Hello - I'm not sure if I should build this app or hire a dev to delegate this task to. To help me figure this out I am looking to get a quote for developing and launching a very simple app. I'm also looking to get an idea of what maintenance looks like for this app.
I have created high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes in Figma, and I have clear experience requirements defined in the Figma file. I have a defined scope of the app's capabilities and a roadmap for future updates and features. I'm a UX designer who is very comfortable collaborating with devs and adjusting my designs to accommodate the dev process. I get consistent feedback from devs and researchers that I'm very easy and fun to work with.
About the app:

• it is almost entirely informative
• No CPNI, profiles, or authentication processes
• max of 1000 users
• needs to be available for IOS and Android
• needs to be responsive to smartphone and tablet dimensions. (I have both phone and tablet prototypes created in Figma.)
• needs an admin portal/login/website where the admin can write daily posts that will be displayed on the home page to all the users
• needs push notifications
• needs calendar feature
• needs accessibility settings so users can adjust font and button sizes
• needs built-in surveys to collect user feedback
• I possibly need to connect it to a weather API to add weather forecast info as well- I'm curious how this would affect the price of the quote

It's essentially a very, very simple website that mostly has documentation/written information and photos. I could just make a responsive version of a website but I want my users to have it as a downloaded app on their phone or tablet. Would it make sense to have an app that just launches a mobile version of the website?
I've built multiple websites using WordPress and have entry-level coding skills (but it has been a HOT minute since I've written a line of javascript, HTML, or CSS). I've never launched an app working independently without a developer. I'm sure I could struggle through it. (I've downloaded some great resources on this subreddit to review tomorrow). I would like to see what a realistic quote would look like before I decide on my next steps forward.
Please let me know what you guys think!

I have the 4070 TiS installed on a Z790 PG Sonic MB.
When I installed the 4070 in the primary PCIe lane (gen 5 x16) the PC would crash on login to Windows every time. It would boot to the login screen and could sit there indefinitely with no problems but as soon as I login it black screen restarted.
After pulling my hair out from trying to figure out what was wrong I eventually moved the GPU to the secondary PCIe slot 4 x16.
When I did that the PC became stable. I settled for that miracle and have been using it like that for about 2 months give or take.
Now I'm trying to run unreal engine 5 and every time I open it I get a crash report stating "GPU Crashed or D3D Device Removed. Check Log for GPU state information. A GPU mini dump was be saved in the Logs folder."
Yes it says "was be saved" which, while funny I'm getting tired of seeing. On the bright side while I don't know much about this personally I was able to find the log or in this case logs folder and found several files.
What they are talking about seems to be my system specs and what failed. It looks like VtuneApi.dll and it's 32 bit counterpart. It says they don't exist.
I'll be adding the log file to this post when I switch to PC.
This isn't the only thing the system has been failing to run and it's not the only problem I've noticed.
I also see what I would describe as artifacting in the display. For a few seconds when things open or are closed I'll see pixels not being rendered and in some cases they jump around so it'll look like speckles being randomly placed on the screen for a moment.
When I received my 4070 and tried to install it originally I believed it to be defective so I returned the first one.
I don't know the odds of getting two defective in a row but honestly I suspect the MB just as much as the GPU at this point.
Please help!
Thanks in advance.
**Edit to include crash log from unreal engine. Log Below.
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Four years ago, I decided to launch a startup and began creating my own mobile apps. On September 20 last year, they started bringing in over $3,000 a day (90% of which was on iOS). The very next day, Apple removed all my apps from the App Store and blocked my account.
I sent appeals, showed evidence, screenshots, and even sent a pre-trial claim, but was mostly ignored. Now I've filed a lawsuit against Apple, and for now, the iOS market is a no-go for me.
I want to speak out, but I don’t want to complain. Instead, I can share how simple ideas brought me good profits. Maybe someone will be interested and avoid making my mistakes.
First idea
The first app was super simple - you upload two before/after images and get a short video with a slide effect. (First design)
My wife, who was a nail tech at the time, suggested the idea because she wanted to create content to attract clients. She couldn't find any apps for creating before/after videos in the App Store. I didn’t believe her, we almost ended up arguing, and I went searching to prove her wrong. Turns out, she was right (as always).
I persuaded a friend to help develop the app. It was 2019, we spent a couple of months developing it, and within a year, it was bringing in $100-200 a month. My friend thought the idea was unworkable, so I bought out his share for a token amount.
This happened on February 26, 2020, right at my 30th birthday party. I sold a stake in a common startup and used part of the money to buy out my partner’s share in the before/after app. I had about $10k in my pocket. The next day after the party, I sat down to redesign the app and think through new functionality.
First takeoff
I was lucky to quickly find a talented and affordable freelancer. We rebuilt the app almost from scratch in 1.5 months, costing me $2,000.
What we did:

• Redesign
• New transitions, like diagonal ones
• Ability to customize animation speed
• Added effects settings: transition thickness, color, neon, etc.
• Ability to add music
• Ability to add text
• Added support for stickers
• Updated the store page: description, screenshots, icon
• Localized the app for all available languages in the App Store

Before this update (design before), the app gained a couple of hundred montly downloads in its first year. But a week after the new version was released, there was a surge in organics.
Around the same time, I hired a marketing specialist for $400/month who launched the first ad. And boy, did it take off. We spent $200-300 on the first campaign, and within a month, I was maxing out my credit card to buy ads. All campaigns paid off. We used only one source, Apple Search Ads.
Search Ads doesn't have extensive targeting options, so we didn't fully understand who our target users were. Then we were contacted by an influencer saying “let’s launch a dog grooming contest.” It wasn’t very clear who would be interested in that, but no problem, let’s do it.
As a prize, we gave away premium access to our app, just three promo codes. The return from the contest was phenomenal. It brought in $2,000 net, and I discovered a whole new world. A huge number of people are willing to invest any amount in their beloved doggos to brag about the results through our app. I was shocked that a simple idea like this one worked SO well.
After the contest, we doubled for three more months in a row, and then reached a stable growth of 20-30% per month. (Screenshot from App Store Connect)
I still remember the moment I woke up, picked up my phone, and the app had earned a thousand dollars overnight for the first time. I was psyched, thanking the universe, the users, Apple, and the iPhone itself. Six months after the redesign, the app was bringing in about 200 times more than the original mark, $34k instead of $100-200 a month. $25k on iOS and $9k on Android (the Android version was made three months after the redesign).
As a result, I started receiving offers to purchase the app. I refused until I heard, “name the price.” I don’t know why, but I said $410k and after five days, I received that amount into my account. It seemed like an unimaginable amount of money to me; I couldn’t believe what was happening. Only two years later did I realize the real value of the app at that time was at least $1 million. You know how it goes, do as I say, not as I do.
To tell you more, the app’s still alive and it’s making good money without any updates. It paid for itself in 8 months and has been deep in the green ever since.
I planned to continue making apps with this money, thinking I could expand. It’s going to be smooth sailing from here on out, right? Absolutely not.
Landing
In 2021, my family and I moved to Chile, where we still live. We like it here, it's a beautiful country, pur children are growing up here, our daughter was born here, and we want to get Chilean passports. I sold everything back home - a car, an apartment, a plot of land, all my stuff.
I started chasing my dream of making a serious video editing app. I thought, now I have money, I'll start figuring out a "real" app. Life is beautiful and amazing.
I hired new devs and went to work for a year and a half. The first release turned out to be a failure: organic users never came, and the cost of attracting one user never fell below $10. Competing with the free CapCut was impossible.
There were also parallel attempts to make other things. For example, an app for designing your Instagram feed. The first version of the app was growing great, but I thought with new features like collaboration and delayed auto-publishing, I'd find the key to success.
However, reality was harsh. I spent six months just communicating with Facebook to gain access to the API methods I needed, only to find that Facebook kept changing things on the inside, making the app’s features unusable.
In the end, I didn’t even earn $1,000. I spent almost all my money working tirelessly, but nothing ever took off.
Insights and the crash
Crisis makes you think. I realized my strength was in niche apps and decided to return to where I started: small apps covering specific needs without any unnecessary noise.
I made the Boomerang app, regardless of the fact that Instagram already had this feature. But I made a separate app, and it started to grow.
There was also an app filled with beautiful fonts for designing social media posts. An app for creating Reels. Once I realized my strengths, things started to look up again. I returned to the idea of collages. Every app began to make money. Whew!
Overall, the account had six apps with an above 4.5 stars average App Store rating. On August 21, 2023, I received a notification from Apple that they had removed my app from the App Store and were going to shut down my account if I did not correct the violations within 30 days. Not any specific violations, just “violations.”
I sent Apple evidence, screenshots, and offered access to the source files, but I was either ignored completely pr got an auto-reply. I was sure this was just some kind of mistake and waited for an answer. We continued to make updates and worked on new features. On September 20, the apps earned more than $3,000 in 24 hours for the first time and were removed by Apple the next day.
Payments were suspended, and I had $110,000 left in my account.
I was stunned.
The first appeal was rejected, the reasons for the blocking were unknown, and it was unclear what to do. I immediately submitted a second appeal. Eight weeks of silence and again a refusal.
I lost everything I worked for in a single day..
I started a petition on Change_org and shared my story in a tweet that gained significant traction. Someone from Twitter published my story on Hacker News; it became #1, collecting more than 400 comments. I received hundreds of support messages in my DMs, and only then did Apple finally send an explanation.
According to them, my account was frozen “for association with a previously closed fraudulent account.” Of course, I had no connection with fraudulent accounts, otherwise I wouldn’t even be sharing the story in the first place. The only positive reaction to the hype was the return of $110,000.
I started my little investigation. The “fraudulent” account may have turned out to be my old account, which once contained the first app for creating before/after videos. The very same thing that started it all. I continued to pay $99 for this account because it is dear to me, it’s nostalgic and a part of my life.
Just before it was closed, I tried to publish a card game based on the popular game Never Have I Ever on this account. This concept seemed ideal for me to master interface solutions when moving from Swift UIKit to Swift UI.
But recently, other things have come to light. We found a company of former partners with an identical name to mine. Apparently, Apple connected me with this company that I didn't even know existed. But I can’t know for sure because there is no feedback from the corporation. Any letters with any arguments and documents are ignored.
I had to sue, but that’s a whole other big story. Communication with Apple is gfar from being related to development; maybe I’ll tell you about it someday.
What's next and what about other stores
90% of our profits came through Apple. We're now fully focused on Android and have grown 4x in 8 months, but it's still not enough to cover all development costs. I don’t make enough money to continue supporting the team. We're holding out for now because finding developers who understand graphics and video is difficult (by the way, a good niche for devs who are not sure what to try next).
The growth on Android is also related to the market's quirks: the Android audience is many times larger than the number of iPhone users, but not every Android can render a new video from 12 frames.
Back to my story. Next will be a trial, petitions, and pleas. I hope my experience will be useful to someone because I am not the first and, most likely, not the last to find myself in this situation. Corporations don't care about individual developers. Even if they are left with nothing.
It might sound trivial, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The larger the corporation, the less attention it will pay to you. With Apple, after blocking, you lose the opportunity to even talk to support on the phone. Text appeals only.
In fact, I communicated with the answering machine for a whole month until I was blocked. At any moment, you can lose everything you have - your account, apps, users. With the snap of a finger, what you thought belonged to you will disappear.
The only thing I realized is that only public discussion of the problem and the courts can somehow induce them to change their policy towards developers.
In the meantime, I’ll go get ready for the next update.

Four years ago, I decided to launch a startup and began creating my own mobile apps. On September 20 last year, they started bringing in over $3,000 a day (90% of which was on iOS). The very next day, Apple removed all my apps from the App Store and blocked my account.
I sent appeals, showed evidence, screenshots, and even sent a pre-trial claim, but was mostly ignored. Now I've filed a lawsuit against Apple, and for now, the iOS market is a no-go for me.
I want to speak out, but I don’t want to complain. Instead, I can share how simple ideas brought me good profits. Maybe someone will be interested and avoid making my mistakes.
First idea
The first app was super simple - you upload two before/after images and get a short video with a slide effect. (First design)
My wife, who was a nail tech at the time, suggested the idea because she wanted to create content to attract clients. She couldn't find any apps for creating before/after videos in the App Store. I didn’t believe her, we almost ended up arguing, and I went searching to prove her wrong. Turns out, she was right (as always).
I persuaded a friend to help develop the app. It was 2019, we spent a couple of months developing it, and within a year, it was bringing in $100-200 a month. My friend thought the idea was unworkable, so I bought out his share for a token amount.
This happened on February 26, 2020, right at my 30th birthday party. I sold a stake in a common startup and used part of the money to buy out my partner’s share in the before/after app. I had about $10k in my pocket. The next day after the party, I sat down to redesign the app and think through new functionality.
First takeoff
I was lucky to quickly find a talented and affordable freelancer. We rebuilt the app almost from scratch in 1.5 months, costing me $2,000.
What we did:

• Redesign
• New transitions, like diagonal ones
• Ability to customize animation speed
• Added effects settings: transition thickness, color, neon, etc.
• Ability to add music
• Ability to add text
• Added support for stickers
• Updated the store page: description, screenshots, icon
• Localized the app for all available languages in the App Store

Before this update (design before), the app gained a couple of hundred montly downloads in its first year. But a week after the new version was released, there was a surge in organics.
Around the same time, I hired a marketing specialist for $400/month who launched the first ad. And boy, did it take off. We spent $200-300 on the first campaign, and within a month, I was maxing out my credit card to buy ads. All campaigns paid off. We used only one source, Apple Search Ads.
Search Ads doesn't have extensive targeting options, so we didn't fully understand who our target users were. Then we were contacted by an influencer saying “let’s launch a dog grooming contest.” It wasn’t very clear who would be interested in that, but no problem, let’s do it.
As a prize, we gave away premium access to our app, just three promo codes. The return from the contest was phenomenal. It brought in $2,000 net, and I discovered a whole new world. A huge number of people are willing to invest any amount in their beloved doggos to brag about the results through our app. I was shocked that a simple idea like this one worked SO well.
After the contest, we doubled for three more months in a row, and then reached a stable growth of 20-30% per month. (Screenshot from App Store Connect)
I still remember the moment I woke up, picked up my phone, and the app had earned a thousand dollars overnight for the first time. I was psyched, thanking the universe, the users, Apple, and the iPhone itself. Six months after the redesign, the app was bringing in about 200 times more than the original mark, $34k instead of $100-200 a month. $25k on iOS and $9k on Android (the Android version was made three months after the redesign).
As a result, I started receiving offers to purchase the app. I refused until I heard, “name the price.” I don’t know why, but I said $410k and after five days, I received that amount into my account. It seemed like an unimaginable amount of money to me; I couldn’t believe what was happening. Only two years later did I realize the real value of the app at that time was at least $1 million. You know how it goes, do as I say, not as I do.
To tell you more, the app’s still alive and it’s making good money without any updates. It paid for itself in 8 months and has been deep in the green ever since.
I planned to continue making apps with this money, thinking I could expand. It’s going to be smooth sailing from here on out, right? Absolutely not.
Landing
In 2021, my family and I moved to Chile, where we still live. We like it here, it's a beautiful country, pur children are growing up here, our daughter was born here, and we want to get Chilean passports. I sold everything back home - a car, an apartment, a plot of land, all my stuff.
I started chasing my dream of making a serious video editing app. I thought, now I have money, I'll start figuring out a "real" app. Life is beautiful and amazing.
I hired new devs and went to work for a year and a half. The first release turned out to be a failure: organic users never came, and the cost of attracting one user never fell below $10. Competing with the free CapCut was impossible.
There were also parallel attempts to make other things. For example, an app for designing your Instagram feed. The first version of the app was growing great, but I thought with new features like collaboration and delayed auto-publishing, I'd find the key to success.
However, reality was harsh. I spent six months just communicating with Facebook to gain access to the API methods I needed, only to find that Facebook kept changing things on the inside, making the app’s features unusable.
In the end, I didn’t even earn $1,000. I spent almost all my money working tirelessly, but nothing ever took off.
Insights and the crash
Crisis makes you think. I realized my strength was in niche apps and decided to return to where I started: small apps covering specific needs without any unnecessary noise.
I made the Boomerang app, regardless of the fact that Instagram already had this feature. But I made a separate app, and it started to grow.
There was also an app filled with beautiful fonts for designing social media posts. An app for creating Reels. Once I realized my strengths, things started to look up again. I returned to the idea of collages. Every app began to make money. Whew!
Overall, the account had six apps with an above 4.5 stars average App Store rating. On August 21, 2023, I received a notification from Apple that they had removed my app from the App Store and were going to shut down my account if I did not correct the violations within 30 days. Not any specific violations, just “violations.”
I sent Apple evidence, screenshots, and offered access to the source files, but I was either ignored completely pr got an auto-reply. I was sure this was just some kind of mistake and waited for an answer. We continued to make updates and worked on new features. On September 20, the apps earned more than $3,000 in 24 hours for the first time and were removed by Apple the next day.
Payments were suspended, and I had $110,000 left in my account.
I was stunned.
The first appeal was rejected, the reasons for the blocking were unknown, and it was unclear what to do. I immediately submitted a second appeal. Eight weeks of silence and again a refusal.
I lost everything I worked for in a single day..
I started a petition on Change_org and shared my story in a tweet that gained significant traction. Someone from Twitter published my story on Hacker News; it became #1, collecting more than 400 comments. I received hundreds of support messages in my DMs, and only then did Apple finally send an explanation.
According to them, my account was frozen “for association with a previously closed fraudulent account.” Of course, I had no connection with fraudulent accounts, otherwise I wouldn’t even be sharing the story in the first place. The only positive reaction to the hype was the return of $110,000.
I started my little investigation. The “fraudulent” account may have turned out to be my old account, which once contained the first app for creating before/after videos. The very same thing that started it all. I continued to pay $99 for this account because it is dear to me, it’s nostalgic and a part of my life.
Just before it was closed, I tried to publish a card game based on the popular game Never Have I Ever on this account. This concept seemed ideal for me to master interface solutions when moving from Swift UIKit to Swift UI.
But recently, other things have come to light. We found a company of former partners with an identical name to mine. Apparently, Apple connected me with this company that I didn't even know existed. But I can’t know for sure because there is no feedback from the corporation. Any letters with any arguments and documents are ignored.
I had to sue, but that’s a whole other big story. Communication with Apple is gfar from being related to development; maybe I’ll tell you about it someday.
What's next and what about other stores
90% of our profits came through Apple. We're now fully focused on Android and have grown 4x in 8 months, but it's still not enough to cover all development costs. I don’t make enough money to continue supporting the team. We're holding out for now because finding developers who understand graphics and video is difficult (by the way, a good niche for devs who are not sure what to try next).
The growth on Android is also related to the market's quirks: the Android audience is many times larger than the number of iPhone users, but not every Android can render a new video from 12 frames.
Back to my story. Next will be a trial, petitions, and pleas. I hope my experience will be useful to someone because I am not the first and, most likely, not the last to find myself in this situation. Corporations don't care about individual developers. Even if they are left with nothing.
It might sound trivial, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The larger the corporation, the less attention it will pay to you. With Apple, after blocking, you lose the opportunity to even talk to support on the phone. Text appeals only.
In fact, I communicated with the answering machine for a whole month until I was blocked. At any moment, you can lose everything you have - your account, apps, users. With the snap of a finger, what you thought belonged to you will disappear.
The only thing I realized is that only public discussion of the problem and the courts can somehow induce them to change their policy towards developers.
In the meantime, I’ll go get ready for the next update.

Four years ago, I decided to launch a startup and began creating my own mobile apps. On September 20 last year, they started bringing in over $3,000 a day (90% of which was on iOS). The very next day, Apple removed all my apps from the App Store and blocked my account.
I sent appeals, showed evidence, screenshots, and even sent a pre-trial claim, but was mostly ignored. Now I've filed a lawsuit against Apple, and for now, the iOS market is a no-go fpr me.
I want to speak out, but I don’t want to complain. Instead, I can share how simple ideas brought me good profits. Maybe someone will be interested and avoid making my mistakes.
First idea
The first app was super simple - you upload two before/after images and get a short video with a slide effect.
First version of the app
My wife, who was a nail tech at the time, suggested the idea because she wanted to create content to attract clients. She couldn't find any apps for creating before/after videos in the App Store. I didn’t believe her, we almost ended up arguing, and I went searching to prove her wrong. Turns out, she was right (as always).
I persuaded a friend to help develop the app. It was 2019, we spent a couple of months developing it, and within a year, it was bringing in $100-200 a month. My friend thought the idea was unworkable, so I bought out his share for a token amount.
This happened on February 26, 2020, right at my 30th birthday party. I sold a stake in a common startup and used part of the money to buy out my partner’s share in the before/after app. I had about $10k in my pocket.
The next day after the party, I sat down to redesign the app and think through new functionality.
First takeoff
I was lucky to quickly find a talented and affordable freelancer. We rebuilt the app almost from scratch in 1.5 months, costing me $2,000.
What we did:

• Redesign
• New transitions, like diagonal ones
• Ability to customize animation speed
• Added effects settings: transition thickness, color, neon, etc.
• Ability to add music
• Ability to add text
• Added support for stickers
• Updated the store page: description, screenshots, icon
• Localized the app for all available languages in the App Store

After update
Before this update, the app gained a couple of hundred montly downloads in its first year. But a week after the new version was released, there was a surge in organics.
Around the same time, I hired a marketing specialist for $400/month who launched the first ad. And boy, did it take off. We spent $200-300 on the first campaign, and within a month, I was maxing out my credit card to buy ads. All campaigns paid off. We used only one source, Apple Search Ads.
Search Ads doesn't have extensive targeting options, so we didn't fully understand who our target users were. Then we were contacted by an influencer saying “let’s launch a dog grooming contest.” It wasn’t very clear who would be interested in that, but no problem, let’s do it.
As a prize, we gave away premium access to our app, just three promo codes. The return from the contest was phenomenal. It brought in $2,000 net, and I discovered a whole new world. A huge number of people are willing to invest any amount in their beloved doggos to brag about the results through our app. I was shocked that a simple idea like this one worked SO well.
After the contest, we doubled for three more months in a row, and then reached a stable growth of 20-30% per month.
Screenshot from App Store Connect
I still remember the moment I woke up, picked up my phone, and the app had earned a thousand dollars overnight for the first time. I was psyched, thanking the universe, the users, Apple, and the iPhone itself.
Six months after the redesign, the app was bringing in about 200 times more than the original mark, $34k instead of $100-200 a month. $25k on iOS and $9k on Android (the Android version was made three months after the redesign).
As a result, I started receiving offers to purchase the app. I refused until I heard, “name the price.” I don’t know why, but I said $410k and after five days, I received that amount into my account.
It seemed like an unimaginable amount of money to me; I couldn’t believe what was happening. Only two years later did I realize the real value of the app at that time was at least $1 million. You know how it goes, do as I say, not as I do.
To tell you more, the app’s still alive and it’s making good money without any updates. It paid for itself in 8 months and has been deep in the green ever since.
I planned to continue making apps with this money, thinking I could expand. It’s going to be smooth sailing from here on out, right? Absolutely not.
Landing
In 2021, my family and I moved to Chile, where we still live. We like it here, it's a beautiful country, pur children are growing up here, our daughter was born here, and we want to get Chilean passports. I sold everything back home - a car, an apartment, a plot of land, all my stuff.
I started chasing my dream of making a serious video editing app. I thought, now I have money, I'll start figuring out a "real" app. Life is beautiful and amazing.
I hired new devs and went to work for a year and a half. The first release turned out to be a failure: organic users never came, and the cost of attracting one user never fell below $10. Competing with the free CapCut was impossible.
There were also parallel attempts to make other things. For example, an app for designing your Instagram feed. The first version of the app was growing great, but I thought with new features like collaboration and delayed auto-publishing, I'd find the key to success.
However, reality was harsh. I spent six months just communicating with Facebook to gain access to the API methods I needed, only to find that Facebook kept changing things on the inside, making the app’s features unusable.
In the end, I didn’t even earn $1,000. I spent almost all my money working tirelessly, but nothing ever took off.
Insights and the crash
Crisis makes you think. I realized my strength was in niche apps and decided to return to where I started: small apps covering specific needs without any unnecessary noise.
I made the Boomerang app, regardless of the fact that Instagram already had this feature. But I made a separate app, and it started to grow.
There was also an app filled with beautiful fonts for designing social media posts. An app for creating Reels. Once I realized my strengths, things started to look up again. I returned to the idea of collages. Every app began to make money. Whew!
Screenshot from my company website
Overall, the account had six apps with an above 4.5 stars average App Store rating. On August 21, 2023, I received a notification from Apple that they had removed my app from the App Store and were going to shut down my account if I did not correct the violations within 30 days. Not any specific violations, just “violations.”
I sent Apple evidence, screenshots, and offered access to the source files, but I was either ignored completely pr got an auto-reply. I was sure this was just some kind of mistake and waited for an answer. We continued to make updates and worked on new features. On September 20, the apps earned more than $3,000 in 24 hours for the first time and were removed by Apple the next day.
Payments were suspended, and I had $110,000 left in my account.
I was stunned.
The first appeal was rejected, the reasons for the blocking were unknown, and it was unclear what to do. I immediately submitted a second appeal. Eight weeks of silence and again a refusal.
I lost everything I worked for in a single day..
I started a petition on Change.org and shared my story in a tweet that gained significant traction. Someone from Twitter published my story on Hacker News; it became #1, collecting more than 400 comments. I received hundreds of support messages in my dms, and only then did Apple finally send an explanation.
According to them, my account was frozen “for association with a previously closed fraudulent account.” Of course, I had no connection with fraudulent accounts, otherwise I wouldn’t even be sharing the story in the first place. The only positive reaction to the hype was the return of $110,000.
I started my little investigation. The “fraudulent” account may have turned out to be my old account, which once contained the first app for creating before/after videos. The very same thing that started it all. I continued to pay $99 for this account because it is dear to me, it’s nostalgic and a part of my life.
Just before it was closed, I tried to publish a card game based on the popular game Never Have I Ever on this account. This concept seemed ideal for me to master interface solutions when moving from Swift UIKit to Swift UI.
But recently, other things have come to light. We found a company of former partners with an identical name to mine. Apparently, Apple connected me with this company that I didn't even know existed. But I can’t know for sure because there is no feedback from the corporation. Any letters with any arguments and documents are ignored.
I had to sue, but that’s a whole other big story. Communication with Apple is gfar from being related to development; maybe I’ll tell you about it someday.
What's next and what about other stores
90% of our profits came through Apple. We're now fully focused on Android and have grown 4x in 8 months, but it's still not enough to cover all development costs. I don’t make enough money to continue supporting the team. We're holding out for now because finding developers who understand graphics and video is difficult (by the way, a good niche for devs who are not sure what to try next).
The growth on Android is also related to the market's quirks: the Android audience is many times larger than the number of iPhone users, but not every Android can render a new video from 12 frames.
Back to my story. Next will be a trial, petitions, and pleas. I hope my experience will be useful to someone because I am not the first and, most likely, not the last to find myself in this situation. Corporations don't care about individual developers. Even if they are left with nothing.
It might sound trivial, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The larger the corporation, the less attention it will pay to you. With Apple, after blocking, you lose the opportunity to even talk to support on the phone. Text appeals only.
In fact, I communicated with the answering machine for a whole month until I was blocked. At any moment, you can lose everything you have - your account, apps, users. With the snap of a finger, what you thought belonged to you will disappear.
The only thing I realized is that only public discussion of the problem and the courts can somehow induce them to change their policy towards developers.
In the meantime, I’ll go get ready for the next update.

We've prepared a collection of Revamped GBC Battle Sprites that you can apply to your ROM as a patch, or bulk import using Advance Series or other tools!
The release contains revamped front and back sprites for all 251 Pokemon from Gens 1 & 2, along with recoloured back sprites from Ruby (which are direct revamps of GSC backsprites). The front sprites are a mix of the best sprites from Red/Blue, Green, Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal. The shiny Pokemon are grayscale as shiny revamps don't exist for most of the sprites.
The sprites can be instantly applied as a patch or dynamically inserted anywhere in your ROM. We don't know if these are compatible with decomp in the 256x64 sheet format as we haven't touched decomp, but they will be compatible when split into 4 separate sprites, which can easily be done using most graphic hacking tools such as HMA, unLZ, etc.

Compatibility:

The patch is made for Fire Red only and uses offsets B66FC4 - C048AB.
Advance Series can be used to bulk import the sprites to either Fire Red or Emerald at any offsets.

If you want to insert manually:

1. Download and extract the .zip from this post.
2. Using Advanced Pokemon Sprite Editor (from Advance Series), select "Import All Sprites" to bulk import the sprites. Or you can do it manually using HMA or other tools.
3. Set all Y positions to 0. For flying Pokemon (the ones who should have shadows), set the Enemy Altitude to 5.

Screenshots:

https://preview.redd.it/vsffeinat72d1.png?width=945&format=png&auto=webp&s=d85c9eb28579b4cb3c15e227a7dbc96da3989cb4
Some GBC sprites such as Marill from Gold and Mewtwo from Red are still our favourites to this day, and it's great that these can be used in your game! We'd definitely recommend using these alongside our GBC / Gen 1 Styled Font Patch for Fire Red!

Credits:

• Red/Blue Revamps - captnotatroll
• Green Revamps - AlextheStarChild
• Yellow Revamps - EdensElite
• Gold Revamps - ElementalHeroShadow2
• Silver Revamps - Uncle Dot, LibertyTwins
• Crystal Revamps - Matdemo159, reallyimjesus, PokeRevamp, nicholas

Please credit the above sprite artists when using this patch or resource.
Download here!

Greetings
►►►Update 22.May.2024: It's been another 4 months already since i last posted! These are all the soundpacks i tinkered together since the game's release on December 13, 2017. I pieced them together carefully with only the best and most fitting sounds and music tracks to make everything fit. It will make you feel right at home, if you've played those classics.
Also i got the >►Command & Conquer soundpack◄< as new addition which i gave a seperate thread: https://www.reddit.com/TheyAreBillions/comments/jyv4zm/command_conquer_twts_soundtexturepack/
Make sure to check out my >►Custom Map Themes◄< aswell, to give you maps a whole new look!
If you wanna prelisten to each of the new sounds & musics, download VLC Player, it can play the .dxsound files. There are also .txt files in the Ambient/Music folders as guide. Sound Modding is very straight forward, it's basically switching out sounds & music and the game thinks, they are the originals. You can interchange everything quite easily. Let's say we wanna change the Ambient/Caustic Lands theme, 1171552052.dxsound. Just rename it, copy in a replacement and give it the original file name.
If you are interested in cosmetic modding of the game and you've got any questions about sound/texture modding just fire away in the comments. I hope that one day the devs embrace the great moddability of the game and more people step up and contribute to the modding scene in addition to creating amazing custom campaigns, like 29 Years Later, with a whooping 24 maps in total!
OLD soundpack thread
As taste, here the Starcraft playlist with all the ambient map themes. About 3 hours of new custom mixed Starcraft music.
<◄< Starcraft Ambient Playlist >►> (Maps 1-6, Fortress1-3)
If you wanna try out one of my custom maps: Mines of the Northern Lands & Misthaven
Also check out DaneelTrevize's github he's the guy who made "Modded-Mayors" and recently TABSAT, which lets you edit your savefiles.
I aim to create a nostalgic feeling for TAB players, a familiar athmosphere and if you want to try something different after playing vanilla for many hours. All music and most sounds have been replaced appropriately with fitting equivalents. You will feel right at home if you know the games.
The game hasn't been updated in a long time, so i hope that everything still works, if you get errors or crashes let me know.
STARCRAFT Sound/Texture Pack (Updated 5.January 2020)
<◄< Ambient Playlist >►> (Maps 1-6, Fortress1-3)

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>
  
• < German SC1 UnitVoices >
  
• < Cygin's TAB SC2 Soundpack > Ranger(Nova),Soldier(SC2Marine),Sniper(SC2Ghost),Lucifer(SC2Firebat)
  

I have compiled a ► VIDEO ◄ which shows everything off. It's segmented in raw game play leading up to the final wave (120d-Brutal), unitvoices/effects showcase and the custom map themes. Timestamps are in the video description.
More vids: DeadlyOptics Map4, DeadlyOptics Map4
It features:

• -Almost everything to be Starcraft themed, Unitvoices, Sounds, Portraits, Effects, >3 hours custom tailored soundtrack, Notficiations (Colony is under attack), Fonts, SC1 Cursors, Icons etc.
  
• Starcraft themed Fonts and Cursors
  
• UnitVoices/fire sounds: Soldier>SC1Marine, Ranger>SC1Kerrigan, Lucifer>SC1Firebat, Sniper>SC1Ghost, Thanatos>SC2Maruder, Titan>SC2Thor
  
• Ambient Music features: Map1 SC2 ambient music, Map2 SC1Terran themes, Map3 SC2Terran, Map4 SC1Protoss, Map5 SC1Zerg, Map6 SC2 ambient music
  
• Other music replaced with some of the best SC1/SC2 music pieces.
  
• Changed the projectiles of Ranger, Thanatos and Ballista (Proyectiles)
  
• New Main Menu Appearance
  
• Notifications sounds toned down and annoying ones(Jobs finished, Base i under sttack) replaced with more low profile equivalents. Unique wallattack notification.
  

There was a nice SC2 soundpack by 'Cygin' on Steam, but unfortunately it got removed. Since i kept the files i share them with you here, so they are not lost in the data abyss. I use it personally because there are simply more unique unit quotes, -HIGHLY- recommended to get more varied unit quotes.
Cygin's TAB SC2 Soundpack
All credit goes to Cygin for this pack! He covers:
Ranger(Nova), Soldier(SC2 Marine), Sniper (SC2 Ghost), Lucifer (SC2 Firebat)
WARCRAFT Sound/Texture Pack

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>

Vids: DeadlyOptics Map2 , DeadlyOptics Map3 , DeadlyOptics Map4
It features:

• Soldier>WC3Footman, Ranger>WC3Archer, Sniper>WC3Rifleman, Lucifer>WC3Ghoul, Thanatos>WC3PaladinHero, Titan>WC3GoblinZeppelin
  
• All relevant Notifications/Effects/Interface sounds changed
  
• Warcraft themed Fonts and Cursors
  
• All music changed (waves, wave prep, etc), WC3 map music themes (Ambient), map1/Human, map2 Nightelf, map3 Orc and map4/Undead
  
• Changed the projectiles of Ranger, Thanatos and Ballista (Proyectiles)
  
• New Main Menu Appearance
  
• Notifications sounds toned down and annoying ones(jobs done, town is under siege) replaced with more low profile equivalents. Unique wallattack notification.
  

COMMAND & CONQUER Sound/Texture Pack (Updated 25.Nov 2020)

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>

It features:

• -Almost everything to be Command & Conquer themed, Unitvoices, Sounds, Portraits, Effects, custom tailored Tiberium Wars/Tiberian Sun soundtrack, Notficiations (Colony is under attack), Icons etc.
  
• Command / Conquer themed Font and Cursor (only arrow and clickanimation changed, the others are my Starcraft cursors which fit pretty good here too)
  
• New Main Menu Appearance
  
• New interface skin
  
• UnitVoices/fire sounds: Soldier>GDI Commando, Ranger>NOD Commando, Lucifer>NOD Blackhand, Sniper>NOD Shadowteam, Thanatos>GDI Juggernaut, Titan>GDI Mammoth tank
  
• Ambient Music: Map6(Caustic Lands) theme. I used Tiberium Wars soundtrack. If you wanna use it on a different map, make a copy of 1171552052.dxsound file, and then rename it to the map theme you like to add to Ambient folder. See .txt file for the filenames and soundtracks used. I also added 2 Tiberian Sun Ambient and 1 Fortress theme in Ambient/Alt.
  
• Other music replaced with some of the best Tiberium Wars/Tiberian Sun music pieces. See .txt file for the filenames and soundtracks used for each music track.
  
• Changed the projectiles of Ranger, Thanatos and Ballista (Proyectiles)
  

DIABLO2 Soundpack (updated 6.January 2020)

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>

Vids: DeadlyOptics Map1, DeadlyOptics Map1, DeadlyOptics Map2, DeadlyOptics Map3 , DeadlyOptics Map4
It features:

• All Music replaced with Diablo2 equivalents (Map1->Act1/2, Map2->Act1, Map3->Act3, Map4->Act5, Map5->Act4, Map6->Act4/5)
  
• D2 Deathscreams for Ranger(Mage), Soldier(Paladin), Lucifer(Smith) and Thanatos(Barbarian)
  
• Diablo2 Font
  
• New MajoSwarm Notification sounds
  
• New soundeffects for the Giant (click on him)
  
• Amazon bow fire sound for Ranger
  
• New Main Menu Appearance
  

DAWN of WAR 2 soundpack WIP Preview

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>

Vids: Map1 Soldier, Swarmdefense, Music: DoW2 - To Battle Brothers
This one isn't complete yet, but i plan on changing that in the future
It features:

• Ranger>Sisters of Battle, Soldier>SpaceMarine, Lucifer>ChaosLord
  
• New Fire soundeffects: DoW2 Spacemarine(automatic rifle, single bolter), bow and flamer sounds from my Starcraft pack)
  

SURPREME COMMANDER Musicpack

• <◄< DOWNLOAD >►>

It features:

• Ambient music for Map6 (Caustic Lands)
• Various music replaced (Horde prep, Horde themes, win, loss etc.)

>>Installation & Troubleshooting & Modding Crashcourse<<
Before modding always backup your vanilla files and get familiar with the filestructure of the game, this makes things much easier.
INSTALL: Extract with 7-Zip, copy&paste the files (ZXGame_Data, Fonts, Cursors) over to your gamefolder and replace. I always keep the game's filestructure intact, so placing the files should be as uncomplicated as possible. You can mix and match as you see fit, since all packs are just collections of sounds and music.
UNINSTALL: Use Steam's Verify integrity of gamefiles(recommended), it will detect modded files and replace them with originals. Since i always keep alternative sounds/music in the mod package for you to use, they will be left in there. If you want them removed, simply delete ZXGame_Data, Fonts, Cursors folders before verifying via Steam, so you get clean vanilla files.
-) All textures (Atlas_xx.dat like Geology or Vegetation) of the game can be opened and edited with your Photo Editing software, that can be GIMP, Photoshop etc. Personally i use GIMP + dds plugin, it's free and works like a charm. After editing export as .dds in the format "BC3 / DXT5" + "mipmaps" (Sprites: "BC4 / ATI1 (3Dc+)" ), then rename back to .dat. Terraintextures are regular .png i believe
-) .dxsound files (most likely .ogg files in disguise) can be played with VLC player and replaced with every soundfile (.wav, .mp3, .flac etc) you like, as long as the filename matches the original filename, so the game can recognize it (.ogg offers good quality and small size, so this is the go to format here). This makes soundmodding a very easy process.
-) There shouldn't be any crashes with these packs from my experience, they are safe to use. If you should experience crashes or errors, pls let me know.
Have fun with the packs and if you have any questions or suggestions, let me know.
Big thanks to TacticalFriedRice (DeadlyOptics, Aznelite) for the hours of top notch TAB entertainment and for playing with these packs for such a long time on stream!
Cheers and HAVE FUN!

i downloaded a collection of songs from an spanish speaking album on soundcloud during 2020 and from what i remember the songs were also released in 2020.
heres the song album order (this is from memory, so the order might be wrong!)
sonivox: https://voca.ro/1gPFdonwOHHz llmadas perdidas: https://voca.ro/1fM6MPr9XCeI asteridas: https://voca.ro/19VeJ4h3itxV aparine: https://voca.ro/14rly1sVFnA2 2010 (my personal fav <3): https://voca.ro/14r90Q5psUS6
and if youre wondering how i know the name of the songs. basically, the site I downloaded them from just used the titles of the songs as the filenames. whats also to note is that some of the songs were intentionally made to sound low quality, well at least i presume thats the case.
I want to mention that the artist also made some music videos for them. i fondly remember 2010s music video featuring scenes inside a moving car, with someone (presumably the artist) recording in front of the car window as it drives past cramped one or two-story buildings. the video has a strange dim filter to it, and it includes a bunch of weird glittering shapes passing it out.
one last thing to mention is that the album covers changed depending on the song. the bg color would remain the same but each song featured different patterns of shapes and circles (mostly circles) and the font would change too. i remember the bg color being beige or teal idk
welp thats everything i got to say about this mystery. pretty much the songs are found, but the artist and the album needs to be identified

ೃ༄🐛ೃ༄ introduction ೃ༄🐛ೃ༄

if you are involved in the shifting community, you may have seen the mention of some sort of 'lifa app' with no explanation as to what it is. sometimes, in scripts, it will say stuff such as...
'when i shift to this reality, i will have a lifa app to check in on my cr self and it cannot be deleted or destroyed.'
but what is the app that everyone is talking about? is it an actual app or sort of app in another reality that everyone just knows of?
in this post, i will be explaining the lifa app as a full guide of how to use it. its features, and what it is.

༊·˚🌿 what is the lifa app? ༊·˚🌿

the lifa app is a reality shifting based app that lets you keep track of your dr or multiple drs in literally every way imaginable. from the time it is to your memories. it even gives you diary entries for yourself. it is meant to be used as a tool to help shifters keep track of all of their information about them and their dr. it also allows a gateway to meet other shifters like yourself and shift with them to the same reality.

｡･ﾟﾟ･ 🥞 🥯 features 🥯 🥞 ･ﾟﾟ･｡

the lifa app has many features. the main ones you can see first are dr details, visualizations, group shifting, sharing.
let's go over each feature one by one.

: ̗̀➛ dr details

the first thing that you will get when you are greeted by this an i icon that says about this dr. when you click on it, you are able to type the location and a background story about your desired reality.
: ̗̀➛ time
this feature allows you to add a time and date to your dr. time will pass the same as it does here. for example in my dr, it is currently november 19, 2130 and is 1:47 pm. i chose to freeze time in this dr and submitted it.
: ̗̀➛ theme
this holds the name of what your dr is called, the icon it has, and the background of it when you click on the app. you can also choose the font color and a background tint as well. it also holds your name in your dr.
: ̗̀➛ timeline
you are able to establish a timeline of your desired reality before the point that you shift. i recommend keeping it brief to the important stuff. main instances of childhood and things that you remember with the same importance as you do now.
: ̗̀➛ notion script
this feature is if you have a script on the website notion script. it is a website in which you can gather and fill in shifting templates and is a great way to organize yourself. this is not necessary though. there are other features you can use for your script on here.
: ̗̀➛ about me
this is just a section where you write all about yourself. your name, your age, nicknames, safe word, height, hometown, ethnicity, race, nationality, sexuality, pronouns, gender, language(s), positive traits, negative traits, habit, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and skills.
: ̗̀➛ relationships
when you enter this tab, it will take you to a screen that has a place where you can add family members, friends, pets, significant other(s) or 'other'. the other tab has you in it.
when you decide to add let's say a friend, you start off by adding their name. then there age, closeness, and appearance. you can follow that up by adding a photo of said friend. you can type in relationship dynamic, how you met, and extra info. the format is the exact same no matter the type of relationship aside from pets.
the pet section is a little bit different. you add their name, age, species, pet bed, size, and about them.
there is also a recorder option where you can move around the placements of these characters.
: ̗̀➛ scenarios
this includes upcoming scenarios that you had planned, past scenarios that you did while in your reality, desired upcoming scenarios that include no date but you want to do or have plans to do. finally, you have memories which has no date. these are things that you will automatically remember when in your dr.
it's just a brief section where you can type in a title and add as much as you want of details of that memory. you can add a photo and select if it has a date or if it is a past memory or not.
: ̗̀➛ calendar
this just has the date of your dr. you can also create events on specific dates. that's pretty much it, this section is short.
: ̗̀➛ diary
you can write diary entires. talk about your day, memories, anything that may make you feel closer to your dr. this section is also short.
: ̗̀➛ playlist
so is this one. you make a playlist. and link the playlist, whenever you open the playlist, you get a new tab that takes you to that playlist to listen. i use it to keep my shifting subliminal playlist, but you don't have to.
: ̗̀➛ hero/villain
this is a tab within a tab so i'm bolding it. the first tab is customize, but that feature is locked behind a paywall with a monthly subscription of $3.99. i will talk about the subscription later.
then you have powers. you type the name of it and what your powers do. you have weapons which have the same explanation as powers. missions means you can make your own missions.
then there is combat skills. you list your strength, speed, agility, intelligence, compatibility, stamina, and flexibility out of five. then you can add your backstory. it's a blank sheet where you can type it out.
next is costumes where you describe what your costume looks like.
ally team includes your team name, how well you work together, specific events and upcoming battles, and other details. you can also add relationships from your relationship section and names of that.
enemy team is relatively the same. a team name, specific events or battles, other details, and can once again, select relationship with each member.
finally, there is timeline which has a title and description. you can also add scenarios if needed.
thankfully, that is thee last feature about dr details and we can now move on to visualizations.

: ̗̀➛ visualizations ‧₊˚🖇️✩

this tab focuses all on the visual aspects of your desired reality. even if you can't visualize, you can still use these to get a good idea on what things will look like.
: ̗̀➛ appearence
you can add a hair claim, face claim, body claim, hand claim, voice claim, and specific features claim. personally, i think that the last one could be explained easily in body or face claim.
either way, when you press one of these tabs, you can type in a detailed description on what you look like. now, i didn't notice at first but all the way at the bottom will be a small section that says add photo to which you can go into your gallery and choose a photo for yourself on that specific claim.
: ̗̀➛ wardrobe
this section will include an area that says wardrobe. you press the giant + sign on the top right hand corner and it takes you to a section that says create wardrobe. all you gotta do is add a title and a description. once you do that, you click on the tab again and then add a photo of a specific outfit of yours. you can add multiple photos, move them around using the recorder option right next to photos.
: ̗̀➛ photo gallery
you can make multiple photo galleries , customize albums of different things relating to your dr.
: ̗̀➛ pinterest boards
here you can add the link to your pinterest board...and a title. that's about it.
: ̗̀➛ wallet
this does not connect to any funds in this reality. it's supposed to keep track of money in your dr. i find this feature a bit dumb tbh and seems to waste more time preparing to shift than actually shifting.
: ̗̀➛ outfits
again, this is the same as wardrobe but more customized. you can add each individual clothing item separately if you wanna do that.
: ̗̀➛ belongings
you add photos and a title of what you own and its sentiment. yeah.
: ̗̀➛ or self
it has a stick figure of you. you list your family, what they're doing, their location, and your action, mood, and location.
: ̗̀➛ music group dr
without paying, you can only add one music group and one album. there is a members tab but you need a monthly subscription in order to access it.
i use this feature in one dr to describe my favorite band to listen to and an album i like. if you wanna add more than one album, then you also need to pay,
: ̗̀➛ school app
this is a doozy and has multiple tabs so this will be rapid fire.
you have your student i.d. report card, schedule.
schedule contains period, subject, and teacher. your school in your dr. you can add a photo, location, mascot, colors, class song, traditions, and history of your school.
you can also add your school uniform if you have one. this includes daily uniform and gym uniform. you can add a school map and a yearbook (????????)
again, these are fine i think but the yearbook seems unnecessary, just script who is in your class with you.
also there's a teacher mode but you can only access that with payment.
: ̗̀➛ chat
you can make a chatroom. and roleplay as every single member in that chatroom...for some reason. i don't need to repeat myself here, you already know what i'm going to say.
: ̗̀➛ chat ai
this is locked behind a paywall. just use character ai, it's free and you don't have a limit of 200 messages per day.
: ̗̀➛ family tree
for some reason you can't add siblings. the only way to add siblings kinda is to make them have the same parents as you on a new family tree.
this is just so not necessary. just write down your siblings in your script. no need for your entire extended bloodline. the universe will figure that out.
: ̗̀➛ places
you add places in your dr.
: ̗̀➛ fame phone
you can make a knock off insta account, twitter account, a wikipedia, and a youtube. again, not needed. just shift. also the settings and notifications features are locked behind a paywall.

: ̗̀➛ group shifting

you need to convert your account into an online account. but you can connect with other people and plan to shift together as a group. for those that don't know, group shifting is where you and one or more people collectively decide to shift to the same dr as different people and basically share an experience in that dr.

: ̗̀➛ sharing

the exact same thing as above. except this time you can just share your dr. you need an account to access this feature. it can give others ideas on scripts, drs, or anything else of the sort. it can be a great way to connect with others.

𓍯𓂃ᥫ᭡.🩹 final thoughts 𓍯𓂃ᥫ᭡.🩹

i think some of its features are helpful! however, other parts of it can be very distracting from shifting. i almost felt like this was an oc maker rather than shifting app. some of these i think didn't need so many features. the amount of features there are is crazy. the features section alone i needed to divide into several sections because it took so much longer to get through than i initially thought. it took about two hours to review each of them and i had to take breaks in between. to a new shifter especially, this would be so overwhelming.
you don't need face claims, body claims, or special features claims. as long as you have a general idea of what you and your desired reality is like then you're fine. this is just gonna over complicate shifting and make it seem more fictional in a way. if anything, this makes you less connected to your desired reality since your focusing so much on this one.
it wouldn't be a waste to download it but i wouldn't recommend buying it. but if you do, then more power to you.
please stay safe and happy shifting ᥫ᭡

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https://preview.redd.it/apwm0nq4f01d1.png?width=881&format=png&auto=webp&s=40e5c878d598a330a745aba16862a7025e43fb2f
When I try to open it in blender, everything works normally
https://preview.redd.it/redd8j0cf01d1.png?width=428&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f85599a2843e34de494ab95ce351213d2eaa675
but when I want to save it as fbx and send it to mixamo, it is displayed like this:
https://preview.redd.it/9c9dsk7ef01d1.png?width=881&format=png&auto=webp&s=cff200ae19c8701c8bd1422a993d19762b6cb7e3
I looked for a solution on the Internet, but nothing helped. This is screen from blender
https://preview.redd.it/doy9rr0hf01d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=21ff810a36afbed9ad5c1bd38514427684377541
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Hey Ashley and Bernie,
I just listened to one of your episodes where you covered the Meme stocks and tweets from DFV. It's always interesting to hear somebody's perspective on the topic that's not been following the reddit posts pretty much daily for the last 3 years. I wanted to give you guys a bit more detail on what's been learned and what the true sentiment is from people holding those stocks, but with examples a gamer would understand.
OWNERSHIP 1. I think we can all agree that the pivot to the digital age has had benefits and disadvantages. When we bought a digital copy of a game or item, we naïvely thought it was ours forever. We were wrong! If a company can't afford there servers, the online play shuts down (Halo 3 RIP). Same goes for digital downloads and maybe the game itself. That's why physical media is great!

1. The same thing happened with Stocks. We moved away from physical stocks to help buyers and sellers transact faster and more efficiently. The downside became the reliance on brokers/market makers/clearing houses/ and tons of other entities to get involved. Now the line gets blurry on who actually owns stock. If you buy through a broker, you become a "Beneficial Owner." That means the broker officially owns the stock, even though you paid the money.
   
2. What those "basement dwellers" on reddit learned, is the retail investor has a way to move that stock into their own name and take it off the market. Each public company designates a Transfer Company to hold their corporate shares. Those shares are unavailable to those previously listed entities and in the company's name. Apes found out they too could move their shares from a broker and into their own name. This process is called "DRS" (Direct Registration System). Now those brokers can't lend your shares out to be bet short against you, they can't randomly sell all your shares because it could have hurt them financially, and tons of other shady stuff.
   
3. The people directly registering their shares are not kids in their parents basements (well not that many of them) that spend all their money because "not a cat" tweeted a meme. They are real people that want to own what they paid for.
   

TRUE GAMERS

1. We know that the majority of people play games to relax, pass time, or get yelled out by 12 year olds. However, there are some who like to grind, some that are completionist , Achievement hunters!!!, and some are speedrunners. When some of these gamers dive into dedicate years to these games, they learn far more than thought possible. If you followed the King of Kong story and the allegations of cheating, you may have seen some of the PHD level scientific research papers or video essays. Gamers went hard! It turns out some of them are scientist, mathematicians, electrical engineers, programmers. Experts in their fields.
   
2. It just so happens that some non-casual retail investors share some of the same strengths as those tryhard gamers. Over the years, data scientists, professional traders, Finance analysts, investment banks, brokers....have dedicated years to sharing their learnings on how the stock market actually works. Spoiler, it's not kind to the retail investor. If you are curious, please check out the DD library. SuperStonk Library of DD, Art Books, and Periodicals
   
3. Instead of finding ways to speedrun the game, these awesome people have uncovered the horrifly ways the retail investor has been swindled out of their money. Retirement funds being shorted using the stocks those same people purchased, the BUY button being turned off so the true value of stock can't be discovered, Operational Shorting to increase liquidity (Legal Naked Shorting), the use of Tokenized stocks to create fake shares (related to FTX by the way), Cellar boxing, collusion between Short Hedgefunds and "Consulants" to take over a companies board only to then set the company up for failure while having hedge funds short the company into the ground (Toys R Us, Bed Bath and Beyond, Sears...), and so many others.
   
4. These are experts with the ability to grind. They are not just kids looking to YOLO their money with the hopes of lambos and chicki nuggies. They are serious investors writing Cogressman, the FBI, SEC, FTC, with the intention of exposing these dark practices.
   

FAN BOYS AND GIRLS

1. Gamers are built different. If they enjoy a game, they will spend their hard earned money on it, the DLC, the collectibles, clothes, or on trips to see others play it. They will build communities around the games and fight for what they believe in (I'm looking at you Nintendo and the Smash scene!). They also don't take too kindly to when the media talks down to them, or tries to push a narrative that's morally and scientifically wrong. Games are just for kids, they don't rot your brain (except when you want Seriously 2.0 achievement on Gears 2 , and they don't make you violent. Games are art, they let people socialize online, they inspire us, and they are growing part of lives. Just because old geezers keep saying it on the television, does not mean it's true. Sometimes there are hidden motivations driving those narratives.
   
2. Why did the media call Gamestop, AMC, Blackberry.... MeME sTocks? Because it drove a narrative. The intentions were clear. Attribute the rapid rise in stock price to a bunch of Fauxmoi enjoying, meme loving, YOLOing, wallstreet betting losers. From then on, all these stocks are know to not be taken seriously. Who has the most to gain by doing this. Well, any media outlet getting their revenue from Paid articles and advertising. Who would pay for such stories, lots of Short Hedge Funds, Banks, Brokerages, and Crypto sites like FTX. If any of those companies where systematically shorting viable companies into the ground, it's best those Headlines say "Forget Gamestop, Sell While You Can, Meme Stock drops XX%." But when any positive news happens, Crickets.
   
3. The last 3 years have spawned true fanboys of these companies. Apes take pride in not only buying shares of the company, but buying the company's products. At one point, they were spending significant money on games that were to be donated to children's hospitals. They wanted to help kids and get them into gaming! There are times when somebody posts a crazy indepth DD and get less upvotes than some user who bought Gamestop branded batteries!!! They have evolved! They want the company to succeed. If the company gets fairly valued in the stock market, that's great. If it causes a cause squeeze, cool. If retail buying a stock causes a financial collapse (not as cool, but if it leads to actual market reform while sending shares to infinity like in that one Simpsons picture that predicted Trump...Very cool!).
   

Game On,
Signed- Some Dumbass on the Internet

As the title says, I keep getting random crashes with "Exception C0000005 caught!" in the crashlog. I tried uninstalling NVHR and it solved the problem for a while, I already downloaded the last JIP beta in the xNVSE discord but it keeps happening and it appears to be random, because sometimes I can play like for an hour or longer but other times it crashes after five minutes or so, the last one happened fifteen minutes after I opened the game. Here is my loadorder:

1. FalloutNV.esm
2. DeadMoney.esm
3. HonestHearts.esm
4. OldWorldBlues.esm
5. LonesomeRoad.esm
6. GunRunnersArsenal.esm
7. Fallout3.esm
8. Anchorage.esm
9. ThePitt.esm
10. BrokenSteel.esm
11. PointLookout.esm
12. Zeta.esm
13. CaravanPack.esm
14. ClassicPack.esm
15. MercenaryPack.esm
16. TribalPack.esm
17. TaleOfTwoWastelands.esm
18. YUPTTW.esm
19. NavmeshOverhaul.esm
20. TTW Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover.esm
21. FO3_Optimization.esm
22. Main And Pause Menus Overhaul.esm
23. TweaksTTW.esm
24. Tale of Bi Wastelands.esm
25. TTW Reputations.esm
26. Tale of Bi Wastelands + TTW Reputations Patch.esm
27. TTW New Vegas Speech Checks.esm
28. TTW New Vegas Speech Checks - TTW Reputations Patch.esm
29. Tale of Bi Wastelands + TTW NV Speech Checks Patch.esm
30. Functional Post Game Ending.esm
31. Functional Post Game Ending - TTW Patch.esm
32. TLD_Travelers.esm
33. A Trail of Crumbs.esm
34. Regulators.esm
35. Uncut Wasteland.esp
36. Uncut Extra Collection.esp
37. Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Wasteland And Extra Collection Patch.esm
38. AWorldOfPainFO3.esm
39. Sweet Pain.esm
40. A World of Pain Revised.esm
41. Sweet Pain NV.esm
42. MoreMojave.esm
43. Home and Safehouse Tweaks.esm
44. Home and Safehouse Tweaks - TTW Addon.esm
45. Lootable Statics.esm
46. zl_Armaments_Remastered.esm
47. Tammer's NIF-Bashed Weapons Mega-Pack.esm
48. [RWM]-Complete.esm
49. mil.esp
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51. mil_Add-On.esp
52. Tactapack.esp
53. SD_Transporters.esp
54. Pl DOCTORS.esp
55. CFEE.esp
56. CFEE - TTW.esp
57. drgNV - Melissa Companion.esm
58. IFoundThoseWhoCare.esp
59. The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
60. TLD LVLI Total Overhaul.esp
61. TTW FaceGen Fix.esp
62. Vanilla UI Plus.esp
63. Power Armor Holo Panel.esp
64. PAHP_Edits.esp
65. PipBoyUITweaks.esp
66. ExRB-TTW.esp
67. FOVSlider.esp
68. ItemCards.esp
69. 3DGrenadeIndicator.esp
70. QuickSelect.esp
71. SimpleNightVision.esp
72. Immersive Minigames.esp
73. NVCollectiblesMerged.esp
74. TTWCollectiblesMerged.esp
75. [RWM]-Complete Added.esp
76. Casino Exchange All.esp
77. DelayDLCRedux.esp
78. Root 'n Loot.esp
79. JIP Companions Command & Control.esp
80. JustAssortedMods.esp
81. JBTImproved.esp
82. ImmersiveRecoil.esp
83. Reload Reloaded.esp
84. DynamicDetectionSystem.esp
85. TTWZetaRewards.esp
86. TTWTransportalponderEx.esp
87. Supplemental Ammo Crafting.esp
88. Benny Humbles You and Steals Your Stuff.esp
89. GRA Scavenger Hunt Unbalanced.esp
90. GUWR - TTW Patch.esp
91. DelayDLCReduxPOPP.esp
92. SP TTW Patch.esp
93. MoreMojave - FPGE Patch.esp
94. TTW No PipBoy Glove Equipping or Race Changes.esp
95. MigArmorDegen.esp
96. MigCrippled.esp
97. New Blood.esp
98. S6S Base Game Perks Redux.esp
99. S6S Base Game Perks Redux TTW Side.esp
100. S6S Perks.esp
101. Friends With Benefits Perk Pack.esp
102. Vegas Elysium.esp
103. ImmersiveSleepEncounters.esp
104. Unmissable Casino Rewards.esp
105. RAD.esp
106. New Blood TTW Patch.esp
107. Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered v1.2.esp
108. FNV+LR Flare Gun to 12Ga Flare Conversion.esp
109. Tammer's KNVSE Mega Patch.esp
110. Sweet Consumables.esp
111. Aid Addon.esp
112. Healing Systems.esp
113. Unfound Loot.esp
114. WeaponRequirementSystem.esp
115. B42Inertia.esp
116. PurchaseDisplay.esp
117. Quickthrow.esp
118. QuickthrowTweaks.esp
119. Simple Explosive Entry.esp
120. Simple Explosive Entry Tweaks (Easy Pete).esp
121. Forced Entry.esp
122. TTW Dialogue and Interactions Expansion Overhaul.esp
123. DIEO - Tale of Bi Wastelands Patch.esp
124. DIEO - AWOPFO3 Patch.esp
125. TTW A Tribe of Two.esp
126. DLC Followers All-In-One.esp
127. TiesThatBind.esp
128. CFEE - TTW Both ED-E Perks.esp
129. CFEE - No Companion Limit.esp
130. CFEE - DLC Companions AIO.esp
131. CCO - Ulysses Companion.esp
132. CFEE - Amanda TTW.esp
133. CFEE - Ties That Bind - Dad Expansion.esp
134. BennyReturns.esp
135. drgNV - Marcus Companion.esp
136. TheAIMerge.esp
137. IRNPC.esp
138. AintThatAScarInTheHead.esp
139. TTW Pitt Rot.esp
140. RadiationVisuals.esp
141. Impostors and LOD Flicker Fix.esp
142. NVMIM.esp
143. Enhanced Movement.esp
144. ArmedToTheTeethNV-Redux.esp
145. Titans of The New West.esp
146. STAR TTW 2.esp
147. More Perks v3.esp
148. Dead Money - Elijah's Rambling Last Words.esp
149. Dynamic Terrifying Presence.esp
150. Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks TTW.esp
151. Natural Interior.esp
152. DNWeathers.esp
153. Interior Rain.esp
154. Interior Rain - TTW.esp
155. CC - Rain.esp
156. CC - 3D Rain.esp
157. LOD additions and improvements - TTW Patch.esp
158. Viva New Vegas - LOD.esp
159. Diagonal movement.esp
160. S6S Big Guns Implementation.esp
161. SimpleHairs.esp
162. SimpleHairs - Color.esp
163. Mutant Eyes.esp

Here's the modlist:
+Character Kit Remake - Teeth
+Uncut Wasteland Extra Collection CKR Patch
+Uncut Wasteland CKR Patch
+Sweet Pain DC CKR Patch
+TTW A World of Pain for Fallout 3 CKR patch
+Transporters - Immersive Fast Travel CKR Patch
+The Living Desert CKR patch
+Sweet Pain NV CKR Patch
+AWOPR CKR Patch
+MoreMojave CKR Patch
+FPGE CKR Patch
+Character Kit Remake TTW Facegen
+Character Kit Remake
+JIP_LN_NVSE_Plugin
+Wasteland Eyes - Mutant Eyes Lite
+Mutant Eyes
+Female eyes clipping FIX
+Shotgun Buffs
+Dynamic Terrifying Presence NVSE
+NV Collectibles - Merged
+Dead Money - Elijah's Rambling Last Words
+Pre-War Money Retexture
+Natural eyes by zzjay
+Hair Patcher Two ESPLess
+Simple Hairs - New Vegas
+S6S Perks Patches
+S6S Perks and Tammer Weapon Pack Compatiblity Patch
+dree74 More Perks Upscaled (and Regular-ified Art pack)
+More Perks Reimagined
+S6S Big Guns Implementation
+TTW Extra Special Love Tester
+(Unbalanced - Overpowered) Sweet Perk Overhaul
+FO4-style SPECIAL plus Infinite Intense Training - ESPless
+NV Compatibility Skeleton
+Diagonal movement
+TTW LOD
+TTW Ain't That A Scar In The Head
+TTW Pitt Rot
+I Found Those Who Care - New Ending for Veronica (TTW)
+A Tiny Perk Styled Pack (an add on for JIP - CCC)
+JIP CCC Perk Styled Collection
+Perk Style CCC Icons Modded Companions
+Perk Styled CCC Icons
+Marcus Patch
+Ulysses Patch
+Benny Returns Patch
+Melissa Patch
+DLC Companions AIO Patch
+Ties That Bind - Dad Expansion
+Ties That Bind Patch
+No Companion Limit
+ED-E Both Perks
+CFEE - A Complete Companion Overhaul
+Marcus Companion
+Ulysses Companion Mod
+Benny Returns
+Melissa Lewis Companion
+DLC Companions - All-In-One
+Ties that Bind - TTW Conversion
+Ties that Bind - a narrative companion mod
+A Tribe of Two
+Armed to the Teeth - Redux
+STARS TOTNW Patch
+PAVE TOTNW PatchTitans of Steel Version
+Tesla Armor Mods x consistent pip-boy icons - Classic Tesla Armor Icons
+TTW Goodies
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Dynamicon
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Stats (and Some Perks)
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Reputation
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Addendumb
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Vault Girl Extension
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Extension
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - DLC's Items
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Apparel
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Weapons
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Items
+3. CPI - Mod Patches
+1. Consistent Pip-boy Icons
+Map Marker Icons
+Pop-Up Message Icons
+Consistent Pip-Boy Icons v5 - Framework Plugin
+PipBoyOn Node Fixes
+STARS TTW - Sweet's Total Armor Rework System
+Classic Lightweight Leather Armor Replacer
+Classic Leather Armor Replacer for Leather Armor
+Salvaged Armor
+Modern Gunslinger Armor
+Bone Harvester - Tribal Cannibal
+Wasteland Stealth Armor NV
+The Road Warrior Armor
+Psycho Armor and Mask
+Metal Armor MkI
+WW2 M1 Helmets
+AKIRAMORI Tactical Gloves
+Altyn Helmet - Retro Tactical Headgear
+Wasteland Seeker Armor
+Geonox Riot Armor - Female Version -
+Geonox Riot Armor
+KORs Pistol Harness
+Fallout Tactics Brotherhood Metal Armor Integration
+Classic Tesla Armor
+Mercenary Wanderer
+Searchlight Firefighter Outfit
+Fallout Revelation Blues Mega Armor Pack
+Fallout The Odyssey Mega Armor Pack
+Arsthetiu's Armoire - A Nif-Bashed Armour Collection
+Classic Fallout Tesla armor
+DVA - Distributed Variety Armors - Hats Headgears Accessories
+Petal Gasmask
+Canvas Backpacks - FNV - TTW
+Waster Gear - TTW - FNV
+The Lone Wanderer - TTW and NV
+NCR Commando
+GP-5 Gasmask
+Courier Duster Replacer
+Ballistic Skull Mask
+Tribal Power Helmet - Definitive Edition
+Classic Combat Armor Replacer Combined (TTW)
+Classic Replacers for TTW
+Classic Combat Armor Replacer Redux
+Classic Fallout 2 combat armor Mark 2 (remastered)
+Classic Fallout 2 Metal armor Mk II
+Classic Fallout Metal Armor
+Veronica Outfit Replacer
+Unique Troublemaker Outfit-Nightstalker Set
+DogTooth Enclave Officer
+The BLACKJACK pack - Tons of armors for VANILLA bodys
+Power Armor Visual Enhancement (PAVE)
+Deus Specs
+Spice of Life
+Tammer's NIF-Bashed Armor Mega-Pack v4.2
+Book of Steel - Compatibility Edition
+nov 2011 book of steel
+Wasteland Soldier Redux NV
+Wasteland Soldier - NV Edition
+No PipBoy in Power Armor
+Simple Headshots
+SIDE - Simple Items Distributed Everywhere
+Immersive Recoil NPC
+Simple Explosive Entry Tweaks
+Simple Explosive Entry
+Immersive Sleeping Encounters
+Forced Entry
+Sweet Keywords
+Camping - ESPless
+Bottle the Water
+Unmissable Casino Rewards
+TTW Collectibles - Merged
+SMAC - Simple Melee Attack Canceling
+Simply Less Junk. esp-less
+Purchase Items on Display (xNVSE)
+Point Lookout Doctors TTW
+Movable Statics replaced with Lootable versions - ESPless
+Lootable Statics Compatibility Edition - Base Object Swapper
+Base Object Swapper
+Hardcore Forever
+Cookable Grenades
+Benny Fighting Chance
+B42 Quickthrow Perks
+B42 Quickthrow - an alternative grenade hotkey mod
+B42 Optics TTW Patches
+B42 Optics NV Patches
+Tactapack - B42 Optics Patch
+Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered B42 Optics Patch
+Another Millenia and Addon - B42 Optics Patch
+B42 Optics - ESPless
+Desert Natural Weathers - NV - TTW
+Climate Control - 3D Rain
+Climate Control - Rain
+3D Rain
+Interior Rain - TTW
+Interior Rain
+Longer Weather Transitions ESPless
+Natural Interiors
+Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks (Interior Lighting for FNV and TTW)
+Iron Sights Aligned - Mod Support
+Iron Sights Aligned
+Wasteland Warrior - A Melee Animation Overhaul
+Butcher Pete Complete - A Melee Animation Overhaul
+New Vegas Animation Overhaul Guns
+Anniversary Anim Pack
+B42 Weapon Inertia
+ISControl
+3rd Person Animation Fixpack
+VNV - LOD Patches
+LOD additions and improvements - TTW Patch
+Wasted LOD - Cliffs of DC
+LODIFY FNV Wall_SoGB Editon
+LODIFY - Level of detail improvement for your Fallout (TTW And NV Lods)
+Different LOD mods little tweaks and additions
+Wasted LOD - Cliffs of Mojave
+More LODs Additions and fixes
+TCM's LOD Overhaul
+Optional Overpasses
+FNV LOD Supplementation
+LOD additions and improvements
+Much Needed LOD fixed rocks color
+Much Needed LOD
+LOD Fixes and Improvements - NVSE
+Impostors and LOD Flicker Fix
+Mobile Pip-Boy Light - NVSE
+Mainframes Litter Flickering Fix
+Fallout 3 TTW Interior Optimization Project
+ExRB - Extended Roombounds
+Items Transformed - Enhanced Meshes (ITEM)
+Meshes and Collision - Totally Enhanced Nifs (MAC-TEN)
+New Vegas Mesh Improvement Mod - NVMIM
+Collision Meshes FNV
+Collision Meshes FO3
+TTW Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover
+Improved AI (Navmesh Overhaul Mod)
+Sweet Healing Systems
+Sweet Consumables
+ySI - Sorting Icons - S6S Aid Addon patch
+Aid Addon
+New Blood
+More Rads No Irradiated Lonesome Road
+RAD - Radiation (is) Actually Dangerous - Overhaul
+Unfound Loot - Harder core settings ini
+Unfound Loot
+Harder Barter Faster Stronger
+TOTNW One Hand Animations For Another Millenia plus Addon
+Titans of The New West
+Tactapack
+ZL Armaments Remastered
+KNVSE Animation Mega Patch for Tammer's Weapons
+Tammer's NIF-Bashed Weapons Mega-Pack v6.0
+SDS CFWR Patch
+Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered
+Another Millenia Gun Add-on
+Another Millenia - TTW Unique Placements
+Another Millenia
+DIEO - AWOPFO3 Patch
+DIEO - Tale of Bi Wastelands Patch
+TTW (D.I.E.O.) Dialogue and Interactions Expansion Overhaul
+GRA Unique Weapons Relocated - TTW Patch
+GRA Unique Weapons Relocated
+TTW The Regulators
+TTW A Trail of Crumbs
+Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Wasteland And Extra Collection Patch
+Uncut Extra Collection
+Uncut Wasteland
+MoreMojave - FPGE Patch
+MoreMojave Terrain LOD
+MoreMojave
+Sweet Pain TTW
+Sweet Pain NV
+A World of (Less) Pain - A Lore Friendly AWOP Revision
+Sweet Pain DC
+TTW A World of Pain for Fallout 3
+The Living Desert Leveled List Overhaul
+The Living Desert - Travelers Patrols Consequences Increased Population and more
+Functional Post Game Ending
+B42 True Leaning - Custom INI
+B42 True Leaning - Contextual - ESPless
+Immersive Minigames
+Vegas Elysium Perk Pack
+Levelup Traits
+Friends With Benefits Perk Pack
+Sweet 6 Shooter Perks - TTW - NV
+Sweet Perk Overhaul
+NPCs Sprint kNVSE - ESPless
+Enhanced Movement INI
+Enhanced Movement
+Supplemental Ammo Crafting
+Sweet Dynamic Detection System
+Simple AI Merge
+Sweet's Configuration
+Weapon Jamming Tweaks - ESPless
+Reload Reloaded
+Immersive Recoil 2.0
+B42 FireMode - Selective Fire and First Shot Precision - ESPless
+Weapon Requirements System
+Real Weapon Mods 2 Rebalanced
+Real Weapon Mods 2
+Armor Damage Overhaul - Custom INI
+ADO - Armor Damage Overhaul
+Better Damage Multipliers
+Crippled Limb Reaction Enforcer
+Transporters - Fast Travel Alternative
+TTW Transportalponder Extended
+Home and Safehouse Tweaks INI File
+Home and Safehouse Tweaks
+JIP CCC HD icons
+JIP Companions Command and Control
+JAM - Custom INI
+Bullet Time Improved - a JAM addon
+Clean Just Assorted Mods (JAM)
+JAM - Just Assorted Mods
+Nail Gun Semi Auto Rework
+BHYSYS Custom INI
+(Benny Humbles You) and Steals Your Stuff
+Delay DLC Redux
+TTW - Mothership Zeta Rewards
+Charisma Tweaks (NVSE)
+Tale of Bi Wastelands TTW Patches for TTW Reputations and TTW New Vegas Speech Checks
+Tale of Bi Wastelands TTW
+TTW New Vegas Speech Checks - TTW Reputations Patch
+TTW New Vegas Speech Checks
+TTW Reputations
+TTW Merchant Supply Expansion
+Hardcore Perk Every Level
+Casino Exchange All
+Better Caravan
+Root 'n Loot TTW
+Tweaks for TTW Custom INI
+Tweaks for TTW
+ESP-less Tutorial Killer
+Simple Night Vision
+Radiation Visuals
+Drowning Visuals - ESPless
+Quick Select - A Zelda BOTW Style Quick Menu
+3D Grenade Indicator
+Item Cards Custom INI
+Item Cards
+Instant and Faster Pipboy (No Stutter)
+Pip-Boy UI Tweaks
+High Res Local Maps
+Simple Maps - TTW
+Clean Companion Wheel
+Vault Boy Paper Doll
+High Resolution Screens
+Vanilla Fonts Revisited
+MAPMO WSG Preset
+Extras - Stewie's Tweaks Sorting Icons Replacer
+Extras - Hi-Res Logos
+MAPMO - Main and Pause Menus Overhaul
+Recent Loot Log - ESPless
+B42 Notify - Corner Messages Overhaul - ESPless
+Clean Vanilla Hud
+Alternate Holographic Panel - No PipBoy in Power Armor
+Simple Power Armor HUD
+FOV Slider
+ySI Vanilla MiscQuest Items Patch
+ySI Sorting - Extended NV-TTW
+Sleep Wait Hardcore Needs
+Radiation Loadwheel
+Scum's Considerably Cute Corner Load Wheel
+Main Menu Redone - TTW
+ySI - Pick Up Prompts
+ySI - Colorful Icons Fix
+Colorful Inventory Ycons
+ySI - Sorting Ycons
+yUI - User Ynterface
+Vanilla UI Plus (New Vegas)
+The Mod Configuration Menu
+Vanilla Animations Weapon Scale Fix
+TTW Combat Shotgun HQ Reload Sounds
+TTW 32 Pistol Projectile Clipping Fix
+Tranquility Lane Pipboy Glove and Custom Race Fix
+Ranger Combat Helmets Clipping Fix
+NPCa - NPC Prevention of Chem addiction - ESPless
+MZ Holding Cells Fog Clip Distance Fix
+Money Fixer - ESPless
+Melee VATS Animation Restoration
+Laser Pistol 3rd Person Latch animation fix
+Gun Runners Kiosk Glass Fix
+Gauss Impact Fix - ESPless
+Freeside Neon Sign Fix
+Female Pipboy Aligned
+Viewmodel Shading Fix - NVSE
+MoonlightNVSE
+zlib Updated - NVSE
+Weapon Mod Description Fix (TTW)
+Viewmodel Shake Fix - NVSE
+Vent Lighting Fix
+Swimming Creatures Fix - ESPless
+Smooth True Iron Sights Camera
+Pip-Boy Shading Fix NVSE
+Muzzle Flash Light Fix - NVSE
+Mostly Fixed FaceGen Tints (NV or TTW)
+JIP Localized Damage Fix
+Improved Lighting Shaders
+High Resolution Water Fog - Water Aliasing Fix
+High Resolution Bloom NVSE
+Fog-based Object Culling
+Fallout Alpha Rendering Tweaks - NVSE
+External Emittance Fix - NVSE
+Equip and Movement Speed Fix - ESPless
+Depth of Field Fix - NVSE
+Consistent Spread - Firearms Accuracy and Wobble Fix
+Aqua Performa - Strip Performance Fix
+Cloud Upgrade NVSE
+Climate Control NVSE
+SUP NVSE
+AnhNVSE
+KEYWORDS
+UIO - User Interface Organizer
+ShowOff xNVSE Plugin
+Basic Console Autocomplete
+Console Paste Support
+Improved Console (NVSE)
+kNVSE Animation Plugin
+FNV Mod Limit Fix
+ActorCause Save Bloat Fix
+VATS Lag Fix
+Combat Lag Fix (NVSE)
+lStewieAl's Engine Optimizations
+Stewie Tweaks Custom INI
+Stewie Tweaks Essentials INI
+lStewieAl's Tweaks and Engine Fixes
+NVTF - INI Presets
+NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix
+Yvile's Crash Logger
+JohnnyGuitar NVSE - INI Presets
+JohnnyGuitar NVSE
+JIP LN Custom INI
+JIP LN NVSE Plugin
+ROOGNVSE Plugin
+Tales of Two Wastelands

Dear all,
As of recently, kometa is no longer applying overlays to my movies, although it is applying them to tv shows.
Here follows my docker container config:

 kometa: image: lscr.io/linuxservekometa:latest container_name: kometa networks: vasco: environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - TZ=Europe/Lisbon - KOMETA_CONFIG=/config/config.yml #optional - KOMETA_TIME=19:13 #optional - KOMETA_RUN=False #Force running - KOMETA_TEST=False #optional - KOMETA_NO_MISSING=False #optional volumes: - ${CONFIGS_FOLDER}/kometa/config.yml:/config/config.yml restart: unless-stopped 

My config.yml

## This file is a template remove the .template to use the file libraries: # This is called out once within the config.yml file Movies_Ultra: library_name: Movies remove_overlays: false reapply_overlays: true collection_files: - default: basic - default: imdb - default: oscars - file: config/oscar-nominees.yml operations: split_duplicates: true mass_critic_rating_update: imdb mass_audience_rating_update: mdb_tomatoesaudience mass_user_rating_update: tmdb overlay_files: - default: resolution template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: languages template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 175 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: streaming template_variables: vertical_align: bottom vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: runtimes template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: right horizontal_offset: 15 - default: ratings template_variables: rating1: critic rating1_image: rt_tomato rating1_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Adlib.ttf rating2: audience rating2_image: imdb rating2_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Impact.ttf rating3: user rating3_image: tmdb horizontal_position: right - default: ribbon plex: url: http://plexultra:32400 # This is Ultra token: ... timeout: 60 db_cache: clean_bundles: false empty_trash: false optimize: false verify_ssl: Movies_Ronisley: library_name: Movies remove_overlays: false reapply_overlays: true collection_files: - default: basic - default: imdb - default: oscars - file: config/oscar-nominees.yml operations: split_duplicates: true mass_critic_rating_update: imdb mass_audience_rating_update: mdb_tomatoesaudience mass_user_rating_update: tmdb overlay_files: - default: resolution template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: languages template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 175 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: streaming template_variables: vertical_align: bottom vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: runtimes template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: right horizontal_offset: 15 - default: ratings template_variables: rating1: critic rating1_image: rt_tomato rating1_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Adlib.ttf rating2: audience rating2_image: imdb rating2_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Impact.ttf rating3: user rating3_image: tmdb horizontal_position: right - default: ribbon Series_Ultra: library_name: Series remove_overlays: false reapply_overlays: false collection_files: - default: basic - default: imdb operations: mass_critic_rating_update: imdb mass_audience_rating_update: mdb_tomatoesaudience mass_user_rating_update: tmdb overlay_files: - default: resolution template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: languages template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 175 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: streaming template_variables: vertical_align: bottom vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: ratings template_variables: rating1: critic rating1_image: rt_tomato rating1_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Adlib.ttf rating2: audience rating2_image: imdb rating2_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Impact.ttf rating3: user rating3_image: tmdb horizontal_position: right - default: ribbon plex: url: http://plexultra:32400 # This is Ultra token: ... timeout: 60 db_cache: clean_bundles: false empty_trash: false optimize: false verify_ssl: Series_Ronislei: library_name: TV Shows remove_overlays: false reapply_overlays: false collection_files: - default: basic - default: imdb operations: mass_critic_rating_update: imdb mass_audience_rating_update: mdb_tomatoesaudience mass_user_rating_update: tmdb overlay_files: - default: resolution template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: languages template_variables: vertical_align: top vertical_offset: 175 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: streaming template_variables: vertical_align: bottom vertical_offset: 25 horizontal_align: left horizontal_offset: 15 - default: ratings template_variables: rating1: critic rating1_image: rt_tomato rating1_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Adlib.ttf rating2: audience rating2_image: imdb rating2_font: config/metadata/overlays/fonts/Impact.ttf rating3: user rating3_image: tmdb horizontal_position: right - default: ribbon playlist_files: - default: playlist # This is a file within Kometa's defaults folder template_variables: libraries: Movies, TV Shows # list of libraries that you want the Kometa Defaults playlists to look at # see the wiki for how to use local files, folders, URLs, or files from git settings: run_order: - operations - metadata - collections - overlays cache: true cache_expiration: 60 asset_directory: config/assets asset_folders: true asset_depth: 0 create_asset_folders: false prioritize_assets: false dimensional_asset_rename: false download_url_assets: false show_missing_season_assets: false show_missing_episode_assets: false show_asset_not_needed: true sync_mode: append minimum_items: 1 default_collection_order: delete_below_minimum: true delete_not_scheduled: false run_again_delay: 2 missing_only_released: false only_filter_missing: false show_unmanaged: true show_unconfigured: true show_filtered: false show_options: true show_missing: true show_missing_assets: true save_report: false tvdb_language: eng ignore_ids: ignore_imdb_ids: item_refresh_delay: 0 playlist_sync_to_users: all playlist_exclude_users: playlist_report: false verify_ssl: true custom_repo: overlay_artwork_filetype: jpg overlay_artwork_quality: plex: # Can be individually specified per library as well; REQUIRED for the script to run url: http://plex:32400 # This is Ronislei token: ... timeout: 60 db_cache: clean_bundles: false empty_trash: false optimize: false verify_ssl: tmdb: apikey: ... language: en cache_expiration: 60 # Number of days before each cache mapping expires and has to be re-cached region: mdblist: apikey: ... cache_expiration: 60 

And my latest run log:
https://pastebin.com/fzHbEZ9v
Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?
Regards
V

After much consideration, and planning, I am going to return to video production. When I began making videos on a weekly or monthly basis, I had plenty of free time due to the big coof. This was me learning things like scheduling, editing, how to make the microphone work, and I learned plenty through trial and error. There is a dramatic difference between my first videos and my recent ones because of this learning experience. But as I learned about how to make videos, I learned that I was wasting my time with them.
A LOT of time.
Whatever you’re thinking is a time waste for a video is not really it, unless you’ve been there and done that. During that time, I ruined my sleep schedule and would even pass up on small money opportunities, all because I thought my Youtube videos would send me into stardom. Plant a seed, watch it grow, that sort of thing. But, looking at my numbers, it was the exact opposite. Each video coming out, utilizing the keywords and subject matter as a reason to click, was essentially a false sense of activity.
Working on other people’s channels created even more false cases of activity, which created a false sense of justifying why I’m putting labor into something.
Like most artists, I was gaslighting myself into thinking that the time spent into a project was going to translate into a future income from something else. We always see these videos where it seems zero effort was put into it and it goes viral, not realizing that years of failing and group efforts were required to reach those results. And even then, a youtube video existing doesn’t cause a person to instantly gain money from that existence. I have a friend who made a viral video and he didn’t get anything from millions of views, because there was nothing to monetize. I have another friend who made a viral video, trying to recreate the magic, and nothing came of it after a year or two of trying.
Not only is it hard to receive results, but the amount of time it takes to attempt is ridiculous. I didn’t time myself, but if I knew how many hours were sunk into each video, I would probably pull out my balls in anger. The process of each video was a mess of:

1. Writing down a script (takes more than an hour to write an hour of script)
2. Recording the audio (takes more than an hour to record an hour)
3. Editing the audio (takes about double the time of whatever its recorded)
4. Making the thumbnail
5. Making the avatar
6. Collecting images
7. Collecting video clips
8. Making images and clips
9. Editing through clips that are too long
10. Adding sound effects
11. Finding and adding music
12. Waiting for it to render (usually this is where I go to do other things)
13. Rendering it AGAIN through handbrake so it’s a smaller file (quicker than waiting for uploading a multi GB file)
14. Uploading it across youtube, bitchute, and rumble

I don’t want to make this sound like I’m complaining, but this is the bare minimum effort that goes into a youtube video, not mentioning the details of how things are edited or the issues with troubleshooting. A lot of what ate up my time was realizing when things aren’t working way too late, such as how GIFs don’t register well and they slow down a larger project. Or better yet, how a large project slows down to a crawl and you have to render multiple segments separately in order to keep things running smoothly. My files, as organized as I tried to keep them, were unorganized as hell because I would set them up during production instead of before production. Then by the end of it, there would be something wrong that I would have to edit, remove, I forgot something, something vanished between saves, or even corrupted files because I moved something and didn’t realize it was part of something else.
Video editing is utter hell in the beginning, but it gets better after you look after your process and actually organize everything well.
I spent a night the other week changing up all of my files. I put them on my desktop, where I can easily access them, and away from my downloads. This is important because your downloads can be bogged down with anything you download, and eventually it becomes a massive mess of pictures, videos, game patches, or whatever else you’re downloading; all getting in the way of your actual project. You want your files to be files within files, and each file is marked clearly for its purpose and its direction. I had a million songs splayed out in different areas and couldn’t remember where they were, of course when I wanted them, all because they would get trapped in piles of other things I downloaded for later.
My file finding time is now only limited by the slowness of my computer acquiring it.
Audio began as a mess of me going through each line to make sure there was no extra noise, and having to fix anything that was too quiet or not full enough. Turns out I was making my audio way too maximized and wasting a lot of time on stuff that people wouldn’t even recognize as an issue. Now my audio mixing is done through OBS, already set up as a particular compression and volume that will stay in the acceptable range, with noise removal already set up.
My audio recording/editing time is closer to how long it takes to speak.
Developing each chapter card, clipping them together, having to find the font, typing everything out. These, along with getting sound effects working, took up too much time. What I did is make a plan to prepare all of these first, before anything else is added to the video, so that I know how many chapters there are. They don’t take that long to render, because of how short they are, and it takes way less time to do that than to shift gears at the end of the production day. Shifting gears every couple of minutes, that was wasting too much time, which is now changed to doing one specific task each session.
My “switching” time is removed, thus saving time.
Music was added in the beginning, as one of the first things. This was wrong to do, because of how many times I would want a clip where the music continues through it, only to realize that this continuation forced me to keep a massive background of editing history, which slows everything down through production. Adding music as the last bit, and after rendering, will save me minutes for every time I boot up the video editor, which saves hours over time when I’m going to have to go back and forth on video editing. My lifestyle only gives me an hour or two at a time to sit in front of the computer, and so editing will require less wait time for the process to warm up.
My rendering time will increase(as I go to do other things), but my waiting time will decrease.
Through my new process, I am also considering a different view of each video type. Recently, I saw a video about how kindle books are categorized between low, mid, and high content; related to how much effort it takes to make each one. My previous attempts were to, essentially, make high effort content as consistently as possible, which was going to be draining when these were events that came and went. Current news like Lindsay Ellis being stupid or DSP looking like a fool on Sidescrollers are incredibly time sensitive, which is why so many people stream these “news reports” instead of making high effort videos about them. And even if it was a long term type of video, we have to question if it REQUIRES that much effort to begin with.
My plans for the future are to measure how long I take with each session, what I get done, track down percentages, and measure what the longest steps are. Figuring out what’s causing a hold-up is the best way to prevent hold-ups, in the same way city builders (should) keep track of what’s causing traffic jams. Too many traffic jams? Get rid of cars or open more lanes. Keeping track of things is going to take minutes to save hours, which is something I should have practiced more on doing through my practicing year.
Videos are done with marketing in mind, because I don’t plan to make money from them. My “branding” is storytelling, art, art-related lolcows, and I guess that pesky culture war. People begged me to go fully political, but I think political is a step below philosophical, which is where I would rather go. I would rather explain the psychology and aesthetics of media, instead of repeating myself as to how offensive or woke something is. Yes, I make fun of Lindsay for being woke, but I explain why she is and where it comes from, which is something more important than some kind of drama farming that grifters do.
I would rather be a source of information than a pointless attack dog for someone above me, which is why I try to separate myself from the people who do such nonsense. I’m not with these movements, I don’t care to promote people I don’t care about, I’m not going to go easy on people just because “we’re on the same side”. Everyone gets made fun of or nobody gets made fun of, and I’m year of monkey, bitch. This monkey wants bananas and youtube is not going to supply any. But it supplies plenty of vines to swing around from, as I Donkey Kong my way from topic to topic.
Like anything else in life, videos need to be worth my time, meaning their expense needs to be dropped dramatically. Hour long, multi-hour long, these were excruciatingly hard to do. The next goal is to make sure everything is kept around 30min long, unless it’s going to be a bi-yearly 1 hour long video that will be the highlight of the year, which is where full book analysis videos come into play. The scripts for everything else will be written down as articles, with the better of the articles being made into low content videos.
Podcast style will be for low effort, being made weekly.
A new style will be for mid effort, which is where 30min of history or explanation is presented with video clips, being made monthly. Video game clips will be placed around here as well, unless they can be made bi-weekly.
And the classic, me in my room with my ASS computer, will be for the high content, for subjects that take far too long to make on a monthly basis.
This planning is still in the works, it’s an effort to create a strategy and a schedule for everything. The goal would be to place an hour a day per video, creating steps for each video, and using each other as progress reports for the bigger ones. It will be like placing smaller squares into bigger squares until the biggest square is complete, allowing me to visually determine my progress across such a subject. This is also a way for me to appear more productive, because content will be constantly coming out on a clear schedule. Only bad side about it is that this means 3 hours of my day are used for videos, and this won’t be possible for every day until content creation is my main job.
Before I can have this be a thing, it will be a slow, preemptive creation process, with smaller projects being made as my “short stories”, to then determine if I’m ready for a bigger “novel” of a project. And that’s how I have to approach video editing: the same way I would with storytelling. No more determining that length means better, or more time means more results. Now I’m going to obey the market, go for what’s expected of me, and react to feedback. If something doesn’t work, or doesn’t make a dent, I try something else.
I think that’s why people get mad at me, when they see that I am trying something else all the time. This is normal, but I’m told that I’m “an interloper” or “will never win” because I willingly give up on things that don’t work. Sorry, losers, but being unorganized and wasting my life is not worth it. I like money, and I like vaginas. If I wanted to be poor and wasting my life, I would have kept slamming my head against a wall and failing like most of what indie does.
And yes, the OPC reviews will be translated into videos, as well as my own short stories. I began as a crackpasta narrator, after all. I was thinking of putting a lot of radio drama production into my narrations, but I would want to keep them low effort until they start attracting all of the attention from their titles. A lot of people try to narrate their stories and they don’t make a spark anywhere with them. But as time goes on, and I get more videos under my belt, I could easily narrate for others, create a network, and get things going. It’s not that hard to get things working once you know what you’re doing.
The main time waste that we all fall for is chaotic activity and the lack of planning.

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Hello again folks! Your resident performance obsessed Redditor here, with my updated Pagespeed guide! It's gone through significant revisions since the last time I posted it. It now has more than double the content up from 94 pages the last time I posted the guide to having over 240+(!!) pages of content.
Major content additions, expansions on everything that was previously in the guide, significantly better and more logical organization, revamped table of contents, grammar and spelling fixes, many new optimization strategies and much needed additional specificity.
Don’t forget to check the table of contents, it is not expanded by default! The icon is on the top left side on desktop
Included is a breakdown on how to analyze and interpret Speed Test reports to identify optimization opportunities.
There's an extensive amount of optimization information and resources for server stack configuration for NGINX, Apache, OpenLiteSpeed, Varnish, Object Caching, PHP, HAProxy, MySQL, SSL, Gzip/Brotli, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, the Google Pagespeed module, Security considerations effects on performance and Linux optimizations. There are also a bunch of resources on database optimization.
Wordpress specific optimizations: It now has sections on how to optimize common features including Ads, Forms, Woocommerce, Analytics, Google Maps, Fonts, Custom Fields, Galleries, Video Players, Sliders, Filters, SEO plugins, Anti-Spam, Cookie Notices, Backup plugins; in addition to one size fits all optimizations(Images, Videos, CDN, SSL, CSS, JS, Resource Hints, Caching etc), and tons and tons more.
Every optimization opportunity has a free plugin option (or multiple) listed. Some paid plugins are included as I find them very useful(Perfmatters and Asset Cleanup Pro for example). However I've included alternatives for all paid options. Every single thing in my guide can be implemented for free.
I've done my best to cover all of the bases you’d find in any page speed guide, in addition to a focus on adding uncommon optimization strategies and solutions that you won’t find in any off the shelf guide. This is a compilation of all of my research over the last 6 years delving into performance optimization.
I'm confident that if you follow every single step in the guide, almost any site you maintain can score 90+ on a Pagespeed Insights Mobile Speed Test.
If you notice anything missing from my performance guide that you think I should add, or if there is some information you believe needs to be amended (or expanded on), please let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to add a section or revise the content on the topic (if necessary) as soon as possible!
If you feel that the guide is too overwhelming and you'd prefer to have someone else optimize your site’s performance or need a consultation, feel free to DM me.
If anyone wants to be able to import a large set of free optimization plugins (and you can selectively choose which ones to download/install), download WP Favs. I do need to update the collection since I've added tons to the guide since the last time I posted this, but it's still comprehensive:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpfavs/
The code to import them is: JAuOGP5BZICR5LmBsPANN9kpKHfiie
https://imgur.com/a/nU1v5CU
For now the roadmap is to work on the load balancing section, new sections with optimized plugins for other common features, and anything else I can think of. I have added a ton of content since the last time, so I'm positive that there are still gaps which need to be plugged. I plan to continue adding content as I improve it, so keep an eye on the guide as it will continue to evolve over time!
If this guide helped you out, please consider buying me a coffee! (Everybody likes coffee right?)
If anyone would like to help me develop a premium optimization plugin with some unique strategies I've been thinking of, please pm me!
Edit: Added new sections with optimized plugins for every common feature I can think of, please let me know if you have any requests. Trying to stick with free options.