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Vibrato

• Depth 10
• Rate 11
• Bal 100
• Tone 5
• Level 100

Drive Echo

• Drive 0
• Mix 70
• Time 20
• FB 0
• Wow 20
• Dry Thru
• Tail Off
• Mode Stereo

Bit Crush

• Bit 12
• SMPL 2
• Bal 22
• Tone 5
• Level 124

BendCho

• Depth 24
• Time 11
• Bal 70
• Mode Up
• Tone 6
• Level 82

You can also apply the code via this link: f05200612840210000020000000032000000000000000000000010000050040c1001000000000000000000000000000102004c012c00003250400600000000000000000102000010001801000000401100100000400000002100000e010408000b5040070001000000000000210002000c032c002300006020050000000800000040190f56004853202020202000202000f7
Basically tweaked a Generation Loss patch and added the bending chorus. Sounds especially bizarre with fuzz. Have fun!

So, backstory--I'm an old school HTML novice. Learned it back in the 90's. Did most of my own code and only really used CSS for light aesthetics (like changing the color of the scroll bar to match the site, etc). Recently, I've decided it's not worth keeping a personal website anymore, not with all the social media stuff out there and Yahoo has passed off its hosting service to another company and the prices have ballooned (I've had the account since it was Geocities--before Yahoo was a thing).
Anyway. I'm keeping the domain, because I like the email address but I want a nice splash page instead of the gross 'coming soon' crap the host puts up. I've whipped up something that I like--just a single large image (size-wise, it's only like 464kb). What I want is the image to sit on the page, centered vertically and horizontally in a letterbox type presentation (like the black bars at the top/bottom of your screen when watching original format movies).
Back in the day, I did this easily with frames. I used frames a lot for positioning (specifically centering). I know frames are basically fully depreciated and only supported for posterity at this point so I'd like to do this properly with CSS. Which is unfortunate because I never got too heavily into it beyond little stuff (mostly color).
I have the image where I want. I have it resizing with the browser window and remaining centered both vertically and horizontally. What I want is the letterbox effect when the image doesn't fill the screen. I know this can probably be done by making the background the letterbox color and using a div tag around the image and extend it to the width of the page so that it gives that visual effect but that is a little beyond me (honestly, I copy and pasted most of this and just tested it over and over). I feel like this should be really easy (and likely is), but it's been a minute since I did any coding.
Below is what I have already. Can someone help with this?

 tombstone splash page        

Note: Eventually I want to make a mobile-friendlier version of this. I'll probably end up asking about that too. Thanks in advance!

Went to a location I normally don’t go to this week and scanned my Apple Watch GL membership card as I usually do.
The front desk guy said, wow, you must have been a member for a long time because they don’t allow AW QR code membership cards in Apple wallet anymore.
Is this true?!!?

Wow, thanks so much for fixing the mission not restarting bug by changing the mission that would restart in three hours to restart in 13 to more closely align with my other missions. This will certainly not cost players missions, but in a different way.
Now to be possibly helpful... How about you restart every mission at 00:00 UTC (daily reset) but then program it to carry over progress from any partially completed mission? poof You get the daily missions you want, people can still take days to weeks to complete tougher missions AND no mission stealing bugs. Assuming, of course, that it could be coded without bugs.

I know a lot of producers have talked about unsolicited feedback in the past but this post isn't about that. It's about feedback for various projects and feedback that gets requested and given. This also applies equally to original production in many cases.
A good number of mashup producers do not tend to master or don't apply limiters on tracks, or just make them softer compared to commercial levels. When albums get mastered, loudness will usually be adjusted through various plugins (EQ, multiband compressors, limiters, clippers, etc.) to shape masters so that one track is not significantly louder or softer than another especially back-to-back and groups of tracks follow a certain sound.
What this means is that once your softer mashup of -14 or -15 LUFS or softer is amplified to commercial levels in the -7 to -11 LUFS range or more depending on genre and how the overall track should sound given peaks and valleys with softer and louder parts (LUFS stands for loudness units full scale, look that up), small issues may stand out like thorns when amplified. Bottom line: Don't take the small or big issues personally; we're all human, we all miss things, and we can all improve. You may learn something new!
Think of it like how you ask to proofread writing to check for spelling or grammar and have it work for the audience.
All this to say, feedback I give or others give based on small details may come across as nit-picks at first. Don't completely discount them. You never know who will want to play your tracks, and this could range from personal playlists all the way up to DJ gigs and big festival stages.
In the case of a club DJ or performances on festival stages, volumes will be significantly louder than what you may have worked with when you created the track. I've given the restaurant food analogy before but I'll give it again: If something clearly doesn't taste good, people won't usually know why. But an experienced chef who knows how the ingredients interact sure will.
Just something to think about as you improve on mashup production and production in general.
Here are some issues below that experienced mashup producers could point out. Note that a lot of the "don't do this" stuff is really code for "don't do this unless you really know you're doing and it sounds good":

Big issues

• Out of key (OOK): This refers to wrong key signature (e.g. mixing A Minor with B Minor), not blue notes from modes or short moments of modulation. Key rule of thumb: If you're going to use key databases, verify by ear. Tunebat is the least accurate. If you must do so, use a reliable key database like the ones in this post. DJ software can work, but some automatic key detection performs better than others and are far from perfect. Above all, databases are not perfect and some will be far from it, so ears will be the final judge of whether a pairing sounds good.
• Out of tempo/time (OOT): this usually refers to wrong tempo (e.g. mixing a 116 BPM track with a 118 BPM track) or not constant tempo and going out of time. Key rule of thumb: Sync your tracks and if you need to use any form of warping (see Ableton), be prepared to do so.
• Incorrect/bad beat alignment: This is more for when a vocal or element is offbeat enough that it really sticks out as a trainwreck when mixed together
• Wrong beat/out of structure/off structure: This is when a vocal or other element is placed on a beat that doesn't make sense for what it's combined with (e.g. placing the first word of a vocal over an instrumental on beat 2 when it was meant for beat 1). Mileage will vary, sometimes the vocal beat placement only makes sense for the original song and makes less sense on others.
• Distortion from going in the red: This is when the overall mix or elements sound distorted because the volume of each track channel is too loud and either alone or combined goes well above 0 dBFS (a.k.a. into the red). Key rule of thumb: Start your track volumes at -6 dB (not 0 dB) and then adjust to taste. Don't go into the red unless you absolutely know what you're doing.
• Elements way too soft or loud: This is more along the lines of not being able to hear the added vocals or elements at all or they're too loud that you can't hear the other elements in the mix.
• Big mood mismatch: This tends to be less egregious, but if sources don't cooperate at all to a point of completely ruining the vibe, the mashup could stick out like a sore thumb from the start. Mileage will vary, and sometimes your audience would appreciate this especially with genre clashes even to the point of creating memes. But it depends on what you're going for, and sometimes you want consistency for certain albums and groups of tracks.

Smaller issues

• Fifth traps/not picking the right keys to use: This is a specific version of another problem I'll touch on, but this happens when you mix keys fifths or fourths away (e.g. F Major and C Major) and the chord progressions don't cooperate. What makes this a trap is that the pairing might appear to sound good at first glance, but when you look back at what you made, you probably could have made a better sounding pairing if you had just picked sources in key, relative key (e.g. A Minor and C Major), or parallel to the mode type (i.e. A Minor with A Dorian since Dorian is a minor mode). This Berklee Online article is a really good starting point to modes. With modes, mileage will vary.
• Out of progression/blue notes: This can happen when there are short moments where the element clashes on top of other elements (e.g. modes or short moments of different modulation). Sometimes the tracks may not be compatible, but other times it's just a part with notes outside the scale. This can be fixed by doing small note changes, but be careful not to make it too obvious, otherwise it might sound like you're forcing the pairing to work. It may also follow the same theme as fifth traps, where you could have made a better sounding pairing if you had just picked sources in key, relative key (e.g. A Minor and C Major), or parallel to the mode type (i.e. A Minor with A Dorian since Dorian is a minor mode). This Berklee Online article is a really good starting point to modes. With modes, mileage will vary.
• Low quality sources: This happens with YouTube or other rips where the elements are lower quality due to a lower frequency cutoff (YouTube is usually 15.5 kHz for AAC, other platforms may be 15-16 kHz for 128 kbps MP3, etc.). Bottom line: Get the highest quality sources you can, and use Spek or another spectrum analysis software to check rips or record pool sources. Your ears and processing algorithms will thank you. Again, you never know who will listen to or play out your track, could even be a big sound system.
• Stem separation artifacts: This can take several different forms, but can happen when either the invert or stem separation algorithm being used adds noise or other unwanted high end artifacts like high hats that once amplified, will absolutely stand out in a mix. This also includes artifacts from stem separation algorithms like Utagoe which make vocals sound like they're underwater at default settings. Key rule of thumb: Remember that the instrumental and original could be mixed and mastered differently depending on the production environment and how masters spread. If an invert makes a vocal stand out more but just needs extra cleaning, don't be afraid to combine the invert technique (original + instrumental) with stem separation. When using multiple stem separation techniques or using different sources (like remix + remix instrumental), think about how they sound on parts of the instrumental and consider picking the best extraction for a given part; remember that this includes using the original song (this is called comping in the production world). If there are parts of vocals intended to be silent and there are artifacts, don't be afraid to replace the reverb + delay with your own. Keep up to date with stem separation algorithms by keeping up with developments on the Audio Separation Discord server: https://discord.gg/wY3AAaTvHT
• Weird time-stretch and pitch-shift artifacts: This can happen when using a lower quality time-stretch or a time-stretch that can destroy transients/drum hits (Audacity or Elastique Efficient on vocals, older Elastique Pro on full instrumentals) or pitching too much and/or with too much/little formant preserve. The best way to reduce these effects on instrumental is to think about combining stem separation with ways to improve quality (pitch everything BUT the drums unless tonal, experiment with different time stretch methods on different elements, etc.). For too much pitch or formant preserve, either pick sources that are closer in key (+/- 2 semitones is a good rule of thumb) and try to control the amount of formant preservation and/or envelope (in Ableton) to make the vocals sound more natural. Formant preserve is usually a good idea for pitched vocals, but can sound bad for pitched instrumentals especially drums depending on the track.
• Pops or clicks while editing: This tends to happen when elements like vocals are cut off when not at zero volume. Key rule of thumb: Edit to zero crossing and/or use fades to cut off regions or when combining different regions together.
• Flanging, phasing, or flamming while editing: Sometimes these effects are on purpose, but oftentimes when crossfading between different parts of an instrumental, both parts of the edit don't align on beat. Flanging and phasing applies for sample level edits (ms or more), flamming for tenths or hundredths of seconds (e.g. 0.05 sec or 0.1 sec). Flamming is a drumming term for when the same part of the drum kit (usually the snare drum) is hit twice with different sticks at close to but not exactly the same time.
• Vocals or other elements end too suddenly in an edit: You may want to get different vocals to interact with each other or edit out of artifacts from vocal stem separation, but the other vocal (or elements) sound like they were cut off. Key rule of thumb: Have a reverb effect handy, and if you're working in a DAW, take advantage of wet/dry automation and combine the reverb with delay afterwards in the effect chain for vocals and other elements so when you crank up the wet the decay helps fade out the element gracefully.
• Vocals or other elements start too suddenly or out of place when connecting them or transitioning: This also considers getting different vocals or other elements to work together or going to a new part, but refers to a new part using vocals or other elements sounding out of place at the beginning of a region in a transition. Key rule of thumb: Watch your crossfades and when you're in a pinch and want to start the next part gracefully, don't be afraid to use reverse reverb or other effect like a riser to introduce a completely new element or different part in a pinch. Reverse reverb is exactly what it sounds: Adding reverb to a short snippet of an element like a cymbal, vocal note, or pad, and then applying reverse on it. Often this is done by choosing a tonal center to transition into, choosing a small snippet to add reverb to, choosing reverb with a long decay time and big space (usually I do a Cathedral reverb), reversing it, and then carefully aligning the reverse reverb so the end of it hits the beginning of the next region. Whew that was a lot! Tutorials will do this much more justice but this is the general idea.
• Vocals too dry or too wet for the instrumental: Usually this depends on the instrumental's genre. For genres like pop or EDM, vocals tend to have some reverb applied to make them shine. For others like alternative and some classic hip-hop, the reverb might be less or no wet or a completely different type. This issue usually refers to too little reverb (too dry) or too much reverb (too wet). Key rule of thumb: Don't forget to have reverb handy. You might need it. Keep your wet low in the middle of a vocal depending on what you're trying to do (think 3-5% wet or - on the low side
• Vocals or other elements slightly too loud or soft: Self-explanatory, this is usually an issue where elements should be the right volume for elements to work well together.
• Vocals or other elements drowned out/don't gel due to hypercompression: This usually happens when using a vocal not from an EDM, hyperpop, hard rock, or other genre where there is hypercompression but no matter how much volume amount you try elements like vocals don't gel and compete for space in the mid range. Two common techniques take the form of adding more compression to a vocal to stand up to an hypercompressed instrumental and/or reducing mid band EQ of the other source (which could come from sidechaining). For the added compression, it tends to be done with either multiple compressors in series (e.g. two compressors using low threshold + high ratio and high threshold + low ratio) or through various guitar distortion plugins on settings meant for vocals (e.g. Camelcrusher with British Clean or certain presets of OTT). Don't be afraid to experiment.
• Master too loud or soft for the genre: This usually takes the form of using limiters and other effects to make certain tracks too loud for the genre intended, or not using anything at all and the track is too soft for the genre/commercial sound. This can come down to taste, but how a track was produced can affect how loud you master. Mileage will vary; listen to how loud tracks are made and emulate your favorites assuming nothing too egregious.
• Stereo issues: This can happen if there are elements out of phase when trying to combine mono and stereo or applying other effects. It's a bit more difficult to diagnose, but one rule of thumb is to test your overall track on different playback systems (from headphones to big speakers and even your phone or small bluetooth speaker which will effectively test mono depending on the device).

Wow that was a lot and I know it's very overwhelming who don't produce a ton. There might be more issues I didn't mention here, so let me know if there's anything else that could be useful.

Note to the moderators: I suppose this post could be construed as seeking "recommendations"; however, the list will not fit within the character limits of the GDT, so I'm hoping y'all will tolerate it. At the very least, at nearly two hundred songs/bands, alphabetized and a couple weeks' work, I hope y'all will agree, this is not a "low-effort post!"
With the help of Metalcore as well as a big Deathcore/Metalcore FB group, I've compiled the following alphabetized playlist. Obviously it's incomplete, so please tell me who I'm missing (that is worth adding, obviously). Also, if there's a band you feel should be removed due to inappropriate categorization or a pick that is just blatantly wrong, please feel free to let me know!

1. Aborted - Dreadbringer
2. Abbie Falls - Pitch Black
3. Across the Sun – May Silence Keep You
4. After The Burial - Behold The Crown
5. All Out War – Into the Killing Fields
6. Allt – Paralyzed
7. All That Remains - This Calling
8. Alpha Wolf - Akudama
9. alt. - BACK TO EARTH
10. A Mourning Star – A World Beyond
11. Angelmaker- What I Would Give
12. Annalynn - Closer to the Edge
13. Annisokay - Coma Blue
14. Any Given Day – Savior
15. Architects - These Colors Don’t Run
16. As Blood Runs Black – In Dying Days
17. As I Lay Daying - The Sound of Truth
18. Asking Alexandria - A Single Moment of Sincerity
19. ATLVS – Comethazine
20. Atreyu – Crimson
21. Attack! Attack! – Killing for Sport
22. Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions
23. Aviana – Rage
24. August Burns Red - White Washed
25. AVOID - Whatever
26. Bad Omens - ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE
27. Before I Turn – Aglaeca
28. Being as an ocean - the hardest part is forgetting those you swore you would never forget
29. Bleed from Within - Alive
30. Bleeding Through - Revenge I Seek
31. Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad
32. Bodysnatcher – Exterminate
33. Botch – One Twenty Two
34. Boundaries – I'd Rather Not Say
35. Breakdown of Sanity – The Storm
36. Bring Me the Horizon - Shadow Moses
37. Bullet for my Valentine - Four Words (To Choke Upon)
38. Bury Tomorrow – Choke
39. Caliban – Memorial
40. Carnifex - Die Without Hope
41. Caskets - The Final Say
42. Chamber - Replacing Every Weakness
43. Chelsea Grin – Cheyne Stokes
44. Chimaira – Pure Hatred
45. Code Orange - Forever
46. coldrain - 2020
47. Conquer Divide - Afterthought.wav
48. Converge – A Single Tear
49. Counterparts - Whispers Of Your Death
50. Crimson Eyes – Serenity
51. Crown the Empire – The Fallout
52. Crystal Lake - Apollo
53. Currents - Better Days
54. Daedric - Alchemy
55. Dark Divine - The Fear
56. Darkest Hour - Goddess of War, Give Me Something to Die For
57. Darko US - Pale Tongue
58. Demon Hunter - Cross to Bear
59. Dying Wish - Enemies in Red
60. Earth Crisis – Forced March
61. Eighteen Visions – Reality Killer
62. Elwood Stray - Half Life
63. Emmure - When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong
64. Enterprise Earth – Reanimate // Disintegrate
65. ERRA - Lunar Halo
66. Esprit D’Air - Ocean’s Call
67. Every Time I Die - Map Change
68. Fallstar – When Justice Cracks the Sky
69. Fit for a King - Backbreaker
70. Fit for an Autopsy – Under a Serpent Sun
71. Flames of Betrayal – The Rain Reeks of Heaven
72. Foreign Hands - Separation Souvenir
73. For the Fallen Dreams – Sulfate
74. For today - Break the Cycle
75. Ghost Iris – My Dear Rat Kings
76. Gideon -- Bite Down
77. God Forbid - To the Fallen Hero
78. Greyhaven - Kappa (River Child)
79. Guilt Trip – Eyes Wide Shut
80. Hanabie - Otaku Lovely Densetsu
81. Harm’s Way – Become a Machine
82. Hatebreed – Own Your World
83. Heart of a Coward – Hollow
84. Heaven Shall Fall – Hunters Will Be Hunted
85. Holding Absence - Monochrome
86. Humanity’s Last Breath - Labyrinthian
87. Ice Nine Kills – The American Nightmare
88. If I Were You – System Failure
89. Imminence – Chasing Shadows
90. Impending Doom - There Will be Violence
91. In Heart’s Wake – Survival (The Chariot)
92. I Prevail - Deadweight
93. I See Stars - Running With Scissors
94. InChaos - Butterfly Effect
95. Ingested – I, Despoiler
96. Invent Animate - False Meridian
97. Jesus Piece - Fear of Failure
98. Job for a Cowboy – Sun of Nihility
99. Johnny Booth - The Ladder
100. Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
101. Kill The Lights - Dead From The Start
102. Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow
103. Kublai Khan - The Hammer
104. Lamb of God - Descending
105. Left to Suffer – Overwhelming Power
106. LVNDMARKS - False Reality
107. Light the Torch - Die Alone
108. Like Moths To Flames - Dissociative Being
109. Loathe - Aggressive Evolution
110. Lorna Shore – Of the Abyss
111. Make Them Suffer - Uncharted
112. Misery Signals - Luminary
113. Malevolence – On Broken Glass
114. MIRE – Inside
115. Miss May I – Hey Mister
116. Motionless in White – Disguise
117. Mouth for War – Saturate Me
118. Norma Jean - Sword in Mouth, Fire Eyes
119. Nora – I Should Have Sent Flowers
120. Novelists FR - Souvenirs
121. Of Mice and Men - The Depths
122. Ocean Sleeper - Your Love I'll Never Need
123. Opal In Sky - The Blight
124. Orthodox - Cave In
125. Paleface – Lights Out
126. Paria - The Absurdity of Solace
127. Parkway Drive – Dark Days
128. Patient Sixty-Seven - Hibbertia
129. Periphery - Stranger Things
130. Phinehas – I Am the Lion
131. Polaris - The Remedy
132. Pupil Slicer - No Temple
133. Reflections - Help
134. Reliqa – Tyrant
135. Renesans - Labor of Hate
136. Rings of Saturn - Senseless Massacre
137. Sail’s End - The Sound of Silence 3: Three
138. Sanction – The Prophet Who Saw Fire
139. SAVE US – Distance
140. Scarlet Horizon - Seed
141. Sea of Treachery – Unleash the Serpents
142. Serration – Simulations of Hell
143. Shadow of Intent – The Prelude to Bereavement
144. Shadows Fall – The Light that Blinds
145. Shai Halud - Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life
146. Silent Planet - Antimatter
147. Signs of the Swarm – Amongst the Low and Empty
148. Silverstein - Your Sword vs My Dagger
149. Sion – More than Just Myself
150. Slaughter to Prevail - Viking
151. Sleep Token – The Summoning
152. Snapcase – Harrison Bergeron
153. Spite – led
154. Spiritbox - The Beauty Of Suffering
155. Spiritual Chaos - End
156. Suicide Silence - Unanswered
157. Sunami – Mind Your Business
158. Tenside - Come Alive Dying
159. The Acacia Strain - The Impaler
160. The Afterimage – Secrets
161. The Amity Affliction – Pittsburgh
162. The Black Dahlia Murder – What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
163. The Browning - The End of Existence
164. The Chariot - David De La Hoz
165. The Devil Wears Prada - Danger: Wildman
166. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is The Killer
167. The Empire Shall Fall – Voices Forming Weapons
168. The Ghost Inside – Aftermath
169. The Ongoing Concept - Feel Again
170. The Plot in You - Crows
171. The Zenith Passage – Deus Deceptor
172. Thornhill - Casanova
173. Throwdown – This Continuum
174. Thrown - on the verge
175. Thy Art is Murder – Holy War
176. Times of Grace – Medusa
177. To the Grave – Terrorist Threat
178. Trivium - Down from the Sky
179. Undying – the Company of Storms
180. Unearth - This Glorious Nightmare
181. Upon a Burning Body – Extermination
182. Varials – Anything to Numb
183. Veil of Maya - Outsider
184. VEXED – X my <3 (Hope to Die)
185. Vision of Disorder - D.T.O.
186. Wage War - The River
187. War of Ages – Collapse
188. We Are The Empty – Carcass
189. We Came As Romans - What I Wished I never Had
190. Whitechapel - I Will Find You
191. While She Sleeps - The Plague of the New Age
192. Within Destruction – Void
193. Within the Ruins – Gods Amongst Men
194. Wolves at the Gate – Deadweight
195. World of Pleasure – Carbon Copy
196. Xibalba – Death Threat
197. Zao - Resistance

This is a 50-50 between a rant and explanation of my scenario in order for more experienced members of this sub to give me advice.

I am 19 and I really enjoy programming. I am not in CS because its lucrative, I genuinely love the Idea that a hobby I’ve had for 4 years is something I can do as a job. I learned to program properly (i.e. not basic python taught at school) during lockdown and have written code at least a couple times a week since then. My personal projects are mostly basic physics sims written in c# or c++, but I have dabbled with at least 5 other languages. I also compete (and sometimes do well in) hackathons.

I currently work as a software developer degree apprentice at a large finance company, with the degree being provided by a decent (top 25) uni. This apprenticeship is quite sought after, 6^th form careers team recommended I take it over places top 5 unis, and many people at my school were very excited for me when I received the offer.
· This position was advertised as a “software developer degree apprenticeship”
· The description specifically talked about learning coding
· Apprenticeships often have a big centralised hiring scheme, so in initial interviews when I asked about what technologies I would be using I was told what the company used in general (I got an answer like “AWS” or “we have quite a lot of java”)
· In my final stage interview I asked what programming languages I would be likely to use I was told something along the lines of “technically the programming language we use is Java, but we use [insert low code CRM platform]”

It is now obvious to me that at the time I should have thoroughly researched [insert low code CRM platform] and decided to take a position at a good uni, or a different, less prestigious apprenticeship. However, at the time I was a dumb 17 year old, about to take my A levels and ecstatic that such a “big” and “important” company was going to take me on.
I am now 10 months into the apprenticeship and there are definitely positives. My degree is interesting and costs me nothing, there is opportunity to learn and upskill, and I get pretty decent salary. As far as my actual role goes it isn’t great.
· I work on a monolithic, antiquated application, with GUI and drag and drop tools that have 3 seconds of input delay in a low code development environment that actually encourages antipatterns. Documentation is lacklustre
· The people I work with are all offshore. My final stage interview was with the tech lead and project manager. Anybody I actually talk to on a day to day basis speaks English to the level of a 7 year old. Many meetings I feel as if anything useful I add is counteracted by the fact everyone else has to speak broken English for me to understand, which slows everything down to a crawl
· All changes and communication trickles through 100 bureaucratic processes. A lot of the application could optimised and made much cleaner, and the devs know this, but for each hour of development there are 5 hours meetings, show and tells, approval requests etc.
· My company and apprenticeship both require frequent progress reviews, with a lot of input from my managers etc. I get really stressed about this since my managers are always really busy and take nagging to do these things, but if I don’t nag them it reflects badly on me. My last quarterly review my functional lead literally made up all of my targets and review on the spot. My manager was then unhappy that I hadn’t logged them on the review portal.
I really felt like after I finished 6^th form this degree apprenticeship would be a something enjoyable and valuable to future employers. I am not enjoying it (you can probably tell) and it will only be valuable to people employing me to do something I don’t enjoy. I really feel stuck because:
· If I drop out I am liable to repay my tuition
· I have no degree, so CS jobs will just reject me
· I can’t begin another CS apprenticeship since I am already partway through one
· If I finish this apprenticeship, I will essentially be applying to jobs as someone with a degree from a mid uni, rather than a top 5 uni along with thousands of hours of extra projects under my belt
· Re applying to uni is a massive hassle, and seems like a waste of time since I would be repeating 2 years
· All my colleagues are 10+ years older than me and I don’t feel like there is anyone I can talk too or anyone who can relate to the position I am in.
· I feel like a massive idiot knowing I literally chose this
· I am scared to tell anyone that I am unhappy. All my friends/family/girlfriend just think wow OP is doing well for someone his age.

If anyone has any advice, whether it be regarding any other options I have, ways to work better in corporate environment (I literally feel like a child), or anything I could to better my position please let me know.
I may post this in degreeapprenticeships but I think this sub is much more relevant.

So for the uninitiated there’s now capital gains tax of around 7% and it applies to over 150k regardless of your marital status. And this was effectively passed in sort of pretty shady way, and of course this money was already earmarked for “early education”. This effectively has all the hallmarks of “how can you say no to this for the kids”
But here’s the problem. It’s terribly ill conceived, probably worse than California’s Prop 1 which allows owners of multi millionaire homes to pay just hundreds of property tax under the pretext of “ohh how can you kick old grandmother out of her Palo Alto house b/c she can’t pay property taxes”
So first, this is capital gains , but the biggest capital asset of most ppl like “real estate” is the excepted. Why? Probably that would have pissed a lot more ppl and of course the lobby.
It’s so narrowly crafted you might as well say it’s tax on software engineers or founders who would have windfall profits from IPO, but of course discriminating against a profession directly would probably run into legal grounds
This was all upheld on WA Supreme Court b/c this was passed as “excise tax”, b/c in WA you technically have this uniform tax code against “income”
But all these doesn’t change two fundamental things about capital gains. 1. You as an individual control it, b/c it’s triggered by when you decide to sell. And by definition, capital gains falls under the jurisdiction of resident state 2. It’s really wrong to treat this windfall as like “wow you had a great payday”, b/c most practical way this happens is that individual probably took a lot lower salary for several years for a particular percentage of the company to make anything meaningful (and that too with no guarantee)
The first point makes this idea of ripping this windfall tax really moot. If only, most such successful entrepreneurs would simply relocate, and thereby divest money they would have otherwise invested
The second point, makes the opportunity cost makes a very uncompelling reason to join a startup vs a company like Amazon and Microsoft which continues to pay in RSU which are taxed as regular income and therefore no effective state tax on them
So really, aside from virtual signalling or pandering to this whole bullshit "rich dont pay taxes" is this helping? (Ask CA, the top 1% pay more than 50% tqxes, and no they dont earn 50% of income)

Hi All. I'm hoping someone can help me here. I'm extremely new to Autohotkeys v2 and trying to automate a very tedious and mundane task.
I'm running Win 11 and attempting to automate the following as an example:

1. Open MS Edge Browser (Needs to be MSedge. Not Chrome or any other browser)
2. In Browser, open a 2nd Tab which is Ctrl+T
3. Search within 2nd tab "Cat"
4. Wait 5 seconds
5. Close 2nd tab and back to tab 1

Repeat process 50+ times with different search criteria. eg:

1. In Browser, open a 2nd Tab again.
2. Search within 2nd tab "dog"
3. Wait 5 seconds
4. Close 2nd tab and back to tab 1
5. In Browser, open a 2nd Tab again.
6. Search within 2nd tab "Lion"
7. Wait 5 seconds
8. Close 2nd tab and back to tab 1
9. In Browser, open a 2nd Tab again.
10. Search within 2nd tab "Rabbit"
11. Wait 5 seconds
12. Close 2nd tab and back to tab 1

REEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT. You get the picture.
The below is a very basic script I have been playing about with but not getting anywhere. I'm losing my patience due to my very novice experience and lack of coding / programing knowledge. I need help with tidying up the script process. I'm trying to learn and any help is greatly appreciated. The problem with the below script is that it will end up opening 100s of tabs which I would like to prevent if poss. I haven't quite found how to open a 2nd tab and closing it once the search action is complete.
---------Start of Script Example ------------

#SingleInstance

#Requires Autohotkey v2.0+

;Ctrl = ^
;Alt = !
;Shift = +
;Win = #
::msedge::
{
Run 'msedge.exe'
Send "{^t}" ;this is meant to open a new tab in Msedge but is erroring out. Why??? In MS Edge to open new tab is CTRL+T.
Sleep 5000 ; wait 5 seconds
SendInput 'Cat' ;search the word cat
Send "{Enter}" ;results of above search
Sleep 5000
;ideally would like to close this browser tab and back to browser tab 1

Send "{^t}" ;opening a new tab for next search criteria. Sleep 5000 SendInput 'Dog' Send "{Enter}" Sleep 5000 

;ideally would like to close this browser tab and back to browser tab 1

Send "{^t}" Sleep 5000 SendInput 'Mouse' Send "{Enter}" Sleep 5000 

;ideally would like to close this browser tab and back to browser tab 1

Send "{^t}" Sleep 5000 SendInput 'Horse' Send "{Enter}" Sleep 5000 

;ideally would like to close this browser tab and back to browser tab 1

Send "{^t}" Sleep 5000 SendInput 'Rabbit' Send "{Enter}" Sleep 5000 

;ideally would like to close this browser tab and back to browser tab 1
)
--------------End Script--------------------------
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I understand this maybe very basic stuff to most of you. I am only a week into self teaching with AHK and also learning Python to try and automate this basic task. I am enjoying the learning curve to date :-) Thank you for looking at my 1st reddit post :-)

(This is an alt account but I don't post much on my main anyway)
Hey,
So recently I've been thinking about life and realising nowadays I'd like to commit more to someone. I am also looking for friends with similar interests too.
Like a lot of others on here, I'm a pretty big gamer and I suppose that's core to who I am as a person, at least for now, however there's more to life and I'd love to branch out into other things, for example I'd love to travel the world, at least to some extent, and experience other cultures. Whilst for now I live in the UK and only speak English, I'd love to learn another language and hopefully move out of the UK someday, preferrably somewhere in Europe.
I go through periods of loving music a lot and sometimes having waning interest, it's usually rap/rock/metal with a few weird curveballs in there though. For series I really enjoyed, the last one I can think of was probably Homeland, crime series are somehow usually the best to me.
I am quite serious and reserved at first, but when comfortable I honestly talk probably too much, I'm usually a bit of a night owl when I'm not working (I work a zero hour contract so it changes) and I love having deep, meaningful conversations, even if in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. I'm no expert but let's talk about ethics, if we're truly alone, what we think the future will hold. I'd say I'm a bit of a dreamer to some extent and love thinking about ideas or themes, I suppose DnD would fit in this well but I've never played, definitely something I'd be interested in though.
I spend a lot of my time playing WoW and things related to warhammer, being a WoW player would be a big bonus, but not compulsory. I'd say I have a lot of interests I haven't really chased, and if someone wanted to do them with me I'd be open to a lot, I'm very open to things in general anyway. I usually tend to get on with people a bit older than me, but I personally don't care much, just probably be above 21. I'm also an animal lover and have 2 dogs, Weimaraners and can provide pic if asked!
I'm happy to give a picture after a bit of talking, my preferred method of messaging or more would be discord, if any of this interests you I'd appreciate an opening message on some things about you, and then we can move to discord.
Would love to hear from you!

The Context:

A user posts to /BoomersBeingFools wondering if boomers don’t eat enough and are “starving” themselves, and by extension pushing their expectations unfairly onto others.
Many users quickly take issue with OOP’s premise. The discussion quickly devolves into multiple slapfights, insults over weight, and the war in Gaza.

The Drama:

Does metabolism change as people age?

People commenting it’s cause they’re older and don’t need to eat as much. Yes, I know that could be a part of it, but let’s be honest, it’s mostly them just being judgy/brainwashed by diet culture/think it’s absurd to spend money on eating out…

"Brainwashed by diet culture" ah so in other words you are obese and need to eat a lot and probably deeply into healthy at any size/fat acceptance.
No they just know they don't need 5000 calori3s a day to exist.

I’m obese for wanting to eat some lunch and dinner? 🤯

No I say that because of "brainwashed by diet culture" there's exactly one group that talks like that.

You must not get out much

[Continued:]

I do actually it's how I maintain not being fat. Limiting calories to under 2500 and being outside moving a lot.

I lost 140 pounds by eating more. 🤷 starving myself led to weight gain.

I'm sure you eat more but less calories in total. No one increases their calories and losses sorry.

You're wrong. Instunted my metabolism and my body was holding on to the weight to protect me.
I was eating skinless baked chicken and plain broccoli for 2 years and could not lose weight. I was sick and exhausted but worked out all the time.
Started eating carbs and the weight came melting off.
Sorry :)

[Continued:]

For sure. Thats why all the body builders are morbidly obese. They eat chicken and broccoli and their body just goes into starvation mode and holds all the fat. Same with like the concentration camps. All those poor morbidly obese starving people. Once we saved them and fed them the weight just shed off. It's the craziest thing.

It's almost like bodies are different, user name doesn't check out, a nerd would know that 🤔

Whatever you need to tell yourself.

[…]

i guess the law of thermodymanics doesnt apply to you.
You should get studied. Defying the laws of thermodynamics is pretty impressive!

[…]

Tell me you see someone fat in the store and cringe inside/judge them for no reason without ever speaking to them without telling me 😂
You dislike/hate fat people for the horrid crime of being fat when they don't think about you at all and haven't ever wronged you in any way at all.
Also, I can tell you have never struggled with your weight in the past due to not giving a shit how hating random people for looking a certain way effects them. That, or you did struggle once, and bought into the haters telling you you were worth less based on the number on the scale, in which case I am sorry you believe that.

Dude I was 350lbs at my heaviest. People love saying "oh he says weightloss is eat less move more? Clearly he wants to genocide fat people" but no that's not it at all. I lost tons and most of the people around me went from morbid obesity to overweight or a normal weight. We changed our lifestyles and got in shape. The people that didn't lose weight claim all kinds of medical issues but none of them changed their diet and not of them want to work out. It's pretty clear how to lose weight. That's all.
No more no less no hate.

Wanna know how I know you're a liar or incredibly ignorant of how you come off?
You say you don't dislike them but make fun of their physical disabilities like it's funny. It's not funny. You're making fun of them. It's not funny to make fun of people for having disabilities or for how they look. You perpetuate hate against them that makes them feel like crap for being alive. I don't care about your spiel about medical issues or dieting in general or the fat acceptance movement. When you make fun of disabled people who have trouble walking i'm going to call you out on it. That's exactly what you did. Whether they're fat or not I refuse to make fun of people for that.

I have never made fun of a single person. Only a movement that claims you can be healthy at any size. You can't be vastly under or over weight and be healthy.

Whatever you say buddy. Keep on making fun of people because they can't walk or cope some more that it wasn't directed at a specific person. Have fun with that.

[Continued:]

Shut the fuck up fatty

Insults are made, ending with accusations of sockpuppeting:

I don't think you realize how pathetic you sound. When my jaw was broken I went 6 weeks without solid food and I'm sitting here rolling my eyes at your propensity for letting your stomach color your opinions of other people. I'd bet dollars to dimes that your body mass index is over 30.

Hey.
You should know:
It costs $0 to not be a dick.

I'll pay that cover charge any day of the week. Especially when I'm dealing with a major league dipshit like [Candy_cane999]
Radagast was brown, nerd.

Wow, you’re disgusting. It’s not that deep

Says the person here gossiping about their relative's metabolism. "Not that deep" lol you made a judgment about an entire generation of people because your family member wasn't hungry..lol fuck off
I bet you are high as a kite right now from all the users here agreeing with you, even if they haven't a fucking clue what they are talking about.
Seriously, though, how fat are you? I'm guessing fat enough that you can't hide that stomach roll when you sit down.

High as a kite? Huh? Relax weirdo, it’s just Reddit

You still haven't told us how fat you are.

Damn this guy hates fat people !

I used to be one.

[Continued:]

So now you just hate fat people for fun?

People with no self control, ESPECIALLY when that self control would benefit their health, are people who are functionally useless as human beings. They are the pieces of shit who would hoard food while everyone else is starving.
It ain't for fun.
Do you comment on Reddit to be an annoying middle child?

Ahhh yes. The fat people are useless excuse. Okay bud have fun out there!

It seems you have to self control over your feelings little guy. Go out there and practice some self control!
Bitter, party of one.

[…]

Get a life, chill

Get a life, chill

Ah yes, the mating call of people who "have lives"...ohhhhhh the irony.

😂sounds like you’re projecting. What’s it like still living in your boomer mom’s basement?

lol "projecting", I see you have your masters in Reddit psychology.

What’s it like still living in your boomer mom’s basement?

Oooooof, sounds like someone is...................................................................................projecting.

You do realize calling someone fat is the easiest most insecure insult to throw out there. Classic textbook. Hypocrite

I used to be fat as fuck, 270lbs at 5'10. I'll judge you fatties all I damn well please.
You keep avoiding answering the question. You're a landwhale, aren't you?

Ahha! There it is. It’s because you hate yourself. Hope you’re in therapy

[Continued:]

The more you avoid this the more we know what kind of person we are dealing with.
You talk shit about people who have self control to excuse how fat and disgusting you are.

[…]

Dude why admit that, all you are showing is that you had become really fat, and rather than learn a healthy relationship with food even at that extreme point, you just chose to hate food in general. You took the easy way out because nobody ever taught you portion control. Your loss I guess.

I admit it because I was raised in a home where I couldn't get up until my plate was clean and my mother made sure there were never leftovers that way. I admit it because it is the truth and I don't lie or omit details to make myself sound better. I admit it to show I can relate to being a fatfuck. I admit it because being fat is a choice.
”why would you say something true about yourself!?" - if that isn't Reddit-in-a-nutshell I don't know what is.

I'm just saying it makes you look like you just hated yourself and were pushing that onto another person that may or may not have a healthier relationship with food than you, that's all.

[…]

They didn't answer did they?

After several attempts they've avoided even talking about their fat stores and are now trying the victim angle.

No doubt. Fatty McFat Fat can't comprehend people not being addicted to constant feedings.
Reddit in a nutshell.

Bro's talking to himself on an alt ​

Then, there’s this:

OP is a fat fuck

As a former fatass this was my immediate thought

I knew as soon as he said road trip to Florida

For wanting lunch and dinner? You’re sick
They’re someone whos whole identity is shoving food in their mouth. Look at their username

Eat shit.

One user thinks they’re speaking uncomfortable truths:

If StandardSafe isn’t willing to say it again, I will: grow up and get over it. 99% of the people who say they “aren’t heavy” actually are, your dad was probably just being a concerned parent. “unhealthy relationship with food”, LMAO. A first-world problem for sure

No, he was just a bully and abusive. But thanks for playing.
That’s a really weird thing to say to a stranger, dude
You ok bro? Did that make you feel good about yourself? To insult a stranger because you personally didn’t have to deal with abuse? Or let me guess, you did, but it made you a “strong man” who knows what’s best for everyone.
You don’t know me. You have no idea what my childhood and young adulthood was like and maybe it sounds like a “first world problem” (which by the way, is so fucking dismissive and gross to say to people when they an issue) to you, but for me it became an eating disorder that I still struggle with in my 40s.
I’m going to try to say this as politely as I can, please fuck off into the sun with your bullshit and go troll somewhere else. You’re an asshole who seems to get off on insulting people to get your pathetic dick hard. I hope you don’t have kids because I worry if you do how fucked up they are and if you’re married I feel terrible for your wife. But let’s be honest, you’re a sad, lonely, angry man who has nothing better to do.
Dumbass takes like this are part of the reason people develop eating disorders on both ends of the spectrum.
You're gonna tell me someone who is suffering from Anorexia/Bulimia just needs to "grow up and get over it"?
You need to grow up and take a biology class.

When did the commenter say she had anorexia/bulimia? Those are actual eating disorders…she just said she eats very little and blames her dad.
A biology class, really? Psychology sounds more like it. Or are you telling me you learned about eating disorders in a bio class? Where was that, at some sort of school that gives out certificates in self-actualization or holistic-healing?

Sorry -- from what school did you get a psychology degree that allows you to label Anoerixa/Bulimia as "actual" eating disorders but not what OP described?

The school of hard knocks 😂 he’s so superior to us that he can diagnose a stranger through the internet on Reddit based on a paragraph that seemed to make him bigly angry.
He’s just a sad man who needs to get off by insulting people. He can go live that life and we’ll be over on this said being human to each other.

Finally, the war in Gaza is brought up for some reason:

You know that on the other side of the apartheid wall Israel set up there are thousands of people who had access to the Dead Sea (and their homes), that was changed by the establishment of Israel. Millions of people around the world are coming to the decision to boycott any company that supports the Israeli Apartheid Occupation. Millions are urging their universities and employers to divest any money and programs with the genocidal force that is Israel. I urge you and your family to take a hard look at yourselves and learn what Israel really is made of. Then the logical decision will be to never visit or spend a dime in Israel until their genocide and apartheid ends. Ty

Take a walk off a short pier.

This response is unhinged.
“Learn about an ongoing genocide, with bombs falling through the air as we speak, that you knowingly or unknowingly support, that we can do something about”
“Your response”
Please just look someone in the eyes today and remember what it means to be a human. Each of us is a library of life, and we’re constantly diminishing the value of each other as “enemies”.
I’d rather that than share air with someone who supports the ongoing genocide. Not for me, not for you, but for the kids and our collective humanity: please learn something new today.

You’re supporting the death of my family in Israel. Seriously, you’re a PoS

Before Israel was, there was Palestine. Palestine was for all. Muslims, Christians, and Jewish families all lived together. We all visited Jerusalem.
When Israel decided that only Jewish people would now be allowed in to these random borders drawn over Palestine, well, that should come off as racist. Now the Christian and Muslim Palestinians had their villages raided and their women raped by a well funded militia, before it became the IDF. This terrorised the Palestinians that lived in their homes, so they ran.
Then these homes were empty.
The land without people for the People without a land. Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. The people that were born there were displaced by a terrorist militia, and now it was a land magically without a people.
And your family came in, and settled in “Israel”. A family out there has the keys to the very home your family lives in in Israel, although you’ve probably changed the locks by now.
But for generations this land fed them and protected them from the elements. All of a sudden it’s yours?
And the people Israel oppresses, the thousands of Palestinians that are in prison with no trial. Children and women Palestinians have been taken captive for over 70 years!! Where’s the outrage?
Are we not human?
When we say free Palestine from the river to the sea. It’s for everybody. Come by and buy my home. But please don’t show up with an armed force ready to exterminate me for refusing you the home my forefathers have called their own.
TLDR Israel is the fire nation in avatar the last airbender.
The best way I can put it is.. if a bunch of armed chickens showed up and kicked you and your family out of their homes, one day you might want to fight those armed chickens back instead of being homeless. Israel are the armed chickens

The Flairs:

• “We boomers don’t hungry as often as you gamers”
  
• “ok nerdguy 👍🏼”
  
• “Radagast was brown, nerd.”
  

**TL:DR**
If MoP remix was my entry to WoW, I'd have quit at level 17. The quest design is antiquated. Having only 4-5 buttons to press is boring. WoW doesn't work outside of level cap. And I literally don't know how to fix it.
​
**Disclaimer:** I've been playing since the tail end of Legion, after having spent a decade playing other MMOs, with a short while I spent playing Burning Cruasade in the mid 2000s. I have a few CEs to my name, but honest to heart, it's mostly because my guildmates are better than me but I'm reliable and not to a bad person to be around. I have all classes at max level, but I literally only ever leveled one character to level cap naturally. Even my very first character, a pandaren priest, I only leveled after I had boosted others to cap. I hate leveling; I've spent years in classic grindfests, i.e. Ragnarok, AION. But: I love WoW. It's literally the most fun I've ever had playing games. I've pushed title during SL, but since have been vibing as my premade desolved.
**Content:**
If MoP remix is a "superior" version of the leveling experience - there's no wonder WoW lacks *new* players and mostly relies on veterans and returnees. The leveling experience is absolute dogwater. I got to level 15 before I got *bored out of my mind* by doing quests that wanted me to "kill 15 mobs in the area", "click on 6 items in the area" and "press random shit item in your inventory 8 times while doing the other fetch quests". How is this acceptable?! Okay, I figured. If I had to do quests to experience Pandaria, I'd just rather not. Maybe the dungeon leveling experience is superior and I get some Pandaria feeling. So I queued. For time reasons, I hate long queues, on Blood DK. I have some familiarity (i.e. some dungeon portals) on it.
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Queue me, having literally Death Strike (which for some reason heals me for *essentially nothing*), DnD, a kick, and two (later: threee) additional buttons to press. I'm absolutely getting slapping, I heal for nothing, and I have essentially no buttons to press. I did 5 dungeons and 3 of those were duplicates I already knew.
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So I'm pressing ESO amount of buttons, that do very little; or I do 2003-esque fetch quests. My goal? I don't know, really. I have a max level DK. I have no nostalgia towards Pandaria, though I admit it *looks* nice. But at least I know what awaits me to a degree. A new player is just gonna... quit right there, because a new player doesn't know how fun M+ is. A new player doesn't know euphoria you get from mythic raiding in a 20-man roster, or timing essentially a progress key with the boys.
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I love telling people it's the most dopamine I've ever got from a game... at level cap. But if I hadn't gone through the slog of leveing years past when I was unemployed and without a partner, I wouldn't even know. Boosts are 60 bucks or buying an expansion for an alt account at a discount. Even then, you either throw a few bucks to a booster or waste a day doing normal leveling dungeons that give no vault, no worthwhile loot.
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Trade URL - Steam Profile

• Buyouts valued as items in cash prices.
• Mainly interested in trading but taking offers through third party websites.
• Taking TF2 keys (Mann Co. Supply Crate Key) as well.
• Sending a trade offer is the fastest way to contact me, you can either dm or add me on steam.

🔥Feel free to join my steam trading group InventoryHub - excluding spammers and alt accounts.
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💔Knife	★ Karambit Case Hardened (BS)	0.83	#463 - red eye pattern	Yes	📷	12345
💔Knife	★ StatTrak™ M9 Bayonet Case Hardened (FT)	0.16	#503 - tier 1 pattern with scar	Yes	📷	5555
💔Knife	★ Karambit Case Hardened (WW)	0.42	#670 - blue ring & blue playside	Yes	📷	4444
💔Knife	★ Bayonet Case Hardened (WW)	0.42	#321 - p4	Yes	📷	2499
💔Knife	★ Talon Knife Crimson Web (FT)	0.29		5/22/2024	📷	446
💔Knife	★ Nomad Knife Case Hardened (BS)	0.98	decent amount of mixed blue	5/22/2024	📷	303
💔Knife	★ Huntsman Knife Autotronic (FT)	0.35		5/26/2024	📷	212
💙Gloves	★ Sport Gloves Slingshot (FT)	0.26		5/23/2024	📷	969
💙Gloves	★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (BS)	0.77	#829 - p1	Yes	📷	938
💙Gloves	★ Driver Gloves King Snake (FT)	0.19		Yes	📷	532
💙Gloves	★ Driver Gloves Snow Leopard (FT)	0.20		5/23/2024	📷	521
💙Gloves	★ Driver Gloves Snow Leopard (FT)	0.20		5/22/2024	📷	521
💙Gloves	★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (FT)	0.22	#89 - tier1 pattern with clean E	Yes	📷	499
💙Gloves	★ Specialist Gloves Field Agent (FT)	0.16		Yes	📷	426
💙Gloves	★ Specialist Gloves Mogul (FT)	0.16		5/26/2024	📷	218
💙Gloves	★ Moto Gloves Smoke Out (FT)	0.19		Yes	📷	198
💙Gloves	★ Driver Gloves Diamondback (FT)	0.31		Yes	📷	127
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Slate (FN)	0.00004	x4 vox holo kato15 on super low float ak (1/2)	Yes	📷	3999
💚Rifle	M4A1-S Cyrex (FN)	0.04	ibuypower holo kato14 above mag + x2 crown foil	Yes	📷	3333
💚Rifle	AK-47 Fire Serpent (FT)	0.18	vox holo kato14 on wood + crown foil next position	Yes	📷	3333
💚Rifle	AWP Asiimov (FT)	0.29	titan holo kato14 on the scope	Yes	📷	3125
💚Rifle	AK-47 Black Laminate (FT)	0.35	x4 kato14 (ibuypower holo on wood, titan, lgb holo, reason)	Yes	📷	2599
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ M4A4 In Living Color (FN)	0.042000	x4 dignitas holo col14 (1/1)	Yes	📷	2499
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AWP Electric Hive (FN)	0.03	dignitas holo col14 on the scope + x3 holo kato14 (vp, dignitas, mystik)	Yes	📷	1666
💚Rifle	AK-47 Case Hardened (FT)	0.37	ibuypower holo kato14 above trigger	Yes	📷	1449
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Slate (FN)	0.01	x4 fnatic holo dh14	Yes	📷	749
💚Rifle	AK-47 The Empress (WW)	0.39	x4 gold krakow17 (dosia, pashabiceps, x2 nbk)	Yes	📷	669
💚Rifle	M4A4 Eye of Horus (FN)	0.06		5/19/2024	📷	666
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Phantom Disruptor (FN)	0.05	x4 navi holo dh14 (1/1)	Yes	📷	549
💚Rifle	AK-47 Fuel Injector (FN)	0.06	x2 flammable Foil (wood and back)	Yes	📷	549
💚Rifle	AWP Redline (MW)	0.11	titan kato14 on the scope	Yes	📷	369
💚Rifle	AWP Sun in Leo (FN)	0.05	crown foil on the scope	Yes	📷	269
💚Rifle	AK-47 Asiimov (FN)	0.06		5/26/2024	📷	203
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ M4A4 Faded Zebra (BS)	0.78	high float - x4 kato14 (3dmax, vox, ldlc, complexity)	Yes	📷	199
💚Rifle	M4A4 Temukau (FN)	0.06	x4 c9 kato15 (1/1)	Yes	📷	179
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Vulcan (BS)	0.46		Yes	📷	164
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Red Laminate (WW)	0.38	harp of war holo next to wood	Yes	📷	149
💚Rifle	M4A1-S Hyper Beast (FN)	0.03		5/26/2024	📷	129
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AWP Asiimov (BS)	0.81		Yes	📷	120
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 The Empress (MW)	0.13		5/26/2024	📷	119
💚Rifle	StatTrak™ AK-47 Legion of Anubis (FN)	0.06		Yes	📷	51,1
💚Rifle	AWP Chrome Cannon (BS)	0.69		5/26/2024	📷	38,88
💚Rifle	M4A1-S Chantico's Fire (FT)	0.26		5/26/2024	📷	28,27
💚Rifle	AWP Worm God (MW)	0.11	x3 kato15 (envyus holo on scope * x2 clg)	Yes	📷	22
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💛Pistol	USP-S Stainless (WW)	0.43	titan holo kato14 above handle & x2 titan holo kato15	Yes	📷	2499
💛Pistol	USP-S Overgrowth (FN)	0.06	crown foil above handle (rare combo)	Yes	📷	279
💛Pistol	P250 Mehndi (FN)	0.04	x4 kato14 (vp, mousesports, fnatic mystik)	Yes	📷	222
💛Pistol	StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Conspiracy (FN)	0.03	x4 liquid mlg16	Yes	📷	36
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💜SMG	StatTrak™ MP9 Airlock (FN)	0.06		5/26/2024	📷	29,01

Bonsoir à tous,
J'essaie de trouver les mots pour écrire un peu la phase que je traverse actuellement. Ceci est un reddit poubelle, j’ai vraiment essayé de poster avec mon compte perso pour “accepter la crise” mais bon voilà quelque chose me dérange. Et ce qui suit va partir un peu dans tous les sens, j’ai juste besoin de sortir tout ça et j'écris sans vraiment réfléchir car je réalise que je suis en colère mais je ne sais pas pourquoi. Et je pleure de cette colère que je ne comprends pas
J'ai grandi dans les grands ensembles, je suis le modèle parfait de l'intégration que mes profs de ZEP au collège "vendaient" pour nous pousser vers un lycée qui est “normal”. Pour ça, je leur en suis quand même très reconnaissante, c'était en quelque sorte de la discrimination positive disons, et j’ai plus gagné que perdu, même si ma valeur s’est construite dans une sorte de bureaucratie dont je n’avais aucune connaissance.
Enfin bref, du coup, j'ai découvert la culture française très tard dans la vie, notamment le cinéma, en fin de licence. Je me suis rapidement orientée pour travailler dans ce domaine. J'ai atteint mon objectif de travailler dans la production, de monter les grades, de prendre plus de responsabilités, d'avoir plus de visibilité... jusqu'à l’été dernier où ça commence à “ne plus aller”.
Je travaillais pour une ptite boîte, d’apparence sympa, un patron que les autres salariés qualifiaient "d'autiste" (oui). Il était très timide et laxiste. Un salarié a fini en larmes et a fait un malaise devant nos yeux suite au harcèlement qu'il y a eu en interne. On avait un sacré pervers narcissique dans la boîte, mais charisme de dingue, tout le monde l’adore. Je vis une sale année, parce que dès mes premiers jours, je sens qu’il m’aime bien, mais je refuse ses avances, et puis c’est l’enfer pour moi. Il est aussi très bon orchestre de la médiocrité, je n’ai jamais connu une personne aussi odieuse et manipulatrice. Sacré Benoît ! o7 En enfer peut être!
Mon patron a écrit sur Teams à notre stagiaire pour voir si le collègue qui avait fait un malaise allait mieux. A NOTRE STAGIAIRE. Et ce n’était pas une histoire de présence au bureau ou d'indisponibilité hein… on ne sait pas pourquoi, on était tous là.
De mon côté, j'ai subi une humiliation collective de la part de deux prestataires - des mecs qu’on paie en tant que client hein… Dès que mon patron quittait la réunion, ils me faisaient passer un sale quart d'heure et niaient mes compétences et me coupaient la parole, ils reprenaient mes documents et me faisent des commentaires professionnellement insignifiant “alors là tu as utilisé du bleu, moi je préfère le rouge” . Une collègue américaine aussi se mêlait constamment de mes missions, me disant qu’en anglais je ne devais pas dire X à un client, mais plutôt Y, alors que son département et le mien n'avaient rien à voir. Elle gérait la cantine de la boîte, tandis que je travaillais dans la production artistique. Je ne dis pas ça en termes de hiérarchie, mais vraiment, son “bon conseil” c’était 50 remarques par semaine parce que mes R étaient trop français, et mon accent n'était pas à la hauteur. Elle me reprenait pour chaque coquille. J’ai fini par craquer et lui dire que ça fait 9 ans qu’elle est à Paris et qu'elle ne sait toujours pas demander une chouquette à la boulangerie - eh oh ça va ! Ce même patron avait un chouchou bébé, tout le monde savait qu’il était lourd, trèèèèès lourd, avec les femmes, surtout nos stagiaires. Il a fallu qu’une stagiaire viennent casser un ordinateur au bureau avec des captures d’écrans de ce chouchou pour que le patron fasse quelque chose, et oui. Et ce qui est marrant, après licenciement, il l’a quand même aidé à trouver un nouvel emploi dans son “vaste réseau”. #metoo ? haha of course you too!
Un soir, je suis rentrée tard, et j'ai découvert qu’un collègue avait oublié son ordinateur allumé. Par gentillesse, je l'éteins, parce qu’on est écolo dans cette boîte, oui, et je tombe sur Teams où ils parlaient de mes chaussettes, de mon physique, de mes joues... Un chat entier dédié à critiquer mon apparence, des photos prises à mon insu pour rire de moi. Bon je suis consciente d’être une femme belle, je suis pas canon, mais je sais que je plais et que je n’ai rien de repoussant, mais bon lire ces choses a été extrêmement douloureux. J’ai tout extrait pour la procédure judiciaire, mais finalement je n’ai rien fait…. Par contre, j'ai commencé à devenir ce que mon patron qualifiait "d'agressive". Et le jour où il me l'a dit, je me suis tue et je me suis sentie très mal, car dans sa tête, je suis "agressive" simplement parce que je suis une femme avec des sourcils plus noirs et froncés, une voix qui porte un peu plus, et qui refuse de fermer sa gueule. Et puis désillusion ? Je pensais m’échapper aux clichés peut-être, je sais pas ? Ou vraiment il me manque des codes ?
Non non je me remets en question, je me dis que peut-être j'étais vraiment agressive. Mais faut-il vraiment faire du lourd pour être agressive envers quelqu'un ? Je me rends compte que c'est peut-être une différence culturelle. Dans notre monde des grands ensembles HLM, on est entre nous, on ne nous apprend pas la sournoiserie des mots, les mimiques offensantes, la patience face aux mesquineries. Je viens d'un environnement social qui se nourrit de la confrontation, on se construit sur celle-ci, sur un mécontentement exprimé de manière ferme, on s’en fiche de la politesse, tout le monde est cru avec nous de toute façon. Et je commence alors à traverser une crise énorme : mon vécu ne sera jamais à la hauteur des autres, car mon processus de socialisation n'a absolument rien à voir.
Et puis, je ne vous le cache pas, l'argent qu'on vole au CNC et à l'État. Ce patron n’avait aucune compétence mais alors aucune… La boîte était dans un constant flux de survivance, il fallait avoir X financement pour qu’elle survive et je ne sais quoi. Mon cul. L’argent allait dans les voyages pour tous les évènements cinéma du monde entier… Sundance, Berlin, Venise, et puis fiouuuu l'important c'est d'aller à Cannes, de faire son show, de pouvoir dire "roh Cannes est là, pfiou, je suis déjà fatiguée, quelle emmerde !" et si tu n’y vas pas c’est la mort, ta carrière commence à mourir, attention hein, c’est la fin… sauf que tout le monde s’en fout, puis cette boîte, vraiment, les patrons au sommet sont tellement mal vus dans le milieu du cinéma :D c’est pas grave, on y va, il faut se montrer à tout prix, c'est le show, le rush, le moi, le moi, le nous, mais surtout le néant total. Je réalise à Cannes dernier que cela fait 8 ans, l'équivalent de mon expérience dans ce joli monde, que je n'ai pas vu de film, lu de livres, écouté un album, pour en apprécier leur valeur de divertissement, d'apprentissage, de poétique, leur univers en soi, et les laisser guider mon instinct. Non je les consommais uniquement par analyse compétitive et opportunisme. Et un début de crise déjà, tout est insignifiant soudainement, j’écoute de la musique mais ? j’aime ou pas ? Et si j’aime, c’est mon moi-être qui aime ? ou mon-moi stratège qui veut l’imager en production ? Idem pour les livres, les histoires qu’on me raconte en soirée, ou celle que j’entends dans la rue, le train, les restaus…. Vraiment, le mal et le vide en moi, un puit sans fond, une chute qui n’arrive pas… ça dure
En décembre, je suis tombée malade, mais alors... quelle maladie. Je ne pouvais pas traverser ça toute seule. Dans ma tête, j'étais très proche de la mort, et j'ai été rapatriée d'urgence de Paris à la maison de campagne de mes parents. Je faisais du télétravail. Mon patron et son associé me disaient "oui bon, l'important quand on a un arrêt maladie, c'est de nous le dire qu'on puisse prévoir". Bon j’aurai pas du l’envoyer à ma sortie des urgences à 4h32 du matin, mais peut-être à mon entrée à 19h11 la veille, je sais pas hein.. Puis personne ne retient, personne ne comprends que je me sois écroulée dans la rue en rentrant du boulot, et qu'avant de perdre conscience, j'ai réalisé que deux connards me touchaient le corps et je ne pouvais rien faire.. et puis une dame est restée avec moi et m'a tenue la main, elle m'a accompagnée aux urgences, elle m'a emmenée chez moi récupérer des affaires en voiture, que Dieu et tous les univers la bénissent.
J'ai trouvé un nouveau travail, proche de chez mes parents, mais j'ai peur de sortir, de prendre le bus, le tramway, le train, je suis tétanisée quand je suis seule, je tremble assise derrière le chauffeur de bus, aller à la pharmacie, même prendre l'air... c'est dur. Puis, je n'ai plus d'ami(e)s par ici. Je fais des crises, pas des crises d'angoisse, mais des crises de peur de ne pas pouvoir contrôler mon corps. et je me dis, je fais quoi si j’ai un cancer demain? Comment je gère quelque chose comme ça si même une maladie a été si difficile à surmonter? Comment je gère un viol? Oui j’y pense, et j’ai peur. J'ai l'impression que mon corps ne m'appartient plus et qu'il ne veut plus de moi, il m'a lâchée ce soir de décembre et depuis il veut plus que je l'occupe. Et puis j'ai encore mon préavis, je dois encore bosser pour cette boîte de production, même si j'ai accepté mon nouveau poste. Et là, seigneur, je propose à mon patron de recruter mon stagiaire précédent, il est d'accord. Et alors ce stagiaire, tout le monde l'aime, il a eu un accueil des meilleurs, alors que moi ? On m'a traitée comme une merde parce que j’ai refusé les avances d’un ancien. J'essaie de ne pas réduire ça à "c'est parce qu'il a des couilles", mais en vrai de vrai, c'est vraiment parce qu'il a des couilles et que c'est un mec, parce que mon patron annonce son arrivée en visio à l'équipe en disant "les choses seront plus cools avec lui, il y aura moins de réactions et plus d’actions". Et ça fait super mal.
Puis on a reçu un giga financement que j'avais négocié et préparé le dossier, et c'est la dernière semaine de mon préavis, je me mange un giga cadeau et une cérémonie d'adieu tout ça parce que "faut qu'on garde contact comme ça tu peux bosser dessus en freelance". Ah bon ? Et puis je commence mon nouveau travail, le cadre est vraiment... wow. Je le dis après pas mal de temps là, entreprise cocooning, il n'y a pas de police, les gens sont là pour s'aider mutuellement, avancer de manière collective, je sens une gentillesse et une bonté auprès des gens - bon après il y a les personnalités et le tempérament de chacun - mais il n'y a pas ce voile de "mauvais", personne n’est là pour s’impressionner, Yvette parle de son herpès, personne juge, tout le monde est gentille quoi, vraiment, que se passe-t-il ? Je ne me pose pas la question "qui va me nuire aujourd'hui ?"
Et là, il est 10h, c'est mon premier jour hein, premier appel de ce patron de cinéma : ils ont besoin de mon aide. Ok, bon ça passe. Puis un second appel, et ça continue. Bon je lui dis clairement que non.
En parallèle, je me force à prendre le tram pour mon nouveau travail, j'essaie et au bout d'un moment, les tremblements de peur sont partis. J'ai toujours un peu peur, mais mon corps a compris le message : tu n'es pas en danger dans ce tramway. Si je change et c'est le bus, bon ça revient, mais c'est un travail à faire je suppose.
Puis j'ai un bureau à moi, il n'y a pas d'open space, c'est calme. Je suis surprise par la bonté des gens encore, oui vraiment, alors c'est l'effet petite ville peut-être, je ne sais pas, mais je commence à me sentir mieux. Je commence à reprendre goût à la lecture, au temps passé seule, et sans peur - bon je suis encore chez maman papa, reste à trouver un appartement et franchir le cap de la solitude, - mais j’arrive à regarder des séries pour ce qu’elles me procurent aussi. Fin ça peut paraître con, mais regarder quelque chose sans prendre de notes et juste se laisser aller ? Puis il fait beau, je sors du travail, je marche sous le soleil, je rentre et bois une limonade bien fraîche sur mon balcon… Je sais pas hein c’est ma première année sans être à Cannes, et j’ai l’impression que je ne manque rien, je suis soulagée même ? Je me dis que c’est pas plus mal, j’espère que c’est bien le début de ma mort dans le cinéma, et que tout ceci est un deuil ? J’ai juste peur de ne pas pouvoir retrouver le goût et l’affection que je portais à un de mes précieux hobby qui était l’écriture de scénario et la dramaturgie
Bravo a ceux qui ont tout lu... ce post a été écrit après une session de pleurs dans la salle de bain.

I saw the post about the uses of where 1=1 and that inspired my post about this thing I have used with SQL scripts. It’s a comment hack I do that combines comment lines and comment blocks in scripts... If you do this or find this interesting then leave a comment. Without the sql and just showing the comment lines and blocks these two examples are valid
—/* —*/
/* —*/
First example, any sql between the comment blocks is not actually commented out in the block. Single line comments can do this… 2nd example, this comment block will comment out the sql and the closing comment still works the same as */
I’ve used this in scripts that I’ve shared with call center support that needed to see what an update statement may change before it’s ran. Here’s how with pseudo code
Select * /*
Update d set foo =‘bar’ —*/
From table d where some=‘thing’
Changing the script to then update just takes adding the double dash comment line in front of the Select…
I would be wowed if someone else has used this before from this subreddit.

[FIRST][LAST]
Atlantis Commission
Officer Report - Lieutenant Colonel John Shepard
CLEARANCE LEVEL 5
Well this had definitely been a very interesting couple of hours. This dimension and its people had very odd opinions and ideas. Apparently the prey species of this dimension were all obligate cowards, whose instincts compelled them to be non-violent and run from threats. At least according to themselves. There were apparently some of them who were “predator diseased” as they called it, a disease which often resulted in increased violence, aggression, lack of empathy, and unheard like behavior. It sounded to me like some form of infectious psychopathy, but the venlil assured us it shouldn't affect us since we were predators, which didn’t really ease my fears, but hopefully it was something we could figure out when we got home if it ever became a problem.
Gotta love mandatory quarantine periods woo hoo!
As scary as this odd disease sounded, my main concern at the moment was to try and turn a professed coward into someone who could at the very least defend themselves.
I looked down to the table of gear ahead of me and then over to the mostly naked Venlil to my side, and then even farther to Tiel’c who thought It would be a good idea to help oversee Farva’s rapid fire training course. I fiddled with the bluetooth earpiece which was rigged up to one of our handhelds to run a translation program to speak directly with the captain. A big step up from our unknowingly one sided communications earlier.
I stepped on the other side of the plastic table and placed my hands down upon it and looked on at my new student..
“Welcome Captain Farva to our very impromptu accelerated course on Human arms armor and basic infantry tactics.” I said gesturing to the hodge podge gear we had managed to assemble for the good captain. “Are we ready to begin?”.
She flicked her ears, somewhat nervously by the looks.
“I’d take it that's a yes then?”
“Oh yes sorry”
“Alright then, well given that most of our crew is human and the only other alien struts around naked all the time, the only gear we have on hand is for humans, So you're going to be running size smalls and it's all going to fit all a bit big” I say as I toss her the tactical vest. ”Here try this on, we can try to tighten it up if it's a bit loose anywhere”. The captain wrestles with the buckles a bit, and Teal'c helps her tighten up some of the top straps, as the Venil’s shoulders weren't as broad as humans. Farva gave Teal’c an odd look, but seemed appreciative none the less.Once finished, she grasped the vest in her paws with interest. “This armor seems quite lightweight, which is nice, weight is often an issue that causes us to forgo armor, since heavy armor would hurt our running ability.” Farva remarks. “Also the sheer amount of pockets seems quite excessive, what do you need all these for?”
“Well for starters it's currently missing these '' I hand Farva one of the armor plates which she looks over. “That is a depleted Naquadria ceramic composite plate. It’s designed to stop bullet impacts and dissipate energy weapon blasts. It slots into that chest compartment in the front and back of your armor.”
“This isn't quite what Id imagine for the armor of your kind”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Well judging by your ships I would have imagined you would put more emphasis on defense Your predatory nature would make you less likely to run away from conflict allowing for more encompassing armor to cover more than just your chest, since you have less need to run.”
She would put it like that.
“Well there are a number of reasons for that, a lot to do with those excess pockets you mentioned. For starters you will not be carrying the same amount of gear that the standard infantry unit would normally be carrying, we are preparing you for a quick in and out op. Normally us expedition teams need to be deployed into unknown territory for extended periods of time, we need to carry everything we might need with us from food, bullets, weapons, to comms gear, sensors, repelling equipment etc. The weight from all that gear adds up fast; In order to stay sufficiently mobile and combat effective; we only carry enough armor to protect our vitals, head and torso, anything else can hopefully be patched up by a field medic.”
Tielc gave his piece as well. “It is important to know when to run both towards and aways from one's foes, not every battle can be won through strength alone, but by strategy and cunning. Being able to reposition oneself quickly is therefore highly advantageous”
Farva seemed to freeze at Teal'c's statement, not out of fear I think, she instead had a distant look in her eye. To snap her out of her slump I handed her a standard ballistic helmet.
Seeming to get the idea she looked at it oddly and tried it on. It confirmed to her head shape decently well but depressed her ears to either side of her head, kind of resembling what one might imagine a sad bunny rabbit to look like “I don't think this will be something I can bring with me” she said ” I can't use ear signals and this will muffle my hearing.”
“Why don’t you keep it on for the time being, I think any extra hearing protection might be useful considering what we are about to try next.” I hand Farva some ballistic ear protectors, slightly modified and somewhat ramshackle. “One of the corporals worked closely with Nurse Fila to get an idea for safe decibels levels for your kind, we were also able to get these earbuds molded to fit into your ear canal better”
Farva took them and slipped them in. “These are a bit uncomfortable, what do I need these for?”
“You'll need them for this” I say as I unsnap the clasps on the weapons case revealing its contents.
The content seems to capture Farva’s interest, getting a slight tail wave.
“Okay So this here is a p90, It carries a 50 round top loading magazine of teflon coated armor piercing ordnance. With a cyclical rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute.”
Farvas ears perk up at this. “This seems like an efficient design, I take it these are a flashlight and laser sight for accuracy?” She asked, pointing to the top of the weapon.
“Yes we also have holographic and acog optics which will help line up targets from farther away.” I look on as Farva picks up the weapon and inspects it, testing the weight as I note that it will weigh a fair bit more once loaded. But she doesn't seem to be struggling with the weight. I can't help but notice good firearm safety as well, she keeps her finger well off the trigger and takes care to keep her weapon pointed aways from anyone else.
“This seems like a solid design but I'm not sure how useful those weapon optics would be, as they are not designed for my side facing eyes”
“I'm sure our master at arms can figure something out, why don't we give it a test fire first tho, before we send it off to make adjustments.” I instruct her on how to load the weapon and turn the safety off. I warn her of the sound it makes. And while definitely taken aback by the recoil and sound at first, she quickly gets the hang of it, she has some respectable shot groupings in both single fire and in short bursts. And keeps the rounds reasonably centered while firing in full auto.
She did a whole lot better than I would have initially suspected given her performance in the hanger bay a day before.
“The rate of fire seems useful” Farva spoke “This would be useful for our soldiers, our accuracy falters when we are panicked, and the increased shot count should guarantee some hits based on volume of fire alone” she finished with a dejected expression.
She quickly places the weapon back in its case, as if it burned to touch.” I don't know if I should be armed for this mission, at least not with that weapon, I don't want to miss and hit one of you in the back!”
“What? Nonsense, you are a great shot, and this is just a precaution in case we get separated or flanked and need some covering fire. If our guys are doing their job right you shouldn't need to fire a single round anyways.”
Captain Farva’s breathing started to hasten, earlier I might have thought it was fear, but I was starting to get an idea of what the captain's issues were. I’ve seen this before.
“I.. I can’t be trusted with this responsibility, every time I am left in charge of something, every time people put their lives in my paws I ....”
“Farva, don’t you start with me now you hear.” I said sternly, swiftly capping off her inevitable spiral of self doubt.
“But.. no.. you don’t understand”
Stopping her again I spoke. “But nothing, what happened before on that ship, and back at that colony is in the past. I don’t know your whole situation, but from what I have gathered from the crew It was nothing good. You feel responsible and it's eating away at you, and frankly it doesn’t matter if that's true or not. Accidents happen, people make mistakes, and when that happens we need to learn, take those lessons to heart, and don't let it stop us from helping people in the present. If you let guilt, or fear of mistakes stop you, then bad guys have already won, all without having to have fired a shot”
Farva is quiet for a short time, I was hoping I got through to her, I'm not the best and pep talks and this certainly wasn’t your typical weapons demo, if only everyones could go as smoothly as Ronan’s.
Farva spoke quietly, arms pressed up against her chest, she looked so sad, defeated, and small. Well more than usual anyways. “We can't be strong like you humans, we are too emotional and when we are scared we run away or we lock up and...”
“And that is clearly not the case with you captain Farva” Teal’c finally reentered the conversation having heard enough. “You have shown courage with every action you have taken so far, your actions have saved the lives of many of your crew, every time you have been threatened you acted not just to protect yourself but others as well. You attempted to contend with beings many times your size without even thinking about it, all in the effort to protect others, and this is only in the time we have known you, this speaks nothing of your actions over the colony. You are a warrior of admirable courage Captain Farva, your self doubt is unearned.”
A single tear rolled down Farva’s eyes which she quickly wiped away. “That was very nice of you to say, but I'm not brave like you say, I was terrified out of my mind the whole time.”
Teal’c looked puzzled. “I did not call you brave, I said you were courageous.”
Farva shot back with the little venlil one up one down ear flick I had very quickly learned was confusion.” I'm confused you just said brave twice”
“Hmm it appears your language does not contain the word I am using, I apologize I am not used to speaking through a translator” Teal’c relented “ There are two words I am using admittedly in slightly different forms, bravery and courage. Bravery or to be brave is to lack fear, to not be afraid to begin with. Courage tho, Is a trait far more admirable. Courage is to be afraid, to have fear, to worry about one's own mortality and personal safety. It is to acknowledge risk, danger, to feel fear, but to act in spite of it.”
“Had I not met your kind before I would have thought predators don't feel fear.”
“Everyone fears feel Farva, It is how we overcome it that determines our worth as warriors”
Teal’c picks up the p90 and returns it to Farvas hands.
“Your people need a warrior Farva, a warrior who protects the innocent and guides the lost to safety. You have shown how collected you can be in the heat of battle, You have already proven your worth in our eyes Farva, now you must do the same in your own. The greatest enemy lies not without” Teal’c places his hand firmly on the venlil’s chest “But within”.
After Action Report - Venlil Colonial Defense Force
Subject : Chief Engineer Donu
I fiddled with my holopad, Its small surface area proving to be a consistent source of annoyance in my current endeavor. Gone was the large workspace afforded to me by my holotable back in my office. Instead I had to work with the scaled down portable holotablet I was just fortunate enough to have strapped to my person when I was beamed away from our last ship. I was stuck with its smaller keyboard and slower rendering speeds.
An annoyed smooth skin alien looked over my shoulder at my device, attached to it was a jury rigged fiber optic cable, slotted into a terran silicon to crystal patch cable, which would convert the electrical signals broadcasted by my tablet into a bandwidth that the terrans crystalline based computers; which they used for highly complex tasks like hyperdrive and transporter systems; could use, and then It was patched again in a even stranger connector to patch into the odd asgard computer stones.
All in all it looked like someone tried to plug a regular computer into some crystal construct like you would find in a fantasy holonovel, and again plugged that into a harchen heat rock sauna lounge. Finally branching out from this conglomeration was a simple copper based wire that connects to a computer terminal at which currently sat the late Doctor Rodney Mckay. A title upon initially hearing led me to believe he was a medical doctor, which led to a flurry of medical questions that he had absolutely no means of answering.
While this odd alien nomenclature was interesting, what intrigued me more was his actual area of expertise, theoretical astrophysics, as well as a number of other diverse specialties and fields. Not to mention not only was he a great scientist who had he been raised in the more civilized portion of this galaxy, would have knowledge and aptitude that would put him alongside some of Aafas greatest minds, but he was also an engineer without peer, at least in this galaxy. His interactions with general Samantha Carter hinted at her possibly being his match if not more. For a species that was supposed to glorify violence the decision to have a scientist be arguably the most senior member of what was by their admission a military vessel spoke to their commitment to knowledge and understanding, a very noble prey-like goal.
I looked warily at the lines of code at my screen, the asguard translation program had earlier scanned our ship and was able to parse written languages, but complex files, like images and 3d design schematics were harder to encode and decode from our perspective systems. As is stands we have 3 completely separate computer architectures, the asguard can talk to human computers and the venlil computers can talk to the asguard computers, It sounds like we would have everything we need to get a human C.A.D schematic into a venlil holotablet right? Wrong! And you're stupid for entertaining such a idiotic notion! Parsing text from raw binary is relatively straight forward, you're just looking for patterns, repeating bit combinations that might infer letters and then iterating them over millions of times looking for patterns, letters, words, and then with a bit of help from some undecoded analog audio transmission, spoken language. This is a far cry from actual procedural communication protocols,the ones that allow for file transfers, exactly what we needed if we were to get Rodney's redesigned part schematics into a format and medium that can be plugged into a suitable fabricator. Assuming one still exists, which I can reasonably assume it does.
Speaking of which, I have just made something of a breakthrough. For upon my screen appears a simple geometric hydrogen cube, we’re talking vertices, planes, material data, everything we need for a usable design file.
I let out an excited pent up yip, the culmination of hours of frustrating software integration work. Unfortunately I startled Rodney, who lets out a panicked gasp and clutches his chest pelts with one of his paws.
“Oh god…..” He gasps, pointing at me “Please.. don’t do that”
“Sorry!” I say a bit meekly. I slowly approach him so as to not make him unnecessarily uncomfortable and show him my work.
“I got the file exchange set up, all we need from you is to finish any modifications to your part, upload them to my holopad, and then we can print away at any class 3 or above fabricator we can scrounge up on Brayga colony.”
“Ok.. um.. got it, I'm almost done i’m just you know” He points a lone grasping appendage at his screen,”Running some simulations, making sure everything is up to spec.” keeping his response kurt. “Sorry for freaking out there.”
I nod my head in the human display of affirmation and return to my workstation to further bug check my work, to test potentially problematic edge cases for when he finishes. Tho Rodney's continued odd behavior intruded on my thoughts.
I should have felt empowered, being able to intimidate this ‘massive beast’, but I didn't. I didn't like being feared, his people have been nice to me, Rodney himself courteous to a fault and desperate for positive attention.
I thought I could expect predators to be fearless but that clearly wasn't the case, rodney was fearful, nervous, had I not known better I would say defective, and while it annoyed his crew, they didn't berate him for it, or attempt to assert dominance, they encouraged it even with placating words and tried to help him through it, they encouraged and supported him like a proper herd, even if sometimes it took the form of what the human would call a playful ribbing. I supposed I could help him as well.
I approached him again, careful to make my approach known to him, making sure to approach from within his limited field of vision. He looks up at me with a wide eyed glare, had I not known him I might have assumed it was hunger, but I did and knew it to be concern.
“Uh high Donu.. um whats up?”
“Why are you afraid of us rodney?”
“Wa-What, me afraid?” he gives out a panicked laugh ”uh no no, I'm not afraid, you know just a bit weirded out I'm just getting used to you all, it's not a fear thing it's a a…. Just getting used to new aliens thing, ask Hermirod we went through this whole song and dance right buddy”
Hermirod furrowed his brow and gave an irritated sigh from across the room.
I reached out to take Rodney by the paw.
His whole body flinched at my mere touch, I quickly withdrew my paw.
“Oh.. um.. I didn't…”
“Rodney! It's okay, your crew doesn’t seem to care when you show fear, and neither do I. Why are you afraid of us? You are almost twice our size and surely double our strength, most venlil would scream and run in terror at the mere sight of you. What's wrong?”
Rodney let out a sigh. “Oh its, we don't have to talk about this, I can deal with this, I deal with scary situations all the time, it's fine, I'll be fine.”
“Rodney, my people are a very emotional, empathic people, we are open with our feelings and with our fear, and the fear of the one can affect the herd, please let me help you. I don’t know what to expect from your society but I promise I wont judge you for your fear or emotions, I mean look at many of my crew mates, we are no one to judge”
Rodney shot back “You didn't seem to be so bothered”
“I’m too old to care, I was about to retire, hell I was about to die as far as I knew, Brayga colony was supposed to be a quiet place to lay back, work on some hobbies, plant a garden and pester the young men of my colony until I either dropped dead of boredom or got lucky” I joked.
That seemed to raise Rodney's mood somewhat. He sighed and seemingly relented.
“It’s… a dumb story, I don't even know why it affected me so much, I come from a place on earth called Canada, people don't usually believe me when I say I am from there, us Canadians are notoriously friendly and I guess I haven’t exactly filled that mold for a lot of my life, but hey I'm working on it, people like me, I have lots of friends back at Atlantis” He says the last sentence in a way as if it isn't me he's trying to convince.
“I'm sure you do, Rodney, You seem like quite the charming individual when you're not cowering!”
“Ha ha thanks, maybe you could come and visit sometime. Tell that to doctor Becket, really nice guy, smart man, he would love to meet you, he loves investigating new species. But back on topic, oh boy, so me and my sister Jeannie were on a family trip to rural Vancouver to visit my grandpa's farm, he kept a lot of goats, not for eating or anything, they were essentially pets that he would use for milk”
“Wait hold on? You drink milk from other animals! Do your females not produce enough milk for their young?”
“Oh um no, we just sort of drink it or ferment it into cheese!”
“Ferment? You mean spoil?
“Yeh”
I reeled from this plasma blast of a statement, I like any right minded venlil had a number of nightmares about being an arxur’s cattle before, especially when I first learned about those things in primary school, but never once had it crossed my mind that we could be used for something so weird. What the speh was I supposed to do with that information?
“Maybe you should get back on topic”
“Yeh sorry about that uh.. Anyways the momma goat had just had a litter of babies, and their real cute when their little, so late in the day when my grandpa was asleep we snuck out to the pens so we can play with the little baby goats, our grandpa told us not to but you now how kids are.”
At this I think back to a young Nyan, as I teach him the inner working of the hyperdrive, I tell him he’s not cleared yet to operate in this engine compartment alone, but I could tell from the occasional caught black hairs and dropped writing implements, there had been a number of curious unauthorized expeditions into its inner workings, he didn't really listen either.
“My sister as always was trying to be the voice of reason, wanting to take it slow. If I was paying attention I might have noticed the angry moma goat who didn’t appreciate the strange human messing with her children.”
The color seemed to drain from his face.
“I uh…” He began to stutter again ”I screamed, a lot, it was rather undignified, she ran right at me, thank god it wasn't a male goat, one with horns, I tired to run but I was hit in the back and knocked over and kicked real good in the head, like wake up in the vet clinic a quarter mile down the road kind of bad”
“This goat was a prey animal?”
“That would be what your kind focuses on”
“Oh sorry”
“Anyways It seems dumb but I have just never been good with animals since then, especially ones that look like you; no offense; I'm getting better but when I first saw you guys in the hangar bay, I was just that dumb kid again, getting in way over my head, scared for my life. I guess there is something to be said about childhood trauma. I really should be over this, I'm getting better with it I swear it’s just”
I take his paw again, he doesn't flinch this time.
“I'm a venlil, a prey animal, I know fear, I know what it is to live in fear, It rattles your brain, it turns your paws to wet grains. It takes great strength to overcome it, to push it aside just long enough to protect the herd. Your herd relies on you Rodney and you are doing a great job in spite of your fear, in spite of having to work with those you fear. You have achieved intellectual feats that rival the greatest minds of the federation and all that while struggling with a traumatic experience. Fear isn’t dumb and there is nothing wrong with you for feeling it.”
“Thank you” Rodney says “That means a lot, I won't be like forever I promise, I just need some time.”
“We will laugh about this someday,” I assured. “Nothing as big and intelligent as you should be afraid of anything”
“Are you calling me fat?” Rodney exclaimed with fake offense.
We both chuckled.
My kind words had resulted in a more upright posture, and a more cheerful demeanor from the human, almost like when I congratulated Nyan on his work, and it got me a look at that happy snarl of his, that I was starting to grow quite fond of.
After Action Report - Venlil Colonial Defense Force
Subject : Apprentice Engineer Nyan
Oh wow! I get to write a report for this mission! I never get to write reports, Donu says they're too boring, but there’s so many interesting things going on all the time. Sometimes I sneakily write my own! Just for fun of course, nobody sees them, which is probably for the best as I sometimes get excited and embellish them slightly. One of the reports I wrote was about the time Donu used nothing but a wad of electrical tape, a bottle of high grain venlil alcohol and a pocket knife to repair a venlil medical ship just in time to get out of the way of a big scary space predator, with glowing red eyes and a million tentacles!
Anyways Im not sure If im suppose to write these In present tense first person or past tense. I asked the captain and she said it's whatever so long as I make sure any pertinent dialogues are properly quoted(“”).
“Nobody usually reads these things anyways.” She said, but this one is surely going to be so exciting, who could look away!
I mean who's gonna scoff at a chance to read about friendly predators from another dimension! A dimension of friendly predators who give warm head scratches and hand out yummy strayu not strayu treats called donuts, that are somehow fluffier than strayu, and have a nice moisture to them. I asked for the recipe but Samantha said we wouldn't have the ingredients back on Venili prime to make them, and Teal'c said the recipe is an old family secret. Its weird predators would be so protective of their plant snacks.
There are so many weird things about these predators, they have nurturing instincts that make them find us cute. They stay perfectly balanced even if they don’t have tails, swinging their arms and body all over the place to keep upright like a lopsided gyroscope, it's pretty funny looking!
They also wear artificial pelts all the time, which I thought was weird, I thought maybe the ships temperature was set by the angry gray alien since he’s the only crew member beside the venlil who walks around naked all the time, maybe he had a fit when it was to warm, and the humans obliged him cause they were worried they would make him even angrier, and wore clothes to make up for the cold. I thought this made sense, a lot of their technology does seem to come from the Asguard, maybe he has more say in the goings on of the ship because of that. But apparently humans just like wearing pelts all the time. They feel uncomfortable without them and don’t like it if you try to remove them or look up their upper artificial pelts they call shirts.
The humans are so weird, I don’t even have to embellish my reports to make it more interesting. Like that time with the big tentacled space predator. That may sound real compared to this stuff but it Isn't, Ha! I bet you fell for it at first, hook line and sinker! Like the humans would say. I think I used that saying right, I'm not sure what it means, but Shepard brought it up when he was telling a story about the wraith.
The humans are so nice, instead of exterminating their predators they try to cure them! Their doctors are working to modify the wraith so they don't have to eat humans anymore, so they can be friendly predators too.
Anyways I should probably get to the actual report part of this report. Farva says I should start after I went off with Samantha to work on some special astrophysics equations she said I would be good at. I kind of wanted to go with Donu to help Rodney get the new parts they needed, or Farva to help rescue our people, but the humans and even the angry gray alien got really weird when Farva mentioned taking me on the mission. Samantha seemed to want me to help her really badly so I didn’t mind. Samantha says I have the most important part to our mission. She's teaching me about how humans communicate through subspace, and about stellar drift equations. We are working on what she calls the exit strategy.

LOOOONG first time trip report! 5/13-5/18, stayed at Beach Club, visited all four parks, bought Genie+ every day, had the standard DDP. Family of 4, two girls 5 and 9. I learned so much from this group over the past year and especially loved trip reports, so hopefully this post will be helpful to someone!
💲BUDGET💲
-- I booked the trip a year out so I could break it up into 12 manageable payments. I opened the no fee Disney VISA, which gives you several months of no interest on charges made towards Disney travel packages, rewards dollars to use at Disney, and a couple other perks like character meet and greets and discounts.
-- I signed up for Disney Movie Insiders. This is what you're supposed to do with all those little codes that come in Disney DVDs/Blurays. You enter the codes in exchange for points, and at 1000 points, you can redeem for a $10 Disney gift card. You also get points for being subscribed to Disney+, seeing Disney movies in the theater, their social media accounts, and a whole bunch of other things. I got $50 in gift cards from this alone.
-- If you want Disney-themed luggage, try thinking outside the box to save money! I got plain luggage in Mickey colors--red and black--and Mickey luggage tags to make them Disney themed.
-- I tried to budget for souvenirs via gift cards... but I failed, lol. Everything is so expensive, $100 is gone in a second. Plushes are like $40, coffee cups are $20, etc. Whatever you're planning to spend, double it! I get what people say about most shops having the same stuff, but it's definitely not all of them, most of the ones post-ride have unique stuff. And honestly it's kind of nice most of them have the same stuff, if you want to get whatever your kid was asking for earlier, you don't have to walk all the way back to the one shop you saw it at.
-- We paid for Memory Maker and I'm on the fence about it. On the one hand, it's really nice to get all the ride photos and meet and greet photos and magic shots. It's also really nice for the whole family to be in a lot of pictures and not have to swap with the other adult or find someone willing to take your picture. On the other, we definitely didn't utilize it as much as I wanted to because a lot of the photographers had pretty long lines and I just didn't want to spend time waiting for a picture I could take myself. If we came across someone with a shortish or no line, we made sure to get it, but for anyone with a long line, we just stood around the same spot and took our own.
🗓️PLANNING🗓️
-- If you have kids and live within easy driving distance of another amusement park, highly recommend making a visit BEFORE going to Disney to get an idea of how they handle that kind of day/environment, especially if they have never been. I quickly discovered we would absolutely need a stroller and I would need to be militant with the kids about staying hydrated. Also to avoid face paint, as heat + tears + paint + eyes = bad day! I felt so much better making these discoveries beforehand and being able to prepare accordingly, rather than making them at Disney.
-- USE AN AGENT! An agent is free to you, so why not have the help? Ours was amazing, she gave us quotes, booked the package, rebooked as needed later when a better deal came out, made all the payments, dining and extra reservations, and was just all-around awesome to work with. It was such a load off to know I wasn't on my own with all this stuff.
-- Watch everything Ear Scouts. No one explains Genie+ better, and Rob and Erick's videos are just so positive and beautiful and well done.
-- I also enjoyed reading Disney Tourist Blog--lovingly snarky but super informative!--and Disney Food Blog for fun tips and news.
-- I didn't find any park to be a half day park, we filled our whole day in every one and still didn't see everything!
-- My kids did really well, whenever they were on the verge of cranky, we had one ride in the stroller for a while, bought a snack (usually ice cream or popcorn), and used the bubble wand, and/or gave them some ibuprofen, and everyone felt better pretty quick. We never tried to do fireworks, we were all done by 8 so always left after dinner. The only park we closed down was EPCOT because we didn't get out of dinner until after close, and that was a really cool experience, the park was so quiet and empty and beautiful!
-- You don't NEED a Magic Band... but man, was it convenient. We just had 1.0 Magic Bands though, we didn't bother with the 2.0s.
-- I guess moving through security fast is important to people rope dropping... but as someone who didn't, it added like maybe 30 seconds to a minute to the experience the couple times my bag got flagged, it's really not a big deal.
-- I'm not saying anyone's lying about bad experiences or exaggerating or anything, but try to remember that far more people go on the Internet to complain than they do to praise. I got so stressed about all the things that could go wrong, and we had a pretty much perfect trip. The only attraction that broke down on us was Muppetvision, of all things. The only "bad behavior" we witnessed was the morning we were leaving, we could hear a dad across the hall yelling at his family, I think they overslept and were going to miss their flight or something? We just turned the TV on so we didn't have to hear him. A couple times we forgot to take our stuff with us when we parked our stroller or forgot some food in it, and neither people nor animals bothered it. The only dicey thing that happened to us was me dropping my phone into the Dumbo moat, the cast members fished it out and it still worked, I sent them a cast compliment for all their help! All the cast members were great, I'm not really sure what people expect but IMO they all do amazing for having to be peppy and helpful all day in absolutely blazing heat, walking a ride conveyer belt nonstop, repeating the same spiels over and over, meeting person after person, etc. I wouldn't last a 2 hour shift let alone 8. Cast members, you rock!!!
✈️TRAVEL✈️
-- We flew Delta, flight there was flawless, flight home was delayed by an hour waiting for crew and was a little bumpy (which is not great for a nervous flyer like me) but otherwise fine.
-- Get TSA PreCheck! Good for a few years, if the adults have it the kids have it too. It made the whole experience so much easier. That said, even PreCheck still moves kind of slow at MCO, so definitely get there at least 2 hours early for your flight. Use curbside check-in for bags, way faster than the long line inside!
-- On our agent's recommendation, we used Away We Go for ground transport in Orlando. They communicate really well, both ways were flawless, no complaints!
-- We used Minnie Vans to get to Animal Kingdom + Sanaa and Magic Kingdom, what a wonderful service! Definitely pricey, but they had cartoons on in the car, booster seats they set up for you, and the drivers were so nice and friendly and had fun trivia to share. I never had any problem requesting one when I needed it.
⛱️BEACH CLUB⛱️
-- We knew we wanted an onsite hotel where you could walk to at least one park. This pretty much limits you to a handful of Deluxe hotels or the Swan and Dolphin. Beach Club won for us because it's "in the Disney bubble" and you can walk to 2/4 parks. Note that while you can technically walk to Hollywood Studios, it is a LOOOONG walk. The boat is a nice not crowded alternative! We did not make use of Early Entry or Extended Hours, we're just not built for either. Beach Club was lovely, we booked a resort view but I think we ended up with a water view, we were right by the quiet pool and could see the water beyond from our room. Stormalong Bay was a little crazy for us but we loved the quiet pool. Best thing about Beach Club though is the location, EPCOT is literally steps away!
🌳ANIMAL KINGDOM🌳
-- We had read that there's really no bad day to do AK, so we started there. We rode: Navi River Journey, Flight of Passage, Kali River Rapids, Everest, Kilimanjaro Safaris, Triceratops Spin, and Dinosaur--so pretty much everything! With Genie+ we walked onto all of them. We also met Moana, Pocahontas, and Russell! The only thing we didn't do here that we wanted to was the Gorilla Falls trail, but we just ran out of time before the park closed.
🌐EPCOT🌐
-- We had read to avoid EPCOT on Fridays and Saturdays, so we went on Wednesday. We rode: Grand Fiesta Tour, Living with the Land, Nemo, Spaceship Earth, Imagination with Figment, Frozen, Remy, Journey of Water, and Guardians--everything we wanted! Again, with Genie+, we walked right onto everything! Outside of our character meal (more on that in the dining section!), we also met Anna, Elsa, and Asha! Tried a couple of Flower and Garden snacks: chicken and waffles, fruit and cheese strudel, and potato pancakes, all were delicious! Everyone had a different favorite day, but EPCOT was personally my favorite day, it felt like we were firing on all cylinders and the day just went really smoothly!
🏰MAGIC KINGDOM🏰
-- We had read that Wednesdays were the quietest days at MK, so we were originally going to try to do it that day, but we could only get a reservation for Cinderella's Royal Table on Thursday, so we switched it up. Definitely the most crowded of all the parks we visited, but I think that's just the norm for MK, everyone wants to go to the castle park with the most rides. We rode: Regal Carousel, Tomorrowland Speedway, Barnstormer, Magic Carpets, Mad Tea Party, People Mover, Dumbo, Small World, Little Mermaid, Pirates, Space Ranger Spin, Jungle Cruise, TRON, and Peter Pan. Again, with Genie+, we walked right onto everything! The only ride we missed at this park that we wanted to do was Pooh, I couldn't manage to get a return time that was earlier than we planned on leaving. Outside of our character meals (more on those in the dining section!) we also met Mirabel, Tiana, and Rapunzel! We had both the Rapunzel and Aurora ice creams, both so good and cute!
🎬HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS🎬
-- We had read that, like MK, it's better to do HS later in the week, so we went Friday. We rode: Slinky, Alien Saucers, Toy Story Mania, Rise, Smuggler's Run, Runaway Railway. Again, with Genie+, we walked right onto everything! The only ride we missed was Tower of Terror, again I couldn't manage to get a return time that was earlier than we planned on leaving. We also met Olaf, be aware Olaf doesn't sign stuff, they just give you a signature card. This park needs more shade IMO, especially Toy Story Land, I know it's supposed to be Andy's backyard, but I don't see why that means we can't have some shade from trees or something. 🤪 Blue milk from Galaxy's Edge was really good, the family was all fighting over it!
🍽️DINING🍽️
-- We almost certainly lost some money on the DDP, but I'm still glad we got it because it allowed us to do more table service meals and have less stress overall about expenses. We easily used up everything but child quick service credits, we had a few of those left over near the end.
Here's where we ate!
BOARDWALK DELI/PIZZA WINDOW: Pizza for the kids, sandwiches for the adults. Tasty and satisfying after our day of travel!
BEACHES AND CREAM: Got the kitchen sink for the experience, but honestly it's not great, all the ice cream and toppings melt together quick and you just end up with weird ice cream soup.
SAT'ULI CANTEEN: LOVED this place, everything was so yummy! Best quick service we had!
SANAA: Since Animal Kingdom closes so early, we thought we'd try to extend the experience by eating at Sanaa. What a great idea, we got seated right by a window and saw so many animals! The food was great too.
AKERSHUS: Our favorite princess meal! We met Aurora, Tiana, Snow White, Ariel, and Belle. They were all lovely, and the breakfast was really good too. Only 1 credit on the DDP!
GARDEN GRILL: Our kids really enjoyed getting to look down over Living with the Land and the fact that the restaurant spins. We met Farmer Mickey, Pluto, and Chip and Dale. They were fun and even came to our table more than once. Food was good!
SPACE 220: Not on the DDP, but wow, what a cool restaurant! Almost like a ride with the theming and the elevator up. Food was really good.
CINDERELLA'S ROYAL TABLE: You gotta eat in the castle! We paid for it OOP because we didn't want to use up 2 DDP credits here. You're really going for the location and the princesses, the food is kinda meh, not bad but not as good as other places. The restaurant is small and they have to turn tables quick, so it's very understandable to me that the princesses have to move fast. It's not that they rush you, they'll take all the pictures you ask for and sign whatever and answer your questions, but if you don't have much you need, they try to keep moving. Akershus is much bigger so they are able to be more relaxed there. The only small bummer is that we didn't see Merida (maybe she was on vacation too!) We did meet Cinderella, Ariel, Jasmine, and Aurora though!
CRYSTAL PALACE: We are not big on buffets but we enjoyed meeting Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger!
TOPOLINO'S: Maybe the best food of the trip, steak and eggs were so good! The character artist costumes are so cute too. It was fun to have an excuse to ride the Skyliner to get here from Beach Club too.
DOCKING BAY 7: The theming is great, but the food wasn't as good as Satuli Canteen IMO.
THE MARKET AT ALE & COMPASS: We had quick service credits we wanted to use up on the last day and we didn't want to leave the resort again, otherwise I would have gone somewhere else, food was meh.
✨EXTRAS✨
-- I originally wanted to book Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique for my kids, but it's so expensive/competitive that I decided to didn't want the stress. Instead I booked Have Wand, Will Travel to come to our room and bought dresses from Presley Couture and Only Little Once. I chose Have Wand, Will Travel because they keep character throughout. Fairy Godmother Elyse was amazing and so much fun, my kids loved it and kept talking about it all day!
-- That same morning I ordered a Sammicakes breakfast box with beignets for us to eat. I also ordered a pretend letter from The DCP and Me on Etsy to make it seem like the breakfast came from Tiana. My kids also loved this and had fun telling Tiana about it both times we met her. Sammicakes was good but a LOT of food, sadly we didn't end up eating half of it. It can last you at least 3 days!
-- We had Birthdays and More decorate our door, it was a really fun surprise for the kids on our first day and made our room easy to find. The kids also loved reusing the decorations at home on their own doors!
-- Matching shirts and ear hats, all from Etsy! So many cool designs there, hardest part is choosing!
-- Got my kids a pin trading lanyard with some pins, they loooooved pin trading! It was like free souvenirs.
🧳PACKING🧳
-- Things the Internet Told Me to Pack That I Needed: Scissors, ziploc bags, ibuprofen (kids and adults), garbage bags, big carabiners to hook on the strolleuse to carry multiple bags at once.
-- Things the Internet Told Me to Pack that I Didn't Need: stainless steel straws (the paper straws are more like hard cardboard, they really don't break down unless your kid is gnawing on them or something), ponchos (it did rain some most days, but wearing a poncho was almost more miserable than not wearing one, it's so hot and humid to be walking around in a plastic bag! We did better taking shelter and using umbrellas.), wipes (obv you need them if your kid is younger, but mine were older and just never got messy enough to need them), glow sticks (we never stayed anywhere long enough to use them), bottled wateLiquid IV (the tap water tasted the same as home to us, but we live in a rural area so maybe we are just used to imperfect water?) Basically, the less you can get away carrying in the parks, the better. It's annoying to lug stuff around you don't end up needing or using!
🛞STROLLER🛞
-- I know it seems insane that your 5 year old and 9 year old will need a stroller, but mine definitely did. Once I accepted that I was going to have to get one, I tried to make the best of it, and actually got really into decorating it so we could always easily spot it in the sea (the decorations also later made nice wall decor for a gallery of our trip!) The Magic Spotter flag was the best investment, hardly anyone had them so it was easy to instantly spot our stroller anywhere we left it, even if it got moved. That said, I definitely didn't want to spend a lot on a stroller we were really only buying for this one trip, so I got a used Joovy Caboose on Facebook Marketplace for $50. It was very hard to handle with two older kids in it, and even with one it was hard to handle unless the kid was in the back seat. So we basically used it like a single stroller, glad I didn't spend a lot on it since it was so hard to drive!
☔WEATHER☔
-- We had mostly great weather, it rained some every day except Magic Kingdom day but it passed within an hour each time. We wore socks with Crocs so that if/when it rained, we could just take our wet socks off and walk in our Crocs, this worked great! Don't trust the weather reports though, two days it wasn't supposed to rain. One day it actually didn't, the other day it did and we had to walk in wet shoes because we didn't wear the Crocs that day. Just figure it might rain any day and be prepared! See above note RE: ponchos being not great and shelter + umbrellas being better. When it didn't rain, It. Was. Hot. 🥵 In the 90s but definitely felt hotter with the humidity making it so sticky. We felt there was plenty of shade at Animal Kingdom and EPCOT, but hardly any at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios, which I would say slightly affected how much fun we had on those days comparatively.
Phew! That's about it, let me know if you have any questions!

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