look, it seems just like we are all programmed. And I know this may sound dumb, but aren't we nearly the same as machines we produce? our mind and body work due to schemes (codes). Let's focus on our mind. The more intelligent the being is, the more awareness it has of its own limits - so many questions yet so few logical answers. I think we know that the human intelligence is very limited and that it causes us to not understand why we are alive. so that seems as if this has just not been coded in our system, you know. just like a computer couldn't tell you what's the answer behind 2 + 2 If someone hadn't already put that in its code system. I'm not saying there's god or anyone who has programmed us since I don't believe in any god, but I believe that along with what I wrote earlier, believing in any form of god or a higher being would only be a coping mechanism while being a human to tell yourself that life's got a purpose. Yes, I think there could be a higher being, but I know I'm only a human and will never be sure about anything I think, so I simply refuse to pretend I can understand what's beyond my limits. And it's also hilarious that people have internal questions like "why do we even exist?", which only appear for a short amount of time and our mind rejects them to go back to so called 'reality', yet they're still waiting for their answers at the back of our heads.
And what do you think? Sorry if it's chaotic and sorry for my punctuation, still practising English. And yes, I'm completely sober. Don't know if that's the right subreddit for this post, but I think it's still pretty nihilistic, and I haven't found a more suitable forum to share this.

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Hello everyone, I (23F not originally from the UK but live in it now) really hope there's someone that can help me.
I have worked at this company for over 6 months, working in a team of 5. Today at work, I felt attacked and discriminated by my line manager ( female let's call her Kate). Kate has came to me while I was making a drink at work, and told me that my outfit was inappropriate and Kate had received previous reports about it, she didn't want to say who. I kind of froze at that moment and didn't know what to say to the statement.
I have spoken to my team leader (lets call her Lily) and Lily went to have a talk with Kate to explain how I felt. A Few hours later the manager came back and took me for a chat in another room.
Kate said that it was the CEO and another male who works at the company, which is above the manager in the company, that has reported the way I dress and that herself (Kate) sometimes gets distracted by me. Kate said (sometimes while on my desk I look up and look at you and I can't focus) I found that really weird. The other thing I found weird is that the CEO and the other male (he's always been so weird and always looking at other girls and I caught him staring at me occasionally which is made me feel really uncomfortable and other female colleagues too including Lily) only come to the office occasionally so I barely see them and I don't remember myself wearing anything revealing, so I am not sure why this complaint would come from these two?.
I have asked Kate how comes she did not respond to the complaint and get specific information from them before approaching me, and if they do lack self control around women or get distracted by women's bodies which we cannot hide our figures?, why is it my responsibility to wear conservative clothing?.
Kate responded to my question to say, it's because you were wearing fishnet stockings and the sheer top were inappropriate ( I had a top under my sheer one which covered my stomach and cleavage area, including wearing shorts under my skirt) Just to add up that I have other female colleagues wearing low tops, shorts, skirts... And none of them were being spoken to. To add to this, if I wear a skirt I always wear stockings or tights ect never bare and always have shorts under my skirt.
I always get told off about things especially from my manager Kate. I actually don't know why Kate has singled me out every time in any situation relating to work or not such as this. Other examples can be arriving at work at 9.01am and her calling my personal phone to ask why I am late (I was actually entering the office at the time). Previously Kate approached my team and spoke to me asking about a specific case where she could not locate it, this I assisted with to show where it is on the company files and even though nothing was wrong with the case, she will still remark that it was my fault she couldn't find it...
Everyone has noticed how differentiated her treatment to me and everyone at work agreed that my clothes were unrevealing and were perfectly fine.
Pls note that the dress code in the handbook is smart casual.
Could anyone advise me on what to do please? I would like to report this and other cases where I felt triggered and discriminated. If you need any more details let me know. Thank you.

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Chapter 168 – The moment to live and the moment to die
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„Jumping!“ an Ensign announced loudly as the Sun's view-windows very briefly flickered into a dark black only to go back to a full view of the ongoing battle basically instantly, having barely shifted the ship's position at incomprehensible speed. „Shot clear of allied ships.“
Vice-Admiral Kazadi tapped his finger on one of the armrests of the Commander's seat that still felt anything but comfortable for him to sit in as the tight grid of flashing lights reflected in his eyes within the twilight of the bridge.
“Fire,” he then ordered. Not even a blink later, a burst of colorful light broke into his view from the side of his very own ship, lighting up the entirety of the bridge even through the automatically tinting windows that absorbed a lot of the harmful light so the crew wouldn't flashbang themselves with each shot.
The relativity canon fire tore through the enemy ship at an almost literal instant with any travel time barely being conceivable to a mortal mind. In a large unload of energy that left almost the entire stern-side of the zodiatos ship as a molten mass of dispersing slag, the main propulsion was taken out. Simultaneously, the two accompanying cruisers had also taken their shots; with the 'Civil' taking out the engine of one more enemy vessel while the 'of the roses' had instead used its shot to disperse one of the enemy projectiles in order to buy their own hunter ships more freedom of movement. Those huge ones didn't go down easy from one of the hunters' smaller shots, so using one of the large canons to dispatch it took some of the heat off them.
Meanwhile, smaller targets on the enemy vessels, such as their own canons, were gradually taken out by said hunters, whose own fire – while able to be quite destructive if intended no doubt – could be used in a far more precise manner. With more and more of their canons failing, the protective volleys the coreworld terrorists could fire to hide themselves away also became less and less effective.
“Send the fallback-beacon,” Kazadi then ordered, since close quarter attacks became less and less necessary.
It seemed that the zodiatos had a hard time adjusting to the combat style of the human unkindnesses, however that didn't mean they should take any unnecessary risks. Even if a pilot could've been able to avoid all enemy attacks in a perfect world, he knew that his pilots were only human.
Casualties of their own had been comparatively minimal so far, however as if to prove him right about his thoughts, he could see on his surveillance screen how, just in that moment, one of their ships was taken out by an enemy craft.
He grimaced to himself and let out a mild sigh. One more family who would never see one of their own again...
It took a moment before all the ships were reached by the beacon. Due to the nature of their own combat strategies, as well as the particular nature of hyperspace, it was entirely impossible to effectively contact any of their ships directly while they were out in the battle. Therefore, the order to fall back had to be broadcast as a general signal, that each of the pilots could individually pick up as soon as they would keep still for long enough so that it could reach them.
By now, the battle was already won. None of the zodiatos' weapons were able to match the relativity canons in effective range and without the larger ships to back them up, their small hunters wouldn't be able to launch an offensive – shields or not. They could just stay back and fire until surrender now. As the signal was picked up, one of their ships after another disappeared in one last flash of hyperspace as they joined back up with the larger vessels in an enclosing formation.
“Prepare for the retrieval of some of those projectiles,” the Vice-Admiral then ordered as he hoped they would be able to track some of those spent shots their enemies had fired. They would have to figure out what kind of tech that was.
In such a small-scale conflict, it was more than manageable to face it. However, it could offer some difficulties in larger fleets – especially since they didn't know how far this kind of tech could possible be expanded and refined. It was quite possible this was just some form of prototype.
While that order was followed, one of his Lieutenants suddenly spoke up.
“Sir, we have an incoming transmission from the planet. Civilian. Not encrypted, but they seemingly had an access code,” they related quickly.
“Is the earlier interference cleared up?” he immediately asked back, to which the answer was positive. “Put it through then,” he immediately ordered as soon as he heard that.
He rubbed one of his tight braids between his fingers as he waited for contact to be established. Once the line was clear, things remained quiet for a moment.
“What are we best at?” he then asked the silent line, his chest tightening ever so slightly, even if he didn't have to wait long for a reply.
“Topping from the bottom,” a very familiar voice replied from the other end, sounding incredibly strained but most certainly alive.
The code phrase was an old in-joke about something that had been said back during humanity's first contact with the tonamstrosites due to a slightly choppy translation. However, it more than sufficed here to tell Kazadi that the person on the other side of the line was not only genuine, but also not in any immediate distress – at least none that was brought onto her by someone else.
“Good to hear your voice Ma'am,” he greeted the Admiral after taking a brief moment to allow his heart to settle.
“The pleasure is all mine, Celestin,” Admiral Krieger replied in between heavy breaths that sounded like a combination between being ready to collapse and absolutely willing to tear anyone's throat out at a moment's notice. “Excuse me for the unorthodox contact, my own means of communication have all been destroyed. Update me.”
A brief smile played on the Vice-Admiral's lips.
“No problem, Ma'am. Things are under control up here, but multiple allied coluyvoree ships were destroyed and we suffered some casualties of our own which I will take full responsibility for,” he quickly complied. “By now, the enemy crafts have been largely disabled and our fighters are falling back. What's the situation on your end?”
There was a bit of a grunt from the other side of the line that seemed unrelated to the ongoing conversation.
“I'm sure you did everything by the books,” Krieger then replied a moment later. “Down here the situation is precarious but momentarily under control. We have an unconfirmed number of casualties after an attack with an unknown weapon. All squads are either KIA or unresponsive. We took down six enemy combatants but can't confirm if there's more. I'm going to need clean up, rescue teams, as well as pickup for me and two large offworlders asap.”
Celestin nodded.
“We're in a stable position, so we'll jump teams down right away. Hold out just a minute more,” he assured her while already signing in the necessary order to the troops they had on standby. “How bad are your injuries?”
There was another groan of pain from Krieger's side.
“Crushed cranberries,” she replied after a long moment that sounded like she needed to catch her breath.
“Copy that,” Kazadi replied with a grimace. “Sending muti-team with the evac.”
“Copy that,” Krieger confirmed. “Krieger out.”
With that, the call was hung up. On his screen, Celestin could see how the preparations for dispatch of the requested teams was already well underway. Jumping towards a planet at FTL was generally discouraged by the Galactic Community. However, this was an emergency. They couldn't wait for normal re-entry.
After watching the reported progress for just a moment, his eyes returned to the ongoing battle. He watched the enemy ships as they hovered dead in space, unable to maneuver.
They seemed to have recalled their own fighters back in order to form some sort of protective wall around the 'mother ships' with their own small shields. Obviously it wouldn't be very effective, so it seemed like needless cruelty to make their own soldiers get in the way of the incoming fire. Something within Kazadi told the Vice-Admiral they weren't going to stand down.
“Sir, we're getting some strange hyperspace-readings,” his Lieutenant suddenly announced, making him look up.
“Weapon-grade?” he immediately asked, knowing they had less than a moment to react if it was. However, he also figured there would've been more urgency to their voice had it been so.
“No, Sir. Travel-grade,” the Lieutenant quickly replied. “However the readings are unusual. It seems like they are creating a stretch solely around themselves.”
Kazadi's lips shifted a bit as he took that in and he briefly ran a hand over his mouth in thought. “Prepare to collapse,” he ordered. “Maybe they will attempt some sort of running start. We can't let them get away.”
Right then, the light of what was happening had not yet caught up to the spacial distortion that their sensors were detecting, meaning the ships still looked perfectly normal – if damaged – when he looked at them. However, they were planning something. And that made them appear all the more ominous.
His mind quickly went through their own protocols. The U.H.S.D.F. employed hyperspace in nearly all its possible facets in their tactics. If it was even close to sensible, they would have something that was akin to the maneuver their foes were attempting to execute right now.
A bubble of hyperspace solely around their ships...a dodge? Hardly, there was nothing to dodge like that. An attempt to hide away? No, they knew human ships could collapse hyperspace from the outside easily.
Before him, the windows of the ship once again automatically dimmed, protecting the crew's eyes as the colorful light of the created hyperspace-bubble finally reached them.
“Hyperspace collapsed!” the Lieutenant then suddenly announced, causing Kazadi to blink in surprise as his eyes shot up to his screen. He hadn't given any order to collapse it yet. But indeed, it was gone. For a moment, he thought that the stress had caused his officer to use the wrong term in haste, however no, they had been completely right. It had not been dispersed in a controlled manner. It had collapsed.
In a mild 'thud', the Vice-Admiral's fist descended on the armrest, hand firmly clenched into a fist.
“Those cowardly ba-” he began to growl but then bit his tongue and released a low, almost grunting exhale while his fist quivered from momentarily clenching tighter. “Prepare to search for survivors,” he instead said in a much more controlled manner a moment later. “Preserve lives.”
“Yessir,” multiple of his officers echoed back as he looked out of the window, where he could still see the ghostly afterimage of the hyperspace bubble linger for a bit longer. It was always a strange feeling, seeing someone in the distance who was already dead...
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With her view darkened and her goggles momentarily pulled off her eyes, Shida stared at the glowing bubble of impossible colors. Her sensors had already told her what was about to happen at any moment now, however her eyes still heavily constricted as they finally witnessed what unfolded themselves.
In what could be described as nothing else than a 'snap' , the light of the hyperspace-stretch instantly condensed down into its original size as the universe all at once remembered that the laws of physics were a thing that existed and brutally forced space to conform to them once again – no matter what may have been in between it and its original form.
Anything within the strange, round stretch was mercilessly ripped along with the convulsion, forcing all the injected warships and fighters into the single, small point that the stretch had been generated from. Though not even a faction of a second later, it all exploded outwards again as the megatons of mass realized that they could not all exist in the same place at once, since the energy of the event was not quite potent enough to press it all into a neutron star or singularity.
No longer recognizable blotches of undefined, white-hot matter were instantly scattered in all directions like some sort of micro-supernova that accentuated the sometimes still burning nano-stars that the earlier battle had created from the opposing fighters.
It was almost pretty...but still, Shida couldn't help but let her ears hang as she wondered how many of the enemy combatants had known about the decision to end things this way. Had any of them even been asked?
Even if it was the far more disturbing answer in a way, Shida almost hoped that this had actually been one mutual suicide-pact instead of the decision of one single commander to choose death over dishonor. Especially while sitting in a ship that was technically under the command of someone else herself, that was certainly the less immediately petrifying option – even if it would probably spell far worse things in the long run.
As she said there, the 'shockwave' of the collapsing hyperspace suddenly hit her, spreading out through space even without any medium to carry it and rocking her ship gently while also penetrating all throughout her body. Of course the earlier relativity fire had already caused similar ripples and she was therefore quite used to the feeling, however these ones sure felt a bit more severe than those of the U.H.S.D.F.'s own canons. It was like she felt her own body distort while also remaining perfectly in palace – almost like she was a stiff container full of water that someone had given a heavy smack from the side, riling up the liquid without it actually having any place to plash to.
According to everything they knew, this phenomenon felt incredibly odd but was entirely harmless to living beings – which was instinctively very hard to believe when one felt it on their own body.
However, her dwelling thoughts were, perhaps luckily, interrupted as she – or more precisely one of her scanners - picked up on a peculiar signature that one of the scattered debris pieces was sending out.
Well, it was 'peculiar' to her that there was a signal at all at first, however then she quickly realized what it actually was. This particular signal was hammered into any pilot's head six ways to Sunday, and so she reacted relatively quickly when she glanced at the grid and realized that she was the closest ship to it. Firing up her engines, she turned her ship on the spot in a slight drift before activating her generator and making a jump right behind the flying object.
Once there, she allowed her computer to take aim for a second before firing out a harpoon that quickly struck the flying debris and latched her ship onto it through a long cable, allowing her to pull the thing along with her after slowly using her backwards thrusters to disperse its speed little by little. Pressing the indicator of her communication, she then spoke up.
“Scratches to Sun,” she announced. “I just recovered a black box. Permission to return for inspection?”
The black boxes of modern ships truly were among the most ridiculous pieces of tech out there, in Shida's humble opinion. Built to withstand almost everything that would likely take a ship out through a combination of brilliant engineering and extremely flexible material that only worked in its indented manner on very small scales. Well, very small compared to the ships they were built into. The things were about half the size of Shida in the end. For many years, armies of scientists had attempted their very best to make this same sort of defense useful in ways that could maybe be used to protect actual people from catastrophic events – but to no avail so far. For now, the only thing those little marvels could allow to survive even something as ludicrous as hyperspace collapsing was information.
“Permission granted, Lieutenant-Commander,” the answer came almost immediately. “Return to hangar three.”
“Copy,” Shida replied. “Scratches out.”
With that, she moved her ship around and prepared for her jump back to the Sun. Hopefully this thing would give them some answers on what exactly this whole thing was meant to accomplish...
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Far away in another part of the galaxy, a pair of mildly glowing red eyes was laser-focused on a large screen that was just one of many that had merged all over Nedstaniot-Station to broadcast the breaking news to anyone willing to lift their eyes at a slight angle to look at them.
An attack on a coreworld. And not just any coreworld. Gewelitten itself. Something like this hadn't happened in...well, Curi didn't even know how long.
Details seemed to still be incredibly fuzzy as the battle so close to the coluyvoree homeworld had either just happened or was still happening at the moment of the broadcast, however what few details were known were already repeated on end in an endless scroll of text that was meant to catch as many people up to speed as was at all possible through the medium of television. Obviously the same emerging details could already be looked up on the net as well to find them in a more digestible format than the endlessly moving text next to the not exactly top quality footage of the occurring conflict.
However, despite the speed with which it went by, Curi had no problem following the scroll as they stared at the screen intensely.
“Attack was unannounced. Multiple Gewelitten fleet ships destroyed. Official sources confirm: Humanity NOT the aggressor. Attacking ships presumed to be of zodiatos origin. Unknown weapon technology deployed during the attack. U.H.S.D.F. ships engaged in combat after aggression. Myiat delegation ship confirmed unharmed. Attack on government facility on planet simultaneous to spacial attack. Councilman-Candidate Aldwin confirmed unharmed. Status of U.H.S.D.F. General Krieger unknown. Status of Gewelitten Governor H. Cierrophai unknown. Status of Acting-Councilman Afuéhner unknown. Allied coreworld defense fleets activated and inbound. General alert level raised to 8. Hyperspace-travel shut down around the system.”
“Mother, oh no...” Mueen said with absolute shock in his eyes, both of his hands clasped over this mouth as his wide pupils quivered in fear from what they witnessed.
Curi could understand his worry. Though Moar had supposedly been with James, so she would probably be fine. The cyborg was certainly more than just a little relieved that James was already confirmed to be safe. Though the idea that Admiral Krieger's situation was unknown was more than just a little disconcerting.
Though despite the supposed lack of their commanding officer, it seemed like the humans had decisively won out in the battle outside of the coreworld's atmosphere; unknown technology or not.
Given the sub-par footage that some drone was likely recording from quite far away from the actual conflict, it was very hard to tell just what sort of weapon the unknown but presumed to be zodiatos attackers had unleashed there. It looked like some sort of emanating energy that destroyed what it came into contact with but also interacted with it as if it had a physical presence.
Curi had never seen anything remotely like it before – not even in their wildest theories – and their mind immediately wanted to go wild with speculations and ideas about how such a thing might work now that they knew for a fact that it was possible from seeing it with their own eyes.
However, the cyborg pulled themselves together and successfully forced the briefly almost overwhelming desire to focus on nothing else down as they shifted their gaze slightly away from the screen to look over at their other currently nearby company.
Then again, as much as they knew they couldn't let their guard down around him, Reprig's eyes were just as immovably attached to the large screen as Mueen's were as he witnessed the unfolding battle with quivering horror.
His trunk was wiggling wildly in his face and one of his hands nervously scratched over the plate of the table they were all sitting and standing at and on, right next to a piece of paper with a hastily drawn sketch of a spring-like mechanical leg that was inspired by what humans called 'running blades'. The Warrant Officer's weapon also laid on the table, pushed a but further away from his hand so he wouldn't be able to easily reach it.
Though despite his focus, Curi couldn't quite help but speak up after a moment of watching him. “A coreworld attacking another coreworld,” they said to the man, who they knew either had to know far more than they did about this – or would be far more invested in it unfolding. “This is unprecedented.”
Reprig seemed to notice that they were talking to him, however he still remained silent and stared a good few moments longer before finally pulling his gaze away from the screen.
As his eyes met theirs, he looked a bit sick. It almost reminded the cyborg of one of the first interactions they had with the man, back when they nudged him slightly to hand his spy-device back to him after he tried to hide it in James' cabin. Though this time, the cyborg was quite sure that they were not the reason why the man seemed like most of his blood was currently rushing into his stomach.
Could he actually be shocked about what was happening? Was this not part of the plan?
“Unprecedented doesn't even come close to describing it...” he mumbled and couldn't hold the cyborg's gaze for long, looking down to the table's plate instead. “And these aren't just any coreworlds. Osontjar and Gewelitten have been allied for an unimaginably long time. The thought that they would even think of attacking each other...what sort of madness could've caused something like this?”
Curi was the first to admit to themselves that they were far from the best at reading people. If someone with even a modicum of skill in acting wanted to make them believe something untrue about the person they were talking to, they would never deny that there was a good chance of that person succeeding.
Still, Reprig's reaction felt...genuine to them. As if he had actually never expected something like this to happen. Not in a million years.
Maybe it was just skillful acting. And Curi knew that they should have been suspicious like that. However, despite everything he had done, they couldn't quite bring themselves to suspect that he was lying at that moment.
“I know it is unlikely you will give me an honest answer, but-” Curi began to say, however Reprig was more than able to anticipate what they were going to ask and replied long before they were finished.
“No. No. Never,” the sipusserleng said, shaking his head heavily and standing his trunk up while making a denying gesture with his hand that was so brash that he actually knocked his crutch off the small outcrop in the table it had been laid down on. “This must be some absolutely deranged people, no two ways about it. To attack a coreword...”
Curi noticed Reprig's gaze briefly twitching down, his eyes jumping onto the personal assistant strapped to his lower arm as if he suddenly got the urge to use it for something.
Curi suspected he likely wanted to call someone; question them to make extra sure that they had, in fact, nothing to do with this. Though the sipusserleng suppressed the urge and pulled his eyes away, bringing them back up to the screen.
Just at that moment, the implosion of collapsing hyperspace suddenly lit up the footage moments before the glowing remnants of what once had been the zodiatos ships were scattered across the star-system.
Mueen mumbled something in his home's language as his eyes remained affixed to the screen. Curi couldn't even begin to guess what he was saying. However, his voice sounded pleading.
“Suicide instead of surrender?” Reprig meanwhile mouthed breathlessly as his nervous tick of excessively licking his trunk began to show.
Although he had often been otherwise employed in recent times, Curi could see it in the man's eyes that he was still, in a way, military at heart. He knew the general values and doctrines that were conveyed to the soldiers of the Communal Military, both inside and out. And the idea of someone choosing death like this...it seemed to rock him to his very core.
Slowly, he turned his gaze over to Curi. His eyes were almost pleading with the cyborg, even if they seemed to already know that his next question would be asked in vain.
“Could it maybe have been the humans and their-” he began, but this time, it was Curi's term to cut him off after anticipating what was coming.
“While humans very much employ the collapsing of hyperspace as a tactic in war, the process is not invisible – or even subtle. Had the human ships caused that collapse, it would've been noticeable,” they explained succinctly. “It could've still been a mere unexpected failure of the hyperspace generation, of course. However, with the rarity of such events, the timing seems...unlikely.”
“They weren't even trying to generate a real stretch...” Reprig concurred dejectedly and left his head hanging, his trunk also sinking down limply. “I can't even imagine- Well...I hope they will at least find peace now, away from the madness.”
Curi paused for a long moment, staring at the Warrant Officer some more. Admittedly, the cyborg was a bit confounded at something. They knew for a fact the man had put his own life on the line for his orders, with a very real chance that they would lead to his death, more than just once. And yet the idea of being ordered to die seemed to disturb him. They couldn't quite figure out the difference that led to the results in reaction being so incredibly different, however it was still very clear that there was one.
And it seemed to hit the man hard.
Self-admittedly, Curi didn't exactly pity the man. They didn't quite have the capacity to. They knew about so many horrible things he had done that simply seeing him distressed was far from enough to stir such deep empathy for him within them.
Yet still, they weren't left entirely cold by it either – and if it was only because he seemed to be affected by these events in the ways a, for a lack of a better term, 'normal person' would be. He was shocked at the sudden, seemingly senseless violence, and concerned about the people involved.
Granted, it was likely only because they were people he considered worth being concerned about, yet still, the reaction was so...'normal', in a way they didn't quite expect from someone with such a capability for unceremonious acts of cruelty and violence. Even this person who had tried to kill them, or at least had been entirely comfortable with them getting killed, was capable of such a reaction.
And Curi...wasn't sure if that made things better or worse, if they were being honest.
It felt better because there was the capability for empathy there, however...it felt worse because they felt how they had been and likely still were willingly denied said empathy.
He could have cared...he just didn't want to.
Curi shook their body heavily, causing mild sounds from the engines running their legs' movements from the sudden force as they tried to shoo away emotions that they really didn't want to be feeling at that exact moment.
The thing that mostly kept them from following up on some of their uncomfortably aggressive thoughts at that moment was the fact that Mueen was still with them, the worry for his mother written across his features like a deep engraving in a metal plaque. He did not need anything like that around him right now, that much was clear.
Slowly, they moved over to him and reached up one of their long legs to run it along his arm while he still covered parts of his large face with both hands.
“She will be alright,” Curi then assured the dark-furred rafulite, switching from their usual voice box to their more “melodic” one to put on a gentle, calming tone. “She is stronger than she seems.”
Inhaling deeply as his nostrils flared, Mueen closed his dark eyes and swallowed heavily, taking his gaze off the large screen for the first time in many minutes while slowly hanging his head down.
“Yeah,” he said, seeming to force hopefulness into his tone. “Yes, she'll be fine. She made it his far. This won't get to her.”
Curi nodded with their entire body and continued to run the tip of their leg along his arm.
“She will be,” they repeated, both to the man and themselves as their own eyes moved upwards, their gaze falling back on the battlefield riddled with burning remnants of matter. “I'm sure of it.”
–
Never in his life had James felt so drunk and so sober at the same time. His mind was entirely clear, running a light-year a minute as it desperately tried to simultaneously process all the admittedly little information that he had in his current situation AND to not absolutely freak out while doing so somehow – a task he was ludicrously failing at. And it did NOT help that his body could barely keep itself on his own two feet.
He had avoided completely fainting by a hair earlier after reminding himself that, instead of being terrified for Shida's life, it would be much more fair towards her to simply focus on trusting in her skills to carry her through. However, that was barely a little patch on an enormous crack in his facade as he couldn't help but go over and over and over the fact of how much worse the situation that she needed to jump into here had been for her simply because it was his damn birthday and they wanted to indulge over it. He should've stopped that, but noooo, he just had to go and let himself be swayed so damn easily, as if he was still that little boy following Koko around whenever she visited the compound to try and get some attention.
Of course, a quiet voice in the back of his head tried to politely remind him that Shida had, in fact, not only taken part in the festivities as well but also encouraged him to do so, however it was easily overpowered by the screaming rest of his mind.
He briefly glanced over at the only somewhat conscious Commander. When she said that they should match each other's drinks, that should've been the moment he stopped. She was like half his weight, what the hell was he thinking?
His mechanical hand shot up, heavily gripping a fist full of hair as he tried to force himself to focus. What's done is done. There's no changing it. He should focus on anything else right now.
Though as he painfully pulled on his hair like that, his eyes suddenly went wide as he noticed something. Or, more precisely, didn't notice something.
When had the alarm stopped? Just now? Or had it been out and he just hadn't noticed?
Letting go of his hair, he lifted his face and looked around. If the alarm was over, then that meant...
The uncoordinated movement of soldiers reaching for their phones and radios with different speeds went through the room, and after brief confirmation, the uniformed forces began to move, having seemingly gotten new orders other than guarding the safe-rooms. Apparently, the threat was over.
James quickly fumbled for his own phone, his barely coordinated hands struggling extremely with the simple task of trying to call one of his contacts – much to the frustration of his already cleared mind. His finger trembled as he swiped it across the screen, trying to get it to the right damn place to make a simple god-damn call.
However, he froze in the motion at a quiet sound that was immediately followed by a sudden stir behind him as multiple people seemed to move quickly. And after just a second, James was among them as well.
Nearly tripping over his feet, he damn near threw himself onto the sickbed that didn't stand too far away from him, his phone momentarily forgotten and eyes wide open as they stared over at an endlessly familiar dark face, that however had life in it for the first time in what felt like an eternity at that moment.
Slowly and twitchy, Nia's eyes fluttered open as she let out quiet groans while mildly stirring in place while her doctors and nurses hurried around her and quickly began to take her vitals.
After flinching heavily as a flashlight was quite suddenly shone into her eyes to test her photopupillary reflex, she began to move even more. Meanwhile, James and Tuya were basically pressed shoulder to shoulder close to the foot of her bed, the only thing keeping them from dashing right up to her face being just enough awareness to not get in the doctor's way.
Still, although her movements were very slow, stiff, and groggy, Nia eventually lifted up her head, looking around with still somewhat hazy and half-closed eyes. But that didn't stop her from smiling when her gaze fell onto the two who so nervously stood at her bedside there.
“Hey,” she said in a quiet, croaky, but still very much cheerful voice as her unkempt hair fell down both sides of her face.
Though James didn't see much more than that, because just about at that moment, his vision was entirely taking away by welling-up waters sweeping him along.

Hey there! I am a 30 year old guy from Upstate New York looking for someone that wants to make an emotional connection.
A bit about me: I'm 6’1". I get height can be a big deal for some women so I think it's best to just put it out there first 😅 I've got black hair, brownish black eyes. Average body, I'm muscular and wanting to start exercising both for health and a little bit for better shape. I like to think I'm fairly attractive but then most of us grew up with a relative always telling us we were not handsome or cute, etc. we can share pictures once we establish some comfort zone. If education is important, I am a college graduate with post-graduation degree as well. Now working as Mechanical engineer.
I have to lead with the fact that I can be pretty sarcastic at times. I also joke and (playfully) tease. I'm pretty easy going/chill and I like to keep things light and fun, but also enjoy getting into the really deep conversations as well. I'm a sucker for the whole good morning and goodnight text thing as well as checking in on those busier days. That doesn’t mean we have to just message good morning and good night for the whole week. Haha. I think most important part of knowing someone via online platform is initial conversations and if you don’t have enough time let me know otherwise that conversation is dead in no time.
I love animals. I've always felt very connected and attached to them and just enjoy interacting with them. While I am more of a dog person pet-wise, cats are still pretty cool in my book. Cats are more complex though I love the mysterious nature.
Anything outdoors is great in my opinion. Just feel like going for a walk? Let's do it. I do kayaking a bit in the summers, fish, hike, go for drives. I have the habit of occasionally stopping and taking pictures of plants and flowers I see around (I'm always down to share!). While sending me message write code - “I4U” so that I know it’s someone who actually read my post. Didn’t write in the end cuz some people might just skip to end. This doesn’t mean that you just send me the code. I am strictly gonna monitor now. I have skimmed through soo many texts and my innocent heart always gives chances, I am gonna try to be little strict this time.
It's not just the outdoors I love. I can also get down with chill days at home binging something on Netflix or playing something on my PC. Let's face it, I'm a bit if a nerd (everyone has something nerd about themselves) and if you like Jurassic park, board games, Any Mafia movies, gaming, etc we will get along great. I'm a sucker for horror movies as well and am always looking for recommendations. I listen to a lot of music. I shouldn’t brag but I listen to english ,german, Spanish, french and Hindi songs. Born and brought up in India. Hence, hindi songs.
A bit about (possibly) you: I'd prefer if you were in some sort of professional environment and ambitious. I'm not extremely picky about things like hair and eye color. Height is also not a big deal. If you're alot smaller than me and worried that it's something you’ll be insecure about, it's not. The big thing for me is personality. I think personality can make us a lot more or a lot less attractive. I want someone that is genuinely kind and sweet, someone that likes to laugh, someone that's not afraid to be goofy.
A final note: I'm a single guy and looking for someone dynamic. Sometimes I can respond immediately and sometimes it takes a minute due to the obvious circumstances. I also don't expect you to respond immediately to every message, I get that we all have lives and can be busy at times. It would be awesome if you are up for a voice chat. And please when responding write something about yourself.
If any if this sounds remotely interesting to you, feel free to reach out via reddit dm or chat!

Hey there! I am a 30 year old guy from Upstate New York looking for someone that wants to make an emotional connection, and would like to put efforts into conversations.
A bit about me: I'm 6’1". I get height can be a big deal for some women so I think it's best to just put it out there first 😅 I've got black hair, brownish black eyes. Average body, I'm muscular and wanting to start exercising both for health and a little bit for better shape. I like to think I'm fairly attractive but then most of us grew up with a relative always telling us we were not handsome or cute, etc. we can share pictures once we establish some comfort zone. If education is important, I am a college graduate with post-graduation degree as well. Now working as an engineer.
I have to lead with the fact that I can be pretty sarcastic at times. I also joke and (playfully) tease. I'm pretty easy going/chill and I like to keep things light and fun, but also enjoy getting into the really deep conversations as well. I'm a sucker for the whole good morning and goodnight text thing as well as checking in on those busier days. That doesn’t mean we have to just message good morning and good night for the whole week. Haha. I think most important part of knowing someone via online platform is initial conversations and if you don’t have enough time let me know otherwise that conversation is dead in no time.
I love animals. I've always felt very connected and attached to them and just enjoy interacting with them. While I am more of a dog person pet-wise, cats are still pretty cool in my book. Cats are more complex though I love the mysterious nature.
Anything outdoors is great in my opinion. Just feel like going for a walk? Let's do it. I do kayaking a bit in the summers, fish, hike, go for drives. I have the habit of occasionally stopping and taking pictures of plants and flowers I see around (I'm always down to share!). While sending me message write code - “I3U” so that I know it’s someone who actually read my post. Didn’t write in the end cuz some people might just skip to end. This doesn’t mean that you just send me the code. I am strictly gonna monitor now. I have skimmed through soo many texts and my innocent heart always gives chances, I am gonna try to be little strict this time.
It's not just the outdoors I love. I can also get down with chill days at home binging something on Netflix or playing something on my PC. Let's face it, I'm a bit if a nerd (everyone has something nerd about themselves) and if you like Jurassic park, board games, Any Mafia movies, gaming, etc we will get along great. I'm a sucker for horror movies as well and am always looking for recommendations. I listen to a lot of music. I shouldn’t brag but I listen to english ,german, Spanish, french and Hindi songs. Born and brought up in India. Hence, hindi songs.
A bit about (possibly) you: I'd prefer if you were in some sort of professional environment and ambitious. I'm not extremely picky about things like hair and eye color. Height is also not a big deal. If you're alot smaller than me and worried that it's something you’ll be insecure about, it's not. The big thing for me is personality. I think personality can make us a lot more or a lot less attractive. I want someone that is genuinely kind and sweet, someone that likes to laugh, someone that's not afraid to be goofy.
A final note: I'm a single guy and looking for someone dynamic. Sometimes I can respond immediately and sometimes it takes a minute due to the obvious circumstances. I also don't expect you to respond immediately to every message, I get that we all have lives and can be busy at times. It would be awesome if you are up for a voice chat. And please please when responding write something about yourself.
If any if this sounds remotely interesting to you, feel free to reach out via reddit dm or chat!

Hey there! I am a 30 year old guy from Upstate New York looking for someone that wants to make an emotional connection.
A bit about me: I'm 6’1". I get height can be a big deal for some women so I think it's best to just put it out there first 😅 I've got black hair, brownish black eyes. Average body, I'm muscular and wanting to start exercising both for health and a little bit for better shape. I like to think I'm fairly attractive but then most of us grew up with a relative always telling us we were not handsome or cute, etc. we can share pictures once we establish some comfort zone. If education is important, I am a college graduate with post-graduation degree as well. Now working as an engineer.
I have to lead with the fact that I can be pretty sarcastic at times. I also joke and (playfully) tease. I'm pretty easy going/chill and I like to keep things light and fun, but also enjoy getting into the really deep conversations as well. I'm a sucker for the whole good morning and goodnight text thing as well as checking in on those busier days. That doesn’t mean we have to just message good morning and good night for the whole week. Haha. I think most important part of knowing someone via online platform is initial conversations and if you don’t have enough time let me know otherwise that conversation is dead in no time.
I love animals. I've always felt very connected and attached to them and just enjoy interacting with them. While I am more of a dog person pet-wise, cats are still pretty cool in my book. Cats are more complex though I love the mysterious nature.
Anything outdoors is great in my opinion. Just feel like going for a walk? Let's do it. I do kayaking a bit in the summers, fish, hike, go for drives. I have the habit of occasionally stopping and taking pictures of plants and flowers I see around (I'm always down to share!). While sending me message write code - “I2U” so that I know it’s someone who actually read my post. Didn’t write in the end cuz some people might just skip to end. This doesn’t mean that you just send me the code. I am strictly gonna monitor now. I have skimmed through soo many texts and my innocent heart always gives chances, I am gonna try to be little strict this time.
It's not just the outdoors I love. I can also get down with chill days at home binging something on Netflix or playing something on my PC. Let's face it, I'm a bit if a nerd (everyone has something nerd about themselves) and if you like Jurassic park, board games, Any Mafia movies, gaming, etc we will get along great. I'm a sucker for horror movies as well and am always looking for recommendations. I listen to a lot of music. I shouldn’t brag but I listen to english ,german, Spanish, french and Hindi songs. Born and brought up in India. Hence, hindi songs.
A bit about (possibly) you: I'd prefer if you were in some sort of professional environment and ambitious. I'm not extremely picky about things like hair and eye color. Height is also not a big deal. If you're alot smaller than me and worried that it's something you’ll be insecure about, it's not. The big thing for me is personality. I think personality can make us a lot more or a lot less attractive. I want someone that is genuinely kind and sweet, someone that likes to laugh, someone that's not afraid to be goofy.
A final note: I'm a single guy and looking for someone dynamic. Sometimes I can respond immediately and sometimes it takes a minute due to the obvious circumstances. I also don't expect you to respond immediately to every message, I get that we all have lives and can be busy at times. It would be awesome if you are up for a voice chat. And please when responding write something about yourself.
If any if this sounds remotely interesting to you, feel free to reach out via reddit dm or chat!

I'm writing a simple logger for my game engine and it seems that most people use macros for this over functions for two reasons:

1. It gives access to helpful macros like __FILE__ and __LINE__
2. They are easily able to be stripped away from the source code in distribution builds

However, for reason #1, C++20 now provides std::source_location which solves this issue and for reason #2 it seems like this is possible by just #ifdef'ing the body of the log function with a DEBUG parameter. It's commonly advised to avoid macros unless you really need them or maybe if they simplify the code greatly, but I don't feel like that either of those apply here as logging can be achieved without them and the code is still very elegant.
I ran two examples in Godbolt to test this and noticed that the assembly output was longer when using the function method over macros and that this scales with the number of calls to log(...) in the function version (note that 1. this is just a simple example that logs a string and 2. I've modified the inclusion of iostream to make the output a little less verbose).
Log with macros:

#ifdef DEBUG #include  #define LOG(x) std::cout << x << std::endl #else #define LOG(x) #endif int main() { LOG("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

.LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L5 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L5 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L5: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled (prints: nothing):

main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

Log with functions:

#include  void log(const char* s) { #ifdef DEBUG std::cout << s << std::endl; #endif } int main() { log("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi mov rax, QWORD PTR [rbp-8] mov rsi, rax mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) nop leave ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L6 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L6 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L6: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled and #include removed (prints: nothing):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi nop pop rbp ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

As you can see, the code works correctly in both cases as it outputs the message when in debug mode and strips it to print nothing if debug mode is not specified. However, the assembly for the function version is quite a bit longer and increases with every call to log(...). If I #ifdef the log(...) call itself, rather than the body of the function, then the assembly output is quite small and does not change no matter how many calls to log(...) I make (when DEBUG is disabled). However, that would require me to #ifdef every single call to log(...) I make which just doesn't seem reasonable.
I'm wondering if there is a method to use functions rather than macros and keep the assembly small and not scale with the number of calls to log(...), similar to how the macro version works. Is there a way to do this, or should I just be using macros for this logging functionality?

I'm writing a simple logger for my game engine and it seems that most people use macros for this over functions for two reasons:

1. It gives access to helpful macros like __FILE__ and __LINE__
   
2. They are easily able to be stripped away from the source code in distribution builds
   

However, for reason #1, C++20 now provides std::source_location which solves this issue and for reason #2 it seems like this is possible by just #ifdef'ing the body of the log function with a DEBUG parameter. It's commonly advised to avoid macros unless you really need them or maybe if they simplify the code greatly, but I don't feel like that either of those apply here as logging can be achieved without them and the code is still very elegant.
I ran two examples in Godbolt to test this and noticed that the assembly output was longer when using the function method over macros and that this scales with the number of calls to log(...) in the function version (note that 1. this is just a simple example that logs a string and 2. I've modified the inclusion of iostream to make the output a little less verbose).
Log with macros:

#ifdef DEBUG #include  #define LOG(x) std::cout << x << std::endl #else #define LOG(x) #endif int main() { LOG("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

.LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L5 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L5 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L5: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled (prints: nothing):

main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

Log with functions:

#include  void log(const char* s) { #ifdef DEBUG std::cout << s << std::endl; #endif } int main() { log("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi mov rax, QWORD PTR [rbp-8] mov rsi, rax mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) nop leave ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L6 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L6 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L6: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled and #include removed (prints: nothing):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi nop pop rbp ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

As you can see, the code works correctly in both cases as it outputs the message when in debug mode and strips it to print nothing if debug mode is not specified. However, the assembly for the function version is quite a bit longer and increases with every call to log(...). If I #ifdef the log(...) call itself, rather than the body of the function, then the assembly output is quite small and does not change no matter how many calls to log(...) I make (when DEBUG is disabled). However, that would require me to #ifdef every single call to log(...) I make which just doesn't seem reasonable.
I'm wondering if there is a method to use functions rather than macros and keep the assembly small and not scale with the number of calls to log(...), similar to how the macro version works. Is there a way to do this, or should I just be using macros for this logging functionality?

I'm writing a simple logger for my game engine and it seems that most people use macros for this over functions for two reasons:

1. It gives access to helpful macros like __FILE__ and __LINE__
   
2. They are easily able to be stripped away from the source code in distribution builds
   

However, for reason #1, C++20 now provides std::source_location which solves this issue and for reason #2 it seems like this is possible by just #ifdef'ing the body of the log function with a DEBUG parameter. It's commonly advised to avoid macros unless you really need them or maybe if they simplify the code greatly, but I don't feel like that either of those apply here as logging can be achieved without them and the code is still very elegant.
I ran two examples in Godbolt to test this and noticed that the assembly output was longer when using the function method over macros and that this scales with the number of calls to log(...) in the function version (note that 1. this is just a simple example that logs a string and 2. I've modified the inclusion of iostream to make the output a little less verbose).
Log with macros:

#ifdef DEBUG #include  #define LOG(x) std::cout << x << std::endl #else #define LOG(x) #endif int main() { LOG("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

.LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L5 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L5 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L5: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled (prints: nothing):

main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

Log with functions:

#include  void log(const char* s) { #ifdef DEBUG std::cout << s << std::endl; #endif } int main() { log("Hello, World!"); return 0; } 

Output with DEBUG enabled (prints: "Hello, World!"):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi mov rax, QWORD PTR [rbp-8] mov rsi, rax mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::cout call std::basic_ostream >& std::operator<<  >(std::basic_ostream >&, char const*) mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::basic_ostream >& std::endl >(std::basic_ostream >&) mov rdi, rax call std::basic_ostream >::operator<<(std::basic_ostream >& (*)(std::basic_ostream >&)) nop leave ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int): push rbp mov rbp, rsp sub rsp, 16 mov DWORD PTR [rbp-4], edi mov DWORD PTR [rbp-8], esi cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-4], 1 jne .L6 cmp DWORD PTR [rbp-8], 65535 jne .L6 mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit call std::ios_base::Init::Init() [complete object constructor] mov edx, OFFSET FLAT:__dso_handle mov esi, OFFSET FLAT:std::__ioinit mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:std::ios_base::Init::~Init() [complete object destructor] call __cxa_atexit .L6: nop leave ret _GLOBAL__sub_I_log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov esi, 65535 mov edi, 1 call __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int) pop rbp ret 

Output with DEBUG disabled and #include removed (prints: nothing):

log(char const*): push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov QWORD PTR [rbp-8], rdi nop pop rbp ret .LC0: .string "Hello, World!" main: push rbp mov rbp, rsp mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0 call log(char const*) mov eax, 0 pop rbp ret 

As you can see, the code works correctly in both cases as it outputs the message when in debug mode and strips it to print nothing if debug mode is not specified. However, the assembly for the function version is quite a bit longer and increases with every call to log(...). If I #ifdef the log(...) call itself, rather than the body of the function, then the assembly output is quite small and does not change no matter how many calls to log(...) I make (when DEBUG is disabled). However, that would require me to #ifdef every single call to log(...) I make which just doesn't seem reasonable.
I'm wondering if there is a method to use functions rather than macros and keep the assembly small and not scale with the number of calls to log(...), similar to how the macro version works. Is there a way to do this, or should I just be using macros for this logging functionality?

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X-Men Trilogy HD [X-Men, X2 & The Last Stand] $8 (MA)

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$5 4K UHD

John Wick 1-3 (iTunes)

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$4 4K UHD

Big Lebowski, The (iTunes/ports)
Black Panther (MA + 200 points)
Captain Marvel (MA + 200 points)
Despicable Me [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Expendables 4 (Vudu or iTunes)
Frozen 2 [2019] (MA + 200 points)
Gone Girl [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (MA + 200 points)
Halloween [2018] (MA)
Jungleland [2020] (iTunes)
Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (MA + 200 points)
Scream [2022] (Vudu or iTunes)
Tangled [2010] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Titanic [1997] (iTunes)

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Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, The [1949] (MA + 150 points)
Banshee season 2 (iTunes)
Fear The Walking Dead season 2 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 4 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 5 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 (Vudu)
Fear The Walking Dead season 7 (Vudu) or all 5 for $20
Five Nights At Freddy's [2023] (MA)
Groundhog Day [1993] + Stripes [1981] double feature (MA)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The [1996] (MA + 150 points)
Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2, The [2002] (MA + 150 points)
Lady & The Tramp II: Scamps Adventure [2001] (MA + 150 points)
Rob Zombie Trilogy [House Of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects [Unrated] & 3 From Hell [Unrated] (MA)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3,4 & 5 (Vudu)
Veep season 5 (iTunes)
Veep season 6 (iTunes)

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300 Spartans, The (MA)
BFG, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Color Purple, The [2023] (MA)
Fox & The Hound 2, The [2006] (MA + 150 points)
Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken [2023] (MA) PENDING

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$3️⃣ Movies

$3 4K UHD

Angel Has Fallen (Vudu or iTunes)
Baywatch (Vudu)
Bourne Identity, The [2002] (iTunes/ports)
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu)
Doctor Strange (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Dredd (Vudu)
Frozen 2 [2019] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Guardians Of The Galaxy [2014] (iTunes/ports + 150 points)
Logan Lucky [2017] (iTunes/ports)
mother! [2017] (iTunes)
Prometheus [2012] (iTunes/ports)
Robin Hood [2018] (Vudu)
Sicario (Vudu)
Spy Who Dumped Me, The (Vudu or iTunes)
Top Gun (iTunes)

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Avatar: The Way Of Water (MA + 150 points)
Baby Driver [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Bloodshot [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Bridge Of Spies [2015] (MA + 150 points)
Call Me By Your Name (MA + Sony points)
Candyman: Day Of The Dead (Vudu or Google Play)
Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite (MA)
Disneynature: Bears [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Divergent Series Trilogy, The [Divergent, Insurgent & Allegiant] (Vudu or Google Play)
Fruitvale Station (Vudu)
Glass [2019] (MA)
Goosebumps [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Grand Budapest Hotel, The (MA or Google Play/ports)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Halloween Kills [2021] (MA) PENDING
Hocus Pocus (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Holmes & Watson [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Hundred Foot Journey, The [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Into The Woods [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Vudu)
Killing Gunther (Vudu)
Lion King, The [1994] (MA + 150 points)
Little House On The Prairie season 5 (Vudu)
Midsommar [A24] (Vudu or Google Play)
Mindcage (Vudu or iTunes)
Money Monster [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Nurse Jackie season 7 (Vudu)
Orange Is The New Black season 1 (Vudu)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (iTunes/ports)
Pete's Dragon [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Planes: Fire & Rescue [2014] (MA + 150 points)
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Public Enemies [2009] (MA)
Punisher, The [2004] (Vudu or Google Play)
Queen Of Katwe [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Robin Hood [1973] (MA + 150 points)
Scoob! [2020] (MA)
Secret Life Of Pets 2, The [2019] (MA)
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs [1937] (MA + 150 points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
Secret: Dare To Dream, The (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Super Mario Bros. Movie, The [2023] (MA)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail (Vudu or Google Play)
Us [2019] (MA)
Vanishing, The [2019] (Vudu or Google Play)
Venture Bros: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart [2023] (MA)
Walking Dead season 9, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Walking Dead season 10, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Way Way Back, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Whiplash [2014] (MA + Sony points)

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (iTunes 4K)
31 [2016] (Vudu)
3 From Hell [Unrated] (Vudu 4K or iTunes 4K)
About Last Night [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (MA)
Action Point [2018] (Vudu)
Admission [2013] (iTunes/ports)
Adventures Of Tintin, The (Vudu or iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Age Of Adaline, The (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Alien Covenant (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Allied [2016] (iTunes 4K)
Aloha [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha & Omega 2: A Howl-lday Adventure (Vudu)
Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into The Spotlight (MA)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
American Reunion [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Vudu or iTunes)
Annie [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Arrival [2016] (Vudu)
Assassin's Creed (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Atomic Blonde (MA)
Avengers: Infinity War (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Battleship [2012] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Baywatch (iTunes 4K)
Beauty & The Beast [2017] (MA + 150 points/iTunes option is expired)
Beirut [2018] (MA)
Ben-Hur [2016] (Vudu)
Best Man Holiday, The [2013] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Blackhat [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Bohemian Rhapsody (MA or Google Play/ports)
Book Club [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Boss Baby, The [2017] (MA)
Bourne Legacy, The (iTunes/ports 4K)
Boy, The [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Boyhood [2014] (iTunes)
Boy Next Door, The [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Breakthrough [2019] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Bridesmaids [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Broken City [2013] (MA)
Bumblebee (Vudu)
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Captain America: Civil War (MA only/no points or iTunes option)
Captain Phillips [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (MA)
Case For Christ, The [2017] (MA)
Choice, The [2016] (Vudu or iTunes)
Company Of Heroes [2013] (MA)
Contraband (iTunes/ports)
Curse Of Chucky [2013] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Daddy's Home (iTunes 4K)
Dark Tower, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Dead Again In Tombstone [2017] (MA)
Dead In Tombstone [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Dead Man Down [2013] (MA)
Deepwater Horizon (iTunes 4K)
Despicable Me 2 (iTunes/ports 4K)
Despicable Me 3 (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Devil's Due [2014] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Django Unchained (Vudu)
Downton Abbey [2019] (MA)
Dracula Untold (iTunes/ports 4K)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (iTunes/ports)
Dredd [2012] (Vudu)
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas [2000] (MA)
Duff, The (iTunes or Google Play)
Emoji Movie, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Ender's Game (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Epic [2013] (MA)
Equalizer, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Equalizer 2, The (MA + Sony points)
Escape From Planet Earth (Vudu)
Ex Machina (Vudu)
Exodus: Gods & Kings (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Fate Of The Furious [F8] [Theatrical] (MA 4K)
Fences [2016] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Fifty Shades Darker [2017] [Unrated] (MA 4K)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (iTunes/ports 4K)
Finding Dory (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Flight [2012] (Vudu or iTunes)
Fortress [2021] (Vudu or Google Play)
Frozen [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K+ 150 points)
Fury [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Get Out [2017] (MA)
Ghost Team One [2013] (Vudu or iTunes)
Gifted [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports, iTunes option is expired)
God Bless The Broken Road (Vudu or Google Play)
Gods Not Dead 2 [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Gods Of Egypt (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Grey, The [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Guilt Trip, The [2012] (Vudu)
Hacksaw Ridge (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option expired)
Hail, Caesar [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Halloween [2018] (MA)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters [Unrated] (iTunes)
Hateful Eight, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Heat, The [2013] [Theatrical] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Hell Or High Water (Vudu or Google Play)
Hercules [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Hitman's Bodyguard, The (Vudu or Google Play/iTunes option is expired)
Home [2015] [DreamWorks] (MA)
Homefront [2013] (iTunes/ports)
Honey 2 [2011] (MA)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (MA)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, The (Vudu)
Instant Family (iTunes 4K)
Internship, The [2013] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Interstellar (Vudu or Google Play)
Invisible Man, The [1933] (MA)
It Follows [2015] (Vudu)
Jackass 3 [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Jack Reacher (Vudu)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Vudu)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (iTunes 4K)
Jason Bourne [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
John Henry [2020] (Vudu)
John Wick (iTunes 4K)
John Wick 1 & 2 (Vudu or Google Play)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (iTunes 4K)
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (iTunes 4K) or all 3 for $5
Joy [2015] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (MA + Sony points)
Jurassic World (iTunes/ports 4K)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (MA)
Justice [2017] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Kick-Ass 2 [2013] (MA)
Kidnap [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Killer Elite (iTunes/ports)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Last Knights [2015] (Vudu)
Last Vegas [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Last Witch Hunter, The [2015] (iTunes 4K or Google Play)
Let's Be Cops [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports 4K)
Lockout [2012] [Unrated] (MA + Sony points)
Lone Survivor [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Longest Ride, The (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Lorax, The [2012] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Love, Simon [2018] (MA)
Lucy [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Maleficent (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again [2018] (MA)
Marauders (Vudu)
Martian, The [2015] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Mary Poppins [1964] (MA + 150 points)
Maze Runner, The [2014] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Men In Black 3 (MA + Sony points)
MI-5 [2015] (Vudu)
Mindgamers [2017] (MA)
Miracles From Heaven (MA + Sony points)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (iTunes 4K)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Monuments Men, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Mother's Day [2016] (MA)
Mountain Between Us, The [2017] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Murder On The Orient Express [2017] (MA or Google Play/ports)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (iTunes/ports)
Neighbors [2014] (iTunes/ports)
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Noah [2014] (Vudu)
Non-Stop [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Norm Of The North (Vudu or iTunes)
Now You See Me 2 (iTunes 4K)
Nut Job, The [2014] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Oblivion [2013] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ouija [2014] (MA)
Overlord [2018] (Vudu)
Oz: The Great & Powerful (MA + 100 points)
Paddington (Vudu)
Paranormal Activity [2009] [Theatrical] (iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 2 [Unrated Director's Cut] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 3 [Extended] (Vudu or iTunes)
Paranormal Activity 4 [Unrated] (iTunes)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [Theatrical] (iTunes)
Passengers [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (MA or Google Play/ports)
Pet Sematary [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Pitch Perfect (iTunes/ports 4K)
Playing With Fire (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Predator, The [2018] (MA or Google Play/ports)
Prometheus (MA or Google Play/ports, no iTunes option)
Proud Mary [2018] (MA)
Quiet Place, A [2018] (iTunes 4K)
Ralph Breaks The Internet (MA + 150 points/no iTunes option)
Red Dawn [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Redemption [2013] (Vudu)
Replicas [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Riddick [Unrated] (MA)
Rings [2017] (Vudu)
R.I.P.D. Rest In Peace Department (iTunes/ports 4K)
Rise Of The Guardians [2011] (MA)
Risen [2016] (MA + Sony points)
Robin Hood [2018] (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Rock Dog (iTunes)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (iTunes/ports 4K + 150 points)
Roman J. Israel, Esq [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Rush [2013] (MA) PENDING
Saban's Power Rangers (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Savages [2012] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (iTunes/ports)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA 4K or iTunes/ports 4K)
Seventh Son [2015] (iTunes/ports)
Sex Tape [2014] (MA + Sony points)
Show Dogs [2018] (MA)
Silver Linings Playbook (Vudu or Google Play)
Sing [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Sinister (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Sisters [2015] [Unrated] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Skyscraper [2018] (MA)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man: Homecoming [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Split [2017] (MA)
Spy [2015] [Unrated] (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
Star Trek [2009] (iTunes 4K)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA + 150 points)
Step Up All In [2014] (Vudu)
Step Up Revolution (Vudu or Google Play)
Straight Outta Compton [Unrated] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Super 8 (Vudu)
Super Buddies (MA without points)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2014] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Terminator: Genisys (iTunes 4K)
Top Gun (Vudu)
Total Recall [2012] [Theatrical & Director's Cut] (MA + Sony points)
Tower Heist [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell (MA)
True Blood season 4 (iTunes)
True Grit [2010] (Vudu or iTunes)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (iTunes 4K)
Underworld: Blood Wars (MA + Sony points)
Vendetta [2016] (Vudu)
Venom [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Walk Among The Tombstones, A (iTunes/ports)
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie (MA, iTunes or Google Play/ports)
War Room [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Why Him? [2016] (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Wolf Of Wall Street, The (Vudu)
Woman In Black, The [2012] (MA)
Wonder [2017] (Vudu/GP HD or iTunes 4K)
Wonder Park [2019] (iTunes 4K or Vudu HD)
Woodlawn [2015] (MA or iTunes/ports)
X-Men: Apocalypse (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA)
Your Highness [2011] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Zootopia (MA without points)

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127 Hours (iTunes/ports)
12 Rounds [2009] [Extreme Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Aliens In The Attic (iTunes/ports)
Amelia (iTunes/ports)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (iTunes/ports)
Black Swan (iTunes/ports)
Date Night [Unrated Extended Edition] (iTunes/ports)
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! (ITunes/ports)
Jumper [2008] (iTunes/ports)
Percy Jackson double feature [Lightning Thief & Sea of Monsters] (MA)
Ramona & Beezus (iTunes/ports)
Street Kings (iTunes/ports)
Three Stooges: The Movie, The [2012] (iTunes/ports)

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$1 HD

Alex Cross (Vudu)
Bad Grandpa [Theatrical] (Vudu or iTunes)
Bad Moms (iTunes/ports)
Battleship [2012] (MA)
Big Hero 6 (Google Play/ports)
Book Club (Vudu)
Bourne Legacy, The (MA)
Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack [2017] (iTunes/ports)
Deadpool (iTunes/ports 4K or HD MA/GP)
Divergent (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Duff, The [2015] (Vudu)
Everest [2015] (MA)
Expendables 2, The (iTunes 4K or Vudu/GP HD)
Expendables 3, The [Theatrical] (iTunes 4K or Google Play HD)
Fast & Furious 6, The [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Fast & The Furious, The [2001] (MA)
Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The (MA)
Fast Five [Extended] (MA)
Fate Of The Furious, The [8] [Theatrical or Extended] (MA)
Frozen: Sing Along Edition (MA without points)
Furious 7 [Extended] (iTunes/ports 4K)
Ghost In The Shell [2017] (Vudu)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Vudu)
Girls Trip [2017] (MA)
Hillsong: Let Hope Rise [2016] (MA or iTunes/ports)
Hunger Games, The [2012] (iTunes 4K)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The (Vudu)
Huntsman: Winter's War, The [2016] [Extended] (MA)
Identity Thief [2013] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
I, Frankenstein (Vudu, iTunes or Google Play)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Vudu)
Jason Bourne (MA)
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (Vudu)
Leprechaun: Origins (Vudu)
Les Misérables [2012] (MA)
Minions [2015] (MA)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Vudu)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Vudu) or both for $2.50
Mummy, The [2017] (MA)
Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (MA)
Now You See Me [Extended] (iTunes)
Oblivion [2013] (MA)
Parental Guidance [2012] (MA)
Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The (Vudu or Google Play)
Pitch Perfect (MA)
Quiet Place, A (Vudu)
Ride Along 2 (MA)
RIPD Rest In Peace Department (MA)
Safe [2012] (Vudu or Google Play)
Secret Life Of Pets, The (MA)
Selma (iTunes)
Shack, The [2017] (iTunes)
Skyfall (Vudu or Google Play)
Snitch (iTunes 4K or Vudu/Google Play HD)
Star Trek: Beyond (Vudu)
Ted [Unrated] (MA) or [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Terminator: Genisys (Vudu)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction (iTunes 4K)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Vudu)
Trolls [2017] (MA)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (iTunes 4K)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection (iTunes)
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor (Vudu or Google Play)
Unbroken [2014] (MA)
Warm Bodies (Vudu)
What To Expect When You're Expecting (iTunes)
World War Z (Vudu)
Zootopia (Google Play/ports)

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💲1 SD

21 Jump Street (MA + Sony points)
Act Of Valor (iTunes)
After Earth [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Alpha [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The [2014] (MA + Sony points)
American Hustle [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Bad Boys For Life [2020] (MA + Sony points)
Big Mommas Like Father, Like Son (iTunes/ports)
Captain Phillips (MA + Sony points)
Charlie's Angels [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Concussion [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Dirty 30 (Vudu)
Dog's Way Home, A [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Evil Dead [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Forbidden Kingdom, The (iTunes)
Glee: The Concert (iTunes/ports)
Goosebumps 2 [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Grown Ups 2 (MA + Sony points)
Hangover, The [2009] [Theatrical] (iTunes/ports)
Haywire (iTunes)
Heat, The [2013] (iTunes/ports SD)
Here Comes The Boom [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Hotel Transylvania 3 (MA + Sony points)
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (iTunes/ports)
Immortals [2011] (iTunes)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (MA + Sony points)
Insidious: The Last Key (MA + Sony points)
Insidious: The Red Door [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Journey To Bethlehem [2023] (MA + Sony points)
Jumanji: The Next Level (MA + Sony points)
Knight & Day (iTunes/ports)
Men In Black III [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Mirror Mirror [2012] (iTunes)
Mortal Instruments: The City Of Bones (MA + Sony points)
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian (iTunes/ports)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Overcomer [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Parker [2013] (MA + Sony points)
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (iTunes/ports)
Perfect Guy, The [2015] (MA + Sony points)
Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The (iTunes SD only)
Peter Rabbit [2018] (MA + Sony points)
Predators [2010] (iTunes/ports)
Public Enemies [2009] (iTunes/ports)
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (iTunes/ports)
Robin Hood [2010] [Unrated] (iTunes/ports)
Safe Haven (iTunes)
Scoob [2020] (MA)
Shallows, The [2016] (MA + 150 points)
Sparkle [2012] (MA)
Spider-Man: Far From Home [2019] (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (MA + Sony points)
Spider-Man: No Way Home [2021] (MA + Sony points)
Star, The [2017] (MA + Sony points)
Taken [2009] [Extended Cut] (iTunes/ports)
Thousand Words, A [2012] (Vudu)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love (Vudu)
Underworld: Awakening (MA + Sony points)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (MA + Sony points)
Vow, The [2012] (MA + Sony points)
Zombieland: Double Tap (MA + Sony points)

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All movies are 3 for $1 each/must spend at least $1 on total order.
Cabin In The Woods, The (Vudu SD only)
Croods, The (iTunes/ports SD)
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (iTunes/ports SD)
Expendables 2, The (Vudu SD only or iTunes SD only)
Expendables 3, The [Unrated] (iTunes HD only)
Fast Five [Extended] (iTunes/ports HD)
Hunger Games, The (Vudu SD or iTunes SD only)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The (Vudu HD only)
John Wick 3 (Google Play HD only)
Jurassic World (MA ports HD)
Life Of Pi (iTunes/ports SD)
Mechanic: Resurrection (Vudu SD only)
Now You See Me 2 (Vudu SD only)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (Vudu HD only)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Google Play/ports HD)
Transformers: Age Of Extinction (Vudu HD only)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Vudu SD only)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Vudu SD only)

“On a table an old recorder is sitting, a man dressed mostly in brown and black, looking like a black and white noir film detective, a small black stubble.
Pacing around an olden bunker, memory of how he got there is hazy, knowing it was a setup by the red leaf militia…. Fisher was involved or it was his group.”
Okay…. Olmstead you know that Fisher was involved, there's a six-digit number code to open the door, the window has been reinforced with steel sheets and iron bars, there's probably a generator powering the lights, some type of mutant bear is outside and just killed something…….
Just think…. There is cardboard playing cards, a small wire, string, and a box of matches.
The Basewood traders outpost murders, two traders, a farmer, and a scraper were all killed.
All were bludgeoned from the behind, knocking them out, then the killer went stab crazy all over their bodies, the victims dying from stabbing and blood loss.
The killer's reason was to… what was the reason?
Due to something they started killing, at some point in the investigation I got trapped in their residence, had to use cardboard playing cards to unscrew a panel on a window.
Then I uhhhhh…. Memories aren’t working…. And the iron metal sheets are melded onto the window, so no screws.
The vent is small, can’t fit… the door hinges can be undone, gonna be a bit, and I have no idea if the bear is still there or left.
Okay Olmstead, Ankoku “Baijiu” probably at some point noticed you are missing since you haven’t checked in for what I’m gonna assume an hour or so.
Just sit down and play some solitaire with myself, that's fun…. Also I could use the time to relax and try to remember and jog my memory.
Also I could finally play what’s on this recorder…
“The recorder begins to play”
Log 3# of the experiments, no progress has been made, I don’t know what to tell the warden…. I can’t go into the meeting without anything…
My entire career lays on this, the project is an expensive one with the expectations of the suppliers, warden, and mainly Fisher……
Fisher, he scares me… I don’t know why but he offsets me, every time I meet or was near him I can feel that he would just begin to torture someone for no reason….
I’m scared and to anyone that would be assigned to this project, I’m sorry that I got you roped into a fully functioning hell on earth, no this is literally hell brought up to this world.
This is doctor Lann and I’m signing off for this day.

Hi how come my add button won't work on the index page ?
(Sorry for so much code but I wanted to make sure I'm not leaving anything out)

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```
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var tain = document.getElementById("tain");
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var deliveryfee = document.getElementById("deliveryfee");
var cst1 = document.getElementById("cst1"); var cst2 = document.getElementById("cst2"); var cst3 = document.getElementById("cst3"); var payment= document.getElementById("payment"); var ptype= document.getElementById("ptype"); if (localStorage.getItem("hj1") === null){ localStorage.setItem('hj1',JSON.stringify([])) }
let ar1 = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj1")); var array1 = ar1;
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}
if (localStorage.getItem("hj") === null){ localStorage.setItem('hj',JSON.stringify([])) }
let ar = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj")); var array = ar;
array.forEach((item)=>{ let li = document.createElement("li");
li.innerHTML = item ;
list.appendChild(li); }) orderq.value = array;
ordert.value ="Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); } function f1(obj){ list.innerHTML = "" ;

let name1 = obj.getAttribute("data-price"); array1.push(name1); localStorage.setItem("hj1",JSON.stringify(array1)); let ar1 = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj1")); 

cost.innerHTML = "Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); }

let name = obj.name; var btnd= ' delete'; array.push(name); localStorage.setItem("hj",JSON.stringify(array)); let ar = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj")); array.forEach((item)=>{ 

let li = document.createElement("li");
li.innerHTML = item ;
list.appendChild(li); })
orderq.value= array; ordert.value = "Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); }
}
function d1(obj){

let name1 = obj.getAttribute("data-price"); let index1 = array1.indexOf(name1); 

if (index1 !== -1) {

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}; localStorage.setItem("hj1",JSON.stringify(array1)); let ar1 = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj1"));
cost.innerHTML = "Cost:$"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); }

list.innerHTML = "" ; let name = obj.name; var btnd= ' delete'; let index = array.indexOf(name); 

if (index !== -1) {

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}; localStorage.setItem("hj",JSON.stringify(array)); let ar = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj"));
array.forEach((item)=>{ let li = document.createElement("li");
li.innerHTML = item ;
list.appendChild(li); }) orderq.value = array; ordert.value = "Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); } }
function c1(obj){

let name1 = obj.getAttribute("data-price"); array1.length=0; localStorage.setItem("hj1",JSON.stringify(array1)); let ar1 = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj1")); 

cost.innerHTML = "Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); }
list.innerHTML = "" ; let name = obj.name; array.length = 0; localStorage.setItem("hj",JSON.stringify(array)); let ar = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("hj")); orderq.value = array; ordert.value = "Cost: $"+array1.reduce(getSum, 0); function getSum(total, num) { return total + Math.round(num); }
}
function myFunction() { // Declare variables var input, filter, ul, li, a, i, txtValue; input = document.getElementById('myInput'); filter = input.value.toUpperCase(); ul = document.getElementById("myUL"); li = ul.getElementsByTagName('li');
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function clr1() { var x = document.getElementById("myUL"); if (x.style.display === "block") { x.style.display = "none"; } }
function ons(obj){
var va = obj.value; vain.value = va;
}
function ont(obj){
var vat = obj.value; tain.value = vat;
}
var ii= document.getElementById("coupon");
var coder =document.getElementById("coder");
var ccode =document.getElementById("ccode"); var cpon =document.getElementById("cpon"); function ss1(){
if ((ii.value ==="5off")(ii.value==="5g12")){ coder.innerHTML = "$5 off applied"; var cst4 = cst3.value - 5; ttl.innerHTML =cst4; } else {coder.innerHTML = "This code is invalid"; } ccode.value = ii.value;
}
function btc(){ var numb = ttl.innerHTML/43613.00; numbe = numb.toFixed(8); var payment= document.getElementById("payment"); payment.innerHTML= "Please send " +numbe+" BTC to tobc1qyvke7zknms037929432j2zhv0mpwkxc89fr869";
ptype.value = "btc"; } function crc(){ var payment= document.getElementById("payment"); payment.innerHTML= "Credit card number:"+'
'+''+'
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'+"Ccv:"+'
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'+"Expiration date (mm-dd-yy):"+'
'+'' ptype.value = "cc"; } function cashapp(){
var payment= document.getElementById("payment"); payment.innerHTML= "Please send $" +ttl.innerHTML+" to cash tag $purlaypay";
ptype.value = "cashapp";
}
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var payment= document.getElementById("payment"); payment.innerHTML= "Please send $" +ttl.innerHTML+" to Venmo tag @purlaypay";
ptype.value = "vemmo";
}
```

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Wanna know the fucked up thing? We are coded so anxiously like this that the only real effective way we can balance out our all or nothing, fight or flight nervous system to get even a little stable or actually secure enough to function like a “normal” person—is by actively doing the OPPOSITE of what we feel we need…Essentially we’ve been so badly damaged by our evironments early on (Needing touch but getting distance, needing kindness but getting threatened, etc.) that we have grown in reverse and will keep our needs based in the same flawed foundation until we just stop listening to our own inner voice because it’s stuck in always all light or all dark. We “need” what we can’t be needy for, and then we don’t even notice what we need just to be okay. How do we know what is a real need and what’s our brain just self sabatoging us and our relationships with a “need” that isn’t even real to them? The black and white wiring of our brain is not rational or realistic but it is valid because it’s a learned reflexive way of existing that we’re in, I understand and accept that part. But I’m saying that if we don’t naturally think the realistic way at all, then you mean we have to completely flip reverse our brains inside out just so our sense of self and detatchment and security and autonomy and trusting and caring for others and being an actual competent adult IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF THE THOUGHTS OUR BRAIN MAKES THAT WE HAVE TO ESSENTIALLY DO TRIAL AND ERROR OUTSIDE OF OUR OWN THINKING VOICE JUST TO MAYBE FIND SOMETHING THAT WORKS WITHOUT BEING LOST TO OUR DAMAGED SYSTEM THAT ALREADY SELF SABATOGES AGAINST THE GOOD BEHAVIORS WE GENUINELY TRY TO DO TO PREVENT MORE DAMAGE AND HURT TO US AND OUR LOVED ONES AND OUR EXISTENCE IN GENERAL????? * P.S. Writing and journaling helps if you can’t access a therapist or community so good luck peaceskies~~~ ✌🏾 * TLDR: Rant on how BPD feels like an opposite syndrome for your emotions and body and so is countered in most cases with healthy opposite action that our system walls off from us when triggered (Self sabatoge? Self saving. Self loathing? Self compassion. Self grandiosity? Self humility. Etc.)

Enhancing Communication in CI/CD Workflows

Email notifications are a pivotal component of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, particularly when using Jenkins, a leading automation server. They serve as a direct line of communication, alerting teams to build statuses, failures, and successes, thereby facilitating rapid response and maintenance of software quality. Configuring email notifications within Jenkins pipelines ensures that developers and stakeholders are kept in the loop, enhancing collaboration and efficiency throughout the development process.
However, setting up and troubleshooting email notifications in Jenkins can present challenges. From incorrect SMTP configuration to authentication issues or script misconfigurations within the pipeline code, there are several potential pitfalls that can disrupt this communication channel. Understanding the common issues and how to address them is crucial for maintaining a smooth and effective CI/CD pipeline. This introduction aims to provide insights into optimizing email notifications within Jenkins pipelines, ensuring that teams can leverage this functionality to its fullest potential.

Command	Description
mail	Sends email notifications from Jenkins pipeline
pipeline	Defines the Jenkins pipeline structure
post	Defines post-build actions
always	Condition that specifies actions to run after every build
failure	Condition that specifies actions to run if the build fails
steps	Defines a series of one or more steps to be executed in a stage

Optimizing Jenkins Pipeline Notifications

Email notifications within Jenkins pipelines are not just about informing team members of a build's success or failure; they represent a critical feedback loop that supports the agile development process. By integrating email notifications, teams can immediately identify and address issues, maintain high-quality code, and ensure that software deployments are done seamlessly. The effectiveness of these notifications, however, depends on their proper configuration and the ability of team members to act on the information provided. This involves not only setting up the right triggers for emails but also customizing the content of the notifications to include relevant information such as build status, logs, and direct links to the build results for quick access.
To further enhance the utility of email notifications, Jenkins allows for the configuration of conditional notifications. This means that emails can be tailored to specific events within the pipeline, such as failures in critical stages or warnings when certain thresholds are met. Advanced configurations can include scripting within the Jenkinsfile to dynamically adjust recipients based on the nature of the build or change, ensuring that the right stakeholders are informed at the right time. Moreover, incorporating best practices such as using email filters or integrating with collaboration tools can help manage the flow of notifications, preventing information overload and ensuring that teams remain focused on critical issues. Ultimately, a well-configured email notification system within Jenkins pipelines not only keeps teams informed but also enhances collaboration and the continuous improvement of development practices.

Configuring Email Notifications in Jenkins Pipeline

Jenkinsfile Groovy syntax

pipeline { agent any stages { stage('Build') { steps { echo 'Building...' } } stage('Test') { steps { echo 'Testing...' } } stage('Deploy') { steps { echo 'Deploying...' } } } post { always { mail to: 'team@example.com', subject: "Build ${currentBuild.fullDisplayName}", body: "The build was ${currentBuild.result}: Check console output at ${env.BUILD_URL} to view the results." } failure { mail to: 'team@example.com', subject: "Failed Build ${currentBuild.fullDisplayName}", body: "The build FAILED: Check console output at ${env.BUILD_URL} to view the results." } } } 

Enhancing Jenkins Pipeline Through Effective Email Notifications

Implementing email notifications in Jenkins pipelines plays a crucial role in maintaining continuous integration and deployment processes. These notifications serve as an essential tool for developers and operations teams to stay updated on the build and deployment statuses, facilitating immediate action when issues arise. Properly configured, email alerts can drastically reduce downtime and ensure that all stakeholders are informed of the pipeline's health. The configuration process involves specifying the SMTP server details, setting up authentication if required, and defining the conditions under which notifications should be sent, such as on failure, success, or unstable builds.
Moreover, the customization of email content to include specific details about the build process can significantly aid in troubleshooting efforts. By providing links to the build logs, summaries of the changes that triggered the build, and even metrics on build duration, teams can quickly identify and rectify issues. This level of detail is invaluable in fast-paced development environments where time is of the essence. Additionally, integrating advanced features like email throttling and failure analysis reports can further enhance the pipeline's efficiency by ensuring that teams are not overwhelmed with notifications and that they receive meaningful insights into the build process.

Top Jenkins Email Notification Queries

1. Question: How do I configure email notifications in Jenkins?
2. Answer: Configure email notifications in Jenkins by navigating to Manage Jenkins > Configure System > E-mail Notification, where you can enter your SMTP server details and authentication information.
3. Question: Can email notifications be sent based on the build status?
4. Answer: Yes, Jenkins allows you to configure email notifications to be sent on various build statuses, such as success, failure, or unstable.
5. Question: How can I customize the content of the email notifications?
6. Answer: Customize email content using the Email-ext plugin, which offers various tokens for including dynamic content such as build logs, status, and environment variables.
7. Question: Is it possible to send emails to different recipients based on the build outcome?
8. Answer: Yes, with the Email-ext plugin, you can configure conditional recipient lists based on the build outcome or other criteria.
9. Question: How do I troubleshoot email notification issues in Jenkins?
10. Answer: Troubleshoot email notification issues by checking the Jenkins system log, verifying SMTP server settings, and ensuring the Email-ext plugin is correctly configured.
11. Question: Can Jenkins integrate with third-party email services?
12. Answer: Yes, Jenkins can integrate with third-party email services by configuring the appropriate SMTP settings for the service you wish to use.
13. Question: How do I limit the number of email notifications sent during a certain period?
14. Answer: Limit email notifications by configuring the throttle settings in the Email-ext plugin, which can restrict the number of emails sent over a defined period.
15. Question: Are email notifications supported in pipeline scripts?
16. Answer: Yes, email notifications can be configured directly within pipeline scripts using the `mail` step.
17. Question: How can I add attachments to email notifications?
18. Answer: Attach files to email notifications using the `attachmentsPattern` parameter in the Email-ext plugin, specifying the file patterns to include.
19. Question: Can email notifications include links to the build console output?
20. Answer: Yes, include links to the build console output in emails by using the `$BUILD_URL` environment variable in the email body.

Final Thoughts on Jenkins Pipeline Notifications

Implementing a robust email notification system within Jenkins pipelines is more than just a convenience—it's a necessity for teams committed to agile development and continuous integration. Proper configuration and customization of these notifications can dramatically improve the development workflow, enabling teams to respond swiftly to build outcomes and maintain high-quality software delivery. As we've explored, Jenkins offers extensive capabilities for tailoring notifications to meet diverse project needs, from conditional alerts based on build status to detailed messages that include logs and direct links to results. However, the true power of email notifications lies in their ability to facilitate immediate and effective communication among team members, bridging the gap between automated processes and human intervention. By leveraging these tools wisely, teams can not only enhance their operational efficiency but also foster a culture of transparency and collaboration, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed at every stage of the development cycle.
https://www.tempmail.us.com/en/jenkins/resolving-jenkins-pipeline-email-notification-issues

Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript • Backend: Node.js with Express • Database: SQLite for simplicity
Step-by-Step Plan

1. Initialize the Project: • Set up a Node.js project. • Install necessary dependencies (Express, SQLite). 2. Create the Database Schema: • Design a table to store user information and boxing weight records. 3. Build the Backend: • Create routes for adding, retrieving, and searching user records. • Connect to the SQLite database. 4. Build the Frontend: • Create a simple form for users to input their boxing records. • Display the list of records. • Implement a search feature to find potential opponents. 

Pseudocode

1. Initialize Project: 

mkdir boxing-app cd boxing-app npm init -y npm install express sqlite3 body-parser

2. Create Database Schema: • database.js: 

const sqlite3 = require('sqlite3').verbose(); const db = new sqlite3.Database(':memory:');
db.serialize(() => { db.run("CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, weight REAL, record TEXT)"); });
module.exports = db;

3. Build the Backend: • server.js: 

const express = require('express'); const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); const db = require('./database');
const app = express(); app.use(bodyParser.json());
// Add user app.post('/users', (req, res) => { const { name, weight, record } = req.body; db.run("INSERT INTO users (name, weight, record) VALUES (?, ?, ?)", [name, weight, record], function(err) { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(201).send({ id: this.lastID }); }); });
// Get users app.get('/users', (req, res) => { db.all("SELECT * FROM users", [], (err, rows) => { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(200).send(rows); }); });
// Search for opponents app.get('/opponents', (req, res) => { const { weight } = req.query; db.all("SELECT * FROM users WHERE ABS(weight - ?) <= 5", [weight], (err, rows) => { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(200).send(rows); }); });
const PORT = process.env.PORT 3000; app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(Server is running on port ${PORT}); });

4. Build the Frontend: • index.html: 

Boxing Records

Add Record

All Records

Find Opponents

Search

4. • styles.css: 

body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px; } form, div { margin-bottom: 20px; } input, button { margin: 5px 0; padding: 10px; width: 100%; } button { cursor: pointer; }

4. • scripts.js: 

document.getElementById('record-form').addEventListener('submit', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); const name = document.getElementById('name').value; const weight = document.getElementById('weight').value; const record = document.getElementById('record').value;
fetch('/users', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ name, weight, record }) }).then(response => response.json()) .then(data => { alert('Record added!'); loadRecords(); }); });
function loadRecords() { fetch('/users') .then(response => response.json()) .then(data => { const recordsDiv = document.getElementById('records'); recordsDiv.innerHTML = ''; data.forEach(user => { const div = document.createElement('div'); div.textContent = ${user.name} - ${user.weight} kg - ${user.record}; recordsDiv.appendChild(div); }); }); }
document.getElementById('search-btn').addEventListener('click', function() { const weight = document.getElementById('search-weight').value; fetch(/opponents?weight=${weight}) .then(response => response.json()) .then(data => { const opponentsDiv = document.getElementById('opponents'); opponentsDiv.innerHTML = ''; data.forEach(user => { const div = document.createElement('div'); div.textContent = ${user.name} - ${user.weight} kg - ${user.record}; opponentsDiv.appendChild(div); }); }); });
loadRecords();
Full Code
// Step 1: Initialize the project mkdir boxing-app cd boxing-app npm init -y npm install express sqlite3 body-parser
// Step 2: Create database.js
// database.js const sqlite3 = require('sqlite3').verbose(); const db = new sqlite3.Database(':memory:');
db.serialize(() => { db.run("CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, weight REAL, record TEXT)"); });
module.exports = db;
// Step 3: Build the backend
// server.js const express = require('express'); const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); const db = require('./database');
const app = express(); app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.post('/users', (req, res) => { const { name, weight, record } = req.body; db.run("INSERT INTO users (name, weight, record) VALUES (?, ?, ?)", [name, weight, record], function(err) { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(201).send({ id: this.lastID }); }); });
app.get('/users', (req, res) => { db.all("SELECT * FROM users", [], (err, rows) => { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(200).send(rows); }); });
app.get('/opponents', (req, res) => { const { weight } = req.query; db.all("SELECT * FROM users WHERE ABS(weight - ?) <= 5", [weight], (err, rows) => { if (err) { return res.status(500).send(err.message); } res.status(200).send(rows); }); });
const PORT = process.env.PORT 3000; app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(Server is running on port ${PORT}); });
Step 4: Build the frontend
index.html

Boxing Records

Add Record

All Records

Find Opponents

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