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Disclaimer: I am aware that the set isn't fully spoiled / leaked yet. But I wanted to gauge the community's thoughts on a potential new storm shell given to us in MH3, and what could be missing to make it viable.

• 4x Ral, Monsoon Mage: This card is a center piece to make your rituals mana positive, and digs to your wincon, or allows you to cast more cantrips off the top 8 for free to dig for your storm payoff
• 4x Baral, Chief of Compliance
  
• 4x Tune The Narrative: new cantrip that generates energy
  
• other cantrips could include: Opt / Consider ...
  
• was wondering if brainsurge for 2 mana with the Ral / Baral reduction be a good fit in that deck.
  
• 2-3x Wheel of Potential: Tune the Narrative generates the energy necessary to wheel deeper into your library, and even hit the 7 threshold to keep your access to the cards you wheeled away.
  
• Rituals would inclue: Pyretic Ritual + Desperate Ritual + Manamorphose ...
  
• I was pondering the inclusion of 1-2 copies of Ashling, Flame Dancer, but I'm starting to think that the would need to be more streamlined, so this would be the first card in the chopping block.
  

So as the title mentions: Do you guys think there is enough of a shell for "energy" storm to become viable

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Hi y'all. I'm making this post honestly because I don't know what else to do. I'm male 29years old in california. I've had quite a few different jobs and paths in my life by now but lately I'm really struggling on where to go with my life and how to make money to support myself. I've worked in restaurants, been a freelance photographer for years, a freelance dancer, and some other random fun things, but I don't feel like I have anything under my belt that is a high value skill in todays job marketplace. I'm also a college dropout.
My ideal life and job has me outside and in the world a lot, not particularly always with people but sometimes I am with people. I'm not at a desk 100% of the time for SURE. I want to feel like I'm either inspiring others, adding joyful value to their lives, or being of service in a positive and impactful way. Many jobs out there right now do not feel like that, which leads to me burnout extremely fast because I can't stand spending my time on arbitrary things just to make someone else more money. I'm really personable and friendly and I have been praised for my intelligence and competence which has made me more confident in knowing my value, but I just can't quite figure out how to translate that to a job.
I guess I'm just here to see if anyone else feels like this or if anyone has any suggestions for where a person like me would thrive. I'm not tied down to anyone or anything so I'm free to chase what feels right in my life. I'd love to move out of the US at some point too.
I've been hustling since I was 16 and I'm honestly getting so spiritually and mentally exhausted by the rat race and I just want to make enough money to finally feel a sense of stability and to mitigate the uncertainty. Since middle school I've been seeking guidance to help me with my direction to no avail. I'm reaching the end of my rope and feel like I'm going to mentally break. Just seeking some help I guess. Thanks in advance🙏

The familiar sounds of the office fill the ears of the "Adventurer" as he steps into his home away from home. To him "Familiar sounds" means the voices of about three-quarters of the hundreds of employees who work in this building, thanks to the progressive, passive, perpetual boosts to his senses that he has simply always been accruing. He still can't quite hear everything in the office, indeed as powerful as his senses are he can only actively sense enough space around him to be firmly aware of events occurring about half of the building's length and width away from him at a time, but those are still incredibly powerful senses.
Lucas steps past several cubicles and heads to his own with a calm smile on his face. He actually enjoys his job, not because he finds the work fulfilling but because it presents him with a chance to level up his skills and work towards becoming altogether stronger in a hilariously safe environment. The figure sits in his cubicle and logs into his work computer with a bright grin on his face. As he grabs the last pieces of paper in the backlog that was a big problem when he began to work for this company he feels a pang of pride.
The workday is pleasant enough. He successfully finishes the last pile of paperwork that was considered part of the backlog and this effort is celebrated by his direct supervisor and a few of the friends he's made in his department, a group composed of several men and only a few pair of women, who have been working here for years but lacked the abilities he possesses that allow him to grind out progress at a rapid rate and allow him to improve the work he does every single day without fail. The news quickly spreads throughout the office, and various people, including other departmental supervisors and managers, come to him and congratulate him.
When the day ends Lucas is one of the first people out the door. This is commonly expected Lucas-like behavior at this point so no one bats an eye at it. The figure works and then leaves, and he seems to have an incredibly strict policy about work-life balance to the point that no one from the office has seen his apartment or even seen him outside of the office aside from on social media.
The lad walks towards a nearby mall even as he checks his phone. When the decently cautious man is sure he's not being watched he uses his inventory to swap outfits, changing into something much more casual than his work uniform so he can do his equivalent of trolling. His clothes go from being the professional outfit someone might expect to see an accountant in, to the much more casual clothes of someone who works at a Game Station the local equivalent of a Game Stop.
The minute the figure reaches the mall he relaxes and steps into it with a smile on his face as he is suddenly and powerfully aware of events going on all around him now that the sounds he's been passively hearing for the last few minutes are not muffled by layers of solid American construction. The mall is a favorite haunt of his, a place where there are enough people that even if something goes awry he can pretty easily escape in the chaos and commotion that any sort of hostile actions would necessarily cause. Still, to the figure's credit he has not been caught yet.
The thief begins his training by carefully studying the department store he's in. He can be a bit bolder now than he could weeks ago, as in the time since he began to hone this skill he's enhanced it in such a way that he can teleport objects directly into his inventory, which is a tremendous improvement even if he can't take anything bigger or heavier than a cleaver. He eventually spots a teenager with a wallet that is just visible out of the corner of his pockets. Lucas diligently uses "Observe" on him and the powerful skill is strong enough now that Lucas can use it to determine someone's affiliations. When the young adult spots that the teen belongs to a gang he decides it's worth taking his potentially ill-gotten gains.
The clever trickster points a single finger in the direction of the teen's pocket and silently casts the handy spell. A thin line of energy lances out of his extended digit and sails through the air toward the teenager. When the teen begins to move Lucas hisses in annoyance and expends a bit more magical energy to take advantage of the first skill he's gained as a result of an attribute hitting 50: arcane manipulation.
Days ago the young adventurer's passion for magic and healing resulted in two classes leveling up on the same day: mage and white mage. This resulted in his intelligence going from 49 to 52, and as a result of that he gained the ability to manipulate magical energy, so long as he can detect the magic in question and is willing to spend some magic of his own. In this world, where the figure is reasonably certain that no other magical beings exist, this means that to hone this skill the wizard needs to manipulate his own magic. Still, that hasn't stopped the young professional from tirelessly doing just that.
With a significant amount of focus the mage is able to manipulate the thin beam and twists and turns it so that it circles around the teen before snaking into his pocket and striking the young gangster's wallet. When Lucas feels the wallet enter his inventory he chuckles and makes his way out of the department store. The rest of this particular bout of training is filled with similar feats of arcane finesse and hilariously minor acts that will steal from those willing to enact violence on others in exchange for money. Lucas's clever usage of his skills coupled with his willingness to act in stunningly petty and annoying ways make him great at harassing those he designates his foes. Lucas, lacking an ability to kill those he fights thanks to a drawback affecting him, has thus far refused to actually engage those he has marked as his foes in direct battle but his desire to annoy them has led to willingly target people associated with criminal groups with some of his spatial magic.
In hours the figure is back home and he is toying with the newest toy he's received from his gacha system. A guitar sits on his lap and he fiddles with the instrument, even he listens to a video about how to tune the thing. Lucas is experimenting with something, and behind the tablet he gained some time ago is a book that contains information on tuning guitars. The tablet is in use, recording what the man is up to. An app is in use and it records the sounds the guitar chords make. The self-taught musician relies on some of his new skills for this, as he has only recently gained the "Guitar" and "Guitar Maintenance" skills, and he got them at different times so they are different levels. Nonetheless, the figure patiently records himself, occasionally stopping the recording and examining it. He is diligently using his long-term planning skills and sticking to his broad plan. At the same time the figure patiently uses magic and steadily hones the "Mage" class, using his magic skills to farm multiple sources of experience while adhering to the schedule he has informally given himself.
Eventually the next day rolls around and the figure, predictably, gets out of his apartment and goes to work. If you had explained the concept of "Jumping" to Lucas a year ago and asked him if he thought so much of it would be just working a 9-5 job he'd not have believed you and yet in the context of his experience with the unusual profession a stunning amount of time has just been him being a regular employee of a perfectly mundane business.
Time continues to pass for the would-be adventurer at a steady pace. In this mundane world a figure with legitimate supernatural abilities is a uniquely powerful presence, and this is especially true of one that is determined to keep his head down and nose clean. Lucas's determination to live a regular, relatively risk-free life does not stop him from living, but it does stop him from suffering from some sort of "Middle School Second Year Syndrome" as a result of the fact that he has gained trainable superpowers. Instead of going mad with power or gaining an unhealthy mentality Lucas has just enough knowledge of how jumping works to know that while he might be a big fish in this world he is not a big fish in other worlds like Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, or even something as aggressively hostile and oppressive as the general setting of Minecraft is.
If an objective, impartial onlooker viewing Lucas's life is given the chance to describe the sort of "Television Show" that they are watching, they'd say it could easily be considered slice-of-life. For the first few months of his time here the most exciting times are the rare moments he adds something new to his slowly expanding list of activities and the even more slowly growing list of things he can do, such as when he begins to walk the streets of the city he lives in at night and cast healing, positive, restorative magic on the sleeping homeless people he encounters. This activity ultimately earns him the peculiar title of "Unsung Saint", a title which enhances the effectiveness of his restorative or otherwise beneficial magic on those not aware of the fact that he is using magic on them.
Days of work, training, and controlled, planned forays into new pastimes, turn into weeks of steady and anticipated progress. Weeks of steady and anticipated progress turn into months of upward mobility and the healthy establishments of new baseline feats. That said, eventually progress slows and becomes more difficult for the jumper in a world as relatively safe, for supernatural beings, as this one. It doesn't take terribly long for Lucas to go from a somewhat predictable, fairly focused figure who is very specialized in a number of areas, to a somewhat more well-rounded figure with a steadily increasing repository of skills and abilities, thanks to a subtle shift in growth strategies.
​Just a few days short of eleven months into his stay in this jump, the jumper is facing a new foe but is participating in an activity he's come to enjoy; sparring.
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I dodge a well-aimed right-handed punch intended for my face, though thanks to my agility I easily had enough time to dodge it, It took a long time, from my viewpoint, for it to get close to me so long enough that I only let it get this close on purpose. I'm holding back in terms of my speed and strength but my opponent, a friend I made at the gym a few weeks ago, doesn't need to know that. I have way too many supernatural advantages for it to be a fair fight if I don't hold back.
I give my opponent enough time to register that I've dodged the blow before I begin to telegraph, purposefully, my next attack. I purposefully overextend my left arm and launch a powerful, but slow, strike. The man grits his teeth and moves to intercept my strike. He is fast enough to position his arm in front of it but that is still a mistake. I guide my blow into his arm and watch as he lets out a sincere, pained, grunt. Even with me holding back I still allow DPS to work its magic, and that perk coupled with both my trained and perk-enhanced strength is enough for me to deal him a decently powerful blow.
I retract my fist with a sly smile and note that the bars that cover my field of view are all going up at different rates. The bar for "Brawler", a class that's the result of "Fighter" giving me access to a new class when it hit level 10, my currently equipped class, is going up at a healthy clip as I spar with this man, as is the bar for "Precision Strikes" and "Acting", some of my skills. Most of the things going up at a decent clip are affected by "Jack of All Trades" a perk thatreduces the time and effort it takes for me to train up new skills to around the level of my average. Most of my other bars are only slightly going up, but this is acceptable. This sort of training is vital, long term, for my very survival, and thanks to my perks is pretty easy for me to do.
Behind me I hear a familiar voice cheering; Hannah's. The lovely redhead has begun to accompany me to the gym, but this is a somewhat recent development. Before a few weeks ago we only occasionally saw each other on Saturdays at the cafe she worked at, though we have been texting buddies ever since we met. Marcus, my sparring partner, grins savagely at me as he listens to my friend and gym buddy's cheers.
"I can't let you show me up in front of your girl, Lucas. We're not close like that." Marcus tells me, though the words are insincere. Marcus is a friend of mine, one who has even tasted my food, and that's something I don't let others do as much as I once did, barring people who go to the soup kitchen when I'm one of the volunteers on duty. My cooking can now do some decent stuff so I don't want to get anyone who isn't an ally or someone I need in my pocket overly reliant on my skills. I grin at the muscular bruiser of a warrior and dart back before gesturing for him to come at me like he means it. The man lets out a hearty laugh as he begins to pursue me. He is a touch taller than me and he has muscular, wide arms that take up a lot of space.
I watch, diligently, as he swings them at me when he is in the martial sweet spot of being close enough to hit me with a fully extended fist and being far enough away for me to strike back in an effort to preempt or counter his blow. I dart forward even as he stops advancing and duck underneath the strike before I use an active skill from my "Dancer" class to infuse my agility into my strength and hit him with a blow that disorients him. He steps back, a look of pain and confusion on his face as I step forward and move close enough to hit the man with a much softer blow to the chest. I feel his solid muscles block part of the harm done to him, but the blow is still solid enough that I watch his HP lower.
He gasps in pain and staggers back, and I smile at him and sense my triumph. He's only lost a small portion of his total hit points, but for normal people, one's total stock of HP is an abstraction of their physical health. For me, my HP serves as a skillful shield that protects me at all times, and for me to fall in battle someone has to whittle away my entire bar before they take me out. In fact, right now my HP is not maxed out; earlier I took a hit from Marcus that I'm still recovering from.
I take a step forward before Marcus signals that he needs a break. I laugh, the sound filling the part of the gym we're fighting in, and stop approaching the man. Hannah walks up to the ring and offers me some of her water as I walk toward one of the corners of the small ring. I silently gesture that I'll accept it and she tosses it at me. When the object is in my hand I use subtle telekinesis to mess with my boxing glove just enough to more easily hold onto the water bottle and sip from it. The cool water tastes good, and I smile as I feel it helping me relax as I wait to continue the fight. This is the sixth time I've beaten Marcus, but I'll give the man one bit of praise: he's persistent. He likes fighting enough that he is always eager to try and fight me, and I like fighting just enough to appreciate his resistance to the idea that I can beat him. It's not always easy for me to keep on finding partners that I can spar with.
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In the days that follow this fight, the young jumper continues to spar with Marcus. He steadily trains his "Brawler" class, and takes on class skills that do things like make him a more efficient hand-to-hand fighter, even gaining skills that he suspects, and hopes that he won't need here; like the ability to launch a punch that can inflict damage at a distance.
The figure's volunteering remains a steadfast facet of his in-jump identity. The man gains popularity throughout the place that is, functionally, his hometown, as he becomes a well-known volunteer. He even makes the places he volunteers at more popular, using a steadily increasing amount of local and online popularity to advocate for the organizations he supports. This first began to occur about three months into his stay in the jump, but he really begins to leverage it at the six month mark and he quickly begins to slowly become a minor force in the community, taking advantage of his heavy charisma build to sway hearts and minds to his cause.
His days at work continue to remain fairly unchanged from how they were at the start of his time in the jump, though on very rare occasions he creates reports and the in-jump equivalent of PowerPoint presentations about the data he has compiled to his supervisor. He has also overseen a day of service for members of his department to go and volunteer at the soup kitchen where he volunteered on the day he met Hannah, allowing him a pleasant chance to practice his leadership skills. He earns his first pay raise just under a year into his stay in this setting.
Minor missteps occur along the way, such as the figure overbooking himself during one particularly hectic weekend, which annoys his friends and fellow volunteers but serves as a decently humbling experience for the overly eager adventurer and also shows his friends that he is, ultimately, human.
Lucas continues his relaxed, fairly peaceful days for more and more time. By the time he has been in the jump for a full two years his pre-jump life feels like a memory or a strange dream, though this change to his state of mind does not actually mean he cannot recall such a time only that he has fully acclimated to the realities of being a jumper. At least as much as someone who is still on their first jump can acclimate to such a thing.
A/N: I like this episodic style for the necessary time skips that a standard (or mostly standard) jumpchain story will require. Now I'm gonna say that this style won't be universal across all jumps since some jumps may be better suited to shorter timeframes. Heck some more story-intensive jumps may benefit from longer focuses on individual events and sequences of events, but we've gone past the tutorial phase for this jump and I think minor episodic looks at broad timescales is better than a thousand chapter story that only hits one year in a jump and ultimately gets dropped. That said, I know that I'm not doing this style of writing PERFECTLY, so I hope that I can use this to grow as a writer and to become better able to convey how long time skips affect the characters, relationships, and strengths of the people involved over time. Still, if nothing else this was fun.
ALSO, as an author's note that is unique to the subreddit: this story is being published on Spacebattles and the white line that cuts through parts of the story indicates a narration/viewpoint shift. On Spacebattles and several other places I write there are in-built formatting options that allow you to cut through a textbox with a horizontal line which serves as a visual marker for some significant change to some aspect of the story. The line I made was my attempt to do that here on Reddit. It's... not perfect, but hey I'm trying.

Hi everyone! We’re doing our annual vinyl sale this Saturday, as part of the Great Glebe Garage Sale! Weather’s looking awesome!
We’ll be at 160 Glebe Ave. near Lyon, from 7 am till around 4. Cash/debit/credit OK.
There’s going to be a wide variety, for sure lots of rock, but also 80s, funk, jazz, metal, punk, soul, soundtracks, hiphop, folk/country and probably some weird stuff. Lots of cheapies. Maybe some cassette tapes too.
Let us know what you’re looking for, and I’ll see if I can’t dig it up. Otherwise, come by, tell us you’re from Reddit and we’ll throw in a free record!
See you Saturday!

My husband and I recently returned from the transatlantic cruise on Anthem of the Seas. I love a review, so I figured I'd share some though about our recent experience in case anyone is interested!
Overall thoughts: This cruise was an incredible experience. We wanted to do something special for our honeymoon, and this definitely fit the bill. We received excellent service all over the ship. Food was pretty good, but I'd probably skip Chops next time.
Cabin: We were in Cabin 13132, a standard balcony cabin. It was clean and well maintained. There was plenty of storage, we had no trouble putting all of our things (including 20 books) away. We chose the cabin because it was about halfway between the elevators and the "secret" doors to the Solarium. We knew we'd spend the majority of our mornings in the Solarium, so being that close to it was a significant benefit. I've seen many warnings about not being right under the pool deck, but we really didn't notice much noise. There was the occasional sound of chairs being moved around, but nothing that kept us awake. I imagine it might be different if we were under the main pool instead of the Solarium.
We always love having a balcony cabin. The weather was mild enough that we sat out there several evenings to watch the sunset and have a drink. We also slept with the balcony door open a few times.
Food: After some disappointing experiences in the MDR last time we sailed Anthem and on Liberty last summer, we decided to prioritize dining in other locations on this cruise. We went to the Windjammer for dinner most nights. It was excellent. The food was good, and the service was fantastic. They made sure any empty plates were cleared from the table almost immediately. Dining in the Windjammer also made our refillable soda mugs more valuable. We wouldn't have gotten anywhere near as much use if we were regularly in the MDR.
For breakfast, we ate at the Solarium Bistro almost every day. It's a smaller selection than the Windjammer, but it's less chaotic. I found breakfast to be the busiest meal in the Windjammer. The Solarium Bistro still has a good selection, including a custom omelette station. We had lunch at the Solarium Bistro several times, and dinner twice. It was excellent. The maitre d', Rowell, seems to be everywhere at once. He seated guests, helped with reservations, at one point he was manning the toaster during breakfast. The energy he put into the restaurant was mirrored by the rest of the staff, and made it one of the best dining experience on the ship.
We ate at a bunch of different spots for lunch. Sorrento's was pretty good. The pizza was always hot and fresh. The Doghouse was a nice change of pace. I wish it was open longer. The Windjammer was a reliable option for lunch, but we were more likely to dine at the Solarium Bistro.
We had dinner in the MDR three times, and it was fine. Nothing special. Excellent service, food was so-so. It's very strange to me how the MDR and Windjammer can be serving the same thing, but the quality is better at the Windjammer. We also had breakfast there twice, primarily because we both love the Market Vegetable Breakfast Bowl. It was just as good as we remembered.
It was our honeymoon, so we splurged and did quite a bit of speciality dining on this trip, to mixed results. We went to Chops twice for dinner, and it was alright. We liked the lamb better than the steak. I enjoyed Jamie's Italian much more than Chops. The risotto rosso was delicious, and the short rib was perfectly tender. We also did Chops and Jamie's for lunch. Again, Jamie's was the clear winner. My husband had lunch at Izumi one day, which he was very pleased with.
On three occasions, we ordered room service. I ordered lunch one day, which came quickly and was exactly as ordered. We put out a hanger for a breakfast order to be delivered between 6:30 and 7:00. When it hadn't arrived by 7:30, and needing to meet for our shore excursion by 8:30, we figured the tag had been taken by another guest and decided to go out to get breakfast. Later, we saw the fee charged to our account, then credited back, and found a little tray of treats waiting in the room with a note rhat said "Courtesy of the Room Service Team" when we got back that evening. It was the first port day of the trip, I can only guess they got very backed up and we were gone by the time they tried to deliver our order. The treats were a nice touch. We also did late night room service one evening. Again, it was delivered quickly.
Activities & Things to Do: When it's just my husband and I, we mostly want to read books and look at water. As usual, we did a great job in meeting that goal. I was usually in the Solarium by 7:30. The chair next to me was still free when he came up, which was around 8:30 most days. We'd enjoy our books and the view of the ocean until lunchtime. After lunch, we usually napped, played card games, or read on our balcony. There were a ton of activities on the calendar for this cruise: trivia, sports, talks about special interests, crafts. If we wanted to, we could have been busy every minute of the day.
Bars/Drinks: Part of what I love about Royal is how accommodating they are of non-drinkers. We got the Refreshment Package and definitely made it worth the money. All of the bartenders we encountered were wonderful. They were happy to make me an NA drink. Drink service in the Solarium was great. There was constantly someone coming around for bar service. When I went up to the bar myself, there was little to no wait most of the time, and the bartenders were always friendly. We also visited the Schooner Bar quite a bit. Again, the folks working there were friendly and helpful. I got hooked on the virgin lavender daiquiri. It was sweeter than I usually go for, but I enjoyed it a lot. I also enjoyed the virgin pineapple guava sangria, which was just the pineapple guava juice plus club soda. They usually make it with Sprite, but had no issue doing it with club soda, which reduces the sweetness by a lot. The only NA beer available was Heineken 0.0. It's perfectly acceptable, but given the increasing variety of NA beers on the market, I wish they had an additional option. Still, maybe it's for the best since it's not included in the Refreshment Package.
Entertainment: We went to the Welcome Aboard show, which was good fun. We're pretty sure the comedian was the same one as we had on Liberty last summer. We tried to go to the late night comedy show, but it was very disorganized. The previous show let out of the theater less than 30 minutes before, and trying to get in and find a seat was the biggest crowd crush we experienced on the entire trip. We ended up bailing. We saw a magic show with Martin Brock. If he's an entertainer on your cruise, make sure to go. He was one of the best I've ever seen. We also attended a couple of game shows, which were good fun. And then there was Spectra's Cabaret. We'd seen it before and enjoyed it. Unfortunately, this performing was a little disappointing. I think the person who plays Spectra makes a huge difference in the overall energy of the show. Unfortunately, our Spectra was lackluster. The rest of the cast was excellent, though. They've got some very talented dancers.
Ports: After a week at sea, our first port of call was Madeira. It was the first day of the flower festival, and we were concerned about transportation and traffic. We decided to do an excursion through Royal. We did the "Charming and Easy Madeira" bus tour. It was very low key, we were the youngest people on the tour by quite a bit. The tour made a few stops at different places with excellent views, including Pico do Areeiro, the highest point accessible by car. If we ever get back to Madeira, I'd like to explore on our own, but I'm glad we opted for the tour this time.
The next port was A Coruna. This was our favorite by far. The ship docks right downtown, so it's easy to explore on your own. We mostly just walked around. Saw some statues and public art. Spent some time in Xardíns de Méndez Núñez watching people play with their dogs. We also got a bite to eat at Bo&Go La Marina. I'd definitely recommend it for coffee and dessert.
Our final port was Le Havre. The ship docks in an industrial area, very similar to Bayonne. There's a shuttle bus that does a circuit of the ship, downtown, and the mall. It was $5 for an all day pass. Shuttles came every 15 to 20 minutes. It was Ascension Thursday, so a lot of places were closed. We tried two different cafes, neither was open. We ended up walking around town, and spending time sitting in a park. It was a nice, relaxed day.
Post-cruise: We disembarked in London. We had a transfer to London scheduled by our TA, but they gave the driver the wrong terminal. Once he figured out where we were, it was a very pleasant trip to London. We stayed at the Melia Kensington Square, which was in a perfect location. We dropped off our bags and walked to Kensington Gardens, wandered around a bit, and got ice cream at the Albert Memorial. Once our room was ready, we freshened up and went to the Victoria and Albert Museum for a couple of hours. We barely scratched the surface, but it was a very cool experience.
We flew home on Norse Atlantic, in premium economy. The service on the flight was excellent. The food was surprisingly good, much better than we expected. We wouldn't hesitate to fly with them again.
Final thoughts: We figured this would be a once in lifetime experience, but before we were halfway through the cruise, we were discussing when we could realistically do it again. It'll probably be for our 10th anniversary, since we won't have to sort out childcare at that point. (edit: kiddo is already 10, so we should be good)
We've got 433 days until our next cruise, on Symphony of the Seas out of Bayonne. It'll be our first experience on an Oasis class ship, and we're bringing the kiddo along. Until then, I'll be living vicariously through everyone posting here!

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1. Eugenio Fico – It’s Ladies’ Night (Original Mix) 05:02 124bpm 1B
2. Kim’starr – Can You Feel It (Extended Mix) 05:37 125bpm 3A
3. Mother Hackerz – My Best 4 U (Extended Mix) 04:58 124bpm 6A
4. Mother Funkerz – Rockin All Night Long (Extended Mix) 04:28 125bpm 5A
5. Nari, Steve Tosi – Sweet Deep (Original Mix) 04:43 126bpm 5A
6. Block & Crown, Martina Budde – Make That Move (Extended Mix) 06:17 118bpm 9A
7. Disco Gurls – I Can’t Have U (Extended Mix) 05:17 124bpm 9B
8. FootLoserz – Party Time (Extended Mix) 04:13 128bpm 1A
9. Mother Funkerz – Emergency (Extended Mix) 04:22 126bpm 5A
10. Ghostbusterz – Set Me Free (Original Mix) 04:40 124bpm 2A
11. Nari, Steve Tosi, Funky Dunky – I Wish (Original Mix) 04:22 126bpm 2A
12. Twism – Break Away (Original Mix) 06:41 126bpm 7B
13. GhostMasters – Luv In California (Extended Mix) 04:51 122bpm 6A
14. FlashDancers – Storm Riderz (Extended Mix) 03:56 122bpm 9A
15. Simon Fava – Esamba (Yvvan Back Extended Remix) 05:39 125bpm 5A
16. Felipe Avelar – Boogie (Original Mix) 06:17 122bpm 5A
17. Jackers Revenge – Let There Be House (Original Mix) 04:52 126bpm 8A
18. Jackers Revenge – More Then A Feeling (Original Mix) 04:15 124bpm 9B
19. Nari, Steve Tosi – Heaven (Original Mix) 04:21 122bpm 8B
20. Aruhtra – All for You (Original Mix) 05:17 123bpm 2B
21. Mother Hackerz – Funky Everyday (Extended Mix) 04:20 120bpm 4A
22. Mother Funkerz – Full Moonz (Extended Mix) 05:06 122bpm 10A
23. Jackers Revenge – Lady (Original Mix) 04:48 124bpm 5A
24. GhostMasters – All Independent Girls (Club Mix) 04:29 121bpm 11A
25. Ghostbusterz – Bad And Good Guys (Original Mix) 04:58 124bpm 7A
26. GhostMasters – All The Children Say (Club Mix) 04:11 126bpm 2B
27. Disco Gurls – Memory Bliss On U (Club Mix) 04:41 121bpm 9B
28. Block & Crown, MaloMalo – Brandi With Hangover (Original Mix) 04:42 124bpm 9A
29. Ghostbusterz – Step By Step (Original Mix) 05:17 124bpm 9B
30. Sean Finn, No Hopes – Deep End (Ghostbusterz Extended Remix) 04:40 124bpm 9A
31. Disco Kidz – Shattered Dreams (Original Mix) 04:28 126bpm 7A
32. Nari – I Feel You Tonight (Original Mix) 04:54 127bpm 5A
33. Jackers Revenge – Steppin Out (Original Mix) 04:47 122bpm 2B
34. Block & Crown, Ghostbusterz – If I Can’t Have You (Original Mix) 04:36 120bpm 2B

VILHELM PARFUMERIE Sparkling Jo EDP Bertrand Duchaufour 2023
TOP: champagne, bergamot, juniper
MIDDLE: William pear, fresh ginger, ambrette
BASE: musk, oakwood, ambergris
SPARKLING JO--named for the French-American dancer, singer, actress, and activist Josephine Baker and designed to mimic the magnificent enchantment of Paris nightlife. Per the Vilhelm website, “Queen of the night, queen of the musical hall, that’s Josephine Baker—always Jo. She enflames/ electrifies the Paris vibe and the hearts of the city’s night life. Following Josephine Baker’s frenetic steps, Vilhelm Parfumerie has translated this entrancing party rhythm into a sparkling fragrance. A homage to the night, an ode to Josephine. As soft as a feather boa’s caress, as bubbly as a glass of champagne, Sparkling Jo is a rambunctious invitation to live a festive and bright, never-ending light.”
One of the greatest pleasures in my life is taking a hot shower after a long day, after my rambunctious house—a gaggle of girls and weenie dogs—settles into stillness on a summer night. I love to concentrate on the sounds of a living house, the groan of the shower floor as weight shifts, the thud of water from the shower head, the din of cicadas I can hear above the shower sounds. I’m able to gather my thoughts fully for what seems the first time of the day, and I scrub away everything. I emerge reborn, pink skinned, and ready for fresh fragrance. This part is the greatest pleasure in life part.
The night I first met Sparkling Jo was muggy and warm, grass still wet from off and on rain during the day. After my hot shower ritual which I call in my head “temple maintenance,” I cozied up in bed and fired up my umpteenth rewatch of “Call the Midwife.” I recently purchased Vilhelm Parfumerie’s entire line, picked Sparkling Jo at random, and as CtM rolled in the background, I started reading from Vilhelm’s website and basking in lovely Fragrance Land. Something I appreciate about Vilhelm as a novice fragrance hobbyist is that all of their fragrances start with a memory. A story is told; a person is remembered; an era is encapsulated. Fizzy champagne and maybe a junipery gin swirled around my nose as I cozied up under my quilt. I was aware of Josephine Baker, but immediately went down a rabbit hole of discovery after reading that this fragrance is said to capture her joie de vivre. At the risk of sounding like a book report, the woman was remarkable. She was the first black woman to appear in a motion picture. She was an utterly beautiful woman whose face emanated light and life, a mother, vaudeville dancer, actress, and political activist. She aided the French against the Nazis as a spy by performing for them and relaying what she overheard. She refused to perform in front of segregated audiences and adopted eight children. After her death, her husband adopted four more.
As I fan-girled out about Josephine Baker, sniffing my pulse points and reading, a familiar fragrance and time came to me. I adore when this happens and I get transported somewhere else by smell. This time, I was about eight years old. It was summer, and my mom’s winter sweaters were stored in their off-season home, a cedar hope bench in a spare bedroom. I loved the smells inside that chest—cedar, an errant moth ball or two, clean laundry, and the combination of my mother’s two 80s and 90s fragrances on those sweaters, Chloe and Estee Lauder Beautiful. That smell was such a lovely comforting smell to child-me, soft and maternal, lively and effervescent like my mom. I thought back to all the things I had read about Josephine Baker—that she had left America for France in 1925 at just nineteen years old, all of her on-screen accomplishments, being a spy against the Nazis, a contemporary of MLK Jr., adopting eight children—and I think Vilhelm did a really nice job of creating a fragrance in that honor. I’m not generally a fan of champagne notes, but Sparkling Jo actually smells, well…sparkling. The juniper is fresh like good gin.
The second time I wore Sparkling Jo was a work day Monday morning. In another world where I am not Queen of the Elf MMO, nor a noob fragrance afficionado with bottomless pockets, I manage a restaurant. I often choose bright sweet florals that read fresh in the heat of my kitchen but light enough to not be disruptive to everyone else's experience. So this Monday morning, I started my day with a hot shower and Nivea Soft body cream as a base. I misted and drove to work yell-singing my little heart out to Erykah Badu and Amy Winehouse contemplating how complexly and completely beautiful Josephine Baker was as a person. Much quicker than before, I was drawn back to the scent memory of that old cedar hope chest full of my mother's fragrant sweaters. I recall the comfort and love that memory gave me back at a time when a child has not yet become disenchanted with her parents and still sees them as perfect. I thought about how powerful and elegant I viewed my mother to be--a Southern woman gentile yet assertive, poised always, like the pedipalps of a spider ready to strike. I hesitate to compare her to Josephine Baker, perhaps seeing it as poor taste, but in my scent reverie my mother is complicated the way one is as an entertainer, immigrant, woman, minority, spy, activist, doting mother to many, and pilot starlet of her era.
The champagne swirled around me in a gentle, close aura all Monday morning. The kitchen heated, customers poured in, and I felt like I smelled like I had the gentle confidence to overcome my daily hurdles. Close to my skin I got subtle musky whiffs, soft pear, and the gin-like juniper. Even through sweat, I got a solid six hours of fragrance. Across many fragrance websites, the retailers quickly mention that Josephine Baker is the source for this fragrance memory. They set a very Vaudeville "my candle burns at both ends/ it will not last the night/ but, ahh my foes/
And ohhh my friends/ it casts a lovely light" (Edna St. Vincent Millay) type of scene. It's a lovely image that makes me think of a party perfume suited for sequined mini-dresses and grown up martinis with onions. It's a lovely snippet into Josephine Baker's life, but as a descriptor for Sparkling Jo (and Jospehine herself!) it fails to convey her completeness and complexity. Sparkling Jo is not just a party perfume--though it would absolutely be suited there. It's light and gentle and intimate enough to not be intrusive in close quarters. It's fun and free spirited, but also comforting and maternal (though not at all matronly) like that old cedar hope chest full of sweaters. So, that's my gripe. The memory description the retailers provide fails to convey depth. That and the word "champagne" is misspelled on Vilhelm's own website.
All in all, I'm quite pleased with Sparkling Jo as a fragrance and a wonderful moment to reminisce over childhood memories. I've never personally been keen to wear Chloe or Estee Lauder Beautiful because they were "Mom's Perfumes," but they are lovely on other people. Sparkling Jo has the champagne note unfamiliar to Chloe and Beautiful, but the dry down is very very similar to me. For me, Sparkling Jo is not a full-bottle buy, but I will absolutely be keeping a small decant for trips in reverie.
Thank you so much for joining me on this scent trip!
I recently purchased Vilhelm Parfumerie's entire line as well as Atkinson's Gold Fair in Mayfair, a 5 scent discovery set from The Harmonist, 6 fragrances from PdM, 3 fragrances from Creed, and a bunch of 70s-90s vintage designer fragrances. I'm a novice to getting serious about fragrance but a life long afficionado and creative writer. I'd like to combine my love of creative writing and perfume and write off the wall reviews and short fiction surrounding this love--if it's deemed to fit into the culture of the sub. Please let me know if you would like to see more!

Today we have El lugar sin limites (PDF en español), another work by a Chilean author. So we get more Chileanisms like chonchones (the carbide lamps that illuminate the brothel) and patipelados (poor or barefoot person). But the setting is a rural Mexican train stop with haciendados and real estate disputes as in Rulfo's Llano en Llamas from last month. Next week we have yet another Chilean with Nocturno de chile by Roberto Bolaño.
In brief, this is the story of a decaying town. Local vineyard owner Don Alejo has bought most of the land for cultivation. One of the few remaining buildings outside his ownership is a brothel owned by La Japonesita and her father, La Manuela, a cross-dressing Spanish dancer. As Don Alejo approaches old age, his lapsed protégé Pancho tries to free himself from Alejo's influence and pursue La Manuela.
The title comes from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

MEPHASTOPHILIS.: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self-place; for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.

We are in a hopeless village. Pancho believes Don Alejo is secretly blocking electrification efforts to consolidate his power. Manuela craves excitement of a bigger town and the attention of Pancho, but experiences violence and harassment whenever she acts on these desires. La Japonesita has to bear her father's flights of fancy, Pancho's violent outbursts, and Alejo's empire-building.
This novella might have the best movie adaptation of our Spanish Spring. The 1978 film directed by Arturo Ripstein is on youtube with English subtitles. The subtitles are a little bare but they get the plot across. Some of the John Waters grotesqueness of the book is omitted and some of the literary devices are replaced with melodrama, but overall it's very good and I hope you give it a watch!
And if you were going to listen to one song that plays from the crank-operated Victrola, listen to the thematically appropriate El Relicario (lyrics in side-by-side English+Spanish) written in 1941.

Monday, 5/20
Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers (Bossa nova/jazz) - The Little Theater Cafe, 7P (FREE, All ages)
Tuesday 5/21
MC Lars / SchafferThe Darklord / Shubzilla / Bill Beats / MC Snax (rap) Bug Jar, 8P ($15, 18+)
Mama’s Broke (folk) - Abilene, 7:30P ($15, all ages)
Charlie Ballantine (jazz) - Bop Shop Records, 8P ($20, all ages)
Wednesday, 5/22
Cardiel / Clockmen / Mantra (punk/rock) Bug Jar, 8P ($12, 18+)
Alexander / EthanWL / SQ (guitaexperimental) - Abilene, 7P ($10, all ages)
Levi Gangi and Kelly Izzo Shapiro (Americana) - The Little Theater Cafe, 7P (FREE, All ages)
Blu (rock covers) - Record Archive, 6P (FREE, all ages)
Eastman-Rochester New Horizons Symphonic Band Spring Concert - Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 7:30P (FREE, all ages)
Thursday, 5/23
Orodruin / Cardinals Folly / Saints & Winos (metal) Bug Jar, 8P ($15, 18+)
Late Night Trouble / ALYXX / Violet Mary / Lower Expectations / Faith to Fear (rock) - Photo City Music Hall, 6:30P ($15+, 18+)
All Maine Points / Rugrat Rehab / Bugcatcher (acoustic) / Home Videos (indie rock) - The Psychic Garden, 7P ($10-$15 NOTAFLOF, all ages)
Bloodshot Bill (rock) - Skylark, 7P ($5, 21+)
Dark Horse / Bob and Rick and Friends (Americana) - Abilene, 6:30P (all ages)
Big Blue House (folk/rock/jazz) - The Little Theater Cafe, 7P (FREE, All ages)
Terror / Moment of Truth / X-Threat / Old Ghosts (hardcore) - The Club at Water Street, 6P ($20+, 16+)
Glass Cannon / Tsavo Highway - Iron Smoke, 7P ($5, 21+)
The Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra - Three Heads Brewing, 7P ($10, 21+)
Friday, 5/24
Labretta Suede / The Motel 6 / Perilous (rock n’ roll) - LUX, 10P ($5, 21+)
Muler / Roger Bryan and the Orphans (rock) - Skylark, 9P ($5, 21+)
Order of the Dead / The Devil’s Pension/The Grinders (punk/rock) - Bug Jar, 8P ($10, 18+)
Will Bolinger / Blum / Reilly Biberto / f-f-f-f-faulty tower(experimental) - The Psychic Garden, 8P ($10 NOTAFLOF, all ages)
The Avett Brothers / Sierra Ferrell- CMAC, 7P ($46
Massive Blowout / Scratch n Sniffs / The Sweatshop Boys - Bar Bad Ending, 8P ($10, 21+)
Genre Transcendence / MF Skum / Alex Vine Trio / Jordan Lerner Trio / First Accident (misc) - The Flying Squirrel, 7P ($10, all ages)
Broadway Rave (DJ) - Photo City, 8P ($20+, 18+)
Mr. Heartache (Americana/roots) - Abilene, 5:30P ($5, all ages)
Erin & Ross (jazz) - The Little Theater Cafe, 7P (FREE, All ages)
Prince TeeJay (hiphop) - Water Street, 7P ($15/20, 18+)
Ray LaMontagne Tribute - Three Heads Brewing, 7:30P ($10, 21+)
RAD (blues) - Lovin’ Cup, 7P (FREE, all ages)
Jazz Night at the Academy - Rochester Academy of Medicine, 6P ($30, all ages)
Saturday, 5/25
Hate Unbound / Seplophile / Lord Loss (metal) - Bug Jar, 8P ($10, 18+)
Bobby Henrie & The Goners (rock) - Skylark, 9P ($5, 21+)
Rotten UK / Adixion / DJ Melphire Bat (punk)- Photo City, 7P ($10+, 18+)
Kelley’s Heroes (Bob Dylan tribute) - Abilene, 7:30P ($10, all ages)
Zac Brown Tribute Band / Breakfast Club / Drinking Class Heroes (covers) - Essex, 9P ($20+, all ages)
Crystal Lake . Born A New /Leylines Ashes / A Greater Danger (metal) - Montage, 6P ($20+, 16+)
Helium Bubble (jazz/funk/soul) - Three Heads Brewing, 7P ($10, 21+)
The Smiths Etc. (The Smith’s Tribute) - Lovin’ Cup, 7:30P ($15/$20, all ages)
The Genesis Show (GenesisTribute) - The Theater at Innovation Square, 7P ($35+, all ages)
Big Logic and The Truth Serum (rock) - The Angry Goat Pub, 10P (FREE, 21+)
Sunday, 5/26
Fowls / March Lions / The Shut-Ins / Rusty Skunk / The Matt Seidel Band / Sydney Driggs / Cooled Jets (rock/misc) - Photo City, 4P ($12+, $18+)

Suspects post below does a great job of summarizing every Hoge update we covered this week… here is the other half. The Weekly Wrap Up Report covers news and information from the entire crypto world. Below is word for word, apologize for the typos and run on sentences. I don’t proof read this but the info is worth hearing. Tune into the Wrap Up to get fully updated each week!
What is going on everyone!!! Where the heck do I start this week. What an insane week of news in the crypto world. Year one of industry adoption is in full force! Before get into crypto… Roaring Kittys back! Haha what a legend. After three years of no posts on Monday he posts a picture of a guy in a gaming chair going from a relaxed sitlayed back sitting position to a forward facing intense gaming sitting position, to say let’s go it’s game time! If you’ve ever been a gamer u know when ur sitting forward your intensely focused on winning the game your in. If you live under a rock maybe you don’t know who Roaring kitty is but he is the Reddit legend that sent game stop to hundred of dollars, he started the retail traders vs hedge fund crazy run that happened in 2020. Truly one of the most exciting things to be a part of as you watched how hedge funds really work behind the curtain. It’s sickening how they are able to loot companies and force bankruptcy’s to fill their pockets and ruin so many lives in the future. Roaring kitty followed up that post with a serious of great movie and show clips that rallied the retail traders. And in one day it went from $18 to $68 costing hedge funds billions of dollars in the process. I’m not gonna lie I paid my mortgage over night scooping some GameStop in after hours on Monday. Fight the power baby! You gotta love when someone stands up to the corrupt rules, us regular people don’t get to play by. Game stop trading was halted 32 times on Tuesday as they tried to control the crazy price movement. Let’s see where it goes from here but he’s back and that was exciting to see!
But to the real news of the week… we just found out which companies are holding Bitcoin! On May 15th companies had to disclose their Q1 13f reports to the SEC. A 13F is a quarterly report that institutional investment managers must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose their equity holdings. The form is required for managers with more than $100 million in assets under management.
Guess how many 100m asset companies disclosed that they hold the Bitcoin ETFs? … did you guess do you have a number in mind? Looney go ahead take a guess
1,028 of these high value firms disclosed they hold Bitcoin worth a whopping 10.9 billion dollars in total! And this is only Q1 of this year. Before January 11th of this year that number was under 25. We are so early and this is year one of industry adoption of the strongest form of property ever invented. A brand new asset class has been legitimized and it’s called scarce digital property. It isn’t just companies like Microstrategy, square, and Tesla holding Bitcoin, it’s banks like Wells Fargo and Susquehanna, it’s massive hedge funds and small hedge funds. Probably the most exciting part is pensions now hold Bitcoin! The State of Wisconsin Investment Board discloses it holds almost $100 million of BlackRock's spot #Bitcoin ETF. This is the 9th largest pension fund in the US and a top 50 pension fund in the world. 35 trillion dollars is the sum of all pension funds in the world. Sadly most pensions will not be there when someone wants to retire in ten years from now. But now that Bitcoin introduces hard money to the world, these pension funds can possibly be saved for its current employees looking to retire in the future, the same goes with social security and our insane debt issue we are facing. Bitcoin solves the money printer issue. This is just the first quarter after the ETFs launched…. And Guess what the Bitcoin ETFs aren’t going anywhere and have just started opening the door to trillions of dollars of funds looking for the best alpha to store their value. The game theory is about to get insane. El Salvador the first country to adapt Bitcoin as its countries currency has mined 474 Bitcoin worth $29 million using volcano-fueled geothermal power in the last three years. They turned the free energy coming off their volcano into 29 million dollars. And that’s at today’s price. If Bitcoin goes to 200k next year like most predict that’s almost 100 million dollars their volcano gave back to the country. Every country can do this with the free energy they have.
Bitcoin is so scarce, besides TIME, it is the only other probably scarce thing in this world. As of 2023 there are 626,619 Ultra High Net Worth Individuals in the world. An Ultra High Net Worth Individual is someone who has investeable assests of at least 30 million dollars. And there are only 21 million Bitcoin forever, which is only 18 btc per UHNW in the world. And as you now over 4 million are lost for ever, one million coins are in the satoshi wallet, and thousands of holders already hold more then 18 Bitcoin…. What happens when they want to accumulate.
Scary Fact of the Day: this ones really scary I apologize…. But If your salary was $500,000 per day, every day (weekends/holidays included) since The Great Pyramid in Egypt was built. Which was 2600 BC so 4,624 years ago. and you spent nothing… you'd still have LESS money today than the U.S Government borrowed in March to operate through Sep of 2024... This is why we need Bitcoin.
Luckily some of our elected officials are realizing this can’t be sustained. This week US Congressman Thomas Massie introduced a bill to abolish the Federal Reserve. Stating they hurt the American citizens every time they print new money. The federal reserve is not ran by elected officials and they do not have to answer to the president or congress. They get to push the magic money printer money whenever they want to.
Once someone understands bitcoin they don’t go back.
I’m having alot of fun in my new craftsman program at work. I have a great group of guys going through it with me, and we will all be together for the next 10 weeks. My boss is the man and gave me ten minutes to explain Bitcoin to everyone during lunch and boy did they have some questions! I also let them know I will only bring it up if someone asks about it, so they don’t have to avoid me. Haha Explaining Bitcoin to someone for the first time might be my favorite thing to do on earth. To see the gears turn as they started to understand how Bitcoin actually works and what issues they thought were there actually weren’t. Like many people a few of the guys blended crypto as a whole with Bitcoin. And it’s important to understand they are not the same. Bitcoin is its own fundamental new element in the world.
We all face our own issues in life, if you’re lucky enough to be healthy then most issues revolve around finances. And sadly we don’t all have the rich uncle that will randomly say hey Sam I know the worlds tough and things are more expensive here’s 10 thousand dollars to make your life easier. Haha we all wish that would happen but we all know it never will. So without a random act of kindness out of no where people find themselves trapped financially making just enough to get by or just enough to feel comfortable. If your not investing your not keeping up with inflation and if your not keeping up with inflation your money will be drained. That is a fact, as food and good prices continue to go up. Bitcoin is that life raft that reprices your time and increases your moneys value. If you’re able to get one more person off of 0 because they actually understand what Bitcoin is now you may have changed their life forever. It’s no one’s fault that they don’t understand how money works. This stuff isn’t taught, you need to go out and learn it on your own. And who the heck has time or even wants to do that. The problem is that so much that worked for our parents generation will not work for us. I know I say it every week but this is the . Com era of money and property and it’s just getting started.
I know that was a lot there was just so much important stuff to cover this week.
Solana went on a nice run this week. Going from $137 to $164. Robinhood Europe announced they now offer Solana staking. In the 24 hours after this staking went live the total value locked in Solana jumped by 5%. So that may of had something to do with the price jump. I live in New Jersey where it’s still illegal to stake my tokens for a yield. Thats some bums. You want to hear an absolutely insane stat. On Monday May 13th this week, 23,110 tokens were created on Solana. Yesss take a second to grasp that ridiculous number. 23,110 new tokens launched in one day on Solana. The previous record was 16,000 tokens Degens are getting out of control, many were made to try and ride the GameStop roaring kitty news. But the best part is Solana handled it well with no interruptions. This is by bar the consensus chain so far this bull run and when FireDancer launches at the end of this year it could cement them as the future of micropayments.
The only other token I see giving them a run for their money is you guessed it Internet Computer Protocol, ICP. While they do not have the hype or the volume Solana does, frankly absolutely no chain expect Etherium can say they have the volume Solana does. They have built an entirely unique form of blockchain that is evolving quickly. They call it the only third generation blockchain. If you tune in here then you understand the reverse gas fee model they have introduced. Canisters are filled by the developers and users can interact with the dapps and platforms without needing to hold ICP to use it. These canisters are also tamper proof and unhackable. No need fire firewalls or security teams protecting your data. That waste of money and threat is gone forever with this technology. DFINITY announced this week that half a million canister smart contracts are now deployed on #ICP. In a span of just 72 days, the number of canister smart contracts deployed on #ICP surged from 400k to 500k.
Yesterday DFINITY launched their Year 4 roadmap and key milestones for ICP. How crypto YouTubers aren’t all talking about this I really don’t understand. I feel like crypto is already confusing enough that when you try and grasp what ICP has actually built it’s hard to take it all in. I’m not going to deep dive this for you. But if you follow DFINITY here on X go give it a read it’s worth it! The future is going to be insane, with much of today’s waste gone from the system.
Last thing before I get to the Hoge updates, the stock of stocks Micro Strategy our generations Berkshire Hathaway will be added to the MSCI World Index fund, effective May 31. It stands for the Morgan Stanley Capital International and includes a stock index designed to track broad global equity-market performance. This index comprises the stocks of nearly 3,000 companies from 23 developed countries and 24 emerging markets. This is the first of constant buy pressure as we all await for micro strategy to be included into the S&P 500. If your going to get it make sure your in before that news!

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