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2024.05.05 22:57 LogImportant8542 Commercial residential issue
Just for some backstory to fully understand this situation… my fiancé and I are a black/brown couple and we lived in a commercial apartment complex in Guilderland for a year. We were experiencing terrible racism from both property manager (not at first but gradually) and other residents in the building. About 3 months ago we get a letter in the mail stating the complex has chosen not to renew our lease.
I called the property manager and all she has to tell me is “no, please don’t feel you did anything drastically wrong. You didn’t. We just feel with all of your complaints to us within this year, we don’t think you guys enjoy your stay here and you should seek other living where you’d be more happy.” Correct me if I’m wrong ya’ll, but how that basically came off to me was her saying “you complain too much to us about issues (including the one where I felt scared because racist neighbors were standing close to our windows at 3 am and would knock and run to scare us) and we don’t wanna fix them so just leave and be around your own kind.”
Since they decided not to renew our lease out of the blue and we had until May to be out of there and be in a new place… we paid off May’s rent but did not pay the expenses to any damages of the apartment which added up to roughly 4K. That’s included the prorated rent they weren’t supposed to charge us because we moved out BEFORE the date they gave us to move.
I already made my situation known to both my fiancé and i’s credit bureaus and to collections. They said they will protect us and it’s considered discrimination and fraud so if they do try to take that route, we’d have to take the complex to court and collections said they think we’d win off the bat.
My question is, can they legally get us into trouble? They have no record or knowledge on the new place we are at now but I’m not dumb, I know they can find it through your social security number. Does anyone think there’s a high chance of us getting served/sued, or of them taking us to court for any reason at all?
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I called the property manager and all she has to tell me is “no, please don’t feel you did anything drastically wrong. You didn’t. We just feel with all of your complaints to us within this year, we don’t think you guys enjoy your stay here and you should seek other living where you’d be more happy.” Correct me if I’m wrong ya’ll, but how that basically came off to me was her saying “you complain too much to us about issues (including the one where I felt scared because racist neighbors were standing close to our windows at 3 am and would knock and run to scare us) and we don’t wanna fix them so just leave and be around your own kind.”
Since they decided not to renew our lease out of the blue and we had until May to be out of there and be in a new place… we paid off May’s rent but did not pay the expenses to any damages of the apartment which added up to roughly 4K. That’s included the prorated rent they weren’t supposed to charge us because we moved out BEFORE the date they gave us to move.
I already made my situation known to both my fiancé and i’s credit bureaus and to collections. They said they will protect us and it’s considered discrimination and fraud so if they do try to take that route, we’d have to take the complex to court and collections said they think we’d win off the bat.
My question is, can they legally get us into trouble? They have no record or knowledge on the new place we are at now but I’m not dumb, I know they can find it through your social security number. Does anyone think there’s a high chance of us getting served/sued, or of them taking us to court for any reason at all?
2024.05.05 22:56 cyberdaisies Can HR go against me if I bring concerns about company culture and what to do if I experience mistreatment?
Last week a co-worker of mine was fired out of the blue in the middle of the day. My manager had to call all my team for an emergency meeting to break to us the news. I will say this coworker had a reputation of being a jerk, but I never thought he would do anything that would get him fired.
After the meeting I spoke with my manager about speaking with HR on concerns I have because of what I experienced from him. I had told them that this coworker attempted to purposely make me look bad in front of our past team lead in a call because I wasn’t prepared enough for a customer call to the fired coworkers liking.
This was all due to a miscommunication between me, him, and another coworker on what needed to be done for the call with the customer. I explained my stance but he didn’t seem to want to understand. Mind you, he also invited this team lead to the call - which never sat right with me. Meanwhile the customer call that came afterwards ended up taking a COMPLETELY different turn.
I am very worried HR could use this against me because I hear often how HR is there to protect the company. I want to ask HR what are the proper steps I should take in such a situation and to make them aware that such incidents could be happening at the company.
The incident really took a toll on my self esteem. I will admit I was more fragile then. I didn’t want to say anything because he seemed to be more liked and I thought he would be believed. I remember tears rolling down my cheeks during the call with him but I did a very good job maintaining my composure.
You have no idea how I’m holding in everything right now to not say anything to him. I wish I could find a way to message him and stick up for myself, but it’s too late now. I know it’s the wrong thing to do, I won’t do it. But I’m saying this to illustrate the impact he’s had on me.
I also feel guilt for not saying anything before. I could tell by the fact an emergency meeting was conducted, coupled with the tone of my managers voice whatever happened must have not been good. God who knows what he got fired for and how long it probably took to fire him. My guess is that this may have been a long time coming as well and was let go when he ran out of chances. I feel like had I said something he probably wouldn’t have hurt anyone. I feel partly responsible.
Will HR go against me if I state my concerns on the company culture and how I should go about if I experience mistreatment?
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After the meeting I spoke with my manager about speaking with HR on concerns I have because of what I experienced from him. I had told them that this coworker attempted to purposely make me look bad in front of our past team lead in a call because I wasn’t prepared enough for a customer call to the fired coworkers liking.
This was all due to a miscommunication between me, him, and another coworker on what needed to be done for the call with the customer. I explained my stance but he didn’t seem to want to understand. Mind you, he also invited this team lead to the call - which never sat right with me. Meanwhile the customer call that came afterwards ended up taking a COMPLETELY different turn.
I am very worried HR could use this against me because I hear often how HR is there to protect the company. I want to ask HR what are the proper steps I should take in such a situation and to make them aware that such incidents could be happening at the company.
The incident really took a toll on my self esteem. I will admit I was more fragile then. I didn’t want to say anything because he seemed to be more liked and I thought he would be believed. I remember tears rolling down my cheeks during the call with him but I did a very good job maintaining my composure.
You have no idea how I’m holding in everything right now to not say anything to him. I wish I could find a way to message him and stick up for myself, but it’s too late now. I know it’s the wrong thing to do, I won’t do it. But I’m saying this to illustrate the impact he’s had on me.
I also feel guilt for not saying anything before. I could tell by the fact an emergency meeting was conducted, coupled with the tone of my managers voice whatever happened must have not been good. God who knows what he got fired for and how long it probably took to fire him. My guess is that this may have been a long time coming as well and was let go when he ran out of chances. I feel like had I said something he probably wouldn’t have hurt anyone. I feel partly responsible.
Will HR go against me if I state my concerns on the company culture and how I should go about if I experience mistreatment?
2024.05.05 22:49 AstronautInPluto Which diet is best and why?
I know this das probably been asked a million times, but this is potentially going to be different, I tried to research different diets (carnivore, vegan, ray peat, blue zone, etc) and haven't come to a conclusion since everything seems so be bad to some extent.
The goals of a perfect diet would usually (for me and others I've talked to) be General Health, Longevity, A fast metabolism, Internal Organ health and strength (Liver, Kidney Brain, Bones etc) and Maximizing energy and physical potential (joint health, bone health, performance etc), but I would be open to change them. It seems to be that the most important factor for longevity and health isn't diet but rather general lifestyle anyway but diet has been proven to be a factor.
I know alot of you guys will say "listen to your body" but I really don't want to do something that I can't measure the actual effect of, at the very least to improve the dieting community by a bit, if you want to say that then tell me how to measure what my body reacts best to and needs most.
I will try and crosspost/share this post with as many different people and communities that follow different diets so please respect eachothers.
If I find that people are helpful I will make an updated post discussing what has come up and what I think of it.
I hope this is an opportunity for y'all to try to come to a common ground on the best diet.
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The goals of a perfect diet would usually (for me and others I've talked to) be General Health, Longevity, A fast metabolism, Internal Organ health and strength (Liver, Kidney Brain, Bones etc) and Maximizing energy and physical potential (joint health, bone health, performance etc), but I would be open to change them. It seems to be that the most important factor for longevity and health isn't diet but rather general lifestyle anyway but diet has been proven to be a factor.
I know alot of you guys will say "listen to your body" but I really don't want to do something that I can't measure the actual effect of, at the very least to improve the dieting community by a bit, if you want to say that then tell me how to measure what my body reacts best to and needs most.
I will try and crosspost/share this post with as many different people and communities that follow different diets so please respect eachothers.
If I find that people are helpful I will make an updated post discussing what has come up and what I think of it.
I hope this is an opportunity for y'all to try to come to a common ground on the best diet.
2024.05.05 22:49 thecartographyguy Can someone who is a “country guy/redneck” convert to Judaism?
I hope this question isn’t offensive, and if it is, feel free to remove it and tell me to get lost. I tried posting this to Judaism but it looks like they’re not allowing conversion threads anymore, which makes sense because the last I checked, they were inundated with them.
I’ve been interested in converting to Judaism for about 20+ years on and off now, ever since I was in college and the Jewish community welcomed me with open arms during a crisis of faith. I’ve taken some online classes, I’ve spoken to two rabbis of different streams/denominations (Renewal and Reform, strongly leaning Renewal at this point), I know some very rudimentary Hebrew courtesy of Duolingo, and I’ve read many of the books recommended by the Judaism subreddit. The reality is that I always get cold feet, for two specific reasons.
The first is that I was born into a religious practice that for all intents and purposes, no longer exists. It’s a blend of two different ethno-religions, and my family and other people who grew up in the area my family grew up in have been practicing it for many generations. It’s my understanding that I’m the last member, and I’m not getting any younger or having any children (I’m infertile). I like my family’s religion, but most of the people who still practice it are in their mid to late 90s, nobody in my generation (middle age-ish) is interested in it, nobody’s having kids, and you can’t have a one-man religion. I understand that part of the conversion process involves renouncing one’s previous faith, but I don’t have a full understanding of how much of one’s culture is supposed to be renounced as well.
The second reason, and the reason for this post, is that I’m what a lot of Americans call a redneck, which I’ve noticed is very off-putting to the Jewish communities I’ve spent time with. My accent definitely outs me as a “country guy.” My formative years were spent in a town with a population of 700, where square dancing was a required class in school. The majority of my hobbies and interests are related to living in the woods, because that’s where I’ve been for most of my life. Rather than doing internships in college I worked on my family’s farm. I own way too many flannel shirts, a bolo tie for every possible occasion, in addition to a “workwear” cowboy hat and a “formal” cowboy hat. I listen almost exclusively to country music and the local classic rock station. I’m not a republican and about 95% of the time I vote blue, but I’m more conservative-leaning than many of my colleagues and peers. I’m a big guy with a big beard and a big truck, and I’ve noticed that within my time spent in the Jewish community, I stick out like a sore thumb.
Contrarily, almost every Jewish person I’ve ever met is from a large city, loves city life in general, either drives a Prius or takes public transport, and I don’t know how to say this in a non-offensive way, but, “fits the stereotype of someone who drives a Prius”. They usually decide before they talk to me that they don’t like me, and that changes when they do talk to me.
Now, hobbies can change over time, but the core of what makes you “you” doesn’t really change all that much. My second pair of cold feet comes from the idea that if I convert, I’ll always be the guy who’s visibly and audibly different from everyone else, and in some cases, assumed to be dangerous.
I love Jewish culture, I love the sense of community, I love the faith and the theology itself, I’m tired of playing in a one-man band, but my primary concern here is that if I do convert, I’m always going to be perceived as an outsider at best, and a potentially dangerous person at worst.
Is this concern valid?
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I’ve been interested in converting to Judaism for about 20+ years on and off now, ever since I was in college and the Jewish community welcomed me with open arms during a crisis of faith. I’ve taken some online classes, I’ve spoken to two rabbis of different streams/denominations (Renewal and Reform, strongly leaning Renewal at this point), I know some very rudimentary Hebrew courtesy of Duolingo, and I’ve read many of the books recommended by the Judaism subreddit. The reality is that I always get cold feet, for two specific reasons.
The first is that I was born into a religious practice that for all intents and purposes, no longer exists. It’s a blend of two different ethno-religions, and my family and other people who grew up in the area my family grew up in have been practicing it for many generations. It’s my understanding that I’m the last member, and I’m not getting any younger or having any children (I’m infertile). I like my family’s religion, but most of the people who still practice it are in their mid to late 90s, nobody in my generation (middle age-ish) is interested in it, nobody’s having kids, and you can’t have a one-man religion. I understand that part of the conversion process involves renouncing one’s previous faith, but I don’t have a full understanding of how much of one’s culture is supposed to be renounced as well.
The second reason, and the reason for this post, is that I’m what a lot of Americans call a redneck, which I’ve noticed is very off-putting to the Jewish communities I’ve spent time with. My accent definitely outs me as a “country guy.” My formative years were spent in a town with a population of 700, where square dancing was a required class in school. The majority of my hobbies and interests are related to living in the woods, because that’s where I’ve been for most of my life. Rather than doing internships in college I worked on my family’s farm. I own way too many flannel shirts, a bolo tie for every possible occasion, in addition to a “workwear” cowboy hat and a “formal” cowboy hat. I listen almost exclusively to country music and the local classic rock station. I’m not a republican and about 95% of the time I vote blue, but I’m more conservative-leaning than many of my colleagues and peers. I’m a big guy with a big beard and a big truck, and I’ve noticed that within my time spent in the Jewish community, I stick out like a sore thumb.
Contrarily, almost every Jewish person I’ve ever met is from a large city, loves city life in general, either drives a Prius or takes public transport, and I don’t know how to say this in a non-offensive way, but, “fits the stereotype of someone who drives a Prius”. They usually decide before they talk to me that they don’t like me, and that changes when they do talk to me.
Now, hobbies can change over time, but the core of what makes you “you” doesn’t really change all that much. My second pair of cold feet comes from the idea that if I convert, I’ll always be the guy who’s visibly and audibly different from everyone else, and in some cases, assumed to be dangerous.
I love Jewish culture, I love the sense of community, I love the faith and the theology itself, I’m tired of playing in a one-man band, but my primary concern here is that if I do convert, I’m always going to be perceived as an outsider at best, and a potentially dangerous person at worst.
Is this concern valid?
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- SONIC ADVENTURE 2: BATTLE
- Small World - A Spider's Web
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2024.05.05 22:17 Chrispy_Crunch_ Update: Karma came for my ex
Long post, if you’re not familiar with my story you can update yourself with these posts.
https://www.reddit.com/LifeAfterNarcissism/s/AwfcnxPRLj
https://www.reddit.com/SupportforBetrayed/s/DKeeWSvBmt
Last I spoke my ex (Megan 24) texted me wanted to call to apologize. I ignored the text and got another text a few days later saying she wasn’t with the guy she cheated with anymore (Zach 27) and wished me the best of luck.
Many of you told me not to respond for many reasons such as she was still being selfish, trying to weasel her way back, etc. all reasons I 100% understand and agree with. Many will be disappointed but I did eventually accept a phone call from her. I had my own personal reasons to do so, and only did it after speaking to my therapist to make sure I was in a good mental space.
So during the call she started off by apologizing, saying I didn’t deserve anything that happened to me and that I was a good boyfriend. That I was right about Zach, and their relationship was worse than I could’ve imagined. I doubted that because I imagined it to be pretty awful. She says it was an emotionally abusive relationship and police got involved.
So I got lots of confirmation to hunches I had. There were times and specific days I wondered if she physically cheated earlier in the relationship, she said she never was physical with him anytime before and was willing to provide texts and photo evidence if requested. I denied seeing the evidence as I thought there was no point now.
She explained that her relationship with him started as friends at work that had good banter. She basically liked the attention he gave her and she was wrong to not stop it right away. She felt at the time it was harmless not knowing how damaging it could be.
As I suspected Zach was always subtly talking down on me while Megan and I were together. Putting doubts into her head about me for a long time. She said she was wrong to listen and trusted her friend wouldn’t lie to her. And she was only adding to the fire by telling him any details of our personal life. So basically he was grooming her for a long time and she wasn’t smart enough to see it.
After that she went to a therapist, she undoubtedly loved me but wondered if something was wrong in our relationship if she could develop a connection with another man. And she had a bad therapist who never told her to communicate with me, she was a “Yes” therapist who just encourage her to follow her feelings.
After therapy she said she knew those feelings were wrong and didn’t think anything would happen with Zach because he was dating his girlfriend (Kat 27) and she wanted to start her life with me and agreed to buy a house with me.
Everything in our relationship was great and she had no doubts until her and Zach had a work trip in the city, they each drank and flirted. She invited him to her room so they could drink and she could feel good with the attention he gave, that was all she intended. Zach then suggested they lay in her bed where he groped her, but she didn’t stop him either. I told her I don’t believe that’s all that happened, to this day she still swears by what she said.
If you read my previous posts this is where she tells me what happened in the hotel, Zach calls me up to threaten me if I tell Kat. I instantly know what kind of guy he is. At the time I was worried about what he could do to Megan because he came across abusive and dangerous to me. She stuck by her word and blocked him at this point and stayed away from work. A few days later he reached out to her on a different number. She didn’t shut it down because she found not talking felt like “going through a break up”. She missed his attention and was addicted to the dopamine, she confused these feelings of addiction for “love”.
So she texted him for a week behind my back. He told Megan he loved her and he was the only one that could truly love her, gave her an ultimatum, have sex with him in a hotel or he would never talk to her again. She felt she had no choice and didn’t want to let go of him, so she went. The next day she tells me immediately what happened, she packed her things and went to her parents for the week.
So during that week at her parents Zach was harassing Megan saying she was an untrustworthy slut in order to save his relationship because Kat found out. Threatened to expose her at work. He would flip between being an asshole and telling her that he loved her and he “blew up his relationship to be with her”. Followed by more ultimatums. He convinced Megan that my relationship with her was dead and to be with him. All this time she was telling me she loved me and was thinking of us. She said she lead me on because she was afraid Zach would tell her to fuck off and she would have no one. She explained that was selfish and horrible with no excuse.
So Megan and I broke up. Zach and Kat apparently broke up. Megan’s family was disappointed and hurt. Megan moved into a new apartment while I lived at the house we bought until we could sell it.
Here is where it gets juicy. Megan and Zach fought all the time, apparently that was most of their relationship. Megan suggested they be single for a while until they are healthier, to which he said no and gave another ultimatum. Megan was Zack’s boss at work, she wanted to let her manager know what was going on so she didn’t get in trouble. To which he also said no. Eventually she did tell her boss and kept things civil by adding Zach on the call too. He was convinced she was trying to destroy his career.
During this time I guess they were dating. Zach would still see Kat and her family to “be there for her while she healed” and spent the whole day with her on the anniversary of her father’s death.
Megan did not like any of this, and brought up that if I asked her for support during an emergency how would he feel if she helped me. He responded by saying he wouldn’t trust her to not have sex with me because she’s a needy slut.
Kat tried to sabotage Megan’s career by bringing up what happened to hire ups. Megan asked Zach for support while he just did nothing.
Megan’s family dog died and she stayed with family for a bit. She fought with Zach a lot during this time, made her family very upset turning the death of a loved one about them. Zach wanted to pick her up at midnight for whatever reason, Megan said no because it was storming outside and didn’t want to leave because her parents would worry. He once again gave an ultimatum. Megan’s mom was finally able to sleep after the loss of her dog, and Megan woke her up to say she was leaving to be with Zach. Megan’s mom apparently freaked out and kicked her out of the house, this is so shocking to me because this was the most gentle and kindest woman I had ever known. It breaks my heart to think Megan’s family was pushed to this edge.
Zach never told his family about him and Kat breaking up. Kat told them 2 days before Christmas that he cheated on her and he wasn’t allowed to show up lol. Then New years Zach spent the day with Kat.
I think at this point Megan found out Zach was still living with Kat, he said just as roommates and that it was completely normal to be living with an ex. Let be real, he was just trying to juggle two girls at once. If anything I assume he wanted to be with Kat and saw Megan as a sex toy.
At this point Megan and Zach were still working together dispite asking their bosses to work on separately, the bosses did not let them lol. So their work life suffered. Made things difficult since Megan was technically his boss. Zach then said he would be silently quitting his job, put Megan in a shitty spot. Even when he would call in sick and she’d text him a work question he would respond “this is my sick day, I’ll tell you tomorrow when I feel better”.
Megan found a new job to get away from that mess. I guess Zach was still convincing her to work things out with him. They probably had broken up a dozen times by now. They would still fight, apparently he drove her so crazy she would slap him which I would say is extremely out of character since she was gentle and kind when dating me. He would refuse to leave her apartment when they fought, so she’d have to leave.
When she told her parents she was back together with him they flipped out at her. Warms my heart that apparently the father stood up for me and said “I thought we raised you better than to cheat on Chris, he was such a good guy and I thought he was going to be my son in law”.
So end of February we find some buyers for the house and we officially lose possession at the end of May. That is a relief but I hate to see this house go.
Zach and Megan were fighting in his car and he refused to let her out. Guess she ran out when they got to a traffic light. She ran and seeked help from a stranger and jumped into her car. Zach was waiting for Megan at her apartment. She called the police and they escorted him away. Couldnt charge him with anything technically. But they did find it concerning he wouldn’t let her leave his car. It was this day apparently she was no longer under his spell, to the point where she felt safer with a stranger than she did with him.
She had friends and family stay with her for a bit so she wouldn’t spend nights alone. One evening with her mom he tried opening the apartment door, they called the police again. He was blocked on everything except her email, he kept messaging her to open the door and that he saw a blue car outside and thought I was in there with her. I guess police escorted him away again and she hasn’t heard from him since.
She apparently can’t get a restraining order because they never lived together or some other stupid rule. I still think the guy is dangerous and he’ll show up years later to harass her again.
Megan said I guess he spoke of me a lot during their relationship which I find amusing. Sounds like an insecure guy. And many times she said she wanted to call me and apologize but he would never let her. That he was super controlling and possessive. As I suspected, the guy was a narcissist. Apparently he is back living with Kat. Maybe dating again or maybe they never broke up. Makes me mad though they he could come in and destroy my life and go back to his. Although I highly doubt he’s happy.
Megan just finished off by saying how sorry she was for everything, never begged for me back or anything. That she regrets not fighting for us, or giving me the break up that I deserved. At this point she going to a different therapist, is seeing someone for narcissistic abuse, and is focusing on mending her relationship with her family.
I got some satisfaction from the story, but It all sucks everything turned out this way. I’m happy her and Zach are not together because I always did fear him being an abusive nut job. No matter how much she has hurt me I don’t want to see her in that position.
Im currently looking for an apartment before the house closes, and I would like to date, but dating in this generation sucks so much. I don’t have a lot of hope for meeting a good person, especially after being cheated on. It has changed me as a person, I just don’t feel like myself anymore. The idea of starting over exhausts me but I really don’t have a choice. I still miss my ex but that damage is irreversible. I hope she gets the help she needs. I am sick from the thought of her marrying someone else one day, having his children, and living the life I originally wanted with her. Thank you for reading my story, hope this is my last post on the matter because I can’t stand anymore drama lol.
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Last I spoke my ex (Megan 24) texted me wanted to call to apologize. I ignored the text and got another text a few days later saying she wasn’t with the guy she cheated with anymore (Zach 27) and wished me the best of luck.
Many of you told me not to respond for many reasons such as she was still being selfish, trying to weasel her way back, etc. all reasons I 100% understand and agree with. Many will be disappointed but I did eventually accept a phone call from her. I had my own personal reasons to do so, and only did it after speaking to my therapist to make sure I was in a good mental space.
So during the call she started off by apologizing, saying I didn’t deserve anything that happened to me and that I was a good boyfriend. That I was right about Zach, and their relationship was worse than I could’ve imagined. I doubted that because I imagined it to be pretty awful. She says it was an emotionally abusive relationship and police got involved.
So I got lots of confirmation to hunches I had. There were times and specific days I wondered if she physically cheated earlier in the relationship, she said she never was physical with him anytime before and was willing to provide texts and photo evidence if requested. I denied seeing the evidence as I thought there was no point now.
She explained that her relationship with him started as friends at work that had good banter. She basically liked the attention he gave her and she was wrong to not stop it right away. She felt at the time it was harmless not knowing how damaging it could be.
As I suspected Zach was always subtly talking down on me while Megan and I were together. Putting doubts into her head about me for a long time. She said she was wrong to listen and trusted her friend wouldn’t lie to her. And she was only adding to the fire by telling him any details of our personal life. So basically he was grooming her for a long time and she wasn’t smart enough to see it.
After that she went to a therapist, she undoubtedly loved me but wondered if something was wrong in our relationship if she could develop a connection with another man. And she had a bad therapist who never told her to communicate with me, she was a “Yes” therapist who just encourage her to follow her feelings.
After therapy she said she knew those feelings were wrong and didn’t think anything would happen with Zach because he was dating his girlfriend (Kat 27) and she wanted to start her life with me and agreed to buy a house with me.
Everything in our relationship was great and she had no doubts until her and Zach had a work trip in the city, they each drank and flirted. She invited him to her room so they could drink and she could feel good with the attention he gave, that was all she intended. Zach then suggested they lay in her bed where he groped her, but she didn’t stop him either. I told her I don’t believe that’s all that happened, to this day she still swears by what she said.
If you read my previous posts this is where she tells me what happened in the hotel, Zach calls me up to threaten me if I tell Kat. I instantly know what kind of guy he is. At the time I was worried about what he could do to Megan because he came across abusive and dangerous to me. She stuck by her word and blocked him at this point and stayed away from work. A few days later he reached out to her on a different number. She didn’t shut it down because she found not talking felt like “going through a break up”. She missed his attention and was addicted to the dopamine, she confused these feelings of addiction for “love”.
So she texted him for a week behind my back. He told Megan he loved her and he was the only one that could truly love her, gave her an ultimatum, have sex with him in a hotel or he would never talk to her again. She felt she had no choice and didn’t want to let go of him, so she went. The next day she tells me immediately what happened, she packed her things and went to her parents for the week.
So during that week at her parents Zach was harassing Megan saying she was an untrustworthy slut in order to save his relationship because Kat found out. Threatened to expose her at work. He would flip between being an asshole and telling her that he loved her and he “blew up his relationship to be with her”. Followed by more ultimatums. He convinced Megan that my relationship with her was dead and to be with him. All this time she was telling me she loved me and was thinking of us. She said she lead me on because she was afraid Zach would tell her to fuck off and she would have no one. She explained that was selfish and horrible with no excuse.
So Megan and I broke up. Zach and Kat apparently broke up. Megan’s family was disappointed and hurt. Megan moved into a new apartment while I lived at the house we bought until we could sell it.
Here is where it gets juicy. Megan and Zach fought all the time, apparently that was most of their relationship. Megan suggested they be single for a while until they are healthier, to which he said no and gave another ultimatum. Megan was Zack’s boss at work, she wanted to let her manager know what was going on so she didn’t get in trouble. To which he also said no. Eventually she did tell her boss and kept things civil by adding Zach on the call too. He was convinced she was trying to destroy his career.
During this time I guess they were dating. Zach would still see Kat and her family to “be there for her while she healed” and spent the whole day with her on the anniversary of her father’s death.
Megan did not like any of this, and brought up that if I asked her for support during an emergency how would he feel if she helped me. He responded by saying he wouldn’t trust her to not have sex with me because she’s a needy slut.
Kat tried to sabotage Megan’s career by bringing up what happened to hire ups. Megan asked Zach for support while he just did nothing.
Megan’s family dog died and she stayed with family for a bit. She fought with Zach a lot during this time, made her family very upset turning the death of a loved one about them. Zach wanted to pick her up at midnight for whatever reason, Megan said no because it was storming outside and didn’t want to leave because her parents would worry. He once again gave an ultimatum. Megan’s mom was finally able to sleep after the loss of her dog, and Megan woke her up to say she was leaving to be with Zach. Megan’s mom apparently freaked out and kicked her out of the house, this is so shocking to me because this was the most gentle and kindest woman I had ever known. It breaks my heart to think Megan’s family was pushed to this edge.
Zach never told his family about him and Kat breaking up. Kat told them 2 days before Christmas that he cheated on her and he wasn’t allowed to show up lol. Then New years Zach spent the day with Kat.
I think at this point Megan found out Zach was still living with Kat, he said just as roommates and that it was completely normal to be living with an ex. Let be real, he was just trying to juggle two girls at once. If anything I assume he wanted to be with Kat and saw Megan as a sex toy.
At this point Megan and Zach were still working together dispite asking their bosses to work on separately, the bosses did not let them lol. So their work life suffered. Made things difficult since Megan was technically his boss. Zach then said he would be silently quitting his job, put Megan in a shitty spot. Even when he would call in sick and she’d text him a work question he would respond “this is my sick day, I’ll tell you tomorrow when I feel better”.
Megan found a new job to get away from that mess. I guess Zach was still convincing her to work things out with him. They probably had broken up a dozen times by now. They would still fight, apparently he drove her so crazy she would slap him which I would say is extremely out of character since she was gentle and kind when dating me. He would refuse to leave her apartment when they fought, so she’d have to leave.
When she told her parents she was back together with him they flipped out at her. Warms my heart that apparently the father stood up for me and said “I thought we raised you better than to cheat on Chris, he was such a good guy and I thought he was going to be my son in law”.
So end of February we find some buyers for the house and we officially lose possession at the end of May. That is a relief but I hate to see this house go.
Zach and Megan were fighting in his car and he refused to let her out. Guess she ran out when they got to a traffic light. She ran and seeked help from a stranger and jumped into her car. Zach was waiting for Megan at her apartment. She called the police and they escorted him away. Couldnt charge him with anything technically. But they did find it concerning he wouldn’t let her leave his car. It was this day apparently she was no longer under his spell, to the point where she felt safer with a stranger than she did with him.
She had friends and family stay with her for a bit so she wouldn’t spend nights alone. One evening with her mom he tried opening the apartment door, they called the police again. He was blocked on everything except her email, he kept messaging her to open the door and that he saw a blue car outside and thought I was in there with her. I guess police escorted him away again and she hasn’t heard from him since.
She apparently can’t get a restraining order because they never lived together or some other stupid rule. I still think the guy is dangerous and he’ll show up years later to harass her again.
Megan said I guess he spoke of me a lot during their relationship which I find amusing. Sounds like an insecure guy. And many times she said she wanted to call me and apologize but he would never let her. That he was super controlling and possessive. As I suspected, the guy was a narcissist. Apparently he is back living with Kat. Maybe dating again or maybe they never broke up. Makes me mad though they he could come in and destroy my life and go back to his. Although I highly doubt he’s happy.
Megan just finished off by saying how sorry she was for everything, never begged for me back or anything. That she regrets not fighting for us, or giving me the break up that I deserved. At this point she going to a different therapist, is seeing someone for narcissistic abuse, and is focusing on mending her relationship with her family.
I got some satisfaction from the story, but It all sucks everything turned out this way. I’m happy her and Zach are not together because I always did fear him being an abusive nut job. No matter how much she has hurt me I don’t want to see her in that position.
Im currently looking for an apartment before the house closes, and I would like to date, but dating in this generation sucks so much. I don’t have a lot of hope for meeting a good person, especially after being cheated on. It has changed me as a person, I just don’t feel like myself anymore. The idea of starting over exhausts me but I really don’t have a choice. I still miss my ex but that damage is irreversible. I hope she gets the help she needs. I am sick from the thought of her marrying someone else one day, having his children, and living the life I originally wanted with her. Thank you for reading my story, hope this is my last post on the matter because I can’t stand anymore drama lol.
2024.05.05 22:16 Sigruldar Humanity’s twisted Gods Chapter 1 part 5
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Humanity’s twisted Gods
Chapter one – New Blood
Part 5 – Status quo
Messenger: “OH GREAT GODS OF HUMANITY! I HAVE COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE DIVINE COUNCIL!”
Hunger laid there, the only sign of any life still left in him the slow rise and fall of the blanket, that was almost falling off him. Death could be heard breathing slowly, and Victory, who was leaning against Death, snored silently. The main reason as to why the messenger had to scream at the very top of his poor mortal lungs was Conflict, who caused the very table he was laying on to rumble from the sound produced by his body.
The messenger took a breath and pulled out a sound amplifier: “OH GREAT GODS OF HUMANITY! I HAVE COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE DIVINE COUNCIL!”
Death: “…huh?”
Victory: “zzz…hm? wait. Wait WAIT WAIT! DEATH!”
The resulting crash from Victory losing his support of the rising Death prompted Hunger to turn and pull a couch pillow over his head.
Death: “what…time…yawn…is it?”
Victory: “Hold on…four twenty-three. Who the fuck wakes someone at half past four?”
Messenger: “The divine council demands your presence.”
Victory: “The council? What the hell do they want? Did something happen? Why did they call us out of the blue?”
Messenger: “While I do not know and don’t ask questions as it isn’t my place to do so, I think I overheard something along the lines of you not following up on a meeting scheduled for today.”
Victory: “I don’t know of a meeting. Do you?”
Death: “yawn…no…damn, my head…”
Victory: “Conflict?”
Conflict: “Hm…what?”
As Conflict rose, the table creaked from the release of lifting the heavy burden.
Victory: “Do you know of any meeting with the council?”
Conflict: “No. Don’t really have the time either. Gota prepare for tomorrows meetings.”
Victory: “Is it urgent?”
Messenger: “It is always urgent.”
Victory: “I mean from a Gods perspective.”
Messenger: “Always.”
Victory: “I see. Well, I hope that deity-link thingy has video call functions.”
Victory: “So…yawn…what is this all about?”
Victory was everything that the council currently wasn’t. Tired, underdressed, unprepared, bed hair like only a god could have, over all, a mess.
Narmonta, Goddess of messages: “You seem quite tired. Are you alright?”
Victory: “You woke us up on a free day after heavy consummation of alcohol at a time that no sane human would get up at for a meeting we had no idea about and then had me come over to the council because not even your messenger has an idea how to operate the deity-link’s totally ‘user-friendly’ interface. You tell me.”
Litru’shano, God of tactics: “No idea? NO IDEA? WE SENT YOU A DEITY-LINK MESSAGE THREE WEEKS AGO! WITH THE EXACT DATE AND TIME! AND YOU SHOW UP ALONE!”
Victory: “Listen, listen. First of all, quiet down. As I said, we consumed large amounts of alcohol yesterday in celebration of our return to our people, leading to me having the mother of all hangovers, it is six in the morning on one of our sparce few free days, and I didn’t have breakfast yet. We let Hunger go back to sleep, Death is prepping for the day to the best of his currently somewhat inhibited abilities, and Conflict is the only one in an OK state, but too busy prepping for tomorrow’s meetings, that have all been scheduled at least three weeks prior. So, you unfortunately will have to make do with our best diplomat and most competent politician. I am already pissed of enough because you woke me up to this meeting out of the blue so early, I do not need a booster for my headache too.”
Mikrula, God of war: “Tomorrows meetings? He won’t be getting into any meetings once I’m through with him.
Victory: “Oh, you don’t know yet? He got a stand-in.”
Mikrula: “A stand-in? How did he get a stand-in so fast? And when?”
Victory: “About 4 million years ago. One of our former enemies.”
Mikrula: “Who?”
Victory: “Loki.”
Mikrula: “Loki? LOKI? HE SENDS THAT HARMLESS TINKERER TO FIGHT ME?
Victory was audibly drinking from a thermos flask.
Victory: slurp “Hm? Harmless? Oh, yeah, I forgot you people don’t know much of our past.”
Isolutia, God of peace: “And what exactly do you mean by that? While I understand that Loki has lost a war against you and your brothers, which does make him an acceptable stand-in for Conflict according to our laws, he is still, and I say this without any disrespect intended, just a god of craftsmanship who has not fought anyone other than you.”
Victory: “We know Loki by many names. But be assured, among the many things the torturer of Asgard was known for is also his diligent retention of skill. This former god of pain might be a little rusty but most certainly still is a very skilled fighter.”
Mikrula: “LOKI? THAT WEAKLING GOD OF CRAFTSMANSHIP? A GOD OF PAIN?”
Victory: “Quiet down, please! And yes, he was indeed a god of pain. He was luckier than his family though. Literally. His escape from Conflict was nothing but sheer luck. Gave him enough time to change his way and earn our pardon.”
Mikrula: “LIKE HELL ANY PART OF THAT STORY IS TRUE! I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT LOKI! HE IS A HARMLESS LITTLE TINKERER, NOT SOME SADISTIC KILLER!”
Victory: “Please, stop screaming. Seriously, what is wrong with you? Ah, who cares. Anyways, consi…”
Mikrula: “HEY, DON’T IGNORE ME! WE AREN’T DONE TALKING YET!”
Victory: “Can someone please tape his mouth shut so we can get to the important business? Since there seem to be more than just the council Gods present, this meeting is probably supposed to be of some importance. Why did you call us?”
Litru’shano: “We need to properly designate your serving species and you as well. While we did already classify your species, we did not do so with the knowledge of human history, and without you. Usually, a designation is given by the federation with the support of the Gods. Since we originally thought humanity doesn’t have Gods, as we never met them despite first contact, we left the designation entirely to the federation. But now, we know more about humanity and their Gods have revealed themselves to us. We believe that humanity might have been incorrectly designated by us. As for you, should the tales about your birth be true, then we have not yet encountered Gods like you and as such we don’t have a proper designation yet. So, we came to the conclusion, that it is time to give both of you an official and proper designation.”
Victory: “And that couldn’t have waited for a more opportune time? You couldn’t inform us beforehand so we could have secluded a proper meeting? Is it a truly critical mater?”
Litru’shano: “Inform you before…WE DID INFORM YOU! VIA THE DEITY-LINK, YOU IMBECILE!”
Victory: “Ouch. Quiet down, please! And for your information, we have been very busy dealing with informing humanity’s former tyrants about our intentions, reconnecting with our people, and our normal divine duties. Do you honestly think, we have had the time to even look into the workings of your over glorified e-mail system? We don’t even fully understand how to properly access it yet, and no, your lacklustre explanation did not help in the slightest! We had more important business to attend to! Not to mention that you could have checked in with us if we received your message! I’d love to indulge you, but with a schedule as tight as ours, these few free days become too valuable to waste on poorly prepared meetings and rude, inconsiderate behaviour! If you still haven’t noticed, I am not in the best condition right now and your incessant screaming is causing actual pain! If you want to, we can properly schedule a meeting for this purpose now.”
Litru’shano: “THIS IS OF VERY HIGH IMPORTANCE! WE DEMAND…”
Victory: “Can you PLEASE be quieter? Please? Seriously, I thought you were more tactful than a god of war. And what you demand doesn’t matter to me if you can’t properly schedule meetings! Even less so if you can’t treat us with respect or consideration! If you want to classify our species so desperately, actually schedule a meeting with us properly NOW, instead of sending a messenger to rudely wake us on our FREE DAY!”
Litru’shano: “You…you…you…”
Victory: “Well, are you going to take my offer?”
Litru’shano: “YOU INSOLENT DISRESPECTFUL CUR!”
Victory: “Oh, so that’s what it’s like. Very well, GOOD DAY!”
-slam-
Victory: “Ow, why did I have to slam the door?”
Litru’shano: “This…this…THIS…”
Isolutia: “Please calm down. We can’t be hasty.”
Litru’shano: “He disrespected the entire council!”
Narmonta: “You also disrespected him. And he is new. They aren’t fully aware of the workings of the council yet. Still, I can’t stop feeling like some of the points he made are valid…”
Litru’shano: “IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THEY ARE NEW OR NOT! WE ARE THE COUNCIL! WE ARE TO BE RESPECTED!”
Narmonta: “Technically speaking, they are also the council. They have been introduced and have their own thrones. They are equal to us.”
Litru’shano: “BUT…”
Narmonta: “But what? This all went down the drain so quickly because a certain someone forgot that communication is a two-way road that is built on respect. He was in the right! We should have asked for a confirmation. And you should have been more self-controlled! Screaming at him was already rude enough normally, but considering what state he was in? Doubly so!”
Krina’larun’mtru, Goddess of joy: “Can we change the topic? Perhaps we can discuss this issue at another time when our minds are settled.”
Litru’shano: “Oh no, we are settling it now!”
Varqueslio, God of greed: “It seems the council gods are in disagreement.”
Brl’naklara, Goddess of war: “Impressive. I didn’t think those human Gods could cause such problems in such short time.”
Grinulma, God of envy: “I wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeve…”
Normunalo’lemado, God of love: “I only hope they don’t start anything terrible. I already have enough with listening to the present Gods of war.”
Mikrula: “Can you believe he is sending Loki to fight me? Loki? Of all the Gods out there? The gall! I wanted to bash Conflict’s face in, not Loki’s’. Now this will be even less of a challenge than expected!”
Normunalo’lemado: “Why is your only solution always to fight?”
Mikrula: “Because…”
Normunalo’lemado: “Rhetorical question! Rhetorical question!”
Conflict: “Quintala? I am here.”
Quintala, Goddess of life: “Oh. Great. You are here.”
Conflict: “Did...I do something wrong?”
Quintala: “How did you figure that out?”
Conflict: “You sound rather unhappy o see me.”
Quintala: “Oh no, how could that be?”
Conflict: “Sarcasm. Great. Like I don’t get enough of that back home. Seriously, what did I do?”
Quintala: “Loki. Does that ring any bells?”
Conflict: “Loki? What about him? Don’t tell me you’re jealous that you aren’t the only non-human god I spend time with. Why are you looking at me like that?”
Quintala: “YOU SENT LOKI TO HIS DEATH!”
Conflict: “No I haven’t. The official duels aren’t to the death.”
Quintala: “WITH HOW CLOSE TO IT HE’LL BE IT MIGHT AS WELL BE!”
Conflict: “Well, no, that’s very unlikely. Loki is a cunning and tricky fighter. If anything, Mikrular is at a severe disadvantage, as he isn’t used to opponents that doge, weave, and place traps at any given chance. His straightforward way of fighting is based on brute force and one hit ending blows and has not seen any need to change in ages. His way of combat is stagnant and rusty. Devastating, yes, but only if you can land a hit. Loki on the other hand doesn’t hit hard, but he hits. Often. In fact, I hope for Mikrulas’ sake, that Loki actually follows my orders.”
Quintala: “HOW SHOULD LOKI DEFEAT MIKRULA? HE IS A GOD OF CRAFTSMANSHIP, PITTED AGAINST A GOD OF WAR! I KNOW HIM, HE IS NOT A FIGHTER!”
Conflict: “In all honesty, I can either let you continue on believing that, or tell you what Loki used to be like until we came. The question is whether you want to continue viewing Loki as a kind and merciful soul that would never harm a fly or if you want the truth.”
Quintala: “The truth? What truth?”
Conflict: “The truth about Loki. Who he was. What hides within him. How he got his nicknames.”
Quintala: “Nicknames? You don’t mean to tell me that artisan of pain is a real nickname for him?”
Conflict: “Or dread warden, or torturer of Asgard, or stalker of Helheim. His nicknames. Did he never tell anyone his nicknames?
Quintala: “Now you must be joking! This is no time for jokes! Loki is probably getting crushed right now!”
Conflict: “I highly doubt it. As I said, he is a tricky fighter. And a former warden of the penal fortress Helheim, Asgards old prison and information gathering facility…hold on, I think I am getting a call.”
Quintala: “A call? From what? And from who?”
Conflict: “Well, going by the feeling it must be Loki. Seriously, this call rune is all sorts of weird I tell you.”
Quintala: “LOKI GAVE YOU A CALL RUNE?”
Conflict: “Yes, Loki? You didn’t torture him, right? What do you mean, ‘not yet’? I am fairly certain I instructed you to neither bring unnecessary harm to nor torture him, and you know I don’t give a shit that he insulted me. What do you mean he brought mortals? … HE BROUGHT MORTALS? TO A DUEL? HE WANTED INTERSPECIES WAR OVER AN INSIGNIFICANT DISPUTE?”
Quintala: “Conflict?”
Conflict: “Looks like I am messing up my schedule today after all.”
Loki: “Conflict?”
Conflict: “Over here.”
Loki: “I brought Mikrula as requested. To be honest, I expected more of a fight from a God of war.”
Conflict: “Good, good. So, Loki, one question. Is Leviathan still without a species to guide?”
Loki: “Yes, why?”
Conflict: “Because this idiot right there is the only God of his subjects, and since he wanted to take innocent lives over his own pettiness, I am not so sure he will leave this emergency meeting I am calling alive. Could you please go inform Leviathan that there is a species that might be about to lose their God and needs guidance?”
Loki: “Certainly. But shouldn’t we punish him first?”
Conflict: “Oh, don’t you worry about that. You just go tell Leviathan while I handle the bureaucracy.”
Loki: “But…you said something about an emergency meeting. Shouldn’t I be here for that? And why didn’t I get a notice for one?”
Conflict: “Because the topic of said meeting is of no concern to any of the survivors of our war, as you are either already well aware of the things I am about to discuss or are guaranteed to never make the mistakes that would require you to be present. Again, that is.”
Loki: “Still, I…”
Conflict: “Look, Loki. First of all, time is an important resource, especially for divine beings. It is our duty to aid our species, to guide and protect as needed, to comfort, to assist. That duty is sacred and of utmost importance. It leaves very little spare free time. You shouldn’t waste that valuable resource on a meeting that doesn’t even concern you in the slightest.”
Loki: “But…”
Conflict: “And secondly, I am a busy God and I do not have a lot of time. This little debacle right now is already messing up my schedule terribly. I need you to get to Leviathan as soon as possible, as I do not have the time, nor the means to inform him myself.”
Loki: “How so?”
Conflict: “Leviathan is too scared of the four of us. No matter how we approach him, he runs off the first chance he gets. Furthermore, he doesn’t believe himself to be a proper and good God, because of his failures with humanity, but I know otherwise. He was one of the kinder Gods we had, which is why we did not hunt him down like the others. Unfortunately, he won’t listen to us, but he might listen to you. So, please go tell him now.”
Loki: “Okay, I’ll go…”
Krina’larun’mtru: “This was rather unexpected. So, Conflict, what is this…BY ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY!”
Krina’larun’mtru noticed the blood dripping onto Mikrulas’ council throne. What she saw above said throne froze the blood in her veins.
Krina’larun’mtru: “WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?”
Conflict: “The consequences of his actions.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “DID YOU DO THAT?”
Conflict only smiled.
Krina’larun’mtru: “BUT…BUT WHY?”
Conflict: “He made a brutal mistake. One that we will discuss once everyone has assembled.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “WE…WE HAVE TO GET HIM DOWN!”
Conflict: “Oh, no worries. I’ll make sure he gets down once the meeting is over.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “HE IS SUFFERING! DYING!”
Conflict: “And?”
Krina’larun’mtru: “THAT’S ENOUGH! I AM GETTING HIM DOWN!”
Conflict: “Are you sure about that?”
Krina’larun’mtru: “WHAT?”
Krina’larun’mtru turned to look at Conflict, who was still sitting on his throne, smiling as if nothing was out of the ordinary on a sunny day.
Conflict: “As I said, Mikrula will get down from there, AFTER the meeting. I’ll make SURE of it.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “You would hinder me from getting him down?”
Conflict: “I’d make sure you can’t.”
Krina’larun’mtru took a good look at Conflict. His eyes showed only a neutral disposition, but his entire body spoke of something else. To the unobservant eye, he looked relaxed, but having constant dealings with Gods of war as a council Goddess has taught Krina’larun’mtru well. She could see that he was primed like a spring. He was waiting. Waiting for her. He was ready to ambush her if she were to make one wrong move. And then she saw the tool belt haphazardly thrown over the back of Conflicts’ throne, containing multiple bloodied tools.
Krina’larun’mtru: “You…you…you wouldn’t.”
Conflict just smiled and gestured to her throne.
Conflict: “You should take your seat. I’m sure the rest will be here shortly.”
Narmonta was usually not as fast with distributing messages as she was with this one. Usually, she would check the urgency twice, and check if she was sending the message to the correct people. This time however, she had a full comprehensive list ready from the previous message, and no reason to check the urgency.
Narmonta: “Everyone is here now. The meeting can begin.”
Conflict: “Wonderful. Now, I know this was unexpected, and a bit on short notice, but rest assured, it is of upmost urgency. Now then, the reason as to why…”
Litru’shano: “STOP WASTING TIME! SOMEONE IS DYING RIGHT NOW!”
Conflict: “If you would be so polite as to not interrupt me, I could explain without delay.”
Litru’shano: “STOP PLAYING AROUND AND TELL US ALREADY!”
Conflict: “There is no reason for you to be so rude! Need I remind you, that most problems you had with us so far have been entirely your fault to begin with?”
Normunalo’lemado: “BOTH OF YOU, JUST STOP! MIKRULA IS DYING! JUST GET THIS OVER WITH, PLEASE!”
Conflict: “Now then, as I was saying, the reason as to why I called this meeting, was something I didn’t expect to be the norm. Something, that I just can’t accept as the norm. What I am talking about, is nothing other than…”
Litru’shano: “OH FOR FUCKS SAKE JUST TELL US ALREADY!”
Conflict: “Once again, rude. Why do you keep interrupting me? What exactly have I done to YOU in particular that could motivate such behaviour?”
Litru’shano: “YOU DARE ASK THAT QUESTION? DO YOU…”
Athzurko, God of war: “SHUT UP! CAN’T YOU SEE HIS SMILE?”
Litru’shano: “WHAT?”
Athzurko: “YOU ARE PLAYING INTO HIS HANDS! YOU ARE HELPING HIM!”
Litru’shano: “HOW?”
Athzurko: “HE PLANTED REMOTE EXPLOSIVES ONTO MIKRULAS’ HEAD SO WE CAN’T RUSH HIM WITHOUT KILLING MIKRULA AND YOU HONESTLY ASK WHY HE STOPS HIS EXPLANATION AT YOUR INTERRUPTIONS? HE WANTS MIKRULA TO SUFFER, AND POSSIBLY DIE! HE INTENTIONALLY WASTES TIME! THE MORE YOU INTERRUPT HIM, THE MORE YOU AID HIM! SO, SHUT UP!”
Litru’shano: “…”
Conflict: “Now then, have we all settled down? May I continue WITHOUT interruptions? Good. Now then, where was I? Ah, yes. You all apparently have accepted it as the norm, that mortals are your expendable slaves that you can use for whatever it pleases you. Mikrula, for example, decided to bring mortals into the duel between us, as Loki can attest for.”
Lo’munato, God of curiosity: “Loki? Why Loki?”
Conflict: “Ah, I’m glad you ask. You see, Loki was my stand-in for the fight. As per council rules, a stand in must be someone I had once beaten in combat, and since Loki not only has recently decided to interact with us on a more friendly basis, but also to support me in particular thanks to what I would consider a very basic deed, driven by duty rather than kindness, he offered himself rather fast. Do you want me to go into detail on that?”
Lo’munato: “I…”
Litru’shano: “NO! No, I believe that can wait for another time. You were saying?”
Conflict: “Pity. Anyways, you see, I strongly support the view that mortals are not our playthings. They are living people and should be treated as such. They are not your cannon fodder, they are not your coffee-cup-holder, they are people. Living their lives. Theirs may be shorter than yours, but not less important in any way.”
Varqueslio, God of greed: “Oh really? We are Gods. We are irreplaceable for our people.”
Conflict: “Quite the contrary. As I fully expect Mikrula to die here, I already made the necessary arrangements to replace him for his people. Leviathan should make a far more suitable God to lead his people.”
Varqueslio: “Leviathan? That paranoid snake? Preposterous!”
Conflict’s eyes grew cold. The sadistic joy slipped from his face to make room for different expressions. Disgust and hate.
Varqueslio: “Why so silent Conflict? Snake got your tongue?”
Conflict: “YOU HAVE A LOT OF GUTS CALLING THE GREAT SERPENT A PARANOID SNAKE IN MY PRESENCE YOU DISGRACEFUL NAUSEATING SORRY EXCUSE FOR A WANNABE GOD.”
Silence fell over the council. Conflicts voice had changed. It was a voice that until this day none of the council would have thought could come from someone as comparatively carefree and kind as Conflict. It was a voice truly befitting of a god of war, a voice many gods of war thought they had and only now realized they don’t. It bellowed out as if over a million warriors had declared a battle as started and oozed with hate and bloodlust so hot, that it could empower and strengthen a mortal soul and burned in the eyes of the present Gods.
Conflict: “I’m…no, that would be a lie. I’m not sorry. As you might have guessed, Leviathan holds somewhat of a sweet spot in my heart. He was the only, truly benevolent God to have graced earth with his presence, and I just can’t have him be insulted by some greedy, foul, PUS-FILLED BILE SACK THAT THINKS IT’S OKAY TO HAVE HIS SUBJECTS CLEAN UNDER HIS FATTY FLAPS!”
Shock and disgust filled the eyes of the present Gods.
Conflict: “Yes, I know. And if you think that is the only secret I know, rest assured, it is not. The secrets of your temples are open books to us. And I mean all your temples! From everyone present! I know many more disgusting secrets from many of the present Gods! Secrets you wish hidden from the council! Your security is lacking! Know this! We know of your sins! We are ready to act! And we value mortal lives! So, I recommend that you think carefully, what you ask of your species, especially if one of us is present! Especially when you have business with us! Unless of course you wish to share a certain God’s fate. I wish you all a good day, and I think we can all agree, that this meeting was very enlightening. Well, I think that should be all. I declare this meeting as…what time is it…anyone up for coffee? Anyone? No? Okay, suit yourselves. Anyways, I think we can all agree this meeting is over. Good day.”
The council exploded with movement as the many Gods rushed to get Mikrula down from the ceiling.
Conflict: “I urge caution for all of you, rushing your hands could cause more damage. Goodbye.”
Quarian, Goddess of Motherhood: “And that…is the beast that touched my daughter?”
Merlaquar, God of Fatherhood: “I swear, if he touches her again, I’ll…”
Naronquil, God of harvest: “You’ll what? You see what he has done to Mikrula! And keep in mind, he didn’t fight Mikrula personally, he called Loki as a stand in! Loki! What exactly do you think we could do? Call the council? He played the council! Like a cheap, second hand nariloma! And there are three more of them!”
Merlaquar: “…”
Quarian: “Quintala, promise me something. Promise me you won’t…”
Quintala: “Mother, I already know, but I can’t. Something is off about all of this. I have met Conflict expecting another assertive God of war that thinks he can enslave me, and instead met one of the kindest people outside of our small circle. And now, I met a monster, worse than any God of pain I had the displeasure of meeting. Then there is the fact that Loki was not only Conflict’s stand-in, but successfully so. Not to mention that this entire situation also makes Conflict’s claim that Loki is a former god of pain more likely. And all of that only brings more questions about the past of humanity and the gods that apparently survived it. There are too many questions left unanswered. I can’t. I’m sorry.”
Quarian: “Quintala, daughter, you can’t be serious! You have seen and heard him, didn’t you? Besides the things he has done here, he also pitted Loki against Mikrula! Loki! Do you honestly think, Loki would willingly fight someone, let alone a God of war, for someone else? And for him to be a god of pain? How is any of that supposed to make sense?!”
Quintala: “It does sound strange, and I do not know his reasons, but I do know one thing that is fact. Loki gave Conflict a call rune.”
Quarian: “He WHAT?”
Quintala: “Loki gave Conflict a call rune. An actual, fully functional call rune. There are many things Loki probably would do when threatened by a God of war. But to give away a call rune?”
Merlaquar: “Why would Loki give Conflict of all people a call rune? Why? It doesn’t make sense. If we go by the tales of the first occurrence of the human Gods, Loki would be more inclined to be Conflicts enemy. And if those tales are lies, then Loki wouldn’t be too familiar with Conflict, at least nowhere near familiar enough to even just sell him a call rune, let alone just give. It doesn’t make sense.”
Quintala: “And that is exactly why I can’t stop interacting with him. There is too much left unanswered. I must learn more.”
As Conflict walked through the great doors of the council, he saw someone he didn’t want to see. Someone he didn’t want to see what he had done. Someone who was now starting to cry in front of him.
Conflict: “Loki.”
Conflict stepped closer, crouching down.
Conflict: “I told you this was no meeting that you should concern yourself with. Why did you have to come here again.”
Loki recoiled as Conflict moved in to embraced him.
Conflict: “Shhhhh, it’s okay, I am not going to hurt you.”
Loki still hesitated but didn’t move away this time as Conflict slowly moved closer and wrapped his arms gently around Loki.
Conflict: “It’s alright, you can cry as much as you need to. I won’t hurt you. You are not in any danger.”
And like that, Loki started crying. His tears drenched Conflicts clothes as if he was in the middle of a rainstorm.
Conflict: “You saw him, didn’t you? You saw the technique I used.”
Loki: “Y…yes…”
Conflict: “Loki, I am so sorry. I didn’t want you to know. I didn’t want you to relive those moments.”
Loki: “WHY?”
Conflict: “I…I had to. Back then, it was a…”
Loki: “THAT IS NOT IT! I KNOW ABOUT THEN! I WAS THERE! YOU WEREN’T THE ONLY ONES WITH TIME TO THINK! IT’S LIKE YOU SAID! THE WAR WAS JUST ABOUT FIGHTING FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVED IN! WE ALL LOST PEOPLE WE LOVED IN THAT WAR! YOU HAD ALL THE RIGHTS TO KILL MY FAMILY, JUST AS WE HAD ALL THE RIGHTS TO KILL YOU! BUT WHY DOES IT STILL HURT?”
Conflict: “The…loss?”
Loki: “YES! I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH TIME REFLECTING, REMEMBERING, MAKING PEACE WITH WHAT HAPPENED! SO WHY DOES IT STILL HURT?”
Conflict: “Because loss always hurts. No matter if your family was good or evil, loss is connected to how you remember the people you lost, and your memories of your family are predominantly good. You miss them. To you, they were kind and loving. Even though you have had time to think back, to make peace, and to accept the truth, loss always hurts. You can suppress the hate you have for the one who took them from you, given the right reason, even forgive them. But the pain, that never goes away. And nothing reminds us of our loss as brutally as a reminder of the way we lost them. I am so, so sorry.”
Loki: “Don’t be. You tried to keep me from it. I only have one question. Why this technique?”
Conflict: “Because it brings a great amount of pain in a short amount of time when properly prepared. During the time you delivered Mikrula to me, I prepared what I needed. It is not the fastest torture technique, but it balances the amount of pain that can be done in a short amount of time very well.”
Loki: “Is that why you killed my father with it too?”
Conflict: “Yes.”
Loki: “So, is it the worst torture technique you know?”
Conflict: “Far from it. Mikrula would have deserved worse, but I don’t have the time, and he wasn’t worth it.”
Loki: “And my father?”
Conflict: “I still question myself if I was to cruel to him.”
Loki: “Thank you.”
Conflict: “For what?”
Loki: “Being so honest and caring, even after everything I have done to your people.”
Conflict: “You changed.”
Loki: “You are one of the very few Gods that would care.”
Conflict: “That is even more disappointing than the respecting the dead thing.”
Loki: “I know. That is why you have my servitude.”
Conflict: “Oh for the love of…”
Narmonta: “Are you out of your mind? After what he did to Mikrula? We aren’t even sure if we can save him! And you still want to learn more about those beasts?”
Quintala: “When I first met Conflict, he broke the status quo of Gods of war by being kind and respectful towards me. During the meeting, he broke the status quo by being a worse monster than any God of pain I know of ever was. And now, I have seen him comfort Loki and help him through trauma that HE has caused! And he did so as if he was the kindest father in existence! And just as it was when he introduced himself to me, it was too genuine to be acting! I have seen the respectful and kind man, the atrocious and cruel monster, and the kind caring father! I need to know! I need to find out just who he is! And if his brothers are anything like him, I need to find out who they are, and I need to find out who their former victims are!”
Narmonta: “You cannot be serious! From what I can tell, that is far too dangerous of an endeavour for us council Gods, let alone a paradiseworld Goddess of life!”
Quintala: “I don’t need words of caution, I NEED ANSWERS!”
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Chapter one – New Blood
Part 5 – Status quo
Messenger: “OH GREAT GODS OF HUMANITY! I HAVE COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE DIVINE COUNCIL!”
Hunger laid there, the only sign of any life still left in him the slow rise and fall of the blanket, that was almost falling off him. Death could be heard breathing slowly, and Victory, who was leaning against Death, snored silently. The main reason as to why the messenger had to scream at the very top of his poor mortal lungs was Conflict, who caused the very table he was laying on to rumble from the sound produced by his body.
The messenger took a breath and pulled out a sound amplifier: “OH GREAT GODS OF HUMANITY! I HAVE COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE DIVINE COUNCIL!”
Death: “…huh?”
Victory: “zzz…hm? wait. Wait WAIT WAIT! DEATH!”
The resulting crash from Victory losing his support of the rising Death prompted Hunger to turn and pull a couch pillow over his head.
Death: “what…time…yawn…is it?”
Victory: “Hold on…four twenty-three. Who the fuck wakes someone at half past four?”
Messenger: “The divine council demands your presence.”
Victory: “The council? What the hell do they want? Did something happen? Why did they call us out of the blue?”
Messenger: “While I do not know and don’t ask questions as it isn’t my place to do so, I think I overheard something along the lines of you not following up on a meeting scheduled for today.”
Victory: “I don’t know of a meeting. Do you?”
Death: “yawn…no…damn, my head…”
Victory: “Conflict?”
Conflict: “Hm…what?”
As Conflict rose, the table creaked from the release of lifting the heavy burden.
Victory: “Do you know of any meeting with the council?”
Conflict: “No. Don’t really have the time either. Gota prepare for tomorrows meetings.”
Victory: “Is it urgent?”
Messenger: “It is always urgent.”
Victory: “I mean from a Gods perspective.”
Messenger: “Always.”
Victory: “I see. Well, I hope that deity-link thingy has video call functions.”
Victory was everything that the council currently wasn’t. Tired, underdressed, unprepared, bed hair like only a god could have, over all, a mess.
Narmonta, Goddess of messages: “You seem quite tired. Are you alright?”
Victory: “You woke us up on a free day after heavy consummation of alcohol at a time that no sane human would get up at for a meeting we had no idea about and then had me come over to the council because not even your messenger has an idea how to operate the deity-link’s totally ‘user-friendly’ interface. You tell me.”
Litru’shano, God of tactics: “No idea? NO IDEA? WE SENT YOU A DEITY-LINK MESSAGE THREE WEEKS AGO! WITH THE EXACT DATE AND TIME! AND YOU SHOW UP ALONE!”
Victory: “Listen, listen. First of all, quiet down. As I said, we consumed large amounts of alcohol yesterday in celebration of our return to our people, leading to me having the mother of all hangovers, it is six in the morning on one of our sparce few free days, and I didn’t have breakfast yet. We let Hunger go back to sleep, Death is prepping for the day to the best of his currently somewhat inhibited abilities, and Conflict is the only one in an OK state, but too busy prepping for tomorrow’s meetings, that have all been scheduled at least three weeks prior. So, you unfortunately will have to make do with our best diplomat and most competent politician. I am already pissed of enough because you woke me up to this meeting out of the blue so early, I do not need a booster for my headache too.”
Mikrula, God of war: “Tomorrows meetings? He won’t be getting into any meetings once I’m through with him.
Victory: “Oh, you don’t know yet? He got a stand-in.”
Mikrula: “A stand-in? How did he get a stand-in so fast? And when?”
Victory: “About 4 million years ago. One of our former enemies.”
Mikrula: “Who?”
Victory: “Loki.”
Mikrula: “Loki? LOKI? HE SENDS THAT HARMLESS TINKERER TO FIGHT ME?
Victory was audibly drinking from a thermos flask.
Victory: slurp “Hm? Harmless? Oh, yeah, I forgot you people don’t know much of our past.”
Isolutia, God of peace: “And what exactly do you mean by that? While I understand that Loki has lost a war against you and your brothers, which does make him an acceptable stand-in for Conflict according to our laws, he is still, and I say this without any disrespect intended, just a god of craftsmanship who has not fought anyone other than you.”
Victory: “We know Loki by many names. But be assured, among the many things the torturer of Asgard was known for is also his diligent retention of skill. This former god of pain might be a little rusty but most certainly still is a very skilled fighter.”
Mikrula: “LOKI? THAT WEAKLING GOD OF CRAFTSMANSHIP? A GOD OF PAIN?”
Victory: “Quiet down, please! And yes, he was indeed a god of pain. He was luckier than his family though. Literally. His escape from Conflict was nothing but sheer luck. Gave him enough time to change his way and earn our pardon.”
Mikrula: “LIKE HELL ANY PART OF THAT STORY IS TRUE! I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT LOKI! HE IS A HARMLESS LITTLE TINKERER, NOT SOME SADISTIC KILLER!”
Victory: “Please, stop screaming. Seriously, what is wrong with you? Ah, who cares. Anyways, consi…”
Mikrula: “HEY, DON’T IGNORE ME! WE AREN’T DONE TALKING YET!”
Victory: “Can someone please tape his mouth shut so we can get to the important business? Since there seem to be more than just the council Gods present, this meeting is probably supposed to be of some importance. Why did you call us?”
Litru’shano: “We need to properly designate your serving species and you as well. While we did already classify your species, we did not do so with the knowledge of human history, and without you. Usually, a designation is given by the federation with the support of the Gods. Since we originally thought humanity doesn’t have Gods, as we never met them despite first contact, we left the designation entirely to the federation. But now, we know more about humanity and their Gods have revealed themselves to us. We believe that humanity might have been incorrectly designated by us. As for you, should the tales about your birth be true, then we have not yet encountered Gods like you and as such we don’t have a proper designation yet. So, we came to the conclusion, that it is time to give both of you an official and proper designation.”
Victory: “And that couldn’t have waited for a more opportune time? You couldn’t inform us beforehand so we could have secluded a proper meeting? Is it a truly critical mater?”
Litru’shano: “Inform you before…WE DID INFORM YOU! VIA THE DEITY-LINK, YOU IMBECILE!”
Victory: “Ouch. Quiet down, please! And for your information, we have been very busy dealing with informing humanity’s former tyrants about our intentions, reconnecting with our people, and our normal divine duties. Do you honestly think, we have had the time to even look into the workings of your over glorified e-mail system? We don’t even fully understand how to properly access it yet, and no, your lacklustre explanation did not help in the slightest! We had more important business to attend to! Not to mention that you could have checked in with us if we received your message! I’d love to indulge you, but with a schedule as tight as ours, these few free days become too valuable to waste on poorly prepared meetings and rude, inconsiderate behaviour! If you still haven’t noticed, I am not in the best condition right now and your incessant screaming is causing actual pain! If you want to, we can properly schedule a meeting for this purpose now.”
Litru’shano: “THIS IS OF VERY HIGH IMPORTANCE! WE DEMAND…”
Victory: “Can you PLEASE be quieter? Please? Seriously, I thought you were more tactful than a god of war. And what you demand doesn’t matter to me if you can’t properly schedule meetings! Even less so if you can’t treat us with respect or consideration! If you want to classify our species so desperately, actually schedule a meeting with us properly NOW, instead of sending a messenger to rudely wake us on our FREE DAY!”
Litru’shano: “You…you…you…”
Victory: “Well, are you going to take my offer?”
Litru’shano: “YOU INSOLENT DISRESPECTFUL CUR!”
Victory: “Oh, so that’s what it’s like. Very well, GOOD DAY!”
-slam-
Victory: “Ow, why did I have to slam the door?”
Litru’shano: “This…this…THIS…”
Isolutia: “Please calm down. We can’t be hasty.”
Litru’shano: “He disrespected the entire council!”
Narmonta: “You also disrespected him. And he is new. They aren’t fully aware of the workings of the council yet. Still, I can’t stop feeling like some of the points he made are valid…”
Litru’shano: “IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THEY ARE NEW OR NOT! WE ARE THE COUNCIL! WE ARE TO BE RESPECTED!”
Narmonta: “Technically speaking, they are also the council. They have been introduced and have their own thrones. They are equal to us.”
Litru’shano: “BUT…”
Narmonta: “But what? This all went down the drain so quickly because a certain someone forgot that communication is a two-way road that is built on respect. He was in the right! We should have asked for a confirmation. And you should have been more self-controlled! Screaming at him was already rude enough normally, but considering what state he was in? Doubly so!”
Krina’larun’mtru, Goddess of joy: “Can we change the topic? Perhaps we can discuss this issue at another time when our minds are settled.”
Litru’shano: “Oh no, we are settling it now!”
Brl’naklara, Goddess of war: “Impressive. I didn’t think those human Gods could cause such problems in such short time.”
Grinulma, God of envy: “I wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeve…”
Normunalo’lemado, God of love: “I only hope they don’t start anything terrible. I already have enough with listening to the present Gods of war.”
Mikrula: “Can you believe he is sending Loki to fight me? Loki? Of all the Gods out there? The gall! I wanted to bash Conflict’s face in, not Loki’s’. Now this will be even less of a challenge than expected!”
Normunalo’lemado: “Why is your only solution always to fight?”
Mikrula: “Because…”
Normunalo’lemado: “Rhetorical question! Rhetorical question!”
Quintala, Goddess of life: “Oh. Great. You are here.”
Conflict: “Did...I do something wrong?”
Quintala: “How did you figure that out?”
Conflict: “You sound rather unhappy o see me.”
Quintala: “Oh no, how could that be?”
Conflict: “Sarcasm. Great. Like I don’t get enough of that back home. Seriously, what did I do?”
Quintala: “Loki. Does that ring any bells?”
Conflict: “Loki? What about him? Don’t tell me you’re jealous that you aren’t the only non-human god I spend time with. Why are you looking at me like that?”
Quintala: “YOU SENT LOKI TO HIS DEATH!”
Conflict: “No I haven’t. The official duels aren’t to the death.”
Quintala: “WITH HOW CLOSE TO IT HE’LL BE IT MIGHT AS WELL BE!”
Conflict: “Well, no, that’s very unlikely. Loki is a cunning and tricky fighter. If anything, Mikrular is at a severe disadvantage, as he isn’t used to opponents that doge, weave, and place traps at any given chance. His straightforward way of fighting is based on brute force and one hit ending blows and has not seen any need to change in ages. His way of combat is stagnant and rusty. Devastating, yes, but only if you can land a hit. Loki on the other hand doesn’t hit hard, but he hits. Often. In fact, I hope for Mikrulas’ sake, that Loki actually follows my orders.”
Quintala: “HOW SHOULD LOKI DEFEAT MIKRULA? HE IS A GOD OF CRAFTSMANSHIP, PITTED AGAINST A GOD OF WAR! I KNOW HIM, HE IS NOT A FIGHTER!”
Conflict: “In all honesty, I can either let you continue on believing that, or tell you what Loki used to be like until we came. The question is whether you want to continue viewing Loki as a kind and merciful soul that would never harm a fly or if you want the truth.”
Quintala: “The truth? What truth?”
Conflict: “The truth about Loki. Who he was. What hides within him. How he got his nicknames.”
Quintala: “Nicknames? You don’t mean to tell me that artisan of pain is a real nickname for him?”
Conflict: “Or dread warden, or torturer of Asgard, or stalker of Helheim. His nicknames. Did he never tell anyone his nicknames?
Quintala: “Now you must be joking! This is no time for jokes! Loki is probably getting crushed right now!”
Conflict: “I highly doubt it. As I said, he is a tricky fighter. And a former warden of the penal fortress Helheim, Asgards old prison and information gathering facility…hold on, I think I am getting a call.”
Quintala: “A call? From what? And from who?”
Conflict: “Well, going by the feeling it must be Loki. Seriously, this call rune is all sorts of weird I tell you.”
Quintala: “LOKI GAVE YOU A CALL RUNE?”
Conflict: “Yes, Loki? You didn’t torture him, right? What do you mean, ‘not yet’? I am fairly certain I instructed you to neither bring unnecessary harm to nor torture him, and you know I don’t give a shit that he insulted me. What do you mean he brought mortals? … HE BROUGHT MORTALS? TO A DUEL? HE WANTED INTERSPECIES WAR OVER AN INSIGNIFICANT DISPUTE?”
Quintala: “Conflict?”
Conflict: “Looks like I am messing up my schedule today after all.”
Conflict: “Over here.”
Loki: “I brought Mikrula as requested. To be honest, I expected more of a fight from a God of war.”
Conflict: “Good, good. So, Loki, one question. Is Leviathan still without a species to guide?”
Loki: “Yes, why?”
Conflict: “Because this idiot right there is the only God of his subjects, and since he wanted to take innocent lives over his own pettiness, I am not so sure he will leave this emergency meeting I am calling alive. Could you please go inform Leviathan that there is a species that might be about to lose their God and needs guidance?”
Loki: “Certainly. But shouldn’t we punish him first?”
Conflict: “Oh, don’t you worry about that. You just go tell Leviathan while I handle the bureaucracy.”
Loki: “But…you said something about an emergency meeting. Shouldn’t I be here for that? And why didn’t I get a notice for one?”
Conflict: “Because the topic of said meeting is of no concern to any of the survivors of our war, as you are either already well aware of the things I am about to discuss or are guaranteed to never make the mistakes that would require you to be present. Again, that is.”
Loki: “Still, I…”
Conflict: “Look, Loki. First of all, time is an important resource, especially for divine beings. It is our duty to aid our species, to guide and protect as needed, to comfort, to assist. That duty is sacred and of utmost importance. It leaves very little spare free time. You shouldn’t waste that valuable resource on a meeting that doesn’t even concern you in the slightest.”
Loki: “But…”
Conflict: “And secondly, I am a busy God and I do not have a lot of time. This little debacle right now is already messing up my schedule terribly. I need you to get to Leviathan as soon as possible, as I do not have the time, nor the means to inform him myself.”
Loki: “How so?”
Conflict: “Leviathan is too scared of the four of us. No matter how we approach him, he runs off the first chance he gets. Furthermore, he doesn’t believe himself to be a proper and good God, because of his failures with humanity, but I know otherwise. He was one of the kinder Gods we had, which is why we did not hunt him down like the others. Unfortunately, he won’t listen to us, but he might listen to you. So, please go tell him now.”
Loki: “Okay, I’ll go…”
Krina’larun’mtru noticed the blood dripping onto Mikrulas’ council throne. What she saw above said throne froze the blood in her veins.
Krina’larun’mtru: “WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?”
Conflict: “The consequences of his actions.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “DID YOU DO THAT?”
Conflict only smiled.
Krina’larun’mtru: “BUT…BUT WHY?”
Conflict: “He made a brutal mistake. One that we will discuss once everyone has assembled.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “WE…WE HAVE TO GET HIM DOWN!”
Conflict: “Oh, no worries. I’ll make sure he gets down once the meeting is over.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “HE IS SUFFERING! DYING!”
Conflict: “And?”
Krina’larun’mtru: “THAT’S ENOUGH! I AM GETTING HIM DOWN!”
Conflict: “Are you sure about that?”
Krina’larun’mtru: “WHAT?”
Krina’larun’mtru turned to look at Conflict, who was still sitting on his throne, smiling as if nothing was out of the ordinary on a sunny day.
Conflict: “As I said, Mikrula will get down from there, AFTER the meeting. I’ll make SURE of it.”
Krina’larun’mtru: “You would hinder me from getting him down?”
Conflict: “I’d make sure you can’t.”
Krina’larun’mtru took a good look at Conflict. His eyes showed only a neutral disposition, but his entire body spoke of something else. To the unobservant eye, he looked relaxed, but having constant dealings with Gods of war as a council Goddess has taught Krina’larun’mtru well. She could see that he was primed like a spring. He was waiting. Waiting for her. He was ready to ambush her if she were to make one wrong move. And then she saw the tool belt haphazardly thrown over the back of Conflicts’ throne, containing multiple bloodied tools.
Krina’larun’mtru: “You…you…you wouldn’t.”
Conflict just smiled and gestured to her throne.
Conflict: “You should take your seat. I’m sure the rest will be here shortly.”
Narmonta: “Everyone is here now. The meeting can begin.”
Conflict: “Wonderful. Now, I know this was unexpected, and a bit on short notice, but rest assured, it is of upmost urgency. Now then, the reason as to why…”
Litru’shano: “STOP WASTING TIME! SOMEONE IS DYING RIGHT NOW!”
Conflict: “If you would be so polite as to not interrupt me, I could explain without delay.”
Litru’shano: “STOP PLAYING AROUND AND TELL US ALREADY!”
Conflict: “There is no reason for you to be so rude! Need I remind you, that most problems you had with us so far have been entirely your fault to begin with?”
Normunalo’lemado: “BOTH OF YOU, JUST STOP! MIKRULA IS DYING! JUST GET THIS OVER WITH, PLEASE!”
Conflict: “Now then, as I was saying, the reason as to why I called this meeting, was something I didn’t expect to be the norm. Something, that I just can’t accept as the norm. What I am talking about, is nothing other than…”
Litru’shano: “OH FOR FUCKS SAKE JUST TELL US ALREADY!”
Conflict: “Once again, rude. Why do you keep interrupting me? What exactly have I done to YOU in particular that could motivate such behaviour?”
Litru’shano: “YOU DARE ASK THAT QUESTION? DO YOU…”
Athzurko, God of war: “SHUT UP! CAN’T YOU SEE HIS SMILE?”
Litru’shano: “WHAT?”
Athzurko: “YOU ARE PLAYING INTO HIS HANDS! YOU ARE HELPING HIM!”
Litru’shano: “HOW?”
Athzurko: “HE PLANTED REMOTE EXPLOSIVES ONTO MIKRULAS’ HEAD SO WE CAN’T RUSH HIM WITHOUT KILLING MIKRULA AND YOU HONESTLY ASK WHY HE STOPS HIS EXPLANATION AT YOUR INTERRUPTIONS? HE WANTS MIKRULA TO SUFFER, AND POSSIBLY DIE! HE INTENTIONALLY WASTES TIME! THE MORE YOU INTERRUPT HIM, THE MORE YOU AID HIM! SO, SHUT UP!”
Litru’shano: “…”
Conflict: “Now then, have we all settled down? May I continue WITHOUT interruptions? Good. Now then, where was I? Ah, yes. You all apparently have accepted it as the norm, that mortals are your expendable slaves that you can use for whatever it pleases you. Mikrula, for example, decided to bring mortals into the duel between us, as Loki can attest for.”
Lo’munato, God of curiosity: “Loki? Why Loki?”
Conflict: “Ah, I’m glad you ask. You see, Loki was my stand-in for the fight. As per council rules, a stand in must be someone I had once beaten in combat, and since Loki not only has recently decided to interact with us on a more friendly basis, but also to support me in particular thanks to what I would consider a very basic deed, driven by duty rather than kindness, he offered himself rather fast. Do you want me to go into detail on that?”
Lo’munato: “I…”
Litru’shano: “NO! No, I believe that can wait for another time. You were saying?”
Conflict: “Pity. Anyways, you see, I strongly support the view that mortals are not our playthings. They are living people and should be treated as such. They are not your cannon fodder, they are not your coffee-cup-holder, they are people. Living their lives. Theirs may be shorter than yours, but not less important in any way.”
Varqueslio, God of greed: “Oh really? We are Gods. We are irreplaceable for our people.”
Conflict: “Quite the contrary. As I fully expect Mikrula to die here, I already made the necessary arrangements to replace him for his people. Leviathan should make a far more suitable God to lead his people.”
Varqueslio: “Leviathan? That paranoid snake? Preposterous!”
Conflict’s eyes grew cold. The sadistic joy slipped from his face to make room for different expressions. Disgust and hate.
Varqueslio: “Why so silent Conflict? Snake got your tongue?”
Conflict: “YOU HAVE A LOT OF GUTS CALLING THE GREAT SERPENT A PARANOID SNAKE IN MY PRESENCE YOU DISGRACEFUL NAUSEATING SORRY EXCUSE FOR A WANNABE GOD.”
Silence fell over the council. Conflicts voice had changed. It was a voice that until this day none of the council would have thought could come from someone as comparatively carefree and kind as Conflict. It was a voice truly befitting of a god of war, a voice many gods of war thought they had and only now realized they don’t. It bellowed out as if over a million warriors had declared a battle as started and oozed with hate and bloodlust so hot, that it could empower and strengthen a mortal soul and burned in the eyes of the present Gods.
Conflict: “I’m…no, that would be a lie. I’m not sorry. As you might have guessed, Leviathan holds somewhat of a sweet spot in my heart. He was the only, truly benevolent God to have graced earth with his presence, and I just can’t have him be insulted by some greedy, foul, PUS-FILLED BILE SACK THAT THINKS IT’S OKAY TO HAVE HIS SUBJECTS CLEAN UNDER HIS FATTY FLAPS!”
Shock and disgust filled the eyes of the present Gods.
Conflict: “Yes, I know. And if you think that is the only secret I know, rest assured, it is not. The secrets of your temples are open books to us. And I mean all your temples! From everyone present! I know many more disgusting secrets from many of the present Gods! Secrets you wish hidden from the council! Your security is lacking! Know this! We know of your sins! We are ready to act! And we value mortal lives! So, I recommend that you think carefully, what you ask of your species, especially if one of us is present! Especially when you have business with us! Unless of course you wish to share a certain God’s fate. I wish you all a good day, and I think we can all agree, that this meeting was very enlightening. Well, I think that should be all. I declare this meeting as…what time is it…anyone up for coffee? Anyone? No? Okay, suit yourselves. Anyways, I think we can all agree this meeting is over. Good day.”
The council exploded with movement as the many Gods rushed to get Mikrula down from the ceiling.
Conflict: “I urge caution for all of you, rushing your hands could cause more damage. Goodbye.”
Merlaquar, God of Fatherhood: “I swear, if he touches her again, I’ll…”
Naronquil, God of harvest: “You’ll what? You see what he has done to Mikrula! And keep in mind, he didn’t fight Mikrula personally, he called Loki as a stand in! Loki! What exactly do you think we could do? Call the council? He played the council! Like a cheap, second hand nariloma! And there are three more of them!”
Merlaquar: “…”
Quarian: “Quintala, promise me something. Promise me you won’t…”
Quintala: “Mother, I already know, but I can’t. Something is off about all of this. I have met Conflict expecting another assertive God of war that thinks he can enslave me, and instead met one of the kindest people outside of our small circle. And now, I met a monster, worse than any God of pain I had the displeasure of meeting. Then there is the fact that Loki was not only Conflict’s stand-in, but successfully so. Not to mention that this entire situation also makes Conflict’s claim that Loki is a former god of pain more likely. And all of that only brings more questions about the past of humanity and the gods that apparently survived it. There are too many questions left unanswered. I can’t. I’m sorry.”
Quarian: “Quintala, daughter, you can’t be serious! You have seen and heard him, didn’t you? Besides the things he has done here, he also pitted Loki against Mikrula! Loki! Do you honestly think, Loki would willingly fight someone, let alone a God of war, for someone else? And for him to be a god of pain? How is any of that supposed to make sense?!”
Quintala: “It does sound strange, and I do not know his reasons, but I do know one thing that is fact. Loki gave Conflict a call rune.”
Quarian: “He WHAT?”
Quintala: “Loki gave Conflict a call rune. An actual, fully functional call rune. There are many things Loki probably would do when threatened by a God of war. But to give away a call rune?”
Merlaquar: “Why would Loki give Conflict of all people a call rune? Why? It doesn’t make sense. If we go by the tales of the first occurrence of the human Gods, Loki would be more inclined to be Conflicts enemy. And if those tales are lies, then Loki wouldn’t be too familiar with Conflict, at least nowhere near familiar enough to even just sell him a call rune, let alone just give. It doesn’t make sense.”
Quintala: “And that is exactly why I can’t stop interacting with him. There is too much left unanswered. I must learn more.”
Conflict: “Loki.”
Conflict stepped closer, crouching down.
Conflict: “I told you this was no meeting that you should concern yourself with. Why did you have to come here again.”
Loki recoiled as Conflict moved in to embraced him.
Conflict: “Shhhhh, it’s okay, I am not going to hurt you.”
Loki still hesitated but didn’t move away this time as Conflict slowly moved closer and wrapped his arms gently around Loki.
Conflict: “It’s alright, you can cry as much as you need to. I won’t hurt you. You are not in any danger.”
And like that, Loki started crying. His tears drenched Conflicts clothes as if he was in the middle of a rainstorm.
Conflict: “You saw him, didn’t you? You saw the technique I used.”
Loki: “Y…yes…”
Conflict: “Loki, I am so sorry. I didn’t want you to know. I didn’t want you to relive those moments.”
Loki: “WHY?”
Conflict: “I…I had to. Back then, it was a…”
Loki: “THAT IS NOT IT! I KNOW ABOUT THEN! I WAS THERE! YOU WEREN’T THE ONLY ONES WITH TIME TO THINK! IT’S LIKE YOU SAID! THE WAR WAS JUST ABOUT FIGHTING FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVED IN! WE ALL LOST PEOPLE WE LOVED IN THAT WAR! YOU HAD ALL THE RIGHTS TO KILL MY FAMILY, JUST AS WE HAD ALL THE RIGHTS TO KILL YOU! BUT WHY DOES IT STILL HURT?”
Conflict: “The…loss?”
Loki: “YES! I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH TIME REFLECTING, REMEMBERING, MAKING PEACE WITH WHAT HAPPENED! SO WHY DOES IT STILL HURT?”
Conflict: “Because loss always hurts. No matter if your family was good or evil, loss is connected to how you remember the people you lost, and your memories of your family are predominantly good. You miss them. To you, they were kind and loving. Even though you have had time to think back, to make peace, and to accept the truth, loss always hurts. You can suppress the hate you have for the one who took them from you, given the right reason, even forgive them. But the pain, that never goes away. And nothing reminds us of our loss as brutally as a reminder of the way we lost them. I am so, so sorry.”
Loki: “Don’t be. You tried to keep me from it. I only have one question. Why this technique?”
Conflict: “Because it brings a great amount of pain in a short amount of time when properly prepared. During the time you delivered Mikrula to me, I prepared what I needed. It is not the fastest torture technique, but it balances the amount of pain that can be done in a short amount of time very well.”
Loki: “Is that why you killed my father with it too?”
Conflict: “Yes.”
Loki: “So, is it the worst torture technique you know?”
Conflict: “Far from it. Mikrula would have deserved worse, but I don’t have the time, and he wasn’t worth it.”
Loki: “And my father?”
Conflict: “I still question myself if I was to cruel to him.”
Loki: “Thank you.”
Conflict: “For what?”
Loki: “Being so honest and caring, even after everything I have done to your people.”
Conflict: “You changed.”
Loki: “You are one of the very few Gods that would care.”
Conflict: “That is even more disappointing than the respecting the dead thing.”
Loki: “I know. That is why you have my servitude.”
Conflict: “Oh for the love of…”
Quintala: “When I first met Conflict, he broke the status quo of Gods of war by being kind and respectful towards me. During the meeting, he broke the status quo by being a worse monster than any God of pain I know of ever was. And now, I have seen him comfort Loki and help him through trauma that HE has caused! And he did so as if he was the kindest father in existence! And just as it was when he introduced himself to me, it was too genuine to be acting! I have seen the respectful and kind man, the atrocious and cruel monster, and the kind caring father! I need to know! I need to find out just who he is! And if his brothers are anything like him, I need to find out who they are, and I need to find out who their former victims are!”
Narmonta: “You cannot be serious! From what I can tell, that is far too dangerous of an endeavour for us council Gods, let alone a paradiseworld Goddess of life!”
Quintala: “I don’t need words of caution, I NEED ANSWERS!”
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2024.05.05 22:16 Chrispy_Crunch_ Update: Karma came for my ex
This will be a long post, if you’re not familiar with my story you can update yourself with these posts.
https://www.reddit.com/LifeAfterNarcissism/s/AwfcnxPRLj
https://www.reddit.com/SupportforBetrayed/s/DKeeWSvBmt
Last I spoke my ex (Megan 24) texted me wanted to call to apologize. I ignored the text and got another text a few days later saying she wasn’t with the guy she cheated with anymore (Zach 27) and wished me the best of luck.
Many of you told me not to respond for many reasons such as she was still being selfish, trying to weasel her way back, etc. all reasons I 100% understand and agree with. Many will be disappointed but I did eventually accept a phone call from her. I had my own personal reasons to do so, and only did it after speaking to my therapist to make sure I was in a good mental space.
So during the call she started off by apologizing, saying I didn’t deserve anything that happened to me and that I was a good boyfriend. That I was right about Zach, and their relationship was worse than I could’ve imagined. I doubted that because I imagined it to be pretty awful. She says it was an emotionally abusive relationship and police got involved.
So I got lots of confirmation to hunches I had. There were times and specific days I wondered if she physically cheated earlier in the relationship, she said she never was physical with him anytime before and was willing to provide texts and photo evidence if requested. I denied seeing the evidence as I thought there was no point now.
She explained that her relationship with him started as friends at work that had good banter. She basically liked the attention he gave her and she was wrong to not stop it right away. She felt at the time it was harmless not knowing how damaging it could be.
As I suspected Zach was always subtly talking down on me while Megan and I were together. Putting doubts into her head about me for a long time. She said she was wrong to listen and trusted her friend wouldn’t lie to her. And she was only adding to the fire by telling him any details of our personal life. So basically he was grooming her for a long time and she wasn’t smart enough to see it.
After that she went to a therapist, she undoubtedly loved me but wondered if something was wrong in our relationship if she could develop a connection with another man. And she had a bad therapist who never told her to communicate with me, she was a “Yes” therapist who just encourage her to follow her feelings.
After therapy she said she knew those feelings were wrong and didn’t think anything would happen with Zach because he was dating his girlfriend (Kat 27) and she wanted to start her life with me and agreed to buy a house with me.
Everything in our relationship was great and she had no doubts until her and Zach had a work trip in the city, they each drank and flirted. She invited him to her room so they could drink and she could feel good with the attention he gave, that was all she intended. Zach then suggested they lay in her bed where he groped her, but she didn’t stop him either. I told her I don’t believe that’s all that happened, to this day she still swears by what she said.
If you read my previous posts this is where she tells me what happened in the hotel, Zach calls me up to threaten me if I tell Kat. I instantly know what kind of guy he is. At the time I was worried about what he could do to Megan because he came across abusive and dangerous to me. She stuck by her word and blocked him at this point and stayed away from work. A few days later he reached out to her on a different number. She didn’t shut it down because she found not talking felt like “going through a break up”. She missed his attention and was addicted to the dopamine, she confused these feelings of addiction for “love”.
So she texted him for a week behind my back. He told Megan he loved her and he was the only one that could truly love her, gave her an ultimatum, have sex with him in a hotel or he would never talk to her again. She felt she had no choice and didn’t want to let go of him, so she went. The next day she tells me immediately what happened, she packed her things and went to her parents for the week.
So during that week at her parents Zach was harassing Megan saying she was an untrustworthy slut in order to save his relationship because Kat found out. Threatened to expose her at work. He would flip between being an asshole and telling her that he loved her and he “blew up his relationship to be with her”. Followed by more ultimatums. He convinced Megan that my relationship with her was dead and to be with him. All this time she was telling me she loved me and was thinking of us. She said she lead me on because she was afraid Zach would tell her to fuck off and she would have no one. She explained that was selfish and horrible with no excuse.
So Megan and I broke up. Zach and Kat apparently broke up. Megan’s family was disappointed and hurt. Megan moved into a new apartment while I lived at the house we bought until we could sell it.
Here is where it gets juicy. Megan and Zach fought all the time, apparently that was most of their relationship. Megan suggested they be single for a while until they are healthier, to which he said no and gave another ultimatum. Megan was Zack’s boss at work, she wanted to let her manager know what was going on so she didn’t get in trouble. To which he also said no. Eventually she did tell her boss and kept things civil by adding Zach on the call too. He was convinced she was trying to destroy his career.
During this time I guess they were dating. Zach would still see Kat and her family to “be there for her while she healed” and spent the whole day with her on the anniversary of her father’s death.
Megan did not like any of this, and brought up that if I asked her for support during an emergency how would he feel if she helped me. He responded by saying he wouldn’t trust her to not have sex with me because she’s a needy slut.
Kat tried to sabotage Megan’s career by bringing up what happened to hire ups. Megan asked Zach for support while he just did nothing.
Megan’s family dog died and she stayed with family for a bit. She fought with Zach a lot during this time, made her family very upset turning the death of a loved one about them. Zach wanted to pick her up at midnight for whatever reason, Megan said no because it was storming outside and didn’t want to leave because her parents would worry. He once again gave an ultimatum. Megan’s mom was finally able to sleep after the loss of her dog, and Megan woke her up to say she was leaving to be with Zach. Megan’s mom apparently freaked out and kicked her out of the house, this is so shocking to me because this was the most gentle and kindest woman I had ever known. It breaks my heart to think Megan’s family was pushed to this edge.
Zach never told his family about him and Kat breaking up. Kat told them 2 days before Christmas that he cheated on her and he wasn’t allowed to show up lol. Then New years Zach spent the day with Kat.
I think at this point Megan found out Zach was still living with Kat, he said just as roommates and that it was completely normal to be living with an ex. Let be real, he was just trying to juggle two girls at once. If anything I assume he wanted to be with Kat and saw Megan as a sex toy.
At this point Megan and Zach were still working together dispite asking their bosses to work on separately, the bosses did not let them lol. So their work life suffered. Made things difficult since Megan was technically his boss. Zach then said he would be silently quitting his job, put Megan in a shitty spot. Even when he would call in sick and she’d text him a work question he would respond “this is my sick day, I’ll tell you tomorrow when I feel better”.
Megan found a new job to get away from that mess. I guess Zach was still convincing her to work things out with him. They probably had broken up a dozen times by now. They would still fight, apparently he drove her so crazy she would slap him which I would say is extremely out of character since she was gentle and kind when dating me. He would refuse to leave her apartment when they fought, so she’d have to leave.
When she told her parents she was back together with him they flipped out at her. Warms my heart that apparently the father stood up for me and said “I thought we raised you better than to cheat on Chris, he was such a good guy and I thought he was going to be my son in law”.
So end of February we find some buyers for the house and we officially lose possession at the end of May. That is a relief but I hate to see this house go.
Zach and Megan were fighting in his car and he refused to let her out. Guess she ran out when they got to a traffic light. She ran and seeked help from a stranger and jumped into her car. Zach was waiting for Megan at her apartment. She called the police and they escorted him away. Couldnt charge him with anything technically. But they did find it concerning he wouldn’t let her leave his car. It was this day apparently she was no longer under his spell, to the point where she felt safer with a stranger than she did with him.
She had friends and family stay with her for a bit so she wouldn’t spend nights alone. One evening with her mom he tried opening the apartment door, they called the police again. He was blocked on everything except her email, he kept messaging her to open the door and that he saw a blue car outside and thought I was in there with her. I guess police escorted him away again and she hasn’t heard from him since.
She apparently can’t get a restraining order because they never lived together or some other stupid rule. I still think the guy is dangerous and he’ll show up years later to harass her again.
Megan said I guess he spoke of me a lot during their relationship which I find amusing. Sounds like an insecure guy. And many times she said she wanted to call me and apologize but he would never let her. That he was super controlling and possessive. As I suspected, the guy was a narcissist. Apparently he is back living with Kat. Maybe dating again or maybe they never broke up. Makes me mad though they he could come in and destroy my life and go back to his. Although I highly doubt he’s happy.
Megan just finished off by saying how sorry she was for everything, never begged for me back or anything. That she regrets not fighting for us, or giving me the break up that I deserved. At this point she going to a different therapist, is seeing someone for narcissistic abuse, and is focusing on mending her relationship with her family.
I got some satisfaction from the story, but It all sucks everything turned out this way. I’m happy her and Zach are not together because I always did fear him being an abusive nut job. No matter how much she has hurt me I don’t want to see her in that position.
Im currently looking for an apartment before the house closes, and I would like to date, but dating in this generation sucks so much. I don’t have a lot of hope for meeting a good person, especially after being cheated on. It has changed me as a person, I just don’t feel like myself anymore. The idea of starting over exhausts me but I really don’t have a choice. I still miss my ex but that damage is irreversible. I go from hating her one minute to missing her the next. I hope she gets the help she needs. I am sick from the thought of her marrying someone else one day, having his children, and living the life I originally wanted with her. Thank you for reading my story, hope this is my last post on the matter because I can’t stand anymore drama lol.
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Last I spoke my ex (Megan 24) texted me wanted to call to apologize. I ignored the text and got another text a few days later saying she wasn’t with the guy she cheated with anymore (Zach 27) and wished me the best of luck.
Many of you told me not to respond for many reasons such as she was still being selfish, trying to weasel her way back, etc. all reasons I 100% understand and agree with. Many will be disappointed but I did eventually accept a phone call from her. I had my own personal reasons to do so, and only did it after speaking to my therapist to make sure I was in a good mental space.
So during the call she started off by apologizing, saying I didn’t deserve anything that happened to me and that I was a good boyfriend. That I was right about Zach, and their relationship was worse than I could’ve imagined. I doubted that because I imagined it to be pretty awful. She says it was an emotionally abusive relationship and police got involved.
So I got lots of confirmation to hunches I had. There were times and specific days I wondered if she physically cheated earlier in the relationship, she said she never was physical with him anytime before and was willing to provide texts and photo evidence if requested. I denied seeing the evidence as I thought there was no point now.
She explained that her relationship with him started as friends at work that had good banter. She basically liked the attention he gave her and she was wrong to not stop it right away. She felt at the time it was harmless not knowing how damaging it could be.
As I suspected Zach was always subtly talking down on me while Megan and I were together. Putting doubts into her head about me for a long time. She said she was wrong to listen and trusted her friend wouldn’t lie to her. And she was only adding to the fire by telling him any details of our personal life. So basically he was grooming her for a long time and she wasn’t smart enough to see it.
After that she went to a therapist, she undoubtedly loved me but wondered if something was wrong in our relationship if she could develop a connection with another man. And she had a bad therapist who never told her to communicate with me, she was a “Yes” therapist who just encourage her to follow her feelings.
After therapy she said she knew those feelings were wrong and didn’t think anything would happen with Zach because he was dating his girlfriend (Kat 27) and she wanted to start her life with me and agreed to buy a house with me.
Everything in our relationship was great and she had no doubts until her and Zach had a work trip in the city, they each drank and flirted. She invited him to her room so they could drink and she could feel good with the attention he gave, that was all she intended. Zach then suggested they lay in her bed where he groped her, but she didn’t stop him either. I told her I don’t believe that’s all that happened, to this day she still swears by what she said.
If you read my previous posts this is where she tells me what happened in the hotel, Zach calls me up to threaten me if I tell Kat. I instantly know what kind of guy he is. At the time I was worried about what he could do to Megan because he came across abusive and dangerous to me. She stuck by her word and blocked him at this point and stayed away from work. A few days later he reached out to her on a different number. She didn’t shut it down because she found not talking felt like “going through a break up”. She missed his attention and was addicted to the dopamine, she confused these feelings of addiction for “love”.
So she texted him for a week behind my back. He told Megan he loved her and he was the only one that could truly love her, gave her an ultimatum, have sex with him in a hotel or he would never talk to her again. She felt she had no choice and didn’t want to let go of him, so she went. The next day she tells me immediately what happened, she packed her things and went to her parents for the week.
So during that week at her parents Zach was harassing Megan saying she was an untrustworthy slut in order to save his relationship because Kat found out. Threatened to expose her at work. He would flip between being an asshole and telling her that he loved her and he “blew up his relationship to be with her”. Followed by more ultimatums. He convinced Megan that my relationship with her was dead and to be with him. All this time she was telling me she loved me and was thinking of us. She said she lead me on because she was afraid Zach would tell her to fuck off and she would have no one. She explained that was selfish and horrible with no excuse.
So Megan and I broke up. Zach and Kat apparently broke up. Megan’s family was disappointed and hurt. Megan moved into a new apartment while I lived at the house we bought until we could sell it.
Here is where it gets juicy. Megan and Zach fought all the time, apparently that was most of their relationship. Megan suggested they be single for a while until they are healthier, to which he said no and gave another ultimatum. Megan was Zack’s boss at work, she wanted to let her manager know what was going on so she didn’t get in trouble. To which he also said no. Eventually she did tell her boss and kept things civil by adding Zach on the call too. He was convinced she was trying to destroy his career.
During this time I guess they were dating. Zach would still see Kat and her family to “be there for her while she healed” and spent the whole day with her on the anniversary of her father’s death.
Megan did not like any of this, and brought up that if I asked her for support during an emergency how would he feel if she helped me. He responded by saying he wouldn’t trust her to not have sex with me because she’s a needy slut.
Kat tried to sabotage Megan’s career by bringing up what happened to hire ups. Megan asked Zach for support while he just did nothing.
Megan’s family dog died and she stayed with family for a bit. She fought with Zach a lot during this time, made her family very upset turning the death of a loved one about them. Zach wanted to pick her up at midnight for whatever reason, Megan said no because it was storming outside and didn’t want to leave because her parents would worry. He once again gave an ultimatum. Megan’s mom was finally able to sleep after the loss of her dog, and Megan woke her up to say she was leaving to be with Zach. Megan’s mom apparently freaked out and kicked her out of the house, this is so shocking to me because this was the most gentle and kindest woman I had ever known. It breaks my heart to think Megan’s family was pushed to this edge.
Zach never told his family about him and Kat breaking up. Kat told them 2 days before Christmas that he cheated on her and he wasn’t allowed to show up lol. Then New years Zach spent the day with Kat.
I think at this point Megan found out Zach was still living with Kat, he said just as roommates and that it was completely normal to be living with an ex. Let be real, he was just trying to juggle two girls at once. If anything I assume he wanted to be with Kat and saw Megan as a sex toy.
At this point Megan and Zach were still working together dispite asking their bosses to work on separately, the bosses did not let them lol. So their work life suffered. Made things difficult since Megan was technically his boss. Zach then said he would be silently quitting his job, put Megan in a shitty spot. Even when he would call in sick and she’d text him a work question he would respond “this is my sick day, I’ll tell you tomorrow when I feel better”.
Megan found a new job to get away from that mess. I guess Zach was still convincing her to work things out with him. They probably had broken up a dozen times by now. They would still fight, apparently he drove her so crazy she would slap him which I would say is extremely out of character since she was gentle and kind when dating me. He would refuse to leave her apartment when they fought, so she’d have to leave.
When she told her parents she was back together with him they flipped out at her. Warms my heart that apparently the father stood up for me and said “I thought we raised you better than to cheat on Chris, he was such a good guy and I thought he was going to be my son in law”.
So end of February we find some buyers for the house and we officially lose possession at the end of May. That is a relief but I hate to see this house go.
Zach and Megan were fighting in his car and he refused to let her out. Guess she ran out when they got to a traffic light. She ran and seeked help from a stranger and jumped into her car. Zach was waiting for Megan at her apartment. She called the police and they escorted him away. Couldnt charge him with anything technically. But they did find it concerning he wouldn’t let her leave his car. It was this day apparently she was no longer under his spell, to the point where she felt safer with a stranger than she did with him.
She had friends and family stay with her for a bit so she wouldn’t spend nights alone. One evening with her mom he tried opening the apartment door, they called the police again. He was blocked on everything except her email, he kept messaging her to open the door and that he saw a blue car outside and thought I was in there with her. I guess police escorted him away again and she hasn’t heard from him since.
She apparently can’t get a restraining order because they never lived together or some other stupid rule. I still think the guy is dangerous and he’ll show up years later to harass her again.
Megan said I guess he spoke of me a lot during their relationship which I find amusing. Sounds like an insecure guy. And many times she said she wanted to call me and apologize but he would never let her. That he was super controlling and possessive. As I suspected, the guy was a narcissist. Apparently he is back living with Kat. Maybe dating again or maybe they never broke up. Makes me mad though they he could come in and destroy my life and go back to his. Although I highly doubt he’s happy.
Megan just finished off by saying how sorry she was for everything, never begged for me back or anything. That she regrets not fighting for us, or giving me the break up that I deserved. At this point she going to a different therapist, is seeing someone for narcissistic abuse, and is focusing on mending her relationship with her family.
I got some satisfaction from the story, but It all sucks everything turned out this way. I’m happy her and Zach are not together because I always did fear him being an abusive nut job. No matter how much she has hurt me I don’t want to see her in that position.
Im currently looking for an apartment before the house closes, and I would like to date, but dating in this generation sucks so much. I don’t have a lot of hope for meeting a good person, especially after being cheated on. It has changed me as a person, I just don’t feel like myself anymore. The idea of starting over exhausts me but I really don’t have a choice. I still miss my ex but that damage is irreversible. I go from hating her one minute to missing her the next. I hope she gets the help she needs. I am sick from the thought of her marrying someone else one day, having his children, and living the life I originally wanted with her. Thank you for reading my story, hope this is my last post on the matter because I can’t stand anymore drama lol.
2024.05.05 21:54 sassybumblebee Need advice on maneuvering new job with strong personalities - please help.
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to read this. All names have been changed for privacy.
Quick background on myself, I have worked a lot of jobs, banker, bank manager, business and mortgage associate, bar tender, bike trepair, in-court clerk, and most recently legal assistant.
This is my first time working for a private law firm and I knew that the expectations and demands were higher than any of my previous jobs; what I was not expecting was the patronizing comments, sarcastic answers, and general disrespect that I receive from the lead attorney (we will call him Jeff).
Our firm is unique in that it is just myself and Jeff in the office at all times. Jeff approached me at my previous job and asked me to work for their firm as a paralegal because I had a strong reputation in the legal community having worked for the court for some time. During my interview, Jeff read my resume aloud to the whole firm and proceeded to tell personal anecdotes that related to my experience. Jeff did not ask me many questions and I had to interject periodically to explain how I thought my experience would make me a good fit for the firm. I also explained in the interview that I did not feel I was knowledgeable enough to be a paralegal, but that I am in exceptionally fast learner and if they are willing to teach, I am willing to learn. I reiterated that you only have to tell me something once.
Fast forward, they offer me a job as a legal assistant training to be a paralegal and I start my job. It is an entirely new operating system with all new programs. It is just myself and Jeff work in the office, all other employees and attorneys are remote. They were busy with hearings the first three days and barely acknowledged me. That is fine, as I realize it is much smaller and I won’t be talking to people all the time. The next week comes, and I get slammed with paralegal documents to make (I am a legal assistant), on top of a back log of secretary duties, like calling a window washer, closing old cases out, client contact, etc. When I asked for assistance/ clarification, the response was “you’re smart, figure it out”. The document needed to as one that comes in the middle of a case and DOES require a basic grasp on the case, parties, and what is happening. None of our cases are similar in any capacity. Our firm does VERY specialized case types and at this point I still had no training or idea where to begin looking for that information. Any time I ask for assistance with ANYTHING, the response is “you’re smart, figure it out” or “your job is to save me time, and having to explain this to you is wasting my time”.
To begin all conversations Jeff asks I start with the client info, which is the only thing they have had to repeat to me since I started and it took me one reminder. During our meeting they came and asked if contacted Sunderton. A deep panic set in as I didn’t recall the name… Sunderton. I ask, “who?” Jeff “SUNDERTON” Me “who is that?” Jeff “The CONSTRUCTION company you were supposed to call? SUNDERTON! S-U-N-D-E-R-T-O-N!” In disbelief a legal professional just raised their voice to spell at me rather than just say “construction?” I reply “you mean SUN? S-U-N construction??? Yes, Jeff. I DID.” Then sat down to update him.
Just after that, he proceeded to get upset with me for not calling someone back when the person who called, called to speak to the paralegal. The paralegal gets the same emails I do, and I was not informed I was the office secretary. I am happy to call everyone back. I explained this and he replied that it is “a waste of his time to be explaining this to me, and we obviously don’t want people waiting on call backs or meetings”. This is a direct contraction to previous “training” where he told me taking calls was a waste of his time and he didn’t want meetings set with him unless he knew why.
I was frustrated and told him firmly that it’s not appropriate to speak to me that way when he had never set that expectation and that I can’t know how they run things without being told, but moving forward I would call every person back every time and he wouldn’t have to worry about “wasting time”. I then went to update him on a huge case change, and he starts barreling over me in conversation as he always does; but this time I told him he needs to let me finish speaking as I am the one who made the call and I am giving him the information that he does not have. He seemed shocked, but listened, and it WAS info that he needed.
He asked me a month in how I thought it was going and I told him I thought it was fine, and asked him how he thought it was going. He said the paralegal and the book keeper like me a lot and they are the hardest to impress (he has not stated he likes me). He said he thinks I can be “irritable”. This bothered me immensely as I treat everyone with the highest level of respect, until they treat me poorly over and over again. For a moth he was patronizing, talking over me, telling me I am wasting his time with training when he knew I was not a trained paralegal. I have never over sold my abilities or intelligence. I don’t KNOW the law, I just LEARN quickly.
Well back to the meeting, other people like me, he thinks I am irritable. He said “it’s fine because I can be too, but you can be irritable at times,” he then complimented my ability to learn quickly followed closely by “you greatest weakness is that you just fundamentally don’t understand the law or how a case flows.” I can agree with this, but it is not something I ever exemplified as my skill set. I told him I’m willing to learn. He told me to watch some YouTube videos so I agreed.
I have spent all weekend dwelling on my job. I would have never allowed someone to be so condescending or patronizing to me in the past. I heard from other legal professionals I’m in a great firm with Jeff and he will do everything he can for me. Jeff is VERY generous and buys me anything I need or ask for, but it feels like it is to make the comments they say okay?
When they leave me alone and I am left to my own work, I feel good, like this was the right choice. My paralegal and I work well together and I am learning a lot quickly. They often tell me that my predecessors couldn’t do anything I am currently doing. When he talks to me I feel dumb, unheard, and like a waste of a paycheck.
I guess I just want to know, is this normal? If it is, how do I let it go so I can keep working? If it isn’t, any advice on how to deal with this personality conflict?
Happy to answer follow up questions in comments.
Thank you a for your help.
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Quick background on myself, I have worked a lot of jobs, banker, bank manager, business and mortgage associate, bar tender, bike trepair, in-court clerk, and most recently legal assistant.
This is my first time working for a private law firm and I knew that the expectations and demands were higher than any of my previous jobs; what I was not expecting was the patronizing comments, sarcastic answers, and general disrespect that I receive from the lead attorney (we will call him Jeff).
Our firm is unique in that it is just myself and Jeff in the office at all times. Jeff approached me at my previous job and asked me to work for their firm as a paralegal because I had a strong reputation in the legal community having worked for the court for some time. During my interview, Jeff read my resume aloud to the whole firm and proceeded to tell personal anecdotes that related to my experience. Jeff did not ask me many questions and I had to interject periodically to explain how I thought my experience would make me a good fit for the firm. I also explained in the interview that I did not feel I was knowledgeable enough to be a paralegal, but that I am in exceptionally fast learner and if they are willing to teach, I am willing to learn. I reiterated that you only have to tell me something once.
Fast forward, they offer me a job as a legal assistant training to be a paralegal and I start my job. It is an entirely new operating system with all new programs. It is just myself and Jeff work in the office, all other employees and attorneys are remote. They were busy with hearings the first three days and barely acknowledged me. That is fine, as I realize it is much smaller and I won’t be talking to people all the time. The next week comes, and I get slammed with paralegal documents to make (I am a legal assistant), on top of a back log of secretary duties, like calling a window washer, closing old cases out, client contact, etc. When I asked for assistance/ clarification, the response was “you’re smart, figure it out”. The document needed to as one that comes in the middle of a case and DOES require a basic grasp on the case, parties, and what is happening. None of our cases are similar in any capacity. Our firm does VERY specialized case types and at this point I still had no training or idea where to begin looking for that information. Any time I ask for assistance with ANYTHING, the response is “you’re smart, figure it out” or “your job is to save me time, and having to explain this to you is wasting my time”.
To begin all conversations Jeff asks I start with the client info, which is the only thing they have had to repeat to me since I started and it took me one reminder. During our meeting they came and asked if contacted Sunderton. A deep panic set in as I didn’t recall the name… Sunderton. I ask, “who?” Jeff “SUNDERTON” Me “who is that?” Jeff “The CONSTRUCTION company you were supposed to call? SUNDERTON! S-U-N-D-E-R-T-O-N!” In disbelief a legal professional just raised their voice to spell at me rather than just say “construction?” I reply “you mean SUN? S-U-N construction??? Yes, Jeff. I DID.” Then sat down to update him.
Just after that, he proceeded to get upset with me for not calling someone back when the person who called, called to speak to the paralegal. The paralegal gets the same emails I do, and I was not informed I was the office secretary. I am happy to call everyone back. I explained this and he replied that it is “a waste of his time to be explaining this to me, and we obviously don’t want people waiting on call backs or meetings”. This is a direct contraction to previous “training” where he told me taking calls was a waste of his time and he didn’t want meetings set with him unless he knew why.
I was frustrated and told him firmly that it’s not appropriate to speak to me that way when he had never set that expectation and that I can’t know how they run things without being told, but moving forward I would call every person back every time and he wouldn’t have to worry about “wasting time”. I then went to update him on a huge case change, and he starts barreling over me in conversation as he always does; but this time I told him he needs to let me finish speaking as I am the one who made the call and I am giving him the information that he does not have. He seemed shocked, but listened, and it WAS info that he needed.
He asked me a month in how I thought it was going and I told him I thought it was fine, and asked him how he thought it was going. He said the paralegal and the book keeper like me a lot and they are the hardest to impress (he has not stated he likes me). He said he thinks I can be “irritable”. This bothered me immensely as I treat everyone with the highest level of respect, until they treat me poorly over and over again. For a moth he was patronizing, talking over me, telling me I am wasting his time with training when he knew I was not a trained paralegal. I have never over sold my abilities or intelligence. I don’t KNOW the law, I just LEARN quickly.
Well back to the meeting, other people like me, he thinks I am irritable. He said “it’s fine because I can be too, but you can be irritable at times,” he then complimented my ability to learn quickly followed closely by “you greatest weakness is that you just fundamentally don’t understand the law or how a case flows.” I can agree with this, but it is not something I ever exemplified as my skill set. I told him I’m willing to learn. He told me to watch some YouTube videos so I agreed.
I have spent all weekend dwelling on my job. I would have never allowed someone to be so condescending or patronizing to me in the past. I heard from other legal professionals I’m in a great firm with Jeff and he will do everything he can for me. Jeff is VERY generous and buys me anything I need or ask for, but it feels like it is to make the comments they say okay?
When they leave me alone and I am left to my own work, I feel good, like this was the right choice. My paralegal and I work well together and I am learning a lot quickly. They often tell me that my predecessors couldn’t do anything I am currently doing. When he talks to me I feel dumb, unheard, and like a waste of a paycheck.
I guess I just want to know, is this normal? If it is, how do I let it go so I can keep working? If it isn’t, any advice on how to deal with this personality conflict?
Happy to answer follow up questions in comments.
Thank you a for your help.
2024.05.05 21:53 Contactunderground Tales of High Strangeness: A series of High Strangeness Events occurred when I seriously doubted a fellow contact experiencer’s veracity. An unseen non-human intelligence (ET?) seems to have taught me a lesson about its ability to make objects “disappear.”
 | Author Jim Sparks Tells me about “cloaking” and then “UFO Intel” Teaches” teaches me a Lesson with a DMV Code. submitted by Contactunderground to HighStrangeness [link] [comments] J. Burkes MD 2017 https://preview.redd.it/oalzmzukxnyc1.jpg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbdf574b19b4b20b81d7caa6c2c7e9aa36fea860 By sharing this narrative, as in the words of the renowned remote viewer Ingo Swann in his book “Penetration”, “I join a very long list of those that have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened.” In 2008, I attended the International UFO Congress in Nevada. I especially wanted to meet with author and contact experiencer Jim Sparks. His 2006 book, “The Keepers” was intriguing. Unlike many in the doom and gloom alien abductionist camp, Mr. Sparks had some very positive things to say about certain ET groups, especially the much maligned so-called “Reptilian” phenotype (category based on appearance). In “The Keepers”, Jim Sparks describes repeatedly being teleported into “ET” craft flying overhead. He called this shocking experience, “being taken the hard way.” Over the years I have heard similar stories from high-level contactees that I trust. However, because of concerns for their personal safety, I could not name them publicly or go into many of the specifics of their high strangeness encounters. Another UFO capability described by Jim Sparks is their alleged ability to “cloak” their presence and thus make it impossible for them to be seen. As I recall, he stated that a flying saucer could be parked on your home driveway and make itself invisible. His positive view of close encounters and his statement that he had been given a mission to bring people together around the issue of contact, made me want to recruit him into our human empowered contact network. My wife Yael and I drove across the desert from Los Angeles and a few fellow contact activists joined us at the Congress to talk with him. After a presentation that was enthusiastically received by the assembled UFO fans, Mr. Sparks agreed to meet with us in a hotel room. There, I outlined my involvement in the loose network that I like to call, “The Contact Underground.” Jim Sparks was tall, slender, well dressed and full of charm. I was pleasantly surprised to see him greet my wife Yael with a noble kiss on her hand. She didn’t seem to mind either. I described my past involvement with CSETI’s CE-5 Initiative and my ongoing work with the Peruvian contactees now called Rahma. Despite my best efforts to convince him to volunteer his time to help facilitate contact in a group setting under fieldwork conditions, I couldn’t get him to commit. One of my co-workers, a young woman that I shall call “Joanie Krieger” was also present in the hotel room to meet with Jim. Several weeks later, she reported having a long conversation with him on the phone. Joanie told me that she finally was “able to get out of him” why he had no apparent interest in working with us. She said that he didn’t want to join our network because his main goal, in her opinion, was to “sell his story to Hollywood” and have them make a movie about his contact experiences. I suppose that I shouldn’t have been surprised. Living in Los Angeles, just a few miles from “the entertainment capital of the world,” I knew how tempting it is to dream of fame and stardom. I must admit that I too have fantasized about my story being “brought to the silver screen.” Still I was disappointed. I suppose that negative emotion made me wonder whether some parts of Jim Spark’s book might have been exaggerated or perhaps totally made up. I remember specifically thinking that perhaps the ET’s alleged ability “to cloak” their craft was also fiction. The next day after speaking to Joanie, I received a lesson from an unseen intelligence that I will never forget. I routinely get notification from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles for my car registration renewals. It is a standard form that has a code with which one can pay online. The day following my thinking that Spark's story about an “invisible” saucer in his driveway was possibly bogus, I decided it was time to pay for my car registration. In front of my computer, I opened the DMV letter that had been sitting on my desk for weeks and placed it down with several other bills that needed to be paid. I glanced at the form and there in the usual box on the left side of the form was my 6-digit code to pay online. I was distracted from my task for a few minutes, When I sat down and picked up the form, there was something wrong. The code was no longer present in the appropriate box. I stared and stared at it, but the required numbers were simply not there. The space for the code was totally blank! I then imagined that I had placed the correct form with the code somewhere else in the house and the piece of paper that I was looking at was some accompanying document from the DMV mailing. I searched all over the house and even complained to Yael how stupid I felt for misplacing the form. Confused, I repeatedly looked at the DMV form at my desk, there was no code in the box. The deadline was coming up in a few days. If I were going to avoid late fees, I had better pay the bill and be done with it. After about a half hour of going through all my paperwork around the house, trying to figure out what I could have done with the correct form, I sat down at the computer again and looked at DMV notice. To my utter surprise, the correct code was now visible in the box where before it repeatedly appeared blank. I was astonished. I was left with the distinct impression that an unseen non-human intelligence (presumably ET) was confirming the accuracy of Jim Spark’s invisibility explanation. And it appears as if they did so by showing me how they could make the DMV code temporarily “disappear.” A month or two later, perhaps in case I didn't get the point, my card key for a motel room disappeared from the bed side table where I had placed it. It magically reappeared in the correct location on the night table the next day. In addition, I had missing time associated with this motel incident and I experienced a kind of sky quake that hit my motel room as well. My interpretation of these high strangeness events is that an unseen non-human intelligence (UFO Intel) was telling me that indeed Jim's assertion on the invisibility issue was true. To make certain that I would get the point, the alleged “ETs” staged two invisibility experiences for me. I end with another quote from Ingo Swann’s “Penetration.” “In the end, though, the authenticity of my personal, unprovable, experience probably doesn’t need to be considered that much – because the drift of accumulating information is inexorably leading to establishing the authentic existence of extraterrestrial intelligences anyway.” Amen! For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” the following links are provided: In 1997 crop circle investigator David Kingston was my host during a trip to Southern England. He told me that the strange visitors who only wanted to talk about human initiated contact with extraterrestrial. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/strange-visitors-that-only-wanted-to-talk-about-human-initiated-contact/ Upon return from a CE-5 mission to the Volcanic Zone where we witnessed a large silent triangular shaped craft, I experienced several High Strangeness events. These included a sighting of a 100-foot UFO over US-10. While carrying out contact protocols with my team in the Santa Monica Mountains, I heard an anomalous sound tract through our research site. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/high-strangeness-galore-after-returning-from-a-ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone-joseph-burkes-md-2022/ Introduction to UAP Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs”, Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/medical-healings-reported-by-uap-contact-experiencers/ |
2024.05.05 21:53 Easy_Pomegranate_826 Attack on titan rant since im bored
Spoilers by the way....(Sorry if i get any names of people or places wrong, the 3 walls structure still confused me even after watching aot 3 times)
Also nothing here is in any order just random rants and opinions since im bored.
Attack on titan was thoroughly an amazing anime. Despite its qualities and how it kept me on the edge of my seat I felt even for like 5 season the anime was just a little rushed at the end of season 1.
The reason to this day my top 3 favourite arc was the female titan was its mystery and shock. Most of season 1 was politics, training and prepping. But as soon as Annie Leonhart was caught the story started gassing forward full speed, we got no actual insight to the damages left in stohess, just a lame meeting scene between ewrin and the top brass.
Then we learn of the wall titan (was just way too early to reveal anything about wall titans) And then we saw how the 104th cadet squad were sent unarmed to some farm house in which they could have easily been slaughtered by the beast titan if it weren't for Mike and horses. What's really ironic is when Mike said "the chances of any titan in the 104th cadet is low" when there were 3 titans the entire time. You'd think it would take a decent 1 or 2 seasons to even reveal 1 out of 3 of these titans similarly to how it basically took 1 season to reveal Annie (or atleast felt like it) but no all 3 titans were revealed in the span of 2 - 3 days.
During this arc we did get lots of story telling, details and future references but it was frustrating seeing no actual compelling story put into ymir and especially reiner to this point. He just suddenly got sick of everything and revealed to eren his identity losing 5 years of progress. Let's also mention that the armor and colossal are a really good duo of titan abilities. Why couldn't reiner have just transformed, fucked eren up and ran of with Bertholt from the beginning when he learnt eren was a titan? (And no you can't argue 'reiner didn't know eren was the coordinate, he could of just been the attack titan only) marley had 6 out of 9 titans and knew that the Tyber family had 1 making it 50/50 odds of reiner grabbing eren running off and it being the founding titan) bear in mind if reiner did do this from the beginning the scout regiment including Levi wouldn't have had a chance against him seeing how they barely scrapped by Annie who effectively kicked the scouts assess for an entire day until they got lucky.
Fast forward to the reveal of reiner and berthold, which was actually pretty clean. It was so unexpected and goofy, most people would have began laughing assuming it was a joke as I did until suddenly the colossal titans roaring and the armored has eren in his grasp. What reiner done during this arc (running away with eren) he should have done ages ago. Granted that Annie would have not been captured meaning she could have atleast returned to marley.
2) ymirs titan. for a girl with such a spear headed and strong titan ability she was really a let down. I mean being the jaw titan and getting grabbed by another titan is one thing, but letting if slam you around is just an embrassement. The whole poing of the jaw js fuck around and find out, 1 slash can end your regardless of your titan. If ymir had revealed herself she could have teamed up with eren and made the scouts job so much easier yet she got stuck in some fantasy with crysta or historia. And I get she didn't understand her own ability same as eren but she had vital knowledge of titans and to some extent could have figured out reiner and bertholts involvement in everything.
3) Eldian bloodline. For a royal bloodline eldian zeke is a pretty big scum bag. He knows all marley see in the titan shifters are weapons and slaves yet he works his hardest for marley and together they both encouraged and sent 4 kids with titans they barely understand to paradise island. But no when push came to shove and eren broke through the stage killing Willie Tyber that one general just sat there accepting his fate, not that he had any chance in hell getting away from eren he could have atleast given it a shot.
Fast forward to Lara Tyber the hyped up and big letdown warhammer titan. Face it, she kicked erens ass but ironically her last words were "eren yeager any last words". If she didn't focus on looking good she probably could have killed eren. But it shouldn't have had to come to her fighting because reiner the man with plot armor and amazing healing abilities could have gave eren a good run for his money (not that he ever really has since the beginning) but instead felt too depressed, that's right marleys shield felt too depressed today. I get he was going through so much, I mean he understood eren alot and just couldn't take it anymore but for heavens sake atleast die fighting.
And then comes the jaw titan (an actual jaw titan this time dont worry, he atleast has claws unlike someone) Porco galliard. Now his ability to transform unnoticed with no lightning is super super OP when you think about it. Just about sums up where his good work cookie are because both times he caught eren off complete guard he failed to eat him and in the process got his ass handed to Jim swiftly. Then comes pieck who ill say for a cart titan put a decent fight but lost in a few minutes so who cares..
Gabi, probably one of the most hated characters then proceeds to break into the scouts airship to take on eren yeager when 4 titans just failed to do so. She ends up sniping Sasha, pretty sad but then sees on of her heroes zeke who had betrayed marley. Seeing zeke cause such a betrayl probably was a big shock considering if it weren't for him I'd predict the other titans would have just ate the marley army and sent them to hell.
In the end what I felt we lacked was an actual titan war. Attack on titan balanced too politics at one point then fighting at another. I felt the change of studio and story direction slightly declined the story. In season 4 after the decleration of war atleast 5 more massive titan fights should have happened, in the process involving the entire world and in the end eren and zeke meet to do the rumbling.
Also now that I think of it couldn't the warhammer pack the colossal by running spikes under his foot?
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Also nothing here is in any order just random rants and opinions since im bored.
Attack on titan was thoroughly an amazing anime. Despite its qualities and how it kept me on the edge of my seat I felt even for like 5 season the anime was just a little rushed at the end of season 1.
The reason to this day my top 3 favourite arc was the female titan was its mystery and shock. Most of season 1 was politics, training and prepping. But as soon as Annie Leonhart was caught the story started gassing forward full speed, we got no actual insight to the damages left in stohess, just a lame meeting scene between ewrin and the top brass.
Then we learn of the wall titan (was just way too early to reveal anything about wall titans) And then we saw how the 104th cadet squad were sent unarmed to some farm house in which they could have easily been slaughtered by the beast titan if it weren't for Mike and horses. What's really ironic is when Mike said "the chances of any titan in the 104th cadet is low" when there were 3 titans the entire time. You'd think it would take a decent 1 or 2 seasons to even reveal 1 out of 3 of these titans similarly to how it basically took 1 season to reveal Annie (or atleast felt like it) but no all 3 titans were revealed in the span of 2 - 3 days.
During this arc we did get lots of story telling, details and future references but it was frustrating seeing no actual compelling story put into ymir and especially reiner to this point. He just suddenly got sick of everything and revealed to eren his identity losing 5 years of progress. Let's also mention that the armor and colossal are a really good duo of titan abilities. Why couldn't reiner have just transformed, fucked eren up and ran of with Bertholt from the beginning when he learnt eren was a titan? (And no you can't argue 'reiner didn't know eren was the coordinate, he could of just been the attack titan only) marley had 6 out of 9 titans and knew that the Tyber family had 1 making it 50/50 odds of reiner grabbing eren running off and it being the founding titan) bear in mind if reiner did do this from the beginning the scout regiment including Levi wouldn't have had a chance against him seeing how they barely scrapped by Annie who effectively kicked the scouts assess for an entire day until they got lucky.
Fast forward to the reveal of reiner and berthold, which was actually pretty clean. It was so unexpected and goofy, most people would have began laughing assuming it was a joke as I did until suddenly the colossal titans roaring and the armored has eren in his grasp. What reiner done during this arc (running away with eren) he should have done ages ago. Granted that Annie would have not been captured meaning she could have atleast returned to marley.
2) ymirs titan. for a girl with such a spear headed and strong titan ability she was really a let down. I mean being the jaw titan and getting grabbed by another titan is one thing, but letting if slam you around is just an embrassement. The whole poing of the jaw js fuck around and find out, 1 slash can end your regardless of your titan. If ymir had revealed herself she could have teamed up with eren and made the scouts job so much easier yet she got stuck in some fantasy with crysta or historia. And I get she didn't understand her own ability same as eren but she had vital knowledge of titans and to some extent could have figured out reiner and bertholts involvement in everything.
3) Eldian bloodline. For a royal bloodline eldian zeke is a pretty big scum bag. He knows all marley see in the titan shifters are weapons and slaves yet he works his hardest for marley and together they both encouraged and sent 4 kids with titans they barely understand to paradise island. But no when push came to shove and eren broke through the stage killing Willie Tyber that one general just sat there accepting his fate, not that he had any chance in hell getting away from eren he could have atleast given it a shot.
Fast forward to Lara Tyber the hyped up and big letdown warhammer titan. Face it, she kicked erens ass but ironically her last words were "eren yeager any last words". If she didn't focus on looking good she probably could have killed eren. But it shouldn't have had to come to her fighting because reiner the man with plot armor and amazing healing abilities could have gave eren a good run for his money (not that he ever really has since the beginning) but instead felt too depressed, that's right marleys shield felt too depressed today. I get he was going through so much, I mean he understood eren alot and just couldn't take it anymore but for heavens sake atleast die fighting.
And then comes the jaw titan (an actual jaw titan this time dont worry, he atleast has claws unlike someone) Porco galliard. Now his ability to transform unnoticed with no lightning is super super OP when you think about it. Just about sums up where his good work cookie are because both times he caught eren off complete guard he failed to eat him and in the process got his ass handed to Jim swiftly. Then comes pieck who ill say for a cart titan put a decent fight but lost in a few minutes so who cares..
Gabi, probably one of the most hated characters then proceeds to break into the scouts airship to take on eren yeager when 4 titans just failed to do so. She ends up sniping Sasha, pretty sad but then sees on of her heroes zeke who had betrayed marley. Seeing zeke cause such a betrayl probably was a big shock considering if it weren't for him I'd predict the other titans would have just ate the marley army and sent them to hell.
In the end what I felt we lacked was an actual titan war. Attack on titan balanced too politics at one point then fighting at another. I felt the change of studio and story direction slightly declined the story. In season 4 after the decleration of war atleast 5 more massive titan fights should have happened, in the process involving the entire world and in the end eren and zeke meet to do the rumbling.
Also now that I think of it couldn't the warhammer pack the colossal by running spikes under his foot?
2024.05.05 21:51 Contactunderground Tales of High Strangeness: A series of High Strangeness Events occurred when I seriously doubted a fellow contact experiencer’s veracity. An unseen non-human intelligence (ET?) seems to have taught me a lesson about its ability to make objects “disappear.”
| | Author Jim Sparks Tells me about “cloaking” and then “UFO Intel” Teaches” teaches me a Lesson with a DMV Code. submitted by Contactunderground to Experiencers [link] [comments] J. Burkes MD 2017 The code for online payment \"disappeared.\" By sharing this narrative, as in the words of the renowned remote viewer Ingo Swann in his book “Penetration”, “I join a very long list of those that have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened.” In 2008, I attended the International UFO Congress in Nevada. I especially wanted to meet with author and contact experiencer Jim Sparks. His 2006 book, “The Keepers” was intriguing. Unlike many in the doom and gloom alien abductionist camp, Mr. Sparks had some very positive things to say about certain ET groups, especially the much maligned so-called “Reptilian” phenotype (category based on appearance). In “The Keepers”, Jim Sparks describes repeatedly being teleported into “ET” craft flying overhead. He called this shocking experience, “being taken the hard way.” Over the years I have heard similar stories from high-level contactees that I trust. However, because of concerns for their personal safety, I could not name them publicly or go into many of the specifics of their high strangeness encounters. Another UFO capability described by Jim Sparks is their alleged ability to “cloak” their presence and thus make it impossible for them to be seen. As I recall, he stated that a flying saucer could be parked on your home driveway and make itself invisible. His positive view of close encounters and his statement that he had been given a mission to bring people together around the issue of contact, made me want to recruit him into our human empowered contact network. My wife Yael and I drove across the desert from Los Angeles and a few fellow contact activists joined us at the Congress to talk with him. After a presentation that was enthusiastically received by the assembled UFO fans, Mr. Sparks agreed to meet with us in a hotel room. There, I outlined my involvement in the loose network that I like to call, “The Contact Underground.” Jim Sparks was tall, slender, well dressed and full of charm. I was pleasantly surprised to see him greet my wife Yael with a noble kiss on her hand. She didn’t seem to mind either. I described my past involvement with CSETI’s CE-5 Initiative and my ongoing work with the Peruvian contactees now called Rahma. Despite my best efforts to convince him to volunteer his time to help facilitate contact in a group setting under fieldwork conditions, I couldn’t get him to commit. One of my co-workers, a young woman that I shall call “Joanie Krieger” was also present in the hotel room to meet with Jim. Several weeks later, she reported having a long conversation with him on the phone. Joanie told me that she finally was “able to get out of him” why he had no apparent interest in working with us. She said that he didn’t want to join our network because his main goal, in her opinion, was to “sell his story to Hollywood” and have them make a movie about his contact experiences. I suppose that I shouldn’t have been surprised. Living in Los Angeles, just a few miles from “the entertainment capital of the world,” I knew how tempting it is to dream of fame and stardom. I must admit that I too have fantasized about my story being “brought to the silver screen.” Still I was disappointed. I suppose that negative emotion made me wonder whether some parts of Jim Spark’s book might have been exaggerated or perhaps totally made up. I remember specifically thinking that perhaps the ET’s alleged ability “to cloak” their craft was also fiction. The next day after speaking to Joanie, I received a lesson from an unseen intelligence that I will never forget. I routinely get notification from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles for my car registration renewals. It is a standard form that has a code with which one can pay online. The day following my thinking that Spark's story about an “invisible” saucer in his driveway was possibly bogus, I decided it was time to pay for my car registration. In front of my computer, I opened the DMV letter that had been sitting on my desk for weeks and placed it down with several other bills that needed to be paid. I glanced at the form and there in the usual box on the left side of the form was my 6-digit code to pay online. I was distracted from my task for a few minutes, When I sat down and picked up the form, there was something wrong. The code was no longer present in the appropriate box. I stared and stared at it, but the required numbers were simply not there. The space for the code was totally blank! I then imagined that I had placed the correct form with the code somewhere else in the house and the piece of paper that I was looking at was some accompanying document from the DMV mailing. I searched all over the house and even complained to Yael how stupid I felt for misplacing the form. Confused, I repeatedly looked at the DMV form at my desk, there was no code in the box. The deadline was coming up in a few days. If I were going to avoid late fees, I had better pay the bill and be done with it. After about a half hour of going through all my paperwork around the house, trying to figure out what I could have done with the correct form, I sat down at the computer again and looked at DMV notice. To my utter surprise, the correct code was now visible in the box where before it repeatedly appeared blank. I was astonished. I was left with the distinct impression that an unseen non-human intelligence (presumably ET) was confirming the accuracy of Jim Spark’s invisibility explanation. And it appears as if they did so by showing me how they could make the DMV code temporarily “disappear.” A month or two later, perhaps in case I didn't get the point, my card key for a motel room disappeared from the bed side table where I had placed it. It magically reappeared in the correct location on the night table the next day. In addition, I had missing time associated with this motel incident and I experienced a kind of sky quake that hit my motel room as well. My interpretation of these high strangeness events is that an unseen non-human intelligence (UFO Intel) was telling me that indeed Jim's assertion on the invisibility issue was true. To make certain that I would get the point, the alleged “ETs” staged two invisibility experiences for me. I end with another quote from Ingo Swann’s “Penetration.” “In the end, though, the authenticity of my personal, unprovable, experience probably doesn’t need to be considered that much – because the drift of accumulating information is inexorably leading to establishing the authentic existence of extraterrestrial intelligences anyway.” Amen! For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” the following links are provided: In 1997 crop circle investigator David Kingston was my host during a trip to Southern England. He told me that the strange visitors who only wanted to talk about human initiated contact with extraterrestrial. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/strange-visitors-that-only-wanted-to-talk-about-human-initiated-contact/ Upon return from a CE-5 mission to the Volcanic Zone where we witnessed a large silent triangular shaped craft, I experienced several High Strangeness events. These included a sighting of a 100-foot UFO over US-10. While carrying out contact protocols with my team in the Santa Monica Mountains, I heard an anomalous sound tract through our research site. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/high-strangeness-galore-after-returning-from-a-ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone-joseph-burkes-md-2022/ Introduction to UAP Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs”, Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/medical-healings-reported-by-uap-contact-experiencers/ |
2024.05.05 21:49 sassybumblebee Need advice on maneuvering new legal job with strong personalities - please help.
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to read this. All names have been changed for privacy.
Quick background on myself, I have worked a lot of jobs, banker, bank manager, business and mortgage associate, bar tender, bike trepair, in-court clerk, and most recently legal assistant.
This is my first time working for a private law firm and I knew that the expectations and demands were higher than any of my previous jobs; what I was not expecting was the patronizing comments, sarcastic answers, and general disrespect that I receive from the lead attorney (we will call him Jeff).
Our firm is unique in that it is just myself and Jeff in the office at all times. Jeff approached me at my previous job and asked me to work for their firm as a paralegal because I had a strong reputation in the legal community having worked for the court for some time. During my interview, Jeff read my resume aloud to the whole firm and proceeded to tell personal anecdotes that related to my experience. Jeff did not ask me many questions and I had to interject periodically to explain how I thought my experience would make me a good fit for the firm. I also explained in the interview that I did not feel I was knowledgeable enough to be a paralegal, but that I am in exceptionally fast learner and if they are willing to teach, I am willing to learn. I reiterated that you only have to tell me something once.
Fast forward, they offer me a job as a legal assistant training to be a paralegal and I start my job. It is an entirely new operating system with all new programs. It is just myself and Jeff work in the office, all other employees and attorneys are remote. They were busy with hearings the first three days and barely acknowledged me. That is fine, as I realize it is much smaller and I won’t be talking to people all the time. The next week comes, and I get slammed with paralegal documents to make (I am a legal assistant), on top of a back log of secretary duties, like calling a window washer, closing old cases out, client contact, etc. When I asked for assistance/ clarification, the response was “you’re smart, figure it out”. The document needed to as one that comes in the middle of a case and DOES require a basic grasp on the case, parties, and what is happening. None of our cases are similar in any capacity. Our firm does VERY specialized case types and at this point I still had no training or idea where to begin looking for that information. Any time I ask for assistance with ANYTHING, the response is “you’re smart, figure it out” or “your job is to save me time, and having to explain this to you is wasting my time”.
To begin all conversations Jeff asks I start with the client info, which is the only thing they have had to repeat to me since I started and it took me one reminder. During our meeting they came and asked if contacted Sunderton. A deep panic set in as I didn’t recall the name… Sunderton. I ask, “who?” Jeff “SUNDERTON” Me “who is that?” Jeff “The CONSTRUCTION company you were supposed to call? SUNDERTON! S-U-N-D-E-R-T-O-N!” In disbelief a legal professional just raised their voice to spell at me rather than just say “construction?” I reply “you mean SUN? S-U-N construction??? Yes, Jeff. I DID.” Then sat down to update him.
Just after that, he proceeded to get upset with me for not calling someone back when the person who called, called to speak to the paralegal. The paralegal gets the same emails I do, and I was not informed I was the office secretary. I am happy to call everyone back. I explained this and he replied that it is “a waste of his time to be explaining this to me, and we obviously don’t want people waiting on call backs or meetings”. This is a direct contraction to previous “training” where he told me taking calls was a waste of his time and he didn’t want meetings set with him unless he knew why.
I was frustrated and told him firmly that it’s not appropriate to speak to me that way when he had never set that expectation and that I can’t know how they run things without being told, but moving forward I would call every person back every time and he wouldn’t have to worry about “wasting time”. I then went to update him on a huge case change, and he starts barreling over me in conversation as he always does; but this time I told him he needs to let me finish speaking as I am the one who made the call and I am giving him the information that he does not have. He seemed shocked, but listened, and it WAS info that he needed.
He asked me a month in how I thought it was going and I told him I thought it was fine, and asked him how he thought it was going. He said the paralegal and the book keeper like me a lot and they are the hardest to impress (he has not stated he likes me). He said he thinks I can be “irritable”. This bothered me immensely as I treat everyone with the highest level of respect, until they treat me poorly over and over again. For a moth he was patronizing, talking over me, telling me I am wasting his time with training when he knew I was not a trained paralegal. I have never over sold my abilities or intelligence. I don’t KNOW the law, I just LEARN quickly.
Well back to the meeting, other people like me, he thinks I am irritable. He said “it’s fine because I can be too, but you can be irritable at times,” he then complimented my ability to learn quickly followed closely by “you greatest weakness is that you just fundamentally don’t understand the law or how a case flows.” I can agree with this, but it is not something I ever exemplified as my skill set. I told him I’m willing to learn. He told me to watch some YouTube videos so I agreed.
I have spent all weekend dwelling on my job. I would have never allowed someone to be so condescending or patronizing to me in the past. I heard from other legal professionals I’m in a great firm with Jeff and he will do everything he can for me. Jeff is VERY generous and buys me anything I need or ask for, but it feels like it is to make the comments they say okay?
When they leave me alone and I am left to my own work, I feel good, like this was the right choice. My paralegal and I work well together and I am learning a lot quickly. They often tell me that my predecessors couldn’t do anything I am currently doing. When he talks to me I feel dumb, unheard, and like a waste of a paycheck.
I guess I just want to know, is this normal? If it is, how do I let it go so I can keep working? If it isn’t, any advice on how to deal with this personality conflict?
Happy to answer follow up questions in comments.
Thank you a for your help.
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Quick background on myself, I have worked a lot of jobs, banker, bank manager, business and mortgage associate, bar tender, bike trepair, in-court clerk, and most recently legal assistant.
This is my first time working for a private law firm and I knew that the expectations and demands were higher than any of my previous jobs; what I was not expecting was the patronizing comments, sarcastic answers, and general disrespect that I receive from the lead attorney (we will call him Jeff).
Our firm is unique in that it is just myself and Jeff in the office at all times. Jeff approached me at my previous job and asked me to work for their firm as a paralegal because I had a strong reputation in the legal community having worked for the court for some time. During my interview, Jeff read my resume aloud to the whole firm and proceeded to tell personal anecdotes that related to my experience. Jeff did not ask me many questions and I had to interject periodically to explain how I thought my experience would make me a good fit for the firm. I also explained in the interview that I did not feel I was knowledgeable enough to be a paralegal, but that I am in exceptionally fast learner and if they are willing to teach, I am willing to learn. I reiterated that you only have to tell me something once.
Fast forward, they offer me a job as a legal assistant training to be a paralegal and I start my job. It is an entirely new operating system with all new programs. It is just myself and Jeff work in the office, all other employees and attorneys are remote. They were busy with hearings the first three days and barely acknowledged me. That is fine, as I realize it is much smaller and I won’t be talking to people all the time. The next week comes, and I get slammed with paralegal documents to make (I am a legal assistant), on top of a back log of secretary duties, like calling a window washer, closing old cases out, client contact, etc. When I asked for assistance/ clarification, the response was “you’re smart, figure it out”. The document needed to as one that comes in the middle of a case and DOES require a basic grasp on the case, parties, and what is happening. None of our cases are similar in any capacity. Our firm does VERY specialized case types and at this point I still had no training or idea where to begin looking for that information. Any time I ask for assistance with ANYTHING, the response is “you’re smart, figure it out” or “your job is to save me time, and having to explain this to you is wasting my time”.
To begin all conversations Jeff asks I start with the client info, which is the only thing they have had to repeat to me since I started and it took me one reminder. During our meeting they came and asked if contacted Sunderton. A deep panic set in as I didn’t recall the name… Sunderton. I ask, “who?” Jeff “SUNDERTON” Me “who is that?” Jeff “The CONSTRUCTION company you were supposed to call? SUNDERTON! S-U-N-D-E-R-T-O-N!” In disbelief a legal professional just raised their voice to spell at me rather than just say “construction?” I reply “you mean SUN? S-U-N construction??? Yes, Jeff. I DID.” Then sat down to update him.
Just after that, he proceeded to get upset with me for not calling someone back when the person who called, called to speak to the paralegal. The paralegal gets the same emails I do, and I was not informed I was the office secretary. I am happy to call everyone back. I explained this and he replied that it is “a waste of his time to be explaining this to me, and we obviously don’t want people waiting on call backs or meetings”. This is a direct contraction to previous “training” where he told me taking calls was a waste of his time and he didn’t want meetings set with him unless he knew why.
I was frustrated and told him firmly that it’s not appropriate to speak to me that way when he had never set that expectation and that I can’t know how they run things without being told, but moving forward I would call every person back every time and he wouldn’t have to worry about “wasting time”. I then went to update him on a huge case change, and he starts barreling over me in conversation as he always does; but this time I told him he needs to let me finish speaking as I am the one who made the call and I am giving him the information that he does not have. He seemed shocked, but listened, and it WAS info that he needed.
He asked me a month in how I thought it was going and I told him I thought it was fine, and asked him how he thought it was going. He said the paralegal and the book keeper like me a lot and they are the hardest to impress (he has not stated he likes me). He said he thinks I can be “irritable”. This bothered me immensely as I treat everyone with the highest level of respect, until they treat me poorly over and over again. For a moth he was patronizing, talking over me, telling me I am wasting his time with training when he knew I was not a trained paralegal. I have never over sold my abilities or intelligence. I don’t KNOW the law, I just LEARN quickly.
Well back to the meeting, other people like me, he thinks I am irritable. He said “it’s fine because I can be too, but you can be irritable at times,” he then complimented my ability to learn quickly followed closely by “you greatest weakness is that you just fundamentally don’t understand the law or how a case flows.” I can agree with this, but it is not something I ever exemplified as my skill set. I told him I’m willing to learn. He told me to watch some YouTube videos so I agreed.
I have spent all weekend dwelling on my job. I would have never allowed someone to be so condescending or patronizing to me in the past. I heard from other legal professionals I’m in a great firm with Jeff and he will do everything he can for me. Jeff is VERY generous and buys me anything I need or ask for, but it feels like it is to make the comments they say okay?
When they leave me alone and I am left to my own work, I feel good, like this was the right choice. My paralegal and I work well together and I am learning a lot quickly. They often tell me that my predecessors couldn’t do anything I am currently doing. When he talks to me I feel dumb, unheard, and like a waste of a paycheck.
I guess I just want to know, is this normal? If it is, how do I let it go so I can keep working? If it isn’t, any advice on how to deal with this personality conflict?
Happy to answer follow up questions in comments.
Thank you a for your help.
2024.05.05 21:46 georgedoesntwantto Blind Spot
Back then I worked as a high school teacher. I had just finished college and started working only part-time, as I was not that easy to find a full-time position right in the middle of the school year. Luckily for me, someone at a school nearby had to quit on short notice, and I was hired as a stand in immediately. The job required me to teach only a few hours each week, leaving me with quite a bit of free time. This of course I perceived as mainly positive, as I was then still actively painting – something I don’t really do anymore. The first strokes of paint on an empty canvas upset me now… You’ll understand soon enough.
The position at school enabled me to work on a bigger painting I had planned out during the month before. The few lessons I taught didn’t require too much preparation, as I could reuse teaching materials I had created in college. While I was really happy to have time to fully engage in my hobby, I couldn’t really ignore the downside of having only a part-time job – money was sparse. After having received my first paycheck, I realized that the number written on it wouldn’t suffice at all. The rent for my small house wasn’t that high, but still. I needed to eat and… Well, art supplies were ridiculously expensive.
After a bit of thinking I decided that it wouldn’t hurt to have a housemate around. Not only could they help me out with rent, but ideally also provide me some company. After all, it would be nice to talk to someone over the age of sixteen – the conversations I had with my students were usually not that demanding. And I didn’t have any friends close by which I could easily meet at a bar in the evening. A week after my decision to search for a housemate, I coincidentally overheard one of my coworkers explaining how annoyed she was by her freshly divorced brother, who had ‘temporarily’ moved in with her. Apparently, he was in low spirits constantly – something that she primarily perceived as exhausting. I saw my chance, spoke to her, and greeted my new housemate only a few hours later. Lex was about my age – mid-twenties – and I soon found out that he was equally unhappy having to live with his sister, as she was to live with him. He moved in and we immediately got along well. With both of us not being too extroverted, we wouldn’t annoy each other with unnecessary small talk. Nonetheless, he’d suggest having a beer together on from time to time, something that quickly became a routine I was looking forward to.
So, that was my life in March of 2012. I was 28, living with Lex, teaching history lessons every other weekday and painting in my generous free time. To be honest, my life was pretty unproblematic, and I wish I would have just stayed that way.
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The small spot on the wall of my room was located close to my easel. I think, I saw it first on one of the last days of march. When exactly, I’m not sure. It was just a tiny, grayish-blue speckle at about my height, in the middle of the wall. Upon seeing it, I was a bit annoyed, as this probably meant that I would have to repaint that wall if I was to move out some time in the future. This meant only a small inconvenience and was something that I could worry about in the future. I pushed the thought aside and continued painting. The fact that I hadn’t used gray in my paintings in a while didn’t really cross my mind.
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Within the first week of April, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the weird spot seemed a little bigger than it was the days before. Had it always been the size of my fingernail? I thought, as I lifted my arm, wanting to scratch it off. Just before I touched it, I suddenly got the idea that it might be mold. I mean, a drop of paint on the wall surely wouldn’t grow, right? Disgusted, I pulled my hand back.
As I wasn’t the only one in my household to make administrative decisions now, I decided to listen to Lex's opinion on the weird spot before calling a professional cleaner. I went on about my day, taught some tenth graders about the French Revolution and nearly forgot about it. After I came home that evening, I was reminded of the small round problem on my wall immediately, as it didn’t seem to be that small anymore. Now I was staring at a spot about the size of a coin. I called out to Lex. After explaining my theory that we probably had mold on the walls and therefore should call a professional cleaner, Lex just shrugged, reached out, and tried to scratch it off with his fingernail. “Man, I can’t get it off, what kind of aggressive paint do you use for your paintings?” he exclaimed annoyed. I once more explained that I hadn’t used that color in any of my paintings, and that I thought it must be mold. „Hmm, yeah, it had a moldy consistency when I touched it, yes. You better call a cleaner while I wash my hands. “
The cleaning company told me that they would send someone the next day in the afternoon. Even though I had no idea what this spot was, I wasn’t too thrilled about sleeping in the room it was in. The fact that it grew so fast just gave me a bad feeling. Hoping to solve the problem tomorrow with the help of a cleaner, I finally managed to fall asleep.
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Slowly waking up the following day, I dreaded the moment of opening my eyes. I was so sure that the thing must have gotten bigger again, but – it wasn’t. Sure, it was still there, but its size hadn’t changed much. At least not significantly. Motivated by this first impression of the day, I quickly got up to tell Lex about it. I met him in the kitchen. Lex didn’t seem too interested in the apparently slowing – or stopping? – growth of the thing, as he seemed to be occupied with something else. “Yeah, that’s greats and all man, but please have a look at my finger now. It feels so weird… To be honest, it really hurts.” I looked at his hand. The upper third of his right index finger now had the same grayish and slightly blue color as the spot on the wall. “You’ve probably cleaned it as best as possible, right?” I asked. “What do you think, doc?” he mumbled sarcastically. „Of course I cleaned it, but it’s no use. And I don’t see myself working today with my hand looking like this. I’ll call in sick. I’m in my room if you need me.” Then he left. Lex worked as a chiropractor, so I understood why it wouldn’t be the best Idea to touch clients with his hands like that.
While I still stood in the kitchen – quite confused by what was happening – the phone rang. It was the cleaning company. They explained that one of their cleaners had gotten sick and then asked if it would be okay if they send another, who would be at my house tomorrow. I sighed and agreed. The spot didn’t seem to grow any further, so my biggest concern was Lex's hand anyway. But I had to rush to work first.
After I had finished school, I stopped at his favorite Chinese restaurant and ordered food for us. I wanted to do at least something to make his day a little better. Back home, I went to Lex's room right away. „Hey man, you there? I brought us some food,” I said, knocking on the door. He told me to come in. I took a few steps into the room and placed the bag with the food on his desk, then I noticed how pale he was. “It really is not looking good.” I saw that Lex was trying to play it somewhat cool, but his tone immediately told me how upset he was. Then I saw his finger. Or, better say, I didn’t see his finger. Most of it looked like it had rotted away… left was only a little stump, the same color that a part of his hand, as well as the lower half of his middle finger had now assumed. I took a step back. “Shit, Lex, you must go to the hospital immediately!” I told him. „Yes, I know. But I feel so tired, I just can’t get up myself. Maybe I need a bit more rest.” “Great Idea, just rest and then maybe go to the hospital later, without your hand,” I replied angrily. I didn’t want to scare him any further but looking at his hand I immediately got shivers again. Seeing his frightened and pale face, I immediately felt sorry for what I had said. “Okay, that was a joke, of course. But I think we should do something and not just wait it out. You need some energy, so I’ll fetch you a fork and you eat a bit of the food I just brought. And after that, we go straight to the hospital, okay?”
“Okay.”
.: . '.
I went to the kitchen, opened a drawer, and grabbed a fork. Amid the shiny cutlery, something dark caught my eye. There was another spot of the same color, in our cutlery drawer. I suddenly felt a bit sick. Then it hit me. Lex must have touched it. I jerked back and looked at my hand. There were no irritations, I hadn’t accidentally touched it. While I tried to sort my thoughts – I didn’t know of any skin disease that infected wood as well, it didn’t make any sense – I noticed something. There were more spots. On the coffee-machine, the counter, the fridge. All of these probably touched by Lex in the morning. I grabbed an oven mitt and went back to his room. “Okay, I’m sorry, but forget the food. And please put this over your hand.” I handed him the mitt. “We need to leave, now.”
I helped Lex into my car, extremely careful not to touch his hand. At the hospital, the staff led Lex to a doctor’s office. The waiting room emptied, as the evening approached, but Lex didn’t show up. After I had waited for about three hours, I asked the nurses how much longer it would take. They explained that my friend was getting the best treatment, he would be fine soon – but I didn’t have to wait for him. He had to stay overnight. This I understood, still having the vivid image of his missing finger in my head. I then asked if I could quickly see him. Just to let him know that he wasn’t alone, going through this. The nurses said that this wouldn’t be possible. Apparently, he was sleeping, and it would be best if no one disturbed his rest.
With an uneasy feeling in my stomach, I drove home. The things the nurses told me made sense and – as I wasn’t a family member – they were not required to give me more information on his condition and sickness. I simply couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that this… virus? had simply consumed a human finger. As I continued my drive, I realized that I absolutely didn’t want to sleep in our house that night. I wasn’t sure where else to go, but I ultimately decided, that a hotel room would be the best short-term solution. It would be expensive, but better than potentially having any rotten limbs. Still, I needed to quickly stop at the house and grab my wallet, which I had forgotten in the hurry. We had a little desk right besides the door for keys, wallets and what not. Pretty sure that my wallet must be laying there, I started to mentally prepare myself to enter the house.
:.‘..:
I hadn’t even reached our driveway, but from the distance I could already see it. A blue van with a big logo stood in front of our home. The logo consisted of a stylized broom, a sponge, and some shiny stars. I stopped my car as fast as possible, opened the door and ran towards the house. Then I remembered something. I quickly rushed back to the car, grabbed my gloves from the glove compartment, and put them on. Apart from my face, all my skin was now covered by my clothes.
As I bust into the house, I heard several people talking in my room. Passing the kitchen door, I quickly made sure that it was fully shut. Then I went into my room. On the floor there were some buckets, spray cans and other things that one might expect a cleaning team to bring. Next to them stood two men in blue overalls and, to my shock, my landlady.
“Ah, there you are. You really didn’t have to make such a fuzz about such a small spot on the wall. It seems to be a bit of dirt or paint, don’t worry about it,” my landlady said.
All I managed to get out was: “How did you get in here?”
Again, the friendly woman answered: “Oh, the cleaning company told me that you called because of some mold. They wanted to send someone before today’s shift ended, but they couldn’t reach you via landline. Luckily, I answered the phone and let them in.”
“You really don’t have to be that afraid of a bit of dirt, young man,” one of the men approached me. “As the woman said, it’s no mold. Tomorrow, you go and buy some white paint and the problem is solved.”
The men grabbed their stuff and slowly went out of the room. While my landlady again assured me that there was nothing to worry about, that it was better to be safe than sorry and that she wasn’t mad about the bill of the cleaning service, I heard the men talking.
“Huh, this sure is hard to get off… I don’t even wanna know what that weird guy smeared on his walls, ugh.” The other man answered. “Yeah, I also got a bit of it on my hand. I’ll try to rub it off at home, using the strong stuff…” They left.
My landlady went after them and left me alone in my room. I stared at the wall. The spot still had the size of a coin. I stood there for a few minutes. Then I went to the kitchen.
There were so many. The ones that I had seen before now had an equal size to the one in my bedroom, but there were more. It was the same in the bathroom. They were on the faucet, the mirror, button you flush the toilet with. I couldn’t help but feel thankful for my decision to go straight to Lex's room this afternoon.
Then I grabbed my wallet and left.
In the hotel I immediately fell asleep. The next day I called in the hospital. It was surreal. No one knew what I was talking about, they said they never heard Lex's name. After a few minutes of me desperately trying to explain myself, they asked me to please stop blocking the line and hung up. I drove there, but even in person it was impossible to get any information.
I started to wonder if I had just made this story up, if maybe something was wrong with me. Eventually I decided to drive back home.
In front of the house stood two black cars with men in equally black suits in them. They didn’t allow me to enter. They said they were sorry, but the house couldn’t be entered by civilians under any circumstances. I was outnumbered and saw no way to get in. To be honest, I didn’t even want to get in. After some time, I went back to the hotel.
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I lay on the hotel bed for a long time. Probably hours. I couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Nothing made sense. Then I saw it. A little speck on the ceiling. It had the same weird light gray, blue color. I felt as if I was going crazy. As fast as I could I grabbed my things and left. I drove for hours.
I arrived at my parents’ house about eight or nine hours later. By the time I arrived, I had developed a fever. After that, I don’t remember much.
By the end of April, I had gotten better. My parents told me that the school had called a few days after my arrival at their house, asking where I was. No one else called. Not my Landlady, not Lex.
All of this happened more than ten years ago now. I never went back to my old house or that city. Nobody required me to pay any rent, or anything else. Today I live a relatively happy life – except for the fact that I had to give up painting. It just stressed me out so much. Also, I’m obsessing over the cleanliness of my home… at least my wife says so. I’ve never heard from Lex again.
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The position at school enabled me to work on a bigger painting I had planned out during the month before. The few lessons I taught didn’t require too much preparation, as I could reuse teaching materials I had created in college. While I was really happy to have time to fully engage in my hobby, I couldn’t really ignore the downside of having only a part-time job – money was sparse. After having received my first paycheck, I realized that the number written on it wouldn’t suffice at all. The rent for my small house wasn’t that high, but still. I needed to eat and… Well, art supplies were ridiculously expensive.
After a bit of thinking I decided that it wouldn’t hurt to have a housemate around. Not only could they help me out with rent, but ideally also provide me some company. After all, it would be nice to talk to someone over the age of sixteen – the conversations I had with my students were usually not that demanding. And I didn’t have any friends close by which I could easily meet at a bar in the evening. A week after my decision to search for a housemate, I coincidentally overheard one of my coworkers explaining how annoyed she was by her freshly divorced brother, who had ‘temporarily’ moved in with her. Apparently, he was in low spirits constantly – something that she primarily perceived as exhausting. I saw my chance, spoke to her, and greeted my new housemate only a few hours later. Lex was about my age – mid-twenties – and I soon found out that he was equally unhappy having to live with his sister, as she was to live with him. He moved in and we immediately got along well. With both of us not being too extroverted, we wouldn’t annoy each other with unnecessary small talk. Nonetheless, he’d suggest having a beer together on from time to time, something that quickly became a routine I was looking forward to.
So, that was my life in March of 2012. I was 28, living with Lex, teaching history lessons every other weekday and painting in my generous free time. To be honest, my life was pretty unproblematic, and I wish I would have just stayed that way.
.
The small spot on the wall of my room was located close to my easel. I think, I saw it first on one of the last days of march. When exactly, I’m not sure. It was just a tiny, grayish-blue speckle at about my height, in the middle of the wall. Upon seeing it, I was a bit annoyed, as this probably meant that I would have to repaint that wall if I was to move out some time in the future. This meant only a small inconvenience and was something that I could worry about in the future. I pushed the thought aside and continued painting. The fact that I hadn’t used gray in my paintings in a while didn’t really cross my mind.
.
Within the first week of April, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the weird spot seemed a little bigger than it was the days before. Had it always been the size of my fingernail? I thought, as I lifted my arm, wanting to scratch it off. Just before I touched it, I suddenly got the idea that it might be mold. I mean, a drop of paint on the wall surely wouldn’t grow, right? Disgusted, I pulled my hand back.
As I wasn’t the only one in my household to make administrative decisions now, I decided to listen to Lex's opinion on the weird spot before calling a professional cleaner. I went on about my day, taught some tenth graders about the French Revolution and nearly forgot about it. After I came home that evening, I was reminded of the small round problem on my wall immediately, as it didn’t seem to be that small anymore. Now I was staring at a spot about the size of a coin. I called out to Lex. After explaining my theory that we probably had mold on the walls and therefore should call a professional cleaner, Lex just shrugged, reached out, and tried to scratch it off with his fingernail. “Man, I can’t get it off, what kind of aggressive paint do you use for your paintings?” he exclaimed annoyed. I once more explained that I hadn’t used that color in any of my paintings, and that I thought it must be mold. „Hmm, yeah, it had a moldy consistency when I touched it, yes. You better call a cleaner while I wash my hands. “
The cleaning company told me that they would send someone the next day in the afternoon. Even though I had no idea what this spot was, I wasn’t too thrilled about sleeping in the room it was in. The fact that it grew so fast just gave me a bad feeling. Hoping to solve the problem tomorrow with the help of a cleaner, I finally managed to fall asleep.
.
Slowly waking up the following day, I dreaded the moment of opening my eyes. I was so sure that the thing must have gotten bigger again, but – it wasn’t. Sure, it was still there, but its size hadn’t changed much. At least not significantly. Motivated by this first impression of the day, I quickly got up to tell Lex about it. I met him in the kitchen. Lex didn’t seem too interested in the apparently slowing – or stopping? – growth of the thing, as he seemed to be occupied with something else. “Yeah, that’s greats and all man, but please have a look at my finger now. It feels so weird… To be honest, it really hurts.” I looked at his hand. The upper third of his right index finger now had the same grayish and slightly blue color as the spot on the wall. “You’ve probably cleaned it as best as possible, right?” I asked. “What do you think, doc?” he mumbled sarcastically. „Of course I cleaned it, but it’s no use. And I don’t see myself working today with my hand looking like this. I’ll call in sick. I’m in my room if you need me.” Then he left. Lex worked as a chiropractor, so I understood why it wouldn’t be the best Idea to touch clients with his hands like that.
While I still stood in the kitchen – quite confused by what was happening – the phone rang. It was the cleaning company. They explained that one of their cleaners had gotten sick and then asked if it would be okay if they send another, who would be at my house tomorrow. I sighed and agreed. The spot didn’t seem to grow any further, so my biggest concern was Lex's hand anyway. But I had to rush to work first.
After I had finished school, I stopped at his favorite Chinese restaurant and ordered food for us. I wanted to do at least something to make his day a little better. Back home, I went to Lex's room right away. „Hey man, you there? I brought us some food,” I said, knocking on the door. He told me to come in. I took a few steps into the room and placed the bag with the food on his desk, then I noticed how pale he was. “It really is not looking good.” I saw that Lex was trying to play it somewhat cool, but his tone immediately told me how upset he was. Then I saw his finger. Or, better say, I didn’t see his finger. Most of it looked like it had rotted away… left was only a little stump, the same color that a part of his hand, as well as the lower half of his middle finger had now assumed. I took a step back. “Shit, Lex, you must go to the hospital immediately!” I told him. „Yes, I know. But I feel so tired, I just can’t get up myself. Maybe I need a bit more rest.” “Great Idea, just rest and then maybe go to the hospital later, without your hand,” I replied angrily. I didn’t want to scare him any further but looking at his hand I immediately got shivers again. Seeing his frightened and pale face, I immediately felt sorry for what I had said. “Okay, that was a joke, of course. But I think we should do something and not just wait it out. You need some energy, so I’ll fetch you a fork and you eat a bit of the food I just brought. And after that, we go straight to the hospital, okay?”
“Okay.”
.: . '.
I went to the kitchen, opened a drawer, and grabbed a fork. Amid the shiny cutlery, something dark caught my eye. There was another spot of the same color, in our cutlery drawer. I suddenly felt a bit sick. Then it hit me. Lex must have touched it. I jerked back and looked at my hand. There were no irritations, I hadn’t accidentally touched it. While I tried to sort my thoughts – I didn’t know of any skin disease that infected wood as well, it didn’t make any sense – I noticed something. There were more spots. On the coffee-machine, the counter, the fridge. All of these probably touched by Lex in the morning. I grabbed an oven mitt and went back to his room. “Okay, I’m sorry, but forget the food. And please put this over your hand.” I handed him the mitt. “We need to leave, now.”
I helped Lex into my car, extremely careful not to touch his hand. At the hospital, the staff led Lex to a doctor’s office. The waiting room emptied, as the evening approached, but Lex didn’t show up. After I had waited for about three hours, I asked the nurses how much longer it would take. They explained that my friend was getting the best treatment, he would be fine soon – but I didn’t have to wait for him. He had to stay overnight. This I understood, still having the vivid image of his missing finger in my head. I then asked if I could quickly see him. Just to let him know that he wasn’t alone, going through this. The nurses said that this wouldn’t be possible. Apparently, he was sleeping, and it would be best if no one disturbed his rest.
With an uneasy feeling in my stomach, I drove home. The things the nurses told me made sense and – as I wasn’t a family member – they were not required to give me more information on his condition and sickness. I simply couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that this… virus? had simply consumed a human finger. As I continued my drive, I realized that I absolutely didn’t want to sleep in our house that night. I wasn’t sure where else to go, but I ultimately decided, that a hotel room would be the best short-term solution. It would be expensive, but better than potentially having any rotten limbs. Still, I needed to quickly stop at the house and grab my wallet, which I had forgotten in the hurry. We had a little desk right besides the door for keys, wallets and what not. Pretty sure that my wallet must be laying there, I started to mentally prepare myself to enter the house.
:.‘..:
I hadn’t even reached our driveway, but from the distance I could already see it. A blue van with a big logo stood in front of our home. The logo consisted of a stylized broom, a sponge, and some shiny stars. I stopped my car as fast as possible, opened the door and ran towards the house. Then I remembered something. I quickly rushed back to the car, grabbed my gloves from the glove compartment, and put them on. Apart from my face, all my skin was now covered by my clothes.
As I bust into the house, I heard several people talking in my room. Passing the kitchen door, I quickly made sure that it was fully shut. Then I went into my room. On the floor there were some buckets, spray cans and other things that one might expect a cleaning team to bring. Next to them stood two men in blue overalls and, to my shock, my landlady.
“Ah, there you are. You really didn’t have to make such a fuzz about such a small spot on the wall. It seems to be a bit of dirt or paint, don’t worry about it,” my landlady said.
All I managed to get out was: “How did you get in here?”
Again, the friendly woman answered: “Oh, the cleaning company told me that you called because of some mold. They wanted to send someone before today’s shift ended, but they couldn’t reach you via landline. Luckily, I answered the phone and let them in.”
“You really don’t have to be that afraid of a bit of dirt, young man,” one of the men approached me. “As the woman said, it’s no mold. Tomorrow, you go and buy some white paint and the problem is solved.”
The men grabbed their stuff and slowly went out of the room. While my landlady again assured me that there was nothing to worry about, that it was better to be safe than sorry and that she wasn’t mad about the bill of the cleaning service, I heard the men talking.
“Huh, this sure is hard to get off… I don’t even wanna know what that weird guy smeared on his walls, ugh.” The other man answered. “Yeah, I also got a bit of it on my hand. I’ll try to rub it off at home, using the strong stuff…” They left.
My landlady went after them and left me alone in my room. I stared at the wall. The spot still had the size of a coin. I stood there for a few minutes. Then I went to the kitchen.
There were so many. The ones that I had seen before now had an equal size to the one in my bedroom, but there were more. It was the same in the bathroom. They were on the faucet, the mirror, button you flush the toilet with. I couldn’t help but feel thankful for my decision to go straight to Lex's room this afternoon.
Then I grabbed my wallet and left.
In the hotel I immediately fell asleep. The next day I called in the hospital. It was surreal. No one knew what I was talking about, they said they never heard Lex's name. After a few minutes of me desperately trying to explain myself, they asked me to please stop blocking the line and hung up. I drove there, but even in person it was impossible to get any information.
I started to wonder if I had just made this story up, if maybe something was wrong with me. Eventually I decided to drive back home.
In front of the house stood two black cars with men in equally black suits in them. They didn’t allow me to enter. They said they were sorry, but the house couldn’t be entered by civilians under any circumstances. I was outnumbered and saw no way to get in. To be honest, I didn’t even want to get in. After some time, I went back to the hotel.
.
I lay on the hotel bed for a long time. Probably hours. I couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Nothing made sense. Then I saw it. A little speck on the ceiling. It had the same weird light gray, blue color. I felt as if I was going crazy. As fast as I could I grabbed my things and left. I drove for hours.
I arrived at my parents’ house about eight or nine hours later. By the time I arrived, I had developed a fever. After that, I don’t remember much.
By the end of April, I had gotten better. My parents told me that the school had called a few days after my arrival at their house, asking where I was. No one else called. Not my Landlady, not Lex.
All of this happened more than ten years ago now. I never went back to my old house or that city. Nobody required me to pay any rent, or anything else. Today I live a relatively happy life – except for the fact that I had to give up painting. It just stressed me out so much. Also, I’m obsessing over the cleanliness of my home… at least my wife says so. I’ve never heard from Lex again.
2024.05.05 21:35 Petragor07 The 13th Predator (Skaven crossover) - Part 4
Memory transcription subject: Governor Tarva of the Venlil Republic
Date: [REDACTED]
The Skaven delegates had finally returned, and as promised they had brought friends with them. A small fleet of freighters had landed in cleared areas near settlements across the planet, and their occupants quickly got to work constructing living quarters for the Skaven to use during the course of the exchange program. They weren’t the only new arrivals, with tourists from across the federation coming to try and catch a glimpse of this previously undiscovered species. Such glimpses had apparently been hard to come by, as the Skaven mostly kept to themselves, seemingly as shy as poor Znich had been.
I was a little more lucky, as I had arranged a meeting with the Skaven coordinator to discuss some of the practical details of the exchange program. The meeting had been scheduled to take place in my office, where Kam and I were exchanging some words while waiting for our guest to arrive.
“I just can’t put my claw on it.” Kam said. “I don’t have any proof, but you must admit that something about them seems… off.”
I waved him off casually. “You’re being paranoid, Kam. I don’t blame you, it is sort of your job after all, but I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. We can’t blame them for being different. I’m sure the Federation thought we were a little ‘off’ when they first met us, but we eventually came to terms with each other and resolved our differences peacefully. I’m certain the same will happen here.”
Kam sighed, and relaxed his posture slightly. “Maybe you’re right… But I won’t stop being vigilant. As you said, it is my job.” Satisfied that I had put him at ease, if only a little, I looked to my pad and saw a notification from the front desk. “Ah, it seems the local “Chieftain” has arrived.” Slightly antiquated title, but I supposed that was to be expected. My ears perked up as they heard footsteps approaching the door to the office. After a bit of fiddling, the doorknob relented, and the portal swung open to reveal-
“Krelk!” I exclaimed. “So good to see you! How have you been?”
The Skaven strode pridefully into the office, showing off the intricate inscriptions on his clothing. “I have been great-excellent as always, and Council finally saw fit to notice! As you-you can see, I have been blessed-rewarded with a promotion for my… discoveries.”
“Well deserved my friend” I said, however I immediately noticed an absent figure. “Where is Znich? Did he get promoted too?”
Krelk took a few seconds before responding. “Yes… Yes-Yes, he has been promoted. He is no longer on this project-scheme though, transferred elsewhere. Much-very busy.”
“Oh” I uttered, suddenly feeling dejected. “That’s a shame, I had hoped to be able to speak with him again.” Krelk meandered over to one of the guest chairs and took a seat, idly fiddling with the reclining mechanism as he spoke. “Don’t be-be disappointed. I am sure you will be able to speak-meet with him before long. Now, while this conversation is… interesting, I believe we-we have matters to discuss.”
My professionalism immediately returned as I composed myself. “Yes, of course. Let’s get to business. Kam, you have the agenda?”
Kam nodded and pulled up his own pad, pressing a few buttons before finding what he was looking for. “Right, okay. First on the agenda, we have received several complaints from our volunteers regarding the complete lack of interaction from the Skaven visitors. It isn’t much of an exchange program if neither party talks to the other.”
Krelk clasped his hands together in what I guessed was meant to be a placating gesture. “Well, about-regarding that… I am afraid I bring bad-terrible news from Clan Pestilens. A few of our diseases seem to have jump-leaped to your species, and we have been forced to quarantine all-all exchange centers until further notice. Only qualified individuals, like myself, allowed-permitted in or out.”
“That does check out.” Kam replied as he scrolled on his pad. “I have some surprise illness outbreaks in rural settlements noted later in the agenda here.”
“See-see!?” Krelk pointed energetically to Kam. “It-it is for greater good! Offices will of course open once the situation-problem is resolved. To that end-goal, Pestilens have requested some infected Venlil volunteers to submit for testing, it-it would greatly expand Pestilens knowledge of the ailment.” I nodded. “I have to agree, the people’s safety comes first. Although to that end, I trust you’ll be gentle with any volunteers that allow you to test them?”
Krelk put his hand to his chest with reverence. “I swear-promise, we will treat them as if they were our own.”
“It is agreed then.” I replied. “Oh, and Kam? Remind me to put travel restrictions in place after the meeting, we don’t want this to spread to the rest of the federation.”
Krelk seemed a little disappointed at that last part, was he hoping to meet more new species? Kam didn’t seem to notice, focused on his pad as he moved to the next point on the agenda. “Very good, there is also the matter of repeated requests for your ‘Stormvermin’ to participate in predator suppression activities. I can assure you, we are very capable of handling such things ourselves.”
At this, Krelk shrugged. “I cannot reliably claim-say I understand the mentality of the Stormvermin, but my guess is they fear-fear they are getting rusty. Is it really any trouble to allow them this? They would be much-very willing to cleanse the deep wilderness, a task which may be undesirable for your own troops, yes-yes?”
I mulled it over for a second. “Well, as long as they aren’t in the population centers there won’t be any serious risk of contagion so… sure! What’s the harm?”
Krelk clapped enthusiastically. “Excellent! Although, I should tell-warn you, our traditions forbid burning predators in the field, they have to be brought-carried back to burrow for bonfire sacrifice to Great Horned Rat.”
Kam raised an eyebrow at this. “That seems risky. Is that really the only way you can burn predators? We can lend you flamethrowers if you need them…”
Krelk turned his way with a scowl. “Clan Skryre is much-very capable of making their own firethrowers! And no, ritual-rite is very important, central part of Skaven culture, yes-yes.”
I quickly intervened to calm him down. “Of course Krelk, as long as your people know what they are doing. What is the next point of the agenda Kam?”
Kam’s gaze lingered on Krelk a moment longer before returning to the pad. “Well let’s see… Illness, already discussed, skip that… ah yes, the final subject. As you’ve probably guessed, the rest of the federation is also very eager to learn more about you. As a result, a Farsul diplomatic vessel passed through Venlil territory a few days ago, broadcasting its intent to establish direct relations with the council on your homeworld. It isn’t really a matter in need of discussion, just something we thought you’d like to know.”
“Aah, good-good!” Krelk rubbed his hands in satisfaction. “I am sure-certain they are being welcomed with open arms as we speak.”
Memory transcription subject: Ghial, Farsul Diplomat
Date: [REDACTED]
I struggled and screamed, expending all of my energy in a desperate attempt to escape. Both were useless, my limbs fastened with steel restraints and my mouth gagged. Even if my muffled cries were heard, nobody was there to help. We had barely made it into orbit before the Skaven showed their hand, boarding our ship and taking us captive. After they landed our ship and started picking apart the internal mechanisms, we were dragged down into their narrow tunnels in primitive chains, where we saw the depths of their depravity.
Mounds of corpses were placed in a central chamber, where the foul predators stopped to feast. They delighted in our fear and disgust, waving limbs and scraps of flesh in our faces before greedily consuming them, laughing as we fainted and puked. After they had their ‘fun’ we were brought to a primitive workshop, where they strapped us into these horrible chairs. Not long thereafter, an ornately dressed Skaven whom his lessers referred to as “Warlock-Engineer”. One by one it approached each chair with a strange helmet, slotting a nauseatingly green crystal into the device before forcing it over the occupants head, whereafter the unfortunate victim began to twitch and groan unnaturally.
My breathing quickened and struggles intensified as the horrid thing approached my chair. For several agonizing seconds it simply stood there, staring into my soul. Seeing my terror, it let out a cackling laugh.
“Afraid?” It taunted, then laughed again. “Don’t be prey-thing! We-we aren’t going to hurt you yet! On the contrary, you’re going to aid-help us in spinning a little tale…”
That was the last thing I heard before the helmet lowered, and my world turned green.
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Date: [REDACTED]
The Skaven delegates had finally returned, and as promised they had brought friends with them. A small fleet of freighters had landed in cleared areas near settlements across the planet, and their occupants quickly got to work constructing living quarters for the Skaven to use during the course of the exchange program. They weren’t the only new arrivals, with tourists from across the federation coming to try and catch a glimpse of this previously undiscovered species. Such glimpses had apparently been hard to come by, as the Skaven mostly kept to themselves, seemingly as shy as poor Znich had been.
I was a little more lucky, as I had arranged a meeting with the Skaven coordinator to discuss some of the practical details of the exchange program. The meeting had been scheduled to take place in my office, where Kam and I were exchanging some words while waiting for our guest to arrive.
“I just can’t put my claw on it.” Kam said. “I don’t have any proof, but you must admit that something about them seems… off.”
I waved him off casually. “You’re being paranoid, Kam. I don’t blame you, it is sort of your job after all, but I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. We can’t blame them for being different. I’m sure the Federation thought we were a little ‘off’ when they first met us, but we eventually came to terms with each other and resolved our differences peacefully. I’m certain the same will happen here.”
Kam sighed, and relaxed his posture slightly. “Maybe you’re right… But I won’t stop being vigilant. As you said, it is my job.” Satisfied that I had put him at ease, if only a little, I looked to my pad and saw a notification from the front desk. “Ah, it seems the local “Chieftain” has arrived.” Slightly antiquated title, but I supposed that was to be expected. My ears perked up as they heard footsteps approaching the door to the office. After a bit of fiddling, the doorknob relented, and the portal swung open to reveal-
“Krelk!” I exclaimed. “So good to see you! How have you been?”
The Skaven strode pridefully into the office, showing off the intricate inscriptions on his clothing. “I have been great-excellent as always, and Council finally saw fit to notice! As you-you can see, I have been blessed-rewarded with a promotion for my… discoveries.”
“Well deserved my friend” I said, however I immediately noticed an absent figure. “Where is Znich? Did he get promoted too?”
Krelk took a few seconds before responding. “Yes… Yes-Yes, he has been promoted. He is no longer on this project-scheme though, transferred elsewhere. Much-very busy.”
“Oh” I uttered, suddenly feeling dejected. “That’s a shame, I had hoped to be able to speak with him again.” Krelk meandered over to one of the guest chairs and took a seat, idly fiddling with the reclining mechanism as he spoke. “Don’t be-be disappointed. I am sure you will be able to speak-meet with him before long. Now, while this conversation is… interesting, I believe we-we have matters to discuss.”
My professionalism immediately returned as I composed myself. “Yes, of course. Let’s get to business. Kam, you have the agenda?”
Kam nodded and pulled up his own pad, pressing a few buttons before finding what he was looking for. “Right, okay. First on the agenda, we have received several complaints from our volunteers regarding the complete lack of interaction from the Skaven visitors. It isn’t much of an exchange program if neither party talks to the other.”
Krelk clasped his hands together in what I guessed was meant to be a placating gesture. “Well, about-regarding that… I am afraid I bring bad-terrible news from Clan Pestilens. A few of our diseases seem to have jump-leaped to your species, and we have been forced to quarantine all-all exchange centers until further notice. Only qualified individuals, like myself, allowed-permitted in or out.”
“That does check out.” Kam replied as he scrolled on his pad. “I have some surprise illness outbreaks in rural settlements noted later in the agenda here.”
“See-see!?” Krelk pointed energetically to Kam. “It-it is for greater good! Offices will of course open once the situation-problem is resolved. To that end-goal, Pestilens have requested some infected Venlil volunteers to submit for testing, it-it would greatly expand Pestilens knowledge of the ailment.” I nodded. “I have to agree, the people’s safety comes first. Although to that end, I trust you’ll be gentle with any volunteers that allow you to test them?”
Krelk put his hand to his chest with reverence. “I swear-promise, we will treat them as if they were our own.”
“It is agreed then.” I replied. “Oh, and Kam? Remind me to put travel restrictions in place after the meeting, we don’t want this to spread to the rest of the federation.”
Krelk seemed a little disappointed at that last part, was he hoping to meet more new species? Kam didn’t seem to notice, focused on his pad as he moved to the next point on the agenda. “Very good, there is also the matter of repeated requests for your ‘Stormvermin’ to participate in predator suppression activities. I can assure you, we are very capable of handling such things ourselves.”
At this, Krelk shrugged. “I cannot reliably claim-say I understand the mentality of the Stormvermin, but my guess is they fear-fear they are getting rusty. Is it really any trouble to allow them this? They would be much-very willing to cleanse the deep wilderness, a task which may be undesirable for your own troops, yes-yes?”
I mulled it over for a second. “Well, as long as they aren’t in the population centers there won’t be any serious risk of contagion so… sure! What’s the harm?”
Krelk clapped enthusiastically. “Excellent! Although, I should tell-warn you, our traditions forbid burning predators in the field, they have to be brought-carried back to burrow for bonfire sacrifice to Great Horned Rat.”
Kam raised an eyebrow at this. “That seems risky. Is that really the only way you can burn predators? We can lend you flamethrowers if you need them…”
Krelk turned his way with a scowl. “Clan Skryre is much-very capable of making their own firethrowers! And no, ritual-rite is very important, central part of Skaven culture, yes-yes.”
I quickly intervened to calm him down. “Of course Krelk, as long as your people know what they are doing. What is the next point of the agenda Kam?”
Kam’s gaze lingered on Krelk a moment longer before returning to the pad. “Well let’s see… Illness, already discussed, skip that… ah yes, the final subject. As you’ve probably guessed, the rest of the federation is also very eager to learn more about you. As a result, a Farsul diplomatic vessel passed through Venlil territory a few days ago, broadcasting its intent to establish direct relations with the council on your homeworld. It isn’t really a matter in need of discussion, just something we thought you’d like to know.”
“Aah, good-good!” Krelk rubbed his hands in satisfaction. “I am sure-certain they are being welcomed with open arms as we speak.”
Memory transcription subject: Ghial, Farsul Diplomat
Date: [REDACTED]
I struggled and screamed, expending all of my energy in a desperate attempt to escape. Both were useless, my limbs fastened with steel restraints and my mouth gagged. Even if my muffled cries were heard, nobody was there to help. We had barely made it into orbit before the Skaven showed their hand, boarding our ship and taking us captive. After they landed our ship and started picking apart the internal mechanisms, we were dragged down into their narrow tunnels in primitive chains, where we saw the depths of their depravity.
Mounds of corpses were placed in a central chamber, where the foul predators stopped to feast. They delighted in our fear and disgust, waving limbs and scraps of flesh in our faces before greedily consuming them, laughing as we fainted and puked. After they had their ‘fun’ we were brought to a primitive workshop, where they strapped us into these horrible chairs. Not long thereafter, an ornately dressed Skaven whom his lessers referred to as “Warlock-Engineer”. One by one it approached each chair with a strange helmet, slotting a nauseatingly green crystal into the device before forcing it over the occupants head, whereafter the unfortunate victim began to twitch and groan unnaturally.
My breathing quickened and struggles intensified as the horrid thing approached my chair. For several agonizing seconds it simply stood there, staring into my soul. Seeing my terror, it let out a cackling laugh.
“Afraid?” It taunted, then laughed again. “Don’t be prey-thing! We-we aren’t going to hurt you yet! On the contrary, you’re going to aid-help us in spinning a little tale…”
That was the last thing I heard before the helmet lowered, and my world turned green.
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2024.05.05 21:32 Contactunderground Tales of High Strangeness: A series of High Strangeness Events occurred when I seriously doubted a fellow contact experiencer’s veracity. An unseen non-human intelligence (ET?) seems to have taught me a lesson about its ability to make objects “disappear.”
| | Author Jim Sparks Tells me about “cloaking” and then “UFO Intel” Teaches” teaches me a Lesson with a DMV Code. submitted by Contactunderground to CE5 [link] [comments] J. Burkes MD 2017 The DMV doe to allow online payment \"disappeared.\" By sharing this narrative, as in the words of the renowned remote viewer Ingo Swann in his book “Penetration”, “I join a very long list of those that have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened.” In 2008, I attended the International UFO Congress in Nevada. I especially wanted to meet with author and contact experiencer Jim Sparks. His 2006 book, “The Keepers” was intriguing. Unlike many in the doom and gloom alien abductionist camp, Mr. Sparks had some very positive things to say about certain ET groups, especially the much maligned so-called “Reptilian” phenotype (category based on appearance). In “The Keepers”, Jim Sparks describes repeatedly being teleported into “ET” craft flying overhead. He called this shocking experience, “being taken the hard way.” Over the years I have heard similar stories from high-level contactees that I trust. However, because of concerns for their personal safety, I could not name them publicly or go into many of the specifics of their high strangeness encounters. Another UFO capability described by Jim Sparks is their alleged ability to “cloak” their presence and thus make it impossible for them to be seen. As I recall, he stated that a flying saucer could be parked on your home driveway and make itself invisible. His positive view of close encounters and his statement that he had been given a mission to bring people together around the issue of contact, made me want to recruit him into our human empowered contact network. My wife Yael and I drove across the desert from Los Angeles and a few fellow contact activists joined us at the Congress to talk with him. After a presentation that was enthusiastically received by the assembled UFO fans, Mr. Sparks agreed to meet with us in a hotel room. There, I outlined my involvement in the loose network that I like to call, “The Contact Underground.” Jim Sparks was tall, slender, well dressed and full of charm. I was pleasantly surprised to see him greet my wife Yael with a noble kiss on her hand. She didn’t seem to mind either. I described my past involvement with CSETI’s CE-5 Initiative and my ongoing work with the Peruvian contactees now called Rahma. Despite my best efforts to convince him to volunteer his time to help facilitate contact in a group setting under fieldwork conditions, I couldn’t get him to commit. One of my co-workers, a young woman that I shall call “Joanie Krieger” was also present in the hotel room to meet with Jim. Several weeks later, she reported having a long conversation with him on the phone. Joanie told me that she finally was “able to get out of him” why he had no apparent interest in working with us. She said that he didn’t want to join our network because his main goal, in her opinion, was to “sell his story to Hollywood” and have them make a movie about his contact experiences. I suppose that I shouldn’t have been surprised. Living in Los Angeles, just a few miles from “the entertainment capital of the world,” I knew how tempting it is to dream of fame and stardom. I must admit that I too have fantasized about my story being “brought to the silver screen.” Still I was disappointed. I suppose that negative emotion made me wonder whether some parts of Jim Spark’s book might have been exaggerated or perhaps totally made up. I remember specifically thinking that perhaps the ET’s alleged ability “to cloak” their craft was also fiction. The next day after speaking to Joanie, I received a lesson from an unseen intelligence that I will never forget. I routinely get notification from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles for my car registration renewals. It is a standard form that has a code with which one can pay online. The day following my thinking that Spark's story about an “invisible” saucer in his driveway was possibly bogus, I decided it was time to pay for my car registration. In front of my computer, I opened the DMV letter that had been sitting on my desk for weeks and placed it down with several other bills that needed to be paid. I glanced at the form and there in the usual box on the left side of the form was my 6-digit code to pay online. I was distracted from my task for a few minutes, When I sat down and picked up the form, there was something wrong. The code was no longer present in the appropriate box. I stared and stared at it, but the required numbers were simply not there. The space for the code was totally blank! I then imagined that I had placed the correct form with the code somewhere else in the house and the piece of paper that I was looking at was some accompanying document from the DMV mailing. I searched all over the house and even complained to Yael how stupid I felt for misplacing the form. Confused, I repeatedly looked at the DMV form at my desk, there was no code in the box. The deadline was coming up in a few days. If I were going to avoid late fees, I had better pay the bill and be done with it. After about a half hour of going through all my paperwork around the house, trying to figure out what I could have done with the correct form, I sat down at the computer again and looked at DMV notice. To my utter surprise, the correct code was now visible in the box where before it repeatedly appeared blank. I was astonished. I was left with the distinct impression that an unseen non-human intelligence (presumably ET) was confirming the accuracy of Jim Spark’s invisibility explanation. And it appears as if they did so by showing me how they could make the DMV code temporarily “disappear.” A month or two later, perhaps in case I didn't get the point, my card key for a motel room disappeared from the bed side table where I had placed it. It magically reappeared in the correct location on the night table the next day. In addition, I had missing time associated with this motel incident and I experienced a kind of sky quake that hit my motel room as well. My interpretation of these high strangeness events is that an unseen non-human intelligence (UFO Intel) was telling me that indeed Jim's assertion on the invisibility issue was true. To make certain that I would get the point, the alleged “ETs” staged two invisibility experiences for me. I end with another quote from Ingo Swann’s “Penetration.” “In the end, though, the authenticity of my personal, unprovable, experience probably doesn’t need to be considered that much – because the drift of accumulating information is inexorably leading to establishing the authentic existence of extraterrestrial intelligences anyway.” Amen! For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” the following links are provided: In 1997 crop circle investigator David Kingston was my host during a trip to Southern England. He told me that the strange visitors who only wanted to talk about human initiated contact with extraterrestrial. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/strange-visitors-that-only-wanted-to-talk-about-human-initiated-contact/ Upon return from a CE-5 mission to the Volcanic Zone where we witnessed a large silent triangular shaped craft, I experienced several High Strangeness events. These included a sighting of a 100-foot UFO over US-10. While carrying out contact protocols with my team in the Santa Monica Mountains, I heard an anomalous sound tract through our research site. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/high-strangeness-galore-after-returning-from-a-ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone-joseph-burkes-md-2022/ Introduction to UAP Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs”, Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/medical-healings-reported-by-uap-contact-experiencers/ |
2024.05.05 21:30 Contactunderground Tales of High Strangeness: A series of High Strangeness Events occurred when I seriously doubted a fellow contact experiencer’s veracity. An unseen non-human intelligence (ET?) seems to have taught me a lesson about its ability to make objects “disappear.”
 | Author Jim Sparks Tells me about “cloaking” and then “UFO Intel” Teaches” teaches me a Lesson with a DMV Code. submitted by Contactunderground to AnomalousEvidence [link] [comments] J. Burkes MD 2017 The DMV code for online payment \"disappeared.\" By sharing this narrative, as in the words of the renowned remote viewer Ingo Swann in his book “Penetration”, “I join a very long list of those that have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened.” In 2008, I attended the International UFO Congress in Nevada. I especially wanted to meet with author and contact experiencer Jim Sparks. His 2006 book, “The Keepers” was intriguing. Unlike many in the doom and gloom alien abductionist camp, Mr. Sparks had some very positive things to say about certain ET groups, especially the much maligned so-called “Reptilian” phenotype (category based on appearance). In “The Keepers”, Jim Sparks describes repeatedly being teleported into “ET” craft flying overhead. He called this shocking experience, “being taken the hard way.” Over the years I have heard similar stories from high-level contactees that I trust. However, because of concerns for their personal safety, I could not name them publicly or go into many of the specifics of their high strangeness encounters. Another UFO capability described by Jim Sparks is their alleged ability to “cloak” their presence and thus make it impossible for them to be seen. As I recall, he stated that a flying saucer could be parked on your home driveway and make itself invisible. His positive view of close encounters and his statement that he had been given a mission to bring people together around the issue of contact, made me want to recruit him into our human empowered contact network. My wife Yael and I drove across the desert from Los Angeles and a few fellow contact activists joined us at the Congress to talk with him. After a presentation that was enthusiastically received by the assembled UFO fans, Mr. Sparks agreed to meet with us in a hotel room. There, I outlined my involvement in the loose network that I like to call, “The Contact Underground.” Jim Sparks was tall, slender, well dressed and full of charm. I was pleasantly surprised to see him greet my wife Yael with a noble kiss on her hand. She didn’t seem to mind either. I described my past involvement with CSETI’s CE-5 Initiative and my ongoing work with the Peruvian contactees now called Rahma. Despite my best efforts to convince him to volunteer his time to help facilitate contact in a group setting under fieldwork conditions, I couldn’t get him to commit. One of my co-workers, a young woman that I shall call “Joanie Krieger” was also present in the hotel room to meet with Jim. Several weeks later, she reported having a long conversation with him on the phone. Joanie told me that she finally was “able to get out of him” why he had no apparent interest in working with us. She said that he didn’t want to join our network because his main goal, in her opinion, was to “sell his story to Hollywood” and have them make a movie about his contact experiences. I suppose that I shouldn’t have been surprised. Living in Los Angeles, just a few miles from “the entertainment capital of the world,” I knew how tempting it is to dream of fame and stardom. I must admit that I too have fantasized about my story being “brought to the silver screen.” Still I was disappointed. I suppose that negative emotion made me wonder whether some parts of Jim Spark’s book might have been exaggerated or perhaps totally made up. I remember specifically thinking that perhaps the ET’s alleged ability “to cloak” their craft was also fiction. The next day after speaking to Joanie, I received a lesson from an unseen intelligence that I will never forget. I routinely get notification from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles for my car registration renewals. It is a standard form that has a code with which one can pay online. The day following my thinking that Spark's story about an “invisible” saucer in his driveway was possibly bogus, I decided it was time to pay for my car registration. In front of my computer, I opened the DMV letter that had been sitting on my desk for weeks and placed it down with several other bills that needed to be paid. I glanced at the form and there in the usual box on the left side of the form was my 6-digit code to pay online. I was distracted from my task for a few minutes, When I sat down and picked up the form, there was something wrong. The code was no longer present in the appropriate box. I stared and stared at it, but the required numbers were simply not there. The space for the code was totally blank! I then imagined that I had placed the correct form with the code somewhere else in the house and the piece of paper that I was looking at was some accompanying document from the DMV mailing. I searched all over the house and even complained to Yael how stupid I felt for misplacing the form. Confused, I repeatedly looked at the DMV form at my desk, there was no code in the box. The deadline was coming up in a few days. If I were going to avoid late fees, I had better pay the bill and be done with it. After about a half hour of going through all my paperwork around the house, trying to figure out what I could have done with the correct form, I sat down at the computer again and looked at DMV notice. To my utter surprise, the correct code was now visible in the box where before it repeatedly appeared blank. I was astonished. I was left with the distinct impression that an unseen non-human intelligence (presumably ET) was confirming the accuracy of Jim Spark’s invisibility explanation. And it appears as if they did so by showing me how they could make the DMV code temporarily “disappear.” A month or two later, perhaps in case I didn't get the point, my card key for a motel room disappeared from the bed side table where I had placed it. It magically reappeared in the correct location on the night table the next day. In addition, I had missing time associated with this motel incident and I experienced a kind of sky quake that hit my motel room as well. My interpretation of these high strangeness events is that an unseen non-human intelligence (UFO Intel) was telling me that indeed Jim's assertion on the invisibility issue was true. To make certain that I would get the point, the alleged “ETs” staged two invisibility experiences for me. I end with another quote from Ingo Swann’s “Penetration.” “In the end, though, the authenticity of my personal, unprovable, experience probably doesn’t need to be considered that much – because the drift of accumulating information is inexorably leading to establishing the authentic existence of extraterrestrial intelligences anyway.” Amen! For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” the following links are provided: Upon return from a CE-5 mission to the Volcanic Zone where we witnessed a large silent triangular shaped craft, I experienced several High Strangeness events. These included a sighting of a 100-foot UFO over US-10. While carrying out contact protocols with my team in the Santa Monica Mountains, I heard an anomalous sound tract through our research site. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/high-strangeness-galore-after-returning-from-a-ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone-joseph-burkes-md-2022/ Introduction to UAP Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs”, Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/medical-healings-reported-by-uap-contact-experiencers/ |
2024.05.05 21:24 SnooDogs7827 Opinion and more after my first playthrough of ME1-3
Her everyone,
I don’t know if it’s ok to post this here, but I need to write a bit about my journey through the trilogy. It's my first post here at Reddit, so please tell me if thats a bit too much xD Also, I’m not a native speaker, so I’m sorry for mediocre English.
I just finished playing the first full playthrough of the Mass Effect trilogy. First full playthrough since I did play ME1 and 2 before legendary collection released. Exactly 2 months ago I started again, because I really wanted to experience the full story. This post is a combination of review what I did, moments I really liked a ranking and more.
Since I knew ME1 and 2 I mostly knew what to expect. The only things I didn’t know about were the DLC’s (more to those later). I knew I wanted to go paragon since I mostly find the renegade options way too hard for me and I thought Liara would be pissed if I go renegade (in a RP perspective). I began playing with full intention to romance Liara (since I did that in my first playthrough of ME1 and 2).
The first game was much as I remembered, nothing really surprising (although I forgot to put in the mod, so grenades don’t kill the colonist on Feros and killed about half the colonists before I noticed). I romanced Liara in ME1 just as I planned and got through the game fast, because I didn’t do the Planet search quests (Martriach writings, Prothean discs, Planet searches for gas). I did the secret quest for Thali which I didn’t remember doing the last time and also did the quests for Wrex and Garrus. I killed Kaidan on Vermire and overall finished the game while wanting to play the next ones as fast as possible.
In ME2 my planes got changed. I continued doing paragon choices throughout the game. Then the Jack quest came. I knew the quest and I knew Jack, so I didn’t think of much. But after that I began to really like her. In the past, when I did romance options on games (not only Mass Effect), I choose based on looks (I know its superficial, but I haven’t played many Singleplayer games with romance options in the last years and I played my first incomplete run when I was around 20, so I was a stupid boy). Now Jacks story hit me hard. I really became fond of her and wanted to help her. She became my favorite character throughout the game (more to that later) and I made the choice to romance her. The rest of ME2 was like I did before, just the difference that I had Jack on every mission possible. The ending was also a bit different because no one died this time in the suicide mission (on my first playthrough Mordin sadly died since I didn’t do all loyalty missions).
Now with Mordin alive and Jack as my partner I started ME3. I didn’t know much of what to expect, I just knew a bit from Youtube videos.
My first hard choice was to tell Liara that I want Jack and not her. At that point I nearly went with Liara, but Jacks story hit me way to hard and I thought I get her as crewmate again later in the game. That sequence made me feel really bad since I had to kind of reject her in which I have no experience in. So first hard choice in the first 2 or 3 hours great. I continued playing, scanning planets and googled when I will see Jack (even after googling I still thought I will get her as crewmember). In that time, I was really surprised that EDI got a body and that I could interact with her like a normal crewmate. I nearly rushed to get to her story quest. So, after having a great scene with her in the station, I saved her and the students and then she just left with them and I was like WTF. This annoyed me a bit, but I continued. It took me a while to get through the game. In the end I cured the Genophage, made peace with the quarrians and Geth and got 8192 war assets. In the end I had a hard decision which ending I wanna get when they got presented to me. All I knew before was that there were multiple endings, but I never knew what these endings are. I chose the destruction ending, because to me it was the paragon ending. I didn’t do it without consideration, because EDI would die, and EDI was so great in ME3. But in the end, I had to sacrifice her.
Now since I told you what I did in the games I wanna talk about the characters starting with my top 5 characters in the series:
1. Jack
2. Liara
3. Joker
4. Thali
5. EDI
Honorable mention: Steve Cortez and Kasumi
As I said before Jack is my no 1. She had to go through so much in her life and in the end (through Shepards influence) she got a teacher helping other biotics. Her character was on points when it comes to the perfect combination of craziness (mostly in ME2), kinkiness (mostly in the Citadel Dlc) and power. I like that she is a character you don’t want on your bad side but a friend who you can have much fun with when she is on your good side.
What really annoys me is that you had no chance to recruit her in ME3. It would be so much better if you had the option to recruit her like Ashley. Same goes btw to other characters like Samara, Kasumi and Zaeed. That is one of the major Rp moments I hate in the trilogy.
Liara is not only visual great, but she is also an archeologist. I really love history and it is a bit of a turn on for me when good looking female characters are archeologists (looking at you to Robin from One Piece). I love Liaras story arc from being a shy, introvert and lonely girl to a leady who does everything to get resources to save the galaxy. At first, I was annoyed that she cant join you in ME2, but the Shadowbroker Dlc made up for everything. It was hard broken to tell her there first that I’m with Jack, but to me it made perfect sense of her being the new broker.
Joker and EDI are such a good couple. I love funny characters and even bad jokes like EDI does. Their connection made me laugh and root for them. EDI surprised me most in ME3. I had a normal feeling of her in ME2. She was there, but you can’t really interact with her and even in other cutscenes she didn’t catch my eye. She was a bit blunt I guess. But in ME3 she has to be my favorite character.
Thali is my second option to romance in my next playthrough (next to Liara). I played with her through the whole of ME1 (because she is a tech and you need those to open the crates). In the other games I also played much with her. Character wise, I don’t really know how to feel about her. On one hand she became a great leader and her loyalty mission is my third favorite, on the other hand she doesn’t really stand out to me, I don’t know why.
To me Cortez is the bro character. I know Garrus is the bro for most players, but I liked Cortez storyline in ME3 and actually I like the dynamic with him and Shepard a bit more than Garrus.
Kasumi on the other hand is mysterious, teasing and funny. Her loyalty mission is my favorite, since its so different that the others. She is like a sister type, who you want to protect and play pranks with.
My next paragraph is about the Dlc’s. Normally I have a mixed feeling about paid Dlc’s (I know they are free but originally, they were paid ones). But the Mass Effect Dlc were great. Behind the Dlc you can see some of the best story content. Especially the ME3 Dlc are awesome. They made the worst game so much better.
My favorite DLC was the Citadel DLC from ME3. The Citadel is my favorite location in all the games. My biggest negative point in ME2 is that the Citadel is way to small. So, it was great to see another district I haven’t seen in the older games. Having a fun time with the crew before the ending was a great feeling as well. This DLC saved Jack in ME3 a bit too since its nearly the only part where you can see her (except her mission and one or two conversations in the Citadel in the main game).
After telling my story and praising the games I also wanna criticize them.
I know ME1 is the beginning and the team didn’t know how big the franchise will become, but my biggest problem in ME1 is the lack of missions. In my opinion ME1 made the best planets. They were big, you can explore them and have a few missions on most. But there were only a handful planets to do main missions on. The side missions were mostly outposts which become quite boring after you fought the 5th outpost (this was actually the reason why I never finished my first ME1 run, because I like to do all quests in a game and the side quests in ME1 were just too boring).
ME2 is the best game but made everything I like in ME1 just bad. They made many different missions on different planets, but most missions were short and not important. You can’t visit a planet again, so you do a 30 min Mission on a planet and never see it again. Other than that, I like the concept of loyalty missions and I hoped to see those back in ME3 with the old cast from ME1 and the new from ME3.
ME3 is my least favorite game of them. Without the DLC, the game lacks character development with some of the older characters (like I mentioned with Jack). I like the fight for war assets, but it’s like ME1 too much boring side missions. Here is the same problem as ME2, that you do a mission and go away from the planet. I’m not a fan of it. The best mission was the whole Tuchanka and Rannoch part. Those felt like ME1 again, much lore, many missions on the same planet and meaningful and important choices.
I read many people don’t like the ending in ME3. I know there is the extended cut DLC, so I don’t know the original ending, but I have to say, I had mixed feelings too. And now after sleeping a night over the ending, I have to say, that I love it that way. You have the choice of killing an entire race, that you helped through the game (Geth) and killing the best character in ME3 (EDI), or doing what Cerberus wants (control), or manipulate the DNA of the entire galaxy without their consent.
In my opinion the control ending is the renegade ending. You may save everyone, but you serve Cerberus in doing that. It doesn’t fell right as Paragon. The synthesis ending is in the middle. You save everyone, but you also alter with their DNA. It’s not natural and is a bit creepy too. The destruction ending is my paragon ending. It was the mission from the start and even irl you can’t save everyone and have to do make sacrifices (even if it hits EDI :( ). The final ending where you do nothing is an ending which I certainly will never do on my own. It makes sense to have it in game, but you sacrifice everyone and don’t know if anyone in the next cycle can do the same things you did. So, you just kill everyone.
Now the last part is something I have in my mind for a few days now. I thought about how I would continue the Mass Effect franchise if I had control over it. I would love to hear your opinion in it:
I personally think if a franchise wants to get bigger you must make sure the whole franchise can live without having a singular character on top. Therefor most of the projects wouldn’t involve Shapard. If you don’t do that you have the Harry Potter problem, that every media must have Harry in it or else it wouldn’t sell.
At first, I would hire a small group of fans/experts of Mass Effect who would oversee the lore. Their job would be to look at the new projects and see if they fit into the lore and help the creators with problems and questions about the lore. They should also participate on playing/watching/reading before things get published to see lore mistakes.
Secondly, you need to make money. So, to get the funds for other projects I would do a Candy Crush clone with Liara digging up artifacts on various planets. You could put some lore in there too for the fans and make some money of it.
Then with the beginning of the Candy Crush style game I would ask an author to write an outline for a whole saga of books related to the Prothean cycle. The idea behind is something like the Horus Heresy books from Warhammer 40k combined with the outline style of the Perry Rhodan series. So, the idea behind this is a small team (1 to 3 people) writing the outline of the entire story. Therefor many authors can write books at the same time and coordinate with the lore team and the story outline team. I would give the outline team the chance to write the first 1 to 3 books so everyone knows the style and beyond that different authors can contribute together. You can for example make a connection between the mobile game and the books if you feature events in one of these stories and build them in the other later. This would make a great connection.
Now with having a book series and a mobile game you need the audience. To get a higher audience I would create a series (live action or animated) with the story of the ME trilogy. I prefer a series since you got more time, and you need time for that.
I also have 3 ideas for new PC/console games. The first is an open world game set in the citadel. As I mentioned before the Citadel is my favorite location in all of Mass Effect. I would love to see a GTA or Assassin’s Creed like game set in the Citadel. In the Assassin’s Creed like game, we could play Thane and help the Hanar to hunt down enemies. In the GTA like game we could play a thug getting reputations for the Blue Sons, Blood Pack and Eclipse. The games would be set before ME1. We would have C-Sec as enemies with Garrus as an investigator. The main villain could be Harkin. At the end we could help evacuate the civilians from the Souverain attack.
The second idea is a RTS set in the time of the First Contact War. In missions like StarCraft we can fight against the Turians and pirates. That could have great potential in my opinion.
The last game would be centered around Jack. From her time with Cerberus until the end of ME3. This could also be a book, but I would love to get more info about her.
Now that I’m finished, I have to say this got way longer than I anticipated. I hope its even ok to post this much in a single thread. If the mods think its too much or doesn’t fit, I can understand. I hope everyone had fun reading all of it and I would love to get your opinions on some of the stuff I wrote.
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I don’t know if it’s ok to post this here, but I need to write a bit about my journey through the trilogy. It's my first post here at Reddit, so please tell me if thats a bit too much xD Also, I’m not a native speaker, so I’m sorry for mediocre English.
I just finished playing the first full playthrough of the Mass Effect trilogy. First full playthrough since I did play ME1 and 2 before legendary collection released. Exactly 2 months ago I started again, because I really wanted to experience the full story. This post is a combination of review what I did, moments I really liked a ranking and more.
Since I knew ME1 and 2 I mostly knew what to expect. The only things I didn’t know about were the DLC’s (more to those later). I knew I wanted to go paragon since I mostly find the renegade options way too hard for me and I thought Liara would be pissed if I go renegade (in a RP perspective). I began playing with full intention to romance Liara (since I did that in my first playthrough of ME1 and 2).
The first game was much as I remembered, nothing really surprising (although I forgot to put in the mod, so grenades don’t kill the colonist on Feros and killed about half the colonists before I noticed). I romanced Liara in ME1 just as I planned and got through the game fast, because I didn’t do the Planet search quests (Martriach writings, Prothean discs, Planet searches for gas). I did the secret quest for Thali which I didn’t remember doing the last time and also did the quests for Wrex and Garrus. I killed Kaidan on Vermire and overall finished the game while wanting to play the next ones as fast as possible.
In ME2 my planes got changed. I continued doing paragon choices throughout the game. Then the Jack quest came. I knew the quest and I knew Jack, so I didn’t think of much. But after that I began to really like her. In the past, when I did romance options on games (not only Mass Effect), I choose based on looks (I know its superficial, but I haven’t played many Singleplayer games with romance options in the last years and I played my first incomplete run when I was around 20, so I was a stupid boy). Now Jacks story hit me hard. I really became fond of her and wanted to help her. She became my favorite character throughout the game (more to that later) and I made the choice to romance her. The rest of ME2 was like I did before, just the difference that I had Jack on every mission possible. The ending was also a bit different because no one died this time in the suicide mission (on my first playthrough Mordin sadly died since I didn’t do all loyalty missions).
Now with Mordin alive and Jack as my partner I started ME3. I didn’t know much of what to expect, I just knew a bit from Youtube videos.
My first hard choice was to tell Liara that I want Jack and not her. At that point I nearly went with Liara, but Jacks story hit me way to hard and I thought I get her as crewmate again later in the game. That sequence made me feel really bad since I had to kind of reject her in which I have no experience in. So first hard choice in the first 2 or 3 hours great. I continued playing, scanning planets and googled when I will see Jack (even after googling I still thought I will get her as crewmember). In that time, I was really surprised that EDI got a body and that I could interact with her like a normal crewmate. I nearly rushed to get to her story quest. So, after having a great scene with her in the station, I saved her and the students and then she just left with them and I was like WTF. This annoyed me a bit, but I continued. It took me a while to get through the game. In the end I cured the Genophage, made peace with the quarrians and Geth and got 8192 war assets. In the end I had a hard decision which ending I wanna get when they got presented to me. All I knew before was that there were multiple endings, but I never knew what these endings are. I chose the destruction ending, because to me it was the paragon ending. I didn’t do it without consideration, because EDI would die, and EDI was so great in ME3. But in the end, I had to sacrifice her.
Now since I told you what I did in the games I wanna talk about the characters starting with my top 5 characters in the series:
1. Jack
2. Liara
3. Joker
4. Thali
5. EDI
Honorable mention: Steve Cortez and Kasumi
As I said before Jack is my no 1. She had to go through so much in her life and in the end (through Shepards influence) she got a teacher helping other biotics. Her character was on points when it comes to the perfect combination of craziness (mostly in ME2), kinkiness (mostly in the Citadel Dlc) and power. I like that she is a character you don’t want on your bad side but a friend who you can have much fun with when she is on your good side.
What really annoys me is that you had no chance to recruit her in ME3. It would be so much better if you had the option to recruit her like Ashley. Same goes btw to other characters like Samara, Kasumi and Zaeed. That is one of the major Rp moments I hate in the trilogy.
Liara is not only visual great, but she is also an archeologist. I really love history and it is a bit of a turn on for me when good looking female characters are archeologists (looking at you to Robin from One Piece). I love Liaras story arc from being a shy, introvert and lonely girl to a leady who does everything to get resources to save the galaxy. At first, I was annoyed that she cant join you in ME2, but the Shadowbroker Dlc made up for everything. It was hard broken to tell her there first that I’m with Jack, but to me it made perfect sense of her being the new broker.
Joker and EDI are such a good couple. I love funny characters and even bad jokes like EDI does. Their connection made me laugh and root for them. EDI surprised me most in ME3. I had a normal feeling of her in ME2. She was there, but you can’t really interact with her and even in other cutscenes she didn’t catch my eye. She was a bit blunt I guess. But in ME3 she has to be my favorite character.
Thali is my second option to romance in my next playthrough (next to Liara). I played with her through the whole of ME1 (because she is a tech and you need those to open the crates). In the other games I also played much with her. Character wise, I don’t really know how to feel about her. On one hand she became a great leader and her loyalty mission is my third favorite, on the other hand she doesn’t really stand out to me, I don’t know why.
To me Cortez is the bro character. I know Garrus is the bro for most players, but I liked Cortez storyline in ME3 and actually I like the dynamic with him and Shepard a bit more than Garrus.
Kasumi on the other hand is mysterious, teasing and funny. Her loyalty mission is my favorite, since its so different that the others. She is like a sister type, who you want to protect and play pranks with.
My next paragraph is about the Dlc’s. Normally I have a mixed feeling about paid Dlc’s (I know they are free but originally, they were paid ones). But the Mass Effect Dlc were great. Behind the Dlc you can see some of the best story content. Especially the ME3 Dlc are awesome. They made the worst game so much better.
My favorite DLC was the Citadel DLC from ME3. The Citadel is my favorite location in all the games. My biggest negative point in ME2 is that the Citadel is way to small. So, it was great to see another district I haven’t seen in the older games. Having a fun time with the crew before the ending was a great feeling as well. This DLC saved Jack in ME3 a bit too since its nearly the only part where you can see her (except her mission and one or two conversations in the Citadel in the main game).
After telling my story and praising the games I also wanna criticize them.
I know ME1 is the beginning and the team didn’t know how big the franchise will become, but my biggest problem in ME1 is the lack of missions. In my opinion ME1 made the best planets. They were big, you can explore them and have a few missions on most. But there were only a handful planets to do main missions on. The side missions were mostly outposts which become quite boring after you fought the 5th outpost (this was actually the reason why I never finished my first ME1 run, because I like to do all quests in a game and the side quests in ME1 were just too boring).
ME2 is the best game but made everything I like in ME1 just bad. They made many different missions on different planets, but most missions were short and not important. You can’t visit a planet again, so you do a 30 min Mission on a planet and never see it again. Other than that, I like the concept of loyalty missions and I hoped to see those back in ME3 with the old cast from ME1 and the new from ME3.
ME3 is my least favorite game of them. Without the DLC, the game lacks character development with some of the older characters (like I mentioned with Jack). I like the fight for war assets, but it’s like ME1 too much boring side missions. Here is the same problem as ME2, that you do a mission and go away from the planet. I’m not a fan of it. The best mission was the whole Tuchanka and Rannoch part. Those felt like ME1 again, much lore, many missions on the same planet and meaningful and important choices.
I read many people don’t like the ending in ME3. I know there is the extended cut DLC, so I don’t know the original ending, but I have to say, I had mixed feelings too. And now after sleeping a night over the ending, I have to say, that I love it that way. You have the choice of killing an entire race, that you helped through the game (Geth) and killing the best character in ME3 (EDI), or doing what Cerberus wants (control), or manipulate the DNA of the entire galaxy without their consent.
In my opinion the control ending is the renegade ending. You may save everyone, but you serve Cerberus in doing that. It doesn’t fell right as Paragon. The synthesis ending is in the middle. You save everyone, but you also alter with their DNA. It’s not natural and is a bit creepy too. The destruction ending is my paragon ending. It was the mission from the start and even irl you can’t save everyone and have to do make sacrifices (even if it hits EDI :( ). The final ending where you do nothing is an ending which I certainly will never do on my own. It makes sense to have it in game, but you sacrifice everyone and don’t know if anyone in the next cycle can do the same things you did. So, you just kill everyone.
Now the last part is something I have in my mind for a few days now. I thought about how I would continue the Mass Effect franchise if I had control over it. I would love to hear your opinion in it:
I personally think if a franchise wants to get bigger you must make sure the whole franchise can live without having a singular character on top. Therefor most of the projects wouldn’t involve Shapard. If you don’t do that you have the Harry Potter problem, that every media must have Harry in it or else it wouldn’t sell.
At first, I would hire a small group of fans/experts of Mass Effect who would oversee the lore. Their job would be to look at the new projects and see if they fit into the lore and help the creators with problems and questions about the lore. They should also participate on playing/watching/reading before things get published to see lore mistakes.
Secondly, you need to make money. So, to get the funds for other projects I would do a Candy Crush clone with Liara digging up artifacts on various planets. You could put some lore in there too for the fans and make some money of it.
Then with the beginning of the Candy Crush style game I would ask an author to write an outline for a whole saga of books related to the Prothean cycle. The idea behind is something like the Horus Heresy books from Warhammer 40k combined with the outline style of the Perry Rhodan series. So, the idea behind this is a small team (1 to 3 people) writing the outline of the entire story. Therefor many authors can write books at the same time and coordinate with the lore team and the story outline team. I would give the outline team the chance to write the first 1 to 3 books so everyone knows the style and beyond that different authors can contribute together. You can for example make a connection between the mobile game and the books if you feature events in one of these stories and build them in the other later. This would make a great connection.
Now with having a book series and a mobile game you need the audience. To get a higher audience I would create a series (live action or animated) with the story of the ME trilogy. I prefer a series since you got more time, and you need time for that.
I also have 3 ideas for new PC/console games. The first is an open world game set in the citadel. As I mentioned before the Citadel is my favorite location in all of Mass Effect. I would love to see a GTA or Assassin’s Creed like game set in the Citadel. In the Assassin’s Creed like game, we could play Thane and help the Hanar to hunt down enemies. In the GTA like game we could play a thug getting reputations for the Blue Sons, Blood Pack and Eclipse. The games would be set before ME1. We would have C-Sec as enemies with Garrus as an investigator. The main villain could be Harkin. At the end we could help evacuate the civilians from the Souverain attack.
The second idea is a RTS set in the time of the First Contact War. In missions like StarCraft we can fight against the Turians and pirates. That could have great potential in my opinion.
The last game would be centered around Jack. From her time with Cerberus until the end of ME3. This could also be a book, but I would love to get more info about her.
Now that I’m finished, I have to say this got way longer than I anticipated. I hope its even ok to post this much in a single thread. If the mods think its too much or doesn’t fit, I can understand. I hope everyone had fun reading all of it and I would love to get your opinions on some of the stuff I wrote.
2024.05.05 21:14 Contactunderground Tales of High Strangeness: A series of High Strangeness Events occurred when I seriously doubted a fellow contact experiencer’s veracity. An unseen non-human intelligence (ET?) seems to have taught me a lesson about its ability to make objects “disappear.”
 | Author Jim Sparks Tells me about “cloaking” and then “UFO Intel” Teaches” teaches me a Lesson with a DMV Code. submitted by Contactunderground to aliens [link] [comments] J. Burkes MD 2017 https://preview.redd.it/yo3w1vjwqnyc1.jpg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=201895cf30afbe1bbe9f617353e0d7518e335468 By sharing this narrative, as in the words of the renowned remote viewer Ingo Swann in his book “Penetration”, “I join a very long list of those that have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened.” In 2008, I attended the International UFO Congress in Nevada. I especially wanted to meet with author and contact experiencer Jim Sparks. His 2006 book, “The Keepers” was intriguing. Unlike many in the doom and gloom alien abductionist camp, Mr. Sparks had some very positive things to say about certain ET groups, especially the much maligned so-called “Reptilian” phenotype (category based on appearance). In “The Keepers”, Jim Sparks describes repeatedly being teleported into “ET” craft flying overhead. He called this shocking experience, “being taken the hard way.” Over the years I have heard similar stories from high-level contactees that I trust. However, because of concerns for their personal safety, I could not name them publicly or go into many of the specifics of their high strangeness encounters. Another UFO capability described by Jim Sparks is their alleged ability to “cloak” their presence and thus make it impossible for them to be seen. As I recall, he stated that a flying saucer could be parked on your home driveway and make itself invisible. His positive view of close encounters and his statement that he had been given a mission to bring people together around the issue of contact, made me want to recruit him into our human empowered contact network. My wife Yael and I drove across the desert from Los Angeles and a few fellow contact activists joined us at the Congress to talk with him. After a presentation that was enthusiastically received by the assembled UFO fans, Mr. Sparks agreed to meet with us in a hotel room. There, I outlined my involvement in the loose network that I like to call, “The Contact Underground.” Jim Sparks was tall, slender, well dressed and full of charm. I was pleasantly surprised to see him greet my wife Yael with a noble kiss on her hand. She didn’t seem to mind either. I described my past involvement with CSETI’s CE-5 Initiative and my ongoing work with the Peruvian contactees now called Rahma. Despite my best efforts to convince him to volunteer his time to help facilitate contact in a group setting under fieldwork conditions, I couldn’t get him to commit. One of my co-workers, a young woman that I shall call “Joanie Krieger” was also present in the hotel room to meet with Jim. Several weeks later, she reported having a long conversation with him on the phone. Joanie told me that she finally was “able to get out of him” why he had no apparent interest in working with us. She said that he didn’t want to join our network because his main goal, in her opinion, was to “sell his story to Hollywood” and have them make a movie about his contact experiences. I suppose that I shouldn’t have been surprised. Living in Los Angeles, just a few miles from “the entertainment capital of the world,” I knew how tempting it is to dream of fame and stardom. I must admit that I too have fantasized about my story being “brought to the silver screen.” Still I was disappointed. I suppose that negative emotion made me wonder whether some parts of Jim Spark’s book might have been exaggerated or perhaps totally made up. I remember specifically thinking that perhaps the ET’s alleged ability “to cloak” their craft was also fiction. The next day after speaking to Joanie, I received a lesson from an unseen intelligence that I will never forget. I routinely get notification from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles for my car registration renewals. It is a standard form that has a code with which one can pay online. The day following my thinking that Spark's story about an “invisible” saucer in his driveway was possibly bogus, I decided it was time to pay for my car registration. In front of my computer, I opened the DMV letter that had been sitting on my desk for weeks and placed it down with several other bills that needed to be paid. I glanced at the form and there in the usual box on the left side of the form was my 6-digit code to pay online. I was distracted from my task for a few minutes, When I sat down and picked up the form, there was something wrong. The code was no longer present in the appropriate box. I stared and stared at it, but the required numbers were simply not there. The space for the code was totally blank! I then imagined that I had placed the correct form with the code somewhere else in the house and the piece of paper that I was looking at was some accompanying document from the DMV mailing. I searched all over the house and even complained to Yael how stupid I felt for misplacing the form. Confused, I repeatedly looked at the DMV form at my desk, there was no code in the box. The deadline was coming up in a few days. If I were going to avoid late fees, I had better pay the bill and be done with it. After about a half hour of going through all my paperwork around the house, trying to figure out what I could have done with the correct form, I sat down at the computer again and looked at DMV notice. To my utter surprise, the correct code was now visible in the box where before it repeatedly appeared blank. I was astonished. I was left with the distinct impression that an unseen non-human intelligence (presumably ET) was confirming the accuracy of Jim Spark’s invisibility explanation. And it appears as if they did so by showing me how they could make the DMV code temporarily “disappear.” A month or two later, perhaps in case I didn't get the point, my card key for a motel room disappeared from the bed side table where I had placed it. It magically reappeared in the correct location on the night table the next day. In addition, I had missing time associated with this motel incident and I experienced a kind of sky quake that hit my motel room as well. My interpretation of these high strangeness events is that an unseen non-human intelligence (UFO Intel) was telling me that indeed Jim's assertion on the invisibility issue was true. To make certain that I would get the point, the alleged “ETs” staged two invisibility experiences for me. I end with another quote from Ingo Swann’s “Penetration.” “In the end, though, the authenticity of my personal, unprovable, experience probably doesn’t need to be considered that much – because the drift of accumulating information is inexorably leading to establishing the authentic existence of extraterrestrial intelligences anyway.” Amen! For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” the following links are provided: In 1997 crop circle investigator David Kingston was my host during a trip to Southern England. He told me that the strange visitors who only wanted to talk about human initiated contact with extraterrestrial. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/strange-visitors-that-only-wanted-to-talk-about-human-initiated-contact/ Upon return from a CE-5 mission to the Volcanic Zone where we witnessed a large silent triangular shaped craft, I experienced several High Strangeness events. These included a sighting of a 100-foot UFO over US-10. While carrying out contact protocols with my team in the Santa Monica Mountains, I heard an anomalous sound tract through our research site. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/high-strangeness-galore-after-returning-from-a-ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone-joseph-burkes-md-2022/ Introduction to UAP Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs”, Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/medical-healings-reported-by-uap-contact-experiencers/ |
2024.05.05 21:06 Rey348 My Parents Are Narcissists
Just today I was at a party and i got into a little argument with my parents. It all started with me telling my cousin I needed a job. Then escalated with my parents telling me that i need to study. Prior to today I kept on telling them that i want to be a ufc fighter. But they would always be very unsupportive of it, and they think that what my future job is, it will always be for them. My dad wants me to take over his company but I would still tell him that I want to be a fighter. It’s one ear and out the other for him. My mom is way more “emotional” than my dad. She’ll get this sadness act that doesn’t fool me. Taking a break from the present day. Being raised by them was a nightmare. I would be constantly yelled at and when I would try to explain myself I would always get hit by them in the process. This took a toll on me and I got severe mental health problems from it, leading to 2 hospitalizations. CPS would be called on them because I would go to school crying. Lately I haven’t been driving a lot, because my “parents” say that, “it’s very difficult to teach me.” They say this because I always seem to talk back, but in reality I’m just trying to defend myself and tell them how I feel. Then they will talk over me to muffle my statements. Thing is I don’t talk back unless I have to. If anything I don’t start bullshit out of the blue. And when an argument ends it’s always me in the wrong and them as the victims. Now this one argument happened to my sister, she came back from her shift and the few things I remember is my dad yelling and being very disrespectful to my sister to the point she began to cry in front of her kid. Me being the person I am stepped in to defend my sister. And I told my dad fuck you and fuck your job. My sister quit working with him. My dad would tell me to always work with him so that I would learn something, and just casually talk bad about my sisters because they work 9-5 jobs. A couple weeks before that argument I bought these shoes. I wore them for a little bit and didn’t like them so I asked my dad if I could return them. He than began to get so verbally aggressive with me because I bought some shoes that had nothing to do with him. He then accused me of trying to assault him because I pushed his phone away. I couldn’t take it anymore and so I ran out of the house and went to my aunts. At my aunts I felt more loved in the 2 hours I was there than the 17 years they spent raising me. My dad came and picked me up and said he wasn’t mad at me, after verbally abusing me before I ran out. I apologize if this is very inconsistent but growing up I even considered taking my own life so that I could get away from them. Back to the night my dad was being verbal to my sister. I went to my room just to receive a text from my little brother telling me to shut up. I still don’t know why that happened but my body just snapped and I tried to kill my brother. A part of me didn’t want to hurt him but a part of my mind just had enough abuse. This led to me being hospitalized. My family session overthere was bad. My mom began to cry on the phone saying I was very hard to work with. Keep in mind my mom would also hit me and be verbally aggressive to me when I was little. My therapist seemed to take my mom’s side and said my problem was communication. Like I said before, i defend myself whenever there’s an argument with my parents and I try to explain my point of view and my feeling to them. After I got out things seemed to be cool for a little bit until the present day. My dad still thinks I’m going to take over his company, my mom still acts if my job in the future revolves around her. Still no matter what they dismiss what I want to do in life. I’ve been bullied throughout my life and I learned to defend myself and make it clear I don’t let that stuff happen to me. Whenever my parents argue I still try to care about them and see their point of view but they never see mine. Now back to the present, I never talk about my problems to my parents in fear of them being verbal to me. Some will say I’m a big baby, but do big babies get mental health problems and 2 hospitalizations. That’s why I’m the future I will cut myself off from them completely. Even though a part of my still cares for them.
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2024.05.05 20:55 Inevitable-Way5769 that dude who was mad copypasta
As a creator who has sunk over 785 hours into a single solo level (which I am still working on), I find this video deeply offensive as, not only is it a complete nothing burger, but it also goes out of its way to misinform the public about level creation. I watched the entire video and listed every single “hack” in this video and debunked them along with explaining how they are wrong (along with giving some tips for incorrect hacks). Also, please work on your crediting skills. Out of all the levels shown in the video, only 3 of them were credited properly. I tried to credit the levels that I knew about, though a large majority of them I did not know about. For the levels that I did not know, I ask that anyone who is reading this comment reply to it with knowledge of any level that is uncredited and unknown. It is also noteworthy that I heard from a comment on this very video that Waboo did ask people for creating tips in his server (with some of them being decent), though all of them ended up being uncredited and transformed into whatever this is. (I do wish to credit any ideas that were said in the video, though I believe that is impossible due to how divorced they are from their origins). Also, with the way this video was scripted, it leads me to believe artificial intelligence was used to create it. Cannot confirm though.
Before I start with this list, the thumbnail is clickbait. There is no vine nor 6 object lightbulb that will be created at all. (Also, this list is from the viewpoint of someone who is still in 2.1 as I have not updated to 2.2 yet thanks to working on my solo).
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Before I start with this list, the thumbnail is clickbait. There is no vine nor 6 object lightbulb that will be created at all. (Also, this list is from the viewpoint of someone who is still in 2.1 as I have not updated to 2.2 yet thanks to working on my solo).
- Does not work when the music is turned on. The orb will be smaller than the circle.
- Depends on what kind of level you are creating. If you are creating an effect level, then have these turned off as the enteleave objects in the trigger category rely on these checkboxes being off.
- Not a hack. Also, if you want the blocks to have a gradient then place the individual glow object inside of the block itself rather than having the glow mess with the foreground. Also, the level shown here is “Lonely Travel” by FunnyGame and it does not have the gradient as shown in the video.
- One, you need to buy the setting in one of the shops first. Second, just use a StartPOS to test out level sync or test out the sync in the editor using the music play button. I cannot identify the level shown here, so can someone comment what level is shown here so that I can give the creator credit?
- Doing this will make the music in the level desync along with it not being practical by both gameplay and decoration standards. The only level that I can think of that uses speed portals as obstacles is “Dear Nostalgists” by TriAxis, though the level only does it for one section and if you hit a speed portal you fly into a wall which is a different mechanic than shown in the video. I also don’t know what level is shown here, though I believe it is the same level as the one in “hack” 4 thanks to the decoration style.
- This is not a hack. In fact, doing this is useless. Don’t waste your time on doing this. Also, it is not called a warp trigger, it is just called warp.
- This is not a hack. You can also do this with a color trigger set to change the background color and using the color trigger button on it to change the background color in the trigger.
- This is not a hack. This is just using the text object to create decoration. It may save some objects, but if your level isn’t going to be object heavy just use the normal chain objects. Ocular Miracle by GaidenHertuny, Davphila, and Zero uses text objects in at least one section in it, so this idea isn’t new. The level shown here is “Change of Scene” by Bli, which is one of the few levels to be credited properly in this entire video.
- Do not do this unless you have another block on top of the block that is invisible. Shrinking the block shrinks its hitbox so you will need an invisible block on top of it to make sure the hitbox is still the same. You can also see that in the video one side of the block does not meet the edge of the circle objects. Also, this block design does not work for every level.
- The level shown once this fact appears on screen is an amalgamation of all the “tips” shown previously besides fact #2 as you can see the objects fade in on the right. Onto the fact itself, this is not a hack and is just lazy creating. Shrinking (or enlarging) your structures does not solve the problem of repetitiveness; you need to create new structures to solve that.
- This is not a hack. If you want to use this hack though, the invisible blocks will have to be behind all the other blocks for the effect to be there and you must have the “NoTouch” checkmark enabled on the blocks, so it does not interfere with the hitbox of the original block, not to mention this effect is barely noticeable in the first place. You cannot use this for structures though as the fade times for each block are different so it will look serrated. Also, these are not “shiny objects,” these are the same objects used in Clubstep.
- DO NOT USE SQUARES LIKE HOW IS DONE IN THE VIDEO!! USE CIRCLE OBJECTS TO NOT WASE OBJECTS!!
- For the 2nd half of the hack (which was split into two instead of being a “double whammy” as was implied in the video), use the “Edit Special” button instead of the rotate trigger. Using only the rotate trigger will not affect the sawblade as the default rotational speed of the sawblade will override the trigger. If you do want to use the rotate trigger, you have to disable the saw rotation in the “Edit Special” menu, though I advise only doing this if you are going to have an easing be put onto your gears or have them rotate at different speeds.
- This is not a hack. The lamp shown at the beginning of the hack is never made. Instead, a floor light is made. There are multiple ways to create a floor light, however the way Waboo made it here lacks the light. Also, he did not come up with this idea, G4lvatron did (even though it is implied in the level, I just wanted to say it here). This is basically just telling you to steal level assets from other creators, which is an ABSOLUTE NO IF YOU WANT TO BE ORIGINAL!!
- This isn’t even a hack, in fact, nothing here of not was even said. The only thing that was said is “Oh, these particle wires made by G4lvatron look cool!” and nothing of value came of it, not even a small tutorial. This shouldn’t have even been in the script! (Level is Speedtek by G4lvatron, another level that was credited.)
- This hack will only work if NoTouch is enabled, making this hack useless for rotating the hitboxes of objects. Also, if you exit and then reenter the level, the rotation is reset.
- This is not a hack as the in-game level pulsing will make it not look like a “flower” anymore. I suspect that this hack was created just to make a useless transition into more “interesting” hacks, though they are all the same. A better transition could have also been created here.
- I’m actually laughing at how bad this hack is. Just use the in-game 3D objects if you want to create a 3D effect. This also messes up the hitbox of the object in question. You call hack 17 bad, but what about this one? Incredibly lazy with an end product that doesn’t even look good.
- The beginning of this hack leads into the usage of 3D objects, but then it smacks you in the face telling you to use a glitch trigger instead. Just when I thought a hack would contradict a different hack, this just happens. Also, I should specify that a glitch effect is not a 3D effect; it’s just a glitch effect.
- This is not a hack. This is just common sense.
- This is not a hack but is rather asset stealing. Some levels don’t even need cloud trees for them but rather a more specific way of tree making. Also, the reason why your leaf looks bad is because it is unfinished. Heck, there are even unfilled spots in the leaf along with the outline being jagged and messy. The level this hack steals from is Magic Journey by Bli.
- The way the door is made is different to how the original door was made. You just need a white square, a black square on top of the white square, a glow piece, and a corner glow piece to create that door (EXIT sign not included). Again, not a hack and is instead asset stealing. (I also can’t identify what level this is so please comment if you know).
- This is not an optical illusion at all. This is just a deco piece that is animated and has been in the game since 2.0. Not a hack. The level in this hack is the same level that was seen in hack 22.
- I cannot determine what this is due to me being in 2.1 and not 2.2, though the glitch effect previewed in the beginning of the hack is not the same as what was created. It is also most likely a bug and should not be created in actual levels. Also, I believe the footage here is not Waboo’s due to the quality of it along with the cat cube being in it.
- This is not a hack. This is just basic decoration skills. Also, sometimes a portal on its own is good without the use of a background.
- This is not a hack, and, just like hack 15, nothing was said about it: not how to make it move with the player (which is done using a move trigger set to lock to player X and Y or a follow player Y trigger with a move trigger locked to player X), not how to make it change color depending on how close you were to an obstacle… Nothing of value was said and this video didn’t need this nothing burger of a hack.
- Not a hack (and also not mobile friendly) but please CREDIT THE CREATORS OF THE MOD!!
- This is not a hack. This is just basic creator work and common sense to amateur creators. I also do not know the level shown here, so please comment what it is.
- Do not do this hack. This is not a waterfall and trying to turn it into one is useless. Also, waterfalls in real life do not behave like this.
- If this hack is a “joke” then why was it included in the first place? I doubt that any level that sends you to an inescapable box will be rated due to the annoyance of having to reset the level every time you “die.” In the same vein, if you put a crash trigger in your level then the level will never be rated (Sonic Wave Infinity was unrated for a brief moment thanks to it having a crash trigger in it fun fact). Just like hack 15 and 26, this is also a nothing burger. Also, of the 4 levels shown in the beginning of this hack, the only one that I can identify is “Golden Hope” by Magpipe which is the level tagged as having a “MLG” theme. The level tagged with having a "3D" theme is "Third Axis" by Funwolf7 and the 4th level that was not tagged at all is "Heaven and Hell" by Cranqles (which is somehow rated). Thank you Extreme Meowman! for identifying these levels! I’d greatly appreciate anyone who can identify the 1D level that was shown (along with all the other levels that were uncredited in this video).
- Do not do this. This is not a hack but is rather a guaranteed way to make your game lag unforgivably. Just use the HSV slider to make your glow brighter. (Though if you need your glow to be bright around the core and darker around the edges, it is ok to use one or two stacked glow pieces to do that, just don’t do it excessively like how Waboo did it.)
- This is the first hack in this entire video that is actually a useful hack, however it should only be used for small outlines and not scaled up to x5.00 size. This also applies to other objects i.e. you can create shapes using rotated and scaled squares and triangles. The rock objects are mostly useful for small details.
- Not a hack. This is basic knowledge for anyone who wants to make animated jump indicators with particles. The level in the beginning of the hack I can’t identify so please comment if you know what it is.
- Again, not a hack and is basic knowledge.
- Not a hack. CTRL+Z (and the undo button) is common knowledge for literally ANYTHING THAT UNDOS SOMETHING!! Also, if you have swiped a bunch of objects by accident in a blank space, just click the “swipe” button and swipe over the accidental objects while in the edit tab.
- Not a hack. This is basic knowledge for everyone who plays on a computer. Why do I say computer? It’s because this “hack” does not exist on mobile devices due to the lack of a physical keyboard and key binds.
- Not a hack and is basic editor knowledge.
- Not a hack, in fact, what the hell is this even used for?! The squares aren’t even centered! You would not use this “hack” in any serious level, period!
- You called them bushes first, then called them clouds when combined? Also, not a hack and I fail to see anyone who would use this in an actual level.
- Basic editor knowledge; not a hack.
- Again, not a hack.
- Not a hack and you did not show us the end result.
- Not a hack and you do not show us an example of where it can be placed.
- Not a hack. This is basic creator knowledge and only works depending on the theme and style of your level.
- Level here is unknown to me, please identify in the comments. Also, you did not explain how to create this effect. You just showed a video of it and did not explain it any further. Nothing burger hack.
- The second actual hack of the entire video! Yay!
- Not a hack; basic editor knowledge.
- You can do this without the particle objects. Using this asset is also not creative whatsoever and should be counted as asset stealing. Not a hack also.
- Not a hack; basic creator knowledge.
- The 50th hack in the video!... It’s basic editor knowledge! Woo hoo!
- Out of all the “hacks” in this video, this one pissed me off the most. This isn’t even a hack in the slightest, this is just piracy. Do not use this mod for your own levels, they will never be rated. Also, way to not credit the mod creators and circling the wrong button. And, if you were wondering, there is a way to add more stuff to your level without resorting to using this mod; creators have been doing so without the mod for the past 10 years. If you use this mod in your level, you are just lazy.
- Not a hack and is instead a “bait and switch” tactic. Everyone knows how to do this, even non-creators. Also use the 45 degrees rotate rather than free rotate; makes the portal easier to align with gameplay later.
- Not a hack; basic editor knowledge.
- Not a hack, plus it’s more useful to have it be smaller rather than one object as with it being multiple small objects you can get more creative with the opacity and color and movements.
- This is not a hack. You can record the level instead and check for errors since platformer mode will most likely break some triggers, especially triggers that move constantly with the player. Also, I can’t identify the level so can someone comment what it is?
- Not a hack and there are better ways to make a circle that does not use the text object, most notably the circle outline object and the rotate trigger.
- The level shown in the beginning is “B E P I S” by Wulzy. Also, this isn’t a hack but is basic editor knowledge.
- Not a hack. This can be done with multiple other objects, not just moons. (Level shown- which is a main level -is Dash by the way.)
- Not a hack and using this type of gameplay depends on what level you are creating and the theme of it.
- Not a hack and this is not even a good reflection on water effect.
- Not a hack. Basic decoration knowledge is in play here plus if you just have it on the default rotation without doing anything at all then the scythe gears will always be out of sync with each other.
- Not a hack and… No… Just no… This is not how you create (unless you are using it as an outline for structures but be sure to remove them once you have the structures in place).
- What the actual Kentucky fried f@%$ did I just see? First of all, both levels shown here are not credited (though one is most likely a Sonic Wave remake) but ENCOURAGING people to put secret ways into their levels?! Secret ways will NEVER let your level be rated! They will be found, and it is just a lazy way to publish a level onto the servers! Also, instead of the secret way you can just, oh, I don’t know, pass the verification off to someone else, nerf the level, or continue to play the level till you verify it legitimately.
- Not a hack and there are different ways of making grass compared to using a still frame of an animation.
- Not a hack and as a person who has spent 785+ hours on their own solo, I can tell you not all creators use HSV to create structures. Also, people are more likely to choose the color of a structure based on theming and not the HSV sliders (and you forget that structures can have multiple colors). Also credit Vit12 for the block design (at least I think it’s Vit12 who created the block; feel free to correct me if I’m wrong).
- This hack, just like “hack” 12, absolutely DO NOT DO THIS!! THIS WILL BE HELL FOR YOUR LEVEL AND WILL CAUSE IT TO LAG SEVERLY!!
- Hack 67 is just putting saws in the ground. That’s it and is not a hack at all.
- This “hack” is the exact same “hack” as “hack” 13. Also, I feel like the video was slowed down here instead of the saw moving slowly.
- Ayyy this “hack” contradicts “hack” 56! And you STILL didn’t manage to make a proper circle! (The rotating objects can desync just like the scythe saws in “hack” 61.)
- Not a hack. Plus no one creates like this. No one starts from the end and works till the level is at the beginning. This does not help with lag and instead just makes trigger work confusing. Also, the level shown is Glowy by RobBuck.
- Not a hack and only useful in certain situations (effect levels most notably).
- Not a hack and is not useful for any level.
- Not a hack and is not useful in any level. Also, the eyes and mouth are not aligned with the cube; just put a solid color block behind the cube if you really want it in your level.
- This has got to be one of, if not, the WORST “hack” in this video. Absolutely DO NOT DO THIS!! NO ONE CREATES BACKGROUNDS LIKE THIS AND IT IS OBJECT HELL!! Also, the lines are the worst object to create a “canvass” out of. Your best bet is to just create a background like how you would normally do so: With glow and shapes.
- Level shown here is “Collab Level” by Mindcap. Not a hack and you can create custom claw marks by just using varied line objects instead of an animation on a freeze frame.
- Finally! A hack that is useful for once! The 3rd one out of this entire video!
- Not a hack and you do not show us how to create the orb. Also, I believe that this is a stolen asset from a level. I can’t pinpoint what level it might have been stolen from, but it feels like it could have been from Emerald Realm. Also, the orb shown at the end is paler in color compared to what was shown first.
- Not a hack and is common sense. The laser that was shown in the beginning is not what was recreated but is rather something completely different. Also, I do not know what level was shown, so can someone please comment it?
- I feel like you are just trying to intentionally tick us creators off with this one. This is not a hack and is just using an explosion object to create “detailed leaves.” Seriously? Cmon!
- Not a hack and you can create this with a loop rather than spamming pulse triggers. Also, I have no clue on what level is shown here, though I believe it is a Waboo level ironically enough.
- Not a hack and the saw does not look epic. It isn’t even an optical illusion. It’s just 3 boxes placed beneath a saw that are barely visible. 10/10 decoration skills! (Sarcasm, obviously.)
- Not a tip and is asset stealing. You just copy a set of instructions rather than figuring it out on your own. That’s copying not creating!
- Ah, sub bait. Not a hack at all.