I have had my Catalina 27 for 3 years now, and it is the most stressful thing in my life. I love sailing, but I can not calmly undock. It is so bad that I look for excuses to not go sailing, but if we do make it off the dock, once I'm under way, it is amazing and we do great. So here's the background, undocking is always me in the cockpit on the tiller and my girlfriend on the dock with the lines. It is usually just the two of us. We constantly blow immediately towards my neighbor and it becomes a stressful event.
Legend to the Pictures:
Black are cleats, the cleats on my boat are rather small unfortunately, so it is hard to loop through.
Red are lines
Silver is a winch they have a line looped around
Other boat is my neighbor with a beautiful boat that I am deathly afraid of giving a love tap to.
Here is my current set up This set up was completed by the winter storage delivery captain, so if it is not the best, do not blame me! All of the lines are "permanently" fixed on the boat cleats, with the tie off occurring on the dock.
Here is a template if you are so kind as to draw a diagram and help! I am totally open to going out and buying new lines if I need one bigger or what not. But if you all could please help me out and draw a proper diagram for this type of dock I would greatly appreciate it! If there are any sailing instructors in the Chicago area who would be willing to be hired for a a few hours to just practice undocking with my girlfriend and I, please let me know! I desperately want to enjoy this hobby, but every year I think about just selling the boat and getting out of the game, and it all comes down to undocking.
Thank you!
edit: copying a reply to another poster because I forgot some good information. No pilings at all, back out into an alley and turn towards the right. Drawings are with the nose pointed west perfect 270 heading, I turn to the north when exiting. Prevailing winds are westerly but anywhere from 210-310 degrees are common. Current, if there is one usually flows from the north, to the south, so pushing me into the other boat.

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Aristocrat's Civil Engineer chest LED/Cavalier
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Assassin's Heavy Leather left arm AP/WWR
Assassin's Heavy Robot chest Strength/WWR
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Ghoul Slayer's USA left arm AP/WWR
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Hunter's Heavy Metal right leg AP/Sentinel
Life Saving Civil Engineer chest LED/HTD
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Life Saving FSA left leg LED/Sentinel
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Mutant's Heavy Combat right leg AP/FDC
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Nocturnal Heavy Combat right leg Strength/Sentinel
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Overeater's Civil Engineer chest Agility/WWR
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Overeater's Civil Engineer chest AP/Toxic
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Overeater's Civil Engineer chest Intelligence/Sentinel
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Overeater's FSA chest Endurance/Sentinel
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Overeater's FSA right leg LED/AWR
Overeater's Heavy Combat chest LED/HTD
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Overeater's Heavy Combat right leg Perception/Sentinel
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Overeater's Heavy Metal left leg Strength/Sentinel
Overeater's Heavy Metal right leg AP/Sentinel
Overeater's Heavy Raider left arm LED/Cavalier
Overeater's Heavy Raider left leg Charisma/WWR
Overeater's Heavy Raider right arm Fire resist/FDC
Overeater's Heavy Robot chest Endurance/Sentinel
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Overeater's Heavy Robot left leg Agility/WWR
Overeater's Marine chest Rad resist/FDC
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Overeater's Marine right arm Rad resist/Sentinel
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Overeater's Marine right leg Luck/FDC
Overeater's Marine right leg Perception/WWR
Overeater's Metal left arm AP/FDC
Overeater's Metal left leg Agility/Sentinel
Overeater's Metal left leg Cryo resist/Sentinel
Overeater's Metal right arm AP/Sentinel
Overeater's Metal right leg Poison resist/Sentinel
Overeater's Raider right arm Cryo resist/Sentinel
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Overeater's Trapper left arm Cryo resist/Sentinel
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Overeater's Trapper left leg Perception/WWR
Overeater's Trapper right arm Luck/WWR
Overeater's Trapper right arm Rad resist/WWR
Overeater's USA chest Cryo resist/HTD
Overeater's USA chest LED/WWR
Overeater's USA chest Poison resist/FDC
Overeater's USA left arm Antiseptic/Sentinel
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Overeater's USA left arm Endurance/FDC
Overeater's USA left arm Endurance/WWR
Overeater's USA left arm Fire resist/FDC (2)
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Overeater's USA left arm Poison resist/Sentinel
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Overeater's USA right leg Poison resist/Sentinel
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Troubleshooter's FSA chest AP/WWR
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Unyielding FSA chest Intelligence/Acrobat
Unyielding FSA chest Intelligence/Dur
Unyielding FSA chest LED/JWR
Unyielding FSA left arm Cryo resist/AWR
Unyielding FSA left arm LED/Sentinel
Unyielding FSA left arm Poison resist/AWR
Unyielding FSA left leg AP/Acrobat
Unyielding FSA left leg Endurance/Sentinel
Unyielding FSA left leg Fire resist/AWR
Unyielding FSA left leg Luck/AWR
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Unyielding FSA right leg LED/HTD
Unyielding FSA right leg Luck/JWR
Unyielding FSA right leg Rad resist/AWR (2)
Unyielding Heavy Combat chest Strength/HTD
Unyielding Heavy Combat left leg Cryo resist/Cavalier
Unyielding Heavy Combat right arm Poison resist/JWR
Unyielding Heavy Combat right arm Poison resist/Sentinel
Unyielding Heavy Leather chest Cryo resist/HTD
Unyielding Heavy Leather left arm Rad resist/HTD
Unyielding Heavy Leather left leg Luck/Cavalier
Unyielding Heavy Metal right arm LED/Cavalier
Unyielding Heavy Metal right leg Endurance/Sentinel
Unyielding Heavy Raider chest Agility/Sentinel
Unyielding Heavy Raider left arm Poison resist/FDC
Unyielding Heavy Raider right arm AP/HTD
Unyielding Heavy Raider right arm Charisma/FDC
Unyielding Heavy Robot chest Cryo resist/Cavalier
Unyielding Heavy Robot right arm Endurance/Sentinel
Unyielding Leather left leg LED/WWR
Unyielding Marine chest Perception/Sentinel
Unyielding Marine chest Luck/WWR
Unyielding Marine chest Strength/HTD
Unyielding Marine left arm Cryo resist/HTD
Unyielding Marine left arm Strength/Cavalier (2)
Unyielding Marine left leg AP/FDC
Unyielding Marine right arm AP/Acrobat
Unyielding Marine right arm Rad resist/Cavalier
Unyielding Marine right leg Fire resist/WWR
Unyielding Marine right leg LED/AWR
Unyielding Marine right leg Luck/FDC
Unyielding Marine right leg Rad resist/AWR
Unyielding Metal chest AP/HTD
Unyielding Metal left arm LED/Sentinel
Unyielding Metal right leg AP/Cavalier
Unyielding Raider chest Luck/Cavalier
Unyielding Robot left leg Poison resist/Sentinel
Unyielding Sturdy Combat chest Strength/Sentinel
Unyielding Sturdy Combat right arm AP/AWR
Unyielding Sturdy Leather left leg LED/Sentinel
Unyielding Sturdy Metal chest AP/WWR
Unyielding Sturdy Metal left arm Rad resist/Sentinel
Unyielding Sturdy Raider chest Intelligence/FDC
Unyielding Sturdy Raider right leg Intelligence/FDC
Unyielding Sturdy Robot right arm LED/Sentinel
Unyielding Trapper chest Luck/FDC
Unyielding Trapper left leg Cryo resist/WWR
Unyielding Trapper right arm Cryo resist/Cavalier
Unyielding Trapper right arm LED/HTD
Unyielding Trapper right arm Luck/Cavalier
Unyielding USA chest AP/JWR
Unyielding USA chest Fire resist/AWR
Unyielding USA chest Luck/HTD
Unyielding USA chest Intelligence/Cavalier
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Unyielding USA chest Rad resist/JWR
Unyielding USA left arm AP/Sentinel
Unyielding USA left arm Cryo resist/WWR
Unyielding USA left arm LED/Acrobat (2)
Unyielding USA left arm Perception/FDC
Unyielding USA left arm Poison resist/AWR
Unyielding USA left arm Poison resist/HTD
Unyielding USA left arm Rad resist/Cavalier
Unyielding USA left leg Luck/AWR
Unyielding USA right arm Cryo resist/WWR
Unyielding USA right arm Intelligence/JWR
Unyielding USA right arm Luck/Cavalier
Unyielding USA right arm Poison resist/HTD
Unyielding USA right leg AP/Cavalier
Unyielding USA right leg Charisma/WWR
Unyielding USA right leg Fire resist/AWR
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Unyielding Wood chest AP/FDC
Unyielding Wood chest Luck/Cavalier
Unyielding Wood chest Luck/Sentinel
Unyielding Wood right arm AP/Sentinel
Unyielding Wood right arm LED/WWR
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So I am a av professional and work mostly in corporate live events and I have had good experiences over the years. I work mostly as an LED Tech/Lead but also have a bachelors in audio engineering and have done lighting tech work too. I have a love of learning and so I have stronger skills but always trying to develop more so I will go learn a few new pieces of gear and software a year from manufacturer’s certifications.
Well about 5 months back I got certified by Barco for E2 (operator 1A, Specialist 1B). I finally got offered my first gig by a bigger company(corporate gig)and I crumbled under the short time frame and pressure.
They had milumin feeding the E2. There was no pre-pro and I asked weeks prior for any pertinent info. I kept following up. I was hoping to offset my lack of real world experience on the E2 with preparation. I finally got a horrible room diagram with some cable runs, they had a couple pixel maps but by then I didn’t have time to mess with simulator. I’m used to companies I work for having extensive pre pro with looks, content, previz, signal flow diagrams) this was just a huge figure it all out situation with no prep.
I get to show and the milumin op is an older guy who you can tell didn’t really know it. I kept asking for 3 separate canvases and outputs but he couldn’t get them also found out milumin doesn’t like hdmi and should have used display ports. I forgot how to properly make custom formats and the clients were breathing down my neck and another event master op. This was after we had trouble with power half the day. They also had a separate company doing records and lots of input switching with atem ME. Then we needed to make a bunch of Luma key BG as source layers from Milumin to frame cellphone inputs and tablet inputs. It was super extensive stuff they barely touched in 1A&1B. I tried my best to manage but the incredible pressure had me borderline panic attacking. I didn’t even take bathroom breaks we went into overtime. The next dy was 20hrs with everyone working to try to get the show going on every part of the signal flow chain. Constant changes.
There was no planning and combined with my lack of experience with e2 outside class combined with lack of organization I was crippled. Another e2 guy also the PM showed up (apparently flew in) and they basically took all the complication off the show (no masks, basic pips) and he took 4 hours making some basic presets when he could have just deleted the BG as source layers from existing presets. For the first time in my career I was taken off op along with milumin op. They asked me to come back at 7:30 (4 hr turnaround) after keynote I was asked to go home.
I feel awful about myself I feel like I could have done a lot differently. If I knew milumin that would help if I had a couple easier shows before that could have helped. I have been fine with so many other op positions and ran cues for audio, video, lighting.
Has anyone had a colossal failure like this? I don’t even know how to feel rn I really thought I was smart enough to figure out curveballs but I felt lost. The TD assured me I’m not blacklisted and that this is a learning lesson. He was older and a lot of the other people were older so they may have seen shows fail or failed themselves. I just can’t get over losing and I’m appalled.
I’m scared to take another E2 job again because I feel like even if I study my ass off and practice there’s always something. I feel like I should just stick to my LED stuff. Maybe I’m just defeated in the moment but idk how to get over being sent home from a gig. This is a first and I’m humbled beyond belief.
If you have experienced anything like this I’d love to hear about it because I seem to be the only one that’s shit the bed on Reddit. I’ve dedicated my life to this career and now I feel like I’m worthless.

After 3 interviews. 2 evaluations. I am on the last step. A 2 hour final interview/evaluation. I really want this position, but it has been tiring.
During this final step they are splitting into two segments. First part is going to be a task that I am given. Where I am going to be evaluated on my problem solving methods and this is when Im going to have to create a presentation. I do not mind speaking or presenting. But I have never liked or have had much practicing on actually creating slides, diagrams, etc.
Second part will be more interview focused.
I am not worried at all about solving the task or presenting. I just hate powerpoint and have little practice on it. My interview is tomorrow morning. Any last minute tips? Was just informed of this in the morning.

After 3 interviews. 2 evaluations. I am on the last step. A 2 hour final interview/evaluation. I really want this position, but it has been tiring.
During this final step they are splitting into two segments. First part is going to be a task that I am given. Where I am going to be evaluated on my problem solving methods and this is when Im going to have to create a presentation. I do not mind speaking or presenting. But I have never liked or have had much practicing on actually creating slides, diagrams, etc.
Second part will be more interview focused.
I am not worried at all about solving the task or presenting. I just hate powerpoint and have little practice on it. My interview is tomorrow morning. Any last minute tips? Was just informed of this in the morning.

I’m going to try and keep this as concise as possible ….
So lately I’ve been feeling like there’s more to life than just punching a clock day in, day out. The grind of being on loud, dark, dusty sites is really starting to wear me down mentally and physically.
I’ve been licensed for about two years, and in the trade for nine. I got right into the field after aging out from junior hockey.
I never thought out or explored what I wanted to do with my life after hockey as it consumed most hours of my days (between practice, gym, video, bus rides, tournaments etc.) from 8-20 years old.
I picked this as a career to start my life and it’s done well for me financially but I don’t feel content or fulfilled???
I just have a sense that I’m meant to do something more with my life. I’m wondering if anyone else has had this feeling ….and what have you done? I’m not sure how to move on to something else or even discover what that might be
I’d like to have a life where I can spend quality time with my wife and future children and be a part of the important moments. My father spent my entire childhood working from sun up to sun down and I don’t want to be that same way for my family. I know he did it to provide ref best for our family but I value time together over money.
Lately I’ve been more appreciative of life’s precious moments over chasing the dollar

Blind Mike and Cullinane are in studio as Kirk looks through a new potential intern's resume. (02:10) Kirk breaks down Saturday's team practice and reveals that Mut and Pat Ford want Mick off the team. (08:40) Kirk discusses how bad Justin is at basketball. (25:10) Chase Cullinane calls in. (31:30) Rich Shertenleib's new show started this week and is absolutely dreadful. (46:10) Dave poses the hypothetical of Kirk doing a new radio show. (55:40) Breaking down Coleman's pizza tweet at Blind Mike this weekend. (01:07:30) Kirk is seeking out the worst third chairs in KMS history. (01:29:40) Cullinane talks about the latest from the Karen Read case. (01:38:30) Cullinane refused to pay $35 for women's hockey tickets. (01:49:00) Cotton Candy talk. (01:52:50) Liam Neeson is fully supporting a Kevin Spacey return. (01:57:20) Justin has some dated news updates. (02:02:10) A Rico vs. Nadu competition is in the works. (02:04:10) Kirk asks for an update on a Mut/Cullinane collab. (02:12:20) Dave doesn't think Justin is as war ready as he once was for the show.

I’ve been trying to get into roller hockey for the past few months. There’s sadly no indoor roller rinks near me, so I’m forced to play on concrete and smooth pavement. I’ve been looking into a few options and keep coming accross the green biscuit. But from what I understand, no version of it can handle both passing smoothly and shooting without shattering.

Is it the right time to start preparing for the CAT24? What about those who started early? what about those stories about those start even late.
I get these questions a lot of times. And CAT is quite an interesting exam in the sense that the number of days you prepare for it tell absolutely nothing about your preparation stage.
I usually get two kind of queries. First is asking if this month or that month is right time to start and prepare. Second one is number of hours required to prepare for CAT. Both are inherently wrong questions with no possible right answers. For months, I tend to say that CAT can also be cracked within 4 months or less if you inherently have some aptitude, even if that doesn't reflect in the first few mocks you take. And for hours, I usually suggest that if you start from scratch, approximately 1000 hours is what you are looking at. [200 hours per section to prepare i.e. 600 hours, 50 mocks with 6 hours each i.e. 300 hours of mocks (6 hours because mock + solve the entire paper + analysis) and another 100 hours for revision and making notes etc.]
Both of my answers (any such other answers) are actually partially wrong and misleading. I'm making this post to give you the real answer.
CAT Preparation needs to be done in three phases. In Phase One, you need to build your basic knowledge structure. This varies with sectionals and I'll explain for each section.
VARC Phase 1
Here, your basic knowledge structure involves,

1. understanding the pattern of exam.
2. Having a strategy for the exam (RC first then VA or VA first then RC, whatever works for you). Remember that whatever strategy you pick, you need to know why that particular strategy and not something else. If you don't know, it's best to start from question 1 and go to the end.

For me, I needed to read RCs first to get in flow, but I needed to be very attentive in VA. so I would do 2 RCs to get in flow, go to VA when I'm hyper focused, come back to other 2 RCs to end the section on a good note (VA was my weakness)
See how I personalized this based on when I'm most active and what's my weakness and what's my strength. You need to do the same for yourself. Don't try to sit and make it. I'll come naturally to you. If it doesn't come, It means you are comfortable with going in any order. That's good.

1. Having the ability to understand the passage.

Some people have this inherently. Most people have this in some subjects (like science) and don't have in it other subjects (like philosophy). While a few of you don't have it at all.
What you need to make sure is, when you read the passage, did you understand the entire passage like what exactly was the passage trying to say?
That's all for VARC Phase 1..
DILR Phase 1
This is fairly simple. Just go through different types of DILR questions. (If you are following my guide, just complete the rodha playlist I had attached there)
Quant Phase 1
Do a few arithmetic chapters. 3-4 basic chapters like Time Speed Distance, Ratio and proportions, Averages, Mixtures and allegations etc.
After doing this phase, here comes the phase 2 of your preparation.
VARC Phase 2
Here you need to go through different types of RCs and questions. Understand your shortcomings. Understand what mistakes you are making. (If You are following VARC1000, finishing it concludes phase 2)
DILR Phase 2
Here you develop your symbols and signs. You learn which table/diagram to make in which question. Like I would always represent certain things with some symbols (Circle for males, underline for females etc) So you kind of develop your own representation in this phase.
Quant Phase 2
In this phase, you finish your quants syllabus. It is here that many people decide whether to go for arithmetic algebra and geometry or go for arithmetic and algebra only or maybe add a number system. Whatever is the combination you wanna go with.
With conclusion of this phase, you stop practicing quants chapter by chapter all together.
VARC Phase 3
This is the final phase where you just keep giving mocks, analyse them and look for the mistakes you are doing. Did you read the question wrong? Did you miss some word in paragraph? were you stressed? were you hurrying? were you distracted? This phase ends whenever CAT happens. Else it just continues.
DILR Phase 3
Here you learn what set to select. Set selection is the core of DILR. you basically learn how to choose what set to attempt and which one to leave. This phase never ends, because you just need to keep on practicing. So it continues till CAT
Quant Phase 3
Here also you learn which question to attempt and which question to leave and what silly mistakes are you doing. This also continues till the CAT exam day.
Now let's try to see how much time should it take (in hours)
VARC Phase 1: Could be anything from 1 hour to 50 hours of rigorous reading or even more. DILR Phase 1: Should take considerable time. Around 50 to 80 hours on average but again could take more or less. Quant Phase 1: Depends on how good you are inherently at calculations. Do you need to remember 19×7 or you know it already? Do you remember value of 2^10? Do you recall formula for compound interest?
VARC Phase 2: You might understand your mistakes and fix them within a week and might not be able to do so after 8 months of preparation. Again entirely depends on you.
DILR Phase 2: How long does it take for you to understand which data should be represented by which diagram and which table? No one can tell you. You would find out yourself.
Quant Phase 2: This is something predictable and takes most of the time. But again this varies. Someone doing Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry, Probably, Number System would take more time as someone going with Arithmetic and Algebra only. Some people do only Arithmetic and Algebra, get a very high strike rate of getting questions right and score good in QA. Others complete the syllabus and pick and choose the easiest questions in the paper. They also score well. Some do both, they are God level. So again, time taken here varies.
VARC, DILR, and Quant Phase 3
This phase continues till the exam comes. For some people, this phase is very long so that's how you find people who gave 70+ mock tests. But this phase is just about finding mistakes and not repeating them in the CAT exam so this phase could also yield results with 30 odd mocks. Again varies from person to person.
And now, you understand why it is stupid to answer if you are starting in the right month or how many hours it takes. The sooner you learn from your mistakes, the less time it will take. How quickly would you learn from your mistakes? Nobody knows. That's why you see cases with 3 CAT attempts and can't score more than 90 percentile, and scored 99%ile with 2 to 4 months of preparation.
The best way to go about this is, either you would learn from your mistakes quickly and hence you should attempt CAT 24, or you need a lot of time to learn, in which case you give CAT24 and then CAT25 in case you feel that's needed.
Hope this helps.

Girdle or Padding recommendations for a big guy
TL;DR I’m a fat boy ( 6’3 280) learning to rollerblade and play inline hockey. I fell last night and my ass hurts bad. Got any girdle or padding recommendations?
So I recently started learning to Rollerblade to play Inline hockey. The guys at my local rink have really helped a lot with the process but I still have a long way to go.
But last night I took my first (second third and fourth) proper spill. Being 6’3 280, it was a long fall with a lot of force behind it and waking up today my ass is sore enough that it was hard getting out of bed!
Do you guys have any Girdle recommendations? I don’t care about going for puck blocking or anything like that. Just something that will help protect my tailbone and hips from falls.
Everything I’m reading online is either from a decade ago recommending products that have been discontinued for years, or saying girdles are crap and just go bare ass. Which isn’t really what I need. I hear mixed things about wearing an ice hockey girdle as well.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to learn this sport but last thing I need is injury taking it from me!

My husband and I currently live in Missoula Montana. We moved here about two years ago from Florida, and before that we grew up in New Jersey.
So we do love Montana, but we visit Seattle every few months. Visiting always refreshes and resets us in every way possible. I’m mentally entertaining the thought of us possibly moving to Seattle. I’m the type of person that would want to live in a city for a few months to a year and explore living in a new one. However, I’m open for long term living if everything works out. I don’t see or am excited at the thought of long term Missoula living.
I feel Missoula is missing a lot of things that we like. So here are the reasons we are thinking of moving. Correct me if I’m wrong

1. Things to do (barely anything to do in Missoula)

For example: we love roller skating, and travel like 3 hours to Coeur d lene just to roller skate every now and then. It would be nice to be within one hour of a roller rink. So we can skate a few times a week. I’m overweight, so knowing that an activity that can potentially burn 600 calories an hour is helpful.
I feel like Washington has so many different little explorable places that we can make a weekend getaway out of many places within driving distance

1. Better food. Missoula is really lacking in good ethnic foods like Asian food, Hispanic food, and just options in general. When we visited Seattle this weekend I was blown away by how good the chinese food is. We grew up in NJ and I still feel it runs laps around east coast chinese food, although their food is still really good! I try to tell myself it might be a good thing food isn’t so good in Montana, we will dine out less, and possibly save calories.
   
2. Better job opportunity for my husband. I’m a housewife (not sure if housewives are more accepted in Seattle or Washington because in Montana I was constantly judged, criticized, etc) but my husband would practically double his pay. I understand gas is higher, and so is rent, but maybe it might still be worth it.
   
3. Better healthcare? The mental health care here in Montana is pretty bad. My husband would need to find a new psychiatrist and Christian counselor. I feel there’s more options in Washington. I do think he has a great Christian counselor now, but if the need for in person Christian counseling arises, it’s good to know there’s plentiful and quality options. Hoping there’s better psychiatrists out there too. I would need a great PCP to help me with all my health issues, same for my husband. We aren’t thrilled with the options in Missoula.
   

I feel with all these things considered, our marriage might even possibly improve. It just seems like better quality of life?
I listed all the pros. But please do tell me if I’m over inflating possible pros or missing any. Any cons to be mindful of?
Thank you

My husband and I currently live in Missoula Montana. We moved here about two years ago from Florida, and before that we grew up in New Jersey.
So we do love Montana, but we visit Seattle every few months. Visiting always refreshes and resets us in every way possible. I’m mentally entertaining the thought of us possibly moving to Seattle. I’m the type of person that would want to live in a city for a few months to a year and explore living in a new one. However, I’m open for long term living if everything works out. I don’t see or am excited at the thought of long term Missoula living.
I feel Missoula is missing a lot of things that we like. So here are the reasons we are thinking of moving. Correct me if I’m wrong

1. Things to do (barely anything to do in Missoula)

For example: we love roller skating, and travel like 3 hours to Coeur d lene just to roller skate every now and then. It would be nice to be within one hour of a roller rink. So we can skate a few times a week. I’m overweight, so knowing that an activity that can potentially burn 600 calories an hour is helpful.
I feel like Washington has so many different little explorable places that we can make a weekend getaway out of many places within driving distance

1. Better food. Missoula is really lacking in good ethnic foods like Asian food, Hispanic food, and just options in general. When we visited Seattle this weekend I was blown away by how good the chinese food is. We grew up in NJ and I still feel it runs laps around east coast chinese food, although their food is still really good! I try to tell myself it might be a good thing food isn’t so good in Montana, we will dine out less, and possibly save calories.
   
2. Better job opportunity for my husband. I’m a housewife (not sure if housewives are more accepted in Seattle or Washington because in Montana I was constantly judged, criticized, etc) but my husband would practically double his pay. I understand gas is higher, and so is rent, but maybe it might still be worth it.
   
3. Better healthcare? The mental health care here in Montana is pretty bad. My husband would need to find a new psychiatrist and Christian counselor. I feel there’s more options in Washington. I do think he has a great Christian counselor now, but if the need for in person Christian counseling arises, it’s good to know there’s plentiful and quality options. Hoping there’s better psychiatrists out there too. I would need a great PCP to help me with all my health issues, same for my husband. We aren’t thrilled with the options in Missoula.
   

I feel with all these things considered, our marriage might even possibly improve. It just seems like better quality of life?
I listed all the pros. But please do tell me if I’m over inflating possible pros or missing any. Any cons to be mindful of?
Thank you

I'll just drop the TL;DR at the top. When using the FLX4 controller with a mic plugged in, will I hear my voice through my headphones?
My less quick story; I started working at a roller rink on the weekends for fun and a small bit of nostalgia. At some point I had mentioned I was a DJ at one in high school and it majorly attributed to my career in radio broadcast, so they asked if I wanted to helm some sessions as the DJ. From my history, rink DJs just kind of worked off supplied equipment and were more of hosts than anything,no mixing, so I jumped right in. At the last minute, I learned that there was no house setup and that I would just plug in my "gear", cool, I have apple music haha.
They were pretty chill with me outright saying I don't mix, but I also didn't want to be an aux cord DJ, I wanted to at least look like I was setup to "entertain". I found the first app I could use with my apple music account, got an XLR adapter for my ipad hub, and was on my way to greatness.
By my second session, I had joined a DJ pool, for my SOCAN license, and picked up a DJ2GO2 Touch, just because I like having physical controls. Then I got the bug, I started mixing when it was convenient, but I still liked stopping down regularly so I can get to more requests. I am using Algoriddim's DJay Pro, which has been such a pleasure to use, I even find myself using it's "automix" when I play music around the house. I am super lucky to have already had an iPad Pro to pair with the setup, so I am not too deep in money wise, and I get to have fun a couple hours a week. Full disclosure, I use the sync feature when working, but not when practicing at home.
Now I am looking at upgrading, but within reason, because I won't be doing this in any other venue, be it club, wedding, or otherwise. My biggest want is a DJ controller with a mic input, and it seems the most reasonable is Pioneer's FLX4. Reason being that I want to be able to hear my own voice through my headphones, over the music without too much hassle, like I do on the radio. I am going to look later this week, because I want to get better cables for my output anyway, I honestly don't trust amazon XLRs. But I wanted some input about my mic situation.
Thanks for the help!

Just finished an adult rookies program and gearing up for a beginner's league, trying to get some ice time under me in actual scrimmage or game play and not just drills. Showed up to the local rink and found myself with a bunch of AAA players, a couple college guys home for the summer, including 2 really good goalies so we were playing 4v4 full ice. In a little over my head 😂
God I had so much FUN. I kind of know where I'm supposed to be, I'm an okay skater but definitely have my baby deer moments including falling trying to get back on bench over the boards lol, I can definitely not keep up with those fast kids, my stick work is terrible and the game moves so fast, but just being out there in the thick of it and feeling the adrenaline and playing honest-to-goodness ICE HOCKEY was amazing. Everyone was so nice, the guys recognized immediately where I was at and weren't playing me as hard, were feeding me the puck, encouraging me when I made a nice pass. I skated hard on my shifts, didn't miss a single one, didn't puke, didn't slam into anyone on accident or flail my stick around. Even had a few assists.
I'm still riding the high. I cannot wait for that league to start.

PART 1:

 Every town has their own version of “The Boogeyman”. A monster, cryptid, phantom, whatever you want to call it, it’s all essentially the same thing- just a scary story they tell kids in an attempt to get them to behave. An urban legend is just a life lesson disguised as a horror story after all. For us folk living up in the tiny and once prosperous gold-mining town of Trillium, ours was known simply as The Locust Man. Now, let me start by saying, I realize how ridiculous that name must sound to you. “The Locust Man”?? Pftt…What’s he do, besides get stuck in the grill of someone’s pick-up truck. Destroy some crops? Oooh, he sounds real scary... yeah, I know. But yet, as I sit here today 20 years after the fact - a grown woman who’s wiser, stronger, and even more grounded in reality than she was at 12, I still hesitate to even write down that name. 

As a young child I had always thought it to be a little weird that our town was called Trillium, considering I had never seen a single one growing there. If you don’t know, a trillium is a small flower, usually white but they come in other color varieties as well, with three pedals and a bright yellow center. They sort of look like if you took a lily and tore off every other pedal playing “He loves me, he loves me not”. In school, about 2nd grade or so, we were taught everything about this elusive flower I’d never seen in real life, and told how proud our town was to be named after it. Trillium, Colorado was established in 1922 - A new town born in the wake of a great tragedy which befell the town that had previously sat in the same location. For us, and those that came before us, the trillium was supposed to be a symbol of hope. Knowing all that I know now, that sentiment almost makes me want to laugh - in a morbid way.

 Growing up in a small, mostly isolated town, there really wasn’t much for a kid to do. You’d have to drive 45 minutes to get to the closest mall and movie theater. The high school kids would usually all hang out at the roller rink downtown or at the old run-down burger joint called Slim’s that sat across it. But at that age, I wasn’t allowed to go hang out there by myself yet and for me, going with my parents tagging along wasn’t an option I was open to. My neighborhood was on a long dead end road leading up to a large patch of woods that separated the main part of town from the abandoned mine. The old trail the miners used was still accessible up until a point, and so me and the other kids from my street would hang out in those woods all the time. We had a “secret spot” which was, what we thought at the time, about half way through the woods, 10 steps away from a small shallow creek that pretty much ran the length of the area. Rain Creek, we called it. There was a small clearing there, and we had created our own little clubhouse using old milk crates as supports, half- broken wooden pallets as walls, along with some old lawn chairs one of the neighbors was throwing out one day. I made my contribution by bringing a tarp we had in our basement that served as the roof of our establishment. Our parents didn’t love the idea of five 10 to 12 year olds running around in the woods by ourselves, but as long as we stayed within earshot and made it back before the streetlights came on, they probably figured it was safer than us being across town galavanting unsupervised. 

It was me, Lacey, Devin, Mikey and Michelle. We were all best friends - pretty much inseparable, except the boys weren’t invited to the girls’ sleepovers and vise versa. Everyday after school, we’d get dropped off by the bus at the very beginning of our road, and it was a running joke between the Rain Street Gang (as we liked to call ourselves) for all of us to try and run off the bus as quickly as possible, while me, Lacey and Devin would all yell in unison ‘Last two home are some rotten eggs!!’, as Mikey and Michelle tried to push past us to get a head start. The aforementioned two were siblings, and lived in the very last house on our row right next to the woods, so they’d always get home last, regardless of their efforts. Although, the year that Mikey got a pair of Heelys for Christmas he finally got his edge over the rest of us, leaving Michelle to be the lone “rotten egg” until the next summer when one of his wheels broke off. The whole point of it all was just to get home and get our chores and homework done as fast as possible, so we could meet up at Mikey and Michelle’s house with enough daylight left to make our trek into the woods and back - together as a group. All five of us had made a pact to never visit the clubhouse without all members present, although us girls always had a sneaking suspicion that the boys thought themselves exempt from that rule. They, after all, were the ones that had discovered the spot in the first place, and not to mention, did most of the physical labor of dragging our provisions out there. Me and Lacey initially only heard about the spot a day after the boys found it; Michelle had walked into Mikey’s room in the middle of him and Devin talking about it, and immediately relayed the message to us. Michelle wasn’t necessarily more loyal to the girls than the boys, she was just the youngest among us and honestly couldn’t resist blurting out any mildly relevant information she thought she might have, in an effort to be included. But in that regard, if the boys had ever gone out there on their own, they would’ve had to be extremely sneaky about it, because Michelle’s number one objective in life was to gather any piece of intel she could. It was a seemingly normal Saturday morning when we learned our suspicions about the boys may have been warranted.
I had slept over at Lacey’s house the night before. We had just woken up and were still sitting on her bed discussing our possible plans for the day, when Michelle busted through the door with a look on her face that immediately told us she had finally gotten a hold of some juicy information, before she could even open her mouth to stutter out, “You-you-you guyssss, guess w-w-what!?!” Lacey gestured the nail file that was in her hand toward her, raising her eyebrows bluntly as Michelle tried to catch her breath. “So… Devin came to sleep over last night, annnnnd I was pretending to go to the bathroom so I could spy on them. Seeeeee, I was supposed to be sleeping but I -“ “Ughh come on Michelle, get to it! What’d you hear?” Lacey snapped “Ughh okay okay. So, I heard the boys talking, anddddd…. they’re planning to go explore the old mine today!!” “Alright Michelle! Good spying!” I chuckled, trying to encourage her after Lacey’s impatience. Lacey rolls her eyes, then immediately stands up. She takes the scrunchie off her wrist, ties her long blonde hair into a messy bun, and simply said, “Let’s go.” “Lacey..” I said “What??” She responds as if she hadn’t registered the tone of my voice at all. As I opened my mouth to begin explaining all the logical and practical reasons why even if the boys were stupid enough to go play around somewhere dangerous, we shouldn’t be, Michelle exclaims, “That’s where the Locust Man lives!!” I close my mouth in defeat, as I know Lacey will take this nonsense as a challenge, and because of that, no amount of my warnings concerning actual dangers would have any effect on her decision. Lacey dismisses her comment as she attempts to shove her foot into one of her new pink sneakers that she refuses to admit are too small for her. “Pshhh, don’t be such a baby Michelle, he’s not real, you do know that right?” Michelle crinkled her face and yelled back, “Yes he is Lacey! He is!! And th-th- that’s where he lives, and he eats kids that go there!” Lacey laughs at her and says “Oh yeah? You still believe in Santa clause too? What about the tooth fairy?” Michelle looked down at her shoes, and although she could admittedly be annoying, I found myself feeling bad for her. “Come on Lacey, she’s just scared.” Lacey shot me a look like she was expecting me to burst into laughter, but I just gave her a smirk and a shrug, and she rolled her eyes and said “Get dressed.”

 We walked in silence toward the end of the road, though the reasons for all three differed drastically. Lacey’s was determination and resolve, mine was comtemptousness and defeat, and Michelle’s was just fear. I found myself half-way hoping the boys had left already, but as we approached the driveway we caught them just as they were about to step off the porch. 

“Hey!!” Lacey yelled, in her trademark cheerleader cadence. “Where do you boys think you’re going without us?”. Mikey let a groan and rolled his eyes, while Devin said through a coy smile, “Well, we were actually just heading out to go to find you girls.” “Liar.” Lacey snapped, quickly wiping the grin off Devin’s face. “Michelle already blabbed- we know where you two are going and we’re coming too.” The boys looked at each other, then Mikey shot Michelle an angry look as she tried to shrink herself behind me, and said, “Fine, whatever, but no cry baby snitches allowed!!” Michelle then proceeded to prove both of his accusations correct by yelling back, “I am not a cry baby!! I’m telling mom if you don’t let me come with you!!” At that point I finally spoke up. “Alright, listen.” I said sternly, then once I had their attention I lowered my voice a bit to say, “Just for the record, I think us going to that grody old mine is a dumb idea and a big waste of time, but if one of us goes, we all go. That’s the deal, so make your decisions.” Lacey folded her arms in solidarity beside me, and with that we all had an unspoken understanding. So, with the boys out ahead leading the way, we headed toward the tree line.

 As we entered the woods, I felt a sense of dread wash over me - but to be fair, as a preteen emo kid who had already reached an adult level of cynicism, I felt a certain level of dread towards almost everything in life. So take my premonition with a grain of salt, but for some reason, this felt… different. I remember the woods being abnormally quiet that day. It took some time for me to even notice, but as soon as I did, I interrupted the mindless chatter going on to say, 

“Where are all the freakin’ birds?” Everyone turned to look at me as if I’d completely lost my mind. “Uhhh… What are you talking about?” Devin asked me. I pointed up toward the treetops. “Listen…. ” They all looked up, then looked around at each other in confusion. “Every time we’ve ever been in these woods, there’s always birds chirping back and forth. We’ve been walking almost 5 minutes now and I haven’t heard a single bird, have you guys?” “Damn, yeah, that is weird.” Mikey agreed. “They probably all just migrated!!” Devin goofily offered. “That’s stupid Devin, it’s spring. If anything, there should be more birds here, not less you moron.” Lacie argued. Devin flipped Lacie off, which was the best rebuttal he could usually come up with, and then turned toward me and said, “Okay whatever, what’s your point exactly?” “Just that - “ I looked over to Mikey, then back at Devin. “It’s weird.” I didn’t want to say what I was actually thinking. That the woods being too quiet was never a good thing. That when birds aren’t chirping, it could mean there’s a predator nearby. Besides, I was pretty confident that the boys, having both been in the scouts, knew what I knew, so saying it out loud would only serve to annoy Lacie and further frighten Michelle. Mikey broke his gaze that had been fixed on me, and while scanning our surroundings he said, “Let’s stop by the clubhouse on the way.” With a nod from me, we continued. When we arrived at our pit stop, Lacey hobbled over to the closest lawn chair and plopped herself down in it. “Ughhh, my feet are killing me!!” “I wonder why.” I mutter under my breath. “Excuse me, what was that?” “Just saying. Those shoes are gonna be the death of you Lace, you can barely walk in them.” “Pshhh, shut up. They just need to be broken-in okay? You’re just jealous cuz you’re still wearing your dirty old Vans from last year.” “Oooh yeah, you got me there. I am so sad I don’t have a pair of ugly pink Sketchers that don’t fit me.” She stuck her tongue out at me and we both laughed. I was just about the only person who could go toe to toe with Lacey’s sass. It’s part of the reason we ended up being best friends, besides being neighbors. In regard to style, personality and interests, we were almost polar opposites. But when it came to humor we were equals. And more importantly, we both had a mutual understanding when it came to our differences- I was me and she was her, and neither of us felt the need to try and make the other one be more like us. Besides, I was the only person who had ever really stood up to Lacey and didn’t take any of her crap, so I think she respected that. While that exchange had been going on, Michelle had started picking tiny pink flowers, and the boys were rummaging in the clubhouse for something. I yelled in their direction, “Hey! Big Mike and Dirty D!!” Me and Lacey giggled and she mouthed the word “big” with air quotation marks. They didn’t respond, so I walked over to the entryway and looked in. They were standing with their backs to me while looking down at an open metal box, and Mikey was reaching to grab whatever was in it. As he stood back up, I could see what it was. “What the fuck Mikey, seriously?” Hearing me cuss, Lacey and Michelle crowded in behind me. “Chill, it’s just a BB gun.” “I know it’s a BB gun Michael, what are you doing with it, and why is it here?” I was livid at the thought that he might be coming out here and shooting at animals just to be a shithead. I expected something like that from a goober like Devin, but not Mikey. Michelle butted in, “I’m telling mom!!!” “Nice try, dad knows I have it.” He looked at me and softened his tone. “It’s for protection, just in case we come across a black bear, or some weirdo creep out here. Seriously… it’s just to scare off something, not hurt it.” He knew how I felt about killing animals, especially for no good reason. A lot of people out here are poor and hunt for food, which I could accept as a reality. But hurting animals just for fun is psycho behavior, so I was relieved to hear him dispel my fear; I really didn’t want to have to hate him. “Do you even know how to shoot that thing?” Lacey asked. “Yeah, my dad showed me.” Devin clapped his hands together, making us all jump and himself laugh. “Well alright then, let’s get going!” I turned to Michelle, still holding the flowers. “You okay?” She nodded. “If you want me to walk back with you, I can.” I was slightly hoping she’d say yes so I’d have an excuse to get out of this excursion, but she just shook her head and forced a smile. I knew she was scared, but she was just too curious. Maybe I was too.

 We walked for what felt like half an hour. The trees had gotten more dense and the path narrowed from the overgrowth. Still no birdsong. I kept scanning the area in search of any sign of life other than us. Looking for movement of creatures scurrying away, listening for the sound of rustling as we passed, hoping for a squirrel, a lizard, even a bug. Nothing. 

“How much further is this damn thing?” Lacey groaned. Mikey answered without even turning around. “We should be coming up on it any time now.” “You said that like 10 minutes ago.” “Yeah, and now we’re like 10 minutes closer to it. And hey guess what, you insisted on inviting yourself - so suck it up buttercup.” “Hahahaha!” Devin laughed like a maniac at Mikey’s quip, while Lacey folded her arms and for once in her life didn’t have a snappy comeback. This time however, I did. “Well we really only came along to make sure you idiots didn’t kill yourselves.” “Oh, so you girls came out here with us to be our protectors, huh?” Devin laughed. “Ehh, more like babysitters.” Needless to say, I was flipped off for that statement. We rounded the next bend and suddenly all came to an abrupt stop one after another, starting with Mikey. Devin positioned himself beside him and let out a disappointed groan. “Shit Mikey!” A huge tree had fallen and was blocking the trail completely. There was no way we could climb over it because of all the leaves and branches - we’d have to go around it, which meant leaving the safety of the trail and crossing Rain Creek twice to get back to it. “Seriously???” Lacey exclaimed. “Maybe it’s a sign that we shouldn’t be going.” I shrugged. Mikey didn’t seem fazed by the obstruction at all. In fact, he seemed more confident. More calm. More sure of his intended mission. “It’s fine, we’ll just go around.” Michelle, who had been mostly quiet this whole time, finally broke her fear induced silence. “We are NOT supposed to leave the tr-tr-trail Michael! We could get lost!” “We aren’t gonna get lost Michelle, I have a compass. Plus, it’s literally just a few paces that way, then we cross the creek and circle back once we pass the tree and we’re right back on the trail.” “Oh you have got to be kidding me” Lacey said, “I’m not treading through that nasty water!” “Yeah Mikey, what about Lacey’s brand new shoes??” I laughed, and she playfully slapped me in the arm. Mikey’s patience was wearing thin with us. “Look, we already walked this far - if we turn back now, we’ve wasted the whole day for nothing. If you girls wanna be lame and turn around, then go for it - but me and Dev are going.” That’s all Lacey needed. A challenge to accept; someone to prove wrong. “I’ll show you lame.” She pushed past the boys and lead the way into the thick brush towards Rain Creek. It wasn’t very wide across, and there were lots of fallen limbs and large rocks spread throughout it. The current was barely that of a trickle, and the depth was no more than knee deep for us. It was definitely doable - just an inconvenience. And of course, one more ominous obstacle lying directly in our path. Another hint from the universe telling us to turn around. We didn’t listen. Lacey placed one foot on the closest limb and pushed down a few times to test its sturdiness. “I got this.” She stepped out onto it with both feet, then shimmied sideways until she was close enough to the large exposed rock in the middle of the creek, and hopped onto it. She turned around with a full grin and said, “Coming?” Mikey made his way across the limb as Lacey hopped onto a different limb which led her to the other side of the creek. Devin followed, then me, and then it was Michelle’s turn. “I’m scared to fall in!” Of course she is, I should have made her go before me. “It’s okay Michelle, it’s easy!” I reassured her. She didn’t look convinced in the slightest. “Come on Chelle, we’re leaving you!” Mikey yelled, already walking away. “Nooo!! I’m coming! Wait!” She made it across, but instead of just walking like everyone else did, she got down on her hands and knees and gripped the limb as if it were the only thing in between her and a 50 foot drop to the ground, which was funny to see but prolonged the whole process further. After all, we were about to have to do all of this again. Next go round went a lot smoother. The creek was more shallow here, and there were a whole lot more stepping rocks and debris built up. Having just crossed successfully a few minutes ago, we were all more confident in our abilities, including Michelle - who this time we made go first. “Just walk across like it’s a bridge! You got this!!”, we all cheered for her, and then clapped when she made it to the other side. Before we knew it we were back on the trail, and it wasn’t long after that we finally arrived at our intended destination.

 We all stopped and stared at it for a minute, carefully examining the dilapidated exterior of the place that had brought both prosperity and destruction upon our town. Mikey bent down, picked up a rock and threw it into the entrance. We heard it bounce a few times before it stopped. 

“Just to make sure nothing’s in there.” he turned around to clarify. “Did anyone think to bring a flashlight?” I asked. “It’s dark as hell in there.” I was hoping for just one more reason not to go. Devin reached into his cargo shorts pocket and pulled out a small keychain-sized flashlight, smiling with the satisfaction of finally being useful. “Okay, Mikey’ll hold the gun, I’ll shine the light and you girls follow behind us. Let’s go.” Mikey shifted the BB gun from its position of resting on his shoulder, to holding the barrel in his left hand and the butt in his right; trying his best to emulate a soldier’s stance. Something his dad had taught him I’m sure. We ducked down a bit to enter. “How far in we going?” Lacey asked. “Until we see something cool.” Mikey answered. I turned around to check on Michelle, still hovering in the doorway. “You coming?” I could see in her eyes that fear had finally gotten the better of her, and curiosity had taken a backseat. With wide eyes she shook her head. “The-the Locust Man lives in there.”, she tried to whisper. “I knew you were gonna be a baby about this!” Mikey yelled. I crouched down and put my hand on her shoulder. Against my better judgment, I say “How bout you just wait here for us and pick some more flowers. We won’t be long, there’s nothing in there, I promise. Just.. don’t move from this spot and we’ll be right back, okay?” I could feel her unease, but she seemed to accept my reassurance nonetheless. “Okay.” I smiled, then stood up and looked down at my watch to check the time. 12:46 PM. I turned and headed into the darkness, trying to catch up with everyone else. I didn’t feel good about leaving Michelle, but I didn’t feel good about letting the rest of them go in there alone either. And if I’m being honest, maybe a little part of me wanted to see what was in there too. When I caught up to Lacey she asked, “Where’s Michelle?” “Stayed behind at the entrance, she was too scared. I told her to pick flowers and wait there for us.” “Pshh, figures.” “Yeah. How’s your feet?” “At this point, numb actually.” It was so dark in there that even Devin’s rinky dink flashlight was illuminating the area enough for me to start taking a closer look at my surroundings. I looked around at the rock walls, they were covered in what looked like orange mold and green algae. There was a slight breeze coming in from the entrance, but the whole place just had a staleness to it. The boys stopped and turned around as we arrived at the first curve. “So ladies, what do you think? Cool huh?” Devin asked excitedly. “Smells like a fart in here.” I said.

 The most dangerous thing about exploring an old mine wasn’t getting lost in the maze of tunnels, or tripping on the rusted tracks and slamming your head against the wall - it was something simply referred to as bad air. Pockets of still air that have dangerously low levels of oxygen, the old men in town would call it “black damp”. There was also something produced from the old chemicals they once used called “stink damp”, which smelled like rotten eggs. Both were lethal. 

“I wonder if there’s dead bodies in here!” “Uh, Dev… we’re gonna be the dead bodies in here if we go in too far. I wasn’t just making a joke, you know that rotten egg smell can mean bad air.” Mikey interjected. “The entrance isn’t far behind us, there’s still enough fresh air coming in. We won’t go in too far, let’s just get to the end of this tunnel where it splits off and look around a bit, then we’ll turn around.” The fork in the tunnel really wasn’t that much further, and even though I knew once we rounded this curve I wouldn’t be able to see the entrance behind me anymore, I decided what the hell. Maybe a hundred more steps, then we can finally turn around and this whole dumb situation would be closer to being over with. When we got there, we looked down the length of the connecting tunnels each way. Everything looked unusually identical in its deterioration. I could see how someone could easily get disoriented and lost down here. “Hellooooo…” Mikey yelled to the left, his voice echoing through the corridor. Devin turned to the opposite direction and called out, “Hey yo, Locust Man!! You in here?” We all giggled, which made me think about Michelle, still waiting at the entrance for us, alone in the woods. I looked down at my watch. 12:46 PM. “Hey what the f-“ My cuss word was interrupted by a loud bang that came from the passageway Devin had just been hollering into. We all froze. I didn’t have time to process that my watch had stopped right as we entered the tunnel, or that Michelle had been left alone for who knows how long now, or that we had just heard what sounded like a support beam crashing to the ground, because next came a horrifying screeching buzzing sound. It sounded distant at first, but was quickly increasing in volume. We silently looked around at each other and backed away stunned at what we were hearing. Mikey never took his eyes off the tunnel though, and slowly he began to raise the BB gun to firing position. Without even thinking, I grabbed the barrel and pushed it downward. He quickly tore his eyes away from his target to look at me. I shook my head and managed to barely choke out the word, “Explosion.” He nodded and I let go. I looked down at the gun in his hands, and seeing his finger had already been on the trigger, I realized how lucky it was that I didn’t make him shoot himself in the foot. All of a sudden, the noise stopped. “What the hell was that?” Lacey asked. “I don’t know, nothing good.” I said. “Let’s just get the fuck out of here before this whole place caves in on us or something.” Another loud bang erupted from the right, extremely close to us. “Shit!!!” We all turned around and ran as fast as we could back toward the entrance. Devin tried to push past me, but as he did my elbow knocked the flashlight out of his hand. “My flashlight!!!” “Leave it!” Mikey shouted “The turn is right here, we won’t need it!” We rounded the corner, and using what little light there was illuminating from the entrance to guide us back, we ran like our lives depended on it. And they may have- none of us dared to look back, not like we would have been able to see anything anyway. When we finally made it out, we were all completely out of breath. I felt like I was going to throw up. I have to admit though, once we had made it back to safety I felt a rush of adrenaline like I had just had a near death experience. That feeling quickly faded into sheer panic when I looked around and realized Michelle was nowhere to be seen. “Uh, where’s Michelle?” Mikey asked me. “I told her to stay right here, she can’t be very far… Michelle!!!!” We all called her name, as loud as we could. No answer, no sign of her anywhere. “Alright look, she probably went off a little further looking for flowers to pick.” I tried to rationalize. “Let’s just split off in 4 directions and walk in a straight line while calling for her. She’s bound to hear one of us.” Everyone agreed, and even though I appeared outwardly as the level-headed calm person you need to take control in an emergency, inside I was petrified that something had happened to her, and that it would be my fault. I took the east, and headed out. It didn’t take too long before I passed a large tree and saw her sitting down behind it, looking at something on the ground. “Michelle! Oh thank god!! Didn’t you hear us calling for you??” She didn’t answer me, or even turn around. “Michelle, didn’t I tell you to stay by the entrance and not move?!?” My relief was quickly turning into annoyance as she continued to ignore me. I walked up closer to see what she was looking at, and my mouth dropped in awe of what she had found. It was a single white trillium.

 They say it takes 8 years for a trillium plant to produce a flower, and conditions have to be just right for it to bloom. That’s what makes them so special and rare. I stared down at it almost in a trance, like I was seeing a mythical creature. Michelle slowly reached out her hand towards it and I snapped out of it. 

“No!!” I grabbed her by the arm and she finally turned around to look at me. “If you pick the flower, the plant will die.” She ripped her arm away from my grasp and whined, “But I want to show my mom!” We heard Mikey calling from the north and I cupped my hands over my mouth to yell back, “I found her, she’s over here!!” I looked back at her. “No Michelle, come on, you can just tell her about it when we get back home.” I had enough, I was beyond ready to go and we still had at least another 45 minutes of walking to even get back to the clubhouse; an hour if Michelle kept up her crap. I grabbed her arm again and pulled her up to a standing position, looking back at the trillium as I walked her away. Mikey caught up to us, breathless but trying to hide his concern. “You little shit, we should have left you out here! What the hell were you doing?” I let go of her arm and she walked toward Mikey. “She was trying to pick a flower over there.” “It was a trillium!!” Michelle said, with the biggest smile on her face. “Wait, really?” He looked at me in disbelief. Before I could respond, a blood curdling scream echoed through the forest, coming from the west. It was Lacey. My heart dropped into my stomach and once again, every molecule in my body went into full blown panic mode. This time, I couldn’t contain my composure. “Laceyyyyyy!!!!!” A panicked shriek erupted from my lungs and I took off running. Mikey grabbed Michelle and sprinted after us. The trees became a blur; I didn’t even feel all the scratches and scrapes. Had she come across a coyote? A mountain lion? A bear? I didn’t even stop to think about the danger I might be about to come in contact with, I just ran. And then I found her. She was lying on the ground, holding her left foot. “Lacey!!” I said, trying to choke back the tears that were building up. “I think I twisted my ankle!!” “Oh god damn it, you bitch.” I struggled to catch my breath. “I thought you were dead.” “I might as well be, I have cheerleading practice on Monday!” Mikey and Michelle caught up to us. “What happened?” He asked “She’s being a drama queen, she just rolled her ankle.” I was angry. “Can you get up?” He asked her. She was able to stand, but as soon as she tried to put any pressure on her foot at all, she screamed in pain. We spotted Devin running over from the south as he was yelling out, “Hey yo, everyone alive and accounted for?” “Yeah, Lacey hurt her ankle.” Mikey yelled back. As he approached he looked concerned. “Can you walk on it?” He asked her. “No.” Without hesitation he replied, “Well alright then, looks like you’re gonna have to piggyback it all the way back home.” He lowered himself enough to where she could hop up onto his back, and we headed back toward the trail. Even though my nerves had begun to settle a bit, I knew we were still far from being out of the woods, in more ways than one.

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Hello,
I'd like some fair exchange for those, i'm willing to put more than one game against a game i really want, depends on the offer. I could accept Paypal, but that's not my goal (just getting games i'd like to play). I might want to keep something in those lists, i also have some other Humble and Fanatical games i'm not sure i'll play, so they might appear one day (could be money for an exchange if you have something from my wishlist, don't hesitate to ask). I'm from Europe, that might matter for Keys or gift links. Also, i have many games now, and a lot to do yet, so i might be very picky, even for games on my wishlist (it's more a list for interesting games, that i might want in an undetermined future if i have time).
(HB Unrevealed Key = i have it still unrevealed, but will provide a key, considering the Humble view on trading games)
For people living in France, i also have some old games in boxes that i can send by post, ask me if interested.
My IGSRep page
My SGSFlair page
My GameTrade page
My Barter (come to Barter, it's so much better !)
My SteamTrade
*** I have Amazon Prime, so i already have the games that drop there ***
*** Please tell me what you're interested in in my list and don't just drop yours ***

1/2 Red Riding Hood (DIG Key)
112 Operator (HB Unrevealed Key)
911 Operator (HB Unrevealed Key)
A.D.M (Angels,Demons And Men) (DIG Key)
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion (HB Unrevealed Key)
Alien Cat 2 (Indiegala Key)
Arata Haunted Asylum (DIG Key)
Arcade Paradise (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Army Men RTS (HB Unrevealed Key)
Autonauts vs Piratebots (HB Unrevealed Key)
Baba Is You (HB Unrevealed Key) (GOOD offers only)
BOMBERX (DIG Key)
Calico (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Cargo Transportation: Low Poly (Indiegala Key)
City Siege: Faction Island (Indiegala Key)
Click and Slay (Fanatical Key)
Codename Ghost Hunt (DIG Key)
Cold Cable: Lifeshift (DIG Key)
Combat Tested (Fanatical Key)
Conflict Area (DIG Key)
Conflict Area (Indiegala Key)
Crazy Sapper 3D (Indiegala Key)
Creatures Inc. (Indiegala Key)
Cube Shifter (DIG Key)
Dagon - The Eldritch Box DLC (HB Unrevealed Key)
Dark Forest (Indiegala Key)
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter (HB Unrevealed Key)
Detached: Non-VR Edition (HB Unrevealed Key)
Detached: Non-VR Edition (Indiegala Key)
Dezinsector (Indiegala Key)
Doodle Derby (HB Unrevealed Key)
DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders (HB Unrevealed Key)
Duke Nukem Forever: Hail to the Icons Parody Pack (HB Unrevealed Key)
Duke Nukem Forever: The Doctor Who Cloned Me (HB Unrevealed Key)
Endless Void (DIG Key)
EnHanced (DIG Key)
Euler Wars (DIG Key)
Excive A-1000 (Indiegala Key)
Fear Of Mine (Indiegala Key)
Fishermurs (Indiegala Key)
Flyist (DIG Key)
Forep Man (DIG Key)
Frick, Inc. (HB Unrevealed Key)
GAI Stops Auto: Right Version (Indiegala Key)
GALAXIUM (DIG Key)
GOD's DEATH (DIG Key)
Gravityball/Space Hockey (DIG Key)
HOGuru Presents: The House With Too Many Zombies In It (DIG Key)
Il Sole e la Luna (DIG Key)
GameGuru (HB Unrevealed Key)
Hack 'n' Slash (HB Unrevealed Key)
HoloSprint (DIG Key)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard (HB Unrevealed Key)
Incandescent (DIG Key)
Intelligence (Indiegala Key)
Izmir: An Independence Simulator (HB Unrevealed Key)
Jumanji: The Video Game (HB Unrevealed Key)
Legendary Eleven (DIG Key)
LifeZ - Survival (DIG Key)
Lord of the Click 3 (Indiegala Key)
L.S.S II (DIG Key)
Lust from Beyond: M Edition (HB Unrevealed Key)
Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Meeple Station (HB Unrevealed Key)
Mello Haunted House (DIG Key)
Minute of Islands (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
MirrorMoon EP (HB Unrevealed Key)
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (HB Unrevealed Key)
NAVALNY: A Nightmare of Corrupt (DIG Key)
NeverSynth (Indiegala Key)
NIGHT FALLEN (DIG Key)
Oracle Trials (DIG Key)
Orbital Racer (HB Unrevealed Key)
Patriots: Back to Civilization (DIG Key)
Paw Patrol: On A Roll (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Planet TD (HB Unrevealed Key)
POBEDA (Indiegala Key)
Quantum Replica (Fanatical Key) x2
Raccoon: The Orc Invasion (DIG Key)
Railroad Tycoon 3 (HB Unrevealed Key)
Rogue Bots (DIG Key)
Shiba Army (DIG Key)
Sid Meier's Railroads! (HB Unrevealed Key)
Sit on bottle (Indiegala Key)
Slime Up (DIG Key)
Snowboard (DIG Key)
Soul Grabber (DIG Key)
Soulstice (HB Unrevealed Key)
SPACE ACCIDENT (Indiegala Key)
Space BloX (DIG Key)
Spider-Robots War (Indiegala Key)
Stacking (HB Unrevealed Key)
Starlight Alliance (DIG Key)
StarCrossed (HB Unrevealed Key)
Steel Vampire (Indiegala Key)
Stick Fight: The Game (HB Unrevealed Key)
Stick Fight: The Game (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (HB Unrevealed Key)
Supreme Ruler Cold War (Fanatical Key)
Swag and Sorcery (HB Unrevealed Key)
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon (Fanatical Key)
System Shock: Enhanced Edition (HB Unrevealed Key)
System Shock: Enhanced Edition (HB Unrevealed Key)
Telefrag VR (HB Unrevealed Key)
Teleglitch: Die More Edition (HB Unrevealed Key)
The Amazing American Circus (HB Unrevealed Key)
The Amazing American Circus (HB Unrevealed Key)
The Big SokoBang (DIG Key)
The Detective Chapters: Part One (DIG Key)
The Inner World (HB Unrevealed Key)
The Invisible Hand (HB Unrevealed Key)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION (Fanatical Key) (GOOD offers only)
The Orphan A Tale of An Errant Ghost - Hidden Object Game (DIG Key)
Ticket to Ride (HB Unrevealed Key)
Time Lock VR 2 (Indiegala Key)
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt (HB Unrevealed Key)
Tricone Lab (Indiegala Key)
Tristoy (Steam Gift)
Turbo Golf Racing (HB Unrevealed Key)
Vampire Survivors (Fanatical Unrevealed Key)
Waves of the Atlantide (DIG Key)
Weapons Genius (Indiegala Key)
Win The Diamond (DIG Key)
X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack (HB Unrevealed Key)
Yet Another Hero Story (Indiegala Key)
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 2 (HB Unrevealed Key)
Zack 2: Celeste's Map (Indiegala Key)
Zen Cube (DIG Key)
Zibbs - Alien Survival (Indiegala Key)
Zombie Claus (Indiegala Key)
Zombie Wars (DIG Key)

Removed / Banned / Delisted / Purchase Disabled games :

• Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition
• Archery Practice VR
• Be King
• Beast Boxing Turbo
• Betrayer
• Blackwater Bayou VR
• Cloud Chamber
• Defenders of Ardania
• Depths of Fear :: Knossos
• Dollar Dash
• Droplitz
• eXceed - Gun Bullet Children
• Grind Zones
• Leviathan: Warships
• Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet
• On The Path
• Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
• Quadrant M4
• Quixzel Rush: Pumpkin Bash
• Quixzel Rush: Tooth Protector
• Run Away
• Shadows: Price For Our Sins Bonus Edition
• Sine Mora + Ex
• Space Rangers
• Spaceguy 2
• Star Shield Down
• Trials of The Illuminati: Animated Christmas Time Jigsaws
• Trials of The Illuminati: Assorted Jigsaws
• Trials of The Illuminati: Snack Time Jigsaw Puzzles
• Trials of The Illuminati: Women of Beauty Jigsaws
• Two Brothers
• World War 1 Centennial Edition
• ZombieRush

Challenges, Lootboy, second hand, might have some dupes in it (also might not be up to date) => i can exchange them for games but also for trading cards, based on grey market value Vs trading cards market value :

• A Game of Dwarves
• A New Beginning - Final Cut
• A New Beginning
• A Valley Without Wind
• Abandon Ship
• Alien Spidy
• Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000
• Angvik
• Animals
• Anna - Extended Edition
• AquaNox
• Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
• Astervoid 2000 Soundtrack
• Aura: Fate of the Ages
• Avencast
• Bad Rats
• Bang Bang Racing
• Beat Hazard
• Beat Hazard Complete
• Bionic Heart 2 - Deluxe Edition
• Bionic Heart
• BlazeRush
• CAPSULE
• Car Mechanic Simulator 2014
• Cargo! - The quest for gravity
• Ceville
• Commander: Conquest of the Americas
• Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
• Contagion
• Crash Time 3
• Dangerous platform
• Dark Fall: Lost Souls
• Dark Fear
• Darwinia
• Darwinia Soundtrack
• Dead Hungry Diner
• Deadly 30
• Deep Dungeons of Doom
• Demigod
• Deponia
• DESOLATE
• Disciples II: Galleans Return
• Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
• Dragon Blast DLC
• Driftmoon
• Drop Hunt - Adventure Puzzle
• Dungeons - The Dark Lord
• El Matador
• Escape From Russia: Mobilization
• Europa Universalis III Chronicles
• Fated Souls 3
• Fester Mudd - Episode 1
• Figment
• Final Slam 2
• Finding Teddy
• Flatout
• Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook
• Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition
• Ghost Master
• Girlfriend Rescue
• Going Under
• Grand Ages Rome Gold
• Grav Blazer
• Greed: Black Border
• Grotesque Tactics 2
• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
• Hacker Evolution Source Code
• Hail To The King
• Hard Reset Extended Edition
• Heileen 2: The Hands Of Fate
• Hell Let Loose - Hot Drop (DLC)
• Hero by Chance
• Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead
• Home
• Huntsman: The Orphanage
• Imperial Glory
• inMomentum
• Ion Assault
• Just Ignore Them
• Kalaban
• KAMI
• Kingdom Wars 4 - The Plague: Kingdom Wars
• Knights of Honor
• Konung 2
• Konung 3
• Labyrinthine Dreams
• LEAVES - The Return
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded
• LYNE
• M.U.D. TV
• Majesty 2
• Mata Hari
• Maverta Island
• Megabyte Punch
• Memory Booster
• Men of War: Assault Squad GOTY
• Mind: Path to Thalamus
• Miner Wars 2081
• Mini Motor Racing
• Molecular Warfare
• Multiwinia
• NASCAR Heat Evolution
• Night Wanderings
• Norega Barracks + Academy DLC
• Oil Rush Bundle
• One Finger Death Punch 2
• Onikira - Demon Killer
• Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf
• Patrician IV
• Patrician IV Gold
• Perimeter
• Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic
• PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate
• Planets Under Attack
• Plush
• Poof
• Praetorians
• Primal Carnage
• Purgatory: War of the Damned
• Puzzle Art: Cats
• Puzzle Kingdoms
• Quell
• Quell Memento
• Quell Reflect
• R.I.P.D.: The Game
• Race! Beauty! Bugs!
• Razor2: Hidden Skies
• Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered + Armageddon Bundle With DLC (Nordic D)
• Red Johnson's Chronicles - 1+2
• Reign: Conflict of Nations
• Rig N Roll
• Rise of Flight: Channel Battles Edition
• Sacred Gold
• Save the Dodos
• Self Shot
• Sex Chess
• Shadowgrounds Survivor
• Shannon Tweed's Attack Of The Groupies
• Skara - Starter Pack
• Skeleton Troubles
• Sky Mercenaries
• Smalles Class DLC
• Soulcraft
• Space Empires V
• Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 3
• Spirited Heart Deluxe
• Square's Route
• Star Ruler
• Steel Storm
• Stellar Interface
• Stoirs VR
• Stunt Hill
• Swamp Jump
• Sweet Lilly Dreams
• Switch Galaxy Ultra
• Switch Galaxy Ultra Charity Pack 1
• Tennis Manager 2021
• The Deed II
• The End of Labyronia: Nerubis
• The God's Chain
• The King's Heroes
• The Old City: Leviathan
• Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943
• Theatre of War
• Theatre of War: 3 - Korea
• Theatre of War: Centauro
• Theatre of War: Kursk + Caen
• Toby: The Secret Mine
• Trainz Simulator 12 - Coronation Scot DLC
• Tropico 3
• Tropico 4
• Trulon: The Shadow Engine
• Turba
• UFO Afterlight
• Ultimate Soldier
• Undefeated
• Uplink
• Us and them
• Valnir Rok
• Vault Cracker
• Vegas: Make It Big
• Velvet Assassin
• Vessel
• Victory: The Age of Racing - Steam Founder Pack
• Warriors' Wrath
• Wasteland Angel
• Who's that Flying
• Windforge
• Zombie Pirates
• Zombie Shooter

Consoles (from IGN) :
Backfirewall_ (XBox) Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition (XBox)
Enclave HD (Nintendo Switch America Region)

Wayfinder Early Access on PS5

Wishlist :
Various offers welcome, i'll browse lists, and most wanted are (not always up to date) :

• 9 Years of Shadows
• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• ABRISS
• Achilles: Legends Untold
• AFTERLIFE: KILLING DEATH
• ALTF4
• Axiom Verge
• Axiom Verge 2
• Battletoads
• Bendy and the Ink Machine
• BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk
• Blade of Darkness
• Blasphemous 2
• Bleak Faith: Forsaken
• Boneraiser Minions
• Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans 2
• CARRION
• Choo-Choo Charles
• Cookie Cutter
• Cuphead
• Deadlink
• Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons
• Dread Delusion
• Dread X Collection: The Hunt
• ELDEN RING
• Enter / Exit the Gungeon
• Gearshifters
• GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon Delux
• Ghost Song
• Good Knight
• GRAVEN
• GTFO
• Hand of Fate 2
• Hands of Necromancy
• Hidden Deep
• High On Life
• HYPERVIOLENT
• Impaler
• Just King
• LEGO® Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Loot River
• Lost in Random
• Lost Ruins
• Madshot
• Mago
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• New Tales from the Borderlands
• Noita
• Piko Interactive LLC various oldies
• Prince of Persia (various)
• Project Warlock II
• Prototype 1 and 2
• Resident Evil 4 (New)
• River City Girls 2
• River City Girls Zero
• River City Melee : Battle Royal Special
• River City Melee Mach!!
• River City: Rival Showdown
• River City Saga: Three Kingdoms
• Rogue: Genesia
• Seasons after Fall
• Sir Whoopass
• STASIS: BONE TOTEM
• Super Catboy
• The Knight Witch
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
• Ultratron
• ULTRAKILL
• UNSIGHTED
• Void Scrappers
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
• Windbound

DLCs : * The Surge The Good, the Bad and the Augmented DLC * Vermintide 2 DLCs : Warrior Priest Career - Sister of the Thorn * Borderlands 3 Season Pass 2 * Rocksmith DLCs * Lego Season Passes (Jurassic World - Marvel Super Heroes - Movie - Hobbit - Incredibles - Worlds) * Dead by Daylight DLCs (A Nightmare on Elm Street - Ash vs Evil Dead - Chains of Hate - Charity Case - Curtain Call - Ghost Face - Headcase - LEATHERFACE - Resident Evil Chapter - Stranger Things Chapter - The Bloodstained Sack - The Halloween Chapter - The Saw Chapter - Sadako Rising Chapter - Forged in Fog - Resident Evil: PROJECT W) * Resident Evil Village Winters Expansion * Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty * Saints Row - Expansion Pass * Rain World: Downpour
See here for the rest of my wishlist.
Compare2Steam
+ offers, i'll browse lists, and eventually take Paypal, but i'm more interested in Paypal & TF2, but i'm more interested in games trades