“The plan is to slice and dice until it is done.”
“...”
It seemed that Blodelshein was surrounded by true warriors.
Now killing her was no longer an option, the best they could do would be to immobilize her until a method was found. However, things would not be so simple as Tiamat began to attack once again, interrupting the hero mid-thought.
A slit positioned directly at the centre of Tiamat’s breast opened like a vertical eye, and from the entrance began to stream a river of energy, the current of which soon turned into a torrent, then a storm. The energy began to form a sphere in the form of fire, like the heavenly ornament in the sky. The heroes could already feel its heat from the ground. As the World Beast began to power this attack, Sacrosanct came up with a brilliant plan — a Sacrosanct original.
“Alright, hero, I’ll neutralize this blast, then you attack her directly in that weird source — that must be her core or something!”
“...Fine.”
In the heat of the battle, language barriers can be fatal. As such, instead of listening to the words themselves, Acata decided to simply react to Sacrosanct’s action. Judging from his tone, it seemed that he had prepared a plan. Though she did not understand what his course of action would be, there was no other choice as the inevitability of decimation loomed over them.
Tiamat soon released the attack, and Sacrosanct released an attack of his own as well. All the flames surrounding him concentrated on his two fingers outstretched toward his target, leaving the rest of his body vulnerable and bare. As it was compressed into an atomic volume, it instantly flipped from a bright white to a blackhole void surrounded by dark lightning.
“Go!”
As the pseudo-sun continued to approach, the grass began to wilt and burn. However, neither Sacrosanct nor Acata moved an inch. Sacrosanct’s black hole was soon consumed by the flame, but Acata knew that his act was not yet over. The dark elf began to immediately calculate in his mind the time required for the sphere to reach the centre of Tiamat’s sun, and soon activated his spell:
“⌈Nuclear Starburst⌋!”
The black hole immediately increased a thousandfold in volume, completely enveloping Tiamat’s attack. It then folded in upon itself, erasing both attacks from existence. While Tiamat was shocked, Acata took no time to hesitate. She tested Sacrosanct’s theory by leaping a thousand paces into the air and plunging both her blades into Tiamat’s chest — the source of the strange energy.
As Blodelshein watched on from behind the rubble, she sincerely hoped that this would be the end. It did seem that the damage was massive, and the World Beast began to disintegrate as it wailed in pain. However, it soon clenched its teeth, and through its bloodied eyes, cast a desperate spell.
From the slit emerged a sphere — a flesh-pink, translucent sphere. Acata could see that her sword was stuck deep into it, and she could almost see inside, a small world. Like a minature garden, a microcosm…
A massive flash of light enveloped the area, and all three heroes were blinded. Through the brightness, however, Blodelshei,n could catch glimpses of stars passing by her, turning into lines, as if travelling through space.
Within the microcosm, three shooting stars — never seen before — entered the world.
2024.05.18 22:06 Many-Squirrel-5375 Massive spike in heart rate during exercise
Hi, I am a fit 47 male this has been diagnosed with PVC’s 5 months back. Right after I’ve got Covid. The burden is on and off and I am starting to exercise more. However today on the bike I could feel a lot of them and all of the sudden my heart rate maxed out for a minute or two. Does anyone experienced this before too? Curious to hear .
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2024.05.18 21:58 bgram120 27M first Afib
Hi everyone! I’m a 27 year old male (NYC) with (unfortunately) maybe 8 years of hypertension under my belt. The last 3 years it’s been under control for the most part. I gained a lot of weight over the past year ~30 lbs (245 at highest), and have been working since the end of February to lose weight. I’m now 230. I’ve been hitting the gym frequently. Typically doing an hour of cardio.
This past weekend was my birthday in combo with my gfs graduation. Safe to say I was drinking quite a bit, and continuing to work out vigorously.
When it was all said and done I woke up Thursday (5/16) morning with my watch notifying me I was in Afib. I went to the ER and was released after all blood tests came back normal and heart rate was about 80 bpm (I’m on 5 mg beta blockers, so this is a lot higher than normal, but still good I guess).
I’m now on an MCOT monitor at home for over the weekend. They’re hoping I jump back into rhythm on my own but I’m still in fib.
They’ve mentioned cardioversion, but I’ve read success rates are low if you have a severely dilated left atrium (which I do, docs said this was because of exercise … ‘athletes heart’..?)
I’m honestly just depressed. I was losing weight at a healthy clip, my blood pressure was in control, had a European trip booked for early June, and was doing well mentally.
Now I feel defeated. I feel like my life is going to be short and I’m scared. I feel like every corner I turn there’s another set back waiting. Afib and hypertension at 27? I feel like a dead man walking.
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This past weekend was my birthday in combo with my gfs graduation. Safe to say I was drinking quite a bit, and continuing to work out vigorously.
When it was all said and done I woke up Thursday (5/16) morning with my watch notifying me I was in Afib. I went to the ER and was released after all blood tests came back normal and heart rate was about 80 bpm (I’m on 5 mg beta blockers, so this is a lot higher than normal, but still good I guess).
I’m now on an MCOT monitor at home for over the weekend. They’re hoping I jump back into rhythm on my own but I’m still in fib.
They’ve mentioned cardioversion, but I’ve read success rates are low if you have a severely dilated left atrium (which I do, docs said this was because of exercise … ‘athletes heart’..?)
I’m honestly just depressed. I was losing weight at a healthy clip, my blood pressure was in control, had a European trip booked for early June, and was doing well mentally.
Now I feel defeated. I feel like my life is going to be short and I’m scared. I feel like every corner I turn there’s another set back waiting. Afib and hypertension at 27? I feel like a dead man walking.
2024.05.18 21:52 sinomaltanews "‘Aħna Pożittivi’: Checkpoint Malta Transform Ikoniku Sinjal L-IMĦABBA Għall-Kampanja ta’ Għarfien dwar l-HIV Flimkien Ma’ Artisti Lokali
"‘Aħna Pożittivi’: Checkpoint Malta Transform Ikoniku Sinjal L-IMĦABBA Għall-Kampanja ta’ Għarfien dwar l-HIV Flimkien Ma’ Artisti Lokali
It-tabella emblematika tal-IMĦABBA ta’ San Ġiljan se tkun imgeżwer f’kaxxi tal-kits tal-awtotest tal-HIV b’tifkira tal-Ġimgħa Ewropea tal-Ittestjar, bħala parti minn inizjattiva mwaqqfa minn għadd ta’ organizzazzjonijiet lokali.
Checkpoint Malta u l-artista lokali Emma Grima ħolqu l-installazzjoni u ħadu fuq il-midja soċjali biex jaqsmu l-proċess kumpless.
“Malta għandha waħda mill-ogħla rati Ewropej ta’ HIV u STIs, parzjalment minħabba stigma jew nuqqas ta’ informazzjoni dwar is-suġġett. L-installazzjoni interattiva se tinkludi informazzjoni dwar l-importanza tal-ittestjar tal-HIV u kif u fejn isir it-test,” kiteb il-Moviment Graffitti fuq il-midja soċjali.
""Billi n-normalizzazzjoni u ż-żieda fl-użu tal-ittestjar tal-HIV u l-iskrinjar tas-saħħa sesswali, it-trażmissjoni ġenerali tal-STI tista 'titnaqqas u l-mard jista' jiġi skopert kmieni, u twitti t-triq għal trattament effettiv.""
Il-kontributuri ewlenin ikkollaboraw ma’ diversi organizzazzjonijiet għall-kampanja, fosthom Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo, u Sexual Health Malta. Jibda llum u se jkompli sal-25 ta’ Mejju, u jservi ta’ tfakkira viżwali tal-importanza tal-ittestjar tal-HIV permezz tal-informazzjoni pprovduta fuq l-installazzjoni interattiva.
Minn din is-sena, Checkpoint beda joffri b’xejn sessjonijiet ta’ ttestjar tal-HIV immexxija mill-komunità kull xahar fil-Belt Valletta u Għawdex, kif ukoll sessjonijiet ta’ kull xahrejn f’Raħal Ġdid. Il-punti ta’ ttestjar ġew organizzati b’kollaborazzjoni ma’ xi aġenziji tal-istat, bħal HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo u d-Direttorat tad-Drittijiet tal-Bniedem, fost oħrajn.
L-entitajiet involuti qed jagħtu wkoll kits tat-test tal-HIV b’xejn lill-pubbliku bħala parti mill-kampanja.
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"「我們是積極的」：馬耳他檢查站與當地藝術家一起改造標誌性的「愛」標誌，以進行愛滋病毒宣傳活動
聖朱利安標誌性的「LOVE」標誌將被包裝在愛滋病毒自檢套件盒中，以紀念歐洲檢測週，這是許多當地組織發起的一項倡議的一部分。
馬耳他檢查站和當地藝術家艾瑪·格里瑪創作了這個裝置，並在社交媒體上分享了這個複雜的過程。
「馬耳他是歐洲愛滋病毒和性傳染感染發生率最高的國家之一，部分原因是恥辱或缺乏相關資訊。互動裝置將包括有關愛滋病毒檢測的重要性以及如何以及在哪裡進行檢測的信息，」Moviment Graffitti 在社交媒體上寫道。
“透過規範和增加愛滋病毒檢測和性健康篩檢的使用，可以減少性傳播感染的整體傳播，並可以及早發現疾病，為有效治療鋪平道路。”
活動的主要貢獻者與多個組織合作，包括 Moviment Graffitti、MGRM、HIV Malta、LGBTI+ Gozo 和 Sexual Health Malta。該活動從今天開始一直持續到 5 月 25 日，透過互動裝置上提供的資訊以視覺方式提醒人們愛滋病毒檢測的重要性。
從今年起，Checkpoint 開始在瓦萊塔和戈佐島提供由社區主導的免費愛滋病毒每月檢測課程，並在保拉提供每兩個月一次的檢測課程。這些測試檢查站是與一些國家機構合作組織的，例如馬耳他愛滋病毒、LGBTI+戈佐島和人權理事會等。
作為活動的一部分，相關實體也向公眾免費贈送愛滋病毒檢測試劑盒。
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"‘We Are Positive’: Checkpoint Malta Transform Iconic LOVE Sign For HIV Awareness Campaign Along With Local Artist
The St. Julian’s iconic LOVE sign will be wrapped in HIV self-test kit boxes in commemoration of European Testing Week, as part of an initiative set up by a number of local organisations.
Checkpoint Malta and local artist Emma Grima created the installation and took to social media to share the intricate process.
“Malta has one of Europe’s highest rates of HIV and STIs, partly due to stigma or lack of information on the subject. The interactive installation will include information on the importance of HIV testing and how and where to get tested,” Moviment Graffitti wrote on social media.
“By normalising and increasing the use of HIV testing and sexual health screening, overall STI transmission can be reduced and diseases can be detected early, paving the way for effective treatment.”
The lead contributors collaborated with several organisations for the campaign, including Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo, and Sexual Health Malta. It starts today and will continue until 25th May, serving as a visual reminder of the importance of HIV testing through the information provided on the interactive installation.
As of this year, Checkpoint started offering free community-led HIV monthly testing sessions in Valletta and Gozo, as well as bi-monthly sessions in Paola. The testing checkpoints were organised in collaboration with some state agencies, such as HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo and the Human Rights Directorate, amongst others.
The entities involved are also giving out free HIV test kits to the public as part of the campaign.
Will you be visiting the installation?
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"'हम सकारात्मक हैं': चेकप्वाइंट माल्टा ने स्थानीय कलाकारों के साथ एचआईवी जागरूकता अभियान के लिए प्रतिष्ठित प्रेम चिन्ह को रूपांतरित किया
कई स्थानीय संगठनों द्वारा स्थापित एक पहल के हिस्से के रूप में, यूरोपीय परीक्षण सप्ताह की स्मृति में सेंट जूलियन के प्रतिष्ठित प्रेम चिह्न को एचआईवी स्व-परीक्षण किट बक्से में लपेटा जाएगा।
चेकपॉइंट माल्टा और स्थानीय कलाकार एम्मा ग्रिमा ने इंस्टॉलेशन बनाया और जटिल प्रक्रिया को साझा करने के लिए सोशल मीडिया का सहारा लिया।
“माल्टा में यूरोप में एचआईवी और एसटीआई की दर सबसे अधिक है, जो आंशिक रूप से कलंक या विषय पर जानकारी की कमी के कारण है। इंटरैक्टिव इंस्टॉलेशन में एचआईवी परीक्षण के महत्व और परीक्षण कैसे और कहां किया जाए, इसकी जानकारी शामिल होगी, ”मोविमेंट ग्रैफिटी ने सोशल मीडिया पर लिखा।
""एचआईवी परीक्षण और यौन स्वास्थ्य जांच के उपयोग को सामान्य बनाने और बढ़ाने से, समग्र एसटीआई संचरण को कम किया जा सकता है और बीमारियों का शीघ्र पता लगाया जा सकता है, जिससे प्रभावी उपचार का मार्ग प्रशस्त होता है।""
प्रमुख योगदानकर्ताओं ने अभियान के लिए कई संगठनों के साथ सहयोग किया, जिनमें मोविमेंट ग्रैफ़िटी, एमजीआरएम, एचआईवी माल्टा, एलजीबीटीआई+ गोज़ो और यौन स्वास्थ्य माल्टा शामिल हैं। यह आज से शुरू हो रहा है और 25 मई तक जारी रहेगा, जो इंटरैक्टिव इंस्टॉलेशन पर दी गई जानकारी के माध्यम से एचआईवी परीक्षण के महत्व के दृश्य अनुस्मारक के रूप में कार्य करेगा।
इस वर्ष से, चेकपॉइंट ने वेलेटा और गोज़ो में मुफ्त समुदाय-आधारित एचआईवी मासिक परीक्षण सत्र, साथ ही पाओला में द्वि-मासिक सत्र की पेशकश शुरू कर दी है। परीक्षण चौकियों का आयोजन कुछ राज्य एजेंसियों, जैसे एचआईवी माल्टा, एलजीबीटीआई+ गोज़ो और मानवाधिकार निदेशालय आदि के सहयोग से किया गया था।
इसमें शामिल संस्थाएं अभियान के हिस्से के रूप में जनता को मुफ्त एचआईवी परीक्षण किट भी दे रही हैं।
क्या आप इंस्टालेशन का दौरा करेंगे?
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"“Somos positivos”: Checkpoint Malta transforma el icónico cartel de AMOR para una campaña de concientización sobre el VIH junto con un artista local
El icónico cartel LOVE de San Julián estará envuelto en cajas de kits de autodiagnóstico del VIH en conmemoración de la Semana Europea de las Pruebas, como parte de una iniciativa creada por varias organizaciones locales.
Checkpoint Malta y la artista local Emma Grima crearon la instalación y recurrieron a las redes sociales para compartir el complejo proceso.
“Malta tiene una de las tasas de VIH e ITS más altas de Europa, en parte debido al estigma o la falta de información sobre el tema. La instalación interactiva incluirá información sobre la importancia de la prueba del VIH y cómo y dónde hacerse la prueba”, escribió Moviment Graffitti en las redes sociales.
""Al normalizar y aumentar el uso de las pruebas del VIH y de la salud sexual, se puede reducir la transmisión general de ITS y detectar las enfermedades tempranamente, allanando el camino para un tratamiento eficaz"".
Los contribuyentes principales colaboraron con varias organizaciones para la campaña, incluidas Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, VIH Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo y Sexual Health Malta. Comienza hoy y continuará hasta el 25 de mayo, sirviendo como un recordatorio visual de la importancia de las pruebas del VIH a través de la información proporcionada en la instalación interactiva.
A partir de este año, Checkpoint comenzó a ofrecer sesiones mensuales gratuitas de pruebas de VIH dirigidas por la comunidad en La Valeta y Gozo, así como sesiones bimensuales en Paola. Los puntos de control de pruebas se organizaron en colaboración con algunas agencias estatales, como VIH Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo y la Dirección de Derechos Humanos, entre otras.
Las entidades involucradas también están entregando al público kits de prueba de VIH gratuitos como parte de la campaña.
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"« Nous sommes positifs » : Checkpoint Malta transforme le panneau LOVE emblématique pour une campagne de sensibilisation au VIH avec un artiste local
Le signe emblématique LOVE de Saint-Julien sera emballé dans des boîtes de kits d’autotest du VIH en commémoration de la Semaine européenne du dépistage, dans le cadre d’une initiative mise en place par un certain nombre d’organisations locales.
Checkpoint Malta et l'artiste locale Emma Grima ont créé l'installation et ont partagé le processus complexe sur les réseaux sociaux.
« Malte a l’un des taux de VIH et d’IST les plus élevés d’Europe, en partie à cause de la stigmatisation ou du manque d’informations sur le sujet. L'installation interactive comprendra des informations sur l'importance du dépistage du VIH et comment et où se faire tester », a écrit Moviment Graffitti sur les réseaux sociaux.
« En normalisant et en augmentant le recours au dépistage du VIH et au dépistage de santé sexuelle, la transmission globale des IST peut être réduite et les maladies peuvent être détectées précocement, ouvrant ainsi la voie à un traitement efficace. »
Les principaux contributeurs ont collaboré avec plusieurs organisations pour la campagne, notamment Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo et Sexual Health Malta. Il commence aujourd'hui et se poursuivra jusqu'au 25 mai, servant de rappel visuel de l'importance du dépistage du VIH à travers les informations fournies sur l'installation interactive.
Depuis cette année, Checkpoint a commencé à proposer des séances mensuelles gratuites de dépistage du VIH à La Valette et à Gozo, ainsi que des séances bimensuelles à Paola. Les points de contrôle de dépistage ont été organisés en collaboration avec certaines agences d'État, telles que HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo et la Direction des droits de l'homme, entre autres.
Les entités impliquées distribuent également des kits de dépistage gratuits du VIH au public dans le cadre de la campagne.
Allez-vous visiter l’installation ?
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"„Wir sind positiv“: Checkpoint Malta verwandelt zusammen mit einem lokalen Künstler das ikonische LOVE-Zeichen für eine HIV-Aufklärungskampagne
Das ikonische LOVE-Zeichen von St. Julian’s wird im Rahmen einer Initiative mehrerer lokaler Organisationen anlässlich der Europäischen Testwoche in Kartons mit HIV-Selbsttestkits verpackt.
Checkpoint Malta und die lokale Künstlerin Emma Grima schufen die Installation und nutzten die sozialen Medien, um den komplizierten Prozess zu teilen.
„Malta hat eine der höchsten HIV- und STI-Raten in Europa, was teilweise auf Stigmatisierung oder mangelnde Informationen zu diesem Thema zurückzuführen ist. Die interaktive Installation wird Informationen über die Bedeutung von HIV-Tests und darüber enthalten, wie und wo man sich testen lässt“, schrieb Moviment Graffitti in den sozialen Medien.
„Durch die Normalisierung und den verstärkten Einsatz von HIV-Tests und sexuellen Gesundheitsscreenings kann die Gesamtübertragung von STI reduziert und Krankheiten frühzeitig erkannt werden, was den Weg für eine wirksame Behandlung ebnet.“
Die Hauptmitwirkenden arbeiteten für die Kampagne mit mehreren Organisationen zusammen, darunter Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo und Sexual Health Malta. Es beginnt heute und dauert bis zum 25. Mai und dient durch die in der interaktiven Installation bereitgestellten Informationen als visuelle Erinnerung an die Bedeutung von HIV-Tests.
Seit diesem Jahr bietet Checkpoint kostenlose, von der Gemeinde geleitete monatliche HIV-Testsitzungen in Valletta und Gozo sowie alle zwei Monate in Paola an. Die Testkontrollpunkte wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit einigen staatlichen Behörden organisiert, unter anderem mit HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo und dem Human Rights Directorate.
Die beteiligten Einrichtungen verteilen im Rahmen der Kampagne auch kostenlose HIV-Testkits an die Öffentlichkeit.
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It-tabella emblematika tal-IMĦABBA ta’ San Ġiljan se tkun imgeżwer f’kaxxi tal-kits tal-awtotest tal-HIV b’tifkira tal-Ġimgħa Ewropea tal-Ittestjar, bħala parti minn inizjattiva mwaqqfa minn għadd ta’ organizzazzjonijiet lokali.
Checkpoint Malta u l-artista lokali Emma Grima ħolqu l-installazzjoni u ħadu fuq il-midja soċjali biex jaqsmu l-proċess kumpless.
“Malta għandha waħda mill-ogħla rati Ewropej ta’ HIV u STIs, parzjalment minħabba stigma jew nuqqas ta’ informazzjoni dwar is-suġġett. L-installazzjoni interattiva se tinkludi informazzjoni dwar l-importanza tal-ittestjar tal-HIV u kif u fejn isir it-test,” kiteb il-Moviment Graffitti fuq il-midja soċjali.
""Billi n-normalizzazzjoni u ż-żieda fl-użu tal-ittestjar tal-HIV u l-iskrinjar tas-saħħa sesswali, it-trażmissjoni ġenerali tal-STI tista 'titnaqqas u l-mard jista' jiġi skopert kmieni, u twitti t-triq għal trattament effettiv.""
Il-kontributuri ewlenin ikkollaboraw ma’ diversi organizzazzjonijiet għall-kampanja, fosthom Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo, u Sexual Health Malta. Jibda llum u se jkompli sal-25 ta’ Mejju, u jservi ta’ tfakkira viżwali tal-importanza tal-ittestjar tal-HIV permezz tal-informazzjoni pprovduta fuq l-installazzjoni interattiva.
Minn din is-sena, Checkpoint beda joffri b’xejn sessjonijiet ta’ ttestjar tal-HIV immexxija mill-komunità kull xahar fil-Belt Valletta u Għawdex, kif ukoll sessjonijiet ta’ kull xahrejn f’Raħal Ġdid. Il-punti ta’ ttestjar ġew organizzati b’kollaborazzjoni ma’ xi aġenziji tal-istat, bħal HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo u d-Direttorat tad-Drittijiet tal-Bniedem, fost oħrajn.
L-entitajiet involuti qed jagħtu wkoll kits tat-test tal-HIV b’xejn lill-pubbliku bħala parti mill-kampanja.
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"「我們是積極的」：馬耳他檢查站與當地藝術家一起改造標誌性的「愛」標誌，以進行愛滋病毒宣傳活動
聖朱利安標誌性的「LOVE」標誌將被包裝在愛滋病毒自檢套件盒中，以紀念歐洲檢測週，這是許多當地組織發起的一項倡議的一部分。
馬耳他檢查站和當地藝術家艾瑪·格里瑪創作了這個裝置，並在社交媒體上分享了這個複雜的過程。
「馬耳他是歐洲愛滋病毒和性傳染感染發生率最高的國家之一，部分原因是恥辱或缺乏相關資訊。互動裝置將包括有關愛滋病毒檢測的重要性以及如何以及在哪裡進行檢測的信息，」Moviment Graffitti 在社交媒體上寫道。
“透過規範和增加愛滋病毒檢測和性健康篩檢的使用，可以減少性傳播感染的整體傳播，並可以及早發現疾病，為有效治療鋪平道路。”
活動的主要貢獻者與多個組織合作，包括 Moviment Graffitti、MGRM、HIV Malta、LGBTI+ Gozo 和 Sexual Health Malta。該活動從今天開始一直持續到 5 月 25 日，透過互動裝置上提供的資訊以視覺方式提醒人們愛滋病毒檢測的重要性。
從今年起，Checkpoint 開始在瓦萊塔和戈佐島提供由社區主導的免費愛滋病毒每月檢測課程，並在保拉提供每兩個月一次的檢測課程。這些測試檢查站是與一些國家機構合作組織的，例如馬耳他愛滋病毒、LGBTI+戈佐島和人權理事會等。
作為活動的一部分，相關實體也向公眾免費贈送愛滋病毒檢測試劑盒。
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"‘We Are Positive’: Checkpoint Malta Transform Iconic LOVE Sign For HIV Awareness Campaign Along With Local Artist
The St. Julian’s iconic LOVE sign will be wrapped in HIV self-test kit boxes in commemoration of European Testing Week, as part of an initiative set up by a number of local organisations.
Checkpoint Malta and local artist Emma Grima created the installation and took to social media to share the intricate process.
“Malta has one of Europe’s highest rates of HIV and STIs, partly due to stigma or lack of information on the subject. The interactive installation will include information on the importance of HIV testing and how and where to get tested,” Moviment Graffitti wrote on social media.
“By normalising and increasing the use of HIV testing and sexual health screening, overall STI transmission can be reduced and diseases can be detected early, paving the way for effective treatment.”
The lead contributors collaborated with several organisations for the campaign, including Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo, and Sexual Health Malta. It starts today and will continue until 25th May, serving as a visual reminder of the importance of HIV testing through the information provided on the interactive installation.
As of this year, Checkpoint started offering free community-led HIV monthly testing sessions in Valletta and Gozo, as well as bi-monthly sessions in Paola. The testing checkpoints were organised in collaboration with some state agencies, such as HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo and the Human Rights Directorate, amongst others.
The entities involved are also giving out free HIV test kits to the public as part of the campaign.
Will you be visiting the installation?
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"'हम सकारात्मक हैं': चेकप्वाइंट माल्टा ने स्थानीय कलाकारों के साथ एचआईवी जागरूकता अभियान के लिए प्रतिष्ठित प्रेम चिन्ह को रूपांतरित किया
कई स्थानीय संगठनों द्वारा स्थापित एक पहल के हिस्से के रूप में, यूरोपीय परीक्षण सप्ताह की स्मृति में सेंट जूलियन के प्रतिष्ठित प्रेम चिह्न को एचआईवी स्व-परीक्षण किट बक्से में लपेटा जाएगा।
चेकपॉइंट माल्टा और स्थानीय कलाकार एम्मा ग्रिमा ने इंस्टॉलेशन बनाया और जटिल प्रक्रिया को साझा करने के लिए सोशल मीडिया का सहारा लिया।
“माल्टा में यूरोप में एचआईवी और एसटीआई की दर सबसे अधिक है, जो आंशिक रूप से कलंक या विषय पर जानकारी की कमी के कारण है। इंटरैक्टिव इंस्टॉलेशन में एचआईवी परीक्षण के महत्व और परीक्षण कैसे और कहां किया जाए, इसकी जानकारी शामिल होगी, ”मोविमेंट ग्रैफिटी ने सोशल मीडिया पर लिखा।
""एचआईवी परीक्षण और यौन स्वास्थ्य जांच के उपयोग को सामान्य बनाने और बढ़ाने से, समग्र एसटीआई संचरण को कम किया जा सकता है और बीमारियों का शीघ्र पता लगाया जा सकता है, जिससे प्रभावी उपचार का मार्ग प्रशस्त होता है।""
प्रमुख योगदानकर्ताओं ने अभियान के लिए कई संगठनों के साथ सहयोग किया, जिनमें मोविमेंट ग्रैफ़िटी, एमजीआरएम, एचआईवी माल्टा, एलजीबीटीआई+ गोज़ो और यौन स्वास्थ्य माल्टा शामिल हैं। यह आज से शुरू हो रहा है और 25 मई तक जारी रहेगा, जो इंटरैक्टिव इंस्टॉलेशन पर दी गई जानकारी के माध्यम से एचआईवी परीक्षण के महत्व के दृश्य अनुस्मारक के रूप में कार्य करेगा।
इस वर्ष से, चेकपॉइंट ने वेलेटा और गोज़ो में मुफ्त समुदाय-आधारित एचआईवी मासिक परीक्षण सत्र, साथ ही पाओला में द्वि-मासिक सत्र की पेशकश शुरू कर दी है। परीक्षण चौकियों का आयोजन कुछ राज्य एजेंसियों, जैसे एचआईवी माल्टा, एलजीबीटीआई+ गोज़ो और मानवाधिकार निदेशालय आदि के सहयोग से किया गया था।
इसमें शामिल संस्थाएं अभियान के हिस्से के रूप में जनता को मुफ्त एचआईवी परीक्षण किट भी दे रही हैं।
क्या आप इंस्टालेशन का दौरा करेंगे?
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"“Somos positivos”: Checkpoint Malta transforma el icónico cartel de AMOR para una campaña de concientización sobre el VIH junto con un artista local
El icónico cartel LOVE de San Julián estará envuelto en cajas de kits de autodiagnóstico del VIH en conmemoración de la Semana Europea de las Pruebas, como parte de una iniciativa creada por varias organizaciones locales.
Checkpoint Malta y la artista local Emma Grima crearon la instalación y recurrieron a las redes sociales para compartir el complejo proceso.
“Malta tiene una de las tasas de VIH e ITS más altas de Europa, en parte debido al estigma o la falta de información sobre el tema. La instalación interactiva incluirá información sobre la importancia de la prueba del VIH y cómo y dónde hacerse la prueba”, escribió Moviment Graffitti en las redes sociales.
""Al normalizar y aumentar el uso de las pruebas del VIH y de la salud sexual, se puede reducir la transmisión general de ITS y detectar las enfermedades tempranamente, allanando el camino para un tratamiento eficaz"".
Los contribuyentes principales colaboraron con varias organizaciones para la campaña, incluidas Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, VIH Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo y Sexual Health Malta. Comienza hoy y continuará hasta el 25 de mayo, sirviendo como un recordatorio visual de la importancia de las pruebas del VIH a través de la información proporcionada en la instalación interactiva.
A partir de este año, Checkpoint comenzó a ofrecer sesiones mensuales gratuitas de pruebas de VIH dirigidas por la comunidad en La Valeta y Gozo, así como sesiones bimensuales en Paola. Los puntos de control de pruebas se organizaron en colaboración con algunas agencias estatales, como VIH Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo y la Dirección de Derechos Humanos, entre otras.
Las entidades involucradas también están entregando al público kits de prueba de VIH gratuitos como parte de la campaña.
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"« Nous sommes positifs » : Checkpoint Malta transforme le panneau LOVE emblématique pour une campagne de sensibilisation au VIH avec un artiste local
Le signe emblématique LOVE de Saint-Julien sera emballé dans des boîtes de kits d’autotest du VIH en commémoration de la Semaine européenne du dépistage, dans le cadre d’une initiative mise en place par un certain nombre d’organisations locales.
Checkpoint Malta et l'artiste locale Emma Grima ont créé l'installation et ont partagé le processus complexe sur les réseaux sociaux.
« Malte a l’un des taux de VIH et d’IST les plus élevés d’Europe, en partie à cause de la stigmatisation ou du manque d’informations sur le sujet. L'installation interactive comprendra des informations sur l'importance du dépistage du VIH et comment et où se faire tester », a écrit Moviment Graffitti sur les réseaux sociaux.
« En normalisant et en augmentant le recours au dépistage du VIH et au dépistage de santé sexuelle, la transmission globale des IST peut être réduite et les maladies peuvent être détectées précocement, ouvrant ainsi la voie à un traitement efficace. »
Les principaux contributeurs ont collaboré avec plusieurs organisations pour la campagne, notamment Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo et Sexual Health Malta. Il commence aujourd'hui et se poursuivra jusqu'au 25 mai, servant de rappel visuel de l'importance du dépistage du VIH à travers les informations fournies sur l'installation interactive.
Depuis cette année, Checkpoint a commencé à proposer des séances mensuelles gratuites de dépistage du VIH à La Valette et à Gozo, ainsi que des séances bimensuelles à Paola. Les points de contrôle de dépistage ont été organisés en collaboration avec certaines agences d'État, telles que HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo et la Direction des droits de l'homme, entre autres.
Les entités impliquées distribuent également des kits de dépistage gratuits du VIH au public dans le cadre de la campagne.
Allez-vous visiter l’installation ?
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"„Wir sind positiv“: Checkpoint Malta verwandelt zusammen mit einem lokalen Künstler das ikonische LOVE-Zeichen für eine HIV-Aufklärungskampagne
Das ikonische LOVE-Zeichen von St. Julian’s wird im Rahmen einer Initiative mehrerer lokaler Organisationen anlässlich der Europäischen Testwoche in Kartons mit HIV-Selbsttestkits verpackt.
Checkpoint Malta und die lokale Künstlerin Emma Grima schufen die Installation und nutzten die sozialen Medien, um den komplizierten Prozess zu teilen.
„Malta hat eine der höchsten HIV- und STI-Raten in Europa, was teilweise auf Stigmatisierung oder mangelnde Informationen zu diesem Thema zurückzuführen ist. Die interaktive Installation wird Informationen über die Bedeutung von HIV-Tests und darüber enthalten, wie und wo man sich testen lässt“, schrieb Moviment Graffitti in den sozialen Medien.
„Durch die Normalisierung und den verstärkten Einsatz von HIV-Tests und sexuellen Gesundheitsscreenings kann die Gesamtübertragung von STI reduziert und Krankheiten frühzeitig erkannt werden, was den Weg für eine wirksame Behandlung ebnet.“
Die Hauptmitwirkenden arbeiteten für die Kampagne mit mehreren Organisationen zusammen, darunter Moviment Graffitti, MGRM, HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo und Sexual Health Malta. Es beginnt heute und dauert bis zum 25. Mai und dient durch die in der interaktiven Installation bereitgestellten Informationen als visuelle Erinnerung an die Bedeutung von HIV-Tests.
Seit diesem Jahr bietet Checkpoint kostenlose, von der Gemeinde geleitete monatliche HIV-Testsitzungen in Valletta und Gozo sowie alle zwei Monate in Paola an. Die Testkontrollpunkte wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit einigen staatlichen Behörden organisiert, unter anderem mit HIV Malta, LGBTI+ Gozo und dem Human Rights Directorate.
Die beteiligten Einrichtungen verteilen im Rahmen der Kampagne auch kostenlose HIV-Testkits an die Öffentlichkeit.
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2024.05.18 21:51 unstuckbilly Now is our chance -> Unite to Fight News Coverage!
I've read countless posts asking, "Why isn't the world paying attention to us?"
We've just had the world's largest LC + MECFS conference to date, and the US news outlets have given us ZERO COVERAGE as far as I can see? Can anyone share anything they've seen out there?
I only see a few German articles (see below - well worth reading).I reached out to one of the event organizers and he confirmed that he has no knowledge of US coverage of the event.
Will you join me in sending a quick message to your favorite news outlets or any of those listed below, asking why we need to read about this story via google translate from OUS news sources?
This conference featured many prominent US researchers! It was an international event attended by thousands! I've already begun to write my letters.- I'll post my progress in comments - Please join me and comment below!
We know that our power is in our numbers, so if your message is brief or less sophisticated than you'd like, **IT MATTERS MOST THAT YOU WRITE!**
I'd like to share with you some details that I'm including in my messages. Please speak from your own heart and mind expressing your desire to read about this important event and others like it. Maybe the news story is that this conference took place and it isn't being adequately reported??Here are some highlights from my messages:
-Conference organizers were LC patients who saw Lauren's posts on twitter and her plea to tell the world what is happening.
-Unite to Fight 2024 was organized in just a few months on a shoestring-crowdfunded budget and over 10,000 people attended online with over 40 speakers and 20 hours of content over two days (May 15-16, 2024).
Unite to Fight website:https://unitetofight2024.world
Three German Articles (use your browser or Google Translate if needed)
.https://www.manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/long-covid-konferenz-wir-muessen-uns-endlich-eingestehen-wie-gewaltig-dieses-problem-ist-a-4389644b-1795-4acf-bccf-759d6dce1982
https://www.aok.de/pp/gg/update/long-covid-experten-warnen-vor-wachsender-krankheitslast/
https://taz.de/Long-Covid/!6007816/
Here's some addresses I've dug up. PLEASE LIST MORE BELOW AND I'LL EDIT/ADD:
CNN
[ireport@cnn.com](mailto:ireport@cnn.com)
NPR - Send a News StoryPick your favorite:
On the Media, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Consider This, Up First
https://help.npr.org/contact/s/contact?request=Send-a-story-idea
American Public Media (web form)
https://mpr.tfaforms.net/27
New York Times online submission:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/homepage/contact-newsroom.html
Washington
[Post:readers@washpost.com](mailto:Post:readers@washpost.com)
Washington Post letter to the Editor:
https://thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/submit_a_letter_to_the_editor
USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/contact/staff/
Charles Trepany, Wellness Reporter
[ctrepany@usatoday.com](mailto:ctrepany@usatoday.com)
Daryl Austin Wellness and Lifestyle
[ContributorDAustin@usatoday.com](mailto:ContributorDAustin@usatoday.com)
David OliverWellness Reporter
[doliver@usatoday.com](mailto:doliver@usatoday.com)
Leora Arnowitz Wellness Editorl
[arnowitz@usatoday.com](mailto:arnowitz@usatoday.com)
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/about-us
[stefanie.ilgenfritz@wsj.com](mailto:stefanie.ilgenfritz@wsj.com)
[kevin.dubouis@wsj.com](mailto:kevin.dubouis@wsj.com)
Newsweek:
[media.inquiries@newsweek.com](mailto:media.inquiries@newsweek.com)
Time Magazine:
[letters@time.com]()
Us News and World Report:
https://www.usnews.com/info/features/contact
Politico:
https://www.politico.com/feedback
Bloomberg:
[tips2@bloomberg.net](mailto:tips2@bloomberg.net)
Vice:
tips@vice.com
[press@vice.com]()
The Atlantic:
[Letters@TheAtlantic.com](mailto:Letters@TheAtlantic.com)
The Independent:
[newsdesk@independent.co.uk](mailto:newsdesk@independent.co.uk)
TheGuardian:
[features@theguardian.com](mailto:features@theguardian.com)
[international@theguardian.com](mailto:international@theguardian.com)
[letters@theguardian.com](mailto:letters@theguardian.com)
[guardian.readers@theguardian.com](mailto:guardian.readers@theguardian.com)
I also wrote to my local University (if you're from Minnesota or if you listen to the Osterholm Update CIDRAP podcast):
CIDRAP
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/contact-us
Media relations contact: Brad Robideau [brobidea@umn.edu]() Overall inquiries: [cidrap@umn.edu]()
I'm still tracking down addresses, or help me out and comment below. I'll edit my post.Thank you ALL!
submitted by unstuckbilly to covidlonghaulers [link] [comments]
We've just had the world's largest LC + MECFS conference to date, and the US news outlets have given us ZERO COVERAGE as far as I can see? Can anyone share anything they've seen out there?
I only see a few German articles (see below - well worth reading).I reached out to one of the event organizers and he confirmed that he has no knowledge of US coverage of the event.
Will you join me in sending a quick message to your favorite news outlets or any of those listed below, asking why we need to read about this story via google translate from OUS news sources?
This conference featured many prominent US researchers! It was an international event attended by thousands! I've already begun to write my letters.- I'll post my progress in comments - Please join me and comment below!
We know that our power is in our numbers, so if your message is brief or less sophisticated than you'd like, **IT MATTERS MOST THAT YOU WRITE!**
I'd like to share with you some details that I'm including in my messages. Please speak from your own heart and mind expressing your desire to read about this important event and others like it. Maybe the news story is that this conference took place and it isn't being adequately reported??Here are some highlights from my messages:
- I was eager to read coverage of last week's international conference on Long Covid and MECFS, and feel shocked to find it only being covered by European sources that I need to translate with my web browser. Where is the US coverage?
- This conference featured a heavy presence of prominent US researchers (see names listed on https://unitetofight2024.world if you'd like to list any in your message).
- To date there is no cure for Long Covid or MECFS and it is one of the most debilitating diseases one can experience. The highest disease burden is borne by those in the prime of their life who were otherwise healthy and now have no hope for their future.
- The origin of this event was a reaction to a twitter user named Lauren who said her public goodbyes and ended her life after suffering with Long Covid and with no end in sight.
-Conference organizers were LC patients who saw Lauren's posts on twitter and her plea to tell the world what is happening.
-Unite to Fight 2024 was organized in just a few months on a shoestring-crowdfunded budget and over 10,000 people attended online with over 40 speakers and 20 hours of content over two days (May 15-16, 2024).
Unite to Fight website:https://unitetofight2024.world
Three German Articles (use your browser or Google Translate if needed)
.https://www.manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/long-covid-konferenz-wir-muessen-uns-endlich-eingestehen-wie-gewaltig-dieses-problem-ist-a-4389644b-1795-4acf-bccf-759d6dce1982
https://www.aok.de/pp/gg/update/long-covid-experten-warnen-vor-wachsender-krankheitslast/
https://taz.de/Long-Covid/!6007816/
Here's some addresses I've dug up. PLEASE LIST MORE BELOW AND I'LL EDIT/ADD:
CNN
[ireport@cnn.com](mailto:ireport@cnn.com)
NPR - Send a News StoryPick your favorite:
On the Media, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Consider This, Up First
https://help.npr.org/contact/s/contact?request=Send-a-story-idea
American Public Media (web form)
https://mpr.tfaforms.net/27
New York Times online submission:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/homepage/contact-newsroom.html
Washington
[Post:readers@washpost.com](mailto:Post:readers@washpost.com)
Washington Post letter to the Editor:
https://thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/submit_a_letter_to_the_editor
USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/contact/staff/
Charles Trepany, Wellness Reporter
[ctrepany@usatoday.com](mailto:ctrepany@usatoday.com)
Daryl Austin Wellness and Lifestyle
[ContributorDAustin@usatoday.com](mailto:ContributorDAustin@usatoday.com)
David OliverWellness Reporter
[doliver@usatoday.com](mailto:doliver@usatoday.com)
Leora Arnowitz Wellness Editorl
[arnowitz@usatoday.com](mailto:arnowitz@usatoday.com)
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/about-us
Stefanie IIgenfritz
Health & Science[stefanie.ilgenfritz@wsj.com](mailto:stefanie.ilgenfritz@wsj.com)
Kevin Dubouis
Content Strategy[kevin.dubouis@wsj.com](mailto:kevin.dubouis@wsj.com)
Newsweek:
[media.inquiries@newsweek.com](mailto:media.inquiries@newsweek.com)
Time Magazine:
[letters@time.com]()
Us News and World Report:
https://www.usnews.com/info/features/contact
Politico:
https://www.politico.com/feedback
Bloomberg:
[tips2@bloomberg.net](mailto:tips2@bloomberg.net)
Vice:
tips@vice.com
[press@vice.com]()
The Atlantic:
[Letters@TheAtlantic.com](mailto:Letters@TheAtlantic.com)
The Independent:
[newsdesk@independent.co.uk](mailto:newsdesk@independent.co.uk)
TheGuardian:
[features@theguardian.com](mailto:features@theguardian.com)
[international@theguardian.com](mailto:international@theguardian.com)
[letters@theguardian.com](mailto:letters@theguardian.com)
[guardian.readers@theguardian.com](mailto:guardian.readers@theguardian.com)
I also wrote to my local University (if you're from Minnesota or if you listen to the Osterholm Update CIDRAP podcast):
CIDRAP
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/contact-us
Media relations contact: Brad Robideau [brobidea@umn.edu]() Overall inquiries: [cidrap@umn.edu]()
I'm still tracking down addresses, or help me out and comment below. I'll edit my post.Thank you ALL!
2024.05.18 21:48 Moonlight_Spark_ Dog "freezes" every few weeks/months for ~3min, thought it was fear. Today it happened twice - it must be something else?
Breed: Spitz Age: 5 Sex: female, neutered
Past: Traumatizing past in Hungary, used for irresponsible breeding, then dumped at shelter. Rescued Oct 22, moved in with me Dec 22.
Diseases: Heart worms in 2022 (treated and fully gone), ear infection (has been treated), bad teeth (8 teeth removed, more will follow)
Location: Germany
Link to video: https://youtu.be/Kxs9--7SVHo?si=c5UgtcmLDFz-Q9c2
My dog was rescued from Hungary in Oct 2022. I got her in Dec 2022 after she was thoroughly evaluated by a vet. Aside from heart worms, which were treated and fully gone before I got her, she was fine.
Approx. 2 weeks after I got her she randomly froze in the living room; flat ears, "empty" eyes, rounded her paws and lifted them slightly. It lasted for just a few minutes and she was completely fine afterwards (no strange behavior at all).
This happend maybe 4 more times in the first half of 2023. I always thought it was stress/panic (although I couldn't figure out the trigger) since she was (sometimes still is) panicy, stressed and unsure due to her traumatizing past. We don't know what happened to her, but dogs being used for breeding in Hungary often have cruel lives.
We then had another episode end of '23 and one in Feb '24; she froze on the sidewalk, stumbled briefly and then similar scenario as in the video - she was more still though and it seemed more like a "waiting mode".
Today it happened twice and I'm starting to think that it's something physiological and her behavior is caused by pain? Or could it even be neurological?
Today, situation 1 was after a perfectly normal walk. She sat in our garden (leash still on), I sat on the stairs, wanted her to come. She wasn't sure, hesitated, got up, froze. Video scenario for 4 minutes.
Situation 2 - and this was new - was a few hours later. She jumped off the couch (she has only been doing that recently, it's her new move), landed, froze (and had a weird paw posture) and the rest is on the video.
You can see how she also lifts her back leg for a moment. That is certainly new; with the front paw lifting I used to think it was communication/signaling to me that she's unsure :(
When it stopped after 3 minutes, she drank immediately, ran around perfectly fine, jumped on the couch, was super energetic, wanted to cuddle etc. As I'm writing this, it's 1 hour later and she is panting a bit. She's been doing that more often in the last two weeks.
I'll be at the vet on Tue for her shot and will bring this up - but does someone have an idea what's going on? :/ I always thought it was stress and hoped for it to get better, especially since there have been months with no episode and she's always been 100% normal after it happened. But today really made me wonder if there's more.
Thank you so much in advance.
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Past: Traumatizing past in Hungary, used for irresponsible breeding, then dumped at shelter. Rescued Oct 22, moved in with me Dec 22.
Diseases: Heart worms in 2022 (treated and fully gone), ear infection (has been treated), bad teeth (8 teeth removed, more will follow)
Location: Germany
Link to video: https://youtu.be/Kxs9--7SVHo?si=c5UgtcmLDFz-Q9c2
My dog was rescued from Hungary in Oct 2022. I got her in Dec 2022 after she was thoroughly evaluated by a vet. Aside from heart worms, which were treated and fully gone before I got her, she was fine.
Approx. 2 weeks after I got her she randomly froze in the living room; flat ears, "empty" eyes, rounded her paws and lifted them slightly. It lasted for just a few minutes and she was completely fine afterwards (no strange behavior at all).
This happend maybe 4 more times in the first half of 2023. I always thought it was stress/panic (although I couldn't figure out the trigger) since she was (sometimes still is) panicy, stressed and unsure due to her traumatizing past. We don't know what happened to her, but dogs being used for breeding in Hungary often have cruel lives.
We then had another episode end of '23 and one in Feb '24; she froze on the sidewalk, stumbled briefly and then similar scenario as in the video - she was more still though and it seemed more like a "waiting mode".
Today it happened twice and I'm starting to think that it's something physiological and her behavior is caused by pain? Or could it even be neurological?
Today, situation 1 was after a perfectly normal walk. She sat in our garden (leash still on), I sat on the stairs, wanted her to come. She wasn't sure, hesitated, got up, froze. Video scenario for 4 minutes.
Situation 2 - and this was new - was a few hours later. She jumped off the couch (she has only been doing that recently, it's her new move), landed, froze (and had a weird paw posture) and the rest is on the video.
You can see how she also lifts her back leg for a moment. That is certainly new; with the front paw lifting I used to think it was communication/signaling to me that she's unsure :(
When it stopped after 3 minutes, she drank immediately, ran around perfectly fine, jumped on the couch, was super energetic, wanted to cuddle etc. As I'm writing this, it's 1 hour later and she is panting a bit. She's been doing that more often in the last two weeks.
I'll be at the vet on Tue for her shot and will bring this up - but does someone have an idea what's going on? :/ I always thought it was stress and hoped for it to get better, especially since there have been months with no episode and she's always been 100% normal after it happened. But today really made me wonder if there's more.
Thank you so much in advance.
2024.05.18 21:45 HippieSwag420 Had pulmonary replacement last year, had MRI yesterday, woke up today feeling so so so short of breath
Caution: If you are a new parent or anybody that is not normally dealing with this, I would say do not read this. Because this might scare the shit out of you, as I am dealing with complications but I am 33, and I am female, and I have tetralogy of fallot And so I am putting my experience down here. Also, language warning, i am an adult so i do use cuese words.
I had a valve replacement last year, and then I got cellulitis like a week ago from a bug bite, went to the hospital two days ago to get a cream, and then yesterday, while I was at work, I felt furiously awful and so I left and I went to urgent Care they said I'm fine and that I was dehydrated and they needed to do a blood panel, but the panel is totally normal so I have no idea what's causing all of my symptoms.
I thought maybe I had a blood infection because I did have cellulitis, and now I'm having itching where my catheter placement was like where one of them was cuz I had two one on each groin, and now I have one that's super itchy on one side and this is brand new. And I woke up with the bradycardia this morning and my heart rate was 48, I really can't get it up past 77 even when I'm walking around and I just don't feel well and I don't know if maybe the MRI I had yesterday was done incorrectly and knocked something loose, because I am having significant shorts of breath and significant swelling just like I'm in heart failure again, but I'm seeing my cardiologist on Monday and I don't know if I should wait or go to the hospital now.
I'm just literally so exhausted I have no energy for this All I want to do all I want to do is play a goddamn video game and not have to worry that I can't breathe.
Edit: literally after I posted this the urgent care called me back and I told them and they were like yeah you should go to the hospital, and then once I hung up I stood up, I broke out into a massive massive sweat and my swelling went down which is weird as hell so I don't really know what the hell's going on with me but anyway I know that this is probably not the place for this I have no idea you know I have TOF nd this is related so, maybe it is fine.
But it was weird cuz I literally stood up broke out into the most crazy sweat of my life and then my swelling just like went down but I am still dizzy and shit so I don't know what the hell's going on.
Edit 2:
So I read somebody's substack article down the line it's like 10 posts below mine, and it literally answered a lot of my questions, And I sincerely sincerely sincerely appreciate that post so if you're concerned, I would honestly go read that substack article, because holy shit that literally just explained all that I'm literally going through and I have not been able to get answers and that literally answered my questions so if you are reading this, I am no longer freaking out and I'm also feeling better, and that substack article was literally worth its weight in gold
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I had a valve replacement last year, and then I got cellulitis like a week ago from a bug bite, went to the hospital two days ago to get a cream, and then yesterday, while I was at work, I felt furiously awful and so I left and I went to urgent Care they said I'm fine and that I was dehydrated and they needed to do a blood panel, but the panel is totally normal so I have no idea what's causing all of my symptoms.
I thought maybe I had a blood infection because I did have cellulitis, and now I'm having itching where my catheter placement was like where one of them was cuz I had two one on each groin, and now I have one that's super itchy on one side and this is brand new. And I woke up with the bradycardia this morning and my heart rate was 48, I really can't get it up past 77 even when I'm walking around and I just don't feel well and I don't know if maybe the MRI I had yesterday was done incorrectly and knocked something loose, because I am having significant shorts of breath and significant swelling just like I'm in heart failure again, but I'm seeing my cardiologist on Monday and I don't know if I should wait or go to the hospital now.
I'm just literally so exhausted I have no energy for this All I want to do all I want to do is play a goddamn video game and not have to worry that I can't breathe.
Edit: literally after I posted this the urgent care called me back and I told them and they were like yeah you should go to the hospital, and then once I hung up I stood up, I broke out into a massive massive sweat and my swelling went down which is weird as hell so I don't really know what the hell's going on with me but anyway I know that this is probably not the place for this I have no idea you know I have TOF nd this is related so, maybe it is fine.
But it was weird cuz I literally stood up broke out into the most crazy sweat of my life and then my swelling just like went down but I am still dizzy and shit so I don't know what the hell's going on.
Edit 2:
So I read somebody's substack article down the line it's like 10 posts below mine, and it literally answered a lot of my questions, And I sincerely sincerely sincerely appreciate that post so if you're concerned, I would honestly go read that substack article, because holy shit that literally just explained all that I'm literally going through and I have not been able to get answers and that literally answered my questions so if you are reading this, I am no longer freaking out and I'm also feeling better, and that substack article was literally worth its weight in gold
2024.05.18 21:40 That-Expert-2283 new rating criteria
good morning everyone i have a question i feel nobody will know right now but it doesn’t hurt to ask
As many of you guys know the new digestive system ratings take place starting on Sunday the 19 if i did my c&p exam under the old criteria and the va gets it during the new criteria will i be rated under both? its for GERD
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As many of you guys know the new digestive system ratings take place starting on Sunday the 19 if i did my c&p exam under the old criteria and the va gets it during the new criteria will i be rated under both? its for GERD