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Originally posted to TrueOffMyChest
My husband got a vasectomy and didn’t tell me
Trigger Warnings: accusations of infidelity, emotional abuse and manipulation, betrayal
Original Post: May 18, 2024
Throwaway bc my husband knows my main. I don’t know what to do. My (31F) husband (32M) - fake name Chris, and I have been married for four years, together for six. When we first got together we had several long talks about how we both wanted a big family. I wanted to be very upfront that child free is not an option, and I said I wanted to have at least four kids. I’m an only child and know how lonely it is, I also said I wanted to have them about a yeayear and a half apart so they could grow up close.
He always wholeheartedly agreed to this and often made jokes like “whether we have 4 or 6, have as many as we want, it’s your call since you pretty much have to do all the work” and on our wedding day before we left the reception for our honeymoon he whispered “can we get outta here and get started on baby #1?” I loved how excited he seemed. To be clear I didn’t go off my BC until about two months after we were married and I got pregnant soon after with our first daughter Joy.
Joy was a happy pregnancy, long birth, but she was a beautiful, healthy baby. She went through colic which was trying, but other than that she was a happy first addition according to me. I noticed Chris became distant during my first pregnancy, but when I asked him about it he just said he had a lot in his mind being a new father. He said he was still excited, but something changed. For reference, we both work full time, I make about 20K more a year than him, and the five bedroom house that we live in was a gift from my mom who was very excited to be a grandma to many. My job is fully remote, but still offers maternity leave, and I have a nest egg savings for emergencies, and feel it’s important to mention this because I know finances can be a major stress factor when it comes to having kids, but not for me and Chris.
Then Joy came out perfectly, Chris had three months of paternity leave and was home with us for majority of that time. My mom visited a lot, and paid to have cleaners come. There were still a lot of long nights and it was tough for me to breastfeed, but overall nothing unexpected. Chris still seemed distant, but always helped with Joy. We have an agreed open phone policy, so I did check his phone quite often but didn’t find any sign of cheating. He goes through my phone whenever he wants too. I asked if he found me unattractive while pregnant and he assured me no, he loves me and he’s excited for our family.
Fast forward a year after, we’re sleeping through the night and I am back to work, saw my doctor and was cleared to try for bundle of joy #2, and Chris seemed very enthusiastic at this point. He even downloaded an app to track my fertility cycle so we could make the most of my ovulation times.
We had a lot of fun and he was always very passionate, but six months of trying with no pregnancy I started to worry. I’d voice my concerns and Chris would brush them off, so I tried to be patient, but then almost two years passed and Joy is growing up by herself.
I broke down to my mother crying and she agreed to come with me to the doctor to get checked out. I was very emotional and scared, but the doctor assured me everything is fine and that I should be able to conceive without any issues.
I went to Chris with this knowledge and he was very upset I went to a fertility specialist. I explained I thought something might have gone wrong during my last pregnancy, concerned that I was maybe blocked or infertile somehow. He said why not wait and “just let nature take its course” and I said “our little girl is almost three, and growing up by herself.” I reminded him of our plans and he just nodded and said all we can do is try. I asked if he would see a fertility specialist and he got angry, saying there’s nothing wrong with him and we don’t have the money for fertility treatments anyway. This confused me since we do have money, we have my savings and are doing pretty well.
When he went to sleep I decided to go through his phone again and went back through his calendar and call logs. I noticed about eight months after Joy was born there was a blocked day indicating he’d taken off from work, but it was in the middle of the week and I don’t remember any sort of special occasions behind why he’d take this random day off. I went through the call logs and found an office number about a week before and when I googled the number a local business where you could get a vasectomy appeared! I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. I instantly felt cold all over then started to panic.
I woke him up and confronted him. He just stared at me while I went off and admitted babies were harder than he thought and he felt like my first pregnancy took forever.
I couldn’t believe it. I packed my things, Joy and her things and drove to my mom’s house. She is in distress with my sudden appearance and my inability to stop crying. I finally told her yesterday morning what happened and she’s just beside herself. I don’t know what to do, but every time I think about how during sex Chris would talk to me about giving me a baby and he’d had the vasectomy the entire time. I feel so disgusted and stupid. I can’t believe my little girl is going to grow up alone. Chris has been blowing up my phone, but I just keep letting it ring and haven’t read any of his texts.
Edit: to those saying I “coerced” my “poor husband” into agreeing to a big family, nope. I was always open and honest about my dreams, told him it’s okay if he wanted different things, and he not only repetitively agreed and accepted, he also helped me plan, nest, put together the nursery and enthusiastically participated in conversations regarding having multiple children around friends and family, and always said we’d have at least 4. That was our number. Him getting a vasectomy behind my back was a complete shock.
Also, we’ve both always agreed to the open phone policy. I never “betrayed his trust” by going through his phone since I always had his consent to do so and he has mine. We even have the same phone pass code. I never wanted to be in a relationship where we kept secrets from each other. I know other couples feel different, but this is another thing he always 100% claimed he agreed with me on.
I vaguely remember one week where he actually turned me down for sex claiming he had a “head cold” and he didn’t join me in the shower like usual during that time, but I didn’t think anything about it. And no, men never need a wife’s signature to get vasectomy.
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FantasticAnus: There's nothing wrong with child number one changing his mind, but he should have been open and honest about that and said that he wouldn't be having any more children, and then it would have been up to you as to whether you could live with that, or move on from him.
What he did, however, was duplicitous and manipulative. I don't think I could stay with a man who was so willing to keep such an enormous lie from me, one which impacts me, my daughter and my future enormously.
MyUsernameIsMehh: He has every right to not want more kids, you have every right to want more.
What he did not have the right to do was fool you for years. Men who have had vasectomies but hide it and "try for a baby" are beyond disgusting. Their wives think something is wrong with them, they go to specialists and sometimes spend a LOT of money on fertility treatments.
He's a spineless little shit (pardon my words, but it's true) who pushed you to have breakdowns over this.
He had every right to get a vasectomy, he didn't need your permission, but he had NO RIGHT to hide it and pretend you two were trying for another child.
 
Update: May 24, 2024
Some of you made some comments about my mom gifting my husband and I a house, paying for occasional cleaning services implying that Chris feels somehow emasculated by this, also implying I am “too financially dependent on my mom.” I make very good money, I have a sizable savings and don’t need any help, my mom was excited to buy this house for us as a wedding present. My dad passed away when I was young, he was wealthy and left my mom everything, so she shares his love since I’m her only kid. I make more money than Chris and always have. Yes his name is on the house, so yeah I’m gonna get screwed over in the divorce.
Some of you complained I “broke his trust” by going through his phone. He goes through my phone too. We have the same passcode. Some comments called this agreement between us unhinged, which to me is bizarre. Chris, I thought, was my soulmate, my husband and best friend. We don’t have secrets. I thought. Isn’t that the whole point of marriage? To finally have one person in the whole world you can tell everything to? To always be on the same team? Obviously I was wrong, and as many of you pointed out, that kind of love, trust and openness doesn’t really exist, and none of that matters now.
Chris and Joy seemed fine to me, but in hindsight there’s always been a hesitation on his part. I always thought it was just typical since the short while my dad was alive in my life I don’t really remember him being affectionate or warm. He was nice and played with me sometimes, but I don’t remember being held by him very much. I asked Chris many times if everything was okay when I noticed he was distant. He always said things were great, and give an excuse; just tired, work is draining, no big deal.
We’re in the US, and here a man can go get a vasectomy at any time. I don’t know what Chris told his doctor. For all I know he took his wedding ring off and gave a sob story, or probably just walked in and asked for the procedure. It doesn’t matter.
I’m really thankful for my mother. She’s heartbroken for me, and like many of you, she already knows my marriage is over. There’s been a lot of long nights of me crying that she’s endured.
I’m numb when I’m not crying, and keep getting this creepy feeling that nothing matters. We’re getting a divorce. I finally called Chris and he sobbed he was sorry, said he might be able to get it reversed. I’ve read a lot about vasectomies since my last post, and sometimes it can’t be reversed. It’s always a risk.
Again, it doesn’t matter. It’s not actually about the vasectomy. It’s that the person who I thought was the one person in the world that I could trust, that I was on the same page as, literally writing the book together, made this decision without me and kept it from me and the lied for years. I really thought what we had was true love. Now I’m pretty certain that doesn’t even exist.
Chris has not offered any explanation. He cried, begged my forgiveness and said again that he could get it reversed. Even if he can, the rest is irreversible. He never once answered my question. It’s really painful to talk to him, so after three times of asking and him each time dodging answering, and begging forgiveness, I finally just said to please leave the house and told him he’d hear from my lawyer.
He texted that he’s packed and left, and I haven’t heard from him since. He never once asked about Joy.
My lawyer says I might wind up paying alimony, but I might be able to get the house since it was a gift from my mother and Chris has never made any financial contribution. He also says Chris committed a kind of infidelity since he went behind my back to have this life altering procedure and admitted it, so that might help me.
To everyone telling me it’s gonna be okay, and I can still have more children…all of that seems impossible right now. My heart is broken. I’ve never experienced such sadness and the only relief is when I’m playing with my daughter. Her happiness is infectious. She is blissfully unaware, having the time of her life at grandma’s, but unlike her father she actually asks where’s da da?
I called work and took a medical leave of absence. I found a therapist.
My mom has offered to stay with me for a while, as well as hire a nanny.
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BrightAd306: I agree with you. It’s not the vasectomy. It’s lying about it and defrauding you. Wanting your money, but not being a true partner.
Listen to your lawyer. Do what he says, and you’ll come out the other side. Even if you pay alimony, it won’t be forever
DangerNoodleDandy: I agree. The vasectomy and the fact that he hid it are a symptom of a greater issue.
 

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FAIR WARNING THIS WILL BE A WALL OF TEXT
Intro: In a series of reviews that will begin (or return) here; we are going to try and take a critical look at the Chuck series, especially the unfolding of the story as scene through the teleplay. In this case we are assuming multiple things about a potential watcher:

• The watcher is new to the series and does not know about future episodes, but there is an expectation any previous episodes have been watched.
• I will try not to point information out that becomes important for later episodes, though there may be times it's important because of how episodes are filmed and how episodes string together, I will however try and hide these behind a spoiler tag. I say this as a person who has watched Chuck dozens of times, so if I inadvertently spoiler, sorry.
• I will do my best to point out interesting references that are hidden within the Chuck universe, but not at the expense of extended expositions unless in-depth analysis is necessary as it relates to the scene.

What is this all for: This started as a project to improve my critical reviewing skills for a hobby of movie script writing and analysis. Chuck happens to have published 3 original scripts and all the text of every episode has been published to a searchable database. This affords an opportunity to break from my movie writing woes and infinite revisions to just have fun enjoying Chuck and trying to deepen my understanding of the intersection of script writing with filmography and visual editing. Having said this, it should be known I have no affiliation to the show, no additional insider knowledge, and I do not write scripts for a living. So, consequently, feel free to ignore everything I say :). I do hope, however, we can go on this journey together and appreciate the excellence that is a love story called Chuck.
So, don't freak out, and lets get started.
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Chuck 01x04 (Chuck vs the Wookiee): TEASER - We open with the gang playing "Know Ya!", which isn't actually a real board game, but based on the game Paddles. It's amazing that Morgan can't stand Ellie/Awesome being in love/winning, but marches triumphantly whenever he gets a question correct. I also like we see, in frame, Chuck watching Sarah pick off olives; he's beginning to notice things just like a real spy. The deep sadness and yet storied confliction on Chuck's face when he discovers Peaches 1 and Peaches 2 was great.
For those who don't know about dogs:

• A cocker spaniel is typically smaller; by ~5inches and up to 30lbs lighter than a springer spaniel.
• Springer spaniels also have shorter fur across their bodies, with feathered hair under their chests and legs.
• Only a cocker spaniel will be solid colored
• Springer spaniels have longer muzzles, while cockers have fluffier ears.

I find it very interesting how Sarah has "spidey sense" about potentially being watched. At no point previously did either Sarah nor Casey display this trait and I'm not totally sure how an open window was enough to do this; I wonder if Sarah's comfort being around Chuck's family is causing her to develop a "feeling of being watched" as she is comfortable with the Bartowski's? For those who missed it, Sarah talks about having a sister I think at the time this was just a throw-away line to protect her cover, but in season 5 Sarah does actually have a little sister if you count the little girl she rescues One last thing about Sarah here, when Bryce is being discussed, I really like how it was played where she acts quiet and shocked, but not saying anything. The facial expressions of Yvonne here are really special and you can tell Sarah lives a life of secrets. This is carried outside when Chuck asks Sarah about her relationship with Bryce. She is totally looking down and to the right, a classic indication of an emotional response searching for rationalization (ie. she is clearly lying)
As they end the game and exit to the courtyard, there teleplay of Chuck does something I've been wanting to see forever; they switch perspective to keep both characters in camera and follow them around from a 3rd perspective. We know this is supposed to indicate they are being watched, but I really enjoy getting to see them together reacting and talking instead of the constant close-ups and cuts. Normally Chuck will be shot with something between a medium close up (MCU) and Medium Shot (MS) to emphasize their characters and highlight their faces and expressions. This works really well because Chuck's cameras are typically either shoulder level or hip level based on the operators moving through their space. In many more modern TV shows, the technology of boom cranes and gyroscopic gimbals allows for content to be show from ground level to overhead giving directors the opportunity to tell their story through a variety of shifting profiles. If Chuck were shot today, we would see everything from full body shots all the way to extreme closeups without the need for continual jump-cuts and re-shoots because the technology is there. At least for this episode, it's nice to see the director explore more hip/knee level motion and more cowboy framed shots when having a distant observer perspective. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/types-of-camera-shots-sizes-in-film/ does a fantastic breakdown of all the different shot type and camera perspectives for you want to read more!
As we transition into Sarah's hotel room, did anyone pick up on how NICE this is? She has double sinks, a king bed, a sitting mirror, free standing tub, and a great view. I doubt any agency in the "real world" would ever spring for something like this for multiple years for one of their agents, it's fancy! Enter Carina, tell me, who saw Sarah fight with a soap sock and think of iCarly and the famous "butter sock". Also during this fight, why is Sarah wearing a golden bikini? I know she is about to get into the shower, but what plausible reason is there for her to a) wear a bikini at all and b) it to be a bright golden yellow?? If you slow this fight scene way down, you will notice Yvonne's strikes actually come close to hitting Mimi as she has had a lot of training, whereas Mimi's strikes are miles from Yvonne and she just over-acts their impact. The most noticeable is the kick into her table, Sarah goes flying back, but we can tell from the angle, Carina missed her by a good 2 ft. This was just some sloppy editing and not getting the camera into position. I give it a pass because you have probably 3 camera operators wearing stabilized camera rigs trying to rotate around a room with 2 girls fighting and they just missed the angle by like 2 feet. I did really like at the end of the fight Carina had the option to go for the gun but instead went for the fish. If you didn't know they were not enemies before, this should have been a big clue! Carina calls Sarah's life in LA boring #1
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ACT I
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Carina aka: Maria Elena Argalberdi was born Jun 16, 1978 in Alberdi Argentina with a Buenos Aires passport. Maria Elena is actually the name of a famous song in Mexico and eventually had a movie. This Chuck learns on Flash #1 and is the precursor to meeting the general for the first time. I know I've mentioned this before, but to reiterate; the pictures in Casey's apartment are all wrong; he has photos of Chuck and Morgan that don't happen until season 5 (lost footage) he has a map of Echo Park and Malibu already on display, and he has tactical information for each member of the Buy More (which he has no reason for at this time). It is interesting they talk about an opium cartel in Afghanistan as Afghanistan is known for it's huge poppy fields for heroin drug money.
The NADAN-I-NOOR diamond:

• The Nadan-I-Noor diamond has never been known to be bought or sold and ha only changed owners as a result of theft, conquest, or endowment
• It's listed as having 57 facets + 16 facets on girdle = 73. A facet is comparable with the brilliance of a diamond and is really the flat surfaces of a gemstone arranged in a geometrical pattern. In this case it helps characterize the refraction of light through the diamond interior. The girdle i the outer edge of a diamond surface, having 16 faces is quite large, as the girdle is the largest section of a gem, but also the thinnest when viewed from the side. In this case, having 73 facets puts the Nadan-I-Noor in either the Princess-Cut Diamond or Radiant Cut Diamond category, which are also the most expensive as they have the most possible facets.
• having 4-fold, mirror-image symmetry refers to how the light reflects internally to the diamond and indicates there are no impurities within the crystalline structure.
• interestingly a purity rating is not given, i would expect something like a F or IF (flawless/internally flawless) for a diamond described like this, but one isn't provided.
• the angles of incidence just describe the best way for light to enterefract from the diamond, these numbers are fake, but the metric is real
• there is a lot of sanscript written around the diamond markings, I can't figure out what if anything it means it looks like repeated nonsense
• could be a nod to the Koh-i-noor or "mountain of light" diamond, although this one in Persian is the "fool of light".

We open back to see Carina and Sarah looking at classified files within the restaurant. THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW, you do not look at classified files out in the open and especially not where there are clearly other customers around. Venturing into the BuyMore, there is a monster truck rally on the TV's showing grave digger and reaper, two famous trucks from this time period. Morgan wants to spread his wings and be the fourth wheel to the perpetual 3 wheel party and Sarah, ever the schemer, literally glows when she thinks of the plan to have Carina go on a date with Morgan. I THINK this was just to help maintain their cover, but also maybe Sarah is just needling Carina? If you look in the back of the store when Chuck is talking to Sarah and Carina, there is a really cool Nerd Herd poster that says "Bringing peace to your computer emergency". "if a yawn could yawn" is Carina calling Sarah's job boring #2. One thing I really like with the double data is the way the camera jumps between the couples: boy/girl, boy/boy, girl/girl. I think they way they try and keep private conversations via screen time is a really nice, typical, teleplay trick that really works well here. In a "real" environment, everyone could hear everything, but by splitting the camera focus or playing with perspective, the viewer clearly knows "this is a conversation between girls the boys don't hear it". We see Chuck noticing Sarah picking off olives #2 while they watch a movie about penguins: who mate for life, present their love in the form of rocks, and are pack animals. In Chuck's bedroom as he talks to Morgan, Chuck has a box of King Edward Invincible underneath bongos; for those who don't know this is a famous box for mild tobacco cigars. So I wonder what Chuck is up to in his free time :P.
On the Nerd Herd call with Carina, she opens a bottle of wine with a butter knife. This is actually a pretty famous thing that is done all over the world with everything from a key to a saber. In fact they make a specially type of knife with an extra wide blade for this it Italy. I do want to ask the question; is Carina dressed in red lingerie (Chuck's favorite color she stole from Sarah) really necessary for this scene? I know that Carina is all about improvising and she often uses her sexuality to progress her cause (Casey), but I think we could have gotten away with just the top. I can certainly see the rationalization for going this far, but I think as an artistic choice it wasn't necessary. What IS necessary however is to talk about how Chuck's world implodes when Carina tells him about Sarah and Bryce. Also the perfect act transition ending right at Chuck's jaw dropping and the work boyfriend!
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ACT II
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I'll say it again, the back an forth with Chuck and Sarah should have been a medium close up, shoulder level straight on shot instead of the constant cuts. Seeing their reaction in real time would have been easier and it would have allowed the Weinerlicious to be maybe 15 ft smaller to not need so many cameramen rotating. "Unless talking to your boyfriend is a matter of national security, the ketchup bottles won't refill themselves". Why yes it IS a mater of national security for Sarah to talk to Chuck... also if any one of us stood up to our boss like Sarah did, I'm pretty sure we'd be fired on the spot!
Malibu is ~2hours for Echo Park with standard LA traffic. Seriously, how do girls in high heels walk down stairs; we see Carina and Sarah walking sideways so there is enough space on each step to fit their shoes. Girls, how do you do that and not fall especially with narrow staircases and 3-6inch heels! Inside the room with the stone there is a bust of Cesare, archenemies, da vinci, and biblical David. There is also some famous paintings the best of which is Vemieer's "young girl with a pearl earring" which is rather appropriate considering it's meaning. There is also a Van Gogh of man in a wheat field and a Monet in one shot too. If ANY of these paintings were real instead of reproductions, they would be worth millions, in fact the young girl with a pearl is estimated at 40million, which is 1.5x the sell value of the Nadan-I-Noor! If we take a look at the engineering drawing of Flash #2 on the pedestal, we would see this design creates a closed circuit around the tongs the diamond rests on; which might explain it's red hue. If a person were to touch the diamond, it would close the circuit on their body allowing the 4000volts to travel through their heart. A person can die with ~20volts, though it's usually more like 50 in most occurrences. 4000volts is enough to kill a herd of elephants and completely overkill for a person. Also the amount of power that would take is more than the city of Malibu... this is to say the trap is real, the numbers are complete nonsense; thinking lightning! Nice shot by Sarah with the plate (there are some great bloopers on this too where she misses badly)! A remote controlled jet ski... i'm not even going to calculate the nonsense for this; it's just total nonsense. Almost as much nonsense as Casey using his phone to track Carina's call. That would take minutes, even with today's technology to back trace like that and way more power than just pushing a button on a razer flip-phone from the 90's!
back at the house, Chuck i playing halo with the legendary skulls as his weapon; this is nice because in the BuyMore at the end of the episode there are dudes dressed as master chief! I really like the changing perspective here with Chuck and Morgan. Chuck's reactions remain in focus while Morgan tells a story behind him, then it switches as Chuck starts to move around until bringing both into focus for the final line "we still have each other and that's really sad". The side cut to Sarah picking locks to the hotel door is classic early 2000's TV and i'm all for it, even if it is super cheezy. BTW as someone who used to lock pick in college, that's .... not how that works, but good try. We get our Flash #3 on the diamond in Morgan's back nuclear explosions. I wonder if the refractive capability of a diamond this pure is enough to focus laser to induce fission or if the value of selling the diamond is enough to buy nuclear material on the black market? Either way, we end the act with... the man with the golden gun!
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ACT III
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Chuck uses Sarah's plate move against Carina, nice inter-episode call back; he's clearly watching/learning, but his aim is terrible. This was actually clever as Sarah has perfect aim for she is a professional, while Chuck is still definitely a civilian and has no aptitude for fighting. I really like both these types of simple call backs but also how seemingly throw-away lines/actions help tell the broad story of the show. Chuck talking to Carina also shows Chuck has this weird, innate aptitude to get people to re-evaluate themselves and grow internally. You can watch Carina "grow in real-time. When we get to the hotel and Carina opens her trunk first there are a few glocks, a couple rugers, and a 1911; then she switches to blades and we see some folders, some strait blades, an illegal gravity blade (still illegal today), and a kbar... nice selection! Carina, always the flirt, gives Chuck some very insightful works about the nature of being a spy, but also maybe some way to get through to Sarah.
Inside the hotel we see Carina and Sarah speaking; Carina is speaking Swedish, while Sarah replies in Polish. "Om jag slänger nycklarna till dig, kommer du tappa dem då?" which is Swedish for "If I throw you the keys, will you drop them?" Sarah answered in Polish: "Tylko jak rzucisz jak twoja mamusia", which means "Only if you throw it like your mommy". This is just great!
I want to talk about how fast Chuck managed to find an address for DC, print a label, open a box, put the label on, and get the diamond there all before the door gets broken. Somehow on screen time this is like 10seconds, but in real life this would have to be like 3minutes minimum? Either that door is remarkably strong or... TV magic??
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ACT IV
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Even with all the flirting, as we say goodbye to Carina >! for now !< she is still joking with Casey and every the professional. I like how they show when it's "game time" it's all about the job, but spys can be people too! Carina still calls Sarah's life boring #3 (the common trifecta of episode repeats).
Sarah's face when Chuck brings the pizza with no olives is the reason I think Yvonne makes the perfect Sarah. She exudes the hidden beauty needed and has the acting to so such emotion for Chuck being sweet. The whole scene with Chuck and Sarah asking questions, then Chuck backing off, then Sarah acting stoic like she WANTS to open up but doesn't know if she can really trust Chuck, is ready to move on from Bryce, and should for the nature of her job. This was probably the most well acted 20seconds of the entire episode. Finally, we hear Sarah's middle name is Lisa. Now we never officially know if Chuck hears this or not both due to camera focus and distance, it's never officially confirmed in the entire show. When the intersect is updated in season 4 we see Sarah's picture and it lists Lisa as a middle name, so we assume it's official, but it's never confirmed at any point. Finally, I really like how they end the episode with Sarah closing her eyes as the fade to black.
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Few notes: There are 5 official songs in this episode:

• "Yea Yeah" by Matt and Kim - when the gang is playing board games during group date night. This song is about not worrying about the things you cannot change. Little things that build up and bum you out that you need to just let go.
• "Wild Girl" Matt Pond PA - Chuck and Morgan discussing their relationship problems. This song is about overcoming past struggles and finding hope in the present and future. Describing a sense of resilience and optimism
• "weird science" by does it offend you - Chuck and Carina talk at Peyman' Malibu Compound. This is a remind to break free and embrace individuality and live on your own terms. Be unapologetically ourselves.
• Shy by Mathew Dear - the double date
• "Fall into place" the apartment - the team say's goodby to Carina. Deals with growing up, taking (or not taking) chances. finding oneself in the unpredictability of life. I have to say, we don't actually hear the lyrics to any of these songs during the episode just the melody, but I don't really appreciate the music choices here. I feel like there were better options at key points, so that's a miss from me.
  
• On the DVD for Season One the word Wookiee is spelled incorrectly, leaving off the last E.
  
• "It used to be titled "Chuck Versus the Speedo" because the main bad guy in this show is this dude who wears a Speedo all the time. Then when the casting guy realized he had a good amount -- and by good, I mean healthy, a healthy amount of body hair -- they thought, why not call it "Chuck vs. the Wookiee". So it's this guy who's got this diamond, and we're trying to heist the diamond and all hell breaks loose." ―Zachary Levi quoted by Access Hollywood discussing this episode's title
  

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I think this was a great episode and really showcased what they can do when additional cast members join the team and when they are not afraid to play with perspective. Mimi as Carina is a great addition to the ensemble and I wish we saw her more, but every time she drops in, it's always a wild episode and it's fantastic. Watching Chuck learn about Sarah and seeing Sarah start to open up is a good way forward and heck Casey had some of the best humor in the episode. Overall, it was fast paced, had some nice character development, as funny in the best way, and moved the main theme along, 8/10.

From the log of Edward Price – Clerk for Diplomat Howard Weathers – 03.28.2803
I suppose a summary is in order for things to be clear. Humanity has a bit of a reputation as an odd lot in the galaxy. Most aliens don’t know really know what to think about us. You see, most aliens are actually somewhat boring, having fallen into galactic societal niches over thousands of years. The Atroxians are were space pirates, the Vontacruz own the casinos and travel cruise industries, and the Hordun operate the most efficient morgues this side of the galaxy – usually because of the Atroxians. But the Delridians? They are diplomats. And dare I say that they are the weird ones.
Delri Prima is the homeworld of the Delridians, a tall, lanky race who look like the grimdark cousins of a Star Wars Kaminoan. Brilliant medics, they apparently don’t see a difference between medical work and diplomacy, seeing both fields as the healing arts. Their medicocracy has a long list of accomplishments throughout the galaxy, enough that it’d look like an 18-hour credit reel on a movie. My guess is that they may have been the “Humans” of the galaxy preceding us before they finally settled, and rumors have it that the K’kituun Death Puppets are an ancient offshoot from their early days on the galactic stage.
But more to the point, after about 180 years on the galactic stage, Humanity has made a decent name for ourselves as the handyman and eccentric nerd. We are celebrated, thrown strange looks, worried glances, and altogether treated as small children. Though with the destruction of Axtroxia, they may want to worry about what will happen when we hit puberty. The Delridians have already been through that, though they were never as eccentric as we are.
They reached out to Humanity with a diplomatic frigate appropriately named Olive Branch about a year ago. I’ve learned they like to reflect the cultures they are talking to, so as to ease negotiations. Can’t imagine what the Atroxian equivalent was. Probably something like ‘Torn Heads’. Regardless, Diplomat Weathers was finally selected as the Earth delegate to talk on Delri Prima, and oh boy. That is a dark world. Like, bring a flashlight dark. I don’t know whether it is the slow spin of the planet, or the climate generators they have, but the entire twilight band is just dark and grey. It rains, and thankfully it is safe water, but it is eerie. From the embassy city they built to make us more comfortable, you can look out across the Delridian jungle and see the many other diplomatic cities slowly being devoured by the vines and trees.
The first night was fine, though I’m not sure any of us slept well. We were each provided a separate room or, well, house really. The entire city was made of a cold stone, themed after some old Italian city on Earth. The wind slipped through the narrow streets with a soft whistle, bringing with it a faint jungle fog. Somewhere down the street was a clattering window shutter, but with how much stone they used, and the strange alignment of the streets, you could hear a pin drop from eight blocks away!
Talks went well for the first three days as Diplomat Weathers and the Delridians got to know each other. I met with and discussed a number of cultural similarities with a member of the alien entourage, a Nurse Kelayo, when I wasn’t with the others in my group exploring the city. She was very proud of the settlement they built for us, but in our talks, she asked what we thought of the book. What book?
Well, after having a wonderful meal with my coworkers and some of the alien entourage, we said our farewells and parted ways. Kelayo was vague, but had explained how they had acquired a copy of the book, and that she hoped that we enjoyed the effort she put into it.

I didn’t look into it immediately when I returned to the lonely, lifeless house that was my quarters. Mark was my closest neighbor, and he was a block down. The Delridians, fresh from talks with the Hordun, thought we may want some privacy from each other. And while it is nice not having to hear Mark snore in the cabin like on the flight here, the house was a little… too private.
It was as I was preparing to turn off the light to go to sleep that I thought to look in the nightstand beside me. Kelayo had told us about the book, and when I opened the top drawer, it was indeed there. Sitting center and alone was an old Earth book of gnarled leather and no visible title. Whatever poor creature the Delridians had used to make the cover had terrible skin!
Opening the book, I found it to have been printed in an old dialect of English from before the Third World War, with some much older words I did not recognize. It certainly looked like it was printed in the archaic methods of old Earth, with wet ink instead of modern digital ink that provided touch-based pseudo-memoric context.
I began to flip through the pages of this strange book, turning up the brightness on the nightstand lamp to see better. The faded pages of the book looked sick and moldy, and my skin crawled just touching it, but the letters, despite the stains and grunge, seemed to pop from the page in crisp black. In fact, the ink was so black that it felt like I was staring into the void with each letter. Kelayo’s book was some archaic text of old Earth culture from the end of the 20^th century, though I did not recognize the name. Written by a Bishop Simon from some archaic cult or religion, the book functioned as a “spellbook” like a deepdive virtual reality fantasy game might have. It was filled with a plethora of gods I did not recognize, and a ton of phonetic gibberish that sounded good when said, but easily complicated.
I hadn’t gotten too far when I heard a man’s scream next to me. Jumping out of my skin, I found no one there. But I remembered where I was, and crept to the window. It was Mark’s voice, more panicky than I had ever heard him. Peeking through the slats of the window, I scanned the street towards Mark’s place. The light was on, and someone was shuffling down the street, murmuring in pain.
Rushing down to the street, I rushed out to help him. Mark’s mutterings were too quiet, and he was holding something to his chest. It may have been a minute before I collected myself and tried to get answers from him, but you have to understand, I’ve never seen a dying man before. Not in real life. In the dim and permanent gloom, I could barely make out the trail of blood behind him. He pleaded again and again, and I had to find out where he was injured, and what it was he was carrying.
I went to take what he held, only to realized that in my own fervor to aid him I still had that creepy book. I put that down to wrench free Mark’s own possession. I really wish I hadn’t, for his grip was weak, with only one hand. I held his other, and everything above it.
My own voice was the next I heard echoing down the street as I most certainly fell backwards. Sorry Mark, but I lost your arm. Well, your first one. The second is decorating some chandelier somewhere, courtesy of Vanessa.
Please understand that for anyone in my situation, gorey horror was never my fancy, and I hope no one in the auditing board holds it against me. I would bet credits that any of you would have done much the same as I did.
Time is… unreliable on Delri Prima, with its twilit band and gloom. The only thing that moves is that blasted fog. And the vines. Especially the vines. I’m not sure how long I ran, but Vanessa was the one to find me, flanked by a street littered with Human bodies. Far more people than joined us on the crew… I think. You might want to review the ship manifest just to be sure.
Vanessa, once she verified my identity, guided me through the littered street, still gurgling and reaching out to us. Give her a raise, by the way. She’s the one that got us out of there. We met up with Dwayne and Harry, both armed with metal pipes and whatever other junk they salvaged, and we retreated to a boarded up house with other surviving members of the crew. They were glad to see me, though I don’t remember who they were. Many were new faces to the ship for this mission.
We settled here for hours? A day? Our comms were filled with static, and we couldn’t reach Mr. Weathers to see if he was ok. We needed to get off this planet. Someone mentioned that the ship was still parked at the landing bay. All eyes turned to someone in the back of the group, who slowly stood up, her form long and lanky. Kelayo, the Delridian nurse.
Vanessa worked with Kelayo on a plan to move through the city to the landing bay, while the rest of us sought supplies. This house had a basement, connected to a series of tunnels which we would use to slip under whatever muttering, mumbling horrors pleaded us to come outside.
Slowly, and as quietly as we could, our train of survivors crept through the tunnels. Our flashlights that Ben had found were pathetically dim, and frequently flickered out, sounding with a loud clunk whenever someone whacked it awake. Icy water dripped from the long tangled hairs of wriggling moss that clung to and between the bricks, the lights illuminating white lice-like that lived within the tangle.
Splashing was the only sound we heard for a long time, along with someone’s horrid cough. He was in the back of the line, far behind me, but kept coughing and groaning. Others frequently shushed him, louder than he coughed. But for all the good their efforts to keep him quiet were, it paled in comparison to Kelayo’s odd excitement. When I inquired her about her unusual positivity, she admitted fascination over the many accounts of average Humans combatting the supernatural evils that threatened Earth. How we could survive on a planet infested with the dead with only equally dark magicks astounded her, despite our culture not having widespread knowledge or application of this means of survival. It was faint, but she had nodded at the book. Why did I still have this disgusting leatherback that seemed to shiver in the cold?
I apologize for any impact I may have had on diplomatic relations with the Delridians, but I said some uncouth remarks about the whole situation and the book. I flipped it open to a random page to give an example, forgetting in my annoyance just how dark it was in the tunnels. But that ink… that horrid archaic stain… was fully legible. I admit I came to a stop in awe, though shortlived as the train of people behind me bumped into me. That coughing was gone.
So were half the people we had been travelling with. Kelayo glanced around with a chitter. She was having too much fun with the spooky, and now we heard skittering and scrape scrape scraping on the bricks. Vanessa fired a shot down the tunnel and urged us to run, so we did.
We were near the landing bay when we ducked into a sideroom per Kelayo’s prompting, and shoved a convenient table in the way of the door. The skittering was above us on the ground floor too, and then someone grabbed my foot. It may have been Mark. Well, the part of Mark I dropped.
Long gnarled fingers covered in dirt were the hallmark of these freaky things. Human hands with a life of their own, skittering around like bugs as they fled the flashlight’s beam and sought dark corners. These shelters included their unholy wriggling up our pants and jackets, some grips strong and muscular, and others gentle and cautious. If you have ever had a massage, you may never want one again once a chilly, slimy, dismembered hand tries to nest between your shoulder blades.
Vanessa fired off a few shots in her desperate attempt to keep the grabby hands off, though she nicked Ben’s ear in the process. The loud noise scattered the skitterhands enough for us to fling the last few from our persons. Vanessa slammed the book I still carried, ordering me to read it. She had lost her copy early on, but had the gist of its contents.
The ink on the book was darkest on one particular page, with a weird symbol that looked like it said XOOD. An old-Earth linguist may understand it better than I. Kelayo was forced to provide guidance, as she was the expert on the book, and with many, many attempts, and a dark horde gathering upstairs, were ready to begin. Vanessa was out of shots in her gun, and Ben and Dwayne were futiley pushing back the horde of impossible crewmen. These people smelled horribly of rotten meat, and overtook Ben first, followed swiftly by Dwayne.
Vanessa had backed into a corner, clearly scared. I can’t blame her, since I was, too. But I couldn’t move, couldn’t join her in the false safety of the corner. The rotten crew… this dead crew, was in the room with us, and were already grabbing me. Amidst the noise and confusion, I could hear Vanessa being attacked behind me, and the dull nails of my own assailants tearing at my skin. Kelayo, her form thin and dark, simply stood amidst the dead.
Read it, she said.
Say it with all your heart.
I remember the word that pierced the world that day, but can’t remember saying it. But my throat burns whenever I utter it now. BARASHAKUSHU. The dead froze in place, their fingers dug deep into my skin. BARASHAKUSHU. Limp, lifeless, just as they should be. BARASHAKUSHU. The haze in the air, even in the basement, lifted. BARASHAKUSHU. Vanessa breathed deep as I pulled her from the bodies and out the house to the crowded, lifeless street.
We limped, though we did not bleed, filled with holes and grime, and caked in blood. Kelayo followed wraithlike behind us, always ten paces behind. The landing bay was before us. Our ship and salvation was before us.
Diplomat Weathers was fine, though alarmed at our state. Delridian doctors tended to us as we explained what happened. A full transcript is available via the ship’s DIA-Log.
When all was said and done, the Delridian diplomat thanked us for being so willing to open discourse. To celebrate successful talks between our species, he offered us a parting feast. He motioned Kaleyo over, who had apparently been tasked with researching Human culture for the talks.
She explained over dinner about how she had poured over a stunning variety of Human dishes from our many cultures, but that she had settled on one that appeared to be a universal favorite. An Italian dish of long, stringy noodles over their equivalent of a white cream sauce. And dinner was fantastic! But Kaleyo seemed confused as well, stating that she had a difficult time picking out the right recipe. The instructions were apparently all over the place with a lot of strange steps that seemed superfluous to food preparation.
I asked her what she meant, to which she replied, “The base ingredients were simple, almost mundane. Of note, the various rituals in the preparation exhausted many of our best doctors. Some are still seeking treatment after one batch escaped. You Humans have a very strange culture of food, especially with the names. I believe you called this one… creepy pasta?”
Then the meatball on my fork blinked at me.

What is this?
The idea behind the monthly community map is to share a map exchange string at the beginning of every month, and get as many people as we can to start a new world with it. Then at the end of the month (or even periodically if you'd prefer!) we share screenshots and saves of our factories so that we can see how different people approach the same spawn; how they set up their base, how they deal with aliens, and how they arrange their science, power, and everything else.
I hope it can highlight how many different ways there are to do things, inspire some new designs, and maybe seeing how veteran Factorio players tackle problems will help out new players facing the exact same problems. (Of course, there's also the fact that it'll be interesting to see all of the different possible factories - the good, the bad, and the ugly.)
Last Month's Results
May 2024 Results
The Community Map
I mentioned this in the results thread, but I'm very interested to see how this style of gameplay shakes out. I'm going in blind, with nothing more than what I could gleam from the description and ~5 minutes of gameplay to ensure everything was working properly, and I can safely say I don't think I've ever seen a mod do something quite like this before.
Oh that's right, I still haven't actually mentioned what mod I'm talking about - let me show you!
Required Mods:
AAI Loaders
Krastorio 2 Assets
Ultracube: Age of Cube
The Exchange String:

>>>eNp1Us1rE1EQn2lYWhQkYC6CrTn0uqXG+kGQvKcgIqJ/g8nmRRY3 u3X3raA9mEOPihcverFXI/TmwVtA8AMUih5E8FDxIqISUfQixJm3+5I ltgMz+3vzmzdfbxEQroARKR71+8LZ76Ut5baVWnW9KFbuNeWHTHAAwE CUDR83ieoq3QwSgJ4hWJ1ER6GahPeEo2OlEvZk3p7Ym8bN0E+7LmW3P hONH74QXl8wOroJ1dGIldA2tccK2DPRSL5cZua9KNRxFLiJ0toPL9e7 kZ/oNFb1lt9M5paXakeXSdxdwzqxupqq0Lte76aB9lcDX8V07RjLccc L/E4HoHoKYHiaiktEXKtsnv14467ArIUlmYNh7hm0rOecBRflrtSiBS uFPEeM/CyArKimEnnUnJyAjFxnEvH2t8cbf55tNfDvwx9vLrQuCTx8p vJ9WNtsEDnLW5wZm/v3WJ7YUcDm3BY59V7g61csXwU6fKPCRp4gMzhf AizvI7Rxi0z1INjWGjZNRWLHyG87yScL3orpOWgRJzn5ApsXbEzBcWe YQXlHojxk2QOTELpfg2IP7cmEL23Zp4X6U438/xDFOaY8i3KHZ9jDBd tj87k07ob2uTVrT/KBxBIDjvpFvuzEjE2VfcvSrNuy2b8Bz/vvVv4BO ajDcA==<<< 

What your starting area should look like: https://i.imgur.com/BsSfx74.jpeg
Mod Sync: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KfAPq66c2WKClG_Vlp4XBH1wq4yya4Qd
I'd recommend looking at the description for Ultracube before hopping in to the game, but hey, what do I know? Maybe you'd prefer to go in blind. Either way, if you haven't gotten comfortable with how the circuit network in Factorio works by now, there's never been a better time to learn! (And it basically just boils down to connecting two things with a wire and setting a value, so don't let it intimidate you!)
Let's get this cube moving!
Exchange String Help
If anyone isn't sure how to use an exchange string, just go to new game like you're going to generate a new world, and at the bottom there's a button just above play labelled "Import map exchange string" - the icon looks like a little arrow going into a tray/bucket. Just copy the exchange string above and paste it into the box that comes up when you press that button. Press confirm, and that's it! You're good to go. Just generate the world and come back in a month to show us how your factory turned out!
If you run into any issues check to make sure that you copied the whole string, including the three greater than/lesser than signs at the beginning and end, and make sure that your Factorio is up to date with the most recent version installed. (As of the time of this post, the most recent version of Factorio is 1.1.108, but this exchange string will also work with the current stable release, 1.1.107.)
Having Issues With The Sync File?
If you're uncertain how to use the sync file I provided above, here are step by step instructions:
1) First, of course, is to download the file. Make sure you know where this file is so you can move it later. (It will be in your browser's default download folder unless you've changed it.) 2) Locate where Factorio's save folder is on your computer. If you've installed Factorio at its default location (C:\Program Files\Factorio) then there will be a shortcut to your saves folder there called "saves". Double-click it to go to the saves folder. 3) Take the file you downloaded and move it into this folder.
That should be it! Now just launch Factorio and make sure you sync your mods to this save before playing. If you'd like to play on this save specifically (for example, if this month has some per-map settings you don't feel like messing with) then you'll notice when you load the map normally your player will be named "ChaosBeing" (since I'm the one who started the save, of course). To get around this, you can host it as a local multiplayer game and then save. You should now appear as your own character when you load the map from now on!
If you have any issues, feel free to ask in the comments below, or in the monthly map's channel on the official Factorio Discord.
Want To Play With Others?
If you have an open public server, let me know in the comments below or send me a PM and I'll add your server here!
Feel Like Watching Someone Else?
If you are a streamer or let's player who will be recording yourself building a new factory on a community map, I'd be happy to add a link to your channel here!
About Mods
Since mods can affect how a world spawns and ores are distributed, as well as add or change items and functionality, it's important to make sure that we're all playing the same game by the same rules. For example, if one person's playing vanilla and someone else is playing with Bob's mods, even if they use the same seed and map settings you still couldn't very well say they were playing the same game, and the way they'd play would differ enormously.
On the other hand, Quality of Life (QoL) mods should be perfectly fine. What do I consider a QoL mod? Any mod that doesn't A) add new items, B) change terrain, or C) make significant gameplay changes, like modifying recipes or enemies. Any mod that fits this definition should allow everyone to play the same game even when some people are playing with them and some people are not.
Even Distribution is a great example of a mod that, while very useful, does not inherently change the way the game is played. Then there are also mods like RadarPlus for RSO that do add new items, but still don't meaningfully change the way the game is played.
Below I've put together a short list of examples that I think are ok to use on any map. It's made up of a handful of optional mods that might seem ambiguous in how well they fit the definition above, so they're just here to act as guidance on what should be ok. Another good resource for Quality of Life mods is available on the Factorio Discord - check out Xorimuth's pinned post.
Optional Mod Examples
Note: I can't imagine any situation where this could be an issue, but if you're the author of one of the mods listed here (and can offer me some proof of this) and for whatever reason would like me to remove your mod from this post, I'd be happy to comply.
It's entirely possible some of these mods either don't work with the current version of Factorio, conflict with each other, or in some manner just don't work. I can't test them all, let alone every configuration of them, so you might want to back up your world before adding one of these.
Ammo Alerts
Atomic Artillery
Color Coding
fCPU
LTN - Logistics Train Network
Nixie Tubes
RadarPlus For RSO
Reactor Interface
Shortwave
Text Plates
Updated Construction Drones
Previous Threads
-- 2023 --
May-June 2023 - Results
July 2023 - Results
August-September 2023 - Results
October 2023 - Results
November 2023 - Results
December 2023 - Results
-- 2024 --
January-February 2024 - Results
March 2024 - Results
April 2024 - Results
May 2024 - Results

The three of us have been friends for 9+ years (they have been friends for much longer, as 30F is married to 37M's brother and they met in high school). The first 5 years of our friendship, we were inseparable - we lived in the same city, two of us (34F, 30F) worked at the same company, and two of us (34F, 37M) were single and into the same kind of guys and constantly commiserated over our horrible taste in men. We'd go to the bar, have big holiday parties, hang out at each others places, go hiking and camping together, we were literally always together. We'd text all day, every day, about stupid things and very serious things.
Life happened, and now we all live in separate cities (1 hour apart) due to careers and us previously single two have now been in long term relationships for several years. Pre-covid, we were making the drive weekly to see each other. Post-covid, 30F now has 2 kids under 4 and barely texts back, though her and 37M see each other often as they're family by marriage. Even for things other than holidays/birthdays, which I know about because they talk about it in our group chat rather than texting each other directly.
At my prompting, we've finally got on a "schedule" of going out to dinner once a month, which has been nice, but spontaneous get-togethers are impossible, even with the friend without children. They're always busy with their other friends - people that live in the same city as them. They also constantly talking about taking spontaneous, expensive trips together (I cannot afford them, as I'm currently fully supporting my partner (30M), which they know) and I feel disappointed I cannot join them. They want to go out to dinner at fancy restaurants, with $50 charcuterie board appetizers and $15 dollar drinks. I'm just fine going to the beach or nearby trail for free, and eating at a local dive drinking whatever's on tap. It feels like as our geographical and wealth gaps are increasing, so is the distance between us. Even if I had the money, I feel sick spending it on the things they want to spend theirs on.
I've told this to my partner who has said this is a natural thing and I need to get over it and accept it. He doesn't see his friends at all, as they live 2 hours away and even when he lived in the same town they hung out online, not in person. He says friendships in our 30's gradually decrease until we barely see each other, and it will never go back to how it was. I don't want to go back to how it was, I know it will never be like that again, what I want is to be closer as who we are now.
I love my friends, and honestly owe them my life -- how can I hold on to them so they don't drift away? Or am I the weird clingy one, and just need to accept this is how adult friendship works?
TLDR; I feel like my friends are leaving me behind and am told this is normal, adults don't hang out with each other much anyway, is this accurate?

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone else has had problems with their MMS since joining. We had two lines we ported over that immediately had issues but were resolved after lengthy support help, all surrounding MMS. The other three lines we brought over had zero problems, and I figured it was something about the particular phone models in question.
However, since yesterday, I've had about 50% of my MMS pics that have come through on my line be extremely small / blurry / pixelated. The ones I test downloaded were <4kb and ~2.5kb. (The pic that only came through as 2.5kb was originally only 111kb to begin with.)
It seems to be at random. E g., my mom sent 8 pics in a row, and pics 5 & 6 were like this while the rest were fine. She resent those same pics, and it was still an issue. She retook the pics, and they came through fine. (I would think it might be a size issue except for the other pic I mentioned.)
I chatted in, and the rep (while nice, as always) said they could do some troubleshooting but didn't think it would help. They said if my Wi-Fi was on that that's the problem, that Wi-Fi can cause issues with MMS and suggested that I "only use data".
So turn off my Wi-Fi and use data 24x7 (even though I'm going to the light plan) just in case someone happens to send me a picture??
This doesn't seem like a reasonable suggestion / explanation to me.
I've never had this issue before. I haven't changed the messaging app. I use Wi-Fi but keep the data button on. No changes in my texting habits. Same phone. Same Internet provider, router, plan. The only thing that's changed is that I'm now on USM. But they told me it's just 'a coincidence'.
Given that all of the issues we've faced so far have been MMS related and that everything worked fine pre-switch, I'm having a hard time believing this, tbch. It seems more like a setting or restriction somewhere that needs to be revised?
I'm no fan of my local Internet provider, but after having years of no issues and then to suddenly go to 50% problems within a couple of days of switching, I honestly don't feel like it can just be a WiFi thing.
Anyways, has anyone else had this issue? If so, is there anything that fixed it for you? (Just turning off my Wi-Fi is, imo, not a reasonable 'fix'.)
Currently in the free trial and now really second guessing my switch, especially if we go to the light plan. I can't imagine (cell) service on that will get better than it is now.
Everything else has been fine, and I've been totally satisfied up til now. But this is a hassle I quite frankly don't have the energy to deal with on any type of regular basis.
Any suggestions?
ETA: I just had my daughter send me test pics on WiFi, then I turned off WiFi and just did data, and they all came through the same. None of them are greater than 4kb, and they all look like potatoes.

Urgent advice needed - narc/HJNTIY - SEND HELP!
OK I’m high as a kite right now and am going through it a bit in the relationship department so thought I’d take the inner focus to write down what is happening so the good people of reddit can give me an honest and brutal review. This is my first ever post but I need to be told by strangers of the internet that have read the whole story what I should do and what they think is going on, because I’m not listening to those around me that love me.
This is a long arse post (over 3500 words) so please only read it if you’re dedicated to the cause. And please be dedicated for the cause as I need help. I’ve tried to include as much information and context as possible because I see so many replies to posts where they ask for more context. As I’ve deleted my conversations with him so many times, my sources are:-
· From memory
· WhatsApp conversations I had with friends at the time.
· Journal entries
I met X on Tinder in early November last year. He was handsome, Irish and, according to his Tinder profile had two teenagers, his own house and his own car. We chatted for a while on that platform and I said that I loved the Irish accent because I was mad on Westlife growing up (this is cringe knowing what I know now), and he told me he thought I was beautiful and that he wanted to meet me. I went to message him but didn’t like the fact he had no profile picture and he had disappearing messages turned on. I messaged him on Tinder querying the lack of picture etc and he said that his profile picture is set to contact only (this is a legit thing) and it was his company logo anyway, and disappearing messages turned off when he added someone to their contacts. So I waited a few days and sent him a message on WhatsApp. It stayed on single tick for 3 days. Now, having left a 16 year relationship five months earlier, I was at the point of “if I get one hint of a red flag, they’re not for me” so by day 2 of the single tick, I unmatched him from Tinder. Day 3 I get a message from him apologising because he had been on a bender in Liverpool for a friends birthday and his battery had run out. He was really apologetic, and said he’d love to take me out but I said I wanted to chat a bit more first. He was super attentive, sent me voice notes, asked me how my day went so after a week, when he asked me to meet again, we arranged something for the following Saturday. He text me all week in the lead up then on the day, he tells me he can’t come because his ex wouldn’t tell him what time she’d be there to takeover parenting of their son. I can’t even remember if I messaged back as I fixed up plans to go on another date and didn’t give it a thought. Whilst I was out on the date, he sent me pictures of him and his two year old son looking at Christmas lights. He then asked me when I was not free and hoped he hadn’t messed it up. I told him I was free the coming Friday so we arranged to meet then. He text me daily at the build up, told me he couldn’t wait to see me. On the day we were due to meet, he messaged me in the morning asking if we were still on. I met him that evening at the bar of the hotel he was staying in. I was struck instantly by how attractive he was and his accent was everything. He got me a drink and we sat down in the bar. He was chatting to me, sitting to the left of me and within about 10 minutes, asked if he could sit directly next to me in the alcove I was sitting in. I felt this was a bold move but welcomed it. I asked him about what it had been like growing up in Northern Ireland, I told him about my group of friends I’d had for 20 years, and my children etc. After talking for about an hour, he suggested going for dinner and asked what I wanted. I wasn’t very good at making decisions, so I asked that he choose. As we walked down the street to the town, he grabbed my hand to hold it and asked “is this ok?”. I obviously agreed because his confidence was charming and I’ll admit I was quite awestruck. We talked intensely and it was clear that we really fancied each other. After dinner, he moved his seat next to mine (seemingly a common trademark for him) and he talked to me a while longer before asking if he could kiss me. This took me by surprise again because it felt so romantic and I just hadn’t felt that for ages so I let him lean in and it was amazing. We moved onto a bar and just basically kissed for the next hour, in between drinking more. I ended up back in his hotel and we were kissing through the door with me saying “we’re not going to have sex” over and over. Yeah, it lasted two minutes before we were taking each others clothes off etc. We had sex multiple times that night and he showed me things I had never experienced, if you know what I mean. I woke up the next morning with him next to me. I had anxiety with the panic that I had slept with him on the first date. He could sense something was up but I couldn’t explain to him why because I didn’t want to sound weird. He kept kissing me and asking if I was ok but all I had was an overwhelming feeling of dread so I tried to assure him; unconvincingly. He dropped me home and text me a couple of hour later, saying he’d had a great time and wanted to see me again. He said I he was sorry if he hurt me in bed the night before and I assured him that he didn’t. We exchanged a couple more messages and I was feeling super positive.
I text him on the Monday asking how his day was. He replied it was chaotic. I asked when he wanted to see me next and he suggested lunch on the Sunday. I can’t remember when I messaged him next but it was either later that day or the next. My message went unread until Thursday and I freaked out about it. Was he messing me around? Did he not like me as much as he said he did. I actually cried to my friends because I felt like such an idiot for sleeping with him on the first date. He text me Thursday night apologising that he’d been distant and that his son was in hospital and he’d call me the following day. He didn’t and I’m pretty sure he didn’t call me for the next week or so. Then I sent a drunk text and asked if I should give up. He asked me not to give up yet and that we’d talk property the next day. Again, this conversation didn’t happen for two days. We met up every 1.5 weeks after that, always had amazing chat, sex and stayed up all night. During this time, I recall never feeling secure in his communication outside of when we met. It usually took him a long time to even open my messages/send a response. His phone does something weird as well where you don’t get two grey ticks until he opens the app, so I would spend quite a lot of time assuming I was blocked (even when I hadn’t done anything). I wanted to go away for my birthday and he said he would book it on New Years Eve. He’s a bit flaky at securing plans so I made him promise he would. I was at a NYE party so was buzzing to get confirmation of the booking but I had nothing. I tried to call him at midnight because you wish people a happy new year right, but there was no answer. I then asked him every day if he was going to book as we were going away on the 5th January. On about the 2nd January, he rang to say that he’d only be able to do one night because he had just received a massive £5,000 bill for his ex wifes car tax. I said I would pay half because I just wanted to spend the time with him and we agreed I would book it and he would send me half.
We went away and agreed to get there at 4pm. He turned up at 6.30 blaming work** X is notoriously late. I don’t think he’s ever been on time for any of our dates and on average turns up 2hrs late** Everything got pretty intimate straight away and we had a great first night. We even sat outside and he told me all about the stars. Told me that night he was crazy about me and I felt happy. The following night we both had a lot to drink and got into an argument after an actually lovely night. I can’t remember what happened but the next morning which happened to be my actual birthday and he wasn’t talking to me. I eventually ended up being shouted at shortly after lunchtime because apparently I thought I was always right and when I say sorry I don’t mean it. I was kind of taken aback because, even if I had done something wrong, wouldn’t you swallow that a little bit considering it was the persons birthday? Anyway, I managed to win him round by 3pm by feeding his ego and we left having, sort of, made up - you know big hugs and being nice to each other. But I still felt this horrible feeling. I cried all the way on the drive home. When I rang him like he asked to say I’d got home, I told him I felt weird. He said that it was weird and it shouldn’t be this difficult so early on in a relationship. I was gutted by that comment as I’d wasted my birthday with someone that wasn’t even talking to me. I mourned the end of it then and was sad over the next days but then he rang me completely normal apologising that he hadn’t spoken to me the day before and just needed a day to himself. I said it was fine and that I was happy he had rung. He told me he’d text me later but never did.
I then didn’t see him for two weeks and communication between that time was consistent in its inconsistency. He often said he’d ring, but didn’t. Then it would have been a few days and he called and said we need to have a grown up conversation and he’d come down. We arranged for a Thursday a week a half away. Again, he turned up late to the hotel. He got in, showered me with compliments above how great I looked and then lifted me onto the bed. I told him nothing would happen until after dinner but obviously, we got hot and heavy. We had an amazing evening and, in the morning, I asked him what the grown up chat was all about. He said he only said that to lure me there. I asked what was going on and he said he couldn’t commit to seeing me every week. This made me a bit shocked as if that’s your message, why wouldn’t you say that before having a great night with someone and building up more hope. Anyway, I suggested every other week which he said he could do. I obviously didn’t think that was enough but just concluded that in time, it would get more frequent.
Next time I saw him was beginning of February. We went away. He was 3.5hrs late because of some issue he needed to sort with his ex. He turns up asking me not to make the whole weekend about him being late. I said I can say I’m annoyed but I’d just get over it. We had a great evening again. We also had a great weekend the following night until we got back to the place and he fell asleep on the sofa. I kept playfully poking him saying “wake up, I want to have some fun with you”. He got annoyed and started shouting at me that it was the first night in ages he’s had any peace and I’ve spoilt it”. He went upstairs to bed and I followed shortly after, trying to make things good between us. He rejected my advances no less than 5 times throughout, saying I was too pushy. We were due to check out at 10am and, being conscious of this, I managed to get him to hug me. We were finally packing up our things when he said “do you think we got everything from upstairs”, so despite him repeatedly rejecting me throughout the evening, he decided he wanted to it quickly before we left. I obliged and we then went out and had a nice lunch together and had a good laugh.
He went back home to Ireland for a bit after that and I barely heard from him. I continued to text him but didn’t get a response. I spoke to him once where we arranged to meet the coming Saturday. He got home a few days before we were due to meet and said he wanted to make it all up to me and that he couldn’t wait to.
The night before we were due to meet he warned me he had been in urgent care for a suspected kidney infection. He said he was still going to come down anyway. Didn’t hear from him until 3pm the following day (he was supposed to pick me up at 2pm). He said he had been sleeping and was still coming down and would be with me at 6. He picked me up, we went to the hotel and I explained that I needed more from him and I felt so unseen when he didn’t message me. He told me things would be better in a month when he had his own flat and more structure with his son. He hugged me tight and seemed sincerely sorry for making me feel that way. I felt positive things were going to change. We again had a great night but at about 6am in the morning, we had to leave because he said he felt unwell and needed to go to the hospital. Now, that would be completely plausible if you hadn’t got a blow job 10 minutes before. Like, I get it if you’re ill, but if you’re hospital ill, you wouldn’t even want one. So anyway, we left early and I felt confused and deflated.
Basically the long and short of it (because I can’t be bothered to write much more) is that we are in this cycle and I’m really confused if I am being emotionally abused. My friends think I am and they are really concerned about it. But I’m normalising the behaviour.
He leaves early when he stays, without any notice and even when he’s said we’ll spend the following day together.
He’s met my friends and event that night when I was trying to tell him how he makes me feel invisible when we’re not together and considering he could only see me every two weeks, that was a lot of time to feel invisible. I raised that he hadn’t contacted me first since the 26 February and he denied it, scrolling through his phone trying to find evidence which, of course, he couldn’t. He started shouting at me when I voiced my feelings. I asked him not to shout at me but he continued to. He went to leave and I told him he shouldn’t because he had been drinking. He eventually apologised to me for shouting. He left the next day at 9am and text me a few hours later saying he was sorry he had to leave early.
Last time I saw him was 2 weeks ago. It had been a month since I had seen him and his contact had been the usual level of poor. He came to the house and barely got through the front door before we were all over eachother. And as usual he was great and it was one of the best nights I’ve had with him. I asked him if, because he couldn’t see me that much, did he want to just keep us casual and I could get my romance from others. He was horrified by this and said that he considered us to be together. I went to sleep happy. He woke me up at 10am saying he had to go because his ex was threatening to take his son out for the day if he wasn’t back for a certain time. I had no prior warning of this and we had planned to spend the morning together and he was going to leave after lunch. I started to question it and he said “don’t start all this shit” and still left. I cried after he left. Again confused.
I was supposed to see him last Saturday and he was going to come later so he could spend the day with his son. I tried to ring him every few hours to finalise plans and there was no answer. So I had some wine and got progressively more frustrated saying that this was definitely over and it was disrespectful etc. I called him a narcissist. The following day I still had nothing so I demanded an explanation and (rather poorly) alluded to the fact that he was probably still with his wife and I was one of many. He didn’t read my texts until Monday and said he was waiting to be discharged by the doctor and he would call me shortly. He didn’t. So I rang him a few times the following day and text him to say I was concerned. He eventually answered at 10pm and had a go at me for the messages I sent about his wife. Apparently on Saturday he’d fallen off a step ladder and had a seizure and he wasn’t allowed his phone because he wasn’t allowed to incur extra stress. He said he was angry that I automatically believed something so poor of him, rather than thinking something could have happened. He said he needed time and I asked if that meant I shouldn’t contact him. He said that wasn’t what he was saying. But basically, I left that conversation confused and vulnerable.
Since then, all week I’ve been trying to contact him and he’s not responded to my calls or messages. At the current time, my WhatsApp has been on unread since Tuesday night. I tried to ring him earlier and he sent me a message saying he’d gone away with his son for the weekend to spend some time and get some headspace. He went onto say that “I just can’t do this with all that’s going on right now in my life. I just can’t give you what you deserve and it’s not fair on either of us to have to battle this hard trying to make it work especially so early in the relationship”.
It’s worth noting that X and I have had this exchange multiple times. The first one was in January. He always says he hasn’t got the time to give me what I deserve because of what he’s got going on in his life but then we make contact again. He always says he’ll try to change but we just end up in the same spot. And I probably do come across as needy because I’m the type that can’t just do the no contact thing and I get frustrated when someone doesn’t call me back or respond. After we tell eachother why it’s not working, he’ll either keep me stewing for a few days or message like absolutely nothing has happened. The only difference this time is that he's not read any of my messages since Tuesday.
Why does he keep coming back? What the hell is going on?
I definitely think he's attracted to me. He always asks for photos, calls me gorgeous and the last time he was here he barely made it through the front door so it must be something else. And can that go after 2 weeks? If basically nothing has happened other than he got annoyed I concluded I’d been stood up and he was still with his wife.
He’s always put up with my frequent contact and outbursts before, so I can’t see it being that, unless it’s something that has finally turned into a drain.
I’d really appreciate your utterly ruthless feedback on all this. No feelings spared. You can insult me, tell me I’m terrible and it’s all my fault. I want to hear it all.
I feel like I have no idea on if I’ve got been completely done over, or if I’m overreacting and this treatment is perfectly fine.
Are there any guys who can give me an insight into this behaviour. Is he even into me at all? Is it likely I’ll hear from him again and should I run, or is that my friends being dramatic? Honestly, another guy asked me if I was OK the other day and I was totally overwhelmed by that as it’s so normal to just be treated how I am by X.
Oh I should also add that this relationship left me feeling so mentally battered that I lost two stone, got diagnosed with clinical depression and had to be put on meds. At one point I was so isolated in my bed that I called a mental health nurse asking for help and they ended up calling an ambulance as they thought I wanted to kill myself. So there must be something about this that is so wrong.
Thanks for getting to end, I appreciate it. And hopefully feedback will help someone else because I can't find a situation quite like mine.

I am looking for a database of all the chemical interactions we know about in structured form (XML, JSON, or some other computer-readable data format), does such a thing exist? Like this interaction visualization, for example.
I looked at part of the BioGRID database, but it only had "interaction" data (molecule a "interacts with" molecule b), listed in rows of tab-delineated text, not more detailed interaction information (was this inhibitory, or does it combine to form a third entity, etc.). I would like richer information than that, do you have any pointers where this could be found (ideally free / open)?
Pasted this question into ChatGPT, here is what it said, do you agree? Have anything better or more specific places within these huge data services where I should focus my attention?
Also, do I have to combine data from multiple sources, or is there a "one place fits all" solution?

I have the 4070 TiS installed on a Z790 PG Sonic MB.
When I installed the 4070 in the primary PCIe lane (gen 5 x16) the PC would crash on login to Windows every time. It would boot to the login screen and could sit there indefinitely with no problems but as soon as I login it black screen restarted.
After pulling my hair out from trying to figure out what was wrong I eventually moved the GPU to the secondary PCIe slot 4 x16.
When I did that the PC became stable. I settled for that miracle and have been using it like that for about 2 months give or take.
Now I'm trying to run unreal engine 5 and every time I open it I get a crash report stating "GPU Crashed or D3D Device Removed. Check Log for GPU state information. A GPU mini dump was be saved in the Logs folder."
Yes it says "was be saved" which, while funny I'm getting tired of seeing. On the bright side while I don't know much about this personally I was able to find the log or in this case logs folder and found several files.
What they are talking about seems to be my system specs and what failed. It looks like VtuneApi.dll and it's 32 bit counterpart. It says they don't exist.
I'll be adding the log file to this post when I switch to PC.
This isn't the only thing the system has been failing to run and it's not the only problem I've noticed.
I also see what I would describe as artifacting in the display. For a few seconds when things open or are closed I'll see pixels not being rendered and in some cases they jump around so it'll look like speckles being randomly placed on the screen for a moment.
When I received my 4070 and tried to install it originally I believed it to be defective so I returned the first one.
I don't know the odds of getting two defective in a row but honestly I suspect the MB just as much as the GPU at this point.
Please help!
Thanks in advance.
**Edit to include crash log from unreal engine. Log Below.
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Leviathan, the Eikon of Water concept art
Leviathan, the lost Eikon of Water, has finally been found! After months of waiting, the Rising Tide downloadable content (DLC) has been released and with it, I am once again rambling about the mythological, religious, and cultural inspirations behind the Eikons of Final Fantasy XVI. If you would like to check out any of my previous posts on the subject of Eikons, you can find them here:

1.) Phoenix

2.) Ifrit

3.) Shiva

4.) Ramuh

5.) Garuda

6.) Titan

7.) Bahamut

8.) Odin

As I’ve said in the past, if you feel that I may have said something wrong, or if you would like to add to what information I have provided; by all means please do so. I absolutely welcome the discussion.
The sea serpent Leviathan, like most of the Eikons, has been a staple of the Final Fantasy series since its introduction as one of the original summons#Summon_Magic) from 1990’s Final Fantasy III. While modern usage of the terms “leviathan” and “behemoth” are often used to denote something large and imposing, these words actually originate as the names of two creatures from the Tanakh (or Hebrew Bible). According to the verses 40:15-41:34 in the Book of Job, Leviathan and Behemoth are two gigantic and nigh indestructible animals born around the same time as the creation of the first two humans Adam and Eve, with Behemoth residing over the wilderness east of the Garden of Eden called Duidain and Leviathan bound to the watery Abyss) as stated in verses 60:7-10 in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. While the term abyss may bring to mind the idea of a bottomless hole or even an underworld such as the Greek Hades, Hebrew Sheol, or Christian Hell; the Septuagint, the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, often uses the term abyss to instead refer to deep bodies of water. In fact, Abyss is the translated noun for the Hebrew Tehom, or the “deep” primordial waters from which the god Yahweh formed the world after the creation of light as stated by the verses 1:2-10 in the Book of Genesis; which is but one example of the cosmic ocean motif, whereby existence is conceptualized as originating from a watery void. I find it very interesting then that the Abyss is referenced several times in the Rising Tide DLC, such as in the name of Leviathan’s Eikonic ability Abyssal Tear; the Motes of Water adage “Know that even should you walk Abyss, our hands will guide you home” from the Minwu Arm Ring description; or the description of the Radiant Tidestrike weapon that says “Surge did the tide, the water rising as if it were some mighty whale stranding itself upon the shore. Behold, the Devourer of Worlds. The beast within whose foul belly our hopes are carried unto the Abyss. - Eikonomachy - Book of Currents 15:40-41”.
From the aforementioned verses of the diegetic Book of Currents, as well as one of the Active Time Lore Entries for Leviathan that states “Old writings clearly speak of Dominants past summoning great whale-like creatures capable of swallowing entire cities…”; we can possibly see a reference to Leviathan) swallowing the protagonist Firion and his allies on their way to the Mysidian Tower in Final Fantasy II. However, I would suggest that these quotes go further than mere references to past games and are actually an allusion to the parable of Jonah surviving in the belly of a whale from the eponymous Book of Jonah. For those unfamiliar with the story, the Hebrew prophet Jonah was tasked by God to preach on His behalf to the citizenry of Nineveh in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Jonah instead refuses the call, and attempts to sail across the sea to Tarshish. On the journey, Jonah and the sailors he is accompanied by are caught in a huge storm, and believing that Jonah’s dismissal of God is the cause, the sailors thus throw him overboard. God then sends a whale to swallow Jonah, with the intention of preventing the Israelite from drowning. Miraculously surviving in the whale’s stomach for 3 days, Jonah vows to do God’s bidding and is thus safely returned to shore, whereby he travels to Nineveh and beseeches the citizens to renounce their wicked ways, lest they be visited by calamity. This story is meant to illustrate that Yahweh is a merciful god who allows for second chances, giving not only Jonah, but also the Ninevites the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and redirect their course of actions.
With this parable in mind, I would like to mention that in 1949, literary professor Joseph Campbell published “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”; a work of comparative mythology in which he proposed his idea of the Monomyth (later called the Hero’s Journey). Campbell’s theory of the Monomyth posits that while most narratives involving a heroic protagonist may have differing contents, these stories also typically follow a similar pattern; that being a three-act structure comprised of 17 subset stages. One such stage in Campbell’s model is the Belly of the Whale (sometimes also referred to as the Abyss), one of the literally or figuratively lowest points in the story for the protagonist in which the hero must engage in introspection and commence a process of self-transformation if they are to be equipped to finish their journey. This stage acts as a symbolic death and rebirth for the protagonist, with some Christians even interpreting Jonah’s story as actually being an allegory for Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection.
A prime example of this stage can be seen in Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, whereby the eponymous puppet Pinocchio and his creator Geppetto are swallowed by the Terrible Dogfish; with the typically irresponsible and selfish Pinocchio instead performing a self-sacrificial act in order to save his “father”, which he is thus rewarded for by being brought back to life as a human by the Fairy with Turquoise Hair. Viewing the Pinnochio narrative as an example of a more modern mythical epic, Thomas J. Morrissey and Richard Wunderlich state in “Death and Rebirth in Pinocchio”; “Gods can die and be reborn, or rise from the dead. Such mythological events probably imitate the annual cycle of vegetative birth, death, and renascence, and they often serve as paradigms for the frequent symbolic deaths and rebirths encountered in literature. Two such symbolic renderings are most prominent: re-emergence from a journey to hell and rebirth through metamorphosis. Journeys to the underworld [Katabasis] are a common feature of Eurasian literary epics: Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Aeneas, and Dante all benefit from the knowledge and power they put on after such descents. Rebirth through metamorphosis, on the other hand, is a motif generally consigned to fantasy or speculative literature… These two figurative manifestations of the death-rebirth trope are rarely combined; however, Carlo Collodi’s great fantasy-epic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is a work in which a hero experiences symbolic death and rebirth through both infernal descent and metamorphosis”. We as the player also experience this Belly of the Whale stage in Final Fantasy XVI, when our heroes Clive Rosfield and Jill Warwick confront the Dominant of Darkness Barnabas Tharmr on the seafloor of the sundered Naldia Narrow, appropriately labeled as the Abyss, whereby Clive is soundly defeated by Barnabas for a second time. Fleeing their assailant, Clive and Jill consummate their love for one another on the shore of Ash, with Clive acquiring a portion of the Eikon Shiva’s powers from Jill so that he may finally triumph over Barnabas in a battle of physical prowess and ideals; proving to the false prophet and his God that compassion and the desire for freedom will always overcome any adversity.
With all this talk of whales, I should mention that from the descriptions as given in the Book of Job, Behemoth sounds to resemble that of a large ox or hippopotamus, while Leviathan is suggested as being similar to that of the tanninim) or “great whales” mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. In fact, Islamic folklore has its own variant of this terrestrial and aquatic duo, that being the large bull Kujata and the even larger whale Bahamut; as outlined by the medieval cosmographer Zakariya al-Qazwini in his seminal work “The Wonders of Creation”. Even though I am going to hazard a guess that the name of the Kuza Beast), a variant of the Behemoth enemy in several Final Fantasy games, is named after Kujata; it is quite obvious on the other hand that the draconic Eikon Bahamut borrows its name from the Islamic whale of the same name as well as the dragon god Bahamut) from the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. While the Book of Job describes Leviathan as being a whale or even a crocodile as suggested by a footnote in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, verse 27:1 in the Book of Isaiah instead equates Leviathan to a sea serpent or dragon, with the Book of Job description also making it a point to mention Leviathan’s fearsome fiery breath. Given its status as a tutelary god for the Japanese-inspired nation of Wutai in Final Fantasy VII, it could be argued that Leviathan in the Final Fantasy series also shares similarities with Eastern dragons, such as the Chinese Lóng or Japanese Ryū; beneficent, serpentine deities of water and rain.
It is presumed that the figure and name of Leviathan actually originates from the older Canaanite sea monster Lôtān, whose name in the Ugaritic language meant “coiled” and was given the epithets “the fugitive serpent” or “the wriggling serpent”. In the first two tablets of the fragmentary Ugaritic Baal Cycle text, the storm god Baal (Lord) Hadad engages in a feud with the deification of the sea Yammu) to succeed their father El) as the ruler of the gods. At some point in this first chapter of the Baal Cycle, Hadad strikes down the seven-headed serpent Lôtān, who given the missing pieces of the text, could either be a servant of or another name for Yammu, with it also being believed that the monster was a zoomorphic representation of the Lebanese Litani River. Why I bring this up is to illustrate that Hadad’s defeat of Lôtān is but one example of the Chaoskampf mytheme, a pattern found in numerous Indo-European mythologies whereby a younger storm god or culture hero representing order and human civilization slays an ancient serpent or dragon associated with water that represents primordial chaos); perhaps a sentiment held by early agricultural riverine civilizations wishing to triumph over the constant and often devastating threat of floods.
One of the oldest examples of this mytheme is that of the Mesopotamian god Marduk’s dismemberment of Tiamat. According to the Babylonian Enūma Eliš, in the beginning there existed only Tiamat, the female personification of salt water; and Abzu, the male personification of fresh water. From the union of the two primeval waters sprang forth the first generation of gods called the Anunnaki. One such god, Enki (or Ea) would capture and kill Abzu after he plotted to kill his children due to the commotion they were causing. Enraged by Enki’s actions, Tiamat gave birth to eleven monstrous children to wage war against the gods along with her new consort Kingu, who possessed the Tablet of Destinies); the mark of divine rule. Marduk, the son of Enki, challenged Tiamat and her monsters, eventually slaying his opponents with lightning and storm winds. Defeated, Tiamat’s body was sliced in twain, with the two halves becoming the sky and earth. From an earlier promise made with the Anunnaki and the Igigi (lesser gods) as well as the acquisition of the Tablet of Destinies from the beaten Kingu, Marduk was made king of the gods; later mixing the blood of Kingu with clay to also become the creator of mankind.
Through the lens of the Chaoskampf mytheme, we can start to see connections between Tiamat’s dismemberment, the defeat of the multi-headed Lôtān, and Leviathan form. The non-canonical Book of Enoch actually specifies that the land-dwelling Behemoth is male, while the aquatic Leviathan is female; possibly creating an inadvertent association between Leviathan and the sea goddess and mother of monsters Tiamat. This may also be why Leviathan’s Chronolith Trial is named the Hand of Tethys. While still following the moons of Saturn naming convention, it is very fitting that the trial is also named after the Greek Tethys); wife of the world-encompassing river Oceanus and mother to the male river gods and female water nymphs called the Potamoi and Oceanids, respectively. Furthering the connections to Tiamat and Lôtān, several accounts in the Hebrew Bible describe Yawheh triumphing over the forces of the sea, such as in Isaiah 51:9-10 “Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab) to pieces, who pierced that monster through? Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed may cross over?” and Job 26:12-13 “By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent”. It is believed that Rahab, while occasionally used as a flowery term for Egypt or arrogance, was also a sea serpent either comparable to or synonymous with Leviathan. While Leviathan’s death at the hands of Yahweh in Isaiah 27:1 is viewed as a metaphor for the enemies of Israel who will submit to the Hebrew God, the Chaoskampf and the connection with the Canaanite Lôtān is further shown in verse 74:14 from the Book of Psalms, which says “Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness”; which is where the name of the trophy for beating Leviathan on Final Fantasy mode, Thou Brakest the Head, comes from.
Along with the account of Leviathan’s death in Psalms 74:12, several other Jewish sources, such as the Second Book of Esdras 6:47-52, the Apocalypse of Baruch 29:4, and the Bava Batra tractate in the Talmud state that Yahweh will slay Leviathan and Behemoth so that their flesh shall be given as food and shelter to the righteous during the End of Days and the Messianic Age. This may explain why the Behemoth King in FFXVI has several attacks referencing Christian eschatology from the Book of Revelation, such as the Four Horsemen; personifications of War, Conquest, Famine, and Death that herald the Last Judgment; and the Apocalypse, another term for a revelation which has since become synonymous with a cataclysmic end-time event, like the battle at Armageddon for instance. Leviathan and Behemoth’s statuses as eventual sacrifices is very similar to the role that Leviathan and its Dominant unfortunately play in Final Fantasy XVI.
Both DLCs, the Echoes of the Fallen and the Rising Tide, deal with themes of rectifying the sins of the past; whereby the Fallen and the Motes of Water engaged in questionable behavior in an attempt to create their own Mothercrystals to disastrous effect. The Motes of Water, a central focus of the Rising Tide, are a tribe originating from the southern coast of the continent of Ash and hosts to the Dominants of the Eikon Leviathan. After the loss of their Mothercrystal Drake’s Horn, the tribe migrated across the twin continent of Storm; where they were mercilessly persecuted by several groups, particularly the Greagorian faithful of the burgeoning Holy Empire of Sanbreque, causing the tribe and their Eikon to become “lost” to history. Due to their nomadic nature as well as Sanbreque’s similarities with the Roman and Holy Roman Empires, one could say that the Motes of Water mirror the Jewish Diaspora (exile) and transformation of the faith after the Roman Empire’s siege on Jerusalem) and the destruction of the Second Temple during the First Jewish-Roman War; or perhaps one could say the tribe is treated in a similar fashion to the oft demonized itinerant Romani people of eastern Europe. Either way, the Motes of Water are meant to represent the “Other”; ostracized outsiders to the customs of Storm who hid themselves away from the rest of the world to avoid further religious persecution.
After finding sanctuary in the northern territory of Mysidia, the Motes of Water tried to create for themselves a new Mothercrystal to replace the Northern Territories’ own shattered Mothercrystal called Drake’s Eye. The story of the Motes of Water is one of loss and a constant fight to carve out a place in the world to call their own, so it is no surprise then that they wished to regain something taken away from them so many years ago. However, the tribe would engage in a terrible act, enraging their Eikon Leviathan that laid dormant within the infant Dominant Waljas, and freeze both the baby and the Eikon in time to essentially act as an aether battery. Unsuccessful in turning Waljas into the heart of a Mothercrystal, all the tribe achieved was robbing the poor baby of its life and autonomy, imprisoning the Dominant and the tidal wave it summoned in that moment where the tribe’s greatest sin occurred for 80 years.
This frozen tsunami, dubbed the Surge, is not only a monument to the tribe’s greatest shame, but is also a constant looming threat over the tribe’s village of Haven; a reminder to never again engage in such a transgression, lest they be met with watery doom. This mirrors not only Jonah preaching to the Ninevites to change their ways, but also God’s warnings against individuals sacrificing children to Moloch in the Book of Leviticus 20:2-5. In fact, as ProfNoctis suggests in his video “Final Fantasy XVI Lecture Stream: The Mythos of Leviathan Part 2”; Leviathan and the Surge are symbols of human and divine regret, with Ultima, the creator of mankind and the Mothercrystals, referring to Leviathan as its “most profaned fragment”; due to the Eikon being rested from its creator’s control and the act of creating a man-made Mothercrystal being a repeat of the Fallen’s blasphemous attempts at attaining godhood during the War of the Magi and the Sins of Dzemekys, flagrant displays of mankind’s development of free will which is anathema to Ultima’s collective identity.
As a symbol of divine regret, the Surge could be seen as a parallel to the Flood from the Book of Genesis. Deluge or flood myths are motifs that can often be found amongst cultures residing near the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Persian Gulf such as Egypt, Greece, and Israel; with these stories usually recounting a tale in which a deity or deities summon a world-wide flood as a form of divine retribution. One of the earliest examples is the Mesopotamian Epic of Atra-Hasis, in which mankind was created by the gods to act as servants and laborers. However, due to overpopulation, the storm god Enlil seeks to reduce their numbers by bringing forth a great flood. Enki, seen as a benefactor of mankind, warns the human Atra-Hasis about the flood, telling him to build a boat to protect himself, his family, and his livestock from the deluge. After seven days, the waters recede and Enki and Enlil agree on other means of maintaining the human population. This story is also thought to have been later adapted in Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where the survivor of the flood is renamed Utnapishtim; though both the Atra-Hasis and Gilgamesh flood accounts seem to originate from an even older source called the Eridu Genesis. Similarly, the Greeks also had a deluge myth, as outlined in the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where Deucalion, the human son of the divine Prometheus, is warned by his father to build a chest for himself and his wife Pyrrha to escape a gigantic flood that the storm god Zeus plans to bring forth as a response to the insufficient offering given to him by Lycaon), the king of Arcadia); with the pair washing up on Mount Parnassus nine days after the storm.
There are several theories, such as the Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis, that propose that the ancient Middle East did indeed experience a large flood at some point in the very distant past. Given that flood myths are thus believed to have originated from Mesopotamia, it should come as no surprise that the Hebrew flood narrative bears similarities to the previously discussed deluge myths as well. According to chapters 6-9 in the Book of Genesis, God grows increasingly distraught over the wicked nature of the humans descended from Adam and Eve and their inadvertent creation of sin, and so decides to reset creation to a state of watery chaos. God warns one of the few moral men, the Antediluvian patriarch named Noah, about His plan to flood the world and instructs him to build an ark to house himself, his family, and two of each animal to be the first creatures to inhabit the new world. After the firmament breaks forth and floods the world for 40 days, Noah’s Ark washes up on Mount Ararat. Noah then builds an altar, with God forming a covenant with Noah whereby He declares to never again summon a flood to devastate the world. As Genesis 9:9-17 states, this promise between Noah and God is commemorated by the rainbow, a symbol of peace; which as ProfNoctis points out, also appears once Clive saves Waljas.
Through a certain perspective, the Flood could be seen as a sort of baptism, a spiritual cleansing of the world through physical water. Baptism is considered one of the 7 sacraments of the Christian Catholic denomination; a rite of initiation whereby the individual joining the faith is either submerged in or sprinkled with water three times, representing the purification of sin and the grace given by the Holy Trinity. This is not unlike the Rite of Immersion that the infant Waljas is granted at the conclusion of the Rising Tide DLC; a ceremony for all babies born into the Motes of Water in which the initiate is sprinkled with mountainous rain water from Maiden’s March, river water from Riversmeet, and sea water from Tailwind Bay. The water used in this rite is used as a metaphor for life’s journey, likened by the tribe to that of a river, with this revealing that the Motes of Water hold a very cyclical view of life in a similar fashion to the Buddhist beliefs in reincarnation or the Lifestream from Final Fantasy VII. As the descriptions for the 3 kinds of water used in the ceremony state; “The rain that falls upon the mountains of Mysidia emerges in the springs of Maiden’s March. Thus the water collected from said springs represents birth-the fountainhead from which the river of life begins”, “In the Riversmeet valley, several tributaries merge into a single stream, where clear currents and roiling eddies swim side by side. Its water represents life-a course complete with myriad meanderings, yet one that runs inexorably from source to sea”, and “The Mysidian river empties into the ocean amid the shallows of Tailwind Bay, and thus its water represents death-the stillness that lies beyond the end of the river of life, and from whence the raindrops are born anew”. In fact, the symbol for the village of Haven is meant to be the combination of Leviathan’s scales and the river called the Ceaseless Rill, “...the circle of life that has neither beginning nor end”, not unlike the serpentine symbol of the Ouroboros. I would thus argue that not only does Leviathan represent regret and retribution, but also the chaotic journey of life.
If it’s not already apparent, I find Leviathan to be very interesting. I want to thank you all for sticking around and reading the whole thing, as I know this was a lot. If you would like to check out some more information about Leviathan, I would recommend checking out the videos “Leviathan of Final Fantasy VS the Leviathan of the Bible - FF16 The Rising Tide” by Country Kratos and “A Brief History of Final Fantasy Summons Final Fantasy Lore” by Alleyway Jack.
With the conclusion of both DLCs, Clive and by extension the player, is granted one additional Eikonic power. As such, I am actually going to do one more essay, which I will post next week. I hope you look forward to it and thank you again for reading this. Have a fantastic day!
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Never in a million years did I (28) imagine I would be in this predicament. I’ve been with my husband (29) for a decade, married for four years. I’m trying to make sense of things but I genuinely can’t understand what drove him to cheat. We went through a miscarriage November 2023 and I got pregnant again on April 2024. He knew I was pregnant before he left for a work trip, he was only going to be gone for two weeks. I always trusted him because he never gave me a reason not to. He always reminds me of how beautiful I am a day won’t go by that he won’t give me a compliment. He is very affectionate and he overall treats me like a Queen. When he got back from Chicago I went through his phone and found out he had payed for a bumble subscription and burner app subscription. He also went to the strip club with his co workers on his last day there because he claims his co workers were his ride. He withdrew $200 and I even asked him on that day why did you withdraw that much money. He could’ve admitted to it but he made up a lie. What’s strange about that is that we went to a strip club a month before that me and my sister in law let both of our man get a lap dance & me and my husband even got a lap dance together. I’m a really chill wife but I did tell him I’m not okay with his going to the strip club without me so why go behind my back when we can go together? He said he was texting only one girl and supposedly talking to three girls on bumble and that he never met up with them. He simply wanted the attention and said it has been a decade since he talked to someone new so he wanted to feel that feeling when you talk to a new person. He claims he had no intentions on ever meeting up with them or have a physical affair. This is really hard for me to believe because the reason why he got caught up in the first place is because of Reddit. I went on his search history and he was searching up “Hookups in Illinois” “swingers in Illinois” and “singles in Illinois”. He said he was just curious to see what was on there but he swears he never had intentions to have sex with someone else because he’s terrified of catching an STD and he says that overall the miscarriage really fucked him up mentally.
He is aware that he fucked up and seems genuinely sorry he knows there was no good excuse for him to cheat. However he says he felt a lack of emotional connection with me & our sex life hasn’t been great. He has communicated with me in the past but just like he has his complaints I do too. I’ve communicated with him and explained why I don’t feel turned on and I’ve dealt with so much shit. He has a drinking problem and when he drinks he becomes aggressive (he has never laid his hands on me). Throughout the years I learned that he has childhood trauma and that’s why I try to be patient with him. I’ve told him he needs to work on himself and just like I wouldn’t listen to him he wouldn’t listen to me and there would never be any changes between us. I explained to him just because I too sometimes feel neglected because ever since we got married he doesn’t really take me out on dates. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna go cheat on him, I never felt the need to cheat. Despite that overall I don’t think our marriage was that bad for him to feel the need to cheat. He himself would even brag about our marriage all the time and say he’s so glad we’re not toxic like other people. We don’t argue often and we get a long very well. I’m devastated and heartbroken because I explained to him that I’m the only person in his life that is truly there for him and never left his side when things got tough. He doesn’t have a good relationship with his family his parents treat him bad. He only talks to his brother but even his brother is never really there for him. He only reaches out when he wants to drink with him. When we went through a miscarriage instead of being there for him he got drunk and took his car for a joyride… he attempted to commit suicide the day we came back from the hospital when I miscarried I truly believe he’s only alive because of me he even said it himself so why cheat on the woman that is the reason on why you haven’t ended your life?? I also want to add I can’t believe he payed to cheat you can literally download bumble for free…. When I googled his searces he looked up “how to delete bank transactions” so now it’s also financial infidelity. He was trying to hide the bumble and burner app transactions. There’s times when he has to take money from our savings to help pay the bills. We’re trying to save up for a house and it’s so frustrating that he would use our hard working money on bumble,burner & strip club. I also want to add before I found out about the cheating and when he got back from his work trip our sex life improved drastically! I was trying my best to improve our sex life because I looked at his google history and noticed he was watching porn everyday. I was concerned he had a a porn addiction, we were having sex 3-4 times a day and after that he actually stopped watching porn. I was trying my best to spice things up. Things were going great for us until I found about the cheating and I try to still have sex with him but I can’t even enjoy it because I have the cheating in the back of my mind. I think it would have been way better had he came clean and admitted to his mistakes rather than me having to find out on my own. He says he truly regrets it and claims he learned from his mistake and started therapy. He is willing to do whatever it takes to make this marriage work.
I’m not sure where to go from here, I’m trying to look past this but it’s very difficult for me to move forward. I’m so heartbroken and I’m trying my best not to stress out for the baby but it’s been so hard for me. There’s days when I can barely eat because of how depressed I am. The only reason why I’m trying to make things work is because he claims he didn’t have sex with anyone and because we’re expecting a baby. Have any of y’all been heartbroken, how did you heal from it and if you got cheated on did you stay and try to make the marriage work? If so do you have any advice on how to survive infidelity?

Purpose

This AutoHotkey script is designed to open your default browser and search the current clipboard content or the currently highlighted text. If the text is a regular string, it performs a Google search. If the text is a URL or a link, it opens the URL directly in the browser.

Instructions

1. Set Up:
   
   • Use the script WindowSpy.ahk to replace the variable win with the correct identifier for your default browser window.
   • Ensure AutoHotkey is installed on your system.
2. Usage:
   
   • Single Line: Highlight a single line of text (either a URL or a regular string) and activate the hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + C). The script will determine if it should open a URL directly or perform a Google search.
   • Multiple Lines: Highlight multiple lines of text (each line can be either a URL or a regular string) and activate the hotkey. The script will process each line individually, opening URLs directly and performing Google searches for regular strings.

Testing the Script

Single-line Tests

1. Highlight Test:
   
   • Highlight one of the test strings below and press Ctrl + Alt + C.
   • Example test strings:
     • funny cat videos
     • how to bake a pie
     • amazon.com
     • mail.google.com
     • https://github.com/slyfox1186/script-repo/
2. Clipboard Test:
   
   • Copy one of the test strings to the clipboard without highlighting it.
   • Press Ctrl + Alt + C to activate the script and test its ability to read from the clipboard.

Multi-line Tests

1. Highlight Multiple Lines:
   • Highlight all the lines at once starting with funny cat videos to the end of https://github.com/slyfox1186/script-repo/ and press Ctrl + Alt + C.
   • The script will process each line, opening URLs directly and performing Google searches for regular strings.

Test Strings

plaintext funny cat videos how to bake a pie amazon.com mail.google.com https://github.com/slyfox1186/script-repo/

Script Code

```autohotkey <sup>!c::</sup> { Browser := GetDefaultBrowser() win := "ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1 ahk_exe chrome.exe" ClipSaved := A_Clipboard ; Save the current Clipboard contents A_Clipboard := ""

SendInput("^c") ClipWait(0.5) ; Ensure the clipboard is not empty and wait a bit more if it is if !(A_Clipboard) A_Clipboard := ClipSaved ; Parse clipboard text by new lines Loop Parse, A_Clipboard, "`n", "`r" { searchText := Trim(A_LoopField, " `t`r`n") if !(searchText) continue ; searchText values that are a url/website/link will be passed directly to the browser as a non-Google search query if RegExMatch(searchText, "i)^(https?:\/\/)?([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}(\/.*)?$") searchThis := searchText else searchThis := "https://google.com/search?q=" . '"' . searchText . '"' ; Open the browser with the URL or search query Run(Browser . " --new-tab " . searchThis,, "Max") ; Attempt to bring the browser window to the foreground If !WinExist(win) { WinWait(win,, 2) WinActivate(win) WinMaximize(win) } Sleep 650 ; There is a Small delay to ensure the command is processed } ; Free the memory in case the clipboard was extensive ClipSaved := "" ; Clear the clipboard A_Clipboard := "" 

} GetDefaultBrowser() { ; Retrieve the ProgId for the default browser browserQuery := RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice", "ProgId") ; If a value was found for the registry entry ProgId then use it to get the default browser path. if (browserQuery) { ; Retrieve the application associated with the ProgId browserPath := RegRead("HKCR\" . browserQuery . "\shell\open\command",, "Default") ; Format the path to remove any command-line parameters if (browserPath) { browserPath := RegExReplace(browserPath, '"\s--.$', '"') ; Remove quotation marks for clarity browserPath := StrReplace(browserPath, '"', "") } } else { MsgBox "Unable to determine the default Browser Path from querying the registry." return } return browserPath } ```

Download the script

You can source the script here on GitHub.
Have a great day everyone and I hope you like the script!

Hi guys,
You might remember my old post about an archive I was working on of all the tracks deadmau5 released on his "fuckmylife" SoundCloud account over the years: my work on the archive is finally over, I organized all the info I was able to gather thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and other sources in this Google Sheets document (read the document FAQs for detailed info) and uploaded all the files on the Internet Archive here.
I made a similar document regarding the tracks deadmau5 released on his old "Suckscription" service on live.deadmau5.com, and user Hydra made a similar archive, based on the info in my document, of all the tracks in their highest quality available (almost all of them are the original WAV downloaded from the service at the time, and then converted to FLAC for space efficiency) which was also uploaded to the Internet Archive: you can find it here.
You can also find both archives in this subreddit's sidebar.
I'll paste the text of my SoundCloud archive entry on the Internet Archive, containing all the info and links you might need:
Deadmau5 "fuckmylife" SoundCloud Archive – version 1.0.2 (see changelogs below)
This is the archive of all the tracks, together with correct tags and cover arts, that Joel Zimmerman (a.k.a. deadmau5) uploaded to his "fuckmylife" SoundCloud page over the years, all the info for all the tracks were derived from the wayback machine and organized in this Google Sheets document (see the FAQs in the document for more info).
This archive is meant to be the most historically accurate possible and to preserve an otherwise lost part of deadmau5' production.
If you think you can contribute missing files/info to this archive contact me at any of my contacts you can find in the FAQs of the document below. To make it short these are the files we're still missing (for info missing see the Google Sheets document):

• "Dub5tepthingie": The file in the old archive is 5:42 instead of 1:08 and appears to be a fan made edit, Interestingly the first section of the file we have is exactly 1:08 long, and the waveform matches perfectly except for a fade out that was added at the end, so we cannot cut the rest and obtain back the original (still looking for the original rip)
• "Channel 41": The file in the old archive was 1:23 instead of 0:37 (and appears to be a fan edit): downloaded from Youtube in its native AAC VBR and Opus forms (still looking for an original SoundCloud rip)
• "mnml": Missing in the old archive: downloaded from Youtube in its native AAC VBR and Opus forms (still looking for an original SoundCloud rip)
• "Fn Pig": Missing in the old archive: Upsampled 320kbps MP3 version recovered thanks to Discord user Hydra (duration and waveform matches), still looking for an original SoundCloud rip
• "Track 01": The one in the old archive is an upsampled 320kbps MP3 version (probably originating from Youtube), a better 320kbps MP3 version recovered thanks to Discord user Hydra (still looking for an original SoundCloud rip)
• "drop the poptart": The one in the old archive is an upsampled 320kbps MP3 version (probably originating from Youtube), still looking for an original SoundCloud rip
• "Gula" [the 4:22 one]: Missing in the old archive: downloaded from Soulseek user WonderingMeow (duration and waveform matches) and is an upsampled 320kbps MP3 version (still looking for an original SoundCloud rip)
• "fuck you too": The one in the old archive is an upsampled 320kbps MP3 version (probably originating from Youtube), still looking for an original SoundCloud rip

TO DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE OR ON THE [⤓ 252 Original] BUTTON ON THE RIGHT
Content of this archive:

• "2010-2013" folder: The 147 tracks Joel uploaded to his SoundCloud from the beginning to the complete wipe on 11/01/2014 together with all the corresponding cover images when present
• "2014-2016" folder: The 46 tracks Joel uploaded to his SoundCloud from after the hiatus to the hacking of his account on 24/05/2016 together with all the corresponding cover images when present
• "Other formats" folder: Some of the tracks that are still visible in the original SoundCloud account were ripped in 256kbps AAC format thanks to SoundCloud GO+ (using yt-dlp with maximum quality settings), alternative 128kbps MP3 versions of these tracks (also directly ripped with yt-dlp) are included in this folder. This also includes tracks that were downloaded from Youtube in their alternative Opus format, tracks that were recovered thanks to Discord user "Hydra" in 320kbps MP3 form (this is upsampled from the original 128kbps SoundCloud rip, and some of them have also fade-in/out added to them or different durations), and a 320kbps MP3 version of "BYE!" (converted by me from its original WAV). All these tracks have an identical set of tags to the main version in the other folders. See the FAQs below form more info
• "Profile picture 1 (2010-2012)" image: The "random cat meme" image Joel used as his profile picture on SoundCloud from 2010 to 2012
• "Profile picture 2 (2012-2016)" image: The "B&W portrait" image Joel used as his profile picture on SoundCloud from 2012 to 2016
• "deadmau5 fuckmylife SoundCloud archive (Google sheets).url" shortcut: A permanent and double-clickable link to the Google Sheets document on the web where all the info of this archive are stored and organized
• A README file with all the relevant info regarding this archive

Audio file name structure:

• Track number - Title [other info like "DL from Youtube" or numbers for differentiating between tracks with identical titles]

for example:

• 001 - Dub5tepthingie [Not original file].mp3

Cover images have the same file name of the corresponding audio file.
Audio file tags structure:

• TITLE: The exact track title as it appeared on SoundCloud
• ARTIST: fuckmylife
• ALBUMARTIST: deadmau5
• ALBUM: SoundCloud
• TRACK: Order of upload on SoundCloud
• DISCNUMBER: 1/2 for the pre-wipe tracks, 2/2 for the post-wipe ones
• YEAR: Date of upload in YYYY-MM-DD format
• GENRE: Electronic
• COMMENT: Info about tracks removed from soundcloud, tracks that were downloadable from SoundCloud and tracks that are not original SoundCloud rips and their alternative source
• WWW: Link to the Google sheets document

Cover images are included in the tags too.
FAQ from the google sheet document:

• Q – We already have an archive of all deadmau5 "fuckmylife" SoundCloud tracks, why making another one? A – What I refer to as "the old archive" (it rather exists in multiple more or less complete versions out there in Mega/Drive links, torrents, etc.) is actually not complete at all and contains multiple errors as you might notice by the differences to this document: the tracks that were already removed or made private by Joel at the time the original author made the old archive were not known to them and thus not included, some of them were later added in subsequent versions of the archive but were not original 128kbps SoundCloud rips, and so are to be considered "altered" and worse quality, also a lot of dates and titles were wrong or partial. I wasn't satisfied with it and decided to use a proof-based method through the wayback machine to try and reconstruct the tracks list in the most accurate way possible (I did a similar document for the "Suckscription service" tracks, and discord user Hydra made a lossless archive).
• Q – This info is wrong, the wiki and MusicBrainz says something different! A – I updated the wiki with the more correct and complete info from this document, a new and better wiki was made, the page about the SoundCloud account was also made with info from this document. The MusicBrainz entry (and other sources like that) is derived from the old archive (a new MusicBrainz entry was made for this archive and will be kept updated).
• Q – Where is "Gula Redeux"? A – I looked extensively for proof of its existence on SoundCloud at any given moment but found none, this is not ultimate proof that it never existed either, but I lean more towards it not being a SoundCloud track: "Gula" (2nd version) and "777" were supposedly uploaded the same day and they both got a twitter post sharing them, while there is no trace of "Gula Redeux" anywhere, also, on 2013-11-23 the total tracks counter says there were 9 tracks on the account: those being the 7 deadly sins tracks + "Gula" (2nd version) and "777". We know for a fact that it was one of the "Suckscription service" tracks and it was probably included by mistake in the old archive by its author.
• Q – Where is "deadmau5 - Survivalism" (the one with no date in the filename)? A – This is included in some of the old archives you can find out there, not sure why: this is the same exact file of "Deadmau5 - Survivalism (ins)", most likely an error by the original author.
• Q – Where are the deadmau5 and Armin Van Buuren collaboration files? A – These were included in the old archive by its original author just to share them: they were never uploaded on SoundCloud (with the exception of "arm1n_3"), their origin is a series of Dropbox links posted on Twitter and, as such, they are beyond the scope of this archive and thus not included.
• Q – Where is the stuff from the official Deadmau5 SoundCloud account? A – That account, as far as I know, is managed by the label, not by Joel himself, and only includes stuff that is already officially released, so I'm not including it, this archive is for the "fuckmylife" stuff.
• Q – I have one of the missing original SoundCloud rips/I can fill some of the missing info, how do I contribute to this? A – Feel free to message me at u/scorched_boi on Reddit or send me an [email](mailto:askimpossiblegeometry@gmail.com), and thanks!
• Q – Why are some tracks M4A/Opus instead of MP3? A – The tracks that are still visible in the original account after it reappeared on 2024-04-02 were ripped using yt-dlp, some of them were available in both 128kbps MP3 format, and better 256kbps AAC (M4A) format, the latter was preferred because higher fidelty (the alternative MP3 versions are in the "Other formats" folder of the archive). The tracks that were not in the old archive and I wasn't able to find in their original SoundCloud rip form anywhere else (or at least as different bitrate MP3s), were downloaded by me from Youtube where they still survive. To avoid further compression and sound degradation I downloaded them in their native Youtube formats using yt-dlp, which are VBR AAC (M4A) and Opus (Opus is supposedly better quality, but not widespread supported, the Opus version is in the "Other formats" folder): tracks ripped from SoundCloud are already compressed to MP3 for streaming, uploading them to youtube compresses them again when they get converted to M4A/Opus, if I were to download them to MP3 again, they would go through a third stage of compression, further degrading them. Avoid converting them again, lossy-to-lossy conversion is not good.
• Q – Can I share this archive elsewhere/modify and repack it/make a torrent of it/etc.? A – Please don't, directly share the archive.org link instead, I don't want this archive to proliferate into a million different sligthly modified (and wrong) versions all over the internet like it was for the old archive, if you find some error or want to integrate it in some way just contact me and I'll do it myself, don't do it and share it yourself please.

Credits:
The google sheet document and this archive was made by u/scorched_boi (MagistraNocte on Discord and others, Impossible Geometry on SoundCloud), special thanks to all the people that contributed and helped me achieve this, in no particular order: the original author(s?) of the old archive and any subsequent version (haven't really been able to tell who it is, if you know, please let me know and I'll add it), Discord users Hydra, Thermospore and Good4Josh (and all the others that replied to questions), Reddit users u/Ok-Building-712, u/Insetta, u/DeadlySin9 and u/theofficialagp, Soulseek users notZX and WonderingMeow and all the people that uploaded tracks to Youtube back when they were being posted. Thanks also to anyone who might be able to contribute in the future with the still missing info and files that are listed in the document (contact me at any of my usernames above or [email](mailto:askimpossiblegeometry@gmail.com) me if you have any).
Changelog:
1.0.2

• Replaced "DAT KICK DOE" file with its original version now downloadable again directly from SoundCloud, also updated its 'comment' tag to reflect this
• Replaced all the files in the "2014-2016" folder with new files ripped directly from SoundCloud using yt-dlp with maximum quality settings in MP3 and/or AAC formats (some tracks are better quality AAC now thanks to SoundCloud GO+, see the "Other formats" folder for regular 128kbps MP3 versions), except for "DAT KICK DOE" (see above), "Gymnopedie No. BORED", "The Carp Is Mine", "fuck you too" and "saved"
• Updated "04 - Weekend at meowingtons" cover art with the original picture now downloadable directly from SoundCloud, updated the included jpg too
• Updated "Whelk then" and "Analogical" 'year' tag with correct info from the original track pages now visible again on SoundCloud

1.0.1

• Replaced "Friday - deadmau5 remix", "today, im french" and "Yesterday, before i was french (and cut)" with their supposed original SoundCloud rip versions thanks to u/DeadlySin9, and updated the tags accordingly
• Added missing 'comment' tag in "drop the poptart"

1.0.0

• Initial release

Whenever I get bumped or hit the ball to hard its like a 50% chance that my input delay becomes insanely bad and it is way worse in the air. Air dribbling is a nightmare my flip resets leave my car stuck to the ball or the car starts spazzing out. Assuming it is server desync or in my logs but I have tried everything else you could think of (bought new everything, new wifi, controllers, wires, headset,, mouse. for christ sake a new mouse pad and I play controller. It has been a good 3 months now with no solution I don't want I have to quit the game because god it is so satisfying and playing with music makes my heart whole but I see no option. I am top 3% in cod SnD and love the game but can't stand hackers anymore and how op controller aim assist is (I am MnK) but have tried controller and input is perfectly fine on every other game. My also attempt is logs and event viewer cuz I cannot read these things at all. Could it be the games net code? It does it in freeplay as well with my wifi connection disable. Losing my minddd here.
Log: Log file open, 01/06/2024 11:32:16
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Init: WinSock: version 1.1 (2.2), MaxSocks=32767, MaxUdp=65467
Log: ... running in INSTALLED mode
Init: Language extension: INT
Init: Language extension: INT
DevConfig: GConfig::LoadFile associated file: ..\..\TAGame\Config\TAUI.ini
Init: Version: 240425.56865.448852
Init: Compiled (64-bit): Apr 25 2024 16:13:35
Init: Command line: -AUTH_LOGIN=unused -AUTH_PASSWORD=00bbfa1523974ebf96336ff0a312de6a -AUTH_TYPE=exchangecode -epicapp=Sugar -epicenv=Prod -EpicPortal -epicusername="I am colombian" -epicuserid=e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b -epiclocale=en -epicsandboxid=9773aa1aa54f4f7b80e44bef04986cea
Init: Base directory: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\rocketleague\Binaries\Win64\
[0000.96] Log: Purging 30-day cache '..\..\TAGame\Cache\WebCache\*.*'...
[0000.96] Log: Purging 7-day cache '..\..\TAGame\Logs\*.dmp'...
[0000.96] Log: Purging 3-day cache '..\..\TAGame\Logs\*.log'...
[0000.96] Init: Computer: DESKTOP-OK58NB9
[0000.97] Init: User: G
[0000.97] Init: CPU Page size=4096, Processors=16
[0000.97] Init: High frequency timer resolution =10.000000 MHz
[0000.97] Init: Memory total: Physical=31.7GB (32GB approx) Pagefile=36.7GB Virtual=131072.0GB
[0000.97] Init: Presizing for 138000 objects not considered by GC, pre-allocating 0 bytes.
[0000.97] Init: Object subsystem initialized
[0001.07] Log: Using feature set PrimeUpdate50
[0001.11] Log: FOnlineSubsystemEOS: EOS version = 1.13.0-24551320
[0001.11] DevOnline: EOS Platform CacheDirectory=C:\Users\G\AppData\Local\Rocket League\
[0001.35] Log: Found D3D11 adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
[0001.35] Log: Adapter has 11996MB of dedicated video memory, 0MB of dedicated system memory, and 16250MB of shared system memory
[0001.36] Log: Found D3D11 adapter 1: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
[0001.36] Log: Adapter has 0MB of dedicated video memory, 0MB of dedicated system memory, and 16250MB of shared system memory
[0001.36] Log: Shader platform (RHI): PC-D3D-SM5
[0001.42] Breadcrumbs: Startup_PreInit: 1.420
[0001.44] Breadcrumbs: Startup_LoadGlobalShaders: 0.018
[0003.93] Log: ProductDatabase_TA::InitProductLabels 0.00 sec total.
[0003.96] Log: ProductDatabase_TA::UpdateAvailableProducts 0.03 sec total.
[0003.97] Breadcrumbs: Startup_LoadScriptPackages: 2.528
[0004.40] Breadcrumbs: Startup_LoadNonNativePackages: 0.439
[0004.41] Log: 143295 objects as part of root set at end of initial load.
[0004.41] Log: 0 out of 0 bytes used by permanent object pool.
[0004.41] Log: ShaderCache load stats: AccumLoadSeconds=(1.724) ShadersLoaded=(385582) Duplicates=(24444)
[0004.41] Log: Initializing Engine...
[0004.41] Log: BuildID: -1434241463 from GPsyonixBuildID
[0004.46] SystemSettings: Loading PC Settings
[0004.47] Breadcrumbs: Startup_BuildGuidCache: 0.063
[0004.49] Log: Running hardware survey...
[0004.49] Log: Wwise(R) SDK Version 2019.1.1 Build 6977. Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Audiokinetic Inc. / All Rights Reserved.
[0004.69] Log: OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (19045)
[0004.69] Log: WinSAT: 0.0 [0.0 CPU, 0.0 2D, 0.0 3D, 0.0 Mem, 0.0 Disk]
[0004.69] Log: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor (AMD64 Family 25 Model 97 Stepping 2) 8 Cores, 16 Threads
[0004.69] Breadcrumbs: Startup_ClientInit: 0.222
[0004.70] Log: Memory: 16.00GB
[0004.70] Log: Memory: 16.00GB
[0005.19] Log: VideoController: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (32.0.15.5585)
[0005.19] Log: Network Adapter: Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller
[0005.19] Log: Disk C: 1240.38GB free of 1675.86GB
[0005.19] Log: Disk D: 685.73GB free of 953.77GB
[0005.19] Log: Sound Device: Yeti Classic (OAB7)
[0005.19] Log: Sound Device: USB Audio Device
[0005.19] Log: Sound Device: USB Audio Device
[0005.19] Log: Sound Device: NVIDIA High Definition Audio
[0005.19] Log: Sound Device: Logitech PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset
[0005.19] Log: Hardware survey complete in 0.49 seconds.
[0005.19] Log: Detected 1 GPUs for rendering
[0005.96] Breadcrumbs: Startup_CreateViewport: 1.272
[0005.96] DevOnline: Created named interface (RecentPlayersList) of type (Engine.OnlineRecentPlayersList)
[0006.08] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Activate called successfully.
[0006.08] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Audio initialized successfully.
[0006.08] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Subscribed to game clips status events successfully.
[0006.08] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Subscribed to user status events successfully.
[0006.08] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Successfully initialized!
[0006.08] ScriptLog: PsyNet using environment DBE_Production Prod
[0006.08] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_0 disabled OSCS_ServiceUnavailable
[0006.08] PsyNetStaticData: HandleCacheExpired
[0006.08] PsyNetStaticData: HandleGetURL URL=(https://config.psynet.gg/v2/Config/BattleCars/-1434241463/Prod/Epic/INT/)
[0006.08] PsyNetStaticData: Blocking sync start
[0006.09] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_0 SEND: https://config.psynet.gg/v2/Config/BattleCars/-1434241463/Prod/Epic/INT/
[0006.19] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_0 RECV: 304
[0006.19] PsyNetStaticData: Blocking sync complete. Elapsed=0.1119
[0006.19] PsyNetStaticData: HandleDataChanged
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10244
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10267
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10272
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10287
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 7890
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 8463
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 8467
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10382
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10386
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 8464
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 8470
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 8465
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10159
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 5311
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 9906
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10044
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10130
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10131
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10132
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10133
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10134
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10212
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10213
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10214
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10236
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10388
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10389
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10406
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10430
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10435
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 9777
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 9653
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10694
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10689
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10093
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10174
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10690
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10691
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10724
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10725
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10713
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10714
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10715
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10726
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10727
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10728
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10729
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10711
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10712
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10730
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10731
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10657
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10658
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10659
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10660
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10343
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10344
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10345
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10346
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10358
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10359
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10356
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10361
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10328
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10329
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10330
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10331
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10572
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10420
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 9947
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10641
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10722
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10642
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 10723
[0006.20] Warning: Warning, Product not found for the XEStatusOverride: 9280
[0006.20] ScriptWarning: ScriptWarning, Assertion failed, line 33

ContentConfig\_TA Transient.Untitled\_0.ContentConfig Function ProjectX.ContentConfig\_X:Apply:01D5 

Script call stack:

Function ProjectX.OnlineConfigDispatcher\_X:ApplyConfigObject Function TAGame.ContentConfig\_TA:Apply Function ProjectX.ContentConfig\_X:Apply 

[0006.24] Log: ProductDatabase_TA::UpdateAvailableProducts 0.03 sec total.
[0006.78] Log: ProductDatabase_TA::InitProductLabels 0.00 sec total.
[0006.78] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_0 enabled
[0006.80] PsyNetStaticData: UpdateCacheTimerEnabled CacheTimer.bEnabled=(True)
[0006.80] EOSGameClips: Construct Constructed EOSGameClipsManager_TA. Self=(EOSGameClipsManager_TA_0)
[0006.80] AuthPsyNetVerbose: New auth error. Error 'OSCS_NotConnected'
[0006.80] AuthPsyNetVerbose: OnlinePlayerAuthentication_TA_0 None Unknown00 Logout
[0006.80] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_1 disabled OSCS_NotConnected
[0006.80] AuthPsyNetVerbose: PsyNet connection status changed. Error 'OSCS_NotConnected'
[0006.80] AuthPsyNetVerbose: New auth error. Error 'OSCS_NotConnected'
[0006.80] AuthPsyNetVerbose: OnlinePlayerAuthentication_TA_0 LoggedOut Unknown00 Logout
[0006.80] AuthPlatformCritical: Initiating auth. Player num '0', Name '', Password length '0'
[0006.80] ScriptLog: HandleBlockListStatusCreated Status=(PlatformBlockListStatus_0) ControllerId=(0)
[0006.80] AuthEpicCritical: Sending Eos login request with Credentials '{Version '3', Id Length '2', Token Length '32', Type 'EOS_LCT_ExchangeCode', SystemAuthCredentialsOptions null? 'Null', ExternalType 'EOS_ECT_EPIC'}'
[0006.80] SaveGame: Load Player.ControllerId=(0) SaveFileName=(..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b.save)
[0006.81] Breadcrumbs: Startup_InitOnlineSubsystem: 0.847
[0006.82] DevNet: Browse: MENU_Main_p
[0006.82] Log: LoadMap: MENU_Main_p
[0006.82] Exit: XAudio2 Device shut down.
[0006.83] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GameInfo_GFxMenu_SF.upk
[0006.85] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFxSounds_MainMenu_SF.upk
[0006.85] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_StartMenu_SF.upk
[0006.94] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_MainMenu_SF.upk
[0007.01] Log: Game class is 'GameInfo_GFxMenu_TA'
[0007.05] Log: Bringing World menu_main_p.TheWorld up for play (0) at 2024.06.01-11.32.22
[0007.05] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0007.21] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0007.21] Log: Bringing up level for play took: 0.190768
[0007.46] Log: ########### Finished loading level: 0.646738 seconds
[0007.47] Breadcrumbs: Startup_Browse: 0.660
[0007.47] Log: Initializing Engine Completed
[0007.47] Breadcrumbs: Startup_Total: 7.471
[0007.49] DevOnline: EOSSDK-LogEOSGameClips: Probing for recording system availability.
[0007.49] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_1 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/SpecialEvent/Images/rl_season-rush_event-screen_logo.png
[0007.50] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_2 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/SpecialEvent/Images/rl_season-rush_event-screen.jpg
[0007.50] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_3 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/LogoImages/S14/rl_s14_logo_EN_v2.png
[0007.52] SaveGame: HandleDataLoaded Result.Code=(BasicLoadResult_Success)
[0007.52] ScriptLog: NetworkSave_TA_0 ApplySettings ReplicationRate=60 NetSpeed=15000 InputRate=60
[0007.63] SaveData: Profile_TA_0 OnLoaded LocalID=(0)
[0007.65] ScriptLog: GetDLCProducts, UnlockedDLCList=
[0007.70] ScriptLog: GetDLCProducts, UnlockedDLCList=
[0007.70] SaveGame: LocalPlayer_TA_0 HandleSaveDataLoaded
[0007.72] FTECritical: [GFx] Changed active tutorial from 'null' to 'NONE'. Tutorial active? 'false', New checkpoint active? 'false'
[0007.72] FTEVerbose: Checkpoint 'None' attempted completion while the FTE isn't active!
[0007.74] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0007.88] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0008.00] Log: Found controller by Product Guid
[0008.00] XPGatedPlaylists: Not currently in a party.
[0008.00] DevOnline: EOSSDK-LogEOSGameClips: Recording supported and available.
[0008.00] DevOnline: EOSSDK-LogEOSGameClips: Recording availability changed from 'Pending' to 'Available'.
[0008.00] EOSGameClips: EOSGameClips: Availability changed from Pending to Available.
[0008.13] DevOnline: EOSSDK-LogEOSAnalytics: EOS SDK Analytics disabled for route [1].
[0008.18] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_2 RECV: 304
[0008.18] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_3 RECV: 304
[0008.21] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_1 RECV: 304
[0008.44] AuthEpicCritical: Eos login result 'EOS_Success' for player '0'
[0008.54] AuthEpicCritical: Connect login result 'EOS_Success' for player 'e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b', local num '0'
[0008.54] AuthPlatformCritical: Login status changed for player '0' to 'LS_LoggedIn'
[0008.54] AuthPlatformVerbose: Login attempt concluded
[0008.54] AuthEpicVerbose: Requesting cabined status for player '0'
[0008.54] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_4 SEND: https://api.epicgames.dev/epic/id/v1/accounts?accountId=e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b
[0008.54] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_1 enabled
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetVerbose: PsyNet connection status changed. Error 'None'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetVerbose: Transitioning to state 'RequestAuthCode'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetCritical: Requesting auth ticket from platform for 'Epice705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b0'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetCritical: Platform auth ticket completed with success 'True'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetVerbose: Transitioning to state 'SendLoginRequest'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetCritical: Sending login RPC for player 'e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b' Auth ticket required? 'True'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetCritical: Primary player ID? 'Epice705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b0' Logging In PlayerID 'e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b'
[0008.54] AuthPsyNetVerbose: OnlinePlayerAuthentication_TA_0 SendLoginRequest Epice705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b0 HandleLoginStatusChanged LS_LoggedIn Epice705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b0
[0008.54] Party: HandleLocalPlayerLoginStatusChanged PlayerName=I am colombian PlayerID=Epice705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b0 LoginStatus=LS_LoggedIn IsPrimary=True IsInParty=False
[0008.55] PsyNet: HTTP send ID=PsyNetMessage_X_0 Message=PsyNetMessage_X_0
[0008.55] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_5 SEND: https://api.rlpp.psynet.gg/rpc/Auth/AuthPlayev2
[0008.66] XPGatedPlaylists: Not currently in a party.
[0008.66] ScriptLog: GetDLCProducts, UnlockedDLCList=
[0008.72] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_4 RECV: 200
[0008.72] AuthEpicVerbose: Cabined request completed for user '0' with result 'False', Error 'None'
[0008.81] XPGatedPlaylists: Not currently in a party.
[0008.97] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_5 RECV: 200
[0008.97] PsyNet: HTTP recv ID=PsyNetMessage_X_0 Message=PsyNetMessage_X_1
[0008.98] AuthPsyNetCritical: PsyNet auth RPC succeeded for player 'e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b'
[0008.98] AuthPsyNetVerbose: Transitioning to state 'LoggedIn'
[0008.98] AuthPsyNetCritical: Login successful for player 'e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b'
[0008.98] Auth: OnlinePlayer_TA_0 OnlinePlayerAuthentication_TA_0 HandleAuthLoginChange Auth.bLoggedIn=(True)
[0008.98] PsyNet: Enabling PerCon
[0008.98] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_1 SetAuthorized bAuthorized=True
[0008.98] RankedReconnect: LocalPlayer_TA_0.CheckForRankedReconnect() bOpenedStartMenu=(False) IsMenuLevel=(True) bLoggedIn=(True) IsPrimaryPlayer=(True) RankedReconnectAvailable=(False) EpochTime=(0) EpochNow=(1717255944) TimeSince=(1717255944) ReconnectTimeoutSeconds=(900) Reservation=()
[0009.08] XPGatedPlaylists: Not currently in a party.
[0009.10] PsyNet: PsyNetMessengerWebSocket_X_0 Connected
[0009.10] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_1 UpdateConnectionState bConnected=(True) bFreshConnection=(True)
[0009.10] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_6 SEND: https://api.kws.ol.epicgames.com/v1/epic-settings/public/users/e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b/values?game=rl
[0009.10] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_7 SEND: https://api.epicgames.dev/epic/friends/v1/e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b/blocklist
[0009.10] DevOnline: PlayerDataStorage_QueryFileList: Beginning to query files. User=(e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b)
[0009.10] PsyNetBeaconDetail_X: PsyNetBeacon_X_0 SetPsyNetConnection InPsyNetConnection=(PsyNetConnection_X_1)
[0009.10] PsyNet: PsyNetConnection_X_1 UpdateConnectionState bPerConConnected=(True)
[0009.15] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_7 RECV: 200
[0009.18] DevOnline: PlayerDataStorage_QueryFileList: Finished querying files. User=(e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b) Success=(1)
[0009.18] DevOnline: PlayerDataStorage_ReadFile: Beginning to download file. User=(e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b) FileName=(RLSaveData)
[0009.19] ScriptLog: ListenForBlockListDownloaded PrimaryStatus=(PlatformBlockListStatus_0) PrimaryStatus.DownloadStatus=(EB_Pending)
[0009.26] ScriptLog: HandleStatusChanged PrimaryStatus.DownloadStatus=(EB_Success) ControllerId=(0)
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_6 RECV: 200
[0009.27] EOSPermissions: NS=chat SN=voice PL=null EL=null DV=0 IV=0
[0009.27] EOSPermissions: NS=chat SN=text PL=null EL=null DV=0 IV=0
[0009.27] EOSPermissions: NS=profile SN=require-pin-to-add-friend PL=null EL=null DV=False IV=False
[0009.27] EOSPermissions: NS=prm SN=marketing PL=null EL=True DV=True IV=True
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_8 SEND: https://api.epicgames.dev/epic/friends/v1/e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b/outgoing
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_9 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Play.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_10 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Shot.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_11 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Save.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_12 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Center.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_13 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Win.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_14 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_AerialGoal.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_15 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_SAG.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_16 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Clear.jpg
[0009.27] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_17 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeIcons/Challenge_Goal.jpg
[0009.28] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_18 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeBanners/NUX_Popup_Octane.png
[0009.28] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_19 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/SpecialEvent/Images/rl_season-rush_event-widget.png
[0009.28] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_20 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/SpecialEvent/Images/rl_season-rush_event_dashboard.png
[0009.28] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_21 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/ChallengeBanners/Season_imagery_Reward.png
[0009.29] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_22 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/RocketPass/Images/S14/rl_s14_dash.png
[0009.31] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_9 RECV: 304
[0009.32] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_8 RECV: 200
[0009.32] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_10 RECV: 304
[0009.34] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_23 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Playlists/Images/rl_event_mode_bg_beachball.jpg
[0009.34] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_24 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Playlists/Images/rl_event_mode_bg_heatseeker.jpg
[0009.34] ScriptLog: RegionPinger_X_0 PingRegions ("162.244.54.151:11209","34.71.158.59:8873","209.191.164.31:2647","213.179.218.186:2447","43.239.136.70:17092","54.255.181.63:8627","54.249.73.128:8237","157.175.177.48:8547","13.239.139.231:8341","185.179.201.70:14299","189.1.169.20:2967","65.2.142.41:8881")
[0009.36] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_12 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_11 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_14 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_15 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_17 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_19 RECV: 304
[0009.37] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_21 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_13 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_16 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_20 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_22 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_23 RECV: 304
[0009.38] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_24 RECV: 304
[0009.40] Log: FSaveDataExportTask(0) wrote 1949882 bytes to memory
[0009.40] Log: SaveGameDataAsync game thread time: 11 ms
[0009.41] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_18 RECV: 304
[0009.43] Log: Deleting old save file ..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b_2.save
[0009.43] Log: SaveDataExport(0): Finished - File:[..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b_1.save] Result:[1]
[0009.60] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0009.62] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0010.31] Matchmaking: All Regions Pinged: USE (0.0182),USC (0.0419),USW (0.0760),EU (0.1226),ASC (0.2313),ASM (0.2410),JPN (0.1765),ME (0.1920),OCE (0.2142),SAF (0.2534),SAM (0.1453),IND (0.2621)
[0010.31] Log: FCacheExportTask(..\..\TAGame\Cache\RegionCache.cache) wrote 1159 bytes to memory
[0010.47] DevOnline: PlayerDataStorage_ReadFile: File download complete. User=(e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b) FileName=(RLSaveData) Success=(1)
[0010.47] EOSSync: HandleFileReadComplete LocalSaveTick: 38060
[0010.47] EOSSync: HandleFileReadComplete OnlineSaveTick: 38055
[0010.47] EOSSync: HandleFileReadComplete Local Save is up to date, keeping this file
[0010.47] ScriptLog: NewProductIDs128:
[0010.47] ScriptLog: GetDLCProducts, UnlockedDLCList=
[0010.51] AuthEpicVerbose: Epic save data loaded
[0010.51] AuthEpicVerbose: [GFx] Epic login changed. m_uiState:StartMenu bPromptParentalConsent:false bPromptToChoosePrimaryAccount:false bEpicSaveDataLoaded:true bPlatformLinked:true
[0010.51] ScriptLog: GetDLCProducts, UnlockedDLCList=
[0010.52] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_25 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Legal/PC/EULA/INT.txt
[0010.52] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_26 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Legal/PC/PrivacyPolicy/INT.txt
[0010.52] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_27 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Legal/PC/ToS/INT.txt
[0010.52] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_28 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Legal/PC/SCT/INT.txt
[0010.52] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_29 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Legal/PC/PaymentServices/INT.txt
[0010.54] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_26 RECV: 304
[0010.54] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_27 RECV: 304
[0010.54] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_29 RECV: 304
[0010.55] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_25 RECV: 304
[0010.55] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_28 RECV: 304
[0011.30] EOSVoice: HandleFriendsListChanged
[0025.43] Log: Assigning DI controller to 0
[0025.66] Legacy: State Set
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'false', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup which is already completed and cannot be restarted CurrentActiveGroup.bCanBeDoneAgain=(False) bIgnoreCompletion=(False)
[0025.66] AuthEpicVerbose: [GFx] Showing login flow. Platform linked? 'true' Prompt for epic link? 'false' Prompt for primary? 'false' Prompt for parental consent? 'false' Epic data loaded? 'true' Showing epic flow? 'false'
[0025.66] AuthEpicVerbose: [GFx] Epic flow completed 'false'
[0025.66] FTE: Starting Group:Prime_LegalText at Checkpoint:FTE_PrimaryPlayerIsXboxGuest
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_CarSelect while another Group Prime_LegalText is active
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup while another Group Prime_LegalText is active
[0025.66] FTE: CompleteCheckpoint GroupName=(Prime_LegalText) CheckpointName=(FTE_PrimaryPlayerIsXboxGuest)
[0025.66] FTE: Moving to Checkpoint:FTE_PrivacyPolicy
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup while another Group Prime_LegalText is active
[0025.66] FTE: CompleteCheckpoint GroupName=(Prime_LegalText) CheckpointName=(FTE_PrivacyPolicy)
[0025.66] FTE: Moving to Checkpoint:FTE_EulaText
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup while another Group Prime_LegalText is active
[0025.66] FTE: CompleteCheckpoint GroupName=(Prime_LegalText) CheckpointName=(FTE_EulaText)
[0025.66] FTE: CompleteActiveGroup GroupName:Prime_LegalText
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup which is already completed and cannot be restarted CurrentActiveGroup.bCanBeDoneAgain=(False) bIgnoreCompletion=(False)
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_CarSelect Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup which is already completed and cannot be restarted CurrentActiveGroup.bCanBeDoneAgain=(False) bIgnoreCompletion=(False)
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_CarSelect Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_FreeToPlayTutorial_1 Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.66] FTECritical: [GFx] Changed active tutorial from 'null' to 'NONE'. Tutorial active? 'false', New checkpoint active? 'false'
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: Checkpoint 'None' attempted completion while the FTE isn't active!
[0025.66] FTEVerbose: [GFx] Checking FTE progress: Shown login flow 'true', Legal modal valid? 'true', Online? 'true', Cabined state '0', Legacy state '3'
[0025.66] FTEDev: Trying to start FTE Group Prime_InitialStartup which is already completed and cannot be restarted CurrentActiveGroup.bCanBeDoneAgain=(False) bIgnoreCompletion=(False)
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_CarSelect Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_FreeToPlayTutorial_1 Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.66] AuthEpicVerbose: [GFx] Epic login changed. m_uiState:MainMenu bPromptParentalConsent:false bPromptToChoosePrimaryAccount:false bEpicSaveDataLoaded:false bPlatformLinked:false
[0025.66] FTEDev: Group Prime_MatchComplete Is not meant for users of type FTESave.LegacyGroupType=(LGT_LegacyUser)
[0025.69] RankedReconnect: LocalPlayer_TA_0.CheckForRankedReconnect() bOpenedStartMenu=(True) IsMenuLevel=(True) bLoggedIn=(True) IsPrimaryPlayer=(True) RankedReconnectAvailable=(False) EpochTime=(0) EpochNow=(1717255960) TimeSince=(1717255960) ReconnectTimeoutSeconds=(900) Reservation=()
[0025.69] MTX: ConditionalClaimEntitlements bAllowEntitlements=(True) bClaimingEntitlements=(False) bEntitlementsDirty=(True) PsyNetConnected=(True) SplitscreenID=(0) bMtxCodeExpired=(False)
[0025.69] MTX: HandleMtxCode bSuccess=True
[0025.72] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_30 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/EsportsIcons/EsportsButtonIcon_RLCS_Open_Qualifier_6_24.png
[0025.74] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_30 RECV: 304
[0025.77] Log: FSaveDataExportTask(0) wrote 1949882 bytes to memory
[0025.77] Log: SaveGameDataAsync game thread time: 11 ms
[0025.79] Log: Deleting old save file ..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b.save
[0025.79] Log: SaveDataExport(0): Finished - File:[..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b_2.save] Result:[1]
[0025.87] MTX: HandleClaimSuccess Products=0
[0026.29] Online: TryToPlayOnline ControllerID=(-1)
[0026.29] Online: HandlePrivilegeCheckFinished PrivilegeCheck.bHasRestriction=(False)
[0026.29] Online: HandlePrivilegeCheck PrivilegeCheck.bHasRestriction=(False)
[0030.03] DevNet: Browse: UtopiaStadium_Lux_P?Game=TAGame.GameInfo_Soccar_TA?GameTags=Freeplay
[0030.10] Log: FSaveDataExportTask(0) wrote 1949882 bytes to memory
[0030.10] Log: SaveGameDataAsync game thread time: 11 ms
[0030.10] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0030.10] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0030.10] Log: LoadMap: UtopiaStadium_Lux_P?Game=TAGame.GameInfo_Soccar_TA?GameTags=Freeplay
[0030.12] DevOnline: PsyNet Flush Start TimeoutSeconds=0.250000
[0030.15] Log: Deleting old save file ..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b_1.save
[0030.15] Log: SaveDataExport(0): Finished - File:[..\..\TAGame\SaveDataEpic\DBE_Production\e705541d05394afb977496fedd55705b.save] Result:[1]
[0030.23] DevOnline: PsyNet Flush End
[0030.61] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GameInfo_Soccar_SF.upk
[0030.66] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFxSounds_XP_SF.upk
[0030.67] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFx_XPProgressMenu_SF.upk
[0030.70] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_EndGameMenu_SF.upk
[0030.73] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_WinnerMenu_SF.upk
[0030.74] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_MidGameScoreboard_SF.upk
[0030.74] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_MidGameMenu_SF.upk
[0030.76] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_HudMatchInfo_SF.upk
[0030.78] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\GFX_Hud_SF.upk
[0030.81] Log: Fully load package: ..\..\TAGame\CookedPCConsole\Mutators_SF.upk
[0030.82] Log: Game class is 'GameInfo_Soccar_TA'
[0030.85] Log: Bringing World UtopiaStadium_Lux_P.TheWorld up for play (0) at 2024.06.01-11.32.46
[0030.85] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0030.85] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0030.85] MatchBroadcast: Init bBroadcastMatch=(False) MatchLog=(None)
[0030.85] ScriptLog: MatchTypeClass=(MatchType_Offline_TA)
[0030.85] Log: Bringing up level for play took: 0.033896
[0031.01] EOSVoice: Not requesting voice token, no MatchGUID
[0031.01] Log: ########### Finished loading level: 0.903565 seconds
[0031.01] DynamicMapEvents: Activating event: bEventActive=(False) EventId=(Event1)
[0031.01] DynamicMapEvents: Activating event: bEventActive=(False) EventId=(Event2)
[0031.01] DynamicMapEvents: Activating event: bEventActive=(False) EventId=(Event3)
[0031.17] Log: Flushing async loaders.
[0031.17] Log: Flushed async loaders.
[0031.19] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_31 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Ads/Prod/187.eSjbm20f/201.jpg
[0031.23] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_31 RECV: 304
[0031.34] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_32 SEND: https://rl-cdn.psyonix.com/Ads/Prod/187.eSjbm20f/202.jpg
[0031.39] DevOnline: WebRequest_X_32 RECV: 304
[0062.22] SplitScreen: Press Start ControllerId=0 Player=LocalPlayer_TA_

I’m in the US and was born in 1992. Got my first phone at 11 in 2003 (a hand me down Sony Ericsson T61c on Verizon on my grandpa’s plan). I was obsessed with phones ever since. My first “real” phone of my own was a Nokia 3595 on Cingular on my parents’ plan. Gotta love the days of rollover minutes, free nights and weekends, text messages at 10 cents per, and panicking if you accidentally joined mobile web. I’ve easily had over 100 models since.
I am extremely nostalgic for some and it got me wondering - what are your top favorite phones of all time?
My favorites:
1) BlackBerry Bold 9700 (AT&T) 2) BlackBerry Bold 9000 (AT&T) 3) Gen 1 iPhone (Cingular) 4) Samsung Blackjack II (AT&T) 5) Motorola RAZR V3 (Cingular - had a black, silver, and blue) 6) Samsung D807 (Cingular - had a black and a white one, white was my favorite) 7) Sony Ericsson W810i (Cingular) 8) Nokia 3595 (Cingular)
I ALWAYS wanted a Sidekick II and Sidekick III, but I live in rural Central IL and T-Mobile didn’t have service where I live. It still isn’t great. Honorable mentions to the Motorola A630, Motorola V80, Motorola PEBL, Sony Ericsson S710i, and Nokia 6600.