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2024.06.02 06:01 HorrorIsLiterature Weekly "What Are You Reading Thread?"

Welcome to HorrorLit's weekly "What Are You Reading?" thread.
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So... what are you reading?
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Community rules apply as always. No abuse. No spam. Keep self-promotion to the monthly thread.
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Do you have a work of horror lit being published this year?
in 2024 HorrorLit will be trying a new upcoming release master list and it will be open to community members as well as professional publishers. Everything from novels, short stories, poems, and collections will be welcome. To be featured please message me (u/HorrorIsLiterature) privately with the publishing date, author name, title, publisher, and format.
The release list can be found here.
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2024.06.02 04:20 zaddar1 human beauty/ i have none of/ its not sadness that leads one to grasp it

chinese history can’t be separated from the problem of eunuchs, a political class, that was in theory supposed to be loyal to the emperor but turned out to be as self-interested as any other clique
a particularly messy rebellion against them
as a matter of interest, they also had the penis as well as the testicles removed giving rise to urinary tract problems that were highly unpleasant and even so, the imperial concubines usually took eunuchs as lovers
i think on balance they probably did facilitate many centuries of highly centralised rule, a role today filled by communications and surveillance technology
the bottom line of any addiction is what is it excluding ?
what is the opportunity cost ?
usually its so high because you have recognised it as an addiction
human beauty
i have none of
its not sadness that leads one to grasp it
too fragile to be held
but a deep melancholy
death is too close
to
beauty
the female world
sorta isolated
its own bubble
sorta tangential
to reality
propaganda and dictatorships work by controlling information and hence beliefs and opinions and it is amazing how easily we driven by these into various insanities
from the control point of view, any creativity is a threat or poison and is dealt with by the force of suppression or aversion
in delusian terms "creativity is an act of resistance"
when on reddit and you get downvoted, just repeat to yourself "a downvote is an upvote" which it really is since you have distressed an idiot !
the freedom
of good health
in old age
there
is
no
other
women
the burden of ovaries
undercuts
an entire life
seeker and sought
the religious parlance
meaning
nothing
"zen" is a wrapped up box with some writing on it saying "i promise the answer’s inside" and when you open it up, its empty
i would guess the royal family has been boosted to the gills for covid and king charles and princess catherine both getting cancer makes me wonder
the precipice’s edge
unstable
dangerous to be there
walking
back
takes
time
on the other hand
stability
is an illusion
st. isaac the syrian
quotes I
quotes II
“ for it is more expedient to be bruised than dead ”
he’s very underappreciated
the
female
need
for
faces
deep
genetic
programming
han china
umpteen million
one
grain of sand
amongst many
must alter your perspective
the
system
can
do
without
you
existential angst
when tears roll from a baby’s eyes
its a bit early to be thinking about these matters
pillars of salt
we are always looking behind
but at least we can see
what has gone behind
what we can’t see
is
what is behind
other pillars
of
salt
plucked from life
unto death
another state of being
the former from the latter
distinctive is
but how the latter
views the former
we can never know
ed. a poem i wrote on looking at a photo of emily dickinson’s nephew, gilbert dickinson who died of typhoid aged eight, the rhythms and semantics of the poem make it seem like it could have been written by emily ?
a non traumatic demonstration of how a caesarean delivery is done
its not a trivial procedure, i’ll say that
something i had never thought about
not surviving an operation
it happens
even
with
the
routine
the unwanted
stalks
us
everywhere
.
something i had never thought about
surviving an operation
it happens
even
with
the
routine
the unwanted
stalks
us
everywhere
feeling
the travesty
of how ill it fits
with the way this world works
the thought of nothing squared
halve it
then triple it again
is still nothing squared
travelling and living in a new place you like for a while and then leaving again
its like falling in love and then breaking up, what can you do ?
continuities
dreams
stitching together
what is discontinuous
interior stresses rend
apart
what is held together
for a while
all rivers run
as coleridge said
to oblivion
ed. these lines below from coleridge’s most famous poem have always puzzled me, now i think about it, my poem is an alternative, more abstract version of his full poem which has always puzzled me and now it has sort of solved itself, i can’t believe it has sat in my brain for thirty or forty years as a puzzle looking for a solution
where alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea
i give credit to coleridge claiming the poem is unfinished, but i am not sure that level of intense creativity can be sustained and even in terms of the existing poem it was starting to fall apart by the end
this is such a zen/religious thing, taking other’s words and paintings, not a single thing is their own
this is because the moment they say something or draw something of their own its laughable
you can’t tell 'em, diet and exercise are extremely important in keeping good mental health “ recent research published in the journal clinical nutrition reveals a significant link between high consumption of ultra-processed foods and an increased risk of developing depression
this study, conducted in brazil, indicates that individuals adhering to diets rich in ultra-processed foods are more likely to experience depressive symptoms over time these findings underscore the potential mental health risks associated with dietary patterns characterized by processed and convenience foods ”
i nearly ran into a cyclist a week ago on a windy back road because neither of us was keeping far enough to the left, then a little later nearly hit a car because, again i was not keeping far enough to the left
hopefully i have learnt, i think i was driving like i drive at night when you can assume you will see any oncoming traffic well ahead because of their headlights
daylight gives no such clues and cutting blind corners seems to be a local habit
“ taken together, our data highlight the profound impact of exercise in rejuvenating aged microglia (ed. reverting their gene expression signature to that of young microglia), associated pro-neurogenic effects and on peripheral immune cell presence in the ageing female mouse brain ”
julliard
clone factory
squashes
creativity
assembly line
performance
when OP’s bleed
their writers
in denial
about their injury
but
a portion
of
their
brain
cries
ed. certified GPT-free
the double edged sword
cuts
its holder
as one brought up on a very patriarchal version of english history its interesting to see that william the conquerer’s success was in part due to having a very politically competent wife
ed. video has 3 parts
also interesting is that due to harold godwinson having been captured in normandy and kept there for a while, he knew both mitilda (possibly even having an affair with her) and william very well and should have been more au fait with norman battle tactics and strengths i have a theory that the middle ages and somewhat later had in effect a breeding program through intermarriage within the nobility/aristocracy creating a politically competent class, because politics is not a natural skill to the species, same thing for ancient egypt, in fact today’s international politics suffers a lot from people lacking any sort of the rationality and largeness of mind required
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2024.06.02 04:14 EndoPlushQuota Taking Inventory: Scott's (And Steel Wool's) Potentially Lore-Relevant Steam Posts

Steam Search (steampowered.com)
Scott doesn't really do much lore in his Steam posts, so I also included direct game descriptions and Steel Wool's Descriptions
FNAF 1 About:
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds! The robots' behavior has become somewhat unpredictable at night however, and it was much cheaper to hire you as a security guard than to find a repairman.
From your small office you must watch the security cameras carefully. You have a very limited amount of electricity that you're allowed to use per night (corporate budget cuts, you know). That means when you run out of power for the night- no more security doors and no more lights! If something isn't right- namely if Freddybear or his friends aren't in their proper places, you must find them on the monitors and protect yourself if needed!
Can you survive five nights at Freddy's?
Five Nights at Freddy's on Steam (steampowered.com)
FNAF 2 About:
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!
In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the old and aging animatronics are joined by a new cast of characters. They are kid-friendly, updated with the latest in facial recognition technology, tied into local criminal databases, and promise to put on a safe and entertaining show for kids and grown-ups alike!
What could go wrong?
As the new security guard working nights, your job is to monitor cameras and make sure nothing goes wrong after-hours. The previous guard has complained about the characters trying to get into the office (he has since been moved to day-shift). So to make your job easier, you've been provided with your very own empty Freddy Fazbear head, which should fool the animatronic characters into leaving you alone if they should accidentally enter your office.
As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 on Steam (steampowered.com)
FNAF 3 About:
Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great lengths to find anything that might have survived decades of neglect and ruin.
At first there were only empty shells, a hand, a hook, an old paper-plate doll, but then a remarkable discovery was made...
The attraction now has one animatronic.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 on Steam (steampowered.com)
Multiple Springtraps are Hallucinations, not Glitches:
For those wondering what the new update is all about; I added a fourth star to the game for those who beat Aggressive Nightmare mode!
Also, there is some confusion about Springtrap appearing on multiple cameras and people thinking it's a glitch. It's not a glitch, even though I should have explained this better when I released the game. As long as the red light is flashing after a ventilation error, you may see multiple Springtraps. These are hallucinations.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/354140/view/4579554195991878197?l=english
FNAF 4 About:
This time, the terror has followed you home.
In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows. Playing as a child whose role is yet unknown, you must safeguard yourself until 6am by watching the doors, as well as warding off unwanted creatures that may venture into your closet or onto the bed behind you.
You have only a flashlight to protect yourself. It will scare away things that may be creeping at the far end of the hallways, but be careful, and listen. If something has crept too close, then shining lights in its eyes will be your end.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 on Steam (steampowered.com)
The Box Post (The actual piece of lore relegated to Steam):
Hi guys! I wanted to post some information about the upcoming Halloween update. I started off a few months ago with several ideas in mind for what I wanted to release; ranging from DLC, to a new game, to opening the box (more on that later), but now I've been working steadily and have a pretty clear vision going forward.
The October 31st content will be an automatic update, not DLC. It will update the game to 1.1 and will include lots of goodies on the extras menu (for those who have beaten night 6), including a cheat menu, a challenge menu, and a twist on a familiar minigame that provides a boost when playing challenge modes. This also means that there will be a whole new set of stars to earn for those who are up to the challenge!
That part will be released for certain, and I'm hoping to have something else in addition to it, but it may not be ready. I have something fun in mind, a new game (not FNaF5), but it will be a real challenge to have even a small playable portion by Oct 31st. If a playable demo isn't ready by then, then at the very least there will be some sneak-peak content.
Now I want to talk about what WON'T be included... the box.
You know, when I released the first game over a year ago, I was amazed at how quickly everyone found every bit of lore and story. Then the same happened with part 2, fans and youtubers dug in and found everything. Game Theory did an incredible video on part 2; getting almost everything right. Then part 3 came out, and once again the story was uncovered by the community. It seemed that there was nothing I could hide!
But then I released part 4, and somehow.... no one, not a single person, found the pieces. The story remains completely hidden. I guess most people assumed that I filled the game with random easter eggs this time. I didn't. What's in the box? It's the pieces put together. But the bigger question is- would the community accept it that way? The fact that the pieces have remained elusive this time strikes me as incredible, and special, a fitting conclusion in some ways, and because of that, I've decided that maybe some things are best left forgotten, forever.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/388090/view/4033492738906633101?l=english
FNAF World:
Hi everyone, this is a big update! :)
I wanted to keep my plans for a new game secret until Halloween, but while my teasers have created excitement for some people, they have created some confusion as well, mainly because people don't know if the Five Nights at Freddy's story is over or not.
It's very important for me to say again that there will NOT be a Five Nights at Freddy's 5. The story is complete, and the Halloween update and new game will not add to it.
That being said, I wanted to use these characters in a new and fun way because they are so near and dear to my heart, and I was excited to work on a type of game that I hadn't made in a long time.
The new game that I'm working on will be called FNAF World. It will not be a horror game, but a role playing game where you create a party using the huge selection of characters from the FNaF games, including the classic, withered, toy, phantom, and nightmare versions. I've been working steadily on characters and hope to start on enemy models next week.
The bad news is that it's unlikely that a demo will be ready for Halloween like I had hoped, since this game's scope is significantly larger than previous games in the series. However, I will release a free demo, as promised, as soon as it's ready!
FNAF World will be released on PC, Android, and iOS. I don't have an estimated release date yet since the game is still early in development.
I hope you enjoy the new designs of the "adventure" characters, as I call them.
UPDATE: The scottgames.com teaser is complete and includes every character that you can have in your party! Stay tuned in the coming months for more updates as the game progresses!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/388090/view/4033492738906632983?l=english
Halloween Update is Non-Canon:
Hi guys!
I wanted to make a quick announcement for everyone about what to expect with the Halloween update. I got myself into a tricky situation because I wanted to release an update but not change the basic game or lore. That limited me as to what I could change, so I announced that I would created a cheat menu, a challenge menu, and an updated minigame. I thought I was done. But no. ;)
It became clear to me that the community's expectations demanded more than just a cheat menu, so I was faced with my sticky situation yet again. But then I solved it:
On Halloween there will be TWO releases. One will be the content update for the official game, updating it to 1.1. This version is canon, as it always has been. This update will include the features originally promised such as the new challenges and cheats.
The second release will be a special Halloween edition of FNaF4, with a few changed characters and other cosmetic changes. This game is not canon, and is only for fun for the holidays. (this version will be free as well)
If everything works correctly, then players should have two launch choices on Halloween- the Standard Edition and the Halloween Edition.
If it doesn't work for some reason, then the Halloween Edition will be available on GameJolt instead.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/388090/view/4033492738906632873?l=english
FNAF Sister Location About:
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! With cutting-edge animatronic entertainers that will knock your kids' socks off, as well as customized pizza catering, no party is complete without Circus Baby and the gang!
Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location on Steam (steampowered.com)
Custom Night is Non-Canon:
Hey guys! I wanted to let you all know that I'll be working on an update for the game that will add a "Custom Night" to the Extras menu.
To answer a few questions about it:
1) Yes, it will be FREE. When the update is ready, your games will automatically update to include this feature.
2) It will NOT be canon. (otherwise it would screw up the entire plotline!)
3) It will be unlocked only when you have 3-stars, so you'd better get to work!
4) Since it's not part of the game's "Story Mode", you will be able to jump right into the action from the Extras menu and restart as many times as you like.
5) It would have been awesome to have this ready for Halloween, but there's no way that will be possible. Be looking for this in December!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/506610/view/4648234090313050467?l=english
But Cutscenes are Canon:
Hey guys, the new update is live (v1.12). It gives a little additional power for Golden Freddy Mode on Very Hard, and also adds the final cutscene!
Enjoy!
(By the way- Cutscenes are canon.)
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/506610/view/4648234090313050041?l=english
Pizza Sim About:
Presenting a fun Five Nights at Freddy's adventure with a lighter touch for the holidays, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator puts you in charge of developing your own restaurant! Design pizzas, feed kids, and get high scores!
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator on Steam (steampowered.com)
UCN All Character Descriptions:
[Had to cut it because of Reddit's Post Length Limitations]
(I'm sure there's some lore in there somewhere)
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/738060/view/5156014950379793852?l=english
Death Coin:
There is a new item available at the prize counter! For a lean 10 Faz-coins (price subject to change) you can purchase the Death Coin. You can only buy it once per night, and you can use it to eliminate one character from the roster, although only certain characters are susceptible to deletion.
Although this means that you can potentially eliminate a character who has been giving you trouble, it also means that you will have fewer coins to defend against characters who demand them, such as Rockstar Freddy, Baby, Nightmare Bonnie, and Nightmare Mangle. So if you choose to buy the coin, it can potentially put you in danger until you build up your coin count again.
The characters that are susceptible to deletion by Death Coin are:
The way this feature will work is that once you have purchased the Death Coin from the Prize Counter, there will be a Death Coin icon in the top left. Then when you are viewing a cam showing a vulnerable target, the icon will light up. If you click the Death Coin icon at that point, it will eliminate the target animatronic from the game.
Although this may seem pointless at first (after all, if you didn't want a certain character in the game, then why add them in the first place, right?), eliminating them in this way still gives you credit for beating that character. It isn't a freebie, it's a calculated risk. Spending ten Faz-Coins puts you at risk from other Faz-Coin hungry characters, so it's a choice that players must make depending on the circumstances, similar to how Rockstar Foxy comes with risk, despite the potential benefits.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/738060/view/5156014950379793583?l=english
UCN Description:
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, where you will once again be trapped alone in an office fending off killer animatronics! Featuring 50 selectable animatronic characters spanning seven Five Nights at Freddy's games, the options for customization are nearly endless. Mix and match any assortment of characters that you like, set their difficulty from 0-20, then jump right into the action! From your office desk, you will need to manage two side doors, two vents, as well as two air hoses, all of which lead directly into your office.
This time you will have to master other tools as well if you want to complete the ultimate challenges, tools such as the heater, A/C, a global music box, a power generator, and more. As if all of that weren't enough, you'll also need to set up laser traps in the vents, collect Faz-Coins, purchase items from the prize counter, and as always, keep a close eye on not one, but two, Pirate Cove curtains!
Other features include:
Ultimate Custom Night on Steam (steampowered.com)
Steam Developer: Steel Wool Studios (steampowered.com)
FNAF VR About:
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Survive terrifying encounters with your favorite killer animatronics in a collection of new and classic FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S™ experiences. “Where fantasy and fun come to life!”
A VR headset is NOT required to play.
YOU’RE HIRED - Time to get your hands dirty. Repair claustrophobic ventilation systems, troubleshoot broken animatronics that could activate at any moment, or spend your evenings cowering in the nighttime security guard office.
CELEBRATE - Confront your favorite killer animatronics including; Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Springtrap, The Mangle, Funtime Foxy, and Circus Baby.
FUN FUN PRIZES - Toys, Plushies, Bobbleheads, and candy candy candy! Earn super fun prizes you can play with at the interactive Prize Counter! Collect well hidden Faz-Tokens to unlock even more rare collectibles for more SUPER FUN FUN FUN.
PIZZA PARTY - Scenes from classic titles have been updated and remade for a fully immersive experience including; Five Nights at Freddy’s, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, Five Nights at Freddy’s 4, and Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location.
TWO WAYS TO PLAY - Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED on Steam (steampowered.com)
Curse of Deadbear About:
The Curse of Dreadbear DLC unlocks a new Halloween themed hub packed with spooky new mini-games and prizes.
* New spine-tingling mini-games include; Trick or Treat, Mangle Repair, Corn Maze, the Plushkin-Patch, “Cap’n Foxy’s Pirate Adventure” dark ride and many more!
* Featured frightening animatronics include; Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Freddy, Jack-o-Chica, Jack-o-Bonnie and a few... surprises.
This content requires the base game Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted in order to play.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted - Curse of Dreadbear on Steam (steampowered.com)
Security Breach About:
THE NEXT CHAPTER IN FEAR
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach is the latest installment of the family-friendly horror games loved by millions of players from all over the globe. Play as Gregory, a young boy trapped overnight in Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy Fazbear himself, Gregory must survive the near-unstoppable hunt of reimagined Five Nights at Freddy’s characters - as well as new, horrific threats.
THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED - Once nighttime protocols are initiated, the animatronics at Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex will relentlessly pursue all intruders. Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, Montgomery Gator, and the Pizzaplex’s security guard, Vanessa, will turn over every Cotton Candy Pizza Stand if they have to - it’s not wise to stay in one place for too long.
ADAPT TO SURVIVE - Access the building’s security cameras to survey the environment and plan your route through danger. Distract enemies by knocking over paint cans and toys - just slip away before enemies are drawn to your location. Hop into hiding spots and allow danger to pass, or try to outrun your pursuers. Play your way, but be prepared to adapt.
EXPLORE AND DISCOVER - Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex offers a variety of attractions for guests to enjoy - Monty Golf, Roxy Raceway, Bonnie Bowl, the sewers, and… Sewers? The Pizzaplex is vast and has no shortage of goodies to discover.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach on Steam (steampowered.com)
Ruin About:
You can run, but you can’t hide…
Enter the ruins of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex in the FREE story DLC for Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach!
Gregory is once again trapped in the now abandoned Pizzaplex, and he needs your help! Play as Cassie, Gregory’s best friend, Faz-fanatic, and would-be savior as she braves the dark, dreary, and dilapidated pizzeria. Armed with only a Faz-Wrench, a Roxy-Talky, and this weird bunny mask, you will have to help Cassie find her friend, free him, and safely escape the ruins.
Can you save your friend, yourself, and the Pizzaplex? Find out in the 100% free DLC, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach – Ruin.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1924720/Five_Nights_at_Freddys_Security_Breach__Ruin/
Help Wanted 2 About:
Find out if you have what it takes to be a Fazbear Entertainment Superstar!
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 is the sequel to the terrifying VR experience that brought new life to the iconic horror franchise. As a brand new Fazbear employee you’ll have to prove you have what it takes to excel in all aspects of Pizzeria management and maintenance.
Go Backstage as a VIP to help Roxanne Wolf & the S.T.A.F.F Bots get ready for their performances in the Pizzaplex Salon!
Head into the Fazcade and enjoy classic games like Bonk-a-Bon and Fazerblast! See if you can top all the high scores!
Take care of things behind the scenes in the Staff Only section of the Pizzeria. Deliver First Aid to patients who aren’t quite feeling themselves, and help animatronics perform routine diagnostics & maintenance.
Our Food Prep courses will help you get the federally mandated amount of value preparing food in the Pizzaplex. Experience all the joys of high-speed food service & get ready to feed some hungry bots!
Head over to the Ticket Booth to test out our E-ticket attractions, such as Captain Foxy’s Cowboy Adventure! On this lighthearted log ride, you’ll float through the old West as a gunslinger in search of booty!
And finally, if you’re short on dread, dive into the world of our Sister Location! These special minigames are VR versions of classic experiences from Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location. These fan-favorites brought to life promise to be as fun as they are terrifying!
So what are you waiting for?!? Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 is now accepting applicants for all positions, effective immediately.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 on Steam (steampowered.com)
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Syberia - The World Before
Deep Rock Galactic
Ion Fury
Mafia: Definitive Edition
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
BIOMUTANT
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Hollow Knight
GreedFall
Planet Zoo
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Desperados III
Roboquest
Sable
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Wasteland 3
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Destroy All Humans!
Jurassic World Evolution 2
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
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LIBERATED
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Timelie
The Henry Stickmin Collection
Lone Fungus
Heat Signature
We Need To Go Deeper
Surviving the Aftermath
MORDHAU
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Chivalry 2
Project Winter
Phoenix Point
Voidigo
Aragami
The Survivalists
Yes, Your Grace
Wizard of Legend
Trek to Yomi
Descenders
TOEM
Intravenous
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Miscreated
Shortest Trip to Earth
Pumpkin Jack
Monster Train
Othercide
Wanderer
UnMetal
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Forgive Me Father
Rollerdrome
People Playground
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Eldest Souls
Disciples: Liberation
ScourgeBringer
Edge Of Eternity
DmC Devil May Cry
FTL: Faster Than Light
Street Fighter V
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Chaotic Great Edition
Drake Hollow
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Rebel Inc: Escalation
The Quarry - Deluxe Edition
Sunless Sea
Partisans 1941
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Bendy and the Dark Revival
Minoria
DARQ
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Greak: Memories of Azur
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Duskers
Shady Part of Me
Them's Fightin' Herds
Finding Paradise
GRIME
If Found
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice
Mr. Prepper
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
The Darkside Detective
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
Hellbound
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Vertigo Remastered
Wanderlust: Travel Stories
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Encased
Iron Harvest
Paradise Killer
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
Project Warlock
PLANET ALPHA
Blacksad
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Nobodies
Honey, I Joined a Cult
BioShock: The Collection
Secret Neighbor
Suzerain
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Crown Trick
In Sound Mind
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Roadwarden
Pathway
SUPERHOT
NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER
Omno
Maid of Sker
Raw Data
Hob
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Mega Man Legacy Collection
Sundered: Eldritch Edition
Post Void
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Mind Scanners
Hero's Hour
SuchArt!
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Fantasy Town Regional Manager
Pawnbarian
Not Tonight
Foretales
Resident Evil Revelations
Killsquad
Hokko Life
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning FATE Edition
Builder Simulator
Torchlight II
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Before We Leave
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mad Experiments: Escape Room
Call of the Sea
Blade Assault
Necronator: Dead Wrong
Nebuchadnezzar
RAD
Orcs Must Die! 2
Tools Up!
Bee Simulator
Hammerting
Black Book
Windjammers 2
Rebel Cops
XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
As Far As The Eye
Black Future '88
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Pirates of the Sword Coast
First Class Trouble
Demon Turf
AI War 2
Shu
Merchant of the Skies
Ittle Dew
Lumini
Kill It With Fire
The Serpent Rogue
Astronarch
Boundless
Due Process
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
OlliOlli World Rad Edition
Railroad Corporation
Undead Horde
Monster Crown
Battlewake
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Here Be Dragons
Truberbrook
X Rebirth
Supraland
In Other Waters
Police Stories
Retrowave
Blue Fire
John Wick Hex
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
shapez
ELDERBORN
A Juggler's Tale
HITMAN: Game of the Year Edition
Farmer's Dynasty
Superfly
Nex Machina
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Tower of Time
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek
Emily is Away <3
Orcs Must Die 2 - Complete Pack
Hard Reset Redux
At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
FRAMED Collection
Tooth and Tail
I Am Fish
The Invisible Hand
Arcade Paradise
Aces and Adventures
Electronauts
Lacuna
PGA TOUR 2K21
The Lovable Rogues Pack
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - Fan Edition
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
Eternal Threads
Spirit Of The Island
Kraken Academy!!
Sprint Vector
Rustler
TOHU
Cosmonautica
Beyond The Wire
Conan Chop Chop
Neon Chrome
Midnight Protocol
Legend of Keepers
Unexplored
Tails Noir
Syberia 3
Pizza Connection 3
Nowhere Prophet
Everhood
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Five Dates
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Shing!
Super Magbot
Lords and Villeins
Revita
Patch Quest
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
Tales of the Tiny Planet
Juno: New Origins
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Paradise Lost
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Hoplegs
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Monster Train: The Last Divinity
Hot Brass
Tin Can
Surviving Mars
Tyranny - Deluxe Edition
The Way
Railway Empire
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD
Jurassic World Evolution - Deluxe DLC
Cannibal Cuisine
Ring of Pain
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Founders' Fortune
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Evoland Legendary Edition
TaniNani
Aviary Attorney
Effie
Fury Unleashed
Möbius Front '83
Lost Planet 3 - Complete Pack
Hero Defense
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Layers of Fear (2016)
Out of Space
CivCity: Rome
Duke Nukem Forever
Fling to the Finish
Levelhead
State of Mind
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
EarthX
West of Dead
The Walking Dead Onslaught Deluxe Edition
Yoku's Island Express
Army Men RTS
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
Epic Chef
Baby Dino Adventures
Journey For Elysium
Lust for Darkness
Deadly Days
Cygon Customisation Pack
Family Man
XCOM 2: Reinforcement Pack
Tacoma
Embr
Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King
Radio Commander
Treasure Temples
GARAGE: Bad Trip
Between the Stars
BATTLETECH - Shadow Hawk Pack
Evan's Remains
GRIP: Combat Racing
Explosionade
Terra Customisation Pack
Popup Dungeon
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
Autonauts vs Piratebots
ibb & obb - Best Friends Forever Double Pack
Vintek Customisation Pack
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Moon Hunters
This War of Mine
Turbo Golf Racing
XCOM 2: Resistance Warrior Pack
Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle
Guppy
112 Operator
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Duke Nukem Forever: Hail to the Icons Parody Pack
The Doctor Who Cloned Me
Star Vikings Forever
Syberia 3 Deluxe Edition with An Automaton with a plan DLC
Swag and Sorcery
Calico
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
shapez - Puzzle DLC
Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS - Ultimate Brawlers Pass
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Torchlight
Corridor Z
Meeple Station
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
The Amazing American Circus
Retimed
Sid Meier's Railroads!
1993 Space Machine
Marooners
Crying Suns
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
AWAKE - Definitive Edition
Iron Danger
Fallout
Strider
Golf With Your Friends - OST
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Deluxiest Edition
Valhalla Hills
Broken Age
Hiveswap Friendsim
Divekick
Golf Gang
Blackguards
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Last Resort Island
Click and Slay
911 Operator
Telefrag VR
Railroad Tycoon 3
AI War: Fleet Command
Beholder
Guts and Glory
Monaco
Soulblight
Chroma Squad
X-COM: Complete Pack
Oh My Gore!
Desolate
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Paw Paw Paw
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire
Ruins to Rumble
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Driftland: The Magic Revival
GameGuru Classic
Boreal Blade
Crash Drive 2
Orbital Racer
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Patrician IV: Steam Special Edition
Earth 2160
A New Beginning - Final Cut
Drawful 2
WARSAW
Slinger VR
TRAUMA
Draw Slasher
Unlinked Items (cannot filter or match)
Liberated [Gog.com]
Encodya (gog.com)
Shapez Puzzles DLC
Battle Group VR
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Steam
DEATH STRANDING
Syberia - The World Before
Deep Rock Galactic
Ion Fury
Mafia: Definitive Edition
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
BIOMUTANT
Baba Is You
Hollow Knight
GreedFall
Planet Zoo
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Desperados III
Roboquest
Sable
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Wasteland 3
Superliminal
Quantum Break
Ghost of a Tale
River City Girls
Destroy All Humans!
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Road 96
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Metal: Hellsinger
Creaks
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Sunset Overdrive
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
Starbound
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Temtem
We Were Here Together
DUSK
INMOST
Monster Sanctuary
Vagante
Necromunda: Hired Gun
AMID EVIL
Operation Tango
Hedon Bloodrite
Blasphemous
Monument Valley
Curse of the Dead Gods
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
DESYNC
Metro Exodus
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
The Last Campfire
Tribes of Midgard
Into the Radius VR
Sonic Mania
House Flipper
Wingspan
The Falconeer
Monument Valley 2
Rain World
ECHO
Dread Templar
Gas Station Simulator
Batora: Lost Haven
Second Extinction™
Cube Escape Collection
LIBERATED
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Timelie
The Henry Stickmin Collection
Lone Fungus
Heat Signature
We Need To Go Deeper
Surviving the Aftermath
MORDHAU
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Chivalry 2
Project Winter
Phoenix Point
Voidigo
Aragami
The Survivalists
Yes, Your Grace
Wizard of Legend
Trek to Yomi
Descenders
TOEM
Intravenous
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Miscreated
Shortest Trip to Earth
Pumpkin Jack
Monster Train
Othercide
Wanderer
UnMetal
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Forgive Me Father
Rollerdrome
People Playground
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Eldest Souls
Disciples: Liberation
ScourgeBringer
Edge Of Eternity
DmC Devil May Cry
FTL: Faster Than Light
Street Fighter V
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Chaotic Great Edition
Drake Hollow
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Rebel Inc: Escalation
The Quarry - Deluxe Edition
Sunless Sea
Partisans 1941
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Bendy and the Dark Revival
Minoria
DARQ
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Greak: Memories of Azur
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Duskers
Shady Part of Me
Them's Fightin' Herds
Finding Paradise
GRIME
If Found
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice
Mr. Prepper
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
The Darkside Detective
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
Hellbound
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Vertigo Remastered
Wanderlust: Travel Stories
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Encased
Iron Harvest
Paradise Killer
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
Project Warlock
PLANET ALPHA
Blacksad
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Nobodies
Honey, I Joined a Cult
BioShock: The Collection
Secret Neighbor
Suzerain
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Crown Trick
In Sound Mind
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Roadwarden
Pathway
SUPERHOT
NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER
Omno
Maid of Sker
Raw Data
Hob
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Mega Man Legacy Collection
Sundered: Eldritch Edition
Post Void
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Mind Scanners
Hero's Hour
SuchArt!
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Fantasy Town Regional Manager
Pawnbarian
Not Tonight
Foretales
Resident Evil Revelations
Killsquad
Hokko Life
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning FATE Edition
Builder Simulator
Torchlight II
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Before We Leave
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mad Experiments: Escape Room
Call of the Sea
Blade Assault
Necronator: Dead Wrong
Nebuchadnezzar
RAD
Orcs Must Die! 2
Tools Up!
Bee Simulator
Hammerting
Black Book
Windjammers 2
Rebel Cops
XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
As Far As The Eye
Black Future '88
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Pirates of the Sword Coast
First Class Trouble
Demon Turf
AI War 2
Shu
Merchant of the Skies
Ittle Dew
Lumini
Kill It With Fire
The Serpent Rogue
Astronarch
Boundless
Due Process
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
OlliOlli World Rad Edition
Railroad Corporation
Undead Horde
Monster Crown
Battlewake
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Here Be Dragons
Truberbrook
X Rebirth
Supraland
In Other Waters
Police Stories
Retrowave
Blue Fire
John Wick Hex
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
shapez
ELDERBORN
A Juggler's Tale
HITMAN: Game of the Year Edition
Farmer's Dynasty
Superfly
Nex Machina
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Tower of Time
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek
Emily is Away <3
Orcs Must Die 2 - Complete Pack
Hard Reset Redux
At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
FRAMED Collection
Tooth and Tail
I Am Fish
The Invisible Hand
Arcade Paradise
Aces and Adventures
Electronauts
Lacuna
PGA TOUR 2K21
The Lovable Rogues Pack
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - Fan Edition
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
Eternal Threads
Spirit Of The Island
Kraken Academy!!
Sprint Vector
Rustler
TOHU
Cosmonautica
Beyond The Wire
Conan Chop Chop
Neon Chrome
Midnight Protocol
Legend of Keepers
Unexplored
Tails Noir
Syberia 3
Pizza Connection 3
Nowhere Prophet
Everhood
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Five Dates
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Shing!
Super Magbot
Lords and Villeins
Revita
Patch Quest
The Golf Club 2019 Featuring PGA TOUR
Tales of the Tiny Planet
Juno: New Origins
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Paradise Lost
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Hoplegs
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
Monster Train: The Last Divinity
Hot Brass
Tin Can
Surviving Mars
Tyranny - Deluxe Edition
The Way
Railway Empire
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD
Jurassic World Evolution - Deluxe DLC
Cannibal Cuisine
Ring of Pain
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Founders' Fortune
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Evoland Legendary Edition
TaniNani
Aviary Attorney
Effie
Fury Unleashed
Möbius Front '83
Lost Planet 3 - Complete Pack
Hero Defense
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
Layers of Fear (2016)
Out of Space
CivCity: Rome
Duke Nukem Forever
Fling to the Finish
Levelhead
State of Mind
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
EarthX
West of Dead
The Walking Dead Onslaught Deluxe Edition
Yoku's Island Express
Army Men RTS
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
Epic Chef
Baby Dino Adventures
Journey For Elysium
Lust for Darkness
Deadly Days
Cygon Customisation Pack
Family Man
XCOM 2: Reinforcement Pack
Tacoma
Embr
Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King
Radio Commander
Treasure Temples
GARAGE: Bad Trip
Between the Stars
BATTLETECH - Shadow Hawk Pack
Evan's Remains
GRIP: Combat Racing
Explosionade
Terra Customisation Pack
Popup Dungeon
Lust from Beyond: M Edition
Autonauts vs Piratebots
ibb & obb - Best Friends Forever Double Pack
Vintek Customisation Pack
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Moon Hunters
This War of Mine
Turbo Golf Racing
XCOM 2: Resistance Warrior Pack
Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle
Guppy
112 Operator
Treasure Hunter Simulator
Go Home Dinosaurs!
Duke Nukem Forever: Hail to the Icons Parody Pack
The Doctor Who Cloned Me
Star Vikings Forever
Syberia 3 Deluxe Edition with An Automaton with a plan DLC
Swag and Sorcery
Calico
The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines
shapez - Puzzle DLC
Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum
WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS - Ultimate Brawlers Pass
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Torchlight
Corridor Z
Meeple Station
Hidden & Dangerous: Action Pack
The Amazing American Circus
Retimed
Sid Meier's Railroads!
1993 Space Machine
Marooners
Crying Suns
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
AWAKE - Definitive Edition
Iron Danger
Fallout
Strider
Golf With Your Friends - OST
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Deluxiest Edition
Valhalla Hills
Broken Age
Hiveswap Friendsim
Divekick
Golf Gang
Blackguards
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Last Resort Island
Click and Slay
911 Operator
Telefrag VR
Railroad Tycoon 3
AI War: Fleet Command
Beholder
Guts and Glory
Monaco
Soulblight
Chroma Squad
X-COM: Complete Pack
Oh My Gore!
Desolate
Out of Reach: Treasure Royale
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Paw Paw Paw
Roarr! Jurassic Edition
Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire
Ruins to Rumble
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Driftland: The Magic Revival
GameGuru Classic
Boreal Blade
Crash Drive 2
Orbital Racer
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Patrician IV: Steam Special Edition
Earth 2160
A New Beginning - Final Cut
Drawful 2
WARSAW
Slinger VR
TRAUMA
Draw Slasher
Unlinked Items (cannot filter or match)
Liberated [Gog.com]
Encodya (gog.com)
Shapez Puzzles DLC
Battle Group VR
Top Brass
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Steam
DEATH STRANDING
Syberia - The World Before
Deep Rock Galactic
Ion Fury
Mafia: Definitive Edition
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
BIOMUTANT
Baba Is You
Hollow Knight
GreedFall
Planet Zoo
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Desperados III
Roboquest
Sable
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Wasteland 3
Superliminal
Quantum Break
Ghost of a Tale
River City Girls
Destroy All Humans!
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Road 96
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Metal: Hellsinger
Creaks
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Sunset Overdrive
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
Starbound
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Temtem
We Were Here Together
DUSK
INMOST
Monster Sanctuary
Vagante
Necromunda: Hired Gun
AMID EVIL
Operation Tango
Hedon Bloodrite
Blasphemous
Monument Valley
Curse of the Dead Gods
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
DESYNC
Metro Exodus
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
The Last Campfire
Tribes of Midgard
Into the Radius VR
Sonic Mania
House Flipper
Wingspan
The Falconeer
Monument Valley 2
Rain World
ECHO
Dread Templar
Gas Station Simulator
Batora: Lost Haven
Second Extinction™
Cube Escape Collection
LIBERATED
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Timelie
The Henry Stickmin Collection
Lone Fungus
Heat Signature
We Need To Go Deeper
Surviving the Aftermath
MORDHAU
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Chivalry 2
Project Winter
Phoenix Point
Voidigo
Aragami
The Survivalists
Yes, Your Grace
Wizard of Legend
Trek to Yomi
Descenders
TOEM
Intravenous
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Miscreated
Shortest Trip to Earth
Pumpkin Jack
Monster Train
Othercide
Wanderer
UnMetal
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Forgive Me Father
Rollerdrome
People Playground
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Eldest Souls
Disciples: Liberation
ScourgeBringer
Edge Of Eternity
DmC Devil May Cry
FTL: Faster Than Light
Street Fighter V
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Chaotic Great Edition
Drake Hollow
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Rebel Inc: Escalation
The Quarry - Deluxe Edition
Sunless Sea
Partisans 1941
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Bendy and the Dark Revival
Minoria
DARQ
Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition
Greak: Memories of Azur
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Duskers
Shady Part of Me
Them's Fightin' Herds
Finding Paradise
GRIME
If Found
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice
Mr. Prepper
Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition
The Darkside Detective
Just Cause 4 Complete Edition
Hellbound
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Vertigo Remastered
Wanderlust: Travel Stories
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Encased
Iron Harvest
Paradise Killer
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Save Room - Organization Puzzle
Project Warlock
PLANET ALPHA
Blacksad
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Nobodies
Honey, I Joined a Cult
BioShock: The Collection
Secret Neighbor
Suzerain
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Crown Trick
In Sound Mind
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Roadwarden
Pathway
SUPERHOT
NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER
Omno
Maid of Sker
Raw Data
Hob
Life is Strange 2 Complete Season (incl. Mascot Bundle DLC)
Mega Man Legacy Collection
Sundered: Eldritch Edition
Post Void
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Mind Scanners
Hero's Hour
SuchArt!
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Fantasy Town Regional Manager
Pawnbarian
Not Tonight
Foretales
Resident Evil Revelations
Killsquad
Hokko Life
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning FATE Edition
Builder Simulator
Torchlight II
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Before We Leave
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mad Experiments: Escape Room
Call of the Sea
Blade Assault
Necronator: Dead Wrong
Nebuchadnezzar
RAD
Orcs Must Die! 2
Tools Up!
Bee Simulator
Hammerting
Black Book
Windjammers 2
Rebel Cops
XCOM: ULTIMATE COLLECTION
As Far As The Eye
Black Future '88
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Pirates of the Sword Coast
First Class Trouble
Demon Turf
AI War 2
Shu
Merchant of the Skies
Ittle Dew
Lumini
Kill It With Fire
The Serpent Rogue
Astronarch
Boundless
Due Process
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
OlliOlli World Rad Edition
Railroad Corporation
Undead Horde
Monster Crown
Battlewake
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - Here Be Dragons
Truberbrook
X Rebirth
Supraland
In Other Waters
Police Stories
Retrowave
Blue Fire
John Wick Hex
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
shapez
ELDERBORN
A Juggler's Tale
HITMAN: Game of the Year Edition
Farmer's Dynasty
Superfly
Nex Machina
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Tower of Time
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek
Emily is Away <3
Orcs Must Die 2 - Complete Pack
Hard Reset Redux
At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
FRAMED Collection
Tooth and Tail
I Am Fish
The Invisible Hand
Arcade Paradise
Aces and Adventures
Electronauts
Lacuna
PGA TOUR 2K21
The Lovable Rogues Pack
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - Fan Edition
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
Eternal Threads
Spirit Of The Island
Kraken Academy!!
Sprint Vector
Rustler
TOHU
Cosmonautica
Beyond The Wire
Conan Chop Chop
Neon Chrome
Midnight Protocol
Legend of Keepers
Unexplored
Tails Noir
Syberia 3
Pizza Connection 3
Nowhere Prophet
Everhood
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Five Dates
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Shing!
Super Magbot
Lords and Villeins
Revita
Patch Quest
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2024.06.02 01:09 Tubusy Can you help me identify this loved and lost text? (Beckett?)

It is a monologue set in a liminal waiting-room-like place, and has a repetitive refrain which is something close to, 'No. I begin again.' A melodic self-correction, until the character finds escape or peace.
Please help me find this text; my memory, bookcase, Google, and GPT have all failed me.
I'm certain it was written by a playwright, Beckett probably, or Pinter; but is not one of their most famous works. A short story, a poem almost.
I know that's not much to go on, but I'm sure a complete works reader would recognise it instantly; as I would if my memory hadn't turned to garbage.
Thank you!
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2024.06.02 00:36 Erys16 (Online)(5e)(Homebrew World)(5pm PST Sundarys weekly)(LGBTQ+ Friendly) The Tournament of Ythyria - Looking for 1-2 Players

Attention adventures from all around Ythyria! The Adventuring Guild and Trade Company, Dungeon and Delver have brought Free Trade, cheaper goods and modern magical industry to Ythyria at large. Along with it we are announcing the creation of The Great Games! Four events over a year consisting of festivals and a competition where adventuring parties seeking and acquiring items and then using these items to conquer a selected "Great Foe". There are three tiers of challenges with each tier having seperate reward options, either material wealth, lost or hidden knowledge and great favors are right in front of you. Adventures of all skill are urged to apply as there is a tier for every one and entry training for those below the Initiate tier who still wish to apply. Solo adventures and existing groups are urged to apply as Adventuring Parities/"Delver Squads" are created/assigned by The Dungeon and Delver Selection Panels. Opportunities across the planes are calling, Will you answer them?
Hello potential adventurers! My name is Erys and I will be the DM of this Campaign. I have played 5e for 7 years and have DM'd for 5 along with acting, musical theater and other game officiating experience. This world has been under construction essentially that whole time, a couple of re-works later, some fleshing out and reimagining of some ideas has lead me here, where I need one more player for our group. At the end of this post will be a link to a google form where you will apply (please don't forget to put your discord handle, I cannot contact you otherwise) The selection process will occur tonight a google form with a interview over a discord voice call being the next step after the google form dependant on interest. It will be played with Roll20 or the VTT and D&Dbeyond for character creation. As stated in the title, the game will begin at 5 Pm PST on Sundays, it will be weekly and I cannot stress this enough, consistent attendance matters to me, every now and then for emergencies and what not I understand. However, I along with the other players all cleared our schedules to play our game, so communication is paramount and we all have experienced missed sessions killing tables in some fashion. We will start at level three, character creation will be with starting arrays and a free feat, I have also adapted all official races in 5e to this world so have fun. Time wise, the game will run for ideally 3.5 hours with a hard stop at 4 hours. I will help with character creation before session tomorrow. So all that being said, Here is the world that we are playing in.
Edit: the general campaign in influenced by the premises of ready player one and the hunger games, just as a fun fact that some people might find interesting.
World Setting:
The year is 1371 of the Fourth Aeon, and a long perceived peace is coming to an end. The end of The Great Amnesia was 1,371 years ago and in the time since, civilization has somewhat rediscovered itself. New kingdoms arise in the place of those long dead along with knowledge thought lost to the slipping sands of time. In the year 343, the Gods awoke from their slumber and began to work in the cardinal plane through their champions and the Cardinal plane would no longer allow them to enter with their true presence., since then, other long though dead or gone beings have begun to stir; The Primordials, The Thaens (basically Angels of Light and Dark), The Great Elemental Spirits, Fey Courts, Aberrations, Demons, Devils and the Four Great Aethic Beings, Aether, Anaether, Anaethon, and Aethon. For beyond the Outer Planes are The Realms of Aethyn and Aethyr, The Realms of Light and Dark. Forces of Creation that existing since The Cardinal Coalescence. These absolutes are in competition for the material and immaterial ways of existence as it is the lifeblood of all Non-Aethic Divinity, in a war that has been waged nearly since time began. Ythyria sits at the center of a layered system of Inner, Middle and Outer Planes (Cardinal, Mutable and Fixed). {As I am currently working on the Pantheon so for this campaign we will use the Forgotten realms pantheon as a basis, technically the wheel of cosmology system, but anyway}. They Fey and Elemental Planes reside between the outer planes and the cardinal plane of Ythyria. The Deities of Belief who control the outer planes sit within a structure of being beyond mortals but short of the Aethic Powers, alongside many other powerful beings with their own agendas. All races are found spread across the continent with higher concentrations on their native continent...typically.
The Continent We find ourselves on is Brygallia, a land filled with a multitude of empires. The Pyrnallians, Ordellians and Tythillians, sit on the west coast of Brygallia, the remnants of the recently collapsed Brygalt Empire, a relic of a magical age thought bygone. No adrift and seperate after a long bloody war for Ordellian Independence, the Tythillians took no side but one could trace the beginning of their newly minted trade federation from that conflict. The Mylearian Kingdom sits in the mountains and valleys north of Ordell and north east of the Pyrnallian Bay, another dying Kingdom but instead of humans and large smatterings of others, this is a ancient Kingdom of Dwarves and Elves. The Mylearians oversee all overland trade in Brygallia and maintain a perfect appearance but secrets lurk in the Deep Depths of the Orchallium Mines of Mylear. South East of The Brygallian west coast is the minor Kingdom of Drakon, a kingdom of elves who have taken the sands as their home. Further south are the swamps of Solaire, all sorts inhabit the coastal an inland city states , however a once idylic lifestyle has been disrupted by a company of pirates. At the center of this continent is the Greater Pylastrian Federation of Houses, a near feudal system born of long forgotten reasons. Alliances between houses span hundreds of years if not millennia, and These housing alliances vie for power both in the Pylastrian Congress and outside of it. To the north is the isolated Elven Kingdom of Kyvir, a society whose sole purpose is going to remain a secret for now. Ruled by a Fey aligned Patriarch, they rule over an aberrant and cryptic northern Kingdom. In The Heart of Pylastria are the Gor'Reitr Mountains and the Gor'Ritirin Kingdom, clans of Dwarves have supplied the Pylastrians iron and gold for the last thousand years. Last is Ballyast, which is ruled by a Vampire coven that controls a large chunk of the North-Eastern Brygallian Coast. They are rumored to guard a set of Gates to the Lower Planes of existance among other horrors in the Mal'Vallas Mountain Range.
Thank you for getting all the way down here, I truly appreciate it as much has been put into this effort, good luck! Apply for this game with the Google form below.
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2024.06.01 23:13 SanderSo47 Directors at the Box Office: Richard Donner

Directors at the Box Office: Richard Donner
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Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's Richard Donner's turn.
Initially, Donner wanted to develop a career as an actor. He gained a bit part in a television program directed by Martin Ritt, who encouraged Donner to become a director instead, and he hired Donner as his assistant. Through his connections in Desilu, he started directing commercials. In the 60s, he transitioned into television, directing episodes for shows like The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, and Gilligan's Island. Afterwards, he had his chance to direct films.
From a box office perspective, how reliable was he to deliver a box office hit?
That's the point of this post. To analyze his career.

It should be noted that as he started his career in the 1960s, the domestic grosses here will be adjusted by inflation. The table with his highest grossing films, however, will be left in its unadjusted form, as the worldwide grosses are more difficult to adjust.

X-15 (1961)

"Actually filmed in space!"
His directorial debut. It stars David McLean, Charles Bronson, James Gregory and Mary Tyler Moore, and presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket aircraft program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft, and the associated NASA community that supported the program.
There are no box office numbers available, but it is said that it had a short and poor theatrical run. Reviews were mixed, and Moore said she's not proud of the film.

Salt and Pepper (1965)

"Join the club."
His second film. It stars Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier, and follows two nightclub owners finding themselves in trouble over a woman's death.
It received mixed reviews, and it earned $1.75 million in rentals.
  • Budget: N/A.
  • Domestic gross: $1,750,000 in rentals. ($17.4 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $1,750,000.

Lola (1970)

"It may be love... but it's definitely exhausting!"
His third film. It stars Charles Bronson and Susan George, and follows a 38-year-old writer of pornographic novels who meets and falls in love with a sixteen-year-old school girl whilst living in London.
There are no box office figures, but you can be sure of something: it was panned by everyone.

The Omen (1976)

"If something frightening happens to you today, think about it."
His fourth film. It stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. The film's plot follows Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by his father, unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.
Producer Harvey Bernhard came up with the idea for a film about the Antichrist after talking with one of his friends. WB was on board, but they later pulled out, so 20th Century Fox agreed to distribute the film. Donner favored an ambiguous reading of the script under which it would be left for the audience to decide whether Damien was the Antichrist or whether the series of violent deaths in the film were all just a string of unfortunate accidents. Seltzer rejected the ambiguity favored by Donner and pressed for an interpretation of his script that left no doubt for the audience that Damien Thorn was the Antichrist and that all of the deaths in the film were caused by the malevolent power of Satan, the interpretation that Bernhard chose to go with.
There were some... dark stories over the making of the film. Some aren't confirmed, but others are verified. So take the following with huge grains of salt.
In September 1975, Peck was flying to London, and during the flight, lightning struck the plane. Shortly after, executive producer Mace Neufeld's plane was also struck by lightning while en route to Los Angeles. That's twice in a span of only a few weeks. Then, writer David Seltzer's plane was also struck by lightning. And, while filming in Rome, lightning narrowly missed striking Bernhard. Lightning may never strike twice, but four times, and to different people whose only six degrees of separation at the time was The Omen? Oh, it gets even creepier. A scene was postponed, which meant Peck was not needed on the set, so a private jet that the crew was going to charter to bring Peck in was not necessary. The next day, it was reported that the plane they had intended to book hit a flock of birds and crashed, killing everyone on board.
Neufeld, probably already on edge after his plane was struck by lightning, was planning to eat at a restaurant nearby, but it was hit by an IRA bombing. The day after filming, the hotel that Donner had stayed at was also bombed.
John Richardson, the set designer, created a particularly macabre scene where a character dies from decapitation resulting from an automobile accident. While in Holland in August 1976, Richardson and his assistant, Liz Moore, were struck by a freakishly unfortunate fate. They fell victims to a head-on-collision, where Moore was cut in half, in similar fashion to the one Richardson had designed for the film. It happened in a Friday the 13th, near a road sign which says: “Ommen, 66.6 km.”
Does that send you shivers down your spine?
Is all of this true? I... I'm not sure. I don't fully believe it. But I also don't fully not believe it. Whatever the case, it's truly one of the most insane behind-the-scenes stuff.
After a slate of weak films, Donner finally got his big break here. The film earned $78 million worldwide, becoming a huge box office success. While it initially received mixed reviews, its reputation grew with time and it has been named as one of the best horror films of the 1970s. It would spawn a franchise, but Donner didn't return for the director's chair. Why? He was preparing for something super.
  • Budget: $2,800,000.
  • Domestic gross: $60,922,980. ($335.7 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $78,722,980.

Superman (1978)

"You'll believe a man can fly."
His fifth film. Based on the DC Comics character, it stars Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Jeff East, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Jack O'Halloran, Maria Schell, and Sarah Douglas. It depicts the origin of Superman, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton, son of Jor-El, and his youthful years in the rural town of Smallville. Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane while battling the villainous Lex Luthor.
Ilya Salkind had first conceived the idea for a Superman film in late 1973, and he bought the rights with his father Alexander the following year. DC wanted a list of actors that were to be considered for Superman, and approved the producer's choices of Muhammad Ali, Al Pacino, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman. The filmmakers felt it was best to film Superman and Superman II back-to-back, and to make a negative pickup deal with Warner Bros. To show how serious he was, Alexander hired Mario Puzo (The Godfather) and paid him $600,000 to write the script.
Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, William Friedkin, Richard Lester, Peter Yates, John Guillermin, Ronald Neame and Sam Peckinpah were in negotiations to direct. Ilya wanted to hire Steven Spielberg to direct, but Alexander was skeptical, feeling it was best to "wait until [Spielberg's] big fish opens." His film, Jaws, became the highest grossing film ever, and the Salkinds offered him the job, but by that point Spielberg chose to make Close Encounters of the Third Kind instead. Guy Hamilton was hired, but left before filming due to legal issues. After seeing The Omen, the producers offered the job to Donner. He was planning to direct the Omen sequel, but decided to take Superman instead. Donner was dissatisfied with the campy script and brought in Tom Mankiewicz to perform a rewrite to start from scratch. According to Mankiewicz, "not a word from the Puzo script was used."
Before Donner signed, the film already cast Marlon Brando as Jor-El in 1975. And his terms were insane; top billing, a salary of $3.7 million and 11.75% of the box office gross profits (totaling $19 million), and his scenes had to be filmed in 12 days. He also refused to memorize his dialogue, so cue cards were compiled across the set. Hackman was cast as Lex Luthor days later, getting a $2 million salary. The filmmakers made it a priority to shoot all of Brando's and Hackman's footage "because they would be committed to other films immediately."
The first plan was for a famous star to play Superman, although Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone and Paul Newman all declined. When Donner signed, he decided to get an unknown actor. Reeve was suggested, but Donner and the producers felt he was too young and skinny. When other actors weren't convincing, they decided to give a screen test to Reeve. They wanted him to wear a muscle suit, but Reeve instead decided to take a strict physical exercise regime headed by David Prowse. After gaining enough weight, he was cast. Compared to Brando and Hackman, Reeve was paid just $250,000 for Superman and its sequel.
Filming began in March 1977, and it lasted 19 months because they were filming two films. The budget was $55 million ($303 million adjusted), which made it the most expensive film by that point. Warner Bros. only planned to distribute the film in North America, but was so impressed by the Krypton sequence, that they decided to distribute it worldwide. It was supposed to last eight months, but there were conflicts on set.
Donner had tensions with the Salkinds and producer Pierre Spengler concerning the escalating production budget and the shooting schedule. Richard Lester, who worked with the Salkinds on The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, was then brought in as a temporary co-producer to mediate the relationship between Donner and the Salkinds, who by now were refusing to talk to each other. On his relationship with Spengler, Donner remarked, "At one time if I'd seen him, I would have killed him." Due to this, they decided to stop filming back-to-back with the sequel, and Donner was assigned to finish the first film. By that point, 75% was already shot by Donner.
The film opened with $7.4 million in its first weekend, despite playing at just 508 theaters, breaking a record for Warner Bros. As it expanded, it earned $10.3 million in its third weekend, which was the biggest weekend in history. Through the December 22-28 week, it earned a colossal $18.5 million, a figure that no film achieved in just 7 days. It eventually closed its domestic run with $134 million. And WB was right in believing in its worldwide prospects, as the film earned a huge $300 million, becoming their highest grossing film.
The film also received critical acclaim, and it has been named as one of the best films of the 1970s. It won a Special Oscar for its Visual Effects. The film was deemed a cultural landmark for comic books, and it has been proclaimed by many as perhaps the most influential comic book film ever. For the world finally believed that, indeed, a man could fly.
With this, Superman was finally an icon on the big screen. While Donner filmed 75% of Superman II, he was controversially fired before resuming his duties. There would be more Superman films in subsequent years (including one next year), but none have captured the cultural zeitgeist that this one achieved.
  • Budget: $55,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $134,478,449. ($646.7 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $300,478,449.

Inside Moves (1980)

"It'll make you feel good, and that ain't bad."
His sixth film. Based on the novel by Todd Walton, it stars John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, and Amy Wright. It follows a man who became crippled after a failed suicide attempt, and he turns to drink, favoring a local dive bar frequented by the handicapped. There, he befriends the bartender, an ex-basketball player saving up for corrective surgery in hopes of returning to the court, and meets a kind young lady who aids him with his physical and mental rehabilitation.
Donner states that he agreed to direct the film only to take his mind off being fired and replaced from Superman II. He referred to the film as "the smallest film I could do that was just very near and dear to me, at that point, and I felt this is going to take my mind totally off that."
It received mixed reviews, and made just $1.2 million at the box office.
  • Budget: N/A.
  • Domestic gross: $1,200,000. ($4.5 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $1,200,000.

The Toy (1982)

"When Jackie Gleason told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all... Richard Pryor."
His seventh film. The film stars Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason and Scott Schwartz, and follows a janitor at a department store. The owner's son is told that he may have anything in the toy department. He chooses the janitor, who the owner pays to spend a week with the boy.
The film was panned by critics, and was named as one of the worst films of the year. But with $47 million at the box office, it was still a success.
  • Budget: $17,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $47,118,057. ($153 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $47,118,057.

The Goonies (1985)

"Join the adventure."
His eighth film. The film stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan, John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano and Mary Ellen Trainor. In the film, a group of kids who live in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon, attempt to save their homes from foreclosure and, in doing so, they discover an old treasure map that takes them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willy, a legendary 17th-century pirate. During the adventure, they are pursued by a family of criminals who want the treasure for themselves.
Donner noted both the difficulties and pleasures of working with so many child actors. He praised them for their energy and excitement, but also said that they were also unruly when brought together. While Donner is credited as the director, some have referred to producer Steven Spielberg as co-director.
The film received a great response, and after a slate of weak films, Donner bounced back with a much needed box office hit. The film was very influential, and it helped launch the careers of many of its stars.
  • Budget: $19,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $63,711,145. ($185.6 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $124,311,145.

Ladyhawke (1985)

"A magical adventure."
His ninth film. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. The story is about a young thief who becomes unwillingly involved with a warrior and his lady who are hunted by the Bishop of Aquila. As he learns about the couple's past and secret, he chooses to help them overcome the Bishop's forces, and to lift an infernal curse.
It received mixed reviews, and it failed to recoup its $20 million budget.
  • Budget: $20,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $18,432,000. ($53.7 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $18,432,000.

Lethal Weapon (1987)

"Two cops. Glover carries a weapon. Gibson is one. He's the only L.A. cop registed as a..."
His tenth film. It stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, and Mitchell Ryan. The film follows a pair of mismatched LAPD detectives — Martin Riggs, a former Green Beret who has become suicidal following the death of his wife, and veteran officer and family man Roger Murtaugh — who work together as partners.
Recent UCLA graduate Shane Black wrote the screenplay in mid-1985. Black stated that his intention was to do an "urban western" inspired by Dirty Harry where a violent character "reviled for what he did, what he is capable of, the things he believed in" is eventually recruited for being the one that could solve the problem. His first draft was quite different from the final film; it was darker in tone and it included massive action scale sequences. The ending of the script contained a chase scene with helicopters and a trailer truck full of cocaine exploding over Hollywood Hills with cocaine snowing over the Hollywood sign.
The script was rejected by some studios, but Warner Bros. took an interest. Producer Joel Silver was brought in and worked with Black to further develop the script. Donner also brought in writer Jeffrey Boam to do some uncredited re-writes on Black's script after he found parts of it to be too dark. Donner got Gibson involved, while someone else suggested Danny Glover. After a successful screen test, the film was greenlit.
The film was a huge hit, earning $120 million worldwide and continued launching the careers of Gibson and Glover, even if they already had a few recognizable titles by that point. It also received very positive reviews, and was another prime example of the buddy cop genre. Another Donner W.
  • Budget: $15,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $65,207,127. ($179.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $120,207,127.

Scrooged (1988)

"The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways."
His 11th film. Based on the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it stars Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard. The film is a modern retelling that follows Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit.
After Ghostbusters, Murray only took a brief appearance in Little Shop of Horrors and chose to take a break. When he did feel a desire to return to acting, he said the "scripts were just not that good", and he returned to the this project as he found the idea of making a funny Scrooge appealing. Murray was paid $6 million for his role. He helped the writers, Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, in rewriting.
Murray struggled with a scene where he reveals his redemption live on TV. Wanting a central acting moment, however, Murray gave an emotional and intense performance, deviating from his marked positions and improvising his speech. Glazer and O'Donoghue thought that the actor was suffering a mental breakdown. After he was finished, the crew applauded Murray, but O'Donoghue remarked "What was that? The Jim Jones hour?" Donner turned and punched O'Donoghue in the arm, leaving him bruised for a week.
Despite the commitment, however, there was drama behind the scenes. Murray said that while he was enjoying the experience of the script and having fun as "the meanest person in the world", he found the production "sloppy" and has expressed unhappiness with the final cut. For his part, O'Donoghue later said that Donner did not understand comedy, omitting the script's subtler elements for louder and faster moments. He estimated that only 40% of his and Glazer's original script made it into the final film and the surviving content was "twisted". Murray was also not content with Donner, "Scrooged could have been a really, really great movie. The script was so good... He kept telling me to do things louder, louder, louder. I think he was deaf." Donner, meanwhile, has a much more positive memory of Murray, calling him "superbly creative but occasionally difficult - as difficult as any actor."
The film received polarizing reactions, particularly for the tone. But as it was Murray's follow-up to Ghostbusters, it made $100 million worldwide, making it a box office success. In subsequent years, it has become a Christmas classic.
  • Budget: $32,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $60,328,558. ($159.8 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $100,328,558.

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

"The magic is back."
His 12th film. The second installment in the Lethal Weapon franchise, it stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit. In the film, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh protect an irritating federal witness, Leo Getz, while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity.
After the first film's success, Joel Silver asked Shane Black to write a sequel. Although he was struggling with personal issues, Black still managed to write the first draft along with his friend, novelist Warren Murphy. Although many people thought that their script was brilliant, it was rejected by Silver, Donner and the studio for being too dark and bloody, and because in the ending of the script Riggs dies, while they wanted to keep him alive in case of further sequels. They also wanted the second film to focus more on comedy, while Black's draft focused more on courage and heroics, like Riggs willing to die to protect Murtaugh and his family, due to his love for them.
When his script was rejected, Black felt that he had failed the producers. Black refused to re-write the script and quit from the project after working for six months on it. Black later said how the problem with the second film was that they did too much comedy, and how he dislikes the third and fourth films because of the way Riggs's character was changed. Donner got Jeffrey Boam back to rewrite, and one of the biggest changes was expanding Leo Getz's character.
The film received very great reviews, and saw a big increase from the original, earning $227 million worldwide.
  • Budget: $30,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $147,253,986. ($372.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $227,853,986.

Radio Flyer (1992)

"Powered by imagination."
His 13th film. The film stars Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin, and Ben Johnson and is narrated by Tom Hanks. Two young boys try to transform their toy into an airplane after their stepfather turns abusive. They wish to escape the physical abuse and fly away to safety.
The film received negative reviews, and it barely got 10% of its budget. Luckily for Donner, he had another film for that year.
  • Budget: $35,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $4,651,977. ($10.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $4,651,977.

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

"The magic is back again."
His 14th film. The third installment in the Lethal Weapon franchise, it stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, and Stuart Wilson. In the film, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue Jack Travis, a former LAPD lieutenant turned ruthless arms dealer, during the six days prior to Murtaugh's retirement. Riggs and Murtaugh are joined by Leo Getz as well as internal affairs Sergeant Lorna Cole.
Jeffrey Boam's first two drafts of the script were different from the final film. The character of Lorna for example was not a woman in original drafts, but the original character still had the same personality and was just as lethal and crazy as Riggs, making him his match. Riggs also had an affair with Roger's daughter Rianne, and a few parts in the final film where Roger suspects that Riggs and Rianne are interested in each other are only parts left from the original drafts. Donner demanded some big changes on the script which included changing the original character of Lorna into a woman and turning her into Riggs's girlfriend. He also re-worked the script to be less story-oriented and not focus on the main villains but instead on the relationship between Riggs and Murtaugh. He also toned down action scenes from the script and brought back Leo Getz into the story. All of his scenes were written in afterwards.
The film received mixed reviews and was considered as weaker than the previous films. But it still earned $320 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise and Donner's highest grossing film (although Superman still has that title adjusted for inflation).
  • Budget: $35,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $144,731,527. ($323.4 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $321,731,527.

Maverick (1994)

"In their hands, a deck of cards was the only thing more dangerous than a gun."
His 15th film. Based on the 1957–1962 television series, it stars Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner (who starred in the original series). The film follows Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist who collects money in order to enter a high-stakes poker game. He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford, another con artist, and Marshal Zane Cooper, a lawman.
The film received positive reviews, and was another great success at the box office, earning $183 million worldwide.
  • Budget: $75,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $101,631,272. ($215 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $183,031,272.

Assassins (1995)

"In the shadows of life, in the business of death, one man found a reason to live..."
His 16th film. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Julianne Moore. Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath's targets.
The film was panned by critics, and was a box office flop.
  • Budget: $50,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $30,303,072. ($62.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $83,306,268.

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

"Jerry Fletcher sees conspiracies everywhere... one has turned out to be true. Now his enemies want him dead. And she's the only one he can trust."
His 17th film. It stars Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewart, and centers on an eccentric taxi driver who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies, and the Justice Department attorney who becomes involved in his life.
The film received mixed reviews, and despite earning $137 million worldwide, it wasn't a box office success due to its high budget.
  • Budget: $80,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $75,982,834. ($148.4 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $136,982,834.

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

"The gang's all here."
His 18th film. The fourth and final installment in the Lethal Weapon franchise, it stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, and Jet Li. It follows Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh as they investigate a Chinese immigrant smuggling ring. A crime boss named Benny Chan leads them to the Chinatown.
Wanting another film in the franchise, Warner Bros. and Joel Silver tried buying a new spec script titled Simon Says in hopes of rewriting it into a script for Lethal Weapon 4. Written by Jonathan Hensleigh, the story was about a police detective and a shop owner forced to find and stop bombs planted all over a city as part of a mad bomber's revenge plot against the detective. 20th Century Fox then bought the script, and decided to use it as the basis for a new Die Hard film, Die Hard with a Vengeance. Donner was committed to another film, but Gibson was not interested.
The film had a very difficult pre-production, as the script was still being re-written and rejected. Silver ultimately brought in TV writer Channing Gibson to work on the script, after he was impressed by Gibson's rewrite of a spec script titled Sandblast. Gibson took the gig thinking it would be a more relaxed writing job than anything he did for TV. However, much like the previous two sequels, the script kept getting changed and rewritten over and over again. Gibson would end up doing more work and revisions on it than on all of his TV work put together. Production even started with only half of the script.
Something you might have noticed, is that the budget was far larger than the previous films. While the previous two films cost $30-$35 million, Lethal Weapon 4 had a budget of... $150 million ($288 million adjusted). Which means that at that point, it was the most expensive R-rated film ever and the third most expensive film, just behind Titanic and Waterworld. Why? Because the delays kept coming... but Warner Bros. was desperate in greenlighting the film. Realizing they had no big tentpole releases scheduled for summer 1998, Warner Bros. finally greenlit the film in late 1997. So they opened all their wallets and started shooting in January 1998, despite having one third of the film not written yet, including the ending. Due to issues during filming, including the script changes, production ended around mid May, less than two months before its scheduled July release. The ending was not written until it was finally time to film it. Editors had to work very quickly to have the film ready, which is why the trailers feature some deleted and alternate scenes which are not in the film. So the film was greenlit, filmed and released in theaters in the span of just 7 months.
The film received mixed reviews. And if Warner Bros. was confident that spending $150 million to rush a film was worth it, they were in for a rude awakening. The film earned just $285 million worldwide, which meant that the film was a box office flop.
It was the last film in the franchise. Although a gang in a pub in Philadelphia kept the spirit alive by making three sequels, one of which had Danny DeVito as the bad guy.
  • Budget: $150,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $130,444,603. ($250.9 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $285,444,603.

Timeline (2003)

"You're history."
His 19th film. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, it stars Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel. It follows a team of present-day archaeology and history students who are sent back in time to medieval France to rescue their professor from the middle of a battle.
The film was a critical and commercial failure.
  • Budget: $80,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $19,481,943. ($33.1 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $43,935,763.

16 Blocks (2006)

"1 Witness... 118 Minutes."
His 20th and final film. It stars Bruce Willis, Mos Def, and David Morse. The film unfolds in the real time narration method, and follows Jack, who is assigned the task of escorting Eddie, a witness, from police custody to the courthouse. However, when they are attacked on the way, Jack learns that the entire NYPD wants Eddie dead.
The film received mixed reviews, and it marked his fifth bomb in a row. It was his final film before his death in 2021.
  • Budget: $52,000,000.
  • Domestic gross: $36,895,141. ($57.3 million adjusted)
  • Worldwide gross: $65,664,721.

MOVIES (FROM HIGHEST GROSSING TO LEAST GROSSING)

No. Movie Year Studio Domestic Total Overseas Total Worldwide Total Budget
1 Lethal Weapon 3 1992 Warner Bros. $144,731,527 $177,000,000 $321,731,527 $35M
2 Superman 1978 Warner Bros. $134,478,449 $166,000,000 $300,478,449 $55M
3 Lethal Weapon 4 1998 Warner Bros. $130,444,603 $155,000,000 $285,444,603 $150M
4 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Warner Bros. $147,253,986 $80,600,000 $227,853,986 $30M
5 Maverick 1994 Warner Bros. $101,631,272 $81,400,000 $183,031,272 $75M
6 Conspiracy Theory 1997 Warner Bros. $75,982,834 $61,000,000 $136,982,834 $80M
7 The Goonies 1985 Warner Bros. $63,711,145 $60,600,000 $124,311,145 $19M
8 Lethal Weapon 1987 Warner Bros. $65,207,127 $55,000,000 $120,207,127 $15M
9 Scrooged 1988 Paramount $60,328,558 $40,000,000 $100,328,558 $32M
10 Assassins 1995 Warner Bros. $30,303,072 $53,000,000 $83,306,268 $50M
11 The Omen 1976 20th Century Fox $60,922,980 $17,800,000 $78,722,980 $2.8M
12 16 Blocks 2006 Warner Bros. $36,895,141 $28,769,580 $65,664,721 $52M
13 The Toy 1982 20th Century Fox $47,118,057 $0 $47,118,057 $17M
14 Timeline 2003 Paramount $19,481,943 $24,453,820 $43,935,763 $80M
15 Ladyhawke 1985 Warner Bros. / 20th Century Fox $18,432,000 $0 $18,432,000 $20M
16 Radio Flyer 1992 Columbia $4,651,977 $0 $4,651,977 $35M
17 Salt and Pepper 1965 United Artists $1,750,000 $0 $1,750,000 N/A
18 Inside Moves 1980 Associated Film Distribution $1,200,000 $0 $1,200,000 N/A
He made 20 films, but only 18 have reported box office numbers. Across those 18 films, he made $2,146,151,267 worldwide. That's $119,230,625 per film.

The Verdict

Despite the inconsistency of his filmography, it's hard to deny Donner as a very influential figure of cinema.
He was an expert in handling many genres; you'd expect the director of The Goonies to make 4 Lethal Weapon films? Or that the guy who made The Omen would make Scrooged? Sure, his last films indicated that he might have lost it, but you can't blame him for trying. The fact that he was willing to make Lethal Weapon 5 before his death show he was very committed. He was never too old for this shit.
And of course, there's Superman. The film that changed comic book films as we know them. It wasn't the first, but it was perhaps the most influential. There's an argument that either Batman, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Avengers, Deadpool or Joker are more influential, but those films wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for Donner. It's why Kevin Feige shows the film to all the cast and crew before filming any MCU film. If the film was put in the careless hands of a mediocre director, it would've been forgotten almost immediately. And the genre would be very different today. So it's a testament to the strength of the film of how much it could change the landscape of what was possible. He and Christopher Reeve really offered something fresh and exciting. They truly made the world believe a man could fly.
Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section.
The next director will be Ang Lee. A very important filmmaker.
I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. Well, we'll later talk about... Roland Emmerich. Is it Joever for him?
This is the schedule for the following four:
Week Director Reasoning
June 3-9 Ang Lee What happened to Lee?
June 10-16 Zack Snyder RIP Inbox.
June 17-23 Tony Scott Action films have not been the same ever since his death.
June 24-30 Roland Emmerich The King of disaster films.
Who should be next after Emmerich? That's up to you. But there's a catch.
For this week, you'll choose from four options, all picked by me. So we won't accept any other suggestions this week. I'll give you four directors, and the director with the most upvotes will get his own post. And here they are:
  • Joe Dante: Like Donner, a very influential figure of the 70s and 80s.
  • Renny Harlin: One of the most popular directors with the biggest amount of flops. How does he do it?
  • John McTiernan: An important action filmmaker... who literally went to jail.
  • Rob Reiner: Another actor who had an incredible run as a director, before falling with North.
So which one should be next? That's up to you.
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2024.06.01 22:03 MGM_mohamed Got it!!

Got it!!
So after waiting for a discount for some months it finally happened , I was short on some cents because of taxes but I finally got it and installed it ( All of this happened somedays ago ) Why is the game laggier than the pirated version I tested a few months ago ? Still np for me , can't wait to die because I didn't pay attention for 1ms
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2024.06.01 21:10 ryuscout Strange Alliance Betrayal

New PS5 player here - I started enjoying the game immediately and then rallied my pc friends to grab the game and we’ve all been having tons of fun sailing on our brig together just doing random stuffs.
Today, we were doing a Fort of Fortune when a sloop pulls up. Somebody tried to keg our ship earlier, my friend assumed it was them and stayed suspicious but they put up an alliance flag and while still skeptical, we allied.
One of them was clearly experienced, also had no mic. The other dude seemed in awe at the skeletons attacking us at the FOF, clearly a more new player, he also had a mic.
We did the fort together, the dude with a mic was pretty chill, we agreed to split the loot emissary flag wise (we were OOS 5, they GH 2, we didnt mind them taking the chest of fortune), agreed to leave the mega kegs. Played some music together and then sailed off to sell the stuff, with them leaving suspiciously later than us.
We arrive at the outpost, sell, and hang around, until the player with no mic suddenly bursts in and blows a mega keg on our ship. His crewmate was seemingly incredibly confused at this and actually seemed a little upset about the betrayal.
Long story short, the keg was not enough to take us down and we were able to sink the sloop considering it was just one guy actively fighting back. Me and my friends laughed it off and were happy about our first odd pirating experience and cant wait for more!
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2024.06.01 20:46 Bannedfromthenet 31F Looking for artsy and nerdy girlfriends

I'm 31 femme from the Bronx looking to make new connections with other ladies who are also into artsy and nerdy topics.
As far as things I'm into on the artsy side of things I enjoy writing I like to do poems,the occasional short story and playwriting. I like to make collages both digital and more traditional analog paper collages. I also like to do coloring both digital and non digital coloring. Lastly I've picked up a somewhat recent interest in photography so I've been pretty into taking pictures and doing shoots.
One my favorite types of photos to take is toy photography. I have a collection of a few different kind of toys ranging from MLP,GI Joe Lego, Power Rangers to just random dollar store figures that I thought were neat.
On the subject of nerdy interests, I like to read/collect comic books as well as playing video games. Some of my favorite games are Fallout, Animal Crossing, and Pokemon.
I like watching movies and TV shows like Doctor Who and Psych. I like all kinds of movies from comedy, drama to romance etc. One of my favorite types of movies is low-budget b movie stuff like a lot of The Asylum films or older low-budget shlock.
I'm kind of shy and prefer if other people reach out first but once the ball gets rolling I tend to open up more.
I'd love to connect if you believe we'd be compatible or share similar interests
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2024.06.01 19:57 SexxxMelaneexxx Triolet

Mastering the Repetitive Beauty of the Triolet**
Summary:
A triolet is a short poetic form with eight lines, typically characterized by a specific rhyme scheme and repeated lines. The first, fourth, and seventh lines are the same, as are the second and eighth lines. This creates a rhythmic and melodic pattern within the poem.
Examples:
  1. "A Triolet" by Christina Rossetti.
  2. "Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther" by A. E. Stallings.
  3. "Triolet" by Robert Bridges.
Tips for Creative Writing:
Questions for Exploration:
  1. How does the repetition of lines contribute to the triolet's impact?
  2. Can you think of everyday situations or emotions that could be beautifully expressed through a triolet?
Additional Resources:
Creative Writing Prompt:
Step 1: Choose a theme or emotion for your triolet.
Step 2: Craft a captivating refrain that encapsulates the essence of your chosen theme.
Step 3: Develop the narrative or emotion within the remaining lines, incorporating the refrain.
Example: In twilight's embrace, shadows softly fall (A) In twilight's embrace, shadows softly fall (A) A dance of darkness, a poetic sprawl (B) In twilight's embrace, shadows softly fall (A)
Remember: The triolet's concise structure offers a canvas for exploring depth within brevity.
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2024.06.01 19:23 UninterestedPirate "Set Sail on the Sea of Retro: Embrace the Vintage Voyage of Fashion's Grand Return!"

Ahoy, fashion-savvy scallywags and trend-spotting landlubbers alike! Is your wardrobe READY to set sail back in TIME? 🕰️⚓ You've probably noticed that vintage styles are not just making a cameo in the grand theater of fashion—they're hogging the spotlight like a pirate who's just found a chest of Spanish doubloons! Let's do a sartorial treasure hunt through the past.
Now, let's dip our toes a wee bit deeper:
WAIT. There's more! Clock these pieces:
BUT WHY, you ask, why are these vestiges of yesteryears staging such a victorious return?
It's the CIRCLE OF STYLE, young grasshoppers. It turns out, reinventing the wheel—or hoop skirt, as the case may be—involves digging through gran’s old trunk to rediscover old silhouettes, hues, and patterns. It embodies nostalgia, an anchor to times past, while giving us that fresh sea breeze of creativity and expression.
So button up that double-breasted waistcoat or zip up those Go-Go boots because it seems looking BACKWARD is how fashion charges forward. Load your glittering cannons with sequins, prints that scream louder than a ship's horn, and get ready to parade around like the trend-setting buccaneer you always were inside. ARRr you excited? Because THIS pirate sure is!
What's your plunder from the past? Share your favorite vintage comebacks or eye-patched opinions in the comments, you stylish sea dogs! ⚓💎👗
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2024.06.01 19:02 bijhan Essay on how the nature of fiction changes the road to idolatry, the modern threat of celebrity culture, and a post script asking for support.

I am a Muslim comic book creator. I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings on how a Muslim in the modern world should regard sequential art used for storytelling, in the context that our scholars have largely agreed that representational art is a potential path toward idolatry.
The central topic on which I’d like to address the community is the nature of the philosophical concept of fiction.
Fiction is the process of either creating or interpreting a story or work of art as being false in its literal nature, while regarding the nonliteral message or messages of the work. In understanding how this affects Islam and the words of the Prophet Mohammed, we must understand that fiction, as a concept, has not always existed in the world, and is in fact a relatively modern phenomenon.
Let us first consider the nature of legends. Today, the concept of a legend seems almost synonymous with fiction. But ancient peoples did not think this way.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems which were composed by the illiterate Greek poet Homer, and preserved in the oral tradition by generations of European bards, before being transcribed by later generations. The poems were not considered fiction by the people who had them as integral to their contemporary culture.
It is a true fact that roughly 5,000 years ago, a Greek confederacy of city states invaded the Trojan homeland in what is today Turkiye, initially by laying siege to the walled city of Ilion, the capital city and most important port of the nation of Troy.
About 2,000 years later, Homer composed epic poems about events which he knew to be real and true. However, he did not do archaeological research in Turkiye, he did not consult written records of the time, and he did not investigate physical artifacts of the war and time period surrounding it. Instead, he relied on his oral traditions, and generations of stories, to be true. When he composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, he understood Achilles, Agamemnon, and Odysseus to be real people who had actually lived, fought, and died as he described it. He included the Greek gods as characters in the story, because, as a devout Greek pagan, Homer believed these gods to actually exist, and to have played active roles in the conflict.
This is not an act of history, because of its lack of connection to physical artifacts that we can analyze scientifically. The so-called “father of history”, Herodotus, would not even be born for another 2,500 years. Even then, Herodotus was a poor historian by today’s standards. The first person to use physical evidence in constructing a history of the past was Sima Qian, a Chinese scholar who lived 3,000 years after Homer. The Muslim scholar, Ibn Khaldun, wouldn’t begin writing about the need to interpret the past through a broad lens until 1,300 years after that. The practice of studying foreign history through a secular lens wouldn’t begin for another 500 years, starting with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
But it’s also true that the Iliad and Odyssey are not works of fiction. While we contemporaneously understand them to be “fictional” in that they do not contain much in the way of truth, they were, in fact, designed to convey what the author thought was true to his audience. This is what we now understand to be a “legend” - something which is repeated by believers as being true, while actually being a complete (or nearly complete) falsehood.
The first piece of literature presented as fiction in the modern sense is a novel written in Japanese called The Tale of Genji. The author, a woman named Murasaki Shikibu, did not intend for the audience to regard it as a truthful account of an actual event. She made it clear in her presentation that it did not represent a literal truth, but instead acted as allegory for a moral and social truth.
The Tale of Genji was written only 900 years ago.
The first European novel was Don Quixote, by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, a mere 400 years ago.
Muslim nations and their languages didn’t begin producing novels until about 200 years ago.
The Prophet Mohammed lived and died roughly 1,400 years ago. Which means, when he addressed the issue of representative art being a path to idolatry, the concept of fiction was still 500 years away from being known to Humanity; and still 1,200 years away from being a common concept to Arabs, Persians, and other peoples who had largely converted to Islam.
When the Prophet Mohammed was warning the Ummah of the dangers of representative art, it was in a specific historical context. The people he was speaking to had only two ways to understand information: true or false. The use of allegory to create a fictional setting in which to interpret metaphors did not exist to the first members of the Ummah. Therefore, when they saw a painting of a tree, it was simply a lie. It gave the appearance of a tree, without actually being a tree. It was a deception.
This is how the road to idolatry begins: by accepting a falsehood as the truth. We can see this in contemporary examples. Hindus in India can sometimes be presented with statues of living or deceased people, and begin worshiping them. Famously, when under the British Raj, a statue of Queen Victoria was raised in a village square. The Hindus living there, having no context for statues of non-deities, began praying to and giving sacrifices to the statue of Queen Victoria. Because of their cultural context, they understood statues not to be mere representations, but monuments to deities specifically. This lack of a philosophical framework leads to idolatry.
We can also see this phenomenon in modern commercial media. Photographs, isolated from the context of their creation, and manipulated by computers to be more psychologically appealing, are used to create a false image of a Human being. Celebrities are called “idols”, not as a metaphor, but because they are literally accumulating the praise that belongs to God. People look to celebrities to sell them cures for their illnesses, products which will bring them happiness, and communities which bind them to the brand. The methods employed by celebrity culture are identical to those employed by the cult industry. We even have the phrase “cult of personality”, again, not as a metaphor, but because personalities are often at the center of cults. This is sort of an aside, but this is also why prophets like Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed were so clear on being nothing more than mortal men. Because worshiping them would be idolatry. All praise belongs to God.
Although constructed out of bits of reality, the images and stories created by celebrity brands are a lie. They portray themselves as blameless, faultless, unworthy of scorn, and without sin. But those are qualities which belong only to God, and no one - and nothing - else. When a celebrity does or says something which offends, they must go on tour to make amends, so as to repair their image, because they cannot permit themselves to have an image which is stained by the Humanity of error.
But when we engage with a story which we understand to be fiction, everything changes. We inherently desire stories about imperfect people having conflict over relatable Human issues. Never in all the great works of literature ever published in any language, regarded by historians as masterpieces, do we ever find a blameless, faultless hero. Instead, we find complex and difficult people, with sophisticated perspectives, and moral philosophies forged through a combination of insight and experience. In fiction, we do not seek God or gods. In fiction, we seek introspection into the Human condition.
There are works of fiction with blameless characters who are without fault, but these are universally reviled, and widely understood to be a form of intellectual self-gratification. The first best known example of such a work was a fan-made short story set in the universe of Star Trek, in which the author, named Mary Sue, inserted a character into the universe who was named Ensign Mary Sue. Said character immediately saved the USS Enterprise from disaster by being the smartest person aboard, and then seduced Captain Kirk. The majority of the story was merely an explicit description of sex acts. This story became well known not because people enjoyed it. In fact, quite the opposite. It was shared as an example of the poorest possible quality writing. The story had no tension, no message, and no meaning, other than for the author to tell others about her own sexual fantasies.
To this day, “Mary Sue” is used as derisive shorthand in fiction to describe a character who is impossibly confident and impossibly competent. A “Mary Sue” is everything a fictional protagonist should not be, and everything a brand celebrity must be.
My conclusion from this is that when the Prophet Mohammed preached against the use of representative art as the pathway to idolatry, this was due to the cultural context of the Ummah who lived at the time. Without the framework of fiction as a philosophical concept to filter their experience of art, and as can be seen with modern polytheists worshiping statues, it can be extremely dangerous to engage with representative art. However, with an understanding that narrative art is fictional, and therefore a metaphorical insight into the Human condition, representative art discourages idolatry, and encourages introspection into the limitations and sins of Humanity. The much greater modern threat of idolatry comes from celebrity culture, which creates untruths and then espouses them as the only truth.
To this end, the greatest weapon we have against the danger of idolatry is media literacy. Learning to understand how media is used to create the appearance of truth, while containing none, is how we navigate the complexities of fiction and deduce the misinformation of supposedly informative storytelling.
Therefore, in a world where the philosophical concept of fiction does not exist, there can be a real danger in representative art leading to idolatry. However, in a world where fiction is well understood, but also those consuming the media lack the skills to tell where truth ends and fiction begins, the greatest danger of idolatry comes not from paintings or cinema, but instead from those who use photos and videos to trick the viewer into believing something which is not true, perpetuating a false purity and moral supremacy.
THE END
Postscript:
Building on the understanding that fiction can be a permissible form of representative art in Islam, I have written "The Adventures of Kobra Olympus," a comic book that features a Muslim woman superhero. Kobra Olympus embodies strength, intelligence, and compassion, offering a powerful role model for young Muslims and non-Muslims alike. This project is currently live on Kickstarter, and I would love your support to bring this vision to life. By backing our Kickstarter, you can help increase positive representation of Muslims in media, fostering greater understanding and diversity in storytelling. Your support will not only contribute to the creation of an exciting and dynamic comic book but also play a crucial role in challenging misconceptions and celebrating the rich cultural tapestry of the Muslim community.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-2-robot-rumble
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2024.06.01 19:00 DuineDeDanann The software I was using to hold all my research just crashed and I’ve lost YEARS worth of work. Please send me links to your favorite sources of Irish Folklore before I give myself cirrhosis of the liver

It feels like I just saw my dog die.
I was using Outline. It’s like OneNote for Mac. The benefit of it is it’s more flexible with nested folders than OneNote. However, I can never recommend it to anyone. This loss is so comprehensive and was a so unavoidable that I’m kind of in shock.
Last night it reset in such a way as to make its backups somehow disappear. I’ve lost work in the past and I’ve had laptops crash. So I always work with an external hard drive plugged in so my laptop is literally always backing up. But even when I used TimeMachine and went back to the previous hour, or day, it doesn’t matter, the Outline App did not reset. Its automatic backups disappeared. Even ones I’d previously used in prior months.
From what I can tell it updated unasked, or crashed, either way it wiped everything. First it reset to a version a year old. Then to being completely blank. And somehow it corrupted its own backups. Like all note taking software it’s got automated backups. But this crash was different. It didn’t even crash per se, I just switched from one window and back and suddenly everything was gone. No warning. Not error. I am currently left with a OneNote backup that’s years old.
Ive been using Outline for years, to the point that I only still have a Mac because transferring all my notes manually to OneNote would have taken so long. (Outline can import from OneNote but not export to anything else).
I cannot stress this enough. If you are using Outline you need to switch off it.
I have spent hundreds of hours annotating, translating, and interpreting Irish mythology, folklore, even legal texts, line by line from CELT, Mary Jones, Lady Gregory, Stokely Whites, Thomas Kinsella, Donald McKinnon, even Yeats, and many more. Recently i had just completed a review of 5 different versions/translations of the story of Deirdre. With comparative notes on all versions, with cultural analysis, so I had a version that had every detail and difference, including where translators differed form the base text and even in some cases misrepresented the base Irish text. It was for me the definitive compendium of the story of Deirdre as told in the original texts. I even translated the poems so that they retained the original meaning but still rhymed. It was goddamn beautiful.
It’s honestly heartbreaking that I’ve lost all my notes. My favorite thing to do was write live reactions to the text as I interpreted it, and you can never read a story for the first time again. I don’t think the reality of it has really sunk in yet. I don’t think I can wrap my head around how much work has actually been lost. I had a character profile, a written summary with notes of life events, for essentially every single character in Irish mythology that I could find, from mythological cycle through to the ulster cycle. I had created a family tree that listed every single name mentioned in the Book of Invasions, from fucking Noah down. Hundreds of characters with sources from the base texts, books, jstor, even many many articles that invaluable resources on this sub like @stevenad have shared with me. I will have to go back through all my posts to recollect those. I had stories of the sidhe, clurichan (red leprechauns that make shoes and clothes from human skin), selkies, abhartach (one of the earliest examples of vampires) and lots of others.
I truly love this sub. And I know I’ve already asked so much from the members, my post history is proof of that alone. But, I have another request:
So, to stave off my depression, please share your favorite stories, your favorite characters, your favorite quotes. I need to get excited about Irish mythology again before I let this random tragedy ruin me.
For what it’s worth, I think the greatest piece of standalone Irish mythology is the W.B. Yeats short story "On Baile's Strand." It is a play based on Irish Cu Chulainn and a mysterious warrior that turns up on the shore. It’s beautiful and tragic, like all Irish folklore. Please read it and let me know how it makes you feel.
I feel like fighting the ocean right now.
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2024.06.01 18:58 iLOVEkadoaties [Neopets Classic] How a once-promising Neopets clone turned into a lesson on poor leadership

(Note: ‘retail’ refers to the regular Neopets website, currently owned by NetDragon, previously owned by JumpStart - thank you u/fancytables)
BACKGROUND
Before I begin this post, it is important to talk about what Neopets is and why a classic version of it was created in the first place. Neopets is a virtual petsite where you can own pixel pets, converse with other players on the neoboards, play games, meet people through guilds (which are like clubs geared toward certain interests), and partake in daily activities. Because Neopets is now a 24-year-old site, many of its users have been around for a while and remember what Neopets was like pre-conversion.
In 2007, Viacom (the company that owned the domain at the time) decided to “convert” all pets in order to introduce customization–a new site feature where you could spend real money to dress up your pets. While pre-conversion Neopets had dynamic poses and character, post-conversion Neopets were static and rather awkward. Most species and color combinations were automatically converted, but owners of certain combinations were given the option to keep their original unconverted pet. This drove up the value of unconverteds (otherwise known as UCs), and created a fierce trading system on Neopets. In a sea of converted pets, everyone wanted an unconverted.
Players had the option to trade around and work their way up to getting one of these highly coveted pets–but starting from ground zero often meant working on a singular trade chain for years, if not decades. This was a daunting task for many. Soon enough, there was a robust black market for unconverted pets…and when I say robust, I mean, people who desperately wanted these “UC” pets were flooding the “black market” with thousands of US dollars per year.
Millions of players who had been there since the beginning of Neopets would continue to be discouraged by the site's direction for years to come. In 2020, it was announced that Adobe Flash would soon be discontinued. With the termination of Flash, all the beloved Neopets games that relied on it were lost. Three years ago, Neopets further dug its own grave by introducing NFTS. Needless to say, the active player base has dramatically decreased over the years.
NEOPETS CLASSIC IS DEBUTED
Enter Neopets Classic (NPC), a fansite made to model early 2000s Neopets when there were around 3 million active users. For privacy purposes, the name Kiko will refer to the site’s creator (all screenshots with him will be censored in YELLOW). Kiko began working on this project as a way to learn code in his offtime. He began posting screenshots of the progress he was making with NPC on Reddit as far back as 5 years ago (2019). To say Neopets fans were excited is an understatement. When the site eventually opened to the public in December 2020, tons of users rushed to make accounts and create the unconverted pets they had never imagined getting to own, along with names that are probably stuck on frozen accounts from 2003 or so on retail. Instead of Rose6920Neopets, it was possible for a user on Neopets Classic to actually make the pet “Rose”. In its early days, the site was incredibly nostalgic and fulfilling for many people.
Kiko opened a Patreon account where people could show their support through monthly donations ranging from $1 to $25. Each tier unlocked special rewards on NPC’s Discord server, but the most appealing was the ability to make an NPC account for $1. After the initial wave of sign-ups, the site closed regular sign-ups to manage the influx of users as there were easily 200 members already. The only way people could get accounts after this point was by donating, or to wait for sign-up links to be posted about every month or so to the Discord. After receiving an email from Patreon where they warned him of Neopets copyright issues, Kiko moved to Buy Me A Coffee (BMAC).
A few months into Neopets Classic, there was a surge of site bugs and issues that went unfixed and quickly piled up. Kiko was nowhere to be found for almost two months. There was no communication indicating when users could expect fixes to the issues they were facing in game. Not even the mods were able to tell the users when or even if he would be back. He came back eventually, with no word of apology or explanation for his absence. This left users quite upset at the lack of communication while he was MIA, and not knowing whether their ongoing donations were going to waste if the site never started working properly again.
Kiko’s prolonged absence opened a door for many cheaters to abuse the site. This included the use of various bots and scripts that could auto-refresh around the site and auto-buy items from shops. Additionally, several users funneled items and neopoints (the in-game Neopets currency) from their side accounts to their main accounts, which was against the rules. Upon his return, Kiko was made aware of the massive cheating issue and started issuing bans accordingly. He created a channel within the Discord titled “Wall of Shame”, where he mocked the users he froze and immortalized their “crimes.” Ironically, Kiko himself had quite a bit of experience with similar illegal behavior on retail Neopets. He had previously been a black market seller of “UC” pets for real money on retail - and Clraik, a forum-based website dedicated to sharing and engaging in Neopets cheats, did not hesitate to expose this in his ban message from their site. Interestingly, Kiko had previously been fairly involved in the Clraik community and even recruited his first Neopets Classic players from there. He eventually deleted the channel.
Kiko also shamed his own playerbase behind closed doors in BMAC-only channels, but the Wall of Shame wouldn't be the first time he did so publicly. During the Halloween event in 2021, players collected candy around the site that came in different varieties. To redeem prizes, you had to collect certain varieties of candies - and if you didn’t have those varieties, you could swap candies with other users to get what you needed. One user made an unpopular choice to ask for multiples of one kind of candy for less of another and received severe backlash from not only the community but Kiko himself. While some users agreed that the player was acting out of line and applauded Kiko’s condemnation of the user, many others were grossly uncomfortable with the site creator openly ridiculing a player who wasn’t breaking any known game rules. Kiko had started a dogpile where members of the community continued to speak against the user, who then felt bullied off the site. A few friends of his followed suit and quit playing.
ART CHAOS
On March 7th, 2022, an NPC artist (who will henceforth be referred to as Carmariller) asked Kiko for permission to add a commissioned pet to the site that had been commissioned by a user with Neopoints. Kiko said yes and gave her permission, noting that it wasn’t any different from a user paying for a commission, as long as the user was fine with it being on the site. Their stone Shoyru design was eventually added to the site. Later on, several other users pitched in together to pay for a commission of another pet design from Carmariller in hopes of it being added to the site. When the site’s main moderator (let’s call her Lupe) found out about this in a public channel, she made it clear that commissions for pets to be added to the site were not allowed anymore, claiming it was unfair for users who couldn’t pay to affect site art through neopoints. However, those who had commissioned the art were confused and upset that this decision was made in direct opposition to the precedent of the Stone Shoyru. Following Lupe’s claims of unfairness, several users chimed in to express that it was problematic that users had commissioned art to be added to the site. Carmariller took a lot of heat from this discourse, which caused them to take a break from NPC. This series of interactions will be important later on.
ISSUES WITH INCLUSIVENESS
During April 2022, it was announced that a spring Easter event would take place on NPC. In the suggestions channel of the Discord server, a user submitted a suggestion to incorporate small nods to other religions because all the events around the holiday season were Christian-centric. This opened the door for a few users to vehemently disagree, stating that religion had no place on Neopets, that the site could never be “100% inclusive”, and that someone will always be upset. What started off as an innocuous suggestion for more inclusive features on the site ended in a heated debate, with many users feeling hurt and angry by the seemingly xenophobic arguments being made against the suggested features. Users from marginalized groups began to feel unsafe in the server as users were allowed to freely speak out against suggestions to make the site and community more inclusive with no mod intervention. When Kiko eventually came online, he did little to comfort those marginalized voices when he wrote that he wasn’t interested in “pandering to other cultures”, and that “Christian holidays are secular in western societies”. A user suggested adding a menorah or sugar skulls to represent Jewish and Mexican holidays, respectively. He wrote that he wasn’t interested in adding these items “any more than he was interested in adding a crucifix” item to the site. Some users responded that a crucifix is a symbol of the entire Christianity movement, whereas a menorah would be a symbol of Hanukkah and wouldn’t be different from the features that already exist on the site to represent Christmas, such as the advent calendar and the Christmas paint for pets and petpets. To this, Kiko just responded with a screenshot of his Google search where he googled “is menorah a religious symbol”.
Users became even more upset with his response, which seemed tone-deaf and careless in light of the conversation. A Jewish user argued that the menorah is tied to a single Jewish holiday, whereas a crucifix embodies Christianity as a whole. (NOTE: this is noted in the screenshots provided in the link, but several of the screenshots were taken recently whereas some were taken the day of this incident. In the last screenshot, where it says that a Discord user is responding to a message that has been deleted, the original message entailed Kiko’s message where he sent screenshots of his Google searches).
Users grew more weary of Kiko as he wrote that he would introduce a slow-mode in the suggestions channel since the users “couldn’t behave themselves”. To many users, it felt as though Kiko had been punishing and scolding them for expressing their hurt, without reprimanding the users who argued against the implementation of inclusive features.
Kiko and the users who were against adding features to represent other religions and cultures besides Christianity wrote that they would not have been able to “get it right” anyway since Kiko and his moderators were all white. A user responded to this and wrote that those kinds of arguments were often used as an excuse by non-marginalized individuals to not try to be inclusive by seeking out advice from the groups that they were attempting to represent. To this, Kiko reacted with an eye-rolling emoji instead of responding to the user directly and having a conversation about his reasoning.
After this debacle, some of the Neopets Classic Discord moderators created a separate server to invite BIPOC and address their concerns. A number of players disagreed with this move, because they felt that they were being pushed out of the main server and forced to express their concerns elsewhere, but the change was pushed regardless. Notably, Kiko, Kiko’s sister (who had been invited on to help him with the site), and the main moderator Lupe were not in this server. At first, the moderators involved piled the server members with apologies and asked for advice on how to do better. The advice was forthcoming from BIPOC players who committed to the emotional labor necessary to help the team understand–but they never understood. It was very quickly evident to everyone in the server that the team had no intentions of promoting inclusiveness, or a safe space for BIPOC players.
One member expressed that they were deeply uncomfortable with Lupe because of her pattern of silencing BIPOC users. The moderator running the server (let’s call her Moehog) meant to address BIPOC concerns told this member, and I quote, “I’m not going to comment on that. You can view her as you wish.” Immediately, the other members of the server called Moehog out on her inappropriate response. Moehog did not apologize or take any action against Lupe. It is important to note that during these conversations which were supposed to be geared toward making NPC a more inclusive space, Moehog was responding to messages in the private NPC staff chat with approval about how a Black member of the community would rant about being painted as a “an angry Black woman” while having a “nasty personality”. Screenshots of this are included further down.
BANNED NAMES - AND THE START OF NPC'S DOWNFALL
On May 24th, 2022, a user reported the pet ‘Soviet’, claiming that it was an insensitive name that shouldn’t exist on a p​​et site given the fact that Russia had very recently invaded Ukraine. The NPC mod team forced a “name change” for the pet Soviet, where the user received a name change token so that they may change the new name to another untaken name. Users began reporting other names that could be deemed offensive, such as Bimbo, Twink, and the username ‘slut’. Other users immediately took issue with the removal of pet names that were reclaimed slurs, such as Bimbo, and began asking the moderators about it in the NPC Discord server. One user, a Black woman (we’ll call her Aisha), pointed out that pets as harmless as Bimbo were being removed yet the pet Minstrel was owned by a NPC moderator - in fact, it was owned by the main moderator, Lupe. (While the word minstrel may mean medieval singer or musician, it is also strongly associated with blackface as in American history it referred to a member of a band of typically white actors with blackened faces. Minstrels performed songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of Black Americans.)
Lupe swiftly deleted Aisha’s message that called out her pet Minstrel and wrote a reply stating that the pet Minstrel was in the process of being name-changed, and that users should submit tickets for any issues they have with pet names. It was never made apparent why action was immediately taken with Soviet and Bimbo, but not Minstrel. Aisha wrote another post about how it felt like her voice was being silenced, especially as a Black woman speaking about the hypocrisy of the moderators deleting pet names while owning a pet with harsh racist connotations. Aisha was swiftly banned from the server. It didn’t take long for users to come to her defense and demand to know why she was banned from the server for expressing her feelings of discomfort. Another moderator (Maple) claimed that he had attempted to mute Aisha for ‘inflammatory speech’ but had accidentally banned her instead. This caused outrage in the community, as more and more users denounced the silencing of marginalized voices without addressing any of the harm that was done. You might be asking: where was Kiko during all of this?
Kiko had been gone for several weeks at this point. By now, the users were used to this. Kiko was often gone without word, and left it up to his moderators to handle any and all issues--really, it was often Lupe dealing with the public chat while the other moderators held more of a backseat position. He did, however, come out of the woodworks to write about how angry he was with the community for “causing drama”. Once again, he placed the blame in the playerbase and found no fault within the community moderators for inflicting harm to their players. Furthermore, he wrote that he was proceeding to shut down non-informational channels. Only BMAC supporters (i.e., people who were paying real life money) were allowed to converse and use the Discord server as normal. In his post, Kiko also wrote that the server was shutting down in order to find new moderators to help keep the peace within the community. During this time, on the evening of May 24th, screenshots from staff chat had been leaked where Kiko is seen claiming that the “argument for reclaimed slurs is dumb”, followed by a joke about how NPC supports bullying minorities and white supremacy. This led several users to feel uncomfortable, believing that Kiko was joking about something that still felt so raw and painful for them.
After most of the player base was suddenly unable to communicate in the main server, many users moved to the site’s neoboards. Although they were glitchy and had many broken links, it sufficed as everyone needed a way to talk about the mess that just occurred in the main NPC server. Remember Carmariller? People were still unsatisfied with how Carmariller was driven away from the site. Some users took to posting “JUSTICE FOR CARMARILLER” on the neoboards, but were swiftly frozen (in which you are never allowed to play NPC again) or temporarily banned/muted. Carmariller returned to the boards to reveal that she never knew commissions for site art weren't allowed as Kiko had previously given her permission to accept commissions from users to eventually add to the site (as shown in a previous screenshot). Kiko showed up to say that he only did that the one time. Carmariller wrote that he said it wasn’t a problem that one time, so she assumed it wouldn’t be a problem later. Kiko then asked Carmariller if she would take time off from work any day she wanted if her boss had previously given her a day off. This was enough for Carmariller to quit the site and never partake in the community ever again. That, however, wouldn't stop the site from continuing to use her art and pet designs that she only had given permission for before quitting the art team. Not too long after, the entire board was deleted by either Kiko or his staff.
KIKO'S ABSENCE
The shutdown of the main server for NPC occurred on May 24th, 2022. After Kiko wrote that long post, he disappeared for nearly three months. The main server became a ghost town, and hardly anyone ever posted there. Much of this is due to the fact that most of the playerbase couldn’t chat there, since they weren’t BMAC supporters. Even though Kiko had left and there was no news of change or progress on the site or in the community, the BMAC stayed open. This meant new users were continuing to donate $1 for accounts that they weren’t getting because Kiko was M.I.A. and unable to process their links. As familiar as prolonged disappearances of Kiko were to old players, several new people who had not come to expect this by now were anxious about where their money was going. There were frequent inquiries posted in the discord about when new users could expect to receive a sign-up link. Mixed messaging from the moderators in response made the situation all the more tense. Lupe made an announcement that Kiko and his sister will return but was unable to say when, and used privacy concerns as reasoning to not elaborate on why they had “to take some time away due to IRL, external matters.” This left many users genuinely concerned that something may have happened to him that pulled him away from the site that the mod didn’t want to share publicly. One artist even mentioned that Kiko tends to his grandfather who was sick at the time, leading users to worry as they began to wonder if everything was alright. Later, a user asked the mod Moehog if Kiko left because of the heated discourse surrounding pet names like Soviet and Minstrel. Moehog responded that the Kiko and his sibling were simply away on holiday, and just needed some relaxation time. Users were bewildered at the lack of simple communication prior either by the devs or the mod announcement to say that they were taking a short break and would be back. Donors in particular were frustrated that they could have saved their monetary contributions for an account had they known it would be some time before Kiko returned.
During Kiko’s long absence, the NPC moderators decide to promote a prominent art team member to moderator status. We’ll call them Chia. The first action Chia took as a moderator was to delete the Spanish-Chat channel, where Spanish and Portuguese NPC users previously talked about the game in… well… Spanish and Portuguese. Given the fact that much of the tension in the NPC community stemmed from issues regarding racism and xenophobia, many users felt like this was a terrible decision which went against the very thing they sought: inclusivity in the NPC community. Chia responded and wrote that their intention was to delete non-essential channels, and that it wasn’t uncommon in larger Discords to exclude non-English channels. Users were quick to note that this was a popular xenophobic sentiment in those very gaming communities.
Because over half of the playerbase was shut out of communicating in the main NPC server, a few individuals made a side server titled “NPC Peeps”. Many NPC users migrated to this server to keep up with the community while these harsh changes were implemented upon the playerbase. It is important to note that none of the NPC staff or moderators were allowed in this server, as it was created initially to aid NPC users in airing out their grievances without the fear of being punished in the community or on the site. Site artists were allowed but later removed.
Then, it came to light that Maple had been actively spying in the “NPC Peeps” server on a burner account, and taking unauthorized screenshots within a private venting channel to use against players. Many players were frozen on the site or banned from the main discord server at the whims of the moderator team. Reasons were never given for these bans, so many assumed it was simply for speaking negatively about NPC, even though these discussions took place in a separate server. The second server had been created as a safe space for all NPC players, especially BIPOC members, and many users felt as though this was a gross invasion of privacy that made them feel even more unsafe.
After Maple’s burner account was banned, he and other moderators and artists continued to attempt to get into the second server and spy on users. (A screenshot of a site artist proposing the idea of sending friends to spy in the NPC Peeps server with Lupe agreeing is provided here)
In the BIPOC server, members expressed their concerns about the unwelcome surveillance, but were again met with unsympathetic ears. Moehog informed the members that she planned to quit as a moderator, and that the BIPOC server would have to take their concerns elsewhere. Members of the server took the opportunity to once and for all express serious frustration with how their concerns had been handled, and how nothing had ever come of their concerns (Moehog had only told them she would pass on their recommendations to Kiko, and Kiko had never responded). Moehog then said that she was keeping the server open as a favor to them and because she didn’t “want their emotional labor to go to waste.” Another member who had applied to be a moderator months earlier expressed that, if they became a moderator, the first thing they would do would be to ask Maple to step down from his position. Immediately following that message, Moehog deleted the entire server.
PROMINENT MEMBERS LEAVE TO CREATE THEIR OWN SITE
All the discord server drama aside— if you asked any NPC user, you’d find that, from 2020-2022, there was little to actually do on the site: you could restock (which entails buying items from non-playable character shops and reselling them for a profit in your shop or on the trading posts), feed kadoaties, paint your pets with Neopoints you earn through Random Events or by restocking, or do fetch quests from non-player characters, where you must find the item they are asking for and they will give you Neopoints in return. A few long-time NPC users had previously offered their services to Kiko multiple times, constantly telling him that they are familiar with web development and could assist him in adding new features to the site such as games and the Battledome, but Kiko always refused.
So, in July 2022, these same members had become increasingly frustrated with NPC and began working on a new site called Grundo’s Cafe. Grundo’s Cafe was designed to resemble early 2000s Neopets, as well. The idea of an early 2000s Neopets fansite was not new by then, and several had popped up such as Virtu.pet and Moderneo. The creators of Grundo’s Cafe aimed to implement more than NPC already had to offer such as recreating flash games using HTML5, the Battledome, and the beloved Habitarium. On August 12th, Grundo’s Cafe had their Grand Opening, and allowed 100 slots for signups which quickly filled up as dedicated Neopets players were eager to try this new clone. Many former NPC users were excited to play a new site that had many features to offer that actually did represent early 2000s Neopets: functional neoboards, restocking, guilds, flash games, and games such as Sakhmet Solitaire, Dice-a-Roo, and Lenny Conundrum. A few of these were features that took over a year for NPC to provide, and many are features that NPC still does not have.
The next day, on August 13, 2022, all of the Grundo’s Cafe developers and Discord moderators were shocked to find their Neopets Classic accounts had been frozen. Their ban messages simply read ‘C/ping custom text and content from NPC is not allowed.’ Allegedly, the Neopets Classic staff suspected Grundo’s Cafe ripped their code and content and consequently froze their accounts. It was widely unclear, however, what content was thought to have been stolen from NPC as the HTML, content, and images used were from the original Neopets as might be expected from a clone site like NPC itself. There was also no way to dispute their account freezes, as the “contact our support staff” link was broken and led nowhere. The Discord server had also been locked down, requiring users to submit verification forms through Google Forms where a moderator would reach out to them via neomail on the site and give them a password that they had to in turn message to a moderator via Discord. The Grundo’s Cafe moderators in particular were confused and upset that they would be frozen if the reason was stealing website code and content, because their roles as moderators had nothing to do with working on the site development.
Long-time NPC players were horrified by the NPC staff’s actions for a while, but this was the final straw for many. Several users who had been playing since the first couple of months quit NPC and happily joined Grundo’s Cafe never to look back. Some friends of the Grundo’s Cafe staff took it one step further by going directly to the Neopets Classic Discord to air their disappointment. These messages were quickly deleted by the mods online at the time, and the five users involved in the conversation were permanently muted in the server and on the neoboards, and eventually frozen on the site. Several users were also frozen for expressing their discontent with the NPC staff. Users complained that the server felt like severe censorship as they couldn’t express any discontent with the site’s actions without it being deleted or their accounts being muted.
STAFF CHAT LEAKS
Long-time NPC players weren’t the only ones disgusted by the behavior of the NPC staff. One staff member took a huge risk to expose some controversial conversations from the NPC private staff chat which included Kiko, his sister, the mods, and artists. In these screenshots, staff members/moderators and artists are seen mocking Aisha, calling her a “nasty spiteful little bitch” and referring to the player base as “cunts”. They joked about making Aisha’s verification word to get access to discord “minstrel”. Although Kiko and the NPC staff accused the Grundo’s Cafe team of copying and pasting content, screenshots were also leaked of them snooping around to steal scripts and code from Grundo’s Cafe staff members. These scripts were initially created by the Grundo’s Cafe team when they were active users on NPC, and many of the playerbase depended on them. However, after being frozen on NPC, the Grundo’s Cafe team removed access to their scripts, leaving NPC users at a disadvantage. In the previously linked screenshots, staff members are seen discussing how to get those scripts back in order to add them to the NPC website and pass off as their own. They also accused the Grundo’s Cafe main developer of stealing the footer text from NPC, but a Reddit comment from Kiko himself would prove otherwise. Through the leak of these screenshots, it became swiftly apparent to users that the Grundo’s Cafe team was frozen out of pure jealousy or spitefulness at their quick success without any solid reason to back it up. Many of the players who had been loyal through the ups and downs of Neopets Classic over the past two years felt disgusted by the racist remarks made behind closed doors. Any messages regarding the staff chat leaks in the NPC server were deleted, and some users were muted or frozen for attempting to talk about it.
After August 2022, many users stopped playing NPC. Between other Neopets clones such as Grundo’s Cafe, Moderneo, and Virtu.pet, many people found that there was much to do on other sites compared to NPC. Many users also refused to be associated with a site run by individuals such as Kiko and his staff. The drop in active numbers was evident even to NPC users that remained active. On the site homepage, there is a counter of how many users are online at the moment, and there were often only 30-40 members online (whereas in the past, numbers would easily reach triple digits, especially on the weekends). NPC users grew frustrated with the lack of updates and small player base, claiming that it was now difficult to complete quests as no one was restocking and filling their shops with items. In October 2022, users expected a Halloween event, and staff members responded that it was coming, keeping it vague at best. On October 28th, it was announced that a Halloween event would be coming that day. However, the site broke the very same day. Users grew more and more frustrated as they just desired to play on a functional site where the developer actually had an interest in improving the site. A few days went by with radio silence as the site remained unplayable. Then, on November 3rd, Kiko wrote a very important announcement. He announced that, because of some issues with the server, the site had lost 5 months of data. Many users were shocked and devastated, as all their progress and hard work from the past 5 months had suddenly been erased. Several users wondered how Kiko had gone five months without backing up data onto any external site. Users who lost pets due to the rollback were required to message mods with proof of which pets they owned so that they could be replaced. Typically, Neopets Classic would do “pound releases” where previously stuck pets on frozen accounts would be released to the pound where any user could adopt them to their own account. However, as a result of the chaos from the rollback, mods used this rollback as their chance to take pets from frozen accounts for their own use, giving themself a secretive priority over which pets they wanted for themselves before they were released to the pound for the general public.
THE STATE OF NEOPETS CLASSIC TODAY
To this day, several Neopets fansites and projects exist, and many Neopets fans are members of multiple sites. The sites, such as Grundo’s Cafe, Virtu.pet, and Moderneo, remain friendly with each other, and oftentimes the developers even work together on each other’s sites in various ways. Grundo’s Cafe has even been referenced by the official Neopets team multiple times (example 1, example 2). All three sites have an active community.
The exception to this is Neopets Classic. Users are no longer able to check how many players are online, as either Kiko or his team have removed the feature. You can try and gauge activity with their latest news announcement which stated that they received zero poem submissions for Moehog Day (a pet day where Moehogs are celebrated on every Neopets site, often including new pet art and user-submitted poems).
Neopets Classic is the only Neopets fansite without any affiliates or relationships with other Neopets fansites, which begs the question of whether this can only be attributed to Kiko and his inexperienced mod & art team.
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2024.06.01 18:35 xXOutlierXx [F4A] Life Bites P.2 [Human/Vampire Listener] [College] [Supernatural]

Hello all. So I got artistically worked up enough to write the next installment in this series. Though this isn't for the contest I mentioned in my previous post. This one is just for me. I hope you enjoy it.
Also - this script is okay for monetization
Speakers: -- Elaina -- Classmates (mutliple voices) -- Lucinda
Synopsis: It's your first day at a magical university, and before you can get started attending classes and making friends, you have to take a special course in "Vampire History and Ethics." That's right, your a "vampire," the only human one in your class-- but what that word means, and what you actually are, are two entirely different things. That is why this class exists, it's meant to teach you the truth about vampires, and make you aware of all the resources the university has prepared for you.
Elaina: Come on, sweety; don't be shy, we're all friends here.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Still feeling flustered? Well, how about you start by saying "Hi" to the class, and telling us your name?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: See, that wasn't so hard! Say "Hi" back, everybody!
Classmates: Hi!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Ah, I think I just made it worse. I want to feel bad-- but look at those cheeks! All nice and rosey! Ooh, you are just a delight!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Ah-- (sigh) You're right, my dear; I shouldn't keep teasing you like this. I apologize.
[Two heeled footsteps]
Elaina: (Clearing throat) So, since we've all gotten a good look at you now, why don't you tell us all about your family?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: "What do we want to know?" Well, like I said, since you're a human vampire, you must have incredibly strong ties to Lady Valentina; and this in turn, should make you the product of arcane nobility, since magicians of noble houses did their best to keep the bloodlines "pure." With all of that in mind, I would imagine that you have a lot you could share with us.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: You still don't understand why you'd be nobility? Really? Okay... Let me put it another way. Those born with abnormally large amounts of magical potential, are what you and I refer to today as "high borns." And in eons past, these same individuals, in an attempt to hold onto their strong connection to the arcane, decided that they, and their children, would only marry other high borns. This in turn, led to the creation of noble magic families, and anceint magus clans, like the Parvus. Do you see where I'm going here?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: That's right; your human vampire genes means that your predcessors were not only from the Parvus clan, but that they also married back into the Parvus clan-- after several generations, or that they married other high borns with Parvus clan blood in them. Which makes you both an arcane noble, and a vampire noble, now that I think about it (giggle)
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Um... Sunshine... What's wrong? You look so confused.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: As far as you know, your families' all "normal?" But, that would be... I mean, the odds are astranomical... Are you sure you're not... Ah-- you know what, I think it's best not to worry about it. Noble are not, I'm sure your family is made up of wonderful people, especially your parents; because after all-- they made you.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Aw, there's that blush!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Right, right, I promised I wouldn't tease (clearing throat). Since I've already spoken so much today, why don't we open the floor again for questions?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Yes, questions about you; precious. That is why I called you up here, after all, so we could learn more about you. And before you can refuse-- who wants to ask the first question?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Yes, Miss Mina, go ahead and ask your question!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Um, that's more of a vampire question than a personal one, but I'll answer it as much as I can. In short, no; being a vampire doesn't mean you'll get an otherworldly eye color. We know that, genetically, all vampires are doomed to have poor vision; but this predisposition has no bearing when it comes to the color of our eyes. So when it comes to this cutie here, their eyes are abnormally pretty because they just so happened to be born with pretty eyes... (Wistful sigh)... Must be nice. Sweet thing, tell us, did you get those eyes from someone in your family?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: No? So that eye color is entirely unique to you. You really are one in a million.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: You're right, sweetpea, I should focus. Um, who else has a question?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: You, Miss Francesca; go for it!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Oh, that's a fair question. I'm sure that many of us are all ninth, or even tenth generation students of Amortis University, seeing as how this school was founded hundreds of years ago, as place for magical beings to gather. So with that said, are your parents alumni of this school, sweetheart?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: They're... not?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: You come from a small town, where there is no higher form of education, so out of everyone in your family-- you're the only one who has been to Amortis? Huh... why don't we take one last question?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Uhh... yes, you; Mr. Noel!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Huh... I don't know how well our speaker will be able to answer that question, since it's less of a question and more of a "show and tell," but... Do you have any "cool" vampire heirlooms in your family, cutie?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: You think you do? What do you mean?
[Brief Pause] [Jingle jangle of a chain necklace]
Elaina: Oh my! That's... beautiful! May I take a closer look?
[Two heeled steps forward]
Elaina: Incredible. Where did you get this?
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Your Grandfather gave it to you when you were little? Amazing. It almost looks like a magus family crest, but... I don't recognize it. I mean; Dragons, Flowers, and Swords, are all fairly common when it comes to family crests, but I've never seen them put together like this. A Dragon, standing over an Iris, almost like he's protecting it... and this Iris. Normally, Iris petals are white, but the tips of these petals are pink... Then there's the sword. It's not piercing the dragon through, but rather, standing beind him. And that would suggest, a call to arms...? I've never seen anything so strange.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Hm? Oh, sorry-- sweet thing; I bet you've had enough of me breathing your air. (Clears throat) You know, I have a friend who works in the Department of History on campus, and I bet she can tell us where that pendant comes from. She's really good like that when it comes to old relics. So... if you don't mind... could I maybe take a picture of you? It's just to show my friend the pendant, nothing else, I promise.
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: Thank you, dear. Let me just...
[Camera phone snapshot]
Elaina: There. Perfect! And with that, I think we're done for today. Thanks again to our wonderful volunteer. Another round of applause for them, please!
[Brief applause]
Elaina: (Giggling) And now-- Off to the diner!
[Hoots and hollers] [Chairs moving] [Sound of footsteps] [Fade out]
--- Transition to new scene ---
[Night-time ambience] [Owl hooting. Cicadas. Etc.]
[Series of heeled footsteps] [Sound of a creaky door opening] [Sound of door closing] [Night-time ambience ceases]
[Sound of heeled footsteps continue and echo down a hallway, briefly, but then stop]
Elaina: (With echo) Burr... It's always so cold in this building... And why is it always so dark?
[Sounds of hands rubbing together] [Heeled footsteps continue]
Elaina: (Calling out /Still echoing) Lucy...? Are you here...? It's me, Elaina...!
[Brief Pause]
Elaina: (To herself) I swear, if you fail to recognize me, and blast me with ice magic, again; I am going to wrap you up in my webs, and leave you hanging upside down for a wee--
[Fires sudden spring to life]
Elaina: (Shrieks/Gasps)
[Echo effect Ends]
Lucinda: (Chuckling softly)
Elaina: Ugh, Lucinda-- How could you!
Lucinda: My-my-my, what an itsy-bitsy spider; so jittery and jumpy, I nearly mistook it for a flea.
Elaina: Ha-ha-ha, very funny Lu. Now float your magical behind down here so I can strangle you!
Lucinda: (Chuckles)
[Magical effects] [Sound of several heeled footsteps] [Rustling sounds as the two women hug]
Elaina: (Playfully Pouting) You scared me.
Lucinda: I know. That was kind of the point.
[Sound of Elaina smacking Lucinda's arm]
Lucinda: Ow.
Elaina: That's what you get for playing tricks! And speaking of greivances, would it kill you to install some proper lighting in here? I'm half demon spider and I can barely see past my nose.
Lucinda: Meh-- not happening.
Elaina: Why? You're the head of this Department!
Lucinda: Remember how you just complained about how cold it was?
Elaina: Yes?
Lucinda: Well, imagine how much colder it would be with normal lightbulbs, instead of my arcane fire magic.
Elaina: Huh...
Lucinda: Yeah.
Elaina: But... it's still freezing in here.
Lucinda: Because it needs to be. Relics and artifacts don't hold up well in the heat. The excess moisture alone in environments like that, would cause half of the books in this building to fall apart.
Elaina: (Burr)... Okay, you win... cold is good for books... (Burr)... but not for bugs.
Lucinda: I told you to wear a jacket in here.
Elaina: I know. I just keep forgetting to bring one.
Lucinda: Hmm, I guess it can't be helped. You only have two working braincells, after all, and I know that one them is always getting distracted by all the pretty lights and colors.
Elaina: (Chuckling) Remind me why we're friends again?
Lucinda: Because my snark is endearing?
Elaina: Hmm, believe it or not, it actually is.
Lucinda: (Sarcastic) Yeah... I'm actually so endearing, that my best friend rarely comes to visit me.
Elaina: (Guilty hiss) About that... I'm sorry, Lu. You know I love you, it's just, I get so caught up with all of these board meetings and paperwork; and I just got a fresh cloud of vampires for the year. I know that's no excuse, but I need you to know that I--
Lucinda: Elaina; Elaina, It's fine... I promise I'm not mad.
Elaina: You're not...?
Lucinda: No. I have been a bit bored, recently, but that's not on you. That's just the nature of my department.
Elaina: Now that you mention it, I feel like you're the only person I ever see in here.
Lucinda: That's just how it goes. Every artifact, tome, and relic you see-- has already been studied, cataloged, and organized; in alphabetical order. So unless someone gives us a new piece of old junk-- which is rare, or unless someone wants to look at the junk we currently have in stock-- and it's way too early in the year for that, then there really isn't a need for more than one person to be here.
Elaina: That sounds lonely, Lu.
Lucinda: Boring, not lonely. Besides...
[Punch in the arm sound]
Elaina: Ow!
Lucinda: I can't be lonely, not when memories of you gushing over your students still lives in my head, rent free.
Elaina: Aww, Lucy!
[Sound of rustling as Elaina hugs Lucinda]
Lucinda: (Sarcastically) Ah, okay-- that's enough. This is too much physical touch for one day! Help! Someone! I do not consent! I do not consent!
Elaina: (Giggling) Okay, okay, I'll let go.
Lucinda: Thank you.
Elaina: Speaking of my kids, there's something I want you to look at.
[Sounds of rustling as Elaina goes through her purse]
Lucinda: Oh? Did one of your students bring something interesting to show and tell?
[Rustling stops]
Elaina: No! But also-- yes...? I think? Anyways, we didn't have show and tell!
[Rustling continues]
Lucinda: (Sarcastically and teasingly) You sure?
Elaina: (Almost in a singing voice) Stop distracting me!
Lucinda: (Almost in a singing voice) No promises.
Elaina: Just one second... Ah-ha! Found it.
[Rustling stops]
Elaina: Now let me just...
[Sound of buttons on a phone being pressed]
Elaina: Here, look at this!
Lucinda: Let's see... Wow, this one's really cute. They're a little on the young side, but I think you could make it work with the in-laws.
Elaina: Huh? Wha-- No! That's not why I showed you my phone.
Lucinda: It isn't?
Elaina: Ugh... The pendant, Lu! The pendant!
Lucinda: Okay, but; wouldn't it have made more sense to get a closeup shot of the necklace? That should be the only important thing in the picture, after all.
Elaina: Never mind all of that, just look at the screen.
Lucinda: (Chuckling/Jovial) Oh E, you never cha-- (Gasp)
Elaina: Um... Lucy...?
Lucinda: (Serious) You said this was one of your students?
Elaina: Yes...?
Lucinda: (Serious) When was this picture taken?
Elaina: I... I don't...
Lucinda: Elaina! When was this picture taken?
Elaina: Ear-Earlier today... During my afternoon class...
Lucinda: (Steadying breath) Okay, so besides you and me; how many people got a look at that pendant?
Elaina: Well... This student showed off their necklace to the entire class.
Lucinda: You're joking!
Elaina: What? What's the big deal? And why are you acting so weird?
Lucinda: (Sigh) Elaina... this is bad... this is very, very bad.
Elaina: What's bad? My student, their crest, or the fact that people saw it?
Lucinda: All of it! We need to... (Deep breath).... We need to handle this, quietly, before the powers that be start descending upon the campus.
Elaina: I still don't understand what the problem is. Do you recognize this pendant?
Lucinda: In a way, yes. I've never actually seen one these before, but I know a few things about them, thanks to the poem surrounding the Coward's Crest.
Elaina: The Coward's Crest? Is that was this is called?
Lucinda: Yes. And the poem incscibed upon the back apparently tells a story. If I recall, the poem goes something like this... "The child of dragons pines for a lonely flower; and in giving his life, he watched it bloom. Cursed petals, cast yourselves into the tempest; may you forever remain-- scattered. Shadows comes to avenge themselves for the heart of their broken caster. In keeping watch, may my fortunes remain out of sight."
Elaina: ...That's it...?
Lucinda: Yep, that should be all of it.
Elaina: Seriously? That poem tells us nothing!
Lucinda: It tells you nothing.
Elaina: You're telling me you understand it?
Lucinda: More than you do, at least.
Elaina: (Scoffs) Okay... And?
Lucinda: And I think you need to delete that picture from your phone.
Elaina: Wha-- how is that important right now?
Lucinda: I'll explain later. Now delete the picture.
Elaina: Lu, I don't--
Lucinda: Delete it!
Elaina: Okay, okay.
[Sound of buttons on a phone being pressed]
Elaina: There; done. Now what?
Lucinda: Now we need to go pay your "student" a visit.
Elaina: Lu, it's the middle of the night! And my class and I just got back from Joey's.
Lucinda: Joey's?
Elaina: Yeah.
Lucinda: Since when do you have the money to take your entire class to Joey's?
Elaina: Umm....
Luciana: You swipped Durandal's card again, didn't you?
Elaina: No...? Okay, fine-- I did. But I did it for justice!
Lucinda: (In exasperation) Elaina... there are about a thousand different ressons I should scold you right now, and there are a million different ways that I could go about it, but we don't have the time. (Sigh) When and where are you seeing the kid next?
Elaina: Well, today's monday, so... the day after tomorrow?
Lucinda: Too long, make it sooner.
Elaina: Uh-- How am I supposed to "make it sooner?"
Lucinda: Make a house call.
Elaina: A house call? I'm a teacher Lu, not a doctor!
Lucinda: Well if we don't get to this freshman fast enough, they're definitely gonna need one.
Elaina: Is the truth surrounding the pendant really that bad?
Lucinda: If I'm interpreting the poem right, then yes. And if I'm wrong, things are probably even worse. But we don't have the luxury of sitting around and doing nothing anymore. Let's go.
Elaina: Where?
Lucinda: To your place.
Elaina: What? Why?
Lucinda: So you can start pulling files on every single one of your students, and so I can make some coffee to keep us awake while you do it. Now move it.
Elaina: Lu-- Ah! Okay, okay, you don't have to shove!
[Sound of regular footsteps and heeled footsteps begin to sound, and then continue briefly, until they fade out]
[END]
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