(Post was originally posted on QQ, edited and posted it here)
So Solo Levelling anime came out. Neato. I love and hate Solo Levelling. The Gamer, Nobless, Solo Levelling, and Unordinary are basically your go-to manwha introductions, like how DBZ, Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach are often Western fan's first manga.
I remember reading Solo Levelling in the earlier years before it exploded in popularity and being drawn in by the setting and art. SL popularized the Hunters and Gate tropes. The setting fascinated me because I always liked fantasy invading the modern world, like in SMT. Whenever I was reading, I wanted to know more about how the world coped with the Gates, how normal people get by and just how big a Gate gets. Unfortunately, thanks to SL's popularity it inspired hundreds of Hunter manhwa with less and less originality and Jinwoo clones.
Solo Levelling killed fantasy manhwa. You can't go anywhere without having stat screen, levels, "S-rank," and god forbid the motherfucking piece of shit SyStEm being shoved in your face thanks to hack authors trying to copy Gamer and Solo Levelling which is hilarious because they entirely miss the point of the draw between those two works.
Now to give an analogy, it was like watching a zombie movie where everybody started turning into zombies. Before Solo Levelling was adapted we had a fair mix of manhwa available to us. Fantasy, romance, etc. LitRPG stories were actually pretty few but still had some popularity. The OGs were Nobless, Tower of God, God of Highschool, I Love Yoo. The two ways you could experience manhwa were in the webtoons website or some 3'rd party scan site like Asuracans.
Now before continuing I'd just like to say, FUCK FastPass. Holy shit FastPass killed manhwa pacing so fucking much. For anyone who doesn't know, Fastpass is a feature that locks out manhwa episodes so you'd have to wait a week to see it. It was always a 1 week=1 episode but then ever since FastPass was announced the pacing of several manhwa grinded to a halt just to milk FastPass coins. Some authors are so fucking egregious they lock SEVEN FUCKING EPISODES in advanced.
Webtoons like Unordinary used to have a good pacing. We got to plot points; we had payoffs, and we had consistent action. But then ever since Fastpass came out the pacing grinded to a screeching halt so Uru-chan could milk as many fucking coins as possible. It was so sad to see. Paying money just to see what happens later down the line only for it to be revealed that nothing happened and you just wasted your money for no reason.
My strategy for reading Unordinary and other manhwa is to catch up, then drop it for months, and then catch up on the chapters before dropping it again. It feels good not having to wait weeks upon weeks when I can just binge the entire season in 1 go.
Also just to be clear, manhwa=koreans and webtoon=western manhwa, manhua=chinese. Webtoon has license agreements to translate and publish Korean manhwa however not every series get's licensed so people looking for manhwa just go to scanlaters.
During the era before Solo Levelling, we had bad manhwas and copycats. It's a meme just how bad some of these tropes can get. Otome webtoons/manhwa suffer from romance cliches and toxic relationships. Fantasy manhwa had overpowered MCs. Korean high school manhwa has the "High schoolers are the mafia" cliche often ramped up to 11. The point is that it was a pretty diverse era.
We had cult classics like Bastard and Sweet Home. We saw the rise and fall of several manhwas that couldn't make it. We saw cringe, masterpieces; we picked up and dropped many manhwa along the way.
Now obviously there were really popular tropes used like isekai and time travel. Those two were the bread and butter of manhwa no matter what genre you were in. However, it felt balanced since manhwas tried to differentiate from each other and add their own twists. The video game fantasy manhwa selection had a few series but lost popularity over time. The Gamer barely has any readers from how it's first season was.
Now if you wanted to publish your own manhwa you'd either write a web novel and pray a company picks it up or you become your own artist and publish on webtoon. Now there were tons of LitRPG webnovels that I saw like "S-class Hunters I raised", "The world after the fall", "S-class suicide hunter"and "Omniscient Reader." I read through them and enjoyed the stories but I never thought they would get adapted.
Then Solo fucking Levelling got adapted a flood of video game manhwa happened. Holy. Fucking. Shit. Imagine my surprise when all of the LitRPG web novels I read got Manhwa adaptions a few years later.
Now to reiterate, getting popular is a big deal because many others will try to copy your work to see if they can get the same success. To put things into perspective, Otome manhwa are usually romance/drama stories to appeal to female readers. There was manhwa that decided to make a twist of "what if FEMC reincarnated into a otome villainess" then another author slapped on "otome villainess game" and HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY fucking shit the amount of "reincarnated into villainess stories" flooded into the market. That is literally the ENTIRE otome manhwa landscape right now. Just "reincarnation" and the occasional "time travel regressor" manhwa. That is what happened when Solo Levelling exploded in popularity. Even completely regular fantasy works would still have video game elements just to appeal to people.
Now, thanks to Solo Levelling's popularity, several manhwa studios are trying to copy its success by adapting several LitRPG web novels. We never had this many until Solo Levelling was adopted; some of these web novels sat on the internet for 10+ years until SL blew up in popularity. Webnovel authors who want to make a quick buck, shit out "Solo Levelling copy and paste" so they can collect royalties from the manhwa adaption. Studios even began trying to copy the Solo Levelling art style. Now nearly every manhwa feels like a Solo Levelling copy and paste without any thought put into what made Solo Levelling actually work.
To also add on, nobody thought that manhwas could get animes because Korea didn't have dedicated anime studios like Japan has. When people say "Tower of God greenlight for 13 episodes" MANY people were shocked. Nobless did get an OVA but it was just an OVA. The fact that manhwas could now get SEASONAL adaptions sparked hope in the manhwa community. Many people wanted to see their favourite manhwas get a season.
However to get an anime you need to be popular and rak in cash. So far the only manhwa that actually have seasonal anime runs are; Tower of God and God of Highschool, Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion, A Returner's Magic Should Be Special and Solo Levelling. All of these manhwa are extremely popular, they're classic ones that are widely known in the manhwa space with hundreds of chapters already and large fanbases. Solo Levelling is being adapted by A-1 Pictures, one of the top animation studios in Japan. It is THAT popular. Every single Manhwa fan knows what Solo Levelling is; it's a household name at this point in Korea (Slight exaggeration for comedic effect).
Gamer and Solo Levelling work on the idea of having a "what if video game in real life" but work it so that it fits into the setting while being weird as hell. The protagonists have powers that make them act like video game characters; however, the world isn't a game. It's a fantasy world with its own lore and rules. It's just that their powers warp their reality and bend the rules slightly to give them massive advantages.
In The Gamer, the world operates with a god-like entity known as Gaia that gives humans powers and brings them to the supernatural side of the world based on their characteristics. Anyone can awaken their unique ability. The MC happened to awaken the Gamer ability because his love for video games was such a defining characteristic of him that it translated into receiving video game abilities. Other characters find it completely absurd and over powered like when the MC instantly learns a skill or levels up they say "what the fu". He's a weirdo in the setting but completely fits in.
In Solo Levelling, there are actual lore reasons behind the system given to Jinwoo. It was designed with the purpose of making his body stronger in order to host the Shadow Monarch=basically emo Lucifer who rebelled against other monarchs. The monarchs wanted to have a giant war but every planet was too weak to contain their power so they flooded Earth with mana so that Earth would become their battlefield. Jinwoo was meant to be a sacrifice but turned the tables and the Shadow Monarch gives Jinwoo his powers. The System actually disappears since Jinwoo doesn't need it anymore
The reason why the system looks like a video game is because the system read Jinwoo's consciousness and designed itself that way on purpose so that Jinwoo could easily understand and use the system. Jinwoo's system goes against the setting and he's seen as a giant abnormally because he's the only one that can actually get stronger while everyone else was born with their strength.
Other manhwa that copy the above work, completely miss this point and break the suspension of disbelief whenever they have video game terminology be for fantasy worlds and protagonists just being handed dues ex machina systems by the author. There's no lore reason that fits into the world of why said protagonist would gain a system or why would medival fantasy peasants use 21st century terminology.
The author of Solo Levelling actually put some thought into how the world would work even with the few details we get. There are brief passages about how the laws, culture, and how people evolved to adapt to Gates magically appearing to spew out monsters. Everyone else just shamelessly copies Solo Leveling setting. Like holy fuck it's actually bewildering just how many manhwa copy literally every single plot beat that Solo Leveling has:

• Hunters and guilds divided by letter rankings
• Mother is sick so kid has to pay hospital bills
• MC suddenly gains a system
• Necromancy
• Monster outbreaks on an island or school
• Little sister and bro sidekick who do nothing
• Absent father
• I need to hide my power level (Because he's being hunted down by the American gang Hunter)

Now let's get this out of the way, the art carried this series. The team behind the art killed it and gave us hype after hype panels for to make Youtube AMVs. The manhwa is pure action with occasional attention to the characters. I disagree with the notion that there's no character development because even if it's minimal, the original author actually did have some story in mind when creating Solo Leveling. There's actually some surprising depth to Jinwoo that gets uncredited.
Also have to make this clear but the manhwa cuts out details from the original web novel it was adapted from. I have no idea how much but I've talked to Solo Leveling fans and they told me that Jinwoo is more human in the webnovel since you get hear more of his inner dialogue. Some changed are just to make things more dramatic and epic for when Jinwoo fights enemies.
Jinwoo's story is obviously about a weak guy becoming the strongest. He's only in the Hunter business for money and is surprisingly more human that I thought. His best friend Jinho is some low ranked guy and Jinwoo likes him because Jinho was nice to him even assuming that Jinwoo was just an E-rank. They become close enough that they consider each other brothers despite the absurd power gap. They eat out, have drinks and are seen just chilling between dungeon dives. Which is ironic because his relationship with Jinho is more developed then his romance with his actual wife, in the manhwa. Idk if it's better developed in the web novel.
Then another moment that stood out to me was during the Chimera Ant arc of the manhwa with obligatory Japanese bashing. Ant monsters invaded Jeju island and took over it for years. The Hunter organization assembled a team of S-rank Hunters to raid it and take it back. Jinwoo initially refuses to participate in the raid because he just wants to spend more time with his mom after she got released from the hospital. He only participates when things go to shit so he teleports in to fight the big bad of the arc. Jinwoo is forced to go from passivity into proactively taking action to become Earth's defender against invading monster threats. Then, he fully accepts his responsibilities as time progresses as he realizes the weight of power that he holds.
Now onto the rest of the cast. It's what you'd expect from a standard manhwa: underdeveloped characters pushed into the bench with an overpowered main character having to solve every single problem. Like, whoah, not even Dragon Ball is this bad when it comes to side characters being absolutely useless. At least they can give Goku energy for a Spirit Bomb.ther good natured Hunters keeping their morals and defending people at the cost of their lives. He learns there is value in connections and when he officially becomes the strongest, other power beings are weirded out why Jinwoo places so much value on Earth, they can't comprehend that Jinwoo finds value in lowly humans.
Now onto the rest of the cast...it's what you'd expect from a standard manhwa. Underdeveloped characters pushed into the bench with an over powered main character having to solve every single problem. Like whoah not even Dragon ball is this bad when it comes to side characters being absolutely useless. At least they can give Goku energy for a Spirit Bomb.
There was a revenge subplot where Jinwoo kills a Hunter and then said Hunters brother swears to get revenge. The Hunter is S-rank so you think "whoah Jinwoo is going to be screwed if he get's exposed" However this plot line is pushed so far into the back that I deadass forgot it existed until it was hastily concluded. The revenge arc finally happens after Jinwoo has become the strongest Hunter on Earth and defeated numerous S-rank threats, he solos an entire guild and easily kills the Hunter. It looks so ridiculously because the Hunter fucking knows Jinwoo is the strongest motherfucker on the planet and he still tries to jump him by targeting Jinho.
There was another subplot about how the Hunter association has become corrupted with greed, corporatism, politics, and how the true meaning of the word Hunter has been lost and Jinwoo could light the way and change the system...only for it to be completely erased in the final thanks to "OH MY MAGIC CUP" More on that later
Then there was Cha Hae-In, Jinwoo's obligatory love interest. This romance is bad. Not toxic level otome bad but I don't feel anything for these characters. It's under developed and I have no reason to believe that Jinwoo would fall in love with this chick. I hate how it is because it sets up and immediately trashes a potentially interesting romantic conflict;
One of the main points of Solo Leveling is that power means everything. You can't change the world or make your dreams real without power. You need it and it's an integral part of life. However, the story goes out of it's way to show that there are value in people without power. Jinwoo's most valuable people aren't fellow Hunters but just normal people, his sister, mother and Jinho are just regular people that Jinwoo likes spending time with despite him being a practically being a god. This is a huge contrast to most other Hunters we see who are greedy and only care about power and connections. They lost their humanity while Jinwoo kept his.
Cha Hae-In is different from most other Hunters by not having an ego the size of a skyscraper. She does it more out of an obligation then wanting fame or power. We're introduced to her by showing that she has the ability of super smell. She can smell mana and the smell of powerful Hunters disgust her. This smelling thing is her entire character and the reason she falls in love with Jinwoo is because he smells nice. Now I originally thought that the smell thing was some kind of soul sense where she's able to smell good and bad people but some Solo Levelling fans confirmed for me that Jinwoo smells better because his mana comes directly from the Shadow Monarch and not any other reason.
Cha first meets Jinwoo when he signs up to be a volunteer miner for an expedition that her guild was doing, she smelled him and got a crush.
Then some Gate shit happens, Jinwoo jumps in to save the day and Cha get's wet from his power. Here's the thing, Cha originally assumed Jinwoo was some random guy. A completely normal person without any Hunter capabilities at all and still fell for him. Then found out he was actually an SSS+-ranked Hunter and her opinion of him didn't change.
So let's break this down and explain why I felt disappointed.
From what we're shown, the Hunter would has become filled with greed and corporatism. People put so much value on ranks that it skews there empathy over live. Hunters dress up, do advertisements and are celebrities in the world. It's like if a bunch twitch streamers got super powers.
"Uh chat chat chat chat there's a spider monster chat oh shit I killed it chat"
"DO NOTE USE THE OUJI BOARD IN THE GATE AT 3:00 AM"
"We found a dead body in a Gate"
Cha is shown to be self-aware of how shitty the Hunter world is. She isn't into the celebrity culture as the other Hunters. There are tons of guys who want her as a girlfriend because of the status of having a S-ranked Hunter girlfriend. The anime even has an original scene of Cha stopping a robbery and leaving quickly when a crowd gathers. Cha isn't a Hunter for the fame but out of an obligation to protect humanity.
Her smell is symbolic of this, she's grown sick of "smelling" the modern Hunter world. Smelling them is disgusting because Cha finds them to be disgusting. She hates how top ranked Hunters look down on others, how they only think about money and fame, how they will gladly let lower ranked people die, etc. From what we see, a lot of top ranked Hunters (B~S range) are insane and have a warped sense of life, the previous antagonists that Jinwoo killed would justify Cha's view point. So Cha, being one of the only female S-ranked Hunters would be a target of affection for many guys. Like in Aladdin where Jasmine is targetted by many sires and the conflict of the movie is that "only a prince can marry a princess", in Solo Levelling world, it would be the norm for powerful Hunter couples to marry and have kids to continue their legacy. Cha would no doubt face pressure and be a high value marriage partner from numerous suitors.
Then Cha falls in love with a normal guy who isn't even a Hunter. For the first time, Cha doesn't smell any disgust. She's one of the few that has value in normal humans and finds value in this completely normal guy. If Jinwoo didn't have a system and was an E-rank bum then this romance would have been interesting. An S-rank Hunter is interested in dating someone of lower rank then them. Cha and Jinwoo would have to face pressure from her guild and societal pressure on her romance with a nobody. Remember those female streamers that got hate for having a boyfriend? Imagine Cha dealing with that shit in a world where Hunters are giga celebrities and Jinwoo having to deal with dating someone out of his class.
But this idea get's shot down before it even starts when Jinwoo get's revealed to be an SSS-ranker few chapters later. Now there is no societal taboo for Cha and Jinwoo to date. Of course it makes sense for two S-rank Hunters to date. Go power couple woohoo. Ya know, it's not like the entire story was pushing the idea that you can find value in the most insignificant things and shows that Jinwoo, despite being a fucking SSS-ranked God holds value in humans despite their powerlessness.
But then you think, wait a minute maybe this could be interesting. Maybe Cha get's afraid that the first guy she's interested in is the same as all the other fuckface Hunters she has to work with. Maybe she thinks Jinwoo is a terrible person only to learn that he still kept his humanity despite all of his power. But no, nothing like that. She's just gets wet after he slapped his Big Shadow Cock over an army of orcs.
Yeah this romance was a complete waste, there's no reason for them to really get together. Hell it's a complete afterthought in the ending. Oh btw in the ending, Jinwoo recieves "OH MY MAGIC CUP" to turn back time and erase every single thing that happened in the story. Sacrificing his relationships and memories with other characters to prevent causalities and kill every Monarch. He then chooses to stay on Earth because he values his friends and grooms Cha to be his wife.
Also the funniest thing about the manhwa ending was that Jinwoo says "Earth has all of my precious people" and it shows a panel of two dipshit Hunters who tried to murder him and Jinho. Lol just lol.
I don't even know what the author was trying to go for with Cha because it seems to go against the message he's pushing with Jinwoo. To reiterate;

• Entire manhwa shows that 90% of top ranked Hunters are scum because they let power get to their head
• Top ranked Hunters don't value anyone below their rank, we see Hunter dipshits using lower ranked as bait against monsters
• Jinwoo is able to keep his humanity despite his high power
• Jinwoo's most precious people are a bunch of normies. He's not friends with any Hunter and is only shown hanging out with Jinho or his sister.
• Jinwoo considered Jinho his brother just because Jinho treated him like a person under the assumption that Jinwoo was E-rank

Completely forgot to mention this, but Jinho and Jinwoo first met during a Gate raid, they both got abounded and trapped with a spider boss. Jinho, despite being pissed scared, stands in front of Jinwoo and tries to take on the boss by himself to protect his new friend. Jinwoo appreciated Jinho's kindness and have been besties ever since.
Jinwoo after killing every single Monarch, stays on Earth because those are where his loved ones are, other monsters are confused to why Jinwoo finds value in humans
Jinwoo falls in love with a S-ranked Hunter after having 1 date with her after being completely disinterested in romance for 99% of the series.
"I fell in love with you because you smell good"
Jinwoo has 0 reason to believe Cha likes Jinwoo for who he is and not his status as an S-ultra-ranked Hunter. I even had to refresh my memory of Cha from reading the wiki because she was so forgettable.
In the anime, they actually decided to introduce several characters that appeared later early on so Jinho and Cha show up early in original scenes. I have low expectations but it would be cool if A-1 had Cha and Jinwoo start their relationship earlier and build up a proper romance.
Oh yeah I also nearly forgot about Jinwoo's father plot line. Jinwoo's dad fell into a Gate and disappeared. He knew about the Monarch war and shit but only appeared at the very end of the manhwa, died in like 1 chapter to make Jinwoo sad. Useless bum spend 10 years trying to get milk in the Gates.
Oh yeah and there was also a side called the "Rulers" but I forgot them. They are the angels of the setting. They're all jobbers and had to beg for Jinwoo to save everybody from the evil Monarchs.
So yeah all in all, Solo Levelling did what it did. It gave us hype, cool fights, stellar art, and kickstarted the fucking Hunter trend that forever tainted manhwas. Shadow designs were so fucking sick though. Shadow army was one of the best parts of Solo Levelling.
Oh yeah nearly forgot but the epilogue stories are golden. We get to see how the characters live normal lives and shenanigans that happen with Jinwoo having to go through high school despite being a god. It's hilarious, especially the chapter when Jinwoo's son awakens his powers.
Also Igris best Shadow.

I originally quit AE in 2020 after spending my entire first month Chronos Stones hoard to not get newly released Foran AS (I did get Thillelille) and not wanting to be tempted into spending money. I came back at this time last year after seeing a random Reddit thread PSAing to log-in for 600 Chronos Stones (since I was still subbed to this subreddit). I got curious if there was a sequel to First Knight (unfortunately not lol).
I wanna reflect on the units that have carried me, the game content completed/remaining, and my spending after playing the game for 13 months (10/6/20-11/5/20, 12/18/22-current).
 

Unit Progression

Month 1

• 4★ Akane (tried out most of the free encounter units and she was the best character of them lol)
  
• 4★ Rosetta → 5★ Morgana
  
• 4★ Hozuki → 5★ Joker
  
• 5★ Yuna AS (kept restarting until I got a 5★ lol)
  
• 4★ Aldo → 4★ Deirdre → 5★ Deirdre
  
• 5★ Sophia
  

 
My first encounter after free Akane was unsurprising.
Akane's damage/speed led the way early on in the story. Then Joker (damage, VC), Morgana (damage, healing), and Deirdre (damage) became the stars through early episodes and part 1.5 of the main story.
 

Month 2 (after a 2yr ragequit)

• Hismena AC
  
• Thillelille → Miyu ES
  
• Yukino AS
  
• Tiramisu → Nona
  
• Yuna AS
  
• Aisha
  

 
The new team going into Garulea revolved around Yukino's buffs and pierce zone. Tiramisu became a OHKO mob clearer and 2nd highest damage behind Hismena AC. Eventually, Miyu ES and Nona brought the pierce team to its final form.
 

Overall

After the early times, the main team has constantly been tweaked and many other focused teams (magic, slash/fire, wateslash, wind, shade, thunder) have been formed.
 
Units that were regularly useful for periods of time:
4★ Akane, 4★ Hozuki, 4★ Rosetta, Aisha, Aldo, Alma, Deirdre, Dewey AC, Elseal, Felmina ES, Flammelapis AS, Hismena AC, Ilulu AC (Limil), Iphi, Joker, Kid, Minalca (Tetra), Miyu ES, Morgana, Noahxis, Nona, Orleya, Radias AS, Sesta, Shion AC, Sophia, Thillelille, Suzette AC, Tiramisu, Toova ES, Velette (Gunce), Yakumo (Kumos), Yipha AS, Yukino AS, Yuna AS
 
Honorable mentions that have been useful at a few key moments:
Benedict, Harle, Kamlanage, Mariel ES, Prai
 
I'd like to single out Iphi. She changed how the game is played. There are very few specific situations outside of Sesta/Elseal wind/water teams that made Iphi lose her team slot.
Tetra also has a similar standing as a sidekick.
 

General Milestones

• over 112k battles
  
• over 4mil steps
  
• Chant Scripts: 71 used, 173 current
  
• Allcosmos Starcharts: 0 used, 2 current
  
• Paw Stamps: 1286
  

 

Completed Content (as of v3.3.110)

• Superbosses
  
• Main & Side Stories
  
• Battle Simulator
  
• Timetwisted Maze
  
• Harpoon Fishing
  
• Cradle of Time
  
• Jump Rope (Ratle)
  

 

Incomplete Content

• Astral Archive: 6 complete, 20 incomplete
  
• Fishing: 74 Rinde Sunfish, 49 Silver Carp, 31 Hydra, 31 Kraken, 28 Scylla, 75 Sky Serpent, 121 Boots, 137 Glass Slippers
  
• Jump Rope (Baruoki): 300/400/500/1000
  
• Space Evaders: Astronomicaal!!! difficulty
  

 

Spending

• Premium Starter Set, 3x Chronos Stones x1100, 10x Guide of the Land (ongoing)
  
• Chronos Stone Usage
  
• Encounters & Roster's Light/Shadow: 3-5★ encounter %s exclude guaranteed 4.5★ (15) and 5★ (29) units
  

 
After having not having to spend the daily ~7-8min on ads in Jan and Feb with the free trials, I couldn't go back lol.
Luckily I've only have a few paid/free decisions that I think were mistakes. Rating the severity of my mistakes:
 
★★★★: spent 500 remaining paid stones on the Fateful Encounter available in the Regular tab--I didn't anticipate getting more paid stones and was too impatient to wait
★★★★★: spent on a 2nd Star Dream Piece for Shion AC when he was unavailable (because of getting updates/encounters in a different order than JP)
★: the above 2nd Star Dream Piece only went up to Miyu ES (~7 months behind) so I picked Tsukiha ES since I liked her character more than the other available ES/AC characters--she has mostly collected but realistically only Toova AC would've provided me appreciably more long-term value
★: spent 3,000 for Heena AS because I liked her character, didn't have any form, and thought her dodge mechanic could be uniquely useful--should've waited to see that the dodge mechanic is actually too unreliable lol
★★★★: spent 6,000 for Hozuki AC because she was the first AC character in a while (3.5 months)--had some level of attachment to Hozuki as one of my initial 4.5★ characters but should've waited to see if her kit was worth it before spending on her alter that I've used 0 times lol
Not a mistake: spent 40,000 to get Minalca & Tetra

Watching Sy cry like that while that baboon and her sidekick called themselves washing her hair, really broke me. I feel sorry for her the most because she truly deserves a better mother to take time with her . She hasn’t gotten to enjoy her baby stage because her piece of shit mama is a worthless bitch!

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Justice Society of America #6

The Huntress and the JSA collide with Stargirl and the lost children! As this new team tries to find its footing, how will they handle coming face-to-face with a group of sidekicks they didn't realize existed?! And what does this mean for Jay Garrick as he meets his daughter Judy for the first time?! Be sure to pick up this tie-in to The Dawn of DC!

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Superman '78 / Batman '89 [HC] Box Set

You will believe that a man can fly and that a Dark Knight has returned in this box set collecting two spin-off graphic novels based on Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie and Tim Burton’s Batman.
Superman ’78 by Robert Venditti and Wilfredo Torres pits the Man of Steel against the alien menace of Brainiac, forcing Superman to make a life-changing sacrifice: leave the planet that he has come to call home in order to save it. Then, in Batman ’89, original Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm and artist Joe Quinones pick up where the 1989 film left off by introducing the villainous Two-Face to the Tim Burton movie universe.
This box set is a must-have for fans of the original motion pictures who want to “rewatch” the adventures of their favorite DC heroes again and again.

Superman: Kal-El Returns [TP]

In the aftermath of Superman’s epic Warworld Revolution, the Man of Steel is back on Earth and stronger than he’s ever been! As he and Steel join forces to remake Metropolis as a true City of Tomorrow, two of Superman’s classic villains take notice…and they have plans of their own. Plus, Kal-El reunites with the Dark Knight, Jimmy Olsen, and the Justice League to find out what he missed while he was away. And Jon Kent’s relief at his father being back is short-lived when he’s targeted by the mysterious Red Sin, who can do the unthinkable: injure both Jon and his father!
This volume collects SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #16-18, ACTION COMICS #1047-1049, and SUPERMAN: KAL-EL RETURNS SPECIAL #1!

Digital Releases

Tuesday, 9/5 (DC Universe Infinite) - Superman vs Meshi #5

It’s hungry work being a Superman! That’s why every day for lunch, Superman takes a quick stop over in Japan to try a new chain restaurant. Whether it’s a hearty bowl of curry or conveyor belt sushi, the Man of Steel loves to indulge in the delectable delicacies the country has to offer. So pull up a seat, and dig in as Superman does battle with lunch!

Respect The Big Guy

"The only thing more piping hot than mom's apple pie is the sting of my anti-terrorist lowlife mag-popper!"

History: 10 years ago, the U.S. government enacted a program to create a robotic defender of mankind that resulted in the BGY-11. Packed with weapons and good old patriotic quips, the hero known as The Big Guy became the planet's last line of defense against threats extraterrestrial and domestic. And what almost nobody knew is that the Big Guy was a big lie.
Though the American public believed the Big Guy to be a robot, Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter was the pilot for the BGY-11 all along. Posing as the Big Guy's chief engineer, the pilot was in truth part of an elaborate coverup conducted by the government to hide their failure to produce the robot they once promised. When Rusty the Boy Robot proved that an autonomous artificial defender could one day be viable, the Big Guy prepared to retire at last. But it turns out that Rusty had a lot to learn before he was ready to save anyone. Recommissioning Big Guy to serve as Rusty's mentor, the enthusiastic robot youth became his sidekick, and together the duo saved the planet time and time again.
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Notes & Scaling:

• In S1E2 Big Guy battles Argo, who is shown to be vastly superior to military equipment
• In S2E3 Big Guy is temporarily optimized by nanomachines called NERDs, turning him into a fully functioning robot that operates above maximum efficiency and which immediately repair damage done to the Big Guy
• In S2E7 it is stated that Rusty's superstructure is titanium
• In S2E14, Big Guy operates at 100% of his power when he initially loses to Po, but later beats him while operating at 70% of his power. Po then barely survives a blast from his own ship's energy beam which earlier destroyed a large portion of a mountain
• In S2E18 the Bad Guy is introduced as an exact replica to The Big Guy and following his defeat it is clarified in S2E19 that his components are an exact replica of Big Guy's own

General

Overview

• Opens up the armor and its weapons entirely for a thorough inspection ^S2E14
• The armor is powered by 400,000 units of cobalt thorium G, a highly unstable material that when removed from the armor can be a powerful explosive ^S2E5
• Weighs roughly 10 tons ^S1E1
• The weight of the armor even after parachuting crushes some robots ^S2E19

Environmental Protection

• Airtight to the standard it can maintain integrity in space containing its own oxygen supply ^S2E4
• Protects from biohazards that could get him sick, however a crack in the lens proves enough to let in infection ^S2E15
• Swims around an underwater ocean base, with his jets later overpowering a massive Leviathan as he forces it deeper into the Mariana Trench where the pressure on the hull starts to take its toll, going even further before finally turning around ^S2E17
  • This is said to be 9 miles below the ocean's surface, where the water is at 20,000 PSI

Strength

Striking

• Punches a hole through a UFO, then punches out an alien, and flees the UFO before it explodes ^S1E1
• Punches out a giant robot, caving in its face and cracking the ground beneath it ^S1E5
• Punts Rusty off into the distance ^S1E5
• Punches a large robot a distance away and through a wall ^S2E2
• Punches into a UFO, grabbing a vital component that brings it crashing down ^S2E3
• Tackles Rusty into a building, cratering him there, then slams a bus on him ^S2E3
• Smashes into a rocket to hotwire it ^S2E4
• Flicks off the head of a Rusty knockoff ^S2E13
• Smashes down onto a Rusty knockoff, creating a crater where he lands ^S2E13
• Punches Po down a street, then continues pounding him after taking hits before deflecting his blows ^S2E14
• Punches Rusty hard enough to crater him into a wall ^S2E18

Walls/Doors

• Punches through a wall ^S1E3
• Bursts through a thick wall into a wedding ^S1E5
• Bursts through a wall ^S2E2
• Bursts through a thick wall into a bar mitzvah ^S2E16
• Warps open an underwater research facility's metal doors to fit his body through ^S2E17
• Bursts through a reinforced door and the surrounding wall ^S2E18
• Dents and then busts down a thick metal door ^S2E19

Flying strikes

• Flies through a tunnel and bursts through the ground above ^S1E6
• Flies Po up into the air and then does a huge belly flop with him that rocks a city block and cracks the ground beneath Po ^S2E14
• A giant python restrains him, so Big Guy flies into the air and slams down to get it to release before tying it in a knot around a tree ^S2E20
• Flies through a wall to punch over a giant-two headed ape ^S2E20

Lifting

• Tilts a house off of Rusty ^S1E4
• Catches a sedan and flies it to safety, then catches a cargo truck to do the same ^S1E6
• Catches and flies with the arm of a gargantuan robot many times larger than himself ^S1E6
• Unburies himself from debris ^S2E2
• Lifts a monster that is larger than a building and slams it into the ground ^S2E3
• Swings a tree trunk at metallic aliens, ripping them apart ^S2E7
• Tests his lifting on a machine press that measures him at over 9000 PSI before he crumples and destroys it ^S2E14
• Drags a giant monster through a canyon even as the monster's claws dig up trenches in its wake ^S2E15
• Lifts a huge underwater pipeline and connects it into place ^S2E17
• Upends a giant robot by the leg ^S2E18
• Swings a tree trunk hard enough to KO a giant two-headed ape ^S2E20

Throwing

• Throws his arm and then a car at a giant monster ^S1E1
• Throws a car so hard it crashes into a building, and crushes a mailbox so much his foot craters the surrounding street ^S2E3
• Throws a street sign into a building, crumbling a chunk off it ^S2E3
• Throws a robot off into the distance while on the moon ^S2E4
• Throws an alien into the Liberty Bell ^S2E11
• Hammer throws an alien by the tentacles so it goes flying away ^S2E11
• Tosses a handful of Rusty knockoffs away, with the impact from each of them breaking a hole into a building's façade ^S2E13
• Throws a bus at a giant robot, disabling it ^S2E18
• Pulls an elevator out of a building and flings it a distance away ^S2E18
• Throws a giant leech, then punches into it and retrieves a piece of machinery controlling it ^S2E20

Gripping/Ripping

• Wraps Rusty in a steel girder to hold him in place and then flies off ^S2E2
• Crushes a component of a robot between his hands to cause it to malfunction ^S2E2
• Rips the roof off a car ^S2E3
• Rips up the wire to street lamps lining a street ^S2E3
• Rips away a space station door ^S2E4

Various
With striking

• After being crushed into concrete, digs underground to erupt out underneath his opponent, fly them up the the Legend 1 to whack them against its side, and then drop them ^S1E2
• Bursts through the floor of a building to punch Neugog away, then hurls Neugog through a thick wall ^S1E3
• Tears through a bulkhead door and punches a giant alien away ^S1E4
• Punches a robot, denting its head into the side of a space station, and then throws it off into the distance ^S2E4
• Smashes in a robot's face and throws it a distance away while on the Moon ^S2E4
• Bursts through a wall, tackles a robot, and rips into its hull so he can blast its components ^S2E10
• Wrestles around with a comparably powerful opponent, exchanging blows and crushing part of their armor ^S2E12
• Wrestles with a comparably strong opponent, hitting his opponent into a cliffside and taking a chunk out of it ^S2E12
• Bursts through a thick skyscraper wall, flicks Rusty knockoffs apart, flattens them, and then bursts through a doorway that is not large enough for him ^S2E13
• Craters the Bad Guy into a wall, rips off his shoulder gun, pounds on him so more, and then slams him through a giant hole in a portion of a skyscraper ^S2E18

W/o striking

• Rips apart Argo's guns, then throws Argo through a forest where he tears through several trees ^S1E2
• Bursts out of freshly cooled magma, then is buried under a boulder as large as himself and lifts it up before throwing it accurately a distance away ^S2E5
• Throws alien robots hard enough they explode against eachother and crushes others in his grip ^S2E7
• Lifts a fence, flying with it so it works a colander to filter a person out of a goo monster's grasp ^S2E9

Durability

Concussive
Comparable opponents

• Blasted away, then crushed deep into concrete by a tank only to swim through that concrete for a counterattack ^S1E2
• Takes a punch that causes him to stumble and crack the wall he braces himself against, but fights right back ^S1E4
• Embedded into the side of a space station and fights back right after ^S2E4
• Takes a hit that rips off his arm and send him a distance away and comes right back to click his arm into place ^S2E4
• Smashed into the fin of the Legend I, denting it, and keeps fighting ^S2E12
• Wrestles with a comparably strong opponent, getting hit into a cliffside and taking a chunk out of it without issue ^S2E12
• Thrown through a wall, ripping through concrete and metal, and gets up ready to attack ^S2E14
• Thrown at Neugog and then hit by him, and is fine ^S2E16
• Punched through a pillar and cratered into a wall, but bounces right back, then takes further blows from the same opponent before outfighting them ^S2E19

Larger opponents

• Knocked away by a giant monster into a car, crushing it, and is fine ^S1E1
• A goo monster that craters Rusty into the street soon after flings Big Guy into a building, embedding him into it, and he bounces right back ^S2E9
• Punched into a car, crushing it flat, and bounces right back ^S2E10
• Smashed into the ground only to swim through it and fly out, then gets smacked through a mountain and gets back up, with the only visible damage being a cracked lens ^S2E15
• Embedded into stone and flies right back ^S2E15
• Tackled through a thick wall by a giant two-headed ape and beaten around by it, but ultimately wins the fight without signs of damage ^S2E20

Misc.

• Crashes down into an aircraft carrier, ripping up the tarmac as he slides across it, and is fine ^S1E5
• Protects others from a falling robot, then unearths himself from the wreckage without signs of damage ^S1E6
• Thrown back by an explosion that sends him into a building and buries him in debris, but erupts from that debris fully functioning ^S2E2

Piercing

• Takes automatic gunfire from a comparable robot without suffering damage and returns fire ^S1E2
• Impaled by a robot and keeps fighting through it ^S2E2
• Resists musketfire ^S2E11
• Pinned and stabbed by Neugog without much issue ^S2E16

Heat

• Protects from subterranean temperatures rising past 451 degrees with air conditioning for the pilot, and only after prolonged exposure when the armor's integrity is compromised is the pilot affected ^S2E5
• Coats himself in steaming hot magma, letting it cool into rock as a disguise ^S2E5
• An oil tank truck is thrown at him, so he starts to lift it off, and when the truck explodes he walks out of the explosion unscathed ^S2E16

Energy

• Shot by a sustained blast of nucleoprotons that Rusty quips must have been a megaton and a half, with the attack downing Big Guy for awhile as it threatens to breach the suit, but ultimately gets up fine once it dissipates. ^S1E2
• Takes a blast from Argo and recovers shortly after to blast Argo back ^S1E2
• Takes a particularly powerful blast from Argo, and gets back up ^S1E2
• Blocks a blast from Rusty's new weapon and it tears through his shoulder ^S1E5
• Fights through an energy beam to crush the weapon attacking him ^S2E6
• Takes a blast from an alien ship that immediately after tears off Rusty's arm, and remains ready to fight back ^S2E7
• Unaffected by blasts from alien ray guns ^S2E7
• Blasted by a monster's energy beam, digging up a trench in his wake and being momentarily floored before returning to the fight shortly after ^S2E8
• Beheaded by a blast from Earl and is repaired to be operational shortly after ^S2E8
• Briefly downed by a blast from Rusty that tears open his face ^S2E18

Various

• Takes a blast from Argo that downs him, then several successive slams, all before standing up and walking away without visible signs of damage ^S1E2
• Blasted back by Rusty before a building lands on him, then lava buries the building and cools over night, but is excavated the next day and operational enough to give a thumbs up ^S2E5
• Leaps over a bomb to protect it from an explosion that tears apart several rock monsters, then is buried under debris and emerges unscathed ^S2E5
• Magma is spewed all over him and hardens, and when he bursts out he is buried under a giant boulder which he bursts out from under again ^S2E5
  • Magma from a lesser monster in the same episode ate through the hull of the modified Legend vessel made for subterranean tunneling
• Number 4 tears into him with punches, then freezes one of his arms, and begins to drill into his power core to deplete it, so Big Guy flies into the air and smashes down into the ground to get him off ^S2E6
• Slammed into the ground by a goo monster and permeated in an attempt to drown Dwayne, but fine once it retreats ^S2E9
• Takes an electric shock, then is slammed around and beaten by Po while attempting to get up, then ultimately beaten as Dwayne is forced to escape ^S2E14
• Disabled by energy rays that tear him through a chunk of canyon and bury him under rocks, though Dwayne is able to escape ^S2E18
• Takes the Bad Guy unloading all of his guns and missiles against him as they both fall, with their impact on the ground sending out a shockwave and creating a massive crater around them, but remains in fighting shape ^S2E18
  • Takes a punch from Bag Guy that rips through his chest and exposes the cockpit, but a bulkhead slides into place to cover the damage right after ^S2E18
  • Finally wins their fight, even after his head getting crushed and smashed, a throw to the ground that craters him there, and needing last-second repairs by Dwayne that explodes apart the Bad Guy from feet away ^S2E18

Misc.

• An acid eats away at his arm, so he removes his arm to throw it at his attacker ^S1E1
• Neugog rips into the suit to attack Hunter directly, with Hunter resisting until and the suit shows no effect from the damage ^S1E3
• Downed by a missile, though restores power shortly after ^S2E10
• Largely unaffected by the removal of his arm ^S2E19
• Unaffected by leeches, even a giant one sucking against his armor ^S2E20

Speed

Travel

• Outpaces and outmaneuvers a giant monster chasing him ^S1E1
• Catches Rusty after Rusty flies away, with Rusty saying he should've known he couldn't outrun Big Guy ^S1E2
• When Rusty flies out of a building racing away with a bomb, Big Guy flies out of the building to catch Rusty after the bomb explodes ^S1E6
• Dodges a charging train, then chases it down as it speeds away ^S1E6
• Swoops in to catch Rusty when he falls suddenly ^S2E1
• Catches up to a missile and guides it off course into the ocean and then escapes its blast unscathed ^S2E4
• Catches children on a falling limb and flies them to safety ^S2E5
• Outpaces a wave of lava and catches two pedestrians he flies to safety ^S2E5
• Flies out the bottom of the Legend I while it is in flight and circles around to the top of the ship all before an attacker can cross a short distance ^S2E12
• Outflies the perimeter of an explosion that blasts apart a canyon ^S2E12

Reaction

• Catches a missile, turning it around against his opponent who shoots it out of the air with another missile, and uses the distraction to charge into a punch ^S1E2
• Evades a comparable opponent and their energy beams for a sustained period of time so they burn through their fuel supply ^S1E2
• Evades blasts from a mind-controlled Rusty even while holding him at arm's length ^S1E5
• Flees out of the way of energy beams ^S2E2
• Dodges several hits from a giant robot ^S2E3
• Dodges an energy beam from an opponent who out-reacts his rocket ^S2E6

Weapons

Arm Cannons
Bullets

• Guns down a UFO, and fires on another ^S1E1
• Shoots a giant monster, holding it at bay ^S1E1
• Shoots down drones ^S2E1
• Shoots apart several rock monsters, blasting holes in them ^S2E5
• Bursts out of a rock encasing and fires at rock monsters his bullets explode apart ^S2E5
• Chops down trees so they fall on his opponents ^S2E7
• Shoots through several alien robots ^S2E7
• Guns down a small army of Rusty knockoffs ^S2E13
• Shoots through undersea monsters ^S2E17
• Riddles a giant robot with gunfire to finish it off ^S2E18

Missiles

• Missiles damage a robot that was shown to be highly durable ^S2E3
• Fires several missiles that explode apart alien robots ^S2E7
• Missiles explode apart huge chunks of a giant robot ^S2E18
• Fires a barrage of rockets ^S2E18

Shoulder Cannon

• Fires his shoulder gun and a missile at a downed opponent to be sure they are down ^S1E2
• When Rusty uses the shoulder gun the kickback from it launches him into a wall and destroys a huge section of it ^S1E5
• Shoulder cannon affects a giant robot more than four soldiers firing with automatic rifles ^S2E3
• Shoulder cannon tears into the side of a giant rock monster ^S2E5
• Sustains fire on an android, driving it back through the ground and tearing away its human-looking exterior ^S2E6
• Fires missiles from his shoulder cannon that catches up to and destroys a fleeing alien ship ^S2E11

Wrist Cannons
General

• A single missile winds through a ventilation shaft to hits its target, creating enough smoke to drive them out of hiding ^S1E3
• Uses targeting software and practices aim ^S2E14
• Rapid-fires several shots from both cannons while running ^S1E3
• Rapidly fires missiles ^S2E11

Throwing opponents

• Blasts Argo with a wrist rocket that sends him tumbling away ^S1E2
• A missile blasts a robot backward into a grinder ^S1E5
• Blasts away Po with a couple missiles, sending him flying a distance away and creating a dust cloud ^S2E14
• Fires a missile that topples over several surrounding humanoid monsters ^S2E17

Damaging opponents

• Blasts apart robotic spiders ^S1E6
• Fires 3 rockets in succession, each one causing more damage until the third destroys it ^S2E2
  • This robot was earlier seen resisting military munitions and busting through buildings
• Fires a missile that blows up a robot that was wrestling around with him on the moon ^S2E4
• Blasts apart alien robots ^S2E7
• Explodes apart a plant monster's head ^S2E9
• Blasts into a street, creating a hole large enough for him to enter the sewer system ^S2E9
• Blasts apart the shield of a mech's head that earlier resisted his punches ^S2E10
• Explodes apart a squid monster ^S2E17

Destroying objects

• When his missiles are intercepted by lasers, Big Guy throws a smoke grenade that obscures his approach so his next missiles connect and destroy a UFO ^S2E3
• Blows up a chunk of street, sending several cars flying ^S2E3
• Blows up a car with one missile, and a construction truck with another ^S2E3
• Blows up a car, leaving a crater beneath it ^S2E3
• One of the blasts from his arm dislodges a giant chunk of machinery ^S2E19

Cranial Cannon

• Cranial cannon used as flamethrower that coats a comparably-sized opponent ^S1E2
• Fires a laser that snipes an alien device from a distance away, causing it to activate ^S1E4
• Welds a steel girder in place to trap Rusty ^S2E2
• Cranial cannon blasts apart a rock monster ^S2E5
• Cranial cannon fires a laser at a monster's tongue to force it to release the Big Guy ^S2E15
• Cuts through tentacles grappling him ^S2E17
• Welds a door shut ^S2E17
• Welds shut a cargo container to trap people inside ^S2E18

Bombs

• Throws bombs at a giant monster that resisted the military's weapons, blasting a hole in its chest and embedding it into a building ^S1E1
• Produces a bomb that explodes underneath Neugog ^S1E3
• Leaves bombs on the hull of an alien ship that causes it to crash ^S2E7
  • Later leaves one of these bombs on the back of an alien robot's neck to blow its head apart ^S2E7
• Throws bombs at an alien ship that is larger than an aircraft carrier, triggering several more explosions that brings the whole thing crashing down ^S2E7
• Throws a bomb that incinerates a giant mutant plant ^S2E9
• Fires an explosive disk that destroys an alien, leaves a cart charred and smoking, and creates the Liberty Bell ^S2E11
• Leaves a bomb on a cliffside for a surprise attack against a comparable opponent, with the bomb bringing down sizable chunks of rock that bury the opponent ^S2E12
• Throws two disc-shaped bombs that take out a rooftop full of Rusty knockoffs ^S2E13
• Turns his arm into an explosive device to surprise an opponent shaking his hand, then says he always carries a spare as he replaces it ^S2E14
• Places bombs by the Mariana Trench and sets timers on them, but remotely cancels those timers when plans change and activates them later, with their explosion tearing apart a large enough chunk of the Trench to bury a massive Leviathan and taking an entire research facility with it ^S2E17

Circular Saw

• Uses his sawblade to cut into a train ^S1E6
• Buzz saws mutant plant vines that are strong enough to rip through a street ^S2E9
• Wields his sawblade as a weapon against a comparable opponent's chainsaws, eventually cutting the chainsaws apart ^S2E12

One-off

• Wrist cannon releases a liquid that makes it difficult for a spiderbot to grip to the side of a dam ^S2E1
• Fires two missiles he calls tranquilizers, but when they explode against a monster's skin he remarks on how thick their skin must be ^S2E15
• Fires torpedoes that explode against a Leviathan ^S2E17
• Releases a knockout gas that incapacitates a man immediately ^S2E18

Gadgets

Sensors

• Analyzes Rusty and then installs him in place of his arm, firing Rusty like a gun to defeat a giant monster ^S1E1
• Analyzes Rusty, identifying foreign components controlling him, and rips off Rusty's arm to remove them ^S1E5
• Projects light from his eyes to see in a dark tunnel, uses his infrascan, and detects audiofrequency agitation that helps identify an electrically-powered rail ^S1E6
• Scans Rusty and determines he has no EMF pulse, then connects to him to perform RCPR that may reboot him ^S2E1
• Infrascan can identify when people are bluffing through shifts in their body temperature ^S2E3
• Scans several buildings, determining that if one came down it would protect a hospital from a flow of approaching lava ^S2E5
• A super-cleaning goo monster makes a sewer pristine, causing Big Guy to be surprised when his scanners cannot pick up any residue ^S2E9
• Big Guy's scanners can track large footprints and slime trails, but not psychic energy ^S2E16
• Uses scanners to identify and target a specific individual in a skyscraper a distance away ^S2E18

Misc.

• Mind-controlled by Neugog until Hunter utilizes a helmet used to counteract mind-control ^S1E3
• Grafts his shoulder gun onto Rusty's arm so Rusty can use it ^S1E5
• Cuts into the hull of a gargantuan robot with a finger laser ^S1E6
• Begins to disarm a bomb, with his arm disconnecting to while plugged into the bomb, and eventually is successful in disarming the bomb ^S2E4
• Attempts to hack into the head of an Ex Machina robot, but interrupts the attempt when its self destruct feature nears completion ^S2E10
  • Later takes advantage of the self-destruct feature by intentionally activating it in a similar robot ^S2E10
• Lights cannonballs and hurls them across a town ^S2E11
• Fires a grapnel out of the lower back in an attempt to restrain a monster, but the monster tears through the restraint ^S2E15
• Dazzles a monster with fireworks labeled "Rocket's Red Glare" when searching for nonlethal options ^S2E15

The Legend I

Speed

• Flies into the upper atmosphere where the curvature of the planet is noticeable when traveling over long distances ^S1E4
• Takes off from an aircraft carrier, flying into the distance ^S1E5
• Big Man blows up an alien ship in space, then boards the Legend I and pursues the alien ship as it crashlands to Earth, arriving just after it makes impact ^S2E7

Sensors

• Scanners in The Legend 1 confirm that his surroundings have been evacuated ^S1E1
• Uses a targeting system and drops bombs on a gargantuan robot ^S1E6
• Scanners detect a combatant roughly Big Guy's size circling around and pursuing an attack before that pursuer tears through the hull ^S2E12
• Follows a trail with the ship's infrascan ^S2E15

Weapons/Gadgets

• Ship has bombs and missiles that damage UFOs, and an ejector seat that allows him to escape while the ship is electrified ^S1E1
• Lowers a drill that digs through the ground and into a deep tunnel ^S1E6
• Shoots missiles at a giant robot as the pit crew pilots it for Big Guy ^S1E6
• Fires missiles an energy beam intercepts, so Big Guy throws a bomb from the ship that blasts apart a robot's leg ^S2E2
• Fires a missile that pushes a larger missile off its course ^S2E4

Dwayne Hunter

General

• Attunes to The Big Guy well enough to tell when the calibration is slightly off ^S1E1
• Won a Medal of Honor for his service as The Big Guy ^S1E1

Outside the suit

• Ducks out of the way of a flying drone and kicks it away when it charges someone else ^S2E1
• Shoots a drone out of the air with a handgun he keeps on his person ^S2E1
• Jumps around onto the Big Guy's back to try to crowbar into him, and securing himself in place before maneuvering himself in while Big Guy is mid-flight and attempting to scrape him off ^S2E3
• Flees a reception hall where a goo monster is guarding all the exits, using cunning and acrobatics before outrunning the monster so he can make it to the Big Guy before it catches him ^S2E9
• Jumps on Rusty and rides him as they flee danger ^S2E11
• Leaps onto the Big Guy's back, trying to access the armor as an intruder resists him, and leaps off again as the suit smashes into a tree, then manages to infiltrate the armor successfully soon after and punch out the intruder ^S2E11
• Outruns a flying drone and its energy blasts, then smashes a big rock into it to down it ^S2E18
• Lifts open Big Guy's hatch even with large stones sitting atop it, then slides boulders into place to hide the armor ^S2E18
• Uses downed drone parts to fashion himself weapons, then lays a trap for further drones he outfights while acrobatically flipping and wall-running all before exploding the drones all in a gas station ^S2E18

Inside the suit

• Paralyzed by an "immobilizer beam" that wears off after awhile, albeit with lingering effects ^S2E3
• Destroys several nanobots affecting The Big Guy, smashing and flamethrowering them until he regains full control ^S2E3
• After ejecting his power core so the suit cannot cool him, Dwayne withstands the subterranean temperatures long enough for Rusty to fly him back to the surface ^S2E5
  • These temperatures were in excess of 451 degrees
• Figures out on the spot how to pilot an alien ship that travels through time ^S2E11
• Stealthily incapacitates a British soldier, then quickly disguises himself as that soldier (albeit imperfectly) before escaping the unit and riding away on a horse ^S2E11
• Kills a squid creature that permeates the suit by using a fire extinguisher ^S2E17

mans getting gassed. I think i got a few weeks left in me.
I would like to hire someone to write articles and help write these posts for me. Also want to hire someone to run social media marketing. Most preferrable in Sydney. Need to know about AI & have exp

Google

Google announced a whoooole bunch of things. I’ll just link the official recap [Link]. Here’s a list:

• Google announced PaLM 2, next iteration in their PaLM model which will power Bard
• Bard doesn’t have a waitlist anymore. It supports 40 languages. Google is partnering with Adobe for image generation within Bard. For some reason though its not available in most of europe and canada??
• Workspace - AI is coming to Sheets, Slides & Meets
• Search - we’ll get ChatGPT style responses at the top of searches. These will also be used with helping people shop online. No idea how this will effect SEO
• Gmail - AI writing is coming to emails. This will affect a lot of email writing tools people built
• Sidekick - an AI tool in a side panel in docs that constantly reads your docs and provides contextual suggestions
• Codey - google’s new code completion competing with copilot and ghostwriter
• You’ll be able to create AI powered wallpapers
• Maps - new immersive view shows traffic, bike lanes, parking and more. Looks cool
• Magic editor lets you edit photos with AI - edit the foreground or background, edit the subject and move them around and fill in gaps
• Magic compose lets you use AI to write messages for you
• Google launched Vertex AI models competing with openai’s api
• Gemini - LLM being created by DeepMind
• New labs page let’s you sign up to test their latest experiments [Link]
• Face tracking with AR kit [Link]
• They’re creating systems that will mark ai generated content to credit artists [Link]

Pretty sure I missed some stuff. Too tired to find it all atm

MusicLM

• Turn text into music. Apparently they’re working with musicians to get feedback. Really wonder how this will work with all the AI generated music coming out [Link] You can now sign up for it here [Link]

Wendy’s

• Wendy’s is working with Google to make AI take your order in drive-thrus. Globally this can affect up to 14 million people [Link]

Meta

• Meta open sourced a new multi modal called ImageBind. It combines text, audio, visual, movement, thermal and depth data. Meta are doing great work with open source. Did not expect to be saying that ever tbh [Link]

Anthropic

• Anthropic unveils 100k token size for Claude. Token sizes are going to get really big really soon I suspect [Link]
• Lead investor in Anthropic says “I've not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-gen model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet” ****[Link] Link to full debate [Link]

HuggingFace

• Hugging Face released Transformers Agents. Create an agent and then give it tools to do all sorts of stuff. They have a bunch of in built tools as well. The possibilities are limitless at this point and its open source. Fantastic stuff [Link]

AI girlfriends are the future

• A 23 year old Snapchat influencer made 70k in a week renting an AI version of herself to her followers for a $1/min [Link]

Cohere

• Cohere launches LLM university. Learn how LLMs work, what they’re useful for and how you can use to build and deploy apps using them [Link]
• Cohere has open sourced 94 million embeddings of Wikipedia in 10 languages. Link to thread showcasing [Link] Link to github [Link]

Rewind AI

• Rewind AI is a tool described as a search engine for your life. Rewind records anything you’ve seen, said, or heard and makes it searchable. The founder talks about how much investors were ready to invest - 22 investors were ready to invest at a billion dollar valuation [Link]

Other

• Web browsing and plugins are being rolled out to all plus members [Link]
• Sales force finally adds AI to tableau. This will make data visualisations so easy [Link]
• Airtable meets AI [Link]
• Character ai has insane traffic. I wrote about this website, genuinely think it will have a big impact on social life for people [Link]
• AI might know us better than our loved ones. This lad built a GPT-4 bot that can predict his personality test scores better than his girlfriend. LLMs are good man [Link]
• Scribe ai writes documentation for you [Link]
• Yolo nas is an object detector with <5 millisecond latency [Link]
• You don’t need to be an AI expert to work in open source [Link]
• Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist @ Meta) talks about AI and reasoning [Link]
• Elon met Geoff Hinton (Godfather of AI) and said AI will keep humans around as pets. If he actually thinks this then.. yeh idk [Link] Link to full podcast [Link]
• Wolfram Chatgpt plug-in can do undergrad quantum physics [Link]
• Google + Adobe partnering on geolocated AR [Link]
• DeepMind cofounder warns governments need to figure out solutions for people who lose their jobs to AI [Link]
• Stability AI releases stable animation, a text-to-animation tool [Link]
• Stability AI is also going to open source dream studio and build LMs in public [Link]
• Scale launches AI for enterprise. One platform is also for defence. AI is becoming more prevalent in military [Link]
• Poe let’s you find other users’ created bots [Link]
• Microsoft releases art of the prompt, a guide for generative AI. [Link]
• There’s a two sentence jailbreak for both GPT-4 and Claude and no one knows how to fix it. A very interesting read [Link]
• Chinese gov have stric regulation on AI commentary on the state. I suspect this will lose them the AI war [Link]
• AI YouTuber teaches you how to make videos about anything [Link]
• Nyric - AI world generation platform for digital communities [Link]
• You can get paid to make AI better [Link] [Link]
• Open source code on fine tuning an OpenAI model using YouTube video transcripts or text input [Link]
• Head of Google DeepMind says AGI is only a few years away [Link]
• A tool that combines SD image generation and photoshop in one [Link]
• If you ask ChatGPT or Bard about the three laws of robotics from Asimov they won’t answer. How weird is that [Link]
• Alfie - a general purpose robot that can clean a kitchen table, wipe surfaces, rinse dishes in the sink before placing them in the dishwasher and throw out the trash [Link]

Papers

• OpenAI used GPT-4 to describe the behaviour of neurons in GPT-2. This is incredibly fascinating [Link]
• Sketch the future. Draw a bunch of different frames and have it animated [Link]
• Research is being done to make LLMs work better across different languages [Link]
• Record someone from the front and view them from the back [Link]
• A ChatGPT model generated 500% return over a 15% month period [Link]
• Tidybot - personalised robot assistance with LLMs [Link]
• FrugalGPT - GPT-4 but 98% cheaper [Link]
• ALiBi - a new way to train models with gigantic sequences [Link]
• Dromedary better than alpaca without human feedback [Link]
• LLMs don’t always say what they think [Link]
• Apparently emergent properties in LLMs aren’t so emergent, we can watch them build as the model gets bigger [Link]

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Ooh, it’s back to their one anniversary project. KSH cutely imitates YJH being all passionate w a fierce gaze. And then he cutely drums his fingers.
DD starts it off by distancing himself from YjH as he doesn’t want to work too hard. kSH pushes yJh away but not that far away haha he is always respectful and doesn’t push it too far.
Oops KSH isn’t too good at Korea quiz. I can’t take MsY hair looking like HJP! mSY won and gets the right to choose his teammates. Actually , after he said he wants the best people to make a good video. I wasn’t surprised when he chose YJH. I bet he will also choose KJM cos dance is important.
Hmm oops KSH jumps the gun and get teased. He does a good job by saying all he wanted to say is that actor could mean artistes like dancers. I see DD and KSH mirroring each other. Both have their left hands on their noses. Ah. Best buddies. mSY teases KSH a little more saying he wants someone who is v popular these days. Which is obviously KSH at this point in time. But he chooses Ravi instead. Which kinda makes sense if RAvi had semi produced or came up w the theme for all his MVs.
Ravi certainly has good ideas though. MSY again brings up SH as not as competent. And does it again when Ravi idea was already done. Wow this team is really passionate though. It’s like work.
This makes me grin from ear to ear. KJM calls Shinji his best gal pal to ask about Incheon. And she is watching start up. kSH starts talking to her and she is super excited!! She screams! Twice! And says you are on TV. kSH smiles shyly. Haha I like DD reaction though. If you noticed. It’s like a I have seen this before. Rolls eyes in an endearingly type of way. Like the best friend sidekick type of reaction when your best pal gets the girls excited yet again.
Hilarious that KJM lets her talk to KSH and she says she will watch him from afar when he is filming. Whahaha.
Wahaha ok the MSY JYH team is getting too corporate!! I feel like I am at work again.
Haha passionate JYH brought a laptop!!! To explore. Ok I am actually amazed with them all. Like they have a lot of creativity and they don’t mind being in charge. kSH volunteers to be in charge of overall direction / movements since he does theatre. These guys do enjoy showbiz. I think Incheon team should have a better camera!!!
Ok I get that MSY is being entertaining but Ravi is like a poor bullied intern! I actually think his ideas are pretty good. Wel he has 1 m over followers on IG and all really cool poses. Ok I think this team will have serious issues cos there isn’t a consensus. It’s like team umi of last week with KJM doing his own thing.
Back to team Incheon. Don’t you think Wolmi island’s red lighthouse reminds you of gongjin village. Ok I am not bias but team Incheon wins my heart cos their teamwork is good and it’s fun! Team cheongjyu is like having formal bosses on a work trip. PD Jae oh is like their cameraman now! Ahha pD smiley won’t have done that!! Ok I am laughing v hard at KSH dancing all the way till k disco Pang Pang takes off. Haha and it looks good! The rest should have followed.
Oh gosh they have to guess the song on a Viking!! It gets v hilarious when the Viking goes really high and he starts passing it on his own when DD hasn’t even tried!! He is obviously feeling quite sick his mouth is wide open. He is near crying at the last moment and slumps over. Haha it’s all hilarious. And Dd says he needs to pee and KJM says he wants to puke.
Team Incheon for the win! I think this is my fav team for KSH so far. Better than YB/OB or Team inadequacy or team actor!

(Post edited on February 28, 2023)
Connections:
Both are monstrous, rampaging, yet highly intelligent hybrids (I.rex being a prototype melting pot made out primarily of T.rex and Velociraptor DNA, with the added genomes of Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, Cuttlefish, Crocodile, Tree Frog, and Pit Viper, while Sharktopus simply being a weaponized Great White Shark/Giant Pacific Octopus monstrosity) that were genetically engineered by shady companies (InGen and Symodyne). Both were originally created to be used in military operations (InGen Security Division and Blue Water) for warfare; utilizing non-human evolutionary advantages to gain an upperhand on the battlefield, but were instead kept in a specific area for research and entertainment (Jurassic World and water park/aquarium) for the public sometime later.
Both eventually escaped humanity's attempt to control them and contain them in captivity, then later wreak havoc mainly killing any creature they come across. Not long after their escape, both are hunted by a group of armed people (Asset Containment Unit and Blue Water personnel) were sent to capture them alive but failed.
Both were ultimately defeated by the teamwork of humans/creatures (Chris Pratt, his four Velociraptors, the original JP T.rex, and a drunk guy with a vodoo artifact, his sidekick, and a woman with affiliations with the military) and killed by other hybrid creatures with characteristics of whales (The InGen Mosasaurus resurrected using the genome of turtles and humpack whales, and the Whalewolf, an aging baseball player named Felix Rosa who was transformed into a hybrid of an Orca and the extinct Pakicetus) with their terrain compatibility advantages (Jurassic World Lagoon and a baseball stadium).
After their demise, fragments of them (rib bone and heart) were secretly collected by crooked groups and would be the main key ingredient to create a new hybrid likely continuing their reign of terror (Indoraptor and possibly a new Sharktopus clone).
The two combatants are also opposites when it comes to movie-making (with the Indominus being a dinosaur from a beloved Hollywood franchise distributed by Universal Studios, while Sharktopus is from a hilariously bad but somewhat entertaining trilogy made for the SyFy Channel by NBCUniversal).
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Winner: Indominus Rex (High-Extreme Diff)
Strength: 1-0

• The I.rex capable of tearing through concrete walls, and push large animals as heavy as an Ankylosaurus and T.rex, both weighing around 4 to 7 tons. As the largest and strongest theropod in the series (according to Dr. Wu and Claire Dearling), she scales above any other theropod in the series, including the Spinosaurus, who is strong enough to pull a private airplane off a tree, and tore through a large metal fence slightly taller than himself in 'Jurassic Park 3', and the Giganotosaurus in 'Jurassic World: Dominion' who slammed the T.rex on a monolith of the same size as both theropods, breaking it and knocking her out. In 'Camp Cretaceous', the I.rex brought down a massive zipline tower by tearing off the steel parts with her jaws and claws, and has brought down animals as large as a Brachiosaurus, which weighs around 56 tons (as recorded in 'Jurassic World: Evolution').
  
• Sharktopus can pull and incapacitate both the Pteracuda and Whalewolf with its tentacles, both weighing 4 tons. It even threw the Pteracuda to a nearby lighthouse so hard that the building's upper structure fell down.
  

Attack: 2-1

• The I.rex has equal biteforce a T.rex, about 3 tons of muscular power. However, she has demonstrated attack potency feats far beyond the T.rex bite with the use of her claws and headbutts, such as breaking through barriers, fences, and buildings made out of reinforced concrete, monosteel, and bulletproof glass, which should put her around the 10-50 ton range.
  
• The Sharktopus's bite and thrust attacks can pierce the scales of Pteracuda, who is tough enough to survive getting thrown by Sharktopus on to a lighthouse twice its size without any real damage.
  

Durability: 3-2

• The I.rex is capable of surviving blows from an Ankylosaurus club and an indirect AT-4 rocket launcher without damage, and getting slammed through small buildings twice by the T.rex and still refused to back down despite metal parts on her body. She scales higher in durability than all the land dinosaurs, including Toro the Carnotaurus, who survived an explosion caused by multiple compressed air tanks, that ruptured through an advanced facility wall made out of reinforced InGen steel and concrete, creating two small holes. That's around 5 to 10 tons of explosive power.
  
• Sharktopus scales in durability to Pteracuda, whom it slammed on a lighthouse. It even survived the failsafe bomb inside Pteracuda's head which caused a massive explosion that went from deep underwater to the surface, without a scratch, around 5 tons of power at maximum high-ball.
  

Size and Mass: 4-2

• The I.rex's current size and weight as a young adult was unspecified in the Jurassic World movie (she could've grown 16 meters long according to Dr. Henry Wu had she survived and continued to massacre everyone). Onscreen in the movie, she is roughly the same size and weight as the original JP T.rex; 13.2 meters long, 4 meters tall, and 9 tons.
  
• The Sharktopus's size was unspecified, but based on onscreen interactions with human beings and the Whalewolf, the monster is around the size of a killer whale, at 9 meters long and weigh 4 tons.
  

Speed: 5-2

• As seen in 'Camp Cretaceous', the I.rex, on an open area, can keep up with an ACU transport van in a chase. Modelled after a 2008 E-Ford Series Wagon, the van can reach a top speed of 100 km/h, especially when the drivers were desperate to escape the I.rex during the chase.
  
• On water, the Sharktopus can easily outswim with a motorboat with a top speed of around 40 to 70 km/h as seen as the end of 'Sharktopus vs Pteracuda', but is consistently portrayed to be much slower when moving on land. As seen in 'Sharktopus vs Whalewolf', it is comparable to an average man in terms of running speed, at 13 km/h.
  

Abilities: 6-2

• The I.rex possesses the multiple abilities of different animals that Dr. Wu added in her creation; the muscle strength of T.rex, the overall height and size of a Giganotosaurus (It is stated that the I.rex wasn't even an adult yet and she could've grown even larger than the Spinosaurus had she survived), the piercing claws and teeth, aswell as the ability to make plans and decisions of a Velociraptor, the longer claws and aggresive nature of the Therizinosaurus, the horns of Allosaurus and Carnotaurus, the growth rate and camouflage of a cuttlefish, the thermal sensory and wide jaws of a pit viper, the armor and swimming capabilities of a crocodile, and the thermal camouflage and adaptability of a tree frog.
  
• The Sharktopus possesses the same sensory organs and razor sharp teeth of a Great White on its upper half, with the additional Octopus tentacles and beak below, modified with sharp spikes around the gills to protect it from attacks, and on the tip of all 8 tentacles to ensare or impale targets. The tentacles are capable of stretching to distances of up to 20 meters at best.
  

IQ: 6-3

• As a prototype weapon created by Dr. Henry Wu, the I.rex has demonstrated the same clever and cunning nature of a Velociraptor and is even capable of communicating with them, but is unhinged due its hybrid body and lack of social experience. She is capable of outsmarting humans and dinosaurs alike, like when she spent months of prep time in to tricking the Jurassic World personnel into entering her enclosure in order to escape. She has also demonstrated emotions, like her sadistic look as she toyed with Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, giving them a false sense of security by pretending to leave.
  
• As a living weapon perfected by Symodyne, the Sharktopus has demonstrated intelligence that is comparable to even humans and even understands their language, such as the time in 'Sharktopus vs Whalewolf' when it encountered drunk boat captain Ray after decapitating a vodoo priest. It was visibly confused by Ray's celebration when he took an artifact which could control Sharktopus, then it proceeded to troll him by shaking his hand in a friendly manner, before slapping him in the face repeatedly, and then when he ran away, immediately showed up on a nearby mall to point the dude's location on a map after he asked himself as to where he was. Not even its parent ancestor, the Octopus, has demonstrated intelligence like that.
  

Battle IQ: 7-3

• The I.rex is a vicious and cunning killer, she is capable of setting up traps against ACU personnel trained to capture dinosaurs, convince a raptor pack to join her cause, and has even demonstrated adaptability when it comes to facing dangerous enemies, as seen in the fights against the Ankylosaurus and T.rex when she easily figured out their specific weaknesses and took advantage in seconds.
  
• While stated to be a perfect weapon, Sharktopus has never demonstrated any impressive display of combat intelligence, aside from catching most of its targets off guard. It usually gets defeated after being lured by humans into traps throughout the whole trilogy.
  

Experience: 7-4

• The I.rex's entire journey of death and destruction throughout the events of 'Jurassic World' and 'Camp Cretaceous season 1' took the span of less than 24 hours.
  
• A composite Sharktopus (the original one from the first movie, and the offspring from the two sequels) had possibly weeks or months of terrorizing the Mediterranean, with a few minutes of battle time against the other two hybrid monstrosities.
  

Weaknesses: 7-3 (-1)

• The I.rex has an unstable mental state, she will kill anything that moves (aside from smaller weaker dinosaurs that she can communicate with) out of emotional problems, and has shown to get visibly scared and frustrated in combat against a persistent foe, as shown in the final battle against Blue and Rexy in 'Jurassic World'.
  
• Sharktopus has sensitive body parts, surprise direct gunshots as seen in 'Sharktopus vs Whalewolf' will force it to retreat or postpone an attack, and a single grip from Pteracuda's claws to one tentacle caused it enough pain to let go of the hold. Sharktopus is also prone to getting lured into traps where it could get into a disadvantage, as shown in the original 'Sharktopus' movie when the original was distracted by fisherman Andy Flynn on a waterpark while geneticist Nicole Sands hacked onto the computer chip in its brain to detonate it, and in 'Sharktopus vs Whalewolf' when the offspring was lured by Ray in a baseball stadium with electrical fences and ended up getting killed by Whalewolf.
  

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Hypothetical full campaign run from level 1 to 20

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• Even if it takes some inventive story telling to combine them in to a "full campaign framework/skeleton"
• · A nice "level 0 prelude" opener from: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight level 0 prelude
• · So far the highest listed suggested level is: Lost Prison of Eternity (levels 16-20)
• · Special mention from DM Guild/GM Binder: Races of Dungeons and Dragons combined with Compilation of Race Changes from from Monsters of the Multiverse Leaks & Races
• · Blank Character Sheets: Standard, Icewind Theme, Ravenloft Theme, AL Rage of Demons
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• · Deicide (Level 1-20) - Full level 1 to level 20 tier 1 to tier 4 FULL CAMPAIGN

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• · Potions 11
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• · Fifty Shades of Fey
• · Killer Clowns from Waterdeep
• · Unknown Wizard's Battlegrounds
• · Three Orcs and a Baby
• · Berdusk Till Dawn
• · Pigsaw
• · The Toxic Adventure

I have found: (from Winghorn Press)
Can take 5 PC's to level 6 or 7, maybe level 8
· A Most Potent Brew (Level 1) - "Almost TOO well made, sus" - me (op)
· Horror at Havel’s Cross (Level 2-3)
· The Hound of Cabell Manor (Level 3)
· The Wolves of Welton (Level 3-4)
· The Horn of Plenty (Level 4)
· A Wild Sheep Chase (Level 4-5)
· When the Stars Align (Level 4-6)
· A Humble Treasure (PWYW 1-20) - At tier 1/2, it you could likely pump enough XP to level in to it
Plus -
SHORT LIST PICK/TIE TOGETHER TO LEVEL 20
(IMHO Suitable Post-Winghorn list)
· imho*, MTG crossovers are decent for leveling levels 4 to 5 & 8 to 10, + any Dale Zawada
· Grammy's Country Apple Pie (levels 1-4) - Alternative campaign opener to Winghorn
· The Crypts of Kelemvor (levels 3-5)
· Barber of Silverymoon (levels 4-6):
· Infernal Machine Rebuild (5e) (WtoC - Extra Life, Level 5-10)
· From Cyan Depths (level 10)
· Six Faces of Death (levels 11-13):
· Unseen Servants (Level 16) - is a level 16 short adventure (pretty well done)
· Lost Prison of Eternity (levels 16-20)
· Deicide (Level 1-20) - Full level 1 to level 20 tier 1 to tier 4 FULL CAMPAIGN
· Special mention to The Imminent Light (level 5) & Elfhunt (level 5, Chult) - "XP gap" leveling
· Special mention #2 Rumble in the Rubblebelt Ravnica (level 5-10) -optimized for 8th level
· Special mention #3 Seeds of Chaos (Levels 1-4) & Heart of a Hero (Levels 1-4)
· Tahoma a Levels 1-10 sandbox adventure and 60 one page adventuers travel 1-shots Levels 1-15
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Pure WotC shortlist to level 20:
· Nerds Adventures - 1 to 7 WotC - Nerds "P.O.P." Promo, released free (levels 1-5)
· Adventure: Storm King's Thunder A Great Upheaval (levels 1-5)
· Infernal Machine Rebuild (5e) (WtoC - Extra Life, Level 5-10)
· From Cyan Depths (level 10)
· DDAL05-17 Hartkiller's Horn (Levels 5-10) WotC released free
· DDAL05-18 The Mysterious Isle (Level 17-20) WotC released free
· DDAL05-19 Eye of Xxiphu (Level 17-20) WotC released free
· AL Season 1: Tyranny of Dragons (levels 1-10) - which is impressive in free content amount
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Others
· Adventure: Curse of Strahd Death House (levels 1-3)
· Adventure: Explorer's Guide to Wildemount Frozen Sick (levels 1-3)
· Adventure: Tyranny of Dragons Chapters 1-3 (levels 1-3)
· Adventure: Storm King's Thunder A Great Upheaval (levels 1-5)
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· X Marks the Spot (level 4)
· In Scarlet Flames (level 8)
· The Hidden Page (level 8)
· A Verdant Tomb (level 9)
· Deepest Night (level 9)
· From Cyan Depths (level 10)
ADVENTURE LEAGUE
· Season 1: Tyranny of Dragons
· DDEX1-1, Defiance in Phlan (level 1)
· DDEX1-2, Secrets of Sokol Keep (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-3, Shadows over the Moonsea (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-4, Dues for the Dead (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-5, The Courting of Fire (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-6, The Scroll Thief (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-7, Drums in the Marsh (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-8, Tales Trees Tell (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-9, Outlaws of the Iron Route (levels 1-4)
· DDEX1-10, Tyranny in Phlan (levels 5-10)
· DDEX1-14, Escape from Phlan (levels 5-10)
· Other Seasons
· DDAL09-01, Escape from Elturgard (levels 1-2)
· DDAL10-00, Ice Road Trackers (levels 1-2, Icewind Dale)
· DDAL00-05, Winter's Splendor (levels 1-4, Waterdeep)
· DDHC-TOA-09, Ruins of Matolo (levels 5-10, Chult)
OTHER MATERIALS
· Adventures
· The Turkey Snatcher (Levels 1-4) - Thanksgiving themed, cute
· Monster Slayers, The Champions of the Elements (ages 6+)
· Monster Slayers: The Heros of Hesiod (ages 6+)
· Adventures with Muk (ages 6+)
· The Gribbits Detective Agency (level 1)
· Dragon of Icespire Peak, Gnomengarde (levels 1-3)
· Northern Palace (levels 1-3)
· Trouble in Waterdeep (levels 1-3)
· The Gribbits Detective Agency Part II (level 2)
· Adventure Zone (level 2)
· Struggle in Three Horn Valley (level 3)
· The Hangover (level 3)
· Frozen Offerings (levels 7-10), Maps: one - solo "go to page", sans DM
· Abyssal Incursion (limited time free)
· Hellturel (limited time free)
..
Master list of free content for 5e - MAPS!
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Basic Rules for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
System Reference Document (Contains more rules)
Essentials Rulebook: Player Options, Spells (with Sidekicks and additional subclasses)
· Starterset Rulebook: Player Options, Spells (further subset with pregenerated characters)
BASIC RULES - Companions/Handouts has Player Options
· Sage Advice (with Erratas)
· 5e Conversion Guide
· Nerds Quick Reference Card
LIST OF OTHER FREE CONTENT has Player Options
Elemental Evil / Player's Companion
Elemental Evil / Princes of the Apocalypse
Collected 1-75 UA
Freely Released Maps, Monsters & Pre-Gen's
· Monster Manual: Challenge Rating List, Monster by Type List (MM only, MM and Volo's)
· Monster Stats: Dretch (CR 1/4 demon), Intellect Devourer (CR 2 aberration), Umber Hulk (CR 5 monstrosity)
· Dungeon Master's Guide: Magic Items by Rarity
· Standard Pregens
SOURCE BOOKS / ADVENTURES
· Curse of Strahd: Handouts
· Player Options: Character Background Options (version 1, version 2)
· Out of the Abyss:
· Player Options: Character Background Options
· Princes of the Apocalypse:
· Player Options: Elemental Evil, Player's Companion
· Storm King's Thunder: Pregen Character Sheets, Items in a giant's bag, Appendix A (linked adventures), Wilderness Encounters
· Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide:
· Player Options: Roguish Archetypes
· Tyranny of Dragons:
· Monster Stats and Magic Items / Spells: Horde of the Dragon Queen Supplement, Rise of Tiamat Supplement
· Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
· Spirit Board, Character Creation Guide
· Volo's Guide to Monsters: Table of Contents, Preface, Monster Info: Giant Lore, Hag Traits
· Player Options: Firbolg Player Race
· Monster Stats: Froghemoth (CR10 monstrosity), Stone Giant Dreamwalker (CR 10 giant), Annis Hag (CR 6 fey), Slithering Tracker (CR 3 ooze)
Tomb of Annihilation: Player Handouts
· Monster Stats: Quetzalcoatlus (CR 2 beast), Ras Nsi (CR 7 monstrosity)
Mordenkainen's Fiendist Folio Volume 1
· Monster Stats: Forlarren (CR 3 fey)
Eberron: Rising From the Last War
· Monster Stats: Living Spells (CR 1 construct, CR 5 construct, CR 7 construct); Expeditious Messenger & Iron Defender (CR 1/8 construct & CR 1 construct); Valenar Hawk & Valenar Hound (CR 1/8 fey & CR 1/2 fey), Warforged Titan (CR 8 construct)
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus:
· Monster Stats: Zariel (CR 26 devil), Hollyphant (CR 5 celestial)
MAGIC THE GATHERING CROSSOVERS
· Plane Shift Setting Supplements (Monster Stats and Player Options): Kaladesh, Amonkhet, Dominaria, Zendikar, Innistrad, Ixalan
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Madness of the Rat King
Nicholas the Gift-Giver’s Northern Palace
The Forest of Forgotten Dragons
The Forge of Rogbrok
Wildemount: Dark Star
Winter's Splendor
First Blush
The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse
A Chance Encounter
The Executioner's Daughter
A Night of Masks and Monsters (A Requiem of Wings #1)
Sleeping Giant Mountain
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Blep
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Cheeks
https://i.imgur.com/aqpZkKV.gifv
What do you mean, "what?" You know what. I ordered a mimosa. Side of fish treats.
https://gfycat.com/contentcavernouscats
Found him.
https://gfycat.com/unfinishedoptimaleagle-doggo-cute-dogs-cats-cat
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Back to work!
Team building exercise
https://gfycat.com/impolitefilthyhoatzin
2nd cup of coffee. I mean, pot.
https://gfycat.com/thoroughtanlabradorretriever
Time for my lunch break
https://gfycat.com/vainfoolhardychuckwalla
https://i.redd.it/slm6gkillv891.png
That's my ear, Kevin
Original caption, "Kevin biting Marbles ear"
https://i.redd.it/qr2hoz77jt891.jpg
Wait until after work, Janice
https://i.redd.it/c3li8sgnpt891.jpg
Janice innocent face
https://i.redd.it/79ctkkqe3v891.jpg
Going to the gym, and get some reps in, who's with me?
https://gfycat.com/poorsaddoe
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The CAN OPENER YOU NEED, update your kitchen, no sharp edges
https://youtu.be/i_mLxyIXpSY?t=81

Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart Version 8.0 for 2021, by Vanessa Otero
https://adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Media-Bias-Chart-8.0_Sept-2021-Unlicensed-Social-Media_Hi_Res-scaled.jpg
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868
Section 3 Disqualification and Public Debt
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Warning: Covid News and stuff

New Omicron Subvariants Are Behind Most Cases in Midwest. Here's What Makes Them Different, 6-29-22
Aside from being even more contagious than previous variants, scientists are tracking a mutation in BA.4 and BA.5 that could help it evade some immunity and cause reinfections
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/new-omicron-subvariants-are-behind-most-cases-in-midwest-heres-what-makes-them-different/2869532/
Four new COVID-19 strains showing strongest transmissibility yet, 6-29-22
https://www.wtvm.com/2022/06/29/four-new-covid-19-strains-showing-strongest-transmissibility-yet/
Twin Omicron subvariants have taken over the U.S., but they’re not quite identical. One is ‘the worst version of the virus we’ve seen’, 6-28-22
https://fortune.com/2022/06/28/ba5-ba-4-twin-omicron-subvariants-have-taken-over-the-us-but-theyre-not-quite-identical-one-is-the-worst-version-of-the-virus-weve-seen/
Fauci reports COVID rebound, says his is “much worse” than initial illness, 6-29-22
Fauci took a second round of Paxlovid, which is at odds with the FDA and CDC stance.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/fauci-reports-covid-rebound-says-its-much-worse-than-initial-illness/
Already Had COVID? These Symptoms May "Never Go Away"? 6-19-22
Four COVID symptoms that continue to cause problems for patients, according to experts.
"If you contract COVID and you are vaccinated plus boosted there is an increased chance you will have milder symptoms. It is important to try and avoid getting COVID because it could impact you or your family's life based on the symptoms you experience."
https://www.eatthis.com/news-these-symptoms-may-never-go-away-covid/
Covid is making common viruses act bizarrely, doctors warn, 6-13-22
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2635357462445/covid-is-making-common-virues-act-bizarrely-doctors-warn
Covid etc: 4th Surge Spring/Summer 2022
The United States is now in its fourth-biggest Covid surge, according to official case counts – but experts believe the actual current rate is much higher. 6-2-22
‘We’re playing with fire’: US Covid cases may be 30 times higher than reported
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/01/us-covid-surge-cases-rate
Light vs skin color: Inaccurate oxygen level readings delayed COVID-19 therapies for Black, Hispanic patients: study, 5-31-22
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3507530-inaccurate-oxygen-level-readings-delayed-covid-19-therapies-for-black-hispanic-patients-study/
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Monkeypox news
Should I be worried about monkeypox? A doctor answers questions as the outbreak spreads, 6-28-22
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeypox-outbreak-symptoms-vaccine-doctor-answers-questions/
US to offer monkeypox vaccines in states with high case rates, 6-29-22
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/health/monkeypox-vaccines-states-high-case-rates/index.html
The U.S. Is Rolling Out Monkeypox Vaccines to the Public, 6-29-22
Up to 1.6 million doses will be made available this year, though preference will be given to people at higher risk of exposure to the virus.
https://gizmodo.com/monkeypox-virus-vaccine-us-jynneos-release-availability-1849122926
Outbreaks of diseases such as monkeypox becoming more frequent, warns WHO, 6-1-22
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/outbreaks-diseases-such-monkeypox-becoming-more-frequent-warns-who-2022-06-01/
CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1,000, 6-7-22
The CDC on Monday ramped up its monkeypox alert to level 2 and encouraged people to “practice enhanced precautions” to stem the recent outbreak.
As of Monday, 1,019 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox have so far been reported in 29 countries, according to the public health body.
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, with symptoms including rashes, fever, headaches, muscle ache, swelling and backpain.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/cdc-raises-monkeypox-alert-as-global-cases-surpass-1000.html
Monkeypox
Nextstrain: Genomic epidemiology of monkeypox virus, ongoing
https://nextstrain.org/monkeypox
https://nextstrain.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox
Monkeypox outbreak is primarily spreading through sex, WHO officials say, 5-23-22
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/monkeypox-outbreak-is-primarily-spreading-through-sex-who-officials-say.html
Scientists warned us about monkeypox in 1988. Here's why they were right. 5-27-22
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/27/1101751627/scientists-warned-us-about-monkeypox-in-1988-heres-why-they-were-right
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More Covid news, and Brain Power
Nearly 13% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had neurologic symptoms - study, 5-9-22
Of the more than 16,000 patients examined, 13% developed serious neurological conditions including, most commonly, encephalopathy at admission.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-706177
Useful post-Covid cognitive tools, and causes
Severe COVID’s cognitive impact equivalent to 20 years aging: research, 5-4-22
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3477307-severe-covids-cognitive-impact-equivalent-to-20-years-aging-research/
Not endorsing any of the following:
KEEP YOUR BRAIN BUZZING WITH THESE FREE BRAIN GAMES FOR SENIORS
https://sixtyandme.com/keep-your-brain-buzzing-with-these-free-brain-games-for-seniors/
Improve Memory and Mental Health: 25 Brain Games for the Elderly
https://www.elder.org/the-eldeimprove-memory-and-mental-health-25-brain-games-for-the-elderly/
Lumosity: Discover what your mind can do
Exercise memory, flexibility, and more with the world’s most popular brain training program.
https://www.lumosity.com/en/
MentalUP Concentration Games
https://www.mentalup.co/concentration-games
HappyNeuron
https://www.happy-neuron.com/
Duolingo
The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language!
https://www.duolingo.com/
Fitness literally boosts your brainpower, according to a new study, 9-15-19
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/15/exercise-benefits-cognitive-function-performance.html
Exercise can also boost memory and thinking indirectly by improving mood and sleep, and by reducing stress and anxiety. Problems in these areas frequently cause or contribute to cognitive impairment. 2-15-21
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-can-boost-your-memory-and-thinking-skills
Effects of Physical Exercise on Cognitive Functioning and Wellbeing: Biological and Psychological Benefits, "neuroplasticity", 4-27-18
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934999/
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New-ish Covid News:
Their virus symptoms were minor. Then they had long Covid. 5-2-22
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/health/long-covid-asympomatic-cases/index.html
Only 1 in 4 Long COVID Sufferers Fully Recovered One Year Later, 4-25-22
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-04-25/only-1-in-4-long-covid-sufferers-fully-recovered-one-year-later
Most Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, the CDC reports, 4-26-22
58% of adults, and 74% of children
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094817774/covid-19-infections-us-most-americans
Explainer: I'm eligible for a second COVID booster. Should I get one? 4-11-22
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/im-eligible-second-covid-booster-should-i-get-one-2022-04-11/
Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for ages 19 years or older, United States
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html
Omicron hit little kids hard: COVID-19 hospitalization among children 4 years old and under, 3-17-22
https://www.axios.com/omicron-cases-little-kids-094b7fc0-70c9-462e-a7b9-e64b7789cad6.html
Even Mild COVID Can Cause Brain Shrinkage and Disrupt Mental Function, 3-9-22
https://scitechdaily.com/even-mild-covid-can-cause-brain-shrinkage-and-disrupt-mental-function/
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Vaccines Cut Risk of Long Covid in Half, UK Scientists Find, 2-23-22
Vaccines also show some promise in reducing symptoms among those already experiencing long covid, a review of evidence found.
https://gizmodo.com/vaccines-cut-risk-of-long-covid-in-half-uk-scientists-1848584613
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case, 2-10-22
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0

Lost a copy of your covid vaccination card? Need a copy? General links, and Indiana-specific information.
Getting Your CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccination-card.html
State & Territorial Health Department Websites
https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/healthdepartments.html
Example:
Indiana Information about novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
https://www.in.gov/health/
Indiana Department of Health coronavirus preparations here
https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/
Direct link For INDIANA:
COVID-19 vaccination portal (You will need to have/create an account with Access Indiana.):
https://eportal.isdh.in.gov/C19VaccinationPortal/
It has 2 options, a certificate you can print with the date Indiana considered you fully vaccinated (Indiana considers it 2 shots or the 1 JandJ), or the report on all the dates and types of shots, and where you got them. I'd recommend saving both as a pdf, and printing both.
Final link source:
If you lost your Indiana COVID vaccine card, here's how to get a new one
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2021/08/11/indiana-covid-vaccine-card-lost-how-get-replacement/5557283001/
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The Postal Service is now taking orders for free COVID-19 test kits
You can now place an order to receive 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests from the Biden administration.
https://www.covidtests.gov/
https://special.usps.com/testkits
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073817562/order-covid-tests-free-biden-white-house
Covid animations and graphics:
Two Years of COVID-19 in the USA: Cases and Deaths Over Time, Feb 2020 - Feb 2022, David A. West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZWa55hLHEM
US Covid patients in hospital, 7-15-20 through 1-9-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ro8IgPh44
The Pandemic in 60 Seconds - Updated 2021-11-20 - David A. West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFyUtdnAtfI
U.S. COVID-19 Deaths by Vaccine Status, April 10, 2021 - Oct 2, 2021
Unvaccinated peak deaths: 18.4%
Only includes DEATHS, not "long covid" prolonged illnesses of the survivors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyeTGmSuL3A
Covid Death rates by 2020 voting, by county, 12-15-21. Please be safe and vaccinate.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGq2W6mXsAsXazv?format=png&name=large

Doses News:
Find COVID-19 Vaccines, Find Flu Vaccines
Need help finding a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.? Call 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 888-720-7489)
https://www.vaccines.gov/
FDA officially authorizes mixing COVID boosters: What to know
The agency says those eligible for a booster will be able to get any of the available brands of coronavirus vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson. 12-4-21
https://www.cnet.com/health/fda-officially-authorizes-mixing-covid-shots-what-to-know/
How a vaccine works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OuOF-rKSJA
Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for ages 19 years or older, United States, 2021
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html
Covid strains and variants:
Tracking Omicron and Other Coronavirus Variants, 4-3-22
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/coronavirus-variant-tracker.html
Nextstrain: Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Global subsampling
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global
Current Covid and vaccination rates and counts:
nCoV2019 live World COVID-19 Stats Dashboard: World COVID-19 Stats, including Vaccination data; by Avi Schiffmann
https://ncov2019.live/
COVID-19 vaccine rates by state
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations by country
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/vaccination-rollout-and-access/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Information about Covid:
COVID-19 Funeral Assistance
If you know anyone that has passed from COVID, FEMA has had a program for almost a year now that reimburses up to $9k for funeral expenses. Only 25% have claimed it.
https://www.fema.gov/disastecoronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance
When the medical examiners who have families fight with them to leave COVID off the death certificates.
And then fight with them again to put COVID back on the certificate when they realize the government will pay $9,000 towards funeral expenses.
In one Missouri county, coroner excludes COVID from death certificates if family asks, AUGUST 03, 2021
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article253147128.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 information
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/about/default.htm
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrcovid19/excess_deaths.htm
A pandemic exposed how important this is:
Universal Health Care, Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCKKQm98NKzF9ZCCoRq2T88
https://i.imgur.com/TAUgeEh.jpeg
Bern and health care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8tufeu9Skw
How Progressive and Regressive Taxes work
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCMqvjc9klqbQ5Q3IbKSdfT

I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People, June 29, 2017
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_b_59519811e4b0f078efd98440

Sleep duration matters for heart health, according to new recommendations, 6-29-22
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/health/american-heart-association-heart-health-wellness/index.html
American Heart Association adds sleep as a component of heart health.
Life’s Essential 8, use My Life Check, an online tool to assess your own heart health and better understand your risk for heart disease and stroke.
https://mlc.heart.org/
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-lifestyle/lifes-essential-8
Mattress sizes
https://realmattressreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/mattress-size-dimension-guide-1030x721.png
Sleeping This Much Longer Will Help You Lose Weight, Says New Study
By sleeping more, this study reveals you can lose weight without dieting.
https://www.eatthis.com/news-sleeping-longer-weight-loss/
Sleeping with even a small amount of light may harm your health, study says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/health/sleeping-lights-danger-wellness/index.html
The ideal amount of sleep in middle and old age
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/health/seven-hours-sleep-optimal-old-age-wellness/index.html
A seemingly never-post-covid era prayer:
A little more sleep and a little more sanity, please, thanks, bye.

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Russia vs Ukraine
Myths & Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons, Jun 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0O_oObJBU
Two Economies at war - Russia and Ukraine after 100 days of sanctions and shelling, June 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGwO99fQaI
All metal, no manpower - Russian infantry shortages and mobilization in Ukraine, Jun 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKewF8_SiIs
Russia vs Ukraine - Battle map of 3 months of war in less than 2 minutes. 2-24-22 through 5-26-22
Light teal is Ukraine-reclaimed territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgyjUrK9eR8
https://www.understandingwar.org/
The Russia-Ukraine crisis (Last update March 2022)
Why Russia is Invading Ukraine (M.O.: support rebellion and/or manufacture terrorism (apartments bombings by Russian secret police, etc.), support manufactured Russia-friendly zones by invading)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
Russia's Ukraine invasion Losses Feb 24 - March 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6m7Y7PWqQQ
Why Ukraine Matters, Snopes analysis
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/why-does-ukraine-matte
The increasingly complicated Russia-Ukraine crisis, explained
How the world got here, what Russia wants, and more questions, answered.
https://www.vox.com/22917719/russia-ukraine-invasion-border-crisis-nato-explained
Number of nuclear weapons per country since 1945, 3-9-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLxszPaC2Q
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From a few weeks ago:
Match shooter finds 1 kittens in the road. 13 Kittens!
https://old.reddit.com/FridayCute/comments/v846jh/match_shooter_finds_1_kittens_in_the_road/
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From last week:
Budgie pupper buddy
https://gfycat.com/oddballperkyafricanfisheagle
I, too, am sooo well behaved
https://preview.redd.it/dh1vt92z2k791.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61ac6c63b650d054991247ae68af584fc4aeb7f1
Summer mosquito reminder
https://external-preview.redd.it/FAl8Fr9ij-arL1cB3qgv6tPYmH2J4ySCINMzgVRO9AQ.jpg?auto=webp&s=3577ef05004847ad920aab7fd1e282ddb5bcacba
Fireflies and Lightning. Roadside Alabama?
https://imgur.com/a/p8rO3Ip
https://imgur.com/a/Wnri8Gr
Zoomquilt. Endless looping art.
https://zoomquilt.org/
Zoomquilt 2
https://zoomquilt2.com/
Zoomquilt...flowers?
https://arkadia.xyz/
Video Zoomquilt 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFOWWx8fcY
The Scale of the Universe 2
https://htwins.net/scale2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGEjrADGPA
Pwnisher: Clinton Jones graphics YouTube channel, and graphics challenges best
Train, etc, Infinite Journeys, March 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrWPLNp9tw
3D Marble Machine, Dynamic Machines, August 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oszl95YWfbs
Hiking/pulling/pushing and sphere 3D Renders, Alternate Realities, June 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q
Walking to mountain Unique Renders, Parallel Dimensions, November 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdCvwmebWN0
Wind and other weather in real time
https://www.windy.com/
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And another thing!
Happy lil pupper
https://i.redd.it/wggza0cna0991.jpg
She was waiting to love ya
https://i.redd.it/fcldkslwwy891.jpg
Recently-adopted good boy
https://gfycat.com/breakabletandog
Seasonal festive pupper
https://i.redd.it/cy89nq1dn0991.jpg
Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
https://i.imgur.com/9BbyHKk.gifv
Weighted Snuggie helped with the anxiety from moving (yeah, it's just a blankie, but Snuggie was more fun to type)
https://i.imgur.com/ET53o9A.jpg
Some swim in a creek, some swim face first in a bowl
https://i.redd.it/xbi0ofz5iy891.jpg
https://i.redd.it/zngxi8zvtt891.jpg
Paint me like one of your French ducks, Jack
https://i.redd.it/pzwb09gmbv891.jpg
Steven Tyler singing "Angel"
https://gfycat.com/chiefelaborateivorybackedwoodswallow
Mrs. Ingalls came into town to get some gingham at the General Store
https://preview.redd.it/waqnejb9qy891.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e6fcbc5f4d09e3ac9f547a61cf453086746d4f0
"Tex"
https://preview.redd.it/9ild6i0s5v891.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33fff95d7d7be7003ff64dffb6aaf6ff30dd7f7e
Some guys just look better with age
https://preview.redd.it/5bwufk6izs891.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e3ef27a637898125dc0f6954be7ea5380a03255
Piggy zoomies
https://gfycat.com/inexperiencedbossyhypsilophodon-pig-zoomies-fast-pig-animals-zoomies-running
Excited land cloud
https://gfycat.com/miserlysomekittiwake
Young protester disagrees
https://i.imgur.com/0FanDYq.gifv
Summertime. OK, I'm out, have a safe holiday weekend!
https://i.redd.it/kfcrdr8f01991.jpg
Packed with peanuts, ferrets really satisfy
https://gfycat.com/dearshortcolt
I mean it, I really have to go!
https://i.imgur.com/RlcvjxZ.gifv

First Image: https://gfycat.com/youngcleverballoonfish