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Hi yall,
Closet getting too full. Misses getting mad lol, purging some games that I haven't touched.
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* **Dungeonology: The Expedition**: $30 \[Sorted but never played. Stretch-goal box is still in shrink.\]\[**4**\]\[Note: Comes with all Kickstarter Exclusive stretch-goals and minis in their box.\]:
* **Helionox: Deluxe Edition**: $15 \[Sorted but never played.\]\[4\]
* **Arcana Rising:** 10$ \[4\]
* **Table Gold Association:** 40$ \[4\]
* **Dark Souls The Board Game:** 80$ (Painted Miniatures)
* **Pixel Tactics**: 5$ \[4\]
* **Phantom Society:** $8 \[4\] Never Played
* **Goonies Never Say Die:** $20 \[4\] Never Played
* **Disney Sidekicks:** $10 \[4\] Never Played
I have some marvel united that I still need to find and list. May update this later on!

I got a ticket in '21 for no seat belt in Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit and my house was in shambles. We evacuated and had to live away from our house for weeks. In dealing with the fallout I forgot about the ticket and my license was suspended 6 months later. When I realized this, I payed the ticket immediately.
I then went through the difficult process of dealing with the OMV. They were still affected by COVID and getting in touch with a person was difficult. I can't remember what happened because it was 2 years ago, but I really thought I had taken care of everything with the OMV. I thought my license was reinstated and I could drive. Looking through my records now I can see a charge on my bank statement to the OMV of $17 for reinstatement (it should have been $100). I have no recept or other information of the payment.
Fast forward to this year, I got pulled over for a speeding ticket, and the officer said my license was suspended (still from not paying the seat belt violation). I was shocked. He took my license and gave me 2 tickets (speeding and driving while suspended) but let me drive 3 blocks to my house. I got in touch with the OMV and this time had a super easy time getting my license reinstated and I could see it was valid on the LA Wallet app.
This is where I did something really stupid. I tried to pay both tickets and realized I had to go to court for the Driving While Suspended charge. I went in expecting to plead not guilty and explain to the judge what happened, but that day the judge wasn't hearing anything other than a plea. The young lady in front of me tried to tell her story but the judge said she would have to plead not guilty to have her case heard.
There were so many things going through my head. I had so little time to think, I thought I was in traffic court and I didn't think this was a serious crime. I had yet to find in my records I had paid $17 to the OMV for the first attempt to reinstate. I thought the only penalty was going to be a fine. I just wanted to get it over and done with. So I plead guilty. I paid my fine and went on living and driving thinking this was finished.
This weekend I got a letter from the OMV saying because I was convicted my driving privileges are suspended for a YEAR. Not being able to drive for a year is devastating to me and my family. I had NO idea this was going to happen.
My question is what should I do now? Is there any one I can talk to to have my plea reversed? Should I get a lawyer (I'm really scared of having a large financial burden because of lawyer fees)?
I know hardship license exists but I'm scared of the driving restrictions. I have a job working self employed with a nonprofit. My job is weird. I drive to at least 5 different locations a week. I have conferences and service trips I go to in different states. I have to schedule to meet with people for donation purposes at random times. Not to mention driving kids to school, Dr visits, psych visits for my son's ADHD. But should I give up and go this route and try to work my life around it?
Sorry I know this is an information dump, but I'm not sure what info is relevant. I need help and I really don't know what I'm doing. At least some pointers in where to get started would be helpful. I'm trying to meet with someone from the DA's office today to see if they could help (a friend knows someone there). But if that doesn't help, I want to know what to do next.
TL; DR: Made a dumb decision and plead guilty to to driving while suspended instead of waiting to explain my case to the judge. Didn't realize the penalty and now a seatbelt violation has turned into a year suspension from driving.

Got myself into a Beauty College and graduating in 6.5 months to earn my licenses as a Nail Tech. Costs about 8-10k and financial aid will cover more than half. All my life I’ve been going back n forth from working as a server or construction/welding. Up until a year ago, during the pandemic I realized that the Beauty Industry was one of the few that was still thriving so I took a chance (with the support of family and friends) and decided to pursue this career.
In the beginning it was a little deflating to my ego, the stigma that goes with a male being in a women’s industry plus I wasn’t good at the start ( who is when trying something brand new ) I had no idea what a cuticle was til I went to school. I just knew when it was time to cut my nails and that was that. Never went inside and got a manicure or pedicure before. Not that I ever truly needed one bc I mean most guys do the basic things to clip n clean.
That being said, fellas I’m telling you now. If your an extrovert, enjoy talking to women/making them laugh, take care of yourself physically/mentally, have some sort of dressing fashion, making easy money in AC + tips and want vacations/time off almost anytime you want as long as you give the owners within a respectable time frame. This job is for you! I’ve been working little over a year, no where near as good as my other technicians but I’m pulling in at least 55-60k a year. That’s only doing the basics/simple stuff. Like in every career, you put forth the hunger to learn and get better, you’ll be pulling in more money. My fellow nail techs who have been doing this a long time. A slow week is 1,500 a week for them 5-6 days.
Now I love this job haha. Definitely has its perks, free mani/pedis, the ladies in the salon will take care of your brows, make sure your on point and one thing it has done for me, built up confidence to speak/hold a conversation with women. If you don’t crumble under pressure 😂 servicing a woman’s nails and making her laugh/comfortable at the same time. Whole different ball park. Feel free to ask any questions bros! We need more fresh n fly male techs out here, giving free game to my boys out there who wanna learn the ins and outs
By the way, there is no background check as long as you don’t look hella sketchy, tattoos are now being more accepted but face tattoos will always be difficult for a owner of any business to hire, gang/racial are obvious. But from what I am told, clients enjoy that im a Millennial, relatable, well-spoken/dressed, tattoos and a decent looking Male. You know how us Men would say girls have it easier in certain aspects in a career such as like a barber for instance. If she was pretty or cute, did my lineup or fade and it didn’t come out to nice. I’d still tip and come back because of her looks/personality and made me feel good while be serviced. “Pretty Boy Privilege” is definitely a thing in this industry so it’s the same for us. Being a young male tech has tons of benefits here also if your smooth English speaker haha.
One last thing to add, if you’re feeling embarrassed switching over from a blue collar job, a “man’s man” type of job. I tell my buddies all the time when they tried clowning at me. “While yall are still talking about how you would approach a woman or talk to one, I’m really here doing it and yall are still keeping to yourselves.” 😂

"I just met her; she's my colleague. We work at the same restaurant. I've known her for one week. I want to keep in touch with her. Will messaging her daily by saying, 'Hi, how are you? How's your day?' bore her? Should I message her weekly instead? What's your advice? I don't want to ghost her.

So I met a guy on a dating app (shocker) and he’s older than me, has a house and seems to have a good head on his shoulders. We’ve texted for awhile and he seems to be in the point in his life where he is actively dating to marry and settle down, which is what I’m looking for as well. The reason I would travel is because he lives in the next major city, a 2 hour drive one way. He said he did not want to come off as disrespectful by saying I could even spend the night if the date goes well. Which makes sense seeing as we’d be rushed with spending time together and me having to leave before dinner time to get home at a reasonable hour. I live at home with my parents or otherwise I’d too offer him a place to spend the night. My reasoning for being hesitant to travel to him is because shouldn’t he be the one to travel to me, I mean is this not the gentleman thing to do? I’m pretty traditional in terms of dating. I still think men should open doors for us women and get us flowers, etc.
I’m not opposed to the idea of going to his city but I have found myself going above and beyond in the past in relationships and I don’t want to seem like the “easy, giving, nice girl”. I’ve always been the type to be there at 2am when you need me or sending you cute messages during the day telling you I’m thinking of you. More often than not I’m taken advantage of for being someone you can rely on it seems. I would like to be chased a little I guess. I’m working on setting boundaries as I’m new to the dating scene, so any suggestions would help in deciding. Please be nice :)

I apologize in advance for the length of this thread, but by far this is the user that wrote the most comments in the video of our song. At first, he suggested Scepter and Reign, but he debunked this lead by saying: "Scepter and Reign can be crossed off. I have been corresponding with the lady whose name is mentioned in the legal document, Naomi (first name used with her permission, and only her first name) since Thursday. She was legitimately shocked her name was on the document because in all these years NOBODY ever contacted her regarding it. She thinks they may have realized how much money it would cost and probably withdrew. She knew both bands fairly well, scale of 1-10 she answered "6.5 maybe 7'ish". She designed 1 "logo" for each band that was literally just a sketch she made with their band names on them she could print out in the Xerox store she worked at. Scepter's original name was actually "Dungeon Master" but they changed it to fit their name on her design. As for the abandoned demo from Scepter, she said they abandoned it because they couldn't afford to produce it. They didn't even make it far enough to name their 3 or 4 songs. So, on to the big question, are either bands involved with this song? According to her both bands came out in 1985, and according to her this "The Falling King" song predates both bands by a year or 2. This is not Scepter or Reign, this song is older than both bands. According to her, she first heard this song on a Detroit station while visiting family. Even back then, the Detroit station personnel had absolutely NO CLUE who this was. She remembers her father making fun of the singers accent claiming it was a "Posh" accent and also used to think the lyric was "The fall, the fall in the king" lol. I explained how this song was recorded off of several stations in 1987 and she replied "How many songs do you hear on the radio that are several years old?". She was stumped this was played on Z-Rock because this does not sound like an amateur band to her. She is not the only person to make comments that this does not sound like an amateur band, this sounds professionally recorded and produced, something EXTREMELY few amateugarage bands could have done. I thought i had something, but at least i tried. By the way, apparently Reign still performs in the Pittsburgh area under the name "Metallic Thunder"." (THIS IS HIS LATEST COMMENT) If this is true, it means our search will be even more difficult.
In one of his earliest comments he said this: "My 2 oldest sisters (born in 1970 and 1972) actually remember this song being played by garage bands and local talents in the Coatesville PA area. However, they both swear on mom and dads ashes that the first time they heard this song, a local music festival in Exton PA, I was NOT born yet (I was born in 1984). Even back then nobody could say who it was or what the title was. In fact the one band from Downingtown PA used to refer to it as "The Dungeons and Dragons song". And by that i mean, according to my sisters the lead singers girlfriend (or his sister....they could never tell?) would be in the crowd and when they were ready to end their performance she would shout "Play the Dungeons and Dragons song". My sisters also remember the adults thinking this song was somehow a promotional thing for the PA Renaissance Fair. Unfortunately they cannot offer any clues to the identity of this band or songs title, their guess, back then and still today, was Manowar."
At first, he claims our band is Manowar, explaining: "I do not think Manowar is an obscure band, nor do my sisters. The "obscure" bands mentioned in my postings are all the local garage/amateur bands that they remember playing this song and most of those garage/amateur bands even back then, along with my sisters, were under the impression this was a Manowar song. Many people, not just on this post but others feel this is Manowar "pitch" song, other bands thrown around have been Iron Maiden, Overdrive (Or Overkill, i'm not sure if it's the same band?), Blackmane, Axis and Cirith Ungol (spelling?). Keep this in mind, it's not that uncommon for mainstream/well known bands to have unreleased music in their "library". A good example, ask the most diehard Rammstein fans what their first song ever was, they'll probably answer Du Recht So Gut or Rammstein. Most people have never heard their 1992-1993 pitch song, "Tier" (Monster, beast). In fact, Till Linderman himself stated in 2018 he was unaware Tier was ever recorded by anyone, yet alone put up on the internet. Like this "Fall of the King" song, "Tier" was toted as an mystery song for years but was in a group of 4 or 5 other songs that Rammstein did but never released. One of my favorite bands, Corvus Corax, actually had something similar happen, a song they did back in the early 90's, "Vampire", opening for another band was recorded by a fan in the audience and made rounds on the Neo Folk community ages later. Corvus Corax themselves heard it on a radio station in Denmark roughly 2009'ish and called them asking how and when they got that song because they NEVER recorded it for public use. Personally i cannot give a wager who this is? I am not that good with this genre so i go with what people older than me and much better with this music say. To me it could be Manowar, something they never intended to be released publicly, it could be the Z'Rose a bunch of people feel it is, it could be Overdrive/Overkill (i do not know if these names are the same band or 2 separate ones?), it could be me time traveling impersonating my great uncle Fred......ok that last one was just meant to be a joke lol." Then someone says: "has your sister contacted erik to see about the the song?" and he says "OH HELL NO!!! They haven't spoken since they broke up in 1991-1992. I did reach out to his brother probably a year ago and never heard back."
He suggests it's either Manowar or Sarissa (he mispelled them): "@aSome1 There's some confusion, my sisters never said Z'Rose was playing the song in our hometown area. Local teenage to early college yrs bands were playing it. They recognized this song when I was on a family Zoom chat, i had this song on in the background (by accident actually lol) and my oldest sister (#1 born in '70) asked what i was listening to. I turned it up and she shook her head and asked the other sister (#2 born in '72) "Oh my gosh isn't that that stupid Manowar song Erik and his brother used to play all the time?". Erik was the name of her high school boyfriend. They remember hearing it first at an amateur music fest when my brother (born in '82) was still a baby. Mainly they remember mom fitting all of them in her old "Batmobile" station wagon. By the time i was born in '84 that station wagon was gone for at least several months. The band names they specifically remember playing this, and keep in mind these were "Garage bands" from the 80's were: Venomous Vomit, Razors in your Coffee (Erik's band), Ash to Ash, Cauldron Kings, Coven of Metal, Pridesville, South of Hell and Purgatory. They said there were a few more, but didn't remember....or care....to know their names. (Disclaimer: Several peoples associated with those mentioned bands have been contacted by me and several have replied.....the most common reply is "How the hell do you know us!?" lol)
"I have actually been looking at this song for almost 3yrs. I've had some "good leads" and some "bad leads" and i've also had "WTF leads".......but at the end it is still unsolved. So far the biggest contenders, from people way better with this music than me (I'm more a symphonic or extreme metal person) have been: Manowar, Iron Maiden, OverDrive, Overkill, Onslaught of Destruction and Sonic Mahem. My sisters really believe it is possibly an unreleased or "pitch demo" of Manowar but they also said it might be a Greek band from the early 80's called Sarassa or something like that?"
Then he denies it's Z-Rose: "@lostwavefinder587 I have seen that name tossed around a lot on forums and random chats (this being one of them). Most people way smarter and better with this music than myself seem to have the opinion that it is not Z'Rose. They range in reason from: the equipment sound professional and they were not, the dates don't add up, Z'Rose only did covers so even it is them in the recordings it's still not their song.....one individual (a supervisor at work who lived in Texas during this time frame) actually said "Z'Rose wouldn't have been sober enough to finish that song". I have only heard 1 Z'Rose recording, and unfortunately the person who recorded it (I think the date says 1989?) spends the majority of the 5 minute video talking during the performance so all i hear is them and not the singer. I have to emphasize about %99 of this info i'm presenting is NOT from me but people who know this genre of music way better than me....i'm more Symphonic metal and neo folk (Corvus Corax, Heilung, Faun etc."
"Out of curiosity, since a lot people think this might be Z'Rose, has anyone contacted the family/families of Nick or Joe Cavazos? My "team" is looking into a blog page from 2018 of a pretty intense exchange between a blogger and a woman who is believed to be "Rocker Joe's daughter. In this exchange she states this song is NOT her dad and uncle's band. But it gets pretty rough because the blogger keeps pressing and let's just say some NSFW language is exchanged. I will only say this, the woman's name does match one of the names in Julio "Joe" Cavazos obituary, but they can't tell if it is actually HER or someone posing. I also find it interesting that in another posting of this song someone is claiming to be the nephew of both Nick and Joe.....but about a dozen people ask about this song and he does not answer them......but someone else will ask something unrelated to this song and he answers??"
"About a year ago on another posting of this song, someone had a link to a conversation with a woman who was allegedly Joe Cavazos daughter. She very adamantly denied this was her dads band, Z'Rose. They person kept pressing her and she did not budge a single inch, "NO, its not my dad's band". The only thing that could be confirmed was the woman's name did match a name in Julio "Joe" Cavazos obituary as his daughter. But if it was her or not I can't say? Many peoples on other postings and on forums have all claimed to have gotten in contact with Z'Rose and stated they responded "No" to this being theirs.
So the "Kings Fall" song by Bernard Cavazos is actually a completely different song. He is also not related to the Z'Rose Cavazos. Somewhere I read that the "Kings Fall"/"Fallen King" song by Bernard Cavazos is about a corrupt politician or mafia like "king" not an actual king. Again none of this is from me, it's from things I read, not me.
When 'Wang' did a video about several mystery songs he included this one. In his video (I don't know if he made more than one?) he talked about how that Bernard Cavazos has been contacted and has denied this is his Fall of the King song. If my memory is correct Wang read a message from him explaining his "king" was a corrupt politician or gang leader like king. Wang also mentioned there was another Bernard Cavazos who was a doctor and he is sick and tired of people contacting him about this song"
Someone that replied to him said:
"@CharlesMarkward probably this tape recording was an attempt from them to make something of their own, many bands have started this way, an example is the Brazilian power metal band Angra, they were first meant to be an Iron Maiden tribute but as things went by, they have decided to release things of their own...I couldn't find anything about this "Z'Rose" band in metal-archives, neither at Google with a simple research, but the data gathered until this moment make sense: the Z Rock radio is from Texas, the so called "Z'Rose" band is also from Texas, it was the 80's, so, without internet, this was the way bands used to promote their work...but your story adds some drifts from this sensible data available until now...they are/were from Texas, ok...but until then, they weren't any big group, which means they were probably 9 to 5 salarymen whose musician activity was on weekends and the money earned wasn't enough to keep up with, so, a trip from TX to PA is a long ranged one and expensive for their then standards, I can remember when I've read the Mick Wall's Metallica biography, in which they highlight how hard was for them to go all the way from CA to NY to record Kill em' All, well, unless someone sponsored the so called "Z'Rose from Texas" (like the Zazula couple to Metallica) to play in the events you've mentioned in PA...which means they were good and had potential (this "mysterious recording" doesn't let me lie), because it takes a lot for someone at the other eastern extreme of a big country like the USA to call someone all the way from TX to play in an event when probably there were good bands around and without the need of a sponsorship to travel and get some place to sleep and eat..."
Therefore Charles says: "Also, i am not the one saying it's not them. People much better with much more access to metal archives/records are saying it's not them. BUT, everything you said makes perfect sense to me and I have no argument against any of it. It would make perfect sense if it was a possible pitch demo Z'Rose recorded and kept along for a few years before a station played it. My sisters are %98 certain it was a Manowar song, the only other band they mentioned as a possibility is a Greek band i can't find anything about called something like Sarassa??"
Someone told him to contact Erik: "A little bit ago someone in here suggested i contact my sisters ex and ask where he got this song. I could not get a hold of him, but i did get in contact with his brother he played with. According to the brother they got the song from their aunt who lived in Philly (Center City) and would send them tapes of songs to play. This song was on a tape sandwiched between "4 or 5" Manowar songs. He specifically remembered this for 2 reasons: 1, their aunt wrote "Killing of the king by No Name" and 2, the last song on the this tape was labled as a Venom song (he did not recall which) but was actually "Melody of Love" by Bobby Vinton😂. So i think this is why my sisters keep saying it's Manowar, because if it was on a tape with a bunch of their songs that chances are they heard a crapload of times?"
He contacted Erik's brother (Erik is supposedly the ex boyfriend of one of his sisters) and received this reply: "Erik's brother returned another email I sent about this song. I made a post about it about a week ago. The brother says their aunt who lived in Philly included this song on a mix tape of stuff for him and his brother to play. This song was sandwiched between several Manowar songs and the last song on the tape was supposed to be a Venom song but was actually Bobby Vinton's "Melody of Love" 🤣"
Therefore debunking the possibility it's a Manowar song, he also adds: "She (the aunt) passed in 2014. She would record songs off the radio for them. She lived in Philly (Center City) but also had a place in Florida, so he was never sure which cities radio stations she would record from. This song she wrote "Killing the King?" As the title and "???" as the band name, but it was between several Manowar songs. I think this might be why my oldest sisters are so insistent this is a Manowar song because they may have listened to it with Erik and his brother.....it's a theory lol"
He also thought of Iced Earth as the possible band: "lostwavefinder587 I immediately thought of Iced Earth when I heard this song. Although it's likely just a coincidence, it's interesting to note that Iced Earth was originally called "The Rose".
Someone said to him: "if that's any help, the Greek band's name you're talking about is probably Sarissa. I don't think it's them, though: the vox sound kinda different, and their songs are mostly Ancient Greece-themed." And he replied: "Yes, thank you! All this time I've been spelling it wrong. I gave a quick listen to a demo of theirs from '86. In terms of sound and beat and tempo etc, they are pretty close to this song. In terms of vocals, they sound nothing alike." Therefore, he debunked Sarissa himself.
Now here he changed his version and provides a new lead given by his sisters:
"Holy crap for some reason my last post got cut in half and didn't include the following info, sorry! So the individual i spoke to and got the new possible lead is the former singer of the one band my sisters mentioned, Purgatory, (i do NOT have his permission to use his real name but his stage name was Tarantula). He confirmed he played this song "once or twice" but didn't know the lyrics so they just repeated several "blocks" over and over again. He heard it from a band in NJ and when he asked if he could use the song they replied along the lines of "It's not our song, we don't care" but gave no indication who it was or they even knew who it was? He suggested the band "Knightmare" because they were from Texas and he remembers all of their songs being medieval or medieval fantasy related. Supposedly they wore what looked like full on plate armor (he does not know if it was actual metal armor or something made to look like it). He saw them perform a handful of times because he spent summers in Texas on his grandfathers (mistakenly said uncle in my last post, sorry) ranch and would sneak off at night to "the metal scene" (i do not know if that was a club name or if he just meant that in general?). He began visiting his grandfathers ranch in 1980 and stopped when his grandfather retired in 1992. He gave an estimated timeline for "Knightmare" of 1981-1989."
He corrects himself by saying they are not called "Knightmare": Interestingly, my supervisor at work lived in Texas during this timeline (roughly mid 70's to mid 90's from what i can gather?) and when I asked him about Knightmare he had no idea. But when i mentioned they dressed up like knights in armor he suddenly looked startled and said "That wasn't their name, their name was Battle Battalion or some s*** like that".
But then he says: "So i posted a few months ago about this song, my sisters remember garage bands in the area playing this… I checked every band called Knightmare on Metal Encyclopedia and it doesn’t look like it’s our band." "Forgive my French.....Damn. I thought maybe it could have been a lead but i guess like dozens of others I've come across, dead end. I did a quick search for Knightmare a few weeks ago and I got all excited i saw one band dressed up like monks or Druids, but that band only came out in 2017. I think it's safe to say the name has been used by many bands."
Then someone asks him: "Does the name "Battle Battalion" show up on any Metal "pedia" sites? That's what my supervisor claims this "dressed up in medieval armor" bands name was?" and another one told him: "I saw some bands with Battalion on the metal encyclopedia and discogs and none of them are our band. I don’t think we should go based on what a band wears as our lead."
Then he debunks the Knightmare (and the Conquest) lead: "So a little bit ago i mentioned a band name "Knightmare" as a possibility for this song. Well the band was actually called "KnyghtBlyde" (Knight Blade) and i got in contact with the daughter of the vocalist last night. I played this song for her and after some confliction/hesitation she said it is NOT her dad. The biggest thing was all of her dads songs were based of Aruthurian lore and filled with references to Camelot, Arthur, Morgana, Lancelot, Excalibur etc. Since this song has none of that, its not them. She has no idea who this is. I did a quick search "Conquest 80's metal band Texas" and found 3 results. Conquest from San Antonio, split in either '85 or '87. Conquest from Dallas, '86 - '90. Khan'quest (possibly same band as Khanquistador?), no location given but split up in '88 then reformed in 2000 then......nothing? I could not find anything about any of their songs or demos or releases or band members. But it's obvious I was thinking of the wrong Conquest bands 😂 Conquest was ruled out. Someone who owns the tape was contacted and told us this isn't them."
And he says the singer of KnyghtBlade is convinced this song is from Battallion:
"So a little bit ago I mentioned getting in contact with KnyghtBlyde singers daughter who states that this is NOT her dad. She contacted me this morning, her father thinks this song might be by a band called Battalion. But her father said Battalion also went by the name AAA, Anti Aircraft Assault (or Artillery) in their early days. According to her father AAA/Battalion were from Texas but at least 2 of their members were originally from Chicago. Has anyone ever heard of either Battalion or AAA, Anti Aircraft Assault? The closest I can say is my one supervisor at work mentioned a band Battle Battalion from Texas when he lived there."
Then someone replies to him: "you are right there is a band named Battalion formed in 1984" He says: "I cannot find a single piece of music from this particular "Battalion"? From what I could find they formed between 1983 and 1985, split, reformed under a few possible names, split, repeat. 2 people I asked did say they remember a band of some sort from "out west" Anti Aircraft A-something, but neither could give any info."
Now here, he suggests it could be a Talon song:
"So here's a potential lead for everyone: I was just playing this song for a friend who is obsessed with all metal music. She asked me "Where did you get that Talon song?" Talon was/is a German heavy metal band from the early 80's that released several demos and full on albums between '83-'89. Almost all of there songs were medieval themed, especially their 2 demos. Herr's the thing, they supposedly have 3 unnamed tracks from both demos, one allegedly called "King Slayer". I listened to a bunch of there songs and I have to say there are several songs where the singer sounds exactly like our mystery singer, but then the next song they sound nothing alike. There was one song called something like "Execution" that the opening guitar sounds like this songs opening only slower? I'm not saying it is Talon, but it is possibly something to look into or at least consider?"
He also claimed the singer sounds like Bruce Dickinson (which has been suggested many times):
"I've said many times that I personally feel this vocalist sounds extremely close to Bruce Dickinson. There is a clip of Bruce singing Tom Jones' "Delilah" on either a talk or game show, and his opening of that song is nearly identical to this Fall of the King vocals! Tone, tempo, cadence, pitch......it's really really on spot. I am NOT saying it is Bruce, I'm just saying whoever it is does a good job singing like him."
He says this song could be made by Eviscerator:
"Hello again everyone, has anyone ever heard of a band from Britain, late 70's through late 80's called "Eviscerator"? Very very long story short: I played this song at a Viking/Pagan/Neo-Folk/Black Metal "bar" about half a mile up the road from my place and the one patron who looked like Elvira and Lilith Bathory had a daughter together (HOT HOT HOT) comes over and asked me to replay it and she sang along with the recording with about %95 accuracy! Oddly, at the end after the 4 or 5 "The Fall of the King"s, she suddenly sang "The evil one now wears the crown, all hail the evil one" and head banged for a few moments. According to her, this song was by a band called "Eviscerator" and they always claimed this song was written as a pitch track for the movie Heavy Metal? I mentioned how this song by numerous accounts was recorded here in the USA in 86-87 from stations in Texas, Chicago, Cleveland, NYC and (by only one account) possibly Florida. She didn't feel there was an issue with that as stations will often play random things just to fill the spot including songs that are several years older. I asked about her added line at the end and she stated "I didn't add s*** bud, whoever recorded it must have cut it off before they got to it". I mentioned how numerous people strongly believe this is the work of Z'Rose, she said they probably covered it a bunch of times but it is not their song and even stated that this particular recording sounds like it could be them covering. She was more familiar with Z'Rose than me, she commented "The 3 Cavlaros brothers from Texas right? The singer was the oldest brother Jeff?" (I know that's not their name, i only included it for aunthenticity per context of our discussion, the last name is Cavazos and there was only 2 of them right?). She also told me Z'Rose had about a dozen other names through their years including "Gypsy Rose". I asked how she knew this British band "Eviscerator" and she answered that she lived in London from 78-85 and this song was played a lot on "amateur hour" on several stations, especially university stations. This kind of took me by surprise because i thought she looked younger than me (I'm 39) but she lived in England for college and her first husband in the late 70's??"
"In my last comments i mentioned a bar i went to was going to have a mini concert featuring bands that specialize in black metal and 80's tribute metal and i would play this song to see if any of the band peoples or concert goers would chime in. I did just that and got a few hits on the radar with a few of the band members. The one band, Inviaat, the singer says he remembers this song being played on a radio station in Philly PA for an entire summer because that station was trying to find the band. He does not remember the specific station but said it was near the Taylor University campus (my understanding is that there is several?) because the station thought it was the students from that university's music program. When i asked him when exactly that would have been he said Summer of 1983 because he was married on Halloween 1983 and was hoping the station would find the band so they could play at his wedding. A member from the local band "inductus Mortis" said he recalls that song being played "somewhere in the mid 80's" but does not remember if he heard it in Chicago or Cleveland because he bounced between them. I asked several bands, include the Venom tribute band Poisonous Whisper if anyone had ever heard of a band name Eviscerator from the 80's. Only one person thought he heard the name but it wasn't a band name it was a compilation album of NWOBHM from roughly '83-'84, but couldn't tell me anything other than that. As for the other concert goers, the #1 response i got from them was along the lines of "Dude you can sing, you should go pro!".....in other words they thought it was me promoting myself (I wish i could sing like that!!). the #2 response was people thought it was Manowar. After those 2 the guesses were the usual ones i have seen here and everywhere else this topic comes up: Blackmaine, Axis, Overkill, Overdrive, Black Sabath, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, WitchAxe and 2 people even asked if it was an Ozzy Osbourne demo."
"I asked around, including my oldest sisters I've mentioned in my postings, about Eviscerator. The only person who heard of them, the one from this time-frame not the other 8 or 9 bands from the 2000's with that name, said they were a generic ManowaIron Maiden/Judas Priest tribute or more accurately, ripoff, band who sucked. I am not saying I buy this woman's account, but i'm also not discrediting it or calling her a liar. Her familiarity with this song and her accuracy with the lyrics makes me believe she knows this song from somewhere.....what that somewhere is, i can't comment because i don't know?"
"So far my friends and I have several "pings" to look into, the name Eviscerator has absolutely nothing from the time frame we're looking at. But there is (was?) a "Lee Lesaat" Canadian/British "mercenary" (did not belong to any band but would play for others) drummer who now lives in NYC my friends are looking into.
There is an 80's metal/black metal tribute concert this Saturday at the bar I was at last weekend. After the bands play their sets they have an open mic like set up where you can play your own music (as long as it fits the theme). I'm going to try and play this song and see if anyone, bands or crowd or food vendors etc, have any reaction.
And by "pings" I just mean responses/possible possible long shot leads. The guy or girl claiming to be a psychic vampire who time traveled and wrote this song for The Lost Boys movie is NOT going to be one of them😂"
Then someone asks: "What band is this Eviscerator ? I found a band that was formed in 2012 . Furthermore tthe song is not in the metal archives I searched through lyrics was not found." He says: "Allegedly they were in England in the 1980's, but the woman stated 2 of them had New York accents. If all of her account is true and accurate, they were NOT a professional big name band. I did find several bands with the title "Eviscerator" (in different variations) but all of them were from the 2000's. The only "pro" band with that title I could find was a Hungarian band from the mid 2000's. I asked Satanic lady if she remembered any of the other bands that played alongside "Eviscerator" and she only remembered 3: "Band-Shee" (an all female band....get it?) Gargoyle, and Werewolf Tears."
"I have a very very small update for everyone, but it's still an update nonetheless. The mystery succubus looking woman who said this song was by Eviscerator and sang along to it (even when I "accidentally" muted my phone to see if she was just repeating what she was hearing.....she was not) has been identified by my journalist friend! We are going to try and get in contact with her and see if there is anything else she can remember about "Eviscerator" that could help. I'm not going to get my hopes up, but her familiarity with this songs lyrics and the fact she sang almost in perfect synch with the beat makes me feel she really did know this song from somewhere in her past. That or she is a very good actress? Lol
I found only 1 solid, confirmed band with that name but they were from mid 2000's Hungary. But several peoples now and then tell me they remember hearing that name in the 80's as various things; crappy garage band, NWOHBM compilation album/work, some sort of event space or name, most recently someone claimed he thought it was the stage name of a singer but didn't know who or what band. I'm trying to get in touch with the woman who originally mentioned that name."
He posted this comment that lead nowhere: "2 very small updates for everyone:
1) The Viking/Pagan/Goth/Black Metal themed bar just around the corner from me is having a New Years event tomorrow night. They actually agree to give me a "booth" where i can have a "guess this song" set up. And, it will be right next to where the bands play...I'm going to be between the "stage" and the food truck lol
2) The one radio station i submitted this song to will play it on their "X hour" on 1/8/24. It is not a hugely popular segment, maybe a few hundred listeners, but it's better than nothing.
Here's to the New Year and hope this song and numerous others get solved!"
"So the station played this song Sunday night/Monday morning. They played it 4 times between 2:07am - 3:12am. They received 9 calls about it and about a dozen emails (I seriously didn't know they had an email!?!?!?). Unfortunately the majority of contacts were people either asking for them to replay it or people thinking it was Manowar. There were a few Iron Maidens and one or 2 Ozzy Osborne's. Only 2 people stated they heard this song before. Unfortunately they heard it from "some kilt wearing guy at blank bar plays it, I think it's him self promoting". Yes that's me they referenced and no it is not me singing lol"
He suggest matrixx as a possibility: "There's a band called matrixx that has been giving me interest. They were only around for two years due to financial struggles in their stage. If you look up attaxe and fiinal notice they share two members of matrixx. Their drummer and guitarist sound very similar to the band from this song. It's pretty crazy too because they have a song called defy the king. They also had a label to produce their songs which is called Suma Recording Studios. This may be the reason why the audio sounds too good for a small band. I hope that this is the band! Too many good clues that I found"
He debunks the Steven Lindfield lead: "One of the names thrown about here and there on posts about this song is a Steven Linfield ("Lindi") who bounced between Chicago and NYC in the 1980's. His alleged involvement varries between being the DJ who allegedly played it on a NYC station, to being a Chicago stations record manageclerk etc etc. I got in contact with him yesterday. He denies having ANYTHING to do with the airing of this song and does not know how or why his name came up. While he did work at 2 stations (NYC, then Chicago during the summer) he was an overnight watchman (security). However, he does recall this song being played on "some amateur hour crapshoot" in '86 in NYC a bunch of times. At that point in '86 he claims people were referencing it as "The King Song" or "The song of the King" (drawn out to match the singers "The Faaaalllll, the fall of the kiiiiiing") and it was already 2 or 3 years old at that time. He did explain that at least at the Chicago station there was an amateur drop-off slot that the dj's would pick through and play random "no namers" labeling them as "space filler". Because they would be played, literally just to fill space, they were NOT mandated to keep any records of them. Sometimes the dj's would just make up names to some of these. One of his main duties was to check the drop-off to make sure there were no bad things thrown in there instead of cassettes. Another dead end, but at least we rulled out one theory......silver lining??😂 LINDFIELD, not Linfield. Darn autocorrect on this phone."
He is convinced it's a professional band's demo: Thats why a lot people I have introduced to this song think it's a professional band, or at the extreme least an amateur band playing with top level equipment/sponsor? 1983 guy stated they sound like they have equipment his garage band "couldn't even afford to dream about looking at yet alone use". It's also one of the reasons my 2 oldest sisters insist this is a professional band (sister #1 says Manowar, #2 says Manowar or Sarissa) because there are no goofs or mistakes or errors. My sisters gave an example of a garage band from their Kutztown university days, "Freefall Abyss" that self released a demo and in one song you can hear a telephone ringing in the background and in another you can hear a fan or ac unit going.
He contacted a girl named Della: "This song was actually played on an old Philly/NJ station on the segment "Della names your tune" in 2009. I was able to get in contact with "Della" (real name withheld by her request) who at first stated "I played thousands of unnamed songs bud, I probably played this one 100 times, sorry i wont be much help" . Then a few days later replied "I do recall this one, it was sent in from a local listener who had it labeled as Dungeon Master or maybe Dragon Master on a CD with a bunch of old early Manowar, JudaPriest, Iron Maiden, Megadead, Metallica and AngelWitch songs. He or she claimed their father had this song on a tape from his college days. Nobody knew what or who it was back in '09 or '10 and as far as I know nobody figured it out when I left the program in '15." The only name she gave, and I don't know if this was even a real name or the drummers "stage name" was Leopald Lestat.........I do have 2 people looking into it (from a metal dating site of all places). Disclaimer: I know some of those bands are misspelled, I purposefully left it that way because that's how she sent it to me."
"I went down that road, you nailed it right on the head. There is no way to track down who that listener was. The only hint she had, in the form of the note attached to the CD was the person said they were from Radnor PA. I couldn't tell you because the other songs kind of bounce around in terms of year: there's a Judas Priest and an Angel Witch song both from 1980 but then there's a song from Megadeath (I believe Megadeath came out in '85?) and a Metallica song from '86? For some reason my one comment didn't show up? Della gave a pretty big hint, she said the mailing address on the CD was from Radnor PA, but the phone number included was a landline for a Chicago address. Her and the station managers assumed it was a "shadow number" and didn't bother keeping record of it. A lot of her requests had local addresses with out of state phone numbers, cellular and landline."
He suggests Dungeon Masters: "I have a potential lead, "Dungeon Masters" from Pittsburgh PA? Long story short: everyone at work talks about a "hot nerdy chick" who works at the one antique book store in town and she is a music genius and knows EVERY song people play. So i decided to test it. I played this song and she stated "I think thats Dungeon Masters, they were from my hometown of Pittsburgh PA back in the early to late 80's. Thats either Dungeon Masters or someone doing an incredible job imitating them?". Given that Cleveland is only a 2-3 hr drive from Pittsburgh (from what Steelers players say) i think this could be a possible lead and explain the Cleveland recording? Again, this is only a POSSIBLE lead, but i think it has potential?
Currently my one "source" is looking into it. He is not always accurate (as evidenced when we were looking into Conquest) but its better than nothing."
And someone adds this: "Della said the same Dungeon Masters so better look into it"
But he says this: "Close, "Della" stated the listener who sent in the CD had this song labeled as "Dungeon Master?", not a band name. But I am looking into it as best as I can. I found a Pittsburgh band "Dungeon" but they're NOT metal they're an Omnia/Faun like band (neo-folk I think is the term?) formed in 2018. I sent word out to the people I know and my "team". Now it is a waiting game."

I (19F) and my close friend (18F) been friends since high school. Our friendship might not be as long as my others but I love her so much and she was always that one friend that showed me kindness and love, overall she was just a very kind person and friend.
Not too long ago I started talking to this guy that was introduced by my guy friend. My friend was holding a birthday party and he invited all his close friends that’s when I met him since they’re best friends. We found out that we liked each other and started talking. He took me out on dates and we started getting physical towards each other but not sex. It was my first time ever doing anything with someone and he was also my first kiss. But there were so many red flags. After we hung out he would never text me or any of the sort saying “I had fun with you” or all that. We would just vc with everyone else in the friend group in discord. He was a really nice guy but thinking back now I could tell he was definitely not ready to be in a committed relationship. Even before talking to him he mentioned that he just got out of a really bad relationship where his ex cheated on him. I know I should’ve known better than not to talk to a guy who wasn’t fully healed yet because even when we were talking he would bring his ex up often. But his best friend keep telling me that he’s not using me as a rebound and he genuinely liked me and I believed him. I gave them both the benefit of the doubt but turned out that I was wrong. He was wrong. Whenever I was tripping over something they would make me feel like I was the crazy one when all I wanted was the bare minimum. In the end he ended things because he “wasn’t ready” to be in a relationship and he was sorry that if he gave me the impression of leading me on. He DID led me on, but the thing is that all before this I asked him if he still wanted to work on us or not he told me yes he still want to work on us even if he have issues. He gave me a clear answer that from now on he’ll do better but the very next day he ghosted me. I thought I was overthinking but I knew I wasn’t because if a guy really wanted you they would have the decency to simply text you but he didn’t. I was already committed to this guy. We talked for 2 whole months already, went on dates, had sleepovers, slept on the same bed and I let him touched me, and I don’t let just anyone do that because I cherish my body.
I then texted his best friend to tell him to text me and tell me what’s going on because it isn’t fair for me. I even texted him myself before that but he just left me on delivered. After awhile and texting his best friend he finally texted me back saying he’s sorry for ghosting me and that he needs time to think. I understood and patiently waited. Whole week went by and I heard nothing from him. This is when my close friend of mine, let’s call her kam.
Kam was the one I vented to the most whenever I was sad because of him, when I started overthinking, when I cried, she been there for me and saw how shitty he treated me. Kam told me that he plan to write a paragraph to me ending things, she knew she wasn’t supposed to tell me but she wanted me to move on from him quick cause she knew what he did to me wasn’t fair. I thanked her so much for it because it gave me time to prepare and it made me not feel like I was being left in the dark not knowing what was going on. I loved her so much. So then after a whole two weeks he finally sent the paragraph coming up with all these excuses why things won’t work out between us. I was understanding, more than I should’ve been. We ended on a decent note. But something happened with him and that was when I started to despise him and left the friend group and mind u this right after all of this I also ended things with my very best friend of 11 years, that is a whole another story but I had very good reasons to. And when I was dealing with all of that Kam was the one that was there for me, she was the only one in the friend group that understood why I ended my friendship with my bsf and why I despised the guy I use to talk to. She’s aware of everything I went through because of him. But recently she came out to tell me that she’s talking to him.
I never felt like that in my life. I loved her so much I thought to myself how could she do this to me? She said she wanted to tell me because she didnt wanna do it behind my back. But does it really make it any better? She knew what kind of person he is and how he hurt me but how could she just go to talking with him. When I brought up girl code her excuses were that we weren’t even dating and that she’s not serious about him, but that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t changed the fact that he was the person who’s hurt me and she been there for me through all that. It’s the principle of things. And how is he suddenly crushing on her, one of my CLOSEST friend right after telling me he’s not ready for a relationship and that he needs to focus on himself. She then blamed me for getting hurt. I never would’ve done this to her. I knew that she were still healing from her ex too and I would’ve never blame her for getting hurt no matter what, alone TALKING to her ex. She told me that if I started talking to her ex she wouldn’t mind as long as I give her a heads up. Like what??…do you have no self respect? No matter how much I love her I have my morals and principles and she crossed the line for me.
She asked me if I’m really gonna end our friendship just because of this one thing after all we been through. I kept trying to tell her it’s more than that. It’s deeper than how simply she made it sound. I asked her if she’s gonna keep talking to him even if it means risking our friendship, she said yes. Because she likes him and “it’s not that serious” that answer alone tells me she values talking to him more than our friendship. I don’t need a friend like that.
So tell me, was I wrong for ending our friendship because of this?

I’ve got some pretty severe touch starvation aka quite literally cannot remember the last time I was hugged. Never got hugs or physical affection growing up ect. Well I went to the dentist the other day and when they laid the radiation vest on me, I realized how comforting the weight was. So I went home and ordered a weighted blanket and I have to say, it actually helps significantly with feeling like I’m being held and calming my anxiety. It’s also so extremely comforting that I usually wind up falling into a deep sleep after a few minutes of using it and sleep so well that I find it difficult to wake myself back up.
I really recommend getting one if you struggle with the same problems. I just got a glass beads one off our great overlord (schmamazon)

Just wanted to say how impressed I am with this new version. I got up to the crypt in the older version a few years back and was itching to play ds2 again and was gonna do another Augur of darkness run, but that one while impressive didn't touch the dlcs..
So far I'm in Forest of Fallen giants most of the way through and did the first boss in Heide's. All the new changes are giving me the feel I wanted from Augur . Should also mention I'm kinda crazy and playing no death and Champions currently which makes it all the more engaging. Especially with the low xp gain making every purchase or stat point matter.
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/978

My manager has a habit of asking me to write important emails and briefs for our company's CEO. She'll send a voice note or forward an email from the CEO, often requesting it within the hour if it's super urgent or by end of day. When I send it to her, she copy/pastes it, erases my email signature and sends it to the CEO. I suppose it's a manager thing, the problem is that I think the CEO would actually appreciate knowing that there's an employee doing this and not the manager, because someone in her office left (I believe the executive assistant) and since that spot has been vacant, the CEO has been inundated and the work is coming down to me through my manager. I am basically doing double duty during this vacancy period for no other reason than my manager has developed a closer relationship with the CEO than other departments and wants to redeem herself after a fallout with her a few years ago. My manager would lose it if I tried to make any steps to get close to the CEO, God forbid she knows I exist. It's more than handing her the work, once I do the work, she requests that I write the actual email for her. Down to the signature. She wants to copy/paste and doesn't add any input or give direction, I am leading her in a way. She trusts my persuasive writing skills more, I've basically evolved into her ghostwriter in the 6 months I've been here. Not to mention this is all just side work, I haven't touched my deliverables this week so it looks like I am making slow progress but I'm doing admin work for the CEO that I'm not allowed to tell anyone about. HR hasn't posted the other position not even internally, they might be hiring someone more covertly, the onboarding process can take months at our place. My coworker says I'm the perfect fit, since I am doing the work already. I guess I'm just curious what would you do in this situation?

This is a follow up to a prior post
https://www.reddit.com/ryobi/comments/1csiuwd/comment/l4e1gbz/?context=3
I used my survey on the house to measure out the yard and rate it against how long a battery lasted. Each time was a fresh 6ah battery at a full charge. Mowed with dry grass, just sharpened the blade, 85 degrees out. The only change was the mower getting hotter from use. Used the side chute to maximize performance as bagging or mulching would likely drop battery performance. Will say the back yard is shaded, front is not. I am not sure if the back results would change if I mowed it last instead of first.
First round/battery was my back yard, 3540sqft. I used half of a battery and assuming the other half would match, that would be 7080sqft per battery. Mower is sold with 2 batteries and notes up to .75 acres using both batteries. Converting it out, I would get .64 acres for two batteries based on that run. A little lower than the max, but at 85% its no big deal as I assume the .75 is flat surface, no upswing in blade speed, etc.
Second round was the main section of my front yard, drained the battery 100% on the very last bit. Mower had a small cool down since the back yard, but warmer and getting hotter as I mowed. This time I only covered 4790sqft. Converting that out like the first battery, at the same rate I would only get .48 acres done with two batteries. That is 64% of the advertised max size. Mower began slowing down a bit, hard to tell if it was low battery vs other issues.
Third round was another fresh 6ah to get the rest of the front. I used half of the battery and only covered 1418sqft. Converting out again, 2 of these batteries at this pace would only get .26 acres mowed. That is 35% of the advertised size. During this round, the mower started to slow as well. Speed would go up and down while blade speed was consistent. I turned off the blades and used just the self propel to get it back to the shed and the speed continued to go up and down and at times nearly come to stop despite half a battery still left.
The more use and heat, the worse it performs. Last week it took two full batteries for the front yard at 90+ degrees and I didn't touch the back yard that day. Performance then was far worse on those two and that was without the back yard mow somewhat warming up the mower. At this point I have began the process with RYOBI to either have them replace it or refund the purchase. Replacement may become an annual event unless they can fix the issue as this is the replacement to another unit with similar issues.

Currently applying for a more senior role in a private equity backed IT firm. I like the role more than my current Customer Success role although role is still under Customer success umbrella.
Current company: dinausaur- old,very old;public;global in reach;triple to quadruple size of the prospective new company.high pay, great OTE good benefits. i didnt get any salary adjustment this year because 1)group retention number is not high enough 2)new manager says im already on the highest peak of my salary grade.
New manager is too early to assess, ex colleague who got promoted.previous manager is almost 20 years in company, she was the one who hired most of the team members, she left suddenly.the ex boss, her boss and the VP lead of the entire Customer success org, 3 levels up basically left in the past 18 months.all these VPs have worked more than 15 years in the company.
All new leaders from execs all less than 2 years in role- CRO, Ops Vp and CS leader, seem good, but has repeated history of trimming the fat of any org they take over, internally or where they used to work.Earnings show company is negative p&l for 4 or 5 quarters now, high opex mainly due to high cogs which is mainly sales salaries because we are technically like SAAS.growth is less than 4pc annually. CS team is fully remote but many other employees outside CS are being called back to office.Company seems bleeding, current ratios are getting red.stock chart is a descending ladder since going public after being private, which it was forced to do after mega restructurinh. Originally public in the 00s then went private then public now, layoffs are part of the culture.there are Hundreds of long term employees with decades of tenure.they have also started outsourcing their key service overseas.Upcoming department change, CS teams are getting assigned less accounts, one group will be converted from dedicated enterprise to pooled/low touch CSM approach by Q3. Also rolling out a new automated client success software. Company is putting out fires and new peoducts continiously, has an established and solid brand but has attracted lots of legal battles that claimed it is fraudulent.I cant shrug the feeling our CS team will get laid off given more than half are assigned to low revenue or non performing account segments after a new GTM was designed but not yet launched. There are many others doing my job, im not a leader, and career progression is a question mark, possibly lateral but not leadership unless a major overhaul happens.when a VP position opened, they claimed hundreds applied, and more than a dozen were internal.they hired external and promoted 2 to supervisory roles but doing so added reporting layer to 20 other individual contributors who prebiously reported to a vp and now just reporting to a director.
Prospective company: old brands plus new IT niche products, private equity backed, kinda dropped hints that salary is a bit lower than my current range though the advertised wage is within my target. Given the hints they might get to match or even up the nasic salary but may not even come close to my current ote.as per linkedin people are mostly recent hires 3 years or less, company is undergoing rebranding and trying to get second or third wind, fully remote.their brands are old so they are fighting to be more modern, competitive and relevant, something I had multiple experience with from my previous companies which digitized, cloud migrated and converted evergreen to subscription based offerings. prospective companu is backed up by private equity,so have no sales or revenue figures to review. i have no idea what happens if they suddenly get dropped or sold.
with all the lay offs going im worried that if I am new in any org i get more proned to get laid off, but i really love the role described, and i have this gut feel i will enjoy the challenge whereas my current role in my present job is day by day diminishing our client success value,by no longer doing dedicated CS engagements as we move to low touch.
No one seems safe from possible lay offs, what would you do if you were in my shoes?

Hey everyone o/
As you saw by the title, I'm dealing with some stuff at work. I work for a company that is franchised, and my franchise owner is cutting my hours. My Owner, M, has cut my hours due to me being a 'problem starter' in the work place.
For the past week, I have been being sexually harassed by an older coworker during our shifts together. I'm 20M, and he's 22M. We're both gay, but I have been in a committed relationship for the past 2 years and have made this fact known. He is constantly touching my on my waist, hips, lower back, and even intentionally grazed his butt against mine. Every time he has touched me, I asked him to stop, but he continues to do so anyways. He has even been touching my coworkers, who are MINORS in this way.
Needless to say, I went to management about this, and my manager, A, said she would deal with the situation. During a shift with my touchy coworker, my friend had come into the store and witnessed this man touching me and heard me telling him to stop. I did not encourage her to take action in any way, however she asked to speak with him after his shift, and ended up telling him to leave me tf alone and to stop touching me or there will be problems. I told A about this, because her and I are close and frequently text outside of work, and she said she was glad someone stood up for me, and told me there would be no issues.
On the day that I had told A about the situation, 2 days before my friend confronted my coworker, I was with my coworkers her were both minors (17F), and we told A how he was touching us, how we told him to stop, and how he wouldn't.
Well I found out yesterday that those coworkers were spreading word to everyone in the store (it's pretty small, only 14 people including the manager), and some new hires who were around the age of 16-17 were going to A and telling her they did not want to be scheduled with him because they heard what he was doing to me and my friends.
A obviously went to the owner, M about this since it was bigger than her, and he told her to cut my hours since I was starting problems. When in the meeting with A yesterday, I asked if this decision was solely based on what had happened with the sexual harassment, and she said it ALSO had to do with a prior situation that I was involved with.
In this situation, there was a coworker (S, 18F) who was going around referring to my black coworkers as the Nword, and saying they only had a job at the store because A was married to a black man and she felt pity for them. I, alongside 4 other employees went to the manager tor report what we heard, and how she was being discriminatory to the POC working at the store. The manager took this to M, the owner, and he had a private meeting with S and A and ended the situation by claiming it was a 'he said she said'.
And here we are, getting my hours cut by 75% because of reporting racism, discrimination, and sexual harrassment. Is there anything I can do to fight this, or am I screwed?

Has anyone added a new keyboard layout?
I've been learning to touch type using the Colemak keyboard (there are others too, such as "Dvorak") but have just purchased a new remarkable (actually a refurbished) and support say that keyboard is not available.
I'm wondering if the collective knowledge of reddit is more pliable than support... anyone tried it? (Linux is of course very happy with countless keyboards)
(Just so it's clear, I'm talking about using the UK Keyboard hardware, but using a software version of colemak)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D31NLZ71/
I just picked up my C5 yesterday (after saying goodbye to my beloved C4, which was crushed by a tree). I'd like to update the stereo with a touch screen, built in MP3, etc.
In researching how to make this work in a C5, I came across the replacement bezel in the link above. Does it work as advertised? Is the quality decent (ie: do the texture and color match)?
Edit: This one is fake carbon fiber, there are others in plain black too.

For some context, I (19F) live with my parents and my brother (22M). My parents share a bathroom, and unfortunately I have always been forced to use the same bathroom as my brother.
My brother is high-functioning autistic, while I am diagnosed with my own plethora of mental disorders & impairments, the one that affects me the most being Borderline Personality Disorder, developed due to the way my parents treated me or rather neglected my emotional needs as a child and consistently prioritized my brother over me. To the extent of sending me away to my grandparents house for the first 12 years of my life because my parents found it easier to send me away than have to punish my brother for the way he abused me in childhood and have to constantly hear my pleads for help.
Over the last 2-3 years there has been a consistent issue with my brother spending his "shower time" in the bathroom picking at his feet, and then walking across the bath mat we have in there and leaving blood stains all over it. I struggle heavily with the fear of "contamination" and coming in contact with another persons blood, vomit, defecation, or mucus is enough to send me over the edge into a breakdown, I find it absolutely disgusting and it's something that I can't break out of even with therapy or medication.
I have to consistently take the blood-covered bath mat out of the bathroom to avoid stepping on it when I get out of the shower and to avoid walking across it when I have to use the toilet. At least once a week I have to throw the mat into the garage for my dad to use peroxide to clean out the stains because I physically cannot do it without gagging and throwing up. My PHYSICALLY DISABLED dad is the person that always ends up having to clean out the blood stains from my brother, because my brother has mastered the art of weaponized incompetence.
He will stand there and act stupid, pretend not to know where things are or how to clean things properly to the point where my dad will just say "fuck it let me do it myself since you cant". He does this to get out of almost anything he doesn't want to do. My brother is high-functioning autistic, not slow or stupid. He is advanced and smart and most certainly capable. I have watched him manipulate my parents since I was a little kid and it infuriates me.
About a year ago I reached my breaking point with the bath mat. I went in the bathroom to use the shower and there were deep blood stains ALL over the mat, not even an inch of space that was safe for me to step on. This started to send me into a breakdown and pissed me off to the point of a rage episode. When I brought it up, my brother tried to gaslight my parents into believing that the blood stains were from my period, when I hadn't had a period in well over a year because I have been on progesterone (a pill that prevents a period) since the beginning of 2023. Not to mention even if I was having my period, it's not like I would be free bleeding in the bathroom and leaving a bunch of toe-print stains all over the bath mat. TMI but I used tampons, it's not like when I had a period I was experiencing leakage.
Then, when the period excuse didn't work on my parents, he started to try and manipulate them into believing that me leaving a hairbrush/toothbrush on the counter, or having a bottle of shampoo in the shower, or sometimes leaving a shirt or towel on the floor (I would put a shirt or towel over the bathmat to avoid stepping in blood) was somehow equal and justified to him leaving blood all over the floor, and what pissed me off the most is that my parents agreed with him.
All 3 of them told me that I was overreacting, that I was being dramatic, and what hurt me most of all is my mom saying "Well if you hate living here so much, get the fuck out. Move out. Find somewhere else to go." Simply because I had an issue with stepping in someone elses biohazard.
Because I don't have the option to move out or go anywhere, I was forced to just shut up about it and hope that things would get better. I told my parents that "I'll keep the bathroom clean, there won't be any more towels on the floor, or hairbrushes on the counter, I won't leave shirts in the bathroom anymore, so I expect my brother to uphold his end of the deal and not leave blood on the mat anymore considering somehow those things are "equal".
It's been a year since then. I have not left clothes in the bathroom, I have not left towels on the floor, I have not left anything that belongs to me out on the counters other than my toothbrush which I use twice a day, and there is still blood being left on the bath mat. I am still begging my parents to this day to hold him accountable or do something about the fact that he won't stop doing it. He doesn't pick his feet in his room, blood is not an issue anywhere else in the house BUT the bath mat, and at this point I'm taking it personally because I've expressed to him before how much it bothers me, he simply just doesn't care, and this isn't the only "contamination" issue I have with him when it comes down to sharing a bathroom.
He also loves to spit toothpaste gunk and mucus all over the faucet when he brushes his teeth. It's like aiming into the sink is impossible for him. It gets all over the faucet, the faucet that I have to touch to turn on/off the water to wash my hands which defeats the purpose of washing my hands because the second my hands are clean I have to touch something that's covered in another persons spit to turn off the damn water.
I can feel myself slowly reaching the breaking point that I had last year, and every single time I bring up the bloody bathmat to my parents, I get met with "We will talk to him" or "There's nothing we can do". They don't see it as a big issue, because they don't live with it or use that bathroom. I'm also not allowed to use my parents bathroom, so I'm stuck using the one I share with my brother.
Every time I get upset about the bathmat I'm treated like I'm crazy, like I'm insane and being overdramatic and irrational. I get treated like I'm selfish and that I'm an asshole who takes my living situation for granted, like I'm a spoiled brat for requesting the simplest amount of human decency and consideration. It's gotten to a point where I've had to rely on substances just to not be as bothered by that damn bathroom. I'm forgetting what day it is, what year it is, if I've eaten that day, what I've done that day, my perception of the passing of time has gotten so fucked up from the substance use because it offers me the small little bit of relief that my parents or my brother refuse to give me.
I talked to my mom about it today, and I got once again met with the "I'll talk to him", but they never do. I know this is going to continue regardless of what they say to me, because them putting in the effort to hold my brother accountable is more work for them, and ever since childhood, they would rather just let me suffer and deal with it because it's easier.
I genuinely have no idea what to do. I have no idea how to stop this or put an end to it, but I can feel myself reaching my breaking point again, and the last time I went through that intense rage episode it scared me. Being consumed with that much rage to the point of feeling physically exausted from the amount of adrenaline and anger that festered within me for so long, I don't like that feeling, the feeling of wanting to punch, kick, scream at, and hurt another human being because the rage inside of me is so powerful and debilitating that holding it inside physically hurts. I'm not a hurtful person, I don't want to ever put hurt on another person or harm others, but this has begun to change me as a person and I don't like what it's doing to me.
If you have any advice or ideas, things that won't resort in me being homeless, please let me know. I don't know what to do and this is destroying me from the inside out.

Salaam alaykum, I am currently pregnant and from the UK. I know my husband means well but he’s really doing my head in. He’s a lot more touchy now since I became pregnant. Sometimes I don’t mind but at times it really irritates me. Like I need some space please. Especially at night when he’s asleep his hand is always on my belly, I have to constantly move it. Even if we’re sitting on the sofa he touches my belly. I’m happy that he’s still attracted to me but I need space sometimes. I tell him that it’s too much for me and to please cool off with the touching a bit. He says that he forgets and apologises.

My manager has a habit of asking me to write important emails and briefs for our company's CEO. She'll send a voice note or forward an email from the CEO, often requesting it within the hour if it's super urgent or by end of day. When I send it to her, she copy/pastes it, erases my email signature and sends it to the CEO. I suppose it's a manager thing, the problem is that I think the CEO would actually appreciate knowing that there's an employee doing this and not the manager, because someone in her office left (I believe the executive assistant) and since that spot has been vacant, the CEO has been inundated and the work is coming down to me through my manager. I am basically doing double duty during this vacancy period for no other reason than my manager has developed a closer relationship with the CEO than other departments and wants to redeem herself after a fallout with her a few years ago. My manager would lose it if I tried to make any steps to get close to the CEO, God forbid she knows I exist. It's more than handing her the work, once I do the work, she requests that I write the actual email for her. Down to the signature. She wants to copy/paste and doesn't add any input or give direction, I am leading her in a way. She trusts my persuasive writing skills more, I've basically evolved into her ghostwriter in the 6 months I've been here. Not to mention this is all just side work, I haven't touched my deliverables this week so it looks like I am making slow progress but I'm doing admin work for the CEO that I'm not allowed to tell anyone about. HR hasn't posted the other position not even internally, they might be hiring someone more covertly, the onboarding process can take months at our place. My coworker says I'm the perfect fit, since I am doing the work already. I guess I'm just curious what would you do in this situation?

pls don't click out yet but I swear there is good evidence to support this. and you will see how ironic this it.
this theory is written when re zero web novel Arc 8 chapter 73 come out
So, as we know, Todd is "Dead" to Subaru and some other person eyes. But due to Sacrament of the immortal king. those who die near the spell can be revive. So, it's safe to say that Todd could be revive too. but this is not the crazy part.
for this theory to work. let's assume that Todd had been revived and planning on retrieving Katya and also take down Subaru. So, he ran away from the Volachia kingdom and do some planning.
and sometime very later. Todd have come for Katya,
they thought just killing Todd would be enough Since the spell does not work normally anymore but Todd come prepare, he somehow manages to still be revived after dead.
then Subaru need to use the old way he did in arc 8. that's mean Spica need to use star eclipse on him. so, she teleports and touch him, and Subaru call his name.
...
nothing happens. and then Subaru realize that Todd fang is not his real name. and then...
Todd: Yang sword
Todd pulls out yang sword from the air and then he cut spica with yang sword.
ok don't click out yet.
the core of this theory is "Todd is one of the Volachia royalty"
First of all, why do I think that the case? because of his hair color is the same as priscilla? that's some part of it.
But the main evidence is how many times Tappei made him to be associate with fire.

1. he burn the budheim jungle down.
   
2. he burn the bar down.
   
3. he burn the entire gladiator island (I don't really remember he or arakiya burn it, but I remember there are fire everywhere)
   
4. the area is burning when he fought against otto,medium,petra,al
   
5. the area is burning when he fought against subaru
   

anywhere he goes, there always bound to be fire.
not to mention that he is together with arakiya for a specific time. the girl who has deep bond with volachia royalty such as priscilla. what is it call? a parallel, I guess.
So, the theory is Todd is Some Volachia royalty child that's one of his ancestors is secretly in love with werewolf, manage to run away together with the werewolf and start having children and Todd is the latest of this secret Volachia family line.
his existence would be very ironic because he is royalty and also the werewolf that the kingdom hate.
and if this the case, he will has another name chapter which is his real name that the content will just not be short Wikipedia description.
phew. that's a lot.
what do you guys think?

My boyfriend had been working to rebuild my trust (history posted below). It seems things were getting better. He lately told me that the outings he had with friends were all men. On Saturday he went to his friend’s birthday at the baclub. He came back around 4am when he said he’d come back a lot earlier. I wasn’t thinking too much of it and had recently woken up. He was texting me as he was coming home and so I made him a hot cup of tea and toast since it was cold out. When he came in I felt like something was weird about him. My gut reaction hit and my anxiety started going up. I asked if there was anyone else but the guys and he said no. I asked if I could see his phone to help me feel better and he said sure (side note: he promised me I could see his phone whenever I needed to feel better when he broke my trust before).
He wouldn’t let me touch his phone, showed just the front page of Instagram, and then started complaining he doesn’t like this treatment and he feels like I’m the police. I didn’t really say much, just listen and he then went to the bathroom. I looked at his account on my phone and I watched the followers # drop by 4. So he was deleted accounts while in the bathroom.
He came out and continued to say I make him feel bad and I’m like the police. Then I asked if he was hiding anything. He said no. We’re religious/spiritual so I asked if he could something like “God I promise I’m not hiding something” he struggled to say the whole sentence with God in it. I finally confronted him and had screenshots of one girl I knew was new before he deleted. He said he didn’t know who she is and probably someone from the past.
Eventually it came out that he met her that very night and he thought it was ok to add her because she’s the girl his friend is trying to date? She apparently arrived at the end of the night. The conversations with that male friend were also all deleted. (His reason: because I’m friends with the ex of that male friend and might mention the new girl to the ex. I barely speak to her btw…).
Anyways later I found out he also went to this tourist hostel/bar the day prior and met two other girls at the bar there and added them on Instagram. He said he was talking to the guy they were with and that’s how he met them but the guy doesn’t have Instagram so he doesn’t have proof of the guy’s existence. He forgot to delete these girls.
He then said he has other situations adds girls to be nice but deleted them because he’s worried I’ll find out since we decided just while we’re rebuilding trust to not be chatting with girls and getting their Instagram. He says he’s not cheating but was worried of causing problems and so that’s why he lied.
I almost broke up with his over this lie. It’s all very bad right now and I feel I have zero trust in him. Did I overreact?
History: When he was traveling for work in another country he found out this girl was in a beach party town nearby. This girl is very provocative on her Instagram and he had a date with before he met me. He asked her to share a hotel (he said to save money and it’s what friends do?) and she’s didn’t respond to that so they never met up. He deleted those messages. I found out because this girl thought it was weird and sent me screenshots. Hence he promised I could see his phone whenever I needed.
Also he added a waitress on Instagram from the hotel he stayed at while traveling from work. For my that seems like a very weird thing to do.

I found the necklace in an online shop, I found it beautiful and thought she would like it. Immediately after I ordered it I felt bad, not because I wasted money or anything, but because it didn't feel enough. My income is not that much and the necklace was cheap.
I gave it to her two days ago, before classes started. When I gave it to her, her eyes lit up, gave me the widest smile, started bobbing her head in this cute weird way. She kept saying thank you the whole time, immediately put it on. She kept it on the whole day, showed it proudly to her friends, who agreed that it's cute.
Her reaction did something to me. I never felt this way about someone before. I felt like crying that time, I still feel like crying when I think about it now. I want to see that smile again, and again and again.