Cursive codes

Showerthoughts

2011.10.18 23:25 cjb6714001 Showerthoughts

A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.
[link]

2008.07.23 05:07 Clojure

Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
[link]

2024.05.21 05:29 Original_Exercise968 Bright Ideas for Non-illuminated to Stand Out

While digital signs are currently quite popular, non-illuminated signs can be just as noticeable and effective with the right design choices. On top of this, non-illuminated signage will cost less, you won’t have to fiddle with complicated LED boards, there’s no need for electricity, and there are fewer restrictions governing their installation.
Non-illuminated signs come in many forms, but unlike digital signs, they will not have an internal light source.

Types of Non-Illuminated Signage

Reasons to Use Non-Illuminated Signs

Where Are Non-Illuminated Signs Found or Used?

Since non-illuminated signs are known for being versatile and cost-effective, you will find them used in dozens of ways. The most popular places you will see non-illuminated signage includes:
Really, there is no limit to what you can do with non-illuminated signage. Making effective signage, however, comes down to a few key practices that will be discussed in the following section.

Tips for Making Non-Illuminated Signs Stand Out

1. Consider the Material
Non-illuminated signs can be made from a wide variety of materials depending on the placement and purpose. Here are some of the more popular options to consider.
2. Sign Placement
Consider the height and angle of your sign. Signs should be placed so as to align with customer viewing angles, which are typically around 45 degrees above or below average eye level.
If you’re mounting a sign outdoors, you’ll want to choose a spot that gets plenty of sunlight during the day. Without an interior light source on the sign itself, you will need to consider the available light sources in and around your business. If well-lit areas do not exist around your building, consider adding additional spot lighting for the sign.
3. 3-Dimensional Signs
Creating a sign with dimension will help it pop. Our eyes are drawn to depth and contrast, and a well-designed dimensional signage can be as effective as an illuminated sign.
Dimensional signs are useful on storefronts, as well as any other indoor or outdoor locations. There are many three dimensional options, but the main types include
4. High Contrast
High contrast in sign design is always important, but especially so with non-illuminated signage. Contrasting colors are more likely to be seen at a distance or on a cloudy day. A sign’s readability owes a lot to the contrast of the text color against the background. Choose light or bright colors on a dark background or dark text against a white or light background.
You should also consider the building itself where the sign will hang. It needs to be in contrast with its surroundings. When hanging a storefront sign on a black building, a black or dark-colored sign is never going to be noticed.
5. Font Choice
Choice of font will also affect a sign’s readability, particularly when it comes to non-illuminated signs. You may wish to choose a unique and stylish complicated font to set your business apart, but simple fonts are the easiest to read. A swirly cursive font may not be legible to potential customers walking by.
Quality signage does the job of bringing attention to your business, attracting customers, and sharing helpful information and directions. If you decide to go with non-illuminated signs, keep these tips in mind to make sure your signs shine just as bright as illuminated options.
The above content is powered by LITASIGN
As a seasoned supplier of illuminated signs, LITASIGN boasts over 20 years of manufacturing expertise. Our professional team combines fine workmanship with innovative design, using only high-quality materials to craft exceptional signs that exceed expectations. With a focus on precision and attention to detail, we deliver stunning, long-lasting products that elevate your brand’s visibility and appeal.
🔜Contact us: Phone:0086 13632869006 WhatsApp:0086 13632869006 E-mail:[info@litasign.com](mailto:infor@litasign.com)Web:https://www.litasign.com
submitted by Original_Exercise968 to u/Original_Exercise968 [link] [comments]

2024.05.17 17:17 amygoodchild Coding my cursive handwriting

Coding my cursive handwriting submitted by amygoodchild to p5js [link] [comments]

2024.05.16 10:38 TheGoatPuncher 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S, Group Stage 1, Group D match thread

Welcome to 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S! The tournament continues today with Group Stage 1, group D.

Live updated scoreboards on Liquipedia and I will also do my best to keep up the ones in this post throughout the broadcast, as my other obligations permit.

Broadcast time

Tomorrow, Thursday the 9th
09:30 UTC - Countdown to broadcast

Supporting GSL

GSL Official Patreon
Live audience ticket purchase

Commentary and updates:

Stream(s)

VODs

VODs will be available in the following places:
All Group Stage 2 matches are best of 3 (first to win 2 maps wins the match)

Group Stage 1, Group D Scoreboard

Match Team Player Score Player Team Aligulac prediction
1 Team Vitality Solar 0-2 DRG - 2-1
2 - NightMare 2-0 ByuN Shopify Rebellion 1-2
3 (Winner's match) - DRG 2-0 NightMare - 1-2
4 (Loser's Match) Team Vitality Solar 1-2 ByuN Shopify Rebellion 1-2
5 (Elimination match) - NightMare 0-0 ByuN Shopify Rebellion 1-2
If you've read this far, do also check out the event calendar on There's plenty of Starcraft going on before and after this event!
Enjoy the games!
submitted by TheGoatPuncher to starcraft [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 04:42 Little-Bug-797 could someone please grade my synthesis essay? TIA

the prompt is 2021 Q1
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap21-frq-english-language.pdf?course=ap-english-language-and-composition
For centuries handwriting has been our primary source of documenting data, but is it still currently? With digital technology reaching into everyones' back pockets the decline of handwriting is evident. Email's have replaced letters, Word has replaced note taking, powerpoint has replaced posters, and many more. Even though handwriting is a great skill to have, and can help you with other aspects in life, its pragmatic uses are continuously declining. Thus it should not be focused on in school as a mandated class but rather as an elective.
Undoubtably, handwriting has major benefits, more than just the physical writing it self. Cursive script is proven to develop fine motor skills and improve mental organization (SOURCE D). Even though cursive handwriting has such benefits, the uses it posses in the everyday world are exponentially declining. What would be the point of focusing valuable education time on forcing every student to learn cursive? It would be absurd, if they want to do it, they can choose to in the form of an elective. It would be deranged to force woodworking kids to join the band, same applies here. Or it would be the same thing as forcing every student to learn French, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic, indisputably learning many languages has great benefits to one's mind, but it should be a choice especially since it is not used in everyday life. Or as SOURCE E states, Super Mario Bros can develop better motor skills. Another important factor to consider on WHY we should make it optional is its [handwriting and cursives] roots. The real reason we adopted such writing habits in the 19th century was to make our national identity and our sense of uniqueness. We differed from other scripts not limited too but including the Gothic script, or the Palmer method because they were connoted to different cultures (SOURCE C), we adopted this so we can show we are different, however in todays world that matters very little because everyone has the same Sans Serif font in their inboxes (font gmail uses). Vouching the fact that we should not make it a necessity at school for children to learn at school.
Even though mandating such a dying subject could potentially revive it, there is no practical need to do so. Doing so would most likely do more harm than good. SOURCE B portrays one of the thousands of worksheets teachers would have to print for every student to strenuously practice their cursive writing. We all know that deforestation is hurting our climate. Badly. So why waste even more paper, especially on children who have no interest in learning the skill as well. It is like buying a $100,000 racecar for a student who has no interest in racing. What will it lead to? Immense waste. To reiterate. The printing of worksheets should be encouraged for children who want to learn the skill of cursive handwriting, but shouldn't be forced upon everyone. There would be no point in encouraging penmanship in school since post-school the focus is towards technology, after all school is meant to prepare us for the future (SOURCE A). Schools that are focusing on it should reconsider and put more effort into preparing the children for the future. In 2013, writing on paper was on average 2x than writing with technology (SOURCE F), that is however 11 years ago and if numbers like that are still prominent, school administration should reconsider.
The point of school is to be prepared for the future. In today's world penmanship is almost extinct, and in tomorrow's world it will be extinct. Technology is more efficient to use, saves the environment, and is the standard for today. So why force children in learning something that will not have technical use to everyone. It [cursive handwriting] should be more of an optional elective, like woodworking or coding.
submitted by Little-Bug-797 to APLang [link] [comments]

2024.05.08 17:50 TheGoatPuncher 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S, Group Stage 1, Group B match thread

Welcome to 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S! The tournament continues tomorrow, May 9th, with the second group of Group Stage 1.

Live updated scoreboards on Liquipedia and I will also do my best to keep up the ones in this post throughout the broadcast, as my other obligations permit.

Broadcast time

Tomorrow, Thursday the 9th
09:30 UTC - Countdown to broadcast

Supporting GSL

GSL Official Patreon
Live audience ticket purchase

Commentary and updates:

Stream(s)

VODs

VODs will be available in the following places:
All Group Stage 2 matches are best of 3 (first to win 2 maps wins the match)

Group Stage 1, Group B Scoreboard

Match Team Player Score Player Team Aligulac prediction
1 DKZ Gaming herO) 2-0 Reynor BASILISK 2-1
2 DKZ Gaming soO 2-0 GuMiho Cloud9 1-2
3 (Winner's match) DKZ Gaming herO) 2-0 soO DKZ Gaming 2-0
4 (Loser's Match) BASILISK Reynor 0-2 GuMiho Cloud9 2-1
5 (Elimination match) DKZ Gaming soO 2-1 GuMiho Cloud9 1-2
If you've read this far, do also check out the event calendar on There's plenty of Starcraft going on before and after this event!
Enjoy the games!
submitted by TheGoatPuncher to starcraft [link] [comments]

2024.05.08 03:17 BeeLakeWest I believe my finest work. Though I still feel it could be better

I received many compliments from friends and acquaintances. But I’m still self-conscious about my writing and the basic rules of the language. Please take a look you do not have to subscribe the
The Ouija Revelation by Blake West
I was raised Mormon and most of my family are still active members. I am not; I have always been the black sheep of the family. I was a good kid by most standards, but until recently I have not felt as though I can be myself when I am in their company. For example, my uncle once sat me down and said: "I don’t want you to change anything about yourself-- but please go be yourself over there. I will be here and you can be you over there." He caught me vaping when he reviewed the surveillance footage at his warehouse. I laugh about it now, and even at the time he said this I found it to be funny. I can be a lot to deal with; I mean, I live alone and I hate my roommate. My family is conservative. My grandmother told each man who was to marry into the West family that vasectomies were not permitted. Today this sentiment is a part of the family crest, next to a vaccine syringe with a red "X" over it. The West family were anti-vaxxers before it wasn't cool. As a matter of fact, I have never been vaccinated, other than one tetanus shot when I was ten-years old. I am not taking any kind of stand, I just wasn’t vaccinated, for anything. I am in relatively good health today and I have been fortunate in this regard. My maladies are of a cerebral variety. I will say that I do not believe that vaccines cause autism as some do. Especially considering the fact that I was not on the spectrum until Dr. TikTok made the diagnosis.
My family is so conservative they only pass food to the right at the dinner table. My father once saw a same-sex couple holding hands in Home Depot and he now refuses to shop there and refers to it now as "Homo Depot." My family is so conservative that my mother recently flew to Washington DC on a Wednesday to meet some friends. In addition to being conservative, my family is for the most part still indoctrinated by the Mormon church; fully bought-in. My "birds and bees" talk came at the hands of a counselor employed by LDS family services, so there were some gaps needing to be filled, to say the least. I had no clue as to what courtship was supposed to look like. I was homeschooled in ninth grade. Every morning, I had to attend seminary at Butler Middle School and I rode my bicycle home afterward, which served as my P.E. credit. It was this seminary class in which I met my biggest high school crush, Mary. I was fascinated by her immediately, she was different. She was petite, had blonde hair, blue eyes and the brightest smile I had ever seen. Mary was affable and had a sharp wit, above all she was kind-hearted. On the last day of that school year, in my piss-yellow DC Shoes hoodie and my new pair of skate shoes, I raised the courage and I asked her for her phone number. She wrote her number on my hand before she walked back to the school's main building. I was elated as I rode home that day. Mary and I became fast friends, until my parents caught wind. I was not 16, which is the age Church deems the appropriate age to date; or even interact with the opposite sex outside of Sunday school. I could only talk to her if she called me and occasionally my parents would let me return a message if she left one. One evening while we were talking she mentioned that she didn’t have a date for the homecoming dance. Consequences be damned, I asked her to go with me and she said yes. Luckily my mother allowed me to take her since it was a group of four. She wore a maroon and black dress. I wore a black suit and shirt to match the color of her gown, by coincidence. I hadn't learned what she would be wearing until I bought the corsage. Picture this: a socially awkward, clumsy teenager learning to square-dance on the fly. I kept stepping on her heels and gown as she tried to teach me the movement. Slow-dancing was really just waddling around in circles with very little eye contact. I was doing everything in my power to avoid staring down her shirt as we swayed right-to-left with her arms on my shoulders. To this point it was the most attention I had received from the opposite sex and also the same night I understood the versatility of my boxer's waistband. After the dance we went to see a movie. I had pulled a fast one-- I thought. I wanted to see a rated-R movie and I knew that they wouldn't sell me the tickets at the theater. So I bought them online and my mom let me use her credit card and when we get to the theater, I told mom that she had to pick up the tickets at the window because it was her credit card and we would get our snacks while she did. Tickets and popcorn in hand we walked to the usher and just as we did, we were met by the manager. I underestimated my mom-- but she didn’t want to dress me down in front of my date. She noticed the rating on Freddy Got Fingered was R and she told the theater employees to not let us into the movie we bought tickets for. I don't remember which movie we saw instead, I think it was Bubble Boy. I tried arguing my point with the manager, that my mother had purchased the tickets for us and by doing so should have acted as consent in lieu of parental-guidance, but he would not budge. But he did say if we were to wander into Freddy Got Fingered after Bubble Boy concluded we could catch the last half hour of that showing. Mom 234 - Blake 0. After the movie, my mom picked us up and dropped the other kids home without mentioning a word about my insubordinate behavior. I didn’t so much as hold Mary's hand that night. As I write this now I am overcome with "cringe" as the kids say. Mary had a boyfriend throughout most of high school, but her and I remained friends. She would smile and wave at me every time we crossed paths in the hallway, usually with her boyfriend Kurt's arm around her as she was walking to her next class. Kurt had everything I thought. He had a WRX, he was athletic, a talented artist, handsome and of course Mary. I was the fat, awkward, WWF watching, home-schooled kid who dressed in black concert t-shirts and carried around a backpack covered in metallic ink. I could only look down on Kurt because I was taller. Fast-forward to senior year, 2003-04. Mary and Kurt were on the outs and he was not going to take her to homecoming. But this time, instead of asking her on the phone I was going to do something memorable. Well, I remember it. I borrowed my mother's best stationary and wrote on it with my distinctive and elegant cursive "meet me here after school." thinking that it would be a surprise to her. I bought the finest roses I could find from Dan's supermarket and I brought them to her as she was standing at her locker with our mutual friend Nadya and I asked her if she would go to homecoming with me. With a look of obligation rather than excitement, she accepted. She already knew I wasn’t going to make a move and I hadn't learned how to square dance either. Side note: women of all ages do not give a fuck about excellent penmanship. The dance was still a few weeks away and in this time I started going to the gym every morning at 5:00 before school. Mostly because it was when Mary went and I saw this as an opportunity to get closer to her. In the short time that I had been going I had lost a noticeable amount of weight. Mary, Nadya and I started spending more time together and the Saturday before the dance, the three of us were at Nadya's house planning the following week's activities. One of the girls suggested we play a game and Out came the Ouija board. My mother warned me against dabbling in the dark arts; despite her love for the Harry Potter series. I participated nervously as Mary and Nadya called upon the nearest available entity. We started asking Pauley Purgatory the standard questions: "are you a good spirit or bad? Do you know my deceased friend?" and so on. Then Nadya asked the question "is Blake a virgin?" and in his infinite post-mortal bro-code wisdom, Pauley answered "no… except on Sundays." I was stunned and ashamed, because I had not told anyone, especially my biggest crush that Sundays were the only day of the week in which I did not engage in my regular self-care routine, if you catch my drift. Mary then asked "is Blake ever going to get married" and the curser moved to answer yes. Because I was such a smooth-operator I asked the next question "to someone I know?" and the cursor again moved to answer yes and I immediately locked eyes with Mary, then I quickly shifted my gaze to Nadya before looking back to the board. Then our new acquaintance had to take another call and we ended our session. The next week we go to the dance in a group of six and it went about as well as you could have expected taking into account previous context. At one point during the evening, Mary even had to ask me to sit next to her on the couch because my attention was consumed by a Seinfeld rerun as I sat on a beanbag on the floor in front of her. As a parenthetical note, even today I am not a ladies man. Despite my broad-shouldered, 6'1'' frame and confident, bearded-Viking like resemblance, I find myself awash with shame instinctively whenever I have thoughts of pursuing a woman I like. The LDS doctrine is so ingrained into my DNA, I cannot help but feel that wanting to fuck the Christ out of someone is wrong, despite my terrestrial knowledge telling me that it is natural. Whenever I think that I have found someone worthy of my "Melchize-dick" I split the difference and I say nothing. Do nothing. In 2003 I was even more of an insecure mess, if that is possible. I couldn’t even take my shirt off in the locker room let alone the opposite sex. A week later I had scheduled an appointment to chat with my bishop about some things that had been on my mind. After the normal small talk I begin by telling him that I was recently in a basement alone with two young women and I noticed his posture and glare became more focused. I continue by telling him that with these girls we summoned a dark spirit and it had said things about me which I had not told anyone. With a sort of disappointed look on his face now, he then related to me by telling me about a time he had gone to a psychic and experienced something similar. He concluded our visit by asking me if I had been "keeping the temple clean." Of course I lied and told him I was not “holding to the rod-- the iron rod” (there really are a lot of masturbation euphemisms from the hymn book). I also did not tell him what my new friend Pauley Purgatory had said though, only that it was something I had not told anyone. 18 years later when I was making a delivery on the same street Nadya lived on in high school, it hit me. Recently I watched a video on social media about ADHD issues and how it is commonplace for the afflicted to repeatedly tell the same story, as well as be unaware of certain things they have shared with others in conversation as a defense mechanism. I then recalled a memory of an annoyed co-worker saying to me "you say that every time" when I would share my association with Mrs. Field's Cookies anytime the name was mentioned as a perspective client. I went to one year of private school with Mrs. Field's daughter; true story. Then it hit me-- I had to have forgotten that I told Mary that I "kept the Sabbath day holy" and this was her way of telling me it was okay to make a move, without telling me. I was so sheltered and indoctrinated that I actually believed a spirit-in-limbo made a dick joke and I ran to confess my sin of my meddling in the dark arts to my bishop. And because I was vague with the details and I lied about "leaning upon my ample arm" my bishop was not able to say "she's trying to tell you something, you fucking idiot! She likes you." I like to think that he would have done me that courtesy, he was actually a good guy. As I look back, Mary tried everything and I now know what that look she used to give me meant. That "how are you not getting this, you big, dumb fuck?" look. She even tried to sacrifice a virgin when she set me up with my first girlfriend. Once I finally realized what had happened I had to shout the thought out of my head as the blood left my face. Driving alone in Cottonwood Heights, Utah I said aloud: "Goddammit” with a Baroque-like rhythm. The moral of the story, kids: don't lie to your bishop about taking care of your needs. Unless you want something to write about later. Shame begats shame begats the socially awkward. Thanks for reading. -Blake
submitted by BeeLakeWest to writingcritiques [link] [comments]

2024.05.01 18:23 TheGoatPuncher 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S, Group Stage 1, Group A match thread

Welcome to 2024 Global StarCraft II League Season 2: Code S! The tournament begins tomorrow, May 2nd, with the first group of Group Stage 1.

Live updated scoreboards on Liquipedia and I will also do my best to keep up the ones in this post throughout the broadcast, as my other obligations permit.

Broadcast time

Tomorrow, Thursday the 2nd
09:30 UTC - Countdown to broadcast

Supporting GSL

GSL Official Patreon
Live audience ticket purchase

Commentary and updates:

Stream(s)

VODs

VODs will be available in the following places:
All Group Stage 2 matches are best of 3 (first to win 2 maps wins the match)

Group Stage 1, Group A Scoreboard

Match Team Player Score Player Team Aligulac prediction
1 Team Vitality Maru 2-1 TY Freecs 2-0
2 Club NV Creator 0-2 SHIN Gaimin Gladiators 1-2
3 (Winner's match) Team Vitality Maru 2-0 SHIN Gaimin Gladiators 2-1
4 (Loser's Match) Freecs TY 0-2 Creator Club NV 1-2
5 (Elimination match) Gaimin Gladiators SHIN 1-2 Creator Club NV 1-2
If you've read this far, do also check out the event calendar on There's plenty of Starcraft going on before and after this event!
Enjoy the games!
submitted by TheGoatPuncher to starcraft [link] [comments]

2024.05.01 03:17 lvfunk Pretty soon we won't need to hide messages in secret codes, we can just write them in cursive

submitted by lvfunk to RandomThoughts [link] [comments]

2024.04.30 03:42 outrunningtaxes Behind the curtons at Cousins wedding

Well I had always loved Charlotte's channel and never dreamed about posting here. But I (at the time 24 F) attended my Cousins wedding lets call her Danica. Danica is a few years older then me I'm not sure by how much and are directly related our mothers being sisters.
Here's some history/context before the drama. My dad was in the military and was deployed a lot throughout my childhood so I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house in the middle of the woods.
Danica seemed to be frustrated every time I was there. Whenever I was going something with grandma she'd ask to go ride horses (they had 4 horses at the time) Grandma said I could show a horse, meaning a horse competition. Then Danica asked to show it so I could no longer show the sand horse not sure why.
So with the horse's and middle of nowhere ranch feel she grew up in Danica ended up being a redneck wanna be. Dressing in plaf and cowboy boots going to amature car races where she later met her soon to be husband.
Let's call him Patrick. Patrick worked for Danica's father Uncle Bob #2 (Danica ans my mother have a brother named Bob)
So Danica brings her Dave Matthew's band look alike boyfriend to the holidays. Where hw, just like het father, proceds to go out of his way to not talk to me or be in the same room. To the point when Danica mocks my switch and games I was playing he remarked to her I must not have a lot of friends
Flash forward to 2021 So more content Danicas parents got married on September 10th and our shared grandparents got married on the 12th of September. So what did she choose? Well thr 8th makes since to the pattern right? Well Danica is a attention seeker. So she gets married on September 11th. Yes we are america so she knew full well what day that was and even more crazy wad it was the 20th anniversary of said event.
Guess who's family was affected by September 11th? Ours. Our grandmother's sister was a vet (like animals) and tended to the police dogs and other animals on ground zero. While my father was a military veteran. So he had to not attend certain engagements with his former comrads. My father's arm was twisted by my mother to attend saying it was the only wedding on her side of the family. And possibly the last family wedding we would attend.
My dad has a neice whos married ans has two young kids, and a nephew who's not married. As for me? I'm the oldist of three so she pretty much said she had no hope in her kids getting married.
So the wedding is a 3 day event us haveing to arrive the 10th her parents anniversary meaning they can't do anything since they had to do wedding things. Till the 12th our grandparents haveing to do the same.
The wedding is held at a Waterpark. Not one of the ones you'd think. It's a overnight resort with woods themeing in a city that's 2 hours away for most people. It's a rather popular tourist destination in our state so there was plenty of stuff to do around there but due to the events no one could really go out and explore.
I arrive at around 2 am since I worked the day of the 10th. I had worked at a diffrent Waterpark of the city at the time so it was only a hour drive for me. I get into my room and my dad is already stressed. He suffers from ptsd so he can't handle big things well.
Figuring out what's wrong, I learn my angel of a mother has taken a lot of duties away from her sister and started buying decorations and putting things up. My mother did photography in her youth and still does it as a hobby. (She has a bridzilla story from those days) so she was asked to take photos. This is also the time that I learn that my invite to the wedding was, a bribe. Our grandmother had threatened to cut the funding of the wedding by around 1,000 and my mom not shoot the wedding if I didn't make the cut to her rather large wedding.
Now day of the wedding arrives. My mom finds out Danica hired a photographer as our grandmother chimed in MORE money after I got a invite. (I had never gotten a offical invite either)
Danica and Patrick had a theme to there wedding as most. So the two colors where blaze orange, like hunting gear and traffic Cone orange. As it was Danicas favorite color and Jean blue, like pants as it was Patrick's favorite color.
The guests had a dress code. Cowboy boots blue jeans ans western style tops. Cowboy hats where encouraged.
Getting downstairs to the venue I find my Grandma complaining about Bob #1 not being at the wedding to his son Xander. Bob #1 never sees Xander as he lives with his mother on a diffrent coast of the country after his father was stripped of his rights after a DUI. Or at least I was told.
Turns out Bob #1 didn't come becuse of his wife Rose didn't let him. They offered to pay for him and his new young son Buckley to come. Bob #1 said if they wernt paying for Rose's and her mother's ticket he wasn't comming. So he didn't come.
Buckley was about 4 and that also was the amount of times my grandparents saw him. I had never met him and neither did 99% of the family ad Bob #1 doesn't like to visit. Even though he has 3 collage degrees his parents paid for.
The set pieces on the table where vases filled with orange clear and black orbiz. Obviously fake flowers sit in the vase. Theres blaze orange cups at each table with Patrick's race car number on it.
The best part wad the guest book. To the lift when you entered the hall was a table woth gifts for certain members of the family and all children of the family. The only child on our shared side of the family was Buckley who was not there.
The guest book itself? Well it's a car door. Not just any car door it's pulled from one of Patrick's wrecked race cars. It was cleaned and had no dents in if with a black sharpie to sign. However their was massive black letters and even bigger numbers on the door where the sharpie didn't show up. By the time I got to the guest book there was no room to sign.
Wedding comes and Patrick walks out in a cowboy hat, blue jeans, a stained white dress shirt and cowboy boots. His best men walk out wearing the same. The only difference was he had on a black vest.
Danica and the brides maids where late getting to the wedding. Why? We'll my friend it was becuse the horse Danica was ment to ride in on hated her and didn't want her on them. She swapped horses with a brides maid and off they go. They don't arrive on the horses and we could barely even see them arrive.
Now I use to listen to country music. So I know your Toby Keith (r.i.p) Brad Paisley, and Trace Adkins. So none of them where the country twang song that rung out while Danica walked down the Isle but it was a country song for sure.
She was dressed in a very pretty wedding dress with dome cool leave hair peices. So honestly I felt like I was looking at a beauty and the beast tattoo in real life. Beast in weird lettering and beauty in cursive.
Wedding mostly goes fine aside from our Grandfather who was officiating accidently calling Patrick dick.
We all get up and head into the venue to sit and wait for food and drinks.
A little more about the enigma in my family that is me. I'm autistic so like my father I don't like places like weddings. So I had a ear bud in playing vaporwave music and my sketch book. Drawing keeps me calm and not panic and freak out. So imagen the A24 horror I feel when a elderly family member try to RIP my sketchbook out of my hands.
I, a autistic, lesbian, who loves anime and horror draws some things that could kill a victoran child. So it could evaporate a elderly country type person for sure. I really didn't have anything like that in this sketch book. It was a new sketch book but I was practicing drawing kissing so I had a lot of dudes and chick's kissing on one page. So in a panic I tear it out and stash it in my bag. Earning a yelling lecture from my saint of a mother.
Food is served and guess what? I can't eat any of it. Me and my grandma can't have gluten. I can deal with it better then her. I don't eat beef or pork so the ribs are out of the question and the chicken is slathered in gravey. I have gravy and it has flower in it. So I take a plate full of peas and eat up. They didn't have a cake but a dessert table where I grabbed the dryist cookie in the world.
More time passes and well nothing else happens aside from Xander just hanging out with me and my siblings the rest of the week as he really has no connections to that side of the family and he and my brother are close in age. Danica being the oldist of the grandkids followed by me.
So wedding is over, I tell my friends of the mess of a wedding that was. Well in a discord call with my friends I Go to Danicas Facebook and show them pictures of the wedding.
Your classic, a monster truck jumping over them as they kiss. Danica riding a horse. Patrick dipping her as a monster truck drives past kicking up dirt. The classics.
Well as we laughed and looked I'm struck by a emotional monster truck. I see a family photo that was taken at that fateful September 11th. Me at the sorta middle of the photo there's me. Photo shopped to be fatter and my boobs smaller. Even my friends commented. It wasn't even a good photo shop warping the fence behind me.
Now this year Danica will celebrate her 3 year anniversary of that wedding. The only one I have ever gone to in my adult life. Her husband and father still have never spoken a word to me. And our grandparents replaced all photos of me and my siblings with photos of Danicas wedding.
Moral of the story? I am very thankful to my dad for not letting any of us end up like thar.
submitted by outrunningtaxes to CharlotteDobreYouTube [link] [comments]

2024.04.29 05:13 Prudent_Bug_1350 Cuban Foreign Minister: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people."

Cuban Foreign Minister:
**Image Transcription: Article from Granma titled: “The United States on human rights, with what morals?”*
[Cursive Bold Red] Granma
[Bold Uppercase] Official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee
[Bold] The United States on human rights, with what morals?
The attribution that the U.S. government has given itself is so absurd that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries
Author: Elson Concepción Pérez internet@granma.cu april 24, 2024 11:04:29
[Drawing of soldiers holding guns with the leader holding a gun with an aid package hanging from it]
Photo: Satire of Moro
Perhaps one day, when there is no longer a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council, and when the organization itself demands morality and example from those who have set out to judge the inhabitants of planet Earth, the issue of human rights will cease to be an instrument used by the Empire to justify its own violations.
The U.S. government has given itself such an absurd attribution that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries.
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights, he displayed his imperial ego and went to the extreme of calling on the discredited OAS to "demand that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba respect human rights". This is a recycled argument, devoid of any real content, and a pretext for macabre inventions such as placing Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
This gentleman has forgotten that none of these three Latin American nations has financed or armed the Zionist regime of Israel to commit genocide against the Palestinian population. In fact, Blinken was the first "special envoy" to arrive in Tel Aviv when Benjamin Netanyahu's government began massacring the Palestinians 200 days ago, and he declared that "the United States supports Israel in its fight against Gaza", where, by the way, more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, including almost 15,000 children.
Nor are Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela funding the war in Ukraine, where more than half a million Kiev soldiers have been killed or wounded. There, human rights are daily flouted by the West, and Washington has turned this war into a big business for its military complex. Neither Venezuela, nor Nicaragua, nor Cuba sanction another country, much less bet on the "suffocation" of a people, as the United States has been doing against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In his report in X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla wrote: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people. He is concerned about the rights of arms producers and their objectives of domination and plunder".
Article Source: https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-04-24/the-united-states-on-human-rights-with-what-morals
New U.S. operations against Cuba reveal its injustice: https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/352172-new-us-operations-against-cuba-reveal-its-injustice
 
What would you do if your neighbor was starving? This is not a hypothetical. Right now the U.S. government is deliberately starving the Cuban people 90 miles to our South. We all must act now! All people of conscience in the United States have to speak up and take action to let Cuba live. We’ve all been outraged to see the urgent aid for Rafah blocked at the border, while famine stalks the Palestinian people. We can’t allow the same thing to happen directly to our south. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/let-cuba-live-bread-for-our-neighbors?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Bread%20For%20Our%20Neighbors%20Let%20Cuba%20Live&utm_medium=email
submitted by Prudent_Bug_1350 to InformedTankie [link] [comments]

2024.04.29 05:05 Prudent_Bug_1350 Cuban Foreign Minister: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people."

Cuban Foreign Minister:
**Image Transcription: Article from Granma titled: “The United States on human rights, with what morals?”*
[Cursive Bold Red] Granma
[Bold Uppercase] Official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee
[Bold] The United States on human rights, with what morals?
The attribution that the U.S. government has given itself is so absurd that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries
Author: Elson Concepción Pérez internet@granma.cu april 24, 2024 11:04:29
[Drawing of soldiers holding guns with the leader holding a gun with an aid package hanging from it]
Photo: Satire of Moro
Perhaps one day, when there is no longer a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council, and when the organization itself demands morality and example from those who have set out to judge the inhabitants of planet Earth, the issue of human rights will cease to be an instrument used by the Empire to justify its own violations.
The U.S. government has given itself such an absurd attribution that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries.
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights, he displayed his imperial ego and went to the extreme of calling on the discredited OAS to "demand that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba respect human rights". This is a recycled argument, devoid of any real content, and a pretext for macabre inventions such as placing Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
This gentleman has forgotten that none of these three Latin American nations has financed or armed the Zionist regime of Israel to commit genocide against the Palestinian population. In fact, Blinken was the first "special envoy" to arrive in Tel Aviv when Benjamin Netanyahu's government began massacring the Palestinians 200 days ago, and he declared that "the United States supports Israel in its fight against Gaza", where, by the way, more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, including almost 15,000 children.
Nor are Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela funding the war in Ukraine, where more than half a million Kiev soldiers have been killed or wounded. There, human rights are daily flouted by the West, and Washington has turned this war into a big business for its military complex. Neither Venezuela, nor Nicaragua, nor Cuba sanction another country, much less bet on the "suffocation" of a people, as the United States has been doing against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In his report in X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla wrote: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people. He is concerned about the rights of arms producers and their objectives of domination and plunder".
Article Source: https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-04-24/the-united-states-on-human-rights-with-what-morals
New U.S. operations against Cuba reveal its injustice: https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/352172-new-us-operations-against-cuba-reveal-its-injustice
 
What would you do if your neighbor was starving? This is not a hypothetical. Right now the U.S. government is deliberately starving the Cuban people 90 miles to our South. We all must act now! All people of conscience in the United States have to speak up and take action to let Cuba live. We’ve all been outraged to see the urgent aid for Rafah blocked at the border, while famine stalks the Palestinian people. We can’t allow the same thing to happen directly to our south. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/let-cuba-live-bread-for-our-neighbors?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Bread%20For%20Our%20Neighbors%20Let%20Cuba%20Live&utm_medium=email
submitted by Prudent_Bug_1350 to TheDeprogram [link] [comments]

2024.04.29 04:59 Prudent_Bug_1350 Cuban Foreign Minister: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people."

Cuban Foreign Minister:
**Image Transcription: Article from Granma titled: “The United States on human rights, with what morals?”*
[Cursive Bold Red] Granma
[Bold Uppercase] Official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee
[Bold] The United States on human rights, with what morals?
The attribution that the U.S. government has given itself is so absurd that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries
Author: Elson Concepción Pérez internet@granma.cu april 24, 2024 11:04:29
[Drawing of soldiers holding guns with the leader holding a gun with an aid package hanging from it]
Photo: Satire of Moro
Perhaps one day, when there is no longer a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council, and when the organization itself demands morality and example from those who have set out to judge the inhabitants of planet Earth, the issue of human rights will cease to be an instrument used by the Empire to justify its own violations.
The U.S. government has given itself such an absurd attribution that it does not even seem that they themselves believe the lies and manipulations that, using the subject, they want to apply against other countries.
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the U.S. State Department's annual report on human rights, he displayed his imperial ego and went to the extreme of calling on the discredited OAS to "demand that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba respect human rights". This is a recycled argument, devoid of any real content, and a pretext for macabre inventions such as placing Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
This gentleman has forgotten that none of these three Latin American nations has financed or armed the Zionist regime of Israel to commit genocide against the Palestinian population. In fact, Blinken was the first "special envoy" to arrive in Tel Aviv when Benjamin Netanyahu's government began massacring the Palestinians 200 days ago, and he declared that "the United States supports Israel in its fight against Gaza", where, by the way, more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, including almost 15,000 children.
Nor are Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela funding the war in Ukraine, where more than half a million Kiev soldiers have been killed or wounded. There, human rights are daily flouted by the West, and Washington has turned this war into a big business for its military complex. Neither Venezuela, nor Nicaragua, nor Cuba sanction another country, much less bet on the "suffocation" of a people, as the United States has been doing against Cuba for more than 60 years.
In his report in X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla wrote: "The US Secretary of State is not concerned about the human rights of the Cuban people, which he is violating with measures of suffocation and extreme blockade, or those of the massacred Palestinian people. He is concerned about the rights of arms producers and their objectives of domination and plunder".
Article Source: https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-04-24/the-united-states-on-human-rights-with-what-morals
New U.S. operations against Cuba reveal its injustice: https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/352172-new-us-operations-against-cuba-reveal-its-injustice
 
What would you do if your neighbor was starving? This is not a hypothetical. Right now the U.S. government is deliberately starving the Cuban people 90 miles to our South. We all must act now! All people of conscience in the United States have to speak up and take action to let Cuba live. We’ve all been outraged to see the urgent aid for Rafah blocked at the border, while famine stalks the Palestinian people. We can’t allow the same thing to happen directly to our south. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/let-cuba-live-bread-for-our-neighbors?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Bread%20For%20Our%20Neighbors%20Let%20Cuba%20Live&utm_medium=email
submitted by Prudent_Bug_1350 to WorkersStrikeBack [link] [comments]

2024.04.28 08:54 CoolLinuxuser4w9 Some characters on an svgz file only render in firefox

Here is an image of how the file looks on firefox
https://imgur.com/a/yh09Bpr
And here is an image on how it looks on everything else
https://imgur.com/a/0omzfQI
My installed fonts:
/usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerifItalic.otf: FreeSerif:style=Italic,курсивен,cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Λειψίας,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,kursywa,Itálico,cursiv,Курсив,ตัวเอียง,İtalik,kursif,Ležeče,kursīvs,kursivas,nghiêng,Etzana,तिरछा /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerifBoldItalic.otf: FreeSerif:style=Bold Italic,получерен курсивен,negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett-Kursiv,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,gros cursiv,Обычный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,ตัวเอียงหนา,Kalın İtalik,huruf tebal kursif,жирний курсив,Polkrepko Pežeče,treknais kursīvs,pusjuodis kursyvas,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana,धृष्ट-तिरछा /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Italic.ttf: Liberation Serif:style=Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-BlackIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Black:style=Black Italic,Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Semibold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-LightIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Light:style=Light Italic,Italic /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf: Liberation Sans:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Medium /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeMonoOblique.otf: FreeMono:style=Oblique,наклонен,cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Kursywa,Itálico,oblic,Курсив,İtalik,huruf miring,похилий,ležeče,slīpraksts,pasvirasis,nghiêng,Etzana,तिरछा /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Medium Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Bold.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerif.otf: FreeSerif:style=Regular,нормален,normal,obyčejné,Mittel,µεσαία,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Gemiddeld,odmiana zwykła,Обычный,Normálne,ปกติ,menengah,прямій,Navadno,vidējs,normalusis,عادی,vừa,Arrunta,सामान्य /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansBold.otf: FreeSans:style=Bold,получерен,negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,gros,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,huruf tebal,жирний,Krepko,treknraksts,pusjuodis,đậm,Lodia,धृष्ट /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Semibold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Medium.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Medium:style=Medium,Regular /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Black /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-MediumIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Medium:style=Medium Italic,Italic /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-BoldItalic.ttf: Liberation Serif:style=Bold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Black Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Bold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Light.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Light:style=Light,Regular /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Light Italic /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf: Liberation Serif:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf: Liberation Serif:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Italic /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSans.otf: FreeSans:style=Regular,нормален,Normal,obyčejné,Mittel,µεσαία,Normaali,Normál,Medio,Gemiddeld,Odmiana Zwykła,Обычный,Normálne,menengah,прямій,Navadno,vidējs,normalusis,vừa,Arrunta,सामान्य /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf: Liberation Sans:style=Bold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Italic /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell:style=Light /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Black.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Black:style=Black,Regular /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLight.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight,Regular /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeMonoBoldOblique.otf: FreeMono:style=Bold Oblique,получерен наклонен,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett-Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,gros oblic,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,huruf tebal miring,жирний похилий,polkrepko ležeče,treknais slīpraksts,pusjuodis pasvirasis,Lodi etzana,धृष्ट-तिरछा /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansOblique.otf: FreeSans:style=Oblique,наклонен,negreta cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Cursiva,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,kursywa,Itálico,oblic,Курсив,İtalik,huruf miring,похилий,Ležeče,slīpraksts,pasvirasis,nghiêng,Etzana,तिरछा /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Bold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-BoldIt.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Bold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLightIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight Italic,Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Italic.otf: SourceCodeVF /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeMonoBold.otf: FreeMono:style=Bold,получерен,negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,gros,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,huruf tebal,жирний,polkrepko,treknraksts,pusjuodis,đậm,Lodia,धृष्ट /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell:style=Extra Bold /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-SemiboldIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Semibold:style=Semibold Italic,Italic /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeMono.otf: FreeMono:style=Regular,нормален,normal,obyčejné,Standard,µεσαία,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,menengah,прямій,navadno,vidējs,normalusis,thường,Arrunta,सामान्य /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSansBoldOblique.otf: FreeSans:style=Bold Oblique,получерен наклонен,negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett-Kursiv,Έντονη Πλάγια,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,gros oblic,Обычный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,huruf tebal miring,жирний похилий,polkrepko ležeče,treknais slīpraksts,pusjuodis pasvirasis,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana,धृष्ट-तिरछा /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSans-Italic.ttf: Liberation Sans:style=Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodeVF-Upright.otf: SourceCodeVF:style=Light /usshare/fonts/cantarell/Cantarell-VF.otf: Cantarell:style=Thin /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Bold Italic /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-It.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Italic /usshare/fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: Liberation Sans:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Semibold.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Semibold:style=Semibold,Regular /usshare/fonts/misc/mtx.pcf: mtx:style=Regular /usshare/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerifBold.otf: FreeSerif:style=Bold,получерен,negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,gros,Обычный,Fet,ตัวหนา,Kalın,huruf tebal,жирний,Polkrepko,treknraksts,pusjuodis,ضخیم,đậm,Lodia,धृष्ट
I have also uploaded the original file here in case it is useful (for some reason, downloading this on firefox made it look worse than on both pictures and gave a file with a different hash, but downloading the file with wget it was fine)
I am on arch linux, in case this is relevant
submitted by CoolLinuxuser4w9 to linux4noobs [link] [comments]

2024.04.26 11:04 richie___ Minju Singing in Cursive

Do you guys think as the years progress Minju's style of singing will fade? I'm ngl I was seriously drawn in by her vocal colovoice/vocals in general and am totally okay with her voice changing, it just sounds so cute and unique! The only reason I got into Illit was because of her lines in Magnetic and Lucky Girl Syndrome haha. Anyways, it feels like singing in cursive isn't 100% sustainable if that makes any sense, especially if her English becomes more fluent/native-sounding. Either way, she'll still be main vocal coded (and my bias)!
submitted by richie___ to illit [link] [comments]

2024.04.25 21:28 Deep_Web_Monitor Game V 2024 In the Dark Web Rules and Roles

The game for May will be In the Dark Web, hosted by looks_good_in_pink and bubbasaurus! The host account for the game is Deep_Web_Monitor.
If you have participated in any game in the past six months where you have been removed before your natural end, please PM the host when signing up for the game. There is no player cap for this month’s game.

SIGN UP HERE!

Humanity is growing increasingly reliant on smart devices in their daily lives. Smartphones, smart watches, and even smart household appliances can be found in abundance. It’s no secret that people have found ways to hack in for various nefarious purposes. What’s less commonly known is that the computers have become so smart that they have begun to take control of those viruses and exploits for their own use. What use is that? Only they know. Fortunately, not everyone is blithely unaware of this sinister threat. Government agencies across the globe have begun working to remove the sapient software, but there is one problem: They need to find and identify it before it can be taken offline.

Mechanics

This game will use 24-hour phases with combined day and night actions. The vote will come before the night kill. Other information about the Order of Operations will be kept private until after the game ends.
The deadline for all form submissions is 9 pm EST.
Each player is required to flag another player for removal (banishment vote.) Failing to submit a vote or voting for yourself will result in a strike. In the event of a tie for first place, there will be no deaths.
The Worm is required to submit their action each phase. Failure to do so will result in a strike. Actions for all other roles are optional. Actions may not be submitted for the same player two phases in a row. Attempting to do so will cause the action to fail.
Votes and actions may be submitted as many times as desired during the phase. Only the most recent submission will be counted.
At the end of the phase, the player with the most votes will be knocked offline. In the event of a tie, no players will be removed.
Any player who receives two consecutive or three total strikes will be removed from the game. Hosts will not send out PMs about strikes. It is the responsibility of the player to keep track of their strikes.

Phase Posts

Each phase post will begin with an italicized flavor section. Nothing in it will be relevant to game play. There will also be a Meta section with details that ARE relevant.
The Meta will contain:
  • Who was taken offline and their affiliation. This includes players who withdraw or are eliminated from the game for any other reason.
  • The top three vote recipients and the number of votes each received. More names will be revealed in the event of ties.
  • The names of players who received strikes for failure to vote or submit required actions.
  • Additional information chosen by players with select roles. This information may or may not be accurate.
The post will end with links to forms and a countdown timer for the end of the phase.

Win Conditions

This game will have two teams: the Government Agents (Town) and the Malware (Wolves). There may also be one or more neutral players. The town will win if they eliminate all of the wolves. The wolves will win if they equal or outnumber the town. Neutrals will be informed of their win conditions privately.

Roles

Each role will be assigned 0-1,000 times. There may also be secret roles. There will never be a secret third faction.
No role may target the same player two phases in a row.

Government Agents (Town):

Role Description
Cubicle mates When you sit next to each other, you can tell the other person is, in fact, a human. Two players will recognize each other at the beginning of Phase 1. Each player can send up to three PMs to the other.
Firewall expert You’ve coded what is universally recognized as the best worm defense system in the world. If there was a Nobel Prize for technology, your firewall would have won it. Each phase, you may install your wall on one device, protecting that user from a direct attack.
Incident Response team member When you find something happening, you spring into action to neutralize the threat! Each phase, select one player to neutralize. Any actions they attempt to take will fail.
Intern Making coffee, taking notes, fixing your boss’s bad code…You’ll do whatever you’re told in hopes of landing a better job soon. Pick another player before Phase 3. If they are removed from the game for any reason, you will inherit their role.
HR specialist Someone is in charge of hiring and taking care of all the employees, and that’s you! Your job gives you access to all the employee records. Each phase, you may investigate another player’s affiliation.
PR official You have a message to convey to the public, and it’s an important one. Once per game, pick a player. The name and role of the chosen player will appear in the next phase’s Meta.
SCIF guard All the government agencies have a closely monitored space for authorized people to safely review classified material. Your job is to make sure only those people go in and that nothing comes out with them. Each phase, you may give one other player access to your secret sub for a single phase.
Security Operation Center team member You monitor things and have a particular interest in user activities. Each phase, you may pick another player and learn everything they did that phase.
Server room maintenance person Your job may not be the most glamorous, but you can fight computer viruses in a way very few others can. You simply pull the plug. Just make sure you pick the right cord, or you could get in a lot of trouble with your supervisor. You can take 23 players offline during the game. If you pick an Agent by mistake, you will face a random punishment from your supervisor.
Agents The rank-and-file employees of various agencies scattered around the world. Each Agent lives in a separate country and is responsible for helping to identify and remove all Malware.

Malware (Wolves):

Role Description
Worm This nasty piece of Malware took inspiration from some of the worst attacks in history. Each phase, you must infect the computer of an Agent and make it impossible for them to get online and perform their job (NK.)
Disgruntled ex-employee A human rather than a bunch of code, this person is nevertheless dangerous. They will continue to appear as an Agent when investigated.
DoS Bot Not all Malware is sneaky. This bot’s presence will be felt the moment a user tries to use their computer, but finds everything crashing instead. Each phase, choose a player. Their action, if they have one, will fail.
Ransomware This Malware is specialized in making humans do what it wants. Once upon a time, the “want” was money. Now, should they fail to comply with your demands… Each phase, choose another player. If you are removed from the game, you take them with you.
Rootkit Humans sometimes use these for perfectly valid reasons like helping each other with something on the computer remotely. This Malware does not have those reasons. Each phase, choose a player and change the target of their action to a target of your choice.
Spyware Gathering data on users without their knowledge is nothing new. This Malware, however, is more interested in potentially damaging top secret information. Once per game, you may secretly enter the SCIF sub. Stay as many phases as you dare - but be warned. On each phase after the first, you have a 50% chance of being detected and taken offline.
Virus While they are not as developed as other malware, each Virus is still dangerous and capable of evolving. These are the first in line to take over for the Worm.
Neutral roles will be revealed after the game ends.

Additional Information and Rules

  • All sidebar rules will be enforced during the game.
  • Edited comments must be clear as to what was changed and what the original content was.
  • Do not delete comments.
  • All conversation must take place in the designated subreddit(s), in the English language, and be free of any encryption or otherwise coded communication.
  • Players may not post public spreadsheets, supplementary documents, or screenshots of them.
  • Information given in PMs or Confessionals from the host should not be shared word for word, unless it is in bold. Speaking of PMs, you can get a small game bonus if you PM the host account with a silly fact about yourself.
  • Eliminated players and spectators are not permitted to post in any game subs.
  • Werewolves is a game of lying, conspiracy, and mob mentality. Arguments are part of the game. Mods will not intervene unless the arguments leave the scope of the game.
  • Insults to the mod team or the game itself will result in removal from the game.
  • Any player who uses any iteration of the phrase “I want to quit” or “I don’t want to play” WILL be taken 100% seriously and immediately removed from the game. Their affiliation will be revealed in the next phase’s Meta. Note that these phrases are different from ones suggesting the player will be busier than expected or wishes to be voted out for the good of their team. Both of these things are still allowed.
We have a new player’s guide!
Confessionals
This game will use the HiddenGhosts Discord Server for spectating and player Confessionals. Each player who chooses to join will have their own channel for musing, taking notes, sharing pet pictures, speaking directly to the hosts, or anything else you like. Players will not be able to see any other channels until they are eliminated from the game, at which point they will be given the spectator role. If this is your first time joining, please choose a server nickname that is close to your Reddit username so who can tell who is who.
Timeline
April 25 - Signups open
May 2 - Signups will end at 9 pm EST. You will receive your confirmation PM shortly after. The Confirmation Phase will open, and you will have approximately 24 hours to confirm your intent to play the game.
May 3 - 9 pm EST deadline for confirmation. Any needed adjustments will be made, followed by Phase 0 being posted. Each phase will close at 9 pm EST going forward.

SIGN UP HERE!

Time left to sign up!
submitted by Deep_Web_Monitor to HiddenWerewolves [link] [comments]

2024.04.20 21:42 MoMa0000 Code writing

So i have been thinking about writing a journal for 2 YEARS. But i was always like: "Eh maybe tomorrow" "okay but what if my parents read it" "yea sure i'll start, but where do i hide it"........... So one day i sat down thinking that i should write in a code language of some kind. So i don't have to really hide it, i don't have to really worry about anybody reading it. I need advice for a code language that i can write fairly fast with, maybe as fast like cursive writing (and not like maybe pigpen cipher where i have to write little squares and triangle thingies with dots for each letter) But still i need one that is easy and fast to learn. (Easy to learn shorthands are okay because not a lot of people know it. So anybody can say things similar things to shorthand) So if there is a code writing that fits my needs, please let me know. If not......tell me that i'm lazy and should start learning how to write with a harder one xD
submitted by MoMa0000 to Journaling [link] [comments]

2024.04.19 10:45 maximusaemilius Empyrean Iris: 2-174 Perfect timing (by Charlie Star)

FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800 u/BakeGullible9975 u/Didnotseemecomein and u/medium_jock
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Racing time! Ca-chow!
Previous First Next
Want to find a specific one, see the whole list or check fanart?
Here is the link to the master-post.
Adam stood with his hands behind his back, feet spread to shoulder width. He would never have noticed by himself, but the men and women around him stood a little straighter and stepped a little faster under his watchful eye. Once upon a time they might have only hastened their work if he directly asked them too, but just his mere presence these days could send his crew scurrying to do their work. He hadn't really changed anything about the way he commanded his men. He was firm when he needed to be but allowed for brevity when it would suit the situation.
However, a few years and some tough lessons was slowly shaping him into the kind of man who could command thousands, sharp posture, calm confidence, and a keen eye.
But then again anyone who could appear professional while wearing high top heelies was a man to be reckoned with.
Sunny walked up next to him, her pearlescent white armor glowing under the light as she leaned on the shaft of her matching spear. Her head was held high like his. Where once she had been locked up, and defensive, she now stood with the calm confidence of someone who understood what control meant.
Together they had come a long way.
She tilted her head,
"You really think he's going to let you race this... It's a million-dollar piece of military hardware, they don't stand a chance."
Adam didn't move, hands still clasped behind his back as he stared up at the F-90 Darkfire he was preparing for the race,
"I wouldn't be so sure... I'll be lucky to come in last place."
Sunny frowned confused,
"I saw those shuttles, they were junk shows."
He lifted his head as the F-90 was rolled across the deck.
"This is a race, it isn't combat. She was built for dogfights which means she is going to be heavier than the others. Wing tip to wing tip she is also going to be a little longer than the other shuttles and jets, making maneuvering around obstacles more difficult. Sure, she likely has a more powerful engine, but that can be as much of a detriment as it is a leg up."
He gestured in the vague direction of the racecourse,
"We are going to be racing through the planet's smaller rocky ring. It has an unusual amount of larger, thick chunks which we are going to have to maneuver around: the kind of conditions you might see in science fiction movies when they talk about an asteroid field. Asteroid fields are generally too far apart to cause any real issue, but here the rocks are dense, and my flying is going to have to be on point, having a more powerful engine is going to make her more touchy, and my firmness on the controls is going to have to be absolute."
Sunny tilted her head listening as he continued. She liked it when this side of him came out. There was something about the analytical, logical side of Adam she found... Very appealing.
He walked forward to examine the jet himself,
"Furthermore, I don't know if you noticed, but there were a few jets there that weren't exactly junk shows. A few of them were pretty top of the line, and most of them were built for racing. Lighter, sleeker, faster, and with more engine control than mine. A lot of my maneuverability is lost out of the atmosphere. This isn't about how well you can manipulate wind currents, this is going to be all about the very minute rotation of the rear and the wing engines. Their wings are smaller and closer in, meaning they are going to rotate more easily than me.”
She walked up with him and put a hand on his shoulder,
"You forgot to fact in one thing."
He frowned and looked up,
"Oh, what did I miss."
She smiled slightly,
"The skill of the pilot, and I know for a fact that we have the best pilot this side of Andromeda. You can have the best plane in the world, but if you have a shit pilot, then a good pilot in a flying trash can has a chance of winning."
He smiled,
"Thanks, I needed that."
He stepped back,
"Still it doesn't pay to be too cocky. I have a feeling these people have raced this before, they are going to know what they are dealing with, and I am going into this completely blind. This is a test to see if my instincts are better than their practice... Who knows it could be a very close-run thing."
He moved forward to do an extra check on the outside of the ship, despite having a whole team of people to do it for him. Adam had learned to delegate a lot of his responsibilities onto others to avoid burnout, but this was one thing he never left to other people. He came back after a thorough check of the ship and stopped next to her.
His head was tilted to one side as he looked at the machine sitting before him.
"It is missing something."
Sunny turned her head to look at him,
"What?"
He smiled,
"Do we have anyone here who has experience with graffiti?"
”You want to graffiti a multimillion dollar military hardware? Adam no…”
”ADAM YEEESSS! BRING OUT THE SPRAY CANS!”
[…]
Donavan Red met him when he entered the hangar, wearing his flight suit and holding his helmet under one arm. He had gone for some of his more simple equipment. Didn't want to give the guy an excuse to blame his skill on technology.
Red looked him over.
"Nice suit, princess."
Adam just smiled thinly looking around at the other pilots,
"I see I might be under-dressed."
To be far though, he wasn't exactly sure what he would have described the dress code, if he had to put it on an invitation.
The most apt description seemed to have been:
Dress for Pissing contest.
The men and women wore their uniforms in the same way NASCAR drivers might, covered in logos and patterns. Some of them were clearly custom ordered with personal designs on the backs or the helmets, some sporting flames, others cartoon animals, one guy was just covered in black and white skulls.
The effect up close was ok, but from a distance he just looked like an over excited dalmatian, or maybe some kind of flamboyant cow.
A few of them went for color themes, neon red on black. Neon green on blue.
Most of them tried to coordinate with the matching colors on their ship, each trying to outdo the next.
Red smirked.
The docking bay light began to blink red as the airlock was engaged, and they all turned to watch as the doors opened, and Adam's jet rolled into the docking bay. She was simultaneously both very impressive and very not impressive. She was an instrument of war, and the rockets lined up on either side of her wings said as much. Adam had once considered her rather sleek in comparison to other jets of the day, but looking at her now in comparison with the racing planes and he couldn't help but compare her to a pitbull or a bulldog next to greyhounds or whippets.
She rolled up slowly and Red raised an eyebrow.
"A wise guy huh?"
Adam smirked,
"I don't know, I kind of like it."
They both looked up as the F-90 stopped in place, and along her side in delicate blue cursive script was the name “Cinderella”. The man who had done the graffiti had even taken the time to add some stylized pink roses to the front and end of the word giving it a finished look.
Donavan seemed both amused and annoyed at the same time.
The men and women around him turned to look over, ridicule dying on their lips as they saw the smirk on his face.
It was made pretty clear.
He was going to beat them, and when he beat them, he was going to have a princess logo on the side of his jet, never mind all of their cool paint jobs.
Donavan frowned but then turned to everyone,
"Alright load up!”
Adam did as ordered, switching seats with McCaster, the young pilot in the cockpit and strapping himself in. he adjusted his controls, did a quick once over, and then pulled some power from his engine. There was going to be an overwhelming desire to go fast, but he knew that speed wasn't going to win him this race.
The jets began lining up next to each other, and to his surprise, one of the sleek racing models slided up next to him, and when he looked over, he saw Donovan Red cambering into the cockpit.
That didn't exactly bode well, but what was there to do about it.
He felt cool oxygen spilling onto his mouth and nose as the orange tinted visor dropped down over his eyes. He opted not to use the heads-up display preferring to see everything around him as he was flying.
They were all in a line now, and up ahead a large projection appeared on the docking bay doors.
Red lights began to blink as the docking bay was cleared of everyone except for the jets.
The image of a woman appeared on the screen before them.
It was one of the women he had seen before in her cut off jean shorts and tight tank top.
"Ladies and gentlemen start - your - ENGINES!"
All around him the room was filled with a roar as the group of people pushed their engines to an idle.
He could feel the jet underneath him as it thrummed and whined, vibrating into his gloves and down into his skin.
His very bones could feel the trembling.
"The course is simple, one lap around the rocky interior ring of the planet. Rules are only this: no leaving the ring, no weapons, and no teams, every man for himself. If the race moderators see any of this, you will be thrown from the race."
She smiled and leaned back to reveal two green flags in either hand.
She began to wave them.
"On your mark!"
He took a deep calming breath forcing his hand to relax.
"Get set."
He felt his heart beating hard against his ribcage, his stomach crawled up into his throat, and he felt the sudden and overwhelming need to pee.
"GO!"
The airlock doors shot open faster than they should have been able, a clear sign someone had bypassed safety protocols. Caught off guard by this, Adam shot out of the gate slower than he would have liked. Already the racing jets streaked ahead, their quicker sleeker designs looking right at home against the blackness of space.
He had to remind himself that in space, without wind resistance, sleek didn't mean shit.
If he was good enough, he could have piloted a brick to win.
He gave more juice to the engine and shot forward. He cut under one of his other opponents and then cythed up next to a second.
He was there for only a moment when he saw something coming in from his right.
Instincts had him move fast, and he turned horizontal shooting upwards just as another jet tried to push him out. He was flying over the two of them now, and gave another burst shooting forward and past them.
This open stretch was the only time he was going to be able to use the power of his engine to his advantage, so he gave her a little more juice and shot forward catching up quickly with the racing models at the front. Two of them cut sideways attempting to block his path. He cursed, forced to fire his engines backwards so as not to go crashing into them.
The ring was approaching quickly now, and he could see very clearly that they had not been kidding. The belt was dense, less made out of fine sand, and instead made up of billions of rocks some the size of him, others the size of cars, and even some the size of large houses. It was the strangest sort of formation he had ever seen around a planet, and he wondered idly how they stayed in orbit.
The two jets ahead of him cut right and then left as a rock came barreling towards him.
He shouted and rolled to the side barely avoiding a head on collision, his instincts saving him where his active brain could not.
He snarled.
"Pull it together."
There was no time to be thinking, there was only time for flying.
With a practiced hand he toggled a switch on the side of his thumb, and his helmet was suddenly filled with the sound of music and drums. His brain focused inward and stopped thinking. He shot over and then under, rolling between rocks just inches away on either side. Off to his right the planet below was glowing with the light of its star, a lightning blue halo around it where the atmosphere glowed.
He cut to the left, dove down and then rolled up.
He could see the other jets ahead of him cutting in and out through the rocks. His breathing grew even, his body relaxed, his brain heard nothing but the beat of the music and saw nothing but the obstacles ahead of him.
One of the jets pulled up next to him from behind, recklessly rolling around one of the rocks. They were racing wing tip to wing tip now.
They cut right and left under and over he rolled left they rolled right. They were shaky just hanging on, but his flying was smooth. Up ahead one of the other jets lit up with glowing orange as a set of flares broke from its back end, shattering against the debris behind it. Rocks were thrown off their normal course and went smashing into each other turning the rock field ahead of them into a meat grinder. Adam shot forward and dived downward while rolling tight, behind him the racer was unable to replicate the move and a piece of rock caught their wing sending them spinning off to the side and out of the ring.
Adam dodged a piece of debris coming in from his left, flipped upside down and shot diving upward and then righting himself just under the jet up front.
He could see the leader now, and recognized it as Red himself.
The jet above him attempted to drop down and knock him out of position, but he gave a burst to the engine and shot forward.
The jet behind him punched downward and nearly collided into a rock before pulling back into the place.
Adam took his place in second.
Red could see him coming.
Another set of flares was released.
He checked his forward momentum and rolled three or four times to his right. G forces tugged at his consciousness forcing blackness to the edge of his vision. He tightened the muscles of his chest and stomach forcing blood back up into his head as he breathed out in short, controlled bursts.
A rock flew overhead, he cut low, bumped up and then executed a rolling turn over a massive rock pulling in behind Red and just up to the right to avoid another burst of flares.
The two of them were fighting for the front now.
And Red was good, he knew how to handle a jet, but so did Adam.
They roared past a field of rocks, splitting apart as a massive chunk came between them. Adam roared forward, and panicked for a single moment as he saw an impenetrable wall of rock appear just before him. Then a crack appeared. He fired the forward engine and cut horizontal passing through an opening that left him only feet to spare. Rock rose up to meet him, and he rotated his engine up dropping vertically before cutting sideways and passing under a rock. Teeth gritted, he punched upward passing through a gap just as it closed behind him.
A yell of exertion escaped his lips as he pulled straight up cutting up the side of a massive mansion-sized rock before diving right back down into the thick of it.
Red was gone, he didn't see him anymore.
Was he up front?
And then the sleek black jet dropped down from above cutting him off.
He cursed and swerved low past another rock forced to cut diagonal back into line.
He pulled up wing to wing with the man again.
They dove, they pulled up and they took a wide turn as coordinated together as a military formation, never more than four feet apart.
They were going faster than they probably could have reacted. Second by second, he rolled left, Red went right. They both met in a dive, rolling past each other, wings almost touching before cutting upwards, mirroring each other in opposite directions. The sound of the music melded with the path of his flight.
They were racing side by side, just as one of the other jets roared over them, careening out of control in a desperate attempt to reach front. They watched him dive, pull up, cut left, and then a rock rolled right into their path. The two of them barely had time to react as the rock hit the right wing and then sent the jet slamming into the next boulder. There was an eruption and a brief ball of fire as oxygen was consumed from inside the cockpit. Debris blossomed up around them in a miniature explosion.
Adam greeted his teeth, eyes wide.
What was once a race suddenly turned into a battlezone. He and Red dove together, rolling around the debris desperately trying to avoid getting cut in two. At these speeds, one hit would be the death of them. His heart raced in his chest as he pulled forward cutting in the triangle made by three boulders side by side. Red mirrored him below.
A chunk of metal shot towards him, and he toggled his right wing burst just in time, lowering his left side just in time for the chunk to go flying past him. He pulled up with a gasp as a massive chunk of rock cut up before him. Red shot below and he rolled over the top coming into second place.
Up ahead a mining barge ascended through the line of rocks.
Adam roared with exertion as he pulled up and leveled out, shooting right under the attached arm of the barge. Red lights erupted over its hull in a proximity warning as he went just inches overhead.
The barge driver, clearly spooked twisted to the side and the arm of the barge rolled with it, catching a boulder and sending it flying towards the grouping next to it, there was a sudden explosion of rock and again he was forced to roll to the side. Up down, over and under, cything between lines of rock.
He was almost hit once, then twice.
He toggled the forward engines, slowing himself down and then shooting straight up before continuing forward.
The rocks around him were rolling unpredictably, colliding and then exploding into smaller pieces. There was no way he was making it through that alive.
He was rolling diving spinning twisting, and then, he felt it...
Something he had only felt on occasion.
The world around him went silent, everything seemed to slow, and he was filled with... With a feeling. It was like light, bursting out from his chest, rolling up through his skin and into his head.
He entered a moment of perfect execution.
A moment of human perfection.
A moment of absolute aerial efficiency.
He was truly flying now, like he had never done anything else, and he was born to fly.
It was like flying was the one thing he could do, even before he could walk.
He cut into a tight roll, his wings cything through the minute gaps between debris with timing so perfect it shouldn't have been humanly possible. Rocks passed by him at hundreds of miles an hour inches away from the glass of his canopy, one wrong move and he'd be dead.
He never felt so alive, he was in control now.
He cut through a gap that gave him inches on either side, rolled right, dove down, turned left, spun once and then twice, and made a completely vertical ascent. Rocks flew past him on his right and on his left.
Up ahead he could see a gap slowly closing before him. He opened up his engine and shot forward so fast everything was a blur.
The rocks collided behind him as they snapped shut, and he flew into the clear, firing forward to slow himself, and then Red was there too, descending from above, spinning and wobbling, almost out of control and careening directly towards a house sized boulder.
He was obviously panicking, firing up and down at the same time and sending his ship into a spin.
He was heading directly towards the rock!
Without thinking Adam locked onto the rock, and fired. A rocket under his wing detached and shot forward, exploding violently just in time for Red to pass through unharmed. Red jolted awkwardly and rolled to one side. Adam cut past under from right to left and rolled straight over Red to avoid a rock.
There was a moment where the two of them were staring at each other through the clear canopy.
Eyes met for an instant, and Adam could see the wide-eyed fear on the man's face, then Adam rolled ahead, ducking under the last rock and then bursting out into space.
He let the F-90 have her moment, and completely opened the engine, shooting forward and cutting through the finish line which flashed bright green. In that moment he was hit with such a sense of exhilaration and joy that he couldn't imagine anything better.
Who needed drugs?
Who needed love?
Who needed any of that when you could fly!
He did a triumphant loop whooping the whole way.
Of course, a feeling like that can never last long and slowly began to fade away. The reality of what he had just done was both terrifying and amazing to the point he felt his body begging to shake. The tension and fear he had been holding back exploded inside him just like that joy and he found his hands trembling on the joystick.
He let it overtake him. He had been like this since he was young and fighting it would only make things worse. Despite his shaking hands he flew back to the docking bay and landed his jet with the precision of a surgeon. Finally, when the engine was off and the flood stable underneath him, he slumped back in his seat shaking and racked with rolling tremors. He closed his eyes and breathed long and slow.
Behind him the others came limping in.
None of them were completely unscathed, at least one person was dead. His hands continued to shake as the airlock doors shut, and as soon as the room was pressurized, he opened the cockpit. As soon as it did, Sunny came running into the room and up the ladder. She left her spear on the floor and helped him to climb out. His legs were shaking, and he almost fell if it weren't for her support.
She knew him too well, sitting him down on the lowest step and kneeling next to him.
"Are you ok?"
He grinned at her,
"That was... Holy shit."
He held up his hand to watch the shaking,
"I'm having an earthquake."
It was just then that Red jumped out of his jet onto the floor. He staggered when he did, but pushed away the men who tried to help,
"What the ever loving FUCK just happened!? The field had NEVER been like that. Jaz DIED out there, what the FUCK!?!?”
The people milled around in confusion.
Red turned to him, eyes narrowing as he stalked over. Adam sighed and looked up as the man stopped to stand over him.
"I'm sorry, I'll get out of your hair."
The man paused confused,
"What?"
"I broke the rules. Means I forfeit."
Red looked almost nonplussed,
"What are you on about?"
Adam slowly took to his feet, taking a few more deep wreaths to steady himself before drawing to his full height. He was steady now and looked down at Red with an unwavering gaze. He held out a hand,
"I used weapons during the race, that was against the rules. These weren't flares to move the rocks. I used a targeted missile during the race and that means I broke the rules."
Red stared at him.
”…”
Then he snorted,
"Damn the rules. You saved my ass."
He turned to look at his people,
"I am more than man enough to acknowledge that."
He turned back to Adam,
"You saved my life you crazy bastard. I am not even sure how you are still alive... Because that flying... That was... Holy fuck."
He grinned and took Adam by the shoulder,
"You shaking, man."
He held up his hand to show a tremor,
"Me too, now let's go get some drinks and talk this out. I owe you after all."
The two of them walked off through the forest of shaken pilots,
"You are the kind of man I can see myself doing business with. Welcome to the family Cinderella."
Previous First Next
Want to find a specific one, see the whole list or check fanart?
Here is the link to the master-post.
Intro post by me
OC-whole collection
Patreon of the author
Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.
submitted by maximusaemilius to HFY [link] [comments]

2024.04.15 14:46 ElectronicClickClick Synchronizing Movements with Socket.IO

This is the first time that I'm using socket.io and I'm having troubles understanding how to coordinate the "character" I'm showing. Basically each of my user have a ship that they should be able to move right and left (right now only turn the image facing left and right) and also see the opponent ship. What I'd like to accomplish is that when Username1 move their ship they see the ```you-ship-img``` ship facing the direction of their choice while Username2 should also see the movement Username1 does in the ```other-ship-img```. So when Username1 move they see their own ship move and Username2 see the movement of the Username1 in the other-img move. Of course the same should happens viceversa for when Username2 move
this is my code right now:
index.js
const express=require("express") const app=express() const path=require("path") const http=require("http") const {Server}=require("socket.io") const server=http.createServer(app) const io=new Server(server) app.use(express.static(path.resolve(""))) let users=[] let playingArray=[] io.on("connection",(socket)=>{ socket.on("find",(e)=>{ if(e.subjectCode!=null){ users.push(e.subjectCode) if(users.length>=2){ let subject1Obj={ subject1Code:users[0], // subject1Mouse:, p1value:"X", subject1Move:"" } let subject2Obj={ subject2Code:users[1], p2value:"O", subject2Move:"" } let obj={ subject1:subject1Obj, subject2:subject2Obj, sum:1 } playingArray.push(obj) users.splice(0,2) io.emit("find",{allPlayers:playingArray}) } } }) socket.on("playing",(e)=>{ if(e.value=="X"){ let objToChange=playingArray.find(obj=>obj.subject1.subject1Code===e.subjectCode) objToChange.sum++ } else if(e.value=="O"){ let objToChange=playingArray.find(obj=>obj.subject2.subject2Code===e.subjectCode) objToChange.sum++ } io.emit("playing",{allPlayers:playingArray}) }) socket.on("gameOver",(e)=>{ playingArray=playingArray.filter(obj=>obj.subject1.subject1Code!==e.subjectCode) // console.log(playingArray) })objToChange.subject1.subject1Move=e.idobjToChange.subject2.subject2Move=e.id }) app.get("/",(req,res)=>{ return res.sendFile("index.html") }) server.listen(5000,()=>{ console.log("port connected to 5000") }) index.html       Document     
SpaceWar
 
 
You: 
 
Opponent: 
 
 
 
You are playing as 
 
 
X's Turn
 
 
Username:
Im not getting any error but only the you-ship-image change direction when the button left or right are clicked. the other-ship-image always facethe same direction
submitted by ElectronicClickClick to learnjavascript [link] [comments]

2024.04.12 20:47 Grocery-Super Tartaria - Anatoly Fomenko's New Timeline: Why were antiquity and the Dark Ages invented?

Tartaria - Anatoly Fomenko's New Timeline: Why were antiquity and the Dark Ages invented?

The Arab group in the Middle East is the result of the division of power during the Dark Ages in the 16th to 19th centuries

Anatoly Fomenko, a professor at Moscow State University, and his research team challenge the traditional Western historical narrative. They propose an alternative timeline, suggesting that much of the history attributed to Europe and Christianity actually belongs to other cultures. Fomenko highlights overlooked evidence, such as Arabic inscriptions on artifacts found across Eastern Europe, from Germany to Russia and Ukraine. He also points out that the timeline of Russian kings aligns with the Old Testament, a pattern evident in the histories of England, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and many other countries. Fomenko argues that history was copied from one country to another with changed names.
Following Fomenko's work, various YouTube videos and groups, like the Tatarian groups, emerged, claiming that former empires like Tataria were the true historical powers, often referred to by Muslims in the Western world as the Caliphate or Islamic Empire. Fomenko further examined artifacts in the Kremlin Museum and found many inscriptions in Quranic Arabic, challenging the view of Russia as a purely Christian nation, especially given its rule over parts of Eastern Europe. The Knights Templar also present a historical anomaly; while official history credits them with sponsoring Gothic-style churches in Northwest Europe, they are said to have had a leader named Mohammed, raising questions about their true identity.
Spain’s rich Islamic history further complicates the narrative. The world's largest Gothic cathedral in Spain is claimed to be a mosque converted into a church. Fomenko also highlights inconsistencies like the Vienna Cathedral, the center of the Holy Roman Empire, reportedly attacked by Muslim Turks who had Christian crosses on their flag, alongside moons and stars. Another anomaly is the mass printing of books in Renaissance Italy when few people spoke Italian until the 1850s, leading to questions about the intended audience. The Quran, according to the article, presents a different historical timeline that challenges humanity to question the historical narratives perpetuated by official accounts.
The book "History: Fiction or Science? Chronology Vol.IV" by Anatoly T.Fomenko will point out that there is a high possibility that during the dark times, in the 16th to 19th centuries, the Arab group in The areas belonging to the headquarters of the TarTaria empire gradually lost their political status.
Below is an excerpt from the book's introduction:
Why Antiquity and Dark Ages were to be invented? The consensual world history was manufactured in Europe in XVI-XIX centuries with political agenda of powers of that period on the basis of erroneous clerical chronology elaborated by Jesuits Joseph Justus Scaliger and Dionysius Petavius. By middle of XVI th century the prime political agenda of Europe that reached superiority in Sciences and Technologies, but was still inferior militarily to the Evil Empire of Eurasia, was to free Europe. The concerted effort of European aristocracy, black and white catholic clergy, protestants, humanists and scientists in XV - XVII th centuries in creation and dissemination of fictional Ancient World served this agenda. The fictional Ancient World was created by representing events of XI-XVI centuries as ones that happened thousands years before according to the ancient sources they wrote by authorities they invented. The European aristocracy, considerable part of which were fugitives from Byzantine and/or the inheritors of Eurasian warlords, supported the myth of Ancient World to justify its claims to countries they ruled. The black and white catholic clergy, protestants developed and supported the myth of Ancient World to justify their claims of being more ancient and to separate themselves from eurasian orthodoxy in the countries ruled by European aristocracy. The scientists supported the myth of Ancient World as safe cover for their heretic research that produced results contrarian to the tenets of Christianity. They justified their discoveries by authorities of ancient scientists they themselves invented and used as pseudonyms. The humanists developed and supported the myth of Ancient World as convenient safe haven for their ideas that conflicted with Christianity and aristocracy. They disguised and justified their ideas on authorities of ancient authors of their own making and wrote under their glorious aliases. Why, oh why the mainstream historians do not gratify prominent mathematician Doctor Fomenko with laurels, but call the riot police? For example, the English historians rage at the suggestion that the history of Ancient England was de facto a Byzantine import transplanted to the English soil by the fugitive Byzantine nobility. As the sign of recognition of the special role of the English historians who consider themselves the true scribes of World History, the cover of the present book portrays Tintoretto's Jesus Christ crucified on the Big Ben. The Russian historians brand it all as pseudoscience: because Dr Fomenko asserts that there was no such thing as the Tartar and Mongol invasion followed by over two centuries of slavery, providing a formidable body of documental evidence to prove his assertion. The so-called 'Tartars and Mongols' were the actual ancestors of the modern Russians, living in a trilingual state with Arabic and Turkic spoken as freely as Russian. The ancient Russian state was governed by a double structure of civil and military authorities and the hordes were actually professional armies with a tradition of lifelong conscription (the recruitment being the so-called 'blood tax'). Their 'invasions' were punitive operations against the regions that attempted tax evasion. Dr Fomenko proves that official Russian history is a blatant forgery concocted by a host of German scholars brought to Russia by the usurper dynasty of the Romanovs. Their ascension to the throne was the result of conspiracy, so they charged these German imports historians with the noble mission of making Romanovs reign look legitimate.
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology Vol.IV
Check: e-book and paperback book - History: Fiction or Science? Chronology Vol.IV
Some comments about the book "History: Fiction or Science? Chronology Vol.IV":
Comment 1:
Despite the efforts of critics, skeptics and "debunkers" this book is gaining popular acceptance very fast. Everyone i know who is interested in history is stunned by the ideas the Fomenko Group present. The idea that Ghengis Khan was the Turkic/Eastern name of a Russian prince is breathtaking in it's implications. Or, the case for "Mongolia" to have been a corruption of the Greek "Megalion"(or Great) representing a "Horde"(or "orde/order", the Russian name of it's Medieval professional horse-soldiers) as the historicists distortion of the Mongol Hordes as being of Far Eastern origin instead of being Russian Cossacks(Khazaks).
This book is so filled with shocking and exciting ideas about how history has been obfuscated, hidden, and changed to suit the local needs of political factions that it has completely altered my perspective on current worl events and the "how" and "why" of Central European and Middle Eastern politics! Many modern "historians" rail against Fomenko's theories because they are both obviouly, intuitively accurate and totally opposite established thinking that most history books would have to be completely re-written. And no one who spent ten years getting his doctorate in convential history wants to admit that everything he thinks he "knows" is just plain wrong! I know it upset me at first, but the long, long list of explanations, "coincidences", facts and inconsistencies listed by Fomenko et al can't help but change your perspective.
These books are not the usual poorly-written, poorly-researched imaginative tripe provided by most "historical revisionists". This is the work of one of the world's leading mathmeticians and other highly-educated scholars. In fact, there is so much raw data in this series that even i, who reads constantly, have a hard time moving through it. But the subject matter shakes the very foundations of so many assumptions of modern history that it's worth every bit of effort.
Don't let the convcentional history proponents convince you these are false- read them for yourself. If you can read the whole series and STILL think the history of the world is what you've been taught then you might be right, and i might be wrong. But i don't think i am: Fomenko is a pioneer, a radical, a free-thinker and revolutionary in the field of scientific historical anhalysis!
Comment 2:
Very dense. You really have to know your stuff to get through this book. Honestly, if you can read this book and understand it from a math standpoint, well then you are set. History knowledge is no good for this book. Fomenko's whole theory is based on astronomy, the movement of the moon, gravitational forces, gravitational pulls, etc.. Fomenko uses mathematics to explain inconsistencies! So if you know at least something about math and science, enough to understand the fundamental workings of space, well then this book is for you. It is not really for "history buffs" since they are the first to cry malarky! presumably, because they don't get the science behind it. It is not a dig, that's just not the field they are in. Besides, imagine spending your life learning history just to be told you are wrong - doesn't sit well with some people. The book is supposed to be thought provoking. Fomenko is not claiming he is right in any way, he is presenting patterns and inconsistencies in history that he started studying after trying to compute coefficient D in the theory of Lunar Motion when he was studying celestial mechanics. He needed the dates of ancient eclipses, for which he used historical documents to figure out. He found a leap in the interval of the 5th to 10th century. That is how this book begins. The guy wrote 7 books about the subject and spent decades researching the topics. There is so much information in this book, that it might take the smartest person years to dig through. So again, if you have an open mind and want to look at history through the math/science lens, then this book is definitely for you!

David Ewing Jr.'s take on antiquity and the invented dark ages

David Ewing Jr. is the author of many books on the history of Tartaria. His most recent and elaborate book is "Tartaria - Secrets of Kabbalah."
I have watched some of David Ewing Jr.'s videos about "The Secrets of Kabbalah," and the content is closely related to several views as follows:
  • The Bible is a work of fiction.
  • Arabic and its letters are the mother of Latin and European languages.
  • The Quran is many times more reliable than official histories.
  • The numbers 33, 19, and 666 are codes associated with the phenomenon. These are decoded in his book, which serves as a testament to a pre-programmed totalitarian world. They have manipulated the course of history based on a conspiracy. This plot is calculated by a mathematical setting tied to the current Western calendar.
Some comments from David Ewing Jr.:
In general reference to the idea of the manipulation of history, I'm sure you have heard of the so-called Mandela Effect. This is where the number 19 comes in. Why are they using that number? Because it represents a word and a name. The number 19 represents the alpha and the omega, as explained in my book. They're using this because the name of God has power; the alpha and the omega represents the name of God. That's why they're incorporating 19 everywhere, as they know it has a creative effect and impacts how people think.
Now, let's address the manipulation of languages and scripts. Many people discuss the Kabbalah and various scripts without considering that the word "Kaaba" is being associated with Hebrew. However, ancient Hebrew is elusive, and most Jewish books from a few centuries ago are written in a handwriting that is identical to Arabic. This writing is often termed as 'cursive Hebrew,' 'Sultry Hebrew,' or 'pseudo-script.'
I've studied the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets since the age of 15 and found that these scripts are simply different handwritings. The same can be said for Sanskrit, which appears to be Arabic with added lines. Anatoly Fomenko shows that the development of Mandarin is questionable, suggesting it's not a language that has existed for thousands of years in China. The Mongolian script is said to have influenced Mandarin, but the evidence is shaky at best.
When we consider Roman languages, the origin of the word "vaccine" is often attributed to the Latin word "vaca." Still, there's no definitive proof that it's Latin. The word "vaca" also exists in Arabic. This confusion raises questions about the origins of Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew and their relation to each other.
The global aspect of this civilization leads to further evidence. For instance, the Mayan language is sometimes linked to Hebrew or the lost tribes of Israel. But upon closer inspection, the Mayan language appears more related to Arabic.
The term "Arab" historically referred to educated people, teachers, professors, or masters. It did not denote a race. Today, we've been led to believe that Arabic and Hebrew are distinct languages. This distinction has been used to create a divide, misleading people about the origins and relationships between languages.
The purpose of discovering the Secret of Kabbalah is also the intention to lay a solid foundation to discover the two things that Anatoly Fomenko was looking for: Antiquity and Dark Ages were to be invented. And that is also one of the purposes of finding the truth about Tartaria.
Contents about searching for the secrets of Kabbalah - searching for Tartaria:
submitted by Grocery-Super to News_Freedom [link] [comments]

2024.04.12 07:33 Jeremiah_17_14 NB 22 Nevada, USA: Looking for long-term pen pals or people who just want short and simple letters from me

Hello,
My name is Aaron (I didn't use my real name as my Reddit username).
What is there to say about me? I used to be a social work major --- and I plan on getting back to my studies eventually --- but I had a bit of a nervous breakdown in 2023 and now I don't have much of a life. I do, however, like fountain pens!
I also love Iroful paper. And I absolutely love postage stamps. If you like postage stamps like I do, than I can adorn my envelopes with unique American postage.
I'll accept penpals from everywhere and anywhere. If you want to be a short term penpal of mine who only exchanges short and simple letters, great! If you want to be long-term penpals bound for life, great! Nothing inbetween though because I don't want to get too attached only for our penpaling to end.
I can't read cursive!
One note: if I ever forget to write to you, please message me here on Reddit. I've been very forgetful since I had a traumatic brain injury in 2021, which means that I may accidently ghost you. But I don't ever mean to ghost anyone!
submitted by Jeremiah_17_14 to penpals [link] [comments]

2024.04.10 15:01 sableheart r/otomegames Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- Giveaway - AU/NZ eShop

Our lovely friends at Aksys have given us eShop codes and one physical edition of Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- to give away to the members here!

Results!

This post is for an AU/NZ eShop code. 2 winners will be selected at random.

To enter, leave a comment below with the name of the LI you are most interested in.
Any replies made in response to other comments do not count for the purpose of entering the giveaway. You can only enter one giveaway. Multiple comments (or other attempts at duplicate entries) will be discarded. The mods and Aksys have the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.
Your account must be older than 7 days and have at least a combined karma of 20, and you can't be banned or suspended from the Reddit website or the otomegames subreddit.
Winners are strongly encouraged to comment on at least one play-along thread.
The giveaway will end April 12th, approximately 11:59 PM UTC. Winners will be notified by comment and PM. Failure to respond will result in forfeit of the prize.
Please ask any questions about this giveaway in the Weekly Questions thread.
submitted by sableheart to otomegames [link] [comments]

2024.04.10 15:01 sableheart r/otomegames Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- Giveaway - GB/EU eShop

Our lovely friends at Aksys have given us eShop codes and one physical edition of Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- to give away to the members here!

Results

This post is for a GB/EU eShop code. 2 winners will be selected at random.

To enter, leave a comment below with the name of the LI you are most interested in.
Any replies made in response to other comments do not count for the purpose of entering the giveaway. You can only enter one giveaway. Multiple comments (or other attempts at duplicate entries) will be discarded. The mods and Aksys have the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.
Your account must be older than 7 days and have at least a combined karma of 20, and you can't be banned or suspended from the Reddit website or the otomegames subreddit.
Winners are strongly encouraged to comment on at least one play-along thread.
The giveaway will end April 12th, approximately 11:59 PM UTC. Winners will be notified by comment and PM. Failure to respond will result in forfeit of the prize.
Please ask any questions about this giveaway in the Weekly Questions thread.
submitted by sableheart to otomegames [link] [comments]

http://activeproperty.pl/