The main bases are spacious but vulnerable to air drops and small unit ambushes. Control high ground expansions and navigate numerous choke points to dominate the battlefield. Stay vigilant, as the lush vegetation hides many dangers and opportunities for ambush.
Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Sunday 2 June, 2pm-4pm

Auckland - Rafah is Burning! Te Komititanga - Britomart

Israel drives Palestinians in Gaza into what Israel calls a Safe zone in Rafah. Then Deliberately Bombs it, setting it alight. Any sense of moral decency and respect for International Law has gone. Israel spurns them all. Come rally to call on the New Zealand government to take serious action. Not just mouth platitudes. This is Genocide. Send the Israeli Ambassador home. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/821105966132016
Monday 3 June, 2-5.30pm

Tāmaki Makaurau For A Free Kanaky, 372 Massey Road, Māngere East

Come along to Māngere East Community Centre to listen and talanoa with guest speakers in solidarity with the Kanak struggle for independence. No alcohol & no violence is permitted on premises. Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7qCqmEvVdG/
Tuesday 4 June - Friday 5 June, 9am-1pm

Online Te Tiriti O Waitangi workshops (over two mornings), online via Zoom

An online workshop for those needing an up-to-date overview of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The programme is split over two mornings. Click here to register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/online-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-workshop-over-two-mornings-registration-890047103847 Your registration is for BOTH dates.
PART 1: Tuesday 4 June 2024 9.00 am - 1:00 pm via Zoom (with beaks!) How we connect to Te Tiriti as people from many backgrounds. The political context leading to a declaration in 1835 and a treaty in 1840. What the signatories agreed to.
PART 2: Wednesday 5 June 2024 9.00 am - 1:00 pm via Zoom (with breaks!) A history of colonisation: Crown actions and Māori resistance
The Treaty Principles Bill & current political context Matike Mai: a future vision for Aotearoa
This is an interactive workshop, not a webinar, so spaces are limited. Run by Tauiwi facilitators from Tangata Tiriti - Treaty People www.treatypeople.org If cost is a barrier to your being able to attend, please feel free to drop us an email: treatypeople@gmail.com If you can't make this one but would like to find out about the next opportunity, follow our Facebook page to hear about future dates or sign up here: http://eepurl.com/h3OtG1 Payment required. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1173576827137589/1173576837137588/
Tuesday 4 June, 6.30-8.30pm

Timebank Gathering: What’s been happening and what’s next, Gribblehirst Community Hub

The evening will be focused on reconnecting and sharing food. Timebank Auckland Central will also update on projects happening and a chance to hear about some exchanges. Newcomers welcome but it is a social evening rather than the usual offers and requests discovery session. Bring a dish if it’s easy. Timebank Auckland Central will sort out food closer to the time as they might like to set a meal theme. What is timebanking? Timebanking is a way to connect to your community while sharing and exchanging skills, goods and resources using time instead of money as the currency. All time is equally valued and this idea builds community and supports people in creative and interesting ways. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1591071891705984/
Wednesday 5 June, 4-6pm

Speaking truth to power & keeping your job, online via Zoom

This webinar by Stop Institutional Racism is for kaimahi who want to get an expert steer on speaking up about Te Tiriti and racism in the workplace at this time. Link: https://www.stirnz.org/event-details/speaking-truth-to-power-keeping-your-job-1
Saturday 8 June, 1-3pm

March for Nature, Aotea Square

On Saturday, June 8, at 1 pm, environmentalists will March for Nature in a peaceful protest against this Government’s reckless attacks on environmental protection. Either RSVP and just show up on the day, or if you want updates and/or you're keen to get involved in promotion or help on the day, head over to www.marchfornature.nz Environmentalists will march against mining on conservation land, against new oil and gas exploration, seabed mining and they'll march against the Luxon Government's War on Nature and against the one-stop shop for environmental destruction that is the fast-track approvals bill. They'll march because the fast-track bill undermines our democracy and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The march organisers are a broad coalition of environmental groups, led by Greenpeace, Forest & Bird, Coromandel Watchdog, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, Coal Action Network Aotearoa, WWF New Zealand, Ours Not Mines - and they expect many more will join as they go. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/458893309952335/
Friday 14 June, 3.30-8pm

June Cook Up, Gribblehirst Community Hub

Food Not Bombs Tāmaki Makaurau have been blessed with some wonderful food donations so this month's cook up is looking at being their most delicious yet!!!! Their next Cook up will be Friday 14 June. Food Not Bombs was started with the premise that food is a basic right. They rescue food that would otherwise be wasted and make vegan meals for the community. All are welcome to attend their cook ups of vegan food that has been rescued from landfill and donated by members of the community, as well as businesses who support our kaupapa of feeding the community through love, mutual aid and non-violence. Attendance is always free and open to everyone, and human kids and furkidsmore than welcome as long as they're okay in large groups and you can keep an eye on them. If you are attending please click going on this event and/or e-mail them at fnbvegankai@gmail.com so they can plan for the number of volunteers that are attending. They will start food prep at 3.30 pm and we will be serving dinner around 6pm. Any leftover food will be frozen and served to those in need when they request it through our page. Volunteers are also encouraged to bring their own containers to take home meals as koha for their hard work. Yhry appreciate you! If you know anybody that is having a tough time at the moment please let them know about this event. Any leftovers will be packaged and stored for distribution to those who need food. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1514963392422042
Monday 17 June, 7.30-9pm

Practical strategies for effective Palestinian solidarity in the era of the IHRA, online via Zoom

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism calls anti-Zionism antisemitic. Its use distracts from the message of protest, and punishes expressions of Palestinian identity. This workshop aims to give activists practical strategies to communicate effectively. Alternative Jewish Voices-Dayenu, and Justice for Palestine, with support from ActionStation, are hosting a workshop for organisers and activists on undertaking Palestinian solidarity in the context of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and responding to the threat the IHRA campaign poses to our movement. This session will involve a facilitated discussion, they will then workshop with participants anti-racist responses to common IHRA challenges, followed by Q&A. Who: Kate Stone, tangata Tiriti, co-convenor of Justice for Palestine, will facilitate the conversation between: Marilyn Garson is a co-founder of Alternative Jewish Voices (AJV). She has also lived and worked in Gaza. She has co-produced AJV's briefs for government and others on the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and in June she will be attending an international conference on this and related issues. Rand Hazou is a Palestinian theatre practitioner and scholar. His research explores arts engaging with rights and social justice. In Aotearoa, he has led teaching and creative projects engaging with prison, aged-care, and street communities All Palestinian solidarity and anti-racist organisers and activists are welcome. RSVP required. Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registetZYocOiqrDMpE9XaAT-GLfipDd-bBIGXV3kQ
Sunday 23 June, 7-8pm

Tina Ngata: Speaking Truth to Power, online via Facebook

Join Mana Wahine Aotearoa on Sunday 23rd of June on the Mana Wahine Aotearoa Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/manawahineaotearoa as they engage in a korero with indigenous, environmental, human rights advocate Tina Ngata. They will be diving into the impact proliferation and misinformation has on wāhine Māori. Join the Mana Wahine Aotearoa Facebook Group via: https://www.facebook.com/groups/manawahineaotearoa, see you there 🪴 Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7P8990yX6o/

Hi guys,
I've got an idea of creating a Social App for people to connect and play sports together.
It will features two main modes:

1. Pair Mode - When you pair with other person through the map, available through geolocation.
2. Teams Mode - Pre-made matches with maximum number of participants to join, with allocated time and location.

I am curious to know what do you think about it, if it has a potential for growth or its dead.
Cheers

In the next 5-10 years I wouldn’t be surprised if the Call of Duty franchise turned into a “hub” of sorts, basically having every single COD title including future ones all in one area with only a few clicks separating them. This hub being more of like an in-game launcher, kind of like how Vanguard, Cold War and MW19 were all on the same main menu.
With the older COD’s they could revamp them so they can be played on the newer engine’s as well as being higher quality whilst keeping the same movement/feel of the original. They could also make it where you could sign in/link all of your older accounts for any saved progression (if that’s possible).
I feel like this could be the future of COD and I would be all for it, just imagine being able to play BO2 one minute then going back to the main menu and selecting BO6 for instance. It would take a lot of work and a lot of trial and error but I feel like this is at least a decent idea for the future of the franchise.

What do you believe the best, ultimate, amazing, irrefutable, die-hard, (you get the idea,) 4 subject combos are? this is mainly if you're limited to taking 4, or you only want to take 4 subjects; what would you recommend?
just realised its really 3 subjects cz eng is alr accounted for but whatever
Im mostly looking at scaling wise + benefits it can provide (e.g. take chem cz most uni course are a pre-req for it, or meth and phys cz they gear well tgth)
thoughts plus reasoning behind it? im just curious tbh
(Would like it if the subject combos were limited to meth, spec, phys, bio, chem, but im open for suggestions, given eng is alr one)
also realising the atrocious amounts of abbreviations i use; its unbecoming of me :c

I follow a paleo diet and use paleo cookbook for my weekly meal prep
One of the recipes she has in there is a stir-fry sauce, it's tasty but the problem is one of the main ingredients is five-spice and I'm really not a fan of it
I would love any ideas for what would make a good replacement for it
The ingredients: 1 clove garlic 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 2 teaspoons Chinese five-spice 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice 3 tablespoons coconut aminos
Thank you for any ideas!

As I understand it, the higher the resolution I play on, the less the CPU will be bottleneck in this build. I want to gradually upgrade my build over the next year, and the 2 main chunk of costs will be the GPU, and the upgrade from am4 to Am5 (new mobo, ram, CPU etc).
My current build:
Ryzen 5 5600x
RTX 3060
16gb 8x8 3200MHz
550W PSU
1080P 240HZ Monitor
I know I am able to afford the 4070 Super right now, but will I see a huge performance jump at 1080P 240hz?
Or should I practice delayed gratification and buy a new full build next year, considering I may not be using the 4070 S to it's full potential at 1080P 240hz.
Note that I mainly play COD MW3 (Warzone), Fortnite, and sometimes other random titles like Hitman, Minecraft and stuff which are not really that hard to run,
Any advice would be appreciated!

I follow the book Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan for my weekly meal prep
And one of the recipes she has in there is a stir-fry sauce, it's tasty but the problem is one of the main ingredients is five-spice and I'm really not a fan of it
I would love any ideas for what would make a good replacement for it
The ingredients: 1 clove garlic 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 2 teaspoons Chinese five-spice 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice 3 tablespoons coconut aminos
Thank you for any ideas!

I've got an interesting idea. It came about when the new mech dropped and I was thinking why not start a small unit of mech mains with my friends. Which in lovely adhd fashion turned into what if we could make like a fleet, or something? And from there instead of diving with 4 people you could do larger operations with say 6 or 8 of your friends so you don't have to sacrifice which friends to play with vs leave on the ropes. Another by-product could be actual units/fleets being named in lore for their contributions to the War effort. I'm sure the list could go on and on, what do yall think?

As mentioned in the title, in our backyard there is a long straight pipe going down, turns out it was hidden under a paver that has been knocked to the side and as it was left open my 3yr old through it would be fun to drop rocks down.
a week later and the downstairs toilets wont flush. Turns out that long vertical pipe is a part of the sewage line and there is an indeterminant number of rocks that need to be removed.
I’m a bit of a DIYer so managed to get the main blockage cleared with an auger, but to stop it happening again I have to get these rocks out. I assume fushing them down further is just asking for bigger trouble later. Any ideas on how to go rock fishing down a vertical pipe?
(Approx 1.2m deep and 16cm wide)

I just migrated a project from Xamarin.Forms to .NET Maui. I use .NET 8.0 and I'm targeting Android 14.0 (API 34).
During the build process I get the following errors:
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Error in C:\Users\[Username]\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.14\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class:
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Type com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture is defined multiple times: C:\Users\[Username]\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.14\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class, obj\Debug\net8.0-android34.0\lp\227\jl\libs\02A37A83C05B976F.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Compilation failed
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.tools.r8.CompilationFailedException: Compilation failed to complete, origin: C:\Users\[Username]\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.14\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:135)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.main(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:5)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Caused by: com.android.tools.r8.CompilationFailedException: Compilation failed to complete, origin: C:\Users\[Username]\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.14\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at Version.fakeStackEntry(Version_8.2.33.java:0)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.T.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:5)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:82)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:32)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:31)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.b(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:2)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:42)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.b(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:13)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:40)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:122)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: ... 1 more
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Caused by: com.android.tools.r8.utils.b: Type com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture is defined multiple times: C:\Users\[Username]\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.14\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class, obj\Debug\net8.0-android34.0\lp\227\jl\libs\02A37A83C05B976F.jar:com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.Q2.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:21)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.D2.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:54)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.D2.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:10)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.merge(ConcurrentHashMap.java:2056)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.D2.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:6)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.graph.m4$a.d(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:6)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.dex.c.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:61)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.dex.c.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:12)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.dex.c.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:9)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:45)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.d(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:17)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.D8.c(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:69)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: at com.android.tools.r8.utils.S0.a(R8_8.2.33_429c93fd24a535127db6f4e2628eb18f2f978e02f99f55740728d6b22bef16dd:28)
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: ... 6 more
1>MSBUILD : java.exe error JAVA0000: Directory 'obj\Debug\net8.0-android34.0\lp\227' is from 'Xamarin.Firebase.Firestore.aar'.
1>Done building project "MyApp.csproj" -- FAILED.
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
I installed xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture and some other packages trying to solve the problem without success.
Any ideas?

I guess it depends on what the range is supposed to accomplish in the first place but I imagine at the very least, it’s primarily designed to (a) practice aim and other forms of mechanical skill, (b) test abilities on a variety of enemy types/situations and (c) practice traversal and movement. I feel though, compared to a lot of workshop modes, it lacks in many of these. The takeaway idea here is that the hero mastery courses do all this stuff but it’s rarley reflected in the range. In short, you don’t get the sense that you could improve in the game long term simply by using the range alone.
Aim training is a problem because the hitboxes are too large. Practicing abilities with various enemies in various situations is a problem because the threat of death is near non-existent, except for maybe the sniper bot. Also because bots have really low health pools so how they interact with various cooldowns may be misleading. Finally traversal is a problem because it lacks diversity in various stages/platforms. There’re no jump pads. No death pits. There are plenty of surfaces to practice various movement tech like with Ball’s grapple or Lucio’s wall ride but not so much for Echo/Pharah’s flight, Mercy’s GA, Soldier’s rocket jump or Kiriko’s TP.
That’s my observation though. Thoughts?

I been making ads for something and a majority of them involve clips of a certain sport being played which is pretty tame and nothing offensive can be said about it. But anytime I branch out a little and include my face in a video it immediately restricts views to the video and publishes it. So it always stays on 0 views (even if I know someone watched it) and whenever I delete it it says it had a Community Guidelines violation. The only thing is there is nothing in there that could be considered harmful, misleading, or offensive in anyway. I did have one video with me in it but that was for like 5 seconds and it was mainly my back and that got away. But anytime it's just mainly me it always restricts views. Any ideas as to why it's happening? Thx

I’ve been dating this wonderful man. I feel safe around him, and overall it’s a very healthy relationship from what I have experienced. We talk long term goals, communicate and I feel like I can address anything with him, except for one thing.
He was very open from the beginning about his sexual desires and things he’s experimented with in the past. None of this intimidated me but I was clear about my intentions on being monogamous, and that the ENM or open relationship concept was something I am not leaning towards and that he should consider an alternative partner if he wished to pursue this lifestyle. We talked about it and he decided that he was not looking for that and that we would give this a shot as we are both compatible and similar. We did agree to revisit this and cross that bridge when it’s time.
Our sex life is amazing, after care is amazing, and chemistry is amazing. Yet I fear that I won’t be enough for him in the long run. He is constantly horny, which is great for me, but sometimes I wonder if I am giving it to him enough. He wants sex almost every day and I am beginning to feel like the relationship has become mainly sexual. We addressed it and he assured me that he does not feel that way and that he feels emotionally connected with me but that he would try to work on not making things feel purely sexual.
This is where is gets tricky. In my previous relationship I was with a sex addict that would pay for OF and watch porn constantly but wouldn’t have energy for me. I asked him to be honest, and when I confronted him about it he would deny it all even though I had solid evidence. This is where my trigger started. And I don’t know if I feel insecure about my new relationship because of this or if my feelings are valid.
My new partner is starting to show signs of potential sex addiction, the only difference is that he is honest about his porn consumption. I have only began to think about it because he is constantly pushing the idea to go to a sex club together and have sex in the open. He is constantly going to strip clubs (although he is a cheapo, money isn’t the issue here). He has been honest about keeping porn saved on his phone and keeping videos/ photos that he received from other women prior to dating me. If I’m being honest, this gave me the biggest ick and I don’t know if I’m being dramatic but it makes me feel really uncomfortable. We made a video together and he seemed upset at the fact that I didn’t send it to him because I said “I don’t want to be another girl on your flash drive). The last straw was this week when he attempted to get a hand job from me while I was working (WFH) and I just didn’t have the energy. As he was leaving I noticed he was on a porn Reddit and I couldn’t help but feel some type of way. I felt really insecure and joking said “I guess I’m not enough”.
I don’t know if these are all valid things to feel and I don’t know if it’s my triggers or insecurity. I thought I had worked through all of this but lately I just feel like I’ll never be enough sexually for this man. I don’t know if it’s borderline sexual addiction or maybe I just haven’t met someone as comfortable with their sexuality as him. All I know is I’m very conflicted, I care highly about him but somehow I just can’t seem to communicate this.

So recently I've been stewing on this idea.
My life is currently at a stage when spending money on games no longer hurt, and I've bought my fair share of games (on mobile and on Steam).
And now I'm wondering: is there any free games that when you spend some money(not a lot), is even more enjoyable than their paid.
My criteria is that this game:
Is free, with some kind of microtansactions/one time subscription fee that makes you strongeprogress faster.
Rules out: Pixel Dungeon, Slay The Spire, Dead Cells
Doesn't cost a lot to gain poweprogress.
Rules out: Class Royale
Avoid recurring subscriptions, unless you don't need to maintain it.
Rules out games with battle passes
Is a time sink
Rules out non-infinite puzzle games
(Bonus) Doesn't employ shady business practices (e.g. loot boxes, front loaded free rewards)
Let's see what you all have in (Google) store!

I've been working on this story for... 3 months? 4? who knows, with my ability to keep track of time I could have started this yesterday, anyway, this is a story that has sci-fi elements, and some fantasy, although the fantasy stuff is mainly dragons so lets say adventure for now, (cause I don't know shit about genres, I just wrote the story) , Keep in mind, this has been written in free time, of which I don't have a lot, so if you don't like the story it is probably my fault, here is a look at:

Dragons wing

I slowly drift from my sleep and think to myself, ow, why is everything warm? I check the thermostat and see that it is at a temperature as cool as Canada and when I turn back to go back to bed so that I can sleep in, I see that my stuff has been knocked over? Oh sorry, where are my manners? I'm James O’Maley, I put everything back into place, and lay down on my bed but nothing is comfortable! I just decide, you know what, whatever, I’m just gonna get ready for work, and with that i get dressed, everything feels harder to put on, but it really hits me when I go to brush my teeth, when I looked into the mirror, I saw that their were, wings on my back, and a tail, growing out my butt like a lizard, I obviously spend several minutes having an existential crisis about this shocking revelation, and I decide to look at what these wings can do, I open a window, crawl out, with some difficulty and some slamming the window on my tail. I go to the edge of the fire escape railing, hop on, and jump, and I flew, higher and higher, until i nearly flew into a mountain but that's when I suddenly breathed fire, from my mouth, and bore a hole straight through the cliffside, I could spend all day flying, breathing fire, and fiddling with my tail, but I began to feel as tired as if I’d just gotten back from lifting weights with tigers, I landed on a cliffside and fell asleep. When I woke up I wasn’t on the cliffside anymore, there were monitors and scientists all around me. I tried to show some sign that I was awake, but I was chained up! I spent several moments struggling to get free, I must be free, I am not something they can chain down! I struggle, I roar, I attempt to move my head enough to burn the surrounding area, but I can’t, until someone finally talks to me,
“Hello there, James, please forgive us for our caution, but with your kind we can never be too careful.” I can see the scientist, I read his name tag, Dr. Crane William, I roar out
“My kind!? Get me out of these chains!” I breathe fire, claw, kick and swing my tail, trying to free myself, until I see two other people watching, one with weird whiskers, a long tail and a smug look on his face, and the other with a similar appearance to me but her wings are her arms. The next few days go by, until the two finally decide to talk to me, and in those days, My face becomes a snout like a komodo dragon’s, the one with the whiskers opens his mouth first and I already hate him
“Would you look at that, he’s even uglier up close!” I glare at him with absolute hatred, that seems to anger him more,
“What are you mute or something? Speak before I tear you apart!” he takes one step closer and that's all I need, I Bite his shoulder and use his head to break the chains on my right arm, I continue to break the rest of them with ease, and tell whiskers
“You want to fight? Let’s fight!” I leap on top of him, clawing at his face, he tries to slash me with a blade on his tail but I grab it and stab the wall with it, until I feel a burning sensation in my veins, The girl had bitten me! She looks at me with sadness,
“Sorry about this,” I look at her and drift into unconsciousness, when I wake up next I’m in some kind of, medical wing, ha, wing, as I look around I feel that my mouth is bound shut, but other than that, I can move my body, I get up off the gurney and just when I think it looks nice, whiskers shows his face,
“Well thanks a lot freak, now I’m on probation with Dr. Crane.” I motion to my mouth and he seems to have enough brain cells to understand what I mean
“Ha! You got the boot, Lily had that on her when she wouldn’t stop biting staff, I’m Ryan Mist.” I just walk away and try getting this muzzle off, That's when Crane walks in,
“Well, I must say it has been a while since we’ve had to use the boot, Ryan, your behavior was unacceptable!” I can tell that Crane is annoyed, and right as he finishes his sentence, click, the boot falls off my face and clatters to the ground. I don’t bother trying to fight Ryan again, I’m just happy to be able to talk!
“Well that’s a lot better, now, talk, I want answers.” I growl, Crane and Ryan seem surprised that I got the boot off but they talk, turns out, I’m what’s called a dragonkin a Human who has dragon genes in their genome, Lily and Ryan are also dragonkin, although they can’t breath fire, Lily has fangs and a venomous bite, turns out she’s the girl that bit me, and Ryan just looks weird, apparently we are the only dragonkin who evaded the organization that Crane works for, Called ‘Kadmus,’ into adulthood, Lily being found at 22, ryan at 20, and me at 24, on top of that, we are the only dragonkin who have survived that long, it’s at that moment that I notice Lily looking at us from behind some glass, I decide that I’ve heard enough and open the door, and I leave the room.
As I leave the room I can tell that Lily was not expecting me from the look on her face, I start a conversation with her, trying desperately to be friendly and not notice all the scientists glancing at me nervously.
“Hey, Lily, Right?” I say in the friendliest tone I can, “I’m James.” Lily looks at me with a calculating look before answering
“Hello, yeah my name is Lily, Lily Megan.” she clearly is wary of me, but I can tell a few things about her, making herself look small, clearly smarter than she lets on, seems shy,
“How did you get it off?” Lily breaks into my train of thought with the question,
“What?” I ask her, confused,
“The Boot, how did you get it off?” She gestures to the room where Crane and Ryan were having an argument, but more specifically to The Boot, laying on the ground
“Oh that? I once took a lockpicking class when I was younger.” I explain
“Huh, you mind teaching me that sometime?” She catches me off guard with that one, I can tell that she is being genuine so I agree, And we begin working out what time works best.

The next few weeks go by in a flash, but I’ll summarize it for you, I ended up getting my own room like Ryan and Lily, I start teaching Lily how to pick locks, and we end up having a few game nights where we played games like charades, poker, even monopoly, lets just say that we will never play monopoly again. However, the most important thing of all, we ended up finding another dragonkin! We aren’t sure what dragon ancestor he has, but we think he’s another eastern long tail, like Ryan, the new guy’s name is Dillian, He’s great, absolute goofball, he’s from Australia, and according to him, his family has never been anywhere but the land down under, weird, but the guy’s like a little brother to me, so it’s cool, and that catches you up. “Hey Dillian!” I lean my head into his room, “Wanna come hang out with the rest of us? It’s movie night!” Dillian just looks at me, unreadable, 

“Okay, your loss.” I try to hide how unnerving that look felt, but something doesn’t feel right. I go back to the lounge, where Ryan, Lily, and Crane are all waiting for me,
“Sorry guys, Dillian, isn’t up for it.” Lily looks at me disappointed,
“Aw man, and we're even watching Dune!” I just look at her with a sad look, but Ryan manages to lift the mood a little bit,
“Last time we let Crane pick the movie!” Crane just glares at Ryan, I can tell he’s about to lecture him so I just start the movie, around one hour in, boom, everything is blurry, and there is dust swirling, everything hurts. I see Lily and Ryan helping evacuate the scientists, I don’t see Crane anywhere! But that's when I see it, Cranes lab coat, soaked red and underneath a piece of rubble, I try to run towards it, but I can't stay on my legs, I call out,
“CRANE!” My friends hear me, they rush towards me and they see the lab coat, Lily tears up, Ryan is too stunned to speak, then we hear it, we hear him. Dillian, he’s laughing, laughing at the lab coat, laughing at us, My head snaps toward him, I feel the rage burning, my wings flare out, fire rises in my throat, I grab Dillian by the collar, and I roar,
“Do you think this is funny?!” Dillian just keeps laughing, “Crane is deadI!” Dillian looks at me, and he finally stops laughing, he pushes me off and spikes erupt from his skin, his tail wraps around my throat, and he growls,
“Don’t touch me you cretin, my ancestors were nearly wiped out by yours, I’m just returning the favor.” I look at him confused, Ryan seems to have been just as confused as me because he asked,
“What do you mean? The Eastern long tails have never had an issue with the Flying flame drakes.” Dillian just flicked his wrist and one of the spines shot out and nearly sliced Ryan’s head off!
“Do not compare the Wyrms to those foolish sky beasts! They have ruled the land for centuries!” Dillian roars, at this point I finally manage to choke out,
“Wyrm? Like the dragon inside the mountain Wyrm?” I struggle against his tail, I finally get a claw hooked under it and pull, it takes all of my strength to get my head loose and retreat, and then I see Dillian fully for the first time, pale skin covered in red spines and a long tail that could probably crush a normal humans windpipe, if I wasn’t a dragonkin I’d be dead.
“So, you do have a brain. Indeed, my ancestors were the Wyrms, Masters of the land, and the only dragons to be nearly forgotten by time, if it weren’t for the colony under Australia, I would not be a dragonkin.” Dillian snorts, and after saying his piece he leaped up, dived down, and bore through the earth, I try to go after him, but Lily holds me back,
“James you're hurt, and you would not stand a chance against him in your current state!” I hate to admit it, but it’s true, I would not stand a chance against Dillian, oh man, my leg hurts, I look at my left leg and I see that it has a shard of metal sticking out of it, and then everything feels heavy, I hear Lily yell out my name, but she sounds so far away, I don’t try and fight it, I just let the darkness envelope me, at least in the dark I can’t hurt, when I wake up I’m in the medical wing ha, it’s still funny, I have a bandage around my leg and then it all rushes back to me, Crane’s lab coat, Dillian laughing, the rage, everything, replaying over and over in my mind, I immediately try and stand up and I find a lot of difficulty in that, but I manage to stumble off the bed, I avoid putting weight on my leg, and I use my wings when necessary,
‘Well it’s about time you woke up, and here I was thinking that we had wasted time and resources.” I spin around to see a lady in a suit and glasses looking at me with a look of disdain,
“Hello, I am Dr. Leanne Vern, but you can call me Leanne. I am your new head researcher, I hope you are ready for your next few tests, Dr. Crane wasted a lot of time ‘bonding’ with you.” It’s right as she finishes that sentence when I feel the urge to make it her last, I feel rage burning under my skin and I glare at her with every last ounce of anger possible,
“What.” Either she didn’t get the memo or she is just a jerk, because she did not care, but either way I continued,
“Do you think that now is a good time to either ridicule Crane, or tell me that you need to run tests on me? I am not your lab rat” I grab her collar “I am not something you just get to boss around, If you say something like that again I will send you straight to the underworld where you belong.” I shove her back and go look for Lily and Ryan, I find them in the cafeteria, I get some food and sit down across from them,
“Mind if I sit here?” It clearly lightened the mood, but not even Ryan found the humor to reply, but we started to talk turns out I had been knocked out for two weeks, when I asked about Dillian Ryan tensed up, he explained to me that Dillian goes by ‘Death Wyrm’ now, he’s spent the last two weeks tormenting the city, and eventually I brought up Leanne,
“That Dr. Leanne is a jerk though, when I got out of the medical wing she just introduced herself, told me that she would run some tests and insulted Crane.” Lily seemed to agree because she replied,
“Yeah the first day she got here she told me I was ugly, and had me escorted into the testing chamber and forced me to fly for as long as I could or else I would get shocked.” Upon hearing this I feel rage flare up inside me, I flare out my wings and fly straight towards Leanne's office,
“You threatened Lily with being shocked?! What is wrong with you?” Leanne just looked at me stone faced and told me,
“You dragonkin are nothing but freaks that look interesting, you should not be treated like humans, you are tools.” I just stand there, shocked until the dam just breaks, I roared, I grabbed her by the collar and I slash her face with a claw,
“Tools? TOOLS?! The only tool in here is you! First you insult Crane, someone who died only two weeks ago! Then I learned you threatened one of my friends with a shock if they stopped playing your sick little game!” I feel the fire rise in my throat, I open my mouth, but then I see the look in her eyes, fear, absolute, paralyzing fear, I hesitate, and think to myself, oh my god, what am I doing? I release Leanne and walk out of the room, as I’m leaving I hear Leanne bellow from behind me,
“Where do you think you’re going?” I glare back, I don’t need to answer her, but because I know she will hurt my friends if I don’t I tell her what I’m doing, I explain.
“I’m going after Dillian, don’t try to stop me.” I can tell that Leanne is angry, I can feel her eyes shooting daggers at me, she clearly disagrees with me,
“Oh no you don’t, listen to me you bloated gecko, we did not spend millions tracking you down for you to play superhero!” I just walk away from her and go to the cafeteria to tell Lily and Ryan, they of course freak out at me, saying that I should not go after Dillian, that he’d kill me, and that I should stay here, but I look at them with all of the emotion in the world, I tell them
“Look, I know that Dillian would probably kill me, but I at least might tire him out enough for the police or military to stop him, but it’s more than that, I can’t let him hurt innocent people.” Lily and Ryan look at me, Lily hugs me, and tells me,
“Don’t you dare die or I will kill you.” I look at her, And I say to Ryan,
“I hope she’s joking.” Ryan looks at me and punches my arm,
“You are a good friend man, I hope you live through this.” I look at Ryan and Lily, knowing that this might be the last time I see them, I hug them both, and I flare out my wings and I fly off.

As I sped off towards Dillian, no, Death Wyrm, he stopped being Dillian when he killed Dr. Crane, one thought was going through my mind, am I going to survive this? It doesn’t really matter, as long as Death Wyrm gets what he deserves, when I arrive in the city I look around from above first, I decide to stop by my old apartment, I remember when My dad helped me find this place before he died, it has looked weird since I had my stuff moved into my room at the Kadmus site, I decide to sit down on the floor, when all of a sudden I hear a click and a secret safe opens from the wall. Inside I find a video message to me from my dad, along with an envelope, with the words for when I’m gone written on it, I look through the envelope and I find an old Kadmus keycard for my dad, so that's what his work was, I knew he was secretive but damn, A few other papers that talk about dragons, turns out, Kadmus had been looking into the dragons for years, although these papers are odd, as if my dad had prior knowledge of the dragons. The ball drops when I play the video message it says, 

>Hello, James, if you are watching this then I’m probably dead. In the envelope that you have found alongside this message, there is also my old keycard, it will give you full access to any Kadmus site. Along with my personal notes on the Flying flame drakes, the Eastern long tails, the Wyverns, and some vague knowledge of a supposed fourth dragon species, including some vague diet, and possible weaknesses, but if you’ve already read them, then that means you have seen that the Flying flame drake notes are more definitive, that’s because I am also a dragonkin, I only inherited physical strength from our ancestors, but I have a feeling you will have more characteristics, but I am saying this because you need to know the history behind our ancestors, and the rest.<
I look at the message and wait for it to continue, until a small piece of paper slips out of the metal box that is the message, when I open it I find out that in the beginning of the dragons, there were supposedly four species, the Flying flame drakes, the Eastern long tails, the Wyverns, and the Wyrms, until the Wyrms struck out, they had felt as though due to there inability to fly, that the other dragons thought less of them, the dragons were forced to lock away the Wyrms deep beneath what would one day be called Australia, and then man arose, and along with them the first dragonkin, Tiamat, a Flying flame dragonkin, as my dad called him, but the humans lived in fear of the dragons, eventually driving them to the bleeding cut edge of extinction using their advancing technology, eventually humans all but forgot about dragons, reducing them to myth or fairy tales. That was more or less all that was written, I committed all of this knowledge to memory, and then I heard a loud boom and some maniacal Dr. Doom esc laughing, I peer out of the window to see Death Wyrm, tormenting people, I leap out of the window and into the air, getting a good angle before dive bombing Death Wyrm, breathing fire on him and slashing him with my claws,
“Hey Dillian, did you miss me?” I laugh, I tried to pull a Ryan and joke myself into feeling confident, and it kinda helped, Death Wyrm roars out in rage,
“Why didn’t you stay out of my way?” He whips his tail up, shooting spines out at me, although thanks to my practice I manage to dodge them, I decide to not make a joke and just stay quiet for now, I remember something a security guard once told me, if the enemy is in range so are you, don’t just talk, actually attack, I know that I am in range for a fireblast but Dillian doesn’t know that, I shout out,
“Those spines must really hurt, but not as much as my claws!” I suddenly make a sharp turn and get in close with my talons, I first duck beneath Death Wyrms hook, and slash at his stomach, I then dodge a spine shot, and quickly follow up and through with a tail whip, knocking him off balance, then quickly blast fire right at his feet, but I didn’t see that Death Wyrms tail had grabbed my leg before it had already thrown me two blocks away, I was getting up when I felt a Burning pain in my arm, when I looked to see, it was one of Death Wyrms spines, It had only penetrated the outermost muscle tissue, I would heal in a few weeks but that doesn’t mean it didn’t hurt like hades, I rip the spine out and breath fire on the wound in order to cauterize it, when I suddenly feel Death Wyrms tail around my throat, choking me, and I am all of a sudden pinned to a wall, with my mouth bound shut, great it’s the boot all over again, I see Death Wyrm, he’s grabbing the spine I ripped out, he walks towards me, and he gives me a small speech,
“You know James, if you weren’t so noble I’d actually have let you join me, I never wanted to kill you, but you leave me no choice.” He lifts the spike up, when all of a sudden he is blasted back seemingly by a freakishly strong gust of wind, wait, that's a thermal updraft, I turn to see the best sight I could have seen, Ryan and Lily! Ryan opens his mouth first and I couldn’t be more thankful for his humor,
“Nobody treats James like that but me!” He then flies into battle riding on a thermal, while Lily freed me, she slices through the binding on my mouth and I immediately ask,
“What are you guys doing here?” Lily opens her mouth to answer but Ryan cuts in with being thrown into a wall
“Me and Lily are saving you, idiot, speaking of which a little help here?” Me and Lilly help Ryan up and we all get ready for a fight, but before we can charge in, Lily hands me a headmic,
“Here put this on,” I do as she says and suddenly Leanne's voice buzzes in through the speaker,
“Well it’s about time,” I am just happy to have some help with knowing my surroundings,
“Whatever happened to ‘we didn’t spend millions tracking you for you to play superhero?’” If Leanne heard me she didn’t answer, I just started to run towards Death Wyrm, before I took off alongside Lily and Ryan, I felt a familiar rage build up in my veins, I allow the rage to drive me forward, I feel the heat, the fire, rushing to every vein in my body, building along with all of the rage in my life, I gather my thoughts, a raging body is good for combat but a raging mind is bad for victory, when this feeling washes over me, I finally feel calm, I feel at peace, I never want this feeling to end, I open my snout, and unleash a twisting, flowing, blooming tunnel of flames,wounding Death Wyrm and distracting him long enough for Ryan to swing in with a bladed tail to his back, followed by Lily, biting into Death wyrms tail, as Death Wyrm roars I dive in and I do something unexpected, I talk to him,
“Dillian, I thought of you as a little brother, but you killed someone I cared about, I am sorry but, we need to take you in.” Death Wyrm roars, he writhes, up until Lily’s venom takes hold and he falls to the ground, defeated, a news reporter had been, well reporting, nearby and walked up to me, and asked me for an interview,
“Under normal circumstances I would agree, but not right now.” I wave as I signal to Ryan, it takes an embarrassingly long time for him to get the hint that I want him to create a thermal under Death Wyrm in order to transport him, but he follows my lead, and before we know it, we are flying toward the Kadmus site, but as we fly, I yell behind me,
“Hey, go ahead, I’ll… I’ll catch up.” Lily looks at me while Ryan just zooms ahead, no questions asked,
“Okay what are you doing?” I just look at her, feeling conflicted about telling her about my dad, for all I know this could get me in trouble, or worse, I make a split second decision,
“I… I think I saw something.” surprisingly it works, I swoop back towards the city and back to my old apartment and I grab the message from my dad, his keycard and the papers, I then fly off with them clenched between my arms and my body, I then fly into the Kadmus site, and discreetly go to my room, in order to hide them, I then get out of the site, and fly back into it acting like nothing happened, and to my surprise, there was a celebration waiting for me, there was cake, and wine, and even a nice Irish whiskey, eventually I asked about Death Wyrm, and turns out he was placed in a secure facility, deep under the site, and that anyone with high enough clearance could go down there, I decide that that is probably for the best.
After the celebration, I go into my room, and pull out the message, I look over it, Dad was a big fan of puzzles, so maybe this message is a puzzle? After several minutes fiddling with it, the message began to whir, and it then showed a place for a fingerprint, gotcha, I placed my thumb on the finger print and it pricked me, like I was getting my blood drawn. After that a key fell out of the message box, and a keyhole on the side, I of course used the key, which then played a different message,

Hello James, and I know it's you who will be watching this, at the time of making this message I am about to help you “find” an apartment, this is one that will only play for other people if you give them access and get a blood sample, the key you used is a one of a kind, and allows you full access to pre-recorded messages, and answers for certain questions, I hope that there will come a time when you don’t need it, but, knowing you, you will probably forget what the messages say within an hour, but anyway, I hope that this helps you greatly, here is a list of topics that the message box can give you data on.< The video then becomes like an interactable encyclopedia, where I can read the list at my own pace, I skim through it before my eyes lock on one entry, Dr. Crane Williams, I open the entry and i read about Crane, turns out, he was my fathers research partner and close friend, and the two of them met in college because they had managed to win a competition that landed them tuition for any college of their choosing, and they became friends after my dad stopped somebody from messing with Crane, there was a whole lot more there about Cranes upbringing, his family, his education, but I had to cut it short when Leanne entered my room, unannounced,

“What are you doing?” She glared, in her usual condescending tone, I am not in the mood for this “Jump off a cliff.” I growl, as I tuck the message away, but she sees it, and by the look on her face she could tell what I was looking at, “Let me guess, a message you don’t want anybody seeing?” I hate her but damn it she can connect the dots well, “Was it obvious?” I don’t bother denying it, she’ll just be a jerk about it, “No, I’m just used to being lied to, who's the message from?” Leanne nods at the message box, 

“It’s from my dad, he apparently worked at Kadmus and was friends with Crane.” The fact that my dad both worked ant Kadmus and was friends with crane seem to shock her, what’s really shocking though is what she asks next,

“Was your dad by chance Shane O’Maley?” I look at her, confused, “He was, why?” Leanne immediately seems to get shell shock, as she starts to geek out, “James your father was pretty much science royalty, I would have done anything to speak to him, oh my god I insulted the dead friend of Shane O’Maley, and of his son!” I feel angry that she brought that up again, but now feels like I can get something good out of this, “Ok I’ll make you a deal, if you only do tests with me and the other dragonkin willing to do so, and make sure not to do things like threatening to shock us if we don’t do what you want, I’ll tell you stories about my dad, deal?” It was almost impressive how quickly she answered, 

“Deal! Shock threats, exhaustion tests, and anything else like that is gone!” I am really happy that I can do stuff like that. That is the best ability ever.*1
*1 WIP

I'm somewhat new to blender, about 6/mo on off, outside of work I've been tying to teach myself how to make game assets, and I've been trying to develop a good workflow. A few friends and I have a project we want to work on and I want to be able to have an idea of what I can deliver in what amount of time. I've gotten decent enough at hard surface modeling for objects that require it, but I definitely prefer to sculpt. The issue I've been having is I'm just not good at retopology. From what I've seen retopo is kind of a pain in the ass for a lot of people in the beginning and the solution is to just power through and practice with purpose and it'll start to click and come naturally over time. But, if I ain't got time for that shit, and I want to deliver decent assets, would it be more worthwhile to just get better and build out a more detailed hard surface model, Multires it, and then sculpt?
My thought process here is, I can improve on my hard surface modeling, I can have greater control over my topology, still sculpt, and still have good topology when the whole thing is done. Rather than blocking out the model, sculpting/dyntopo/remeshing, and retopologizing the whole thing from scratch. Would it be worthwhile to go the multires route even if I'd probably sculpt a model faster, I feel like I'd save time not retopologizing from scratch. I could be underestimating how hard it is to get good topology when hard surface modeling, and maybe I should just work on doing it from scratch after a sculpt. I might be getting too hung up on the whole thing, and maybe I don't need amazing retopology and edge flow for a game model for a game that's just a fun project, Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!

For me, it was getting my head around the idea that I'm the leader of the party and what I say, goes (within reason). I haven't played a lot of D&D, mainly Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and World of Darkness, but in nearly every game it's been all about cooperation among the player characters (unless you're playing Paranoia, of course!).
Obviously it makes sense that Tav is the leader, because you the human player are in charge of all the companions, but roleplaying that was another matter entirely!

My bearded dragon likes to press up on the glass door and if it’s not latched all the way it can be pushed open pretty easily by him. I was in a rush to get to work and thought I had it latched all the way, turns out it wasn’t and he pushed it open yesterday morning around 6/7am when his lights came on and he’s gone. My boyfriends family and I have been looking for him and I have no idea where he went and can’t figure out where to find him. I’ve checked dark corners and little hiding spots and I’ve checked everywhere he can climb which is mainly fabric related (he used to climb my curtains in my old house). I have two cats and they’re very careful with him and I was hoping one of them would’ve found him by now since they always check out sounds they hear. It’s been about 21 hours since he got out I need tips or any advice on how to find him. I should also mention I just moved about 2 weeks ago so the basement where I am is covered in storage and boxes so it feels really hard finding him. Also my boyfriend is absolutely terrified of my bearded dragon so his family and I are trying to find him before he realizes he got out 😭

I've noticed that most of the men I genuinely liked before are either atheists or Muslims who doesn't practice Islam.
Even though I try my best not to judge anyone for their beliefs, I can't help not to feel safer around non-religious men.
and because it’s kinda rare to find this type of men in our society, i find myself slightly Interested in any man who has anti-Islamic thoughts, and it’s getting weird, because i hate to be that person who can’t be interested in anyone that doesn’t share the same ideas.
I also end up being disappointed at the end, because men can fake being open-minded just to impress women.
and after getting to know them better، they will start showing their actual beliefs, and they expect you to accept it for some reason.
I just don't think that faking certain ideas to attract people with a different mindset should be acceptable.