i know it sounds ridiculous. But my boss want the magic thing to figure out that whether the koc is cheating for free product. i think maybe there is a private list in own industry. if it went public, the crazy followers would discredit the brand.
so please leave any thoughts and i need reply to my boss. QAQ

This summary is from user u/griwulf regarding what Ali Koç said in todays press conference

• GS has been saying a lot of crap recently. They're provoking us and their own fans. They're the biggest threat to Turkish football, perhaps even to our country.
• They threaten the league stakeholders after a loss and invite everyone to remain calm after a win (Koc showed some videos of Dwarf and Penguin). They keep the refs and federation under a lot of pressure through blackmailing and slander, like they did in the BJK game.
  
• They said they'd broadcast the ref mistakes on their TV channel. They never did, and then they shut down the channel.
  
• They use trashy tactics like "oh, that guy works for a Koc subsidiary" to slander people. They used this on Lale Orta. How can they even use this as an argument when the current TFF president is a member of GS?
  
• They complained about the rant we shared on Twitter during the HT of the Alanya game last March. Ten days later, they did the same thing themselves. They're two-faced.
  
• Okan doesn't want foreign refs because he knows how games are refereed in Europe. Ask Okan who his closest referee friend is.
  
• They cheated in Morutan and Bakambu transfers. They sign players for a low salary and give them more money through "sponsorships". And they declare transfer fees lowehigher as it benefits them.
  
• Eyupspor, Pendikspor, and Galatasaray have a coalition.
  
• Their ex-players deliberately perform badly against them.
  
• They told everyone that Zaniolo chose them even though Fener offered more money. An independent investigation has revealed that they offered him more than us through bonuses.
  
• Fener players were shown 15 yellow cards in the last 4 games, GS players were shown 4. They're clearly being backed, as also seen in the Icardi situation, and the fact that they postponed the games when Halil Umut Meler got punched in the face instead of sliding all the games by a week, which created an advantage for GS.
  
• Abdulkadir Bitigen admitted in a public meeting that one of his penalty decisions in favor of GS was incorrect. How can you VAR a penalty position and still make the wrong call?
  
• They messed up the Super Cup organization and tried to blame it on Fener.
  
• There was government involvement in Penguin becoming the GS president for the 3rd time.
  
• Penguin wanted to meet with me in private through one of our mutual friends. He thinks there are plots against him within GS, that TFF president enjoys and benefits from the FB - GS fight, and that we should find a solution together. But then in public he'll say all kinds of things about me.
  
• The game we're playing here is not football. We should be stronger than ever as an organization and defend our team together.
  
• We're not making any progress with the "28 championships" situation. It's been with TFF for 3 years now with no progress.
  

Whats your opinion on this?

That Wilson trade is looking really bad, they can't cut him because they don't want to eat 85 Million Dollars.
Also fuck Sean Payton. That dude is cocky and deserves his cheating ass exposed
I have confidence in Kwesi and KOC to turn this team around next year and in 2025. This might be cope but at least we're competitive and can hold our own sometimes.
I hope to god that this decade we will have a Franchise QB and a D Line worth a Damn. I honestly do not care about anything else. If lose fine, if we win fine. But we really need to build in the Trench and have a Williams Wall Type Beat again.

Hello Maple Story community!
We would like to introduce an upcoming custom v92 server named Astraea with 4th job KOCs, custom skills, and other regional content.
We are a team of highly competent developers aiming to create a server that everyone can enjoy with a fresh new start of the pre-BB game that we have come to love.
With our knowledge of the client and overall game, we are very confident we can introduce a great v92. We are at the early stages and have made great progress so far behind closed doors and we are hoping a closed alpha would really speed up production.
Astraea is looking for around 40-50 dedicated testers to help with Closed Alpha to do the following:

• All PQs tested
• All jobs tested (includes Adventurers, KoCs, Evan, Aran, Dual Blade)
• All bosses tested
• All quests tested
• Cash shop tested
• Legion tested
• Cubing and potentials tested
• Basic functionality of the game completely tested

Things that alpha testers will have so far with our custom client:

• Widget manager introduced, font manager and in-game client modifications (HD res) are only available at the moment
• Tubi

Things to look forward to:

• Massive amount of QoL edits such as all classes with FJ and more
• Custom EXP table
• Custom skills for all available classes, 4th Job KoC
• Custom PQs
• Very strong anti-cheat
• Legion levelling that will give stats
• Fishing
• HD Maps, customized maps and drops for balanced farming, new regional areas
• Account wide buddy system
• Account wide Codex and achievement system
• Custom maker
• Account wide Decent Skills, & more

We want to thank everyone who is showing interest, and to those especially who are interested in helping us as Closed Alpha testers to start this journey.
You will find our links below:

1. Join the main Discord
   
2. Instructions on how to apply for Stage 1: Closed Alpha Tester Applications
   

Thank you very much. We hope to connect with you soon.

My skyrim which only has the Immersive & Pure modpack is not producing any player sounds such as weapon sheathing, footsteps, grunts, etc. Would appreciate solutions.
Modlist (sorry for the crude copy and paste, but they are all just the modpack's mods):
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Albums

Green Day - Nimrod (25th Anniversary Edition)
Alex Melton - Southern Charm
Emarosa - Sting
Fucked Up - One Day
Bad Bad Hats - It Hurts (10th Anniversary Edition)
Elliott Green - Everything I Lack
Wolf Culture - Live at The Ranch
Dude Safari - YUSSUS
Total Downer - Caretaker
Widows Gold - Love Drops
Infinite Vacation - HEAVEN IS THE LIGHT IN YR EYES
XL LIFE - The Boogie Down South
triton. - Sundown in Oaktown
Aryia - Viral (EP)
NVM - Burning Halos (EP)
Mood Swings - Cut Short (EP)
Medium Build - Health (EP)
Bedridden - Amateur Heartthrob (EP)
LoudFoxCult - Cult Classic (EP)
1990nowhere - Sunflowers in the Basement (EP)
Far West - What Are We Waiting For? (EP)
Debunk - Partisans (EP)
Salem's Corydalis - Please Keep Liking Me Forever (EP)

Singles

Fall Out Boy - Heartbreak Feels So Good
PVRIS - GODDESS
Escape the Fate - H8 MY SELF
WSTR - 3 Days Sober
Waterparks - REAL SUPER DARK
Charlotte Sands - Alright
Benjamin Gibbard (feat. Tom Howe) - Frightening Fishes
Emery - Everlong (Foo Fighters Cover)
AJJ - Disposable Everything / Dissonance
Fame on Fire - Creepin'
The XCERTS - GIMME
Runnner - runnning in place at the edge of the map
Locket - Sonic Bloom
Cheem - Mango (Glitch Gum Remix)
Hodera - Starlight
No Love For The Middle Child (feat. DE'WAYNE) - 2am
Louser - Switchbank
corduroy pants - Wasps Nest
Frat Mouse - closure
Tyler Posey - Lemon.
Fake Names - Expendables
Back On Earth - Something Real
Craig's Brother (feat. Too Bad Eugene) - Distance
The Speakeasy - Bright Side
Grandmas House - Desire
fats'e (feat. Lil Narnia & Anxiety Attacks!) - another night on the edge
Ariel View - JOAN
From Inside - Let Me In
American Nightmare - Self Check-Out
Demob Happy - Voodoo Science
Cathedral Bells (feat. Rew) - Clinging to the Ground
Overgrow - When You're Not Around
Clementine - Recall
Jason Cruz and Howl (feat. Strung Out) - Good Hands
FIELDTR!!!P - Patience
Krooked Kings - Sick of Being Young
Good Kid - First Rate Town
Shit Present - Fuck It
Bilk - Fashion
second thoughts - somebody to talk about
Dart Trees - Lazurus Of Cryville
WAIVER. - Right Here
The Royston Club - Blisters
Life in Idle - The Golden Girls Theme (Pop Punk Version)
Capsize - Smiling As I Burn
The Great Leslie - Can't Touch
Primetime Failure & Heart A Tact - Blueprint
deathcrash - Empty Heavy
Superlove - GO!
Jutes - Fingers
Tiny Kingdoms - Clouds and Chemicals
Grade 2 - Midnight Ferry
Oxymorrons - Enemy
Yours Are The Only Ears - Dreamer
Minority 905 - Bye Bye Bye (NSYNC Cover)
Shred Flintstone - i want to get high but i'm too paranoid
Cam Kahin - birds
Todd Barriage - Raining Blood (Emo Version) (Slayer Cover)
Strawberry Cough - Sad At The Mall
Real Terms - Cacophony
Stay Out (feat. Quin Manchester) - Don't Trust Your Government
Semaphore - Smother
House Parties - CAUTIOUS
Fake News - Nothing Town
Shady Fat Kats - Hard To Find
Hibernator - Moxie
Z. SMITH - xox
Love Under The Sun - DNA
Easy Beach - catbath
Clovis - Dale
The Natural Lines - A Scene That Will Never Die
Lost In Vacuum - Lost
ghost orchard - all in
Hideaway - NECK OR NOTHING
Beach Novels (feat. Caroline Wilson) - Backspace
Weird Flex - Oath Breaker
Tweens - Cold Shoulder
Breezy Supreme - Better Off Alone
Cosmic Kitten - All the World
otom - Howl
Magic Ghrelin - My Life Is Bad
Bodywash - Massif Central
Manic. - The Dropout Anthem
ivsrevenge - SHADOW FRIENDS
roachspliff (feat. Dear Me) - tshirt song
Return Address - Departures
Pale Shade - Labyrinth
High. - Bomber
Perlee - Lampshade
5606 - Parachutes
Cowboy Cold - Dog/Ceiling Fan
Ghost Love - Mourners Disco
Digikitty - Fluorescent Shallow Breath

Other

Indie/Pop/Rap
Albums
Sam Smith - Gloria
Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors
Cheat Codes - One Night in Nashville
Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.
Popcaan - Great Is He
Aya Nakamura - DNK
SG Lewis - AudioLust & HigherLove
Quinn XCII - The People's Champ
Elle King - Come Get Your Wife
khai dreams - ABSOLUTE HEARTBREAK
Samia - Honey
The Arcs - Electrophonic Chronic
Miniature Tigers - Miniature Tigers
Pony Bradshaw - North Georgia Rounder
Hammock - Love in the Void
King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust
JW Francis - Dream House
Prentiss - i tried
Swansea Skag - Sun Tea
Don't Stop or We'll Die - Signature Please
Complete Mountain Almanac - Complete Mountain Almanac
Meg Baird - Furling
GLOSSER - DOWNER
Vistas - The Beautiful Nothing (EP)
Half Gringa - Ancestral Home (EP)
Singles
ROSALÍA - LLYLM
The Kid LAROI - Love Again
Stephen Sanchez - Evangeline
P!nk - TRUSTFALL
Skrillex (with Bladee) - Real Spring
Gorillaz (feat. Adeleye Omotayo) - Silent Running
Daniel Caesar - Do You Like Me?
Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her
Zach Bryan (feat. Maggie Rogers) - Dawns
Luke Combs - Growin' Up and Gettin' Old
Rae Sremmurd - Sucka Or Sum
Rita Ora - You Only Love Me
Kimbra (feat. Ryan Lott) - foolish thinking
Ruel - MUST BE NICE
Cordae (feat. Anderson .Paak) - Two Tens
Cole Swindell - Drinkaby
EST Gee - IF I STOP NOW
Bas - Diamonds
Alexander 23 - How To Drive
KSI (feat. Oliver Tree) - Voices
Tyler Hubbard - Tyler Hubbard
Maisie Peters - Body Better
Chlöe - Pray It Away
The Shins - Australia (Peter Bjorn and John Remix)
charlieonnafriday - That's What I Get
Chri$tian Gate$ - Never with You Again
Aly & AJ - Baby Lay Your Head Down
Rhye - A Quiet Voice
slowthai - Selfish
Dave Matthews Band - Madman's Eyes
midwxst (with Denzel Curry) - Tally
Breathe Carolina (with ManyFew) - Dancing In The Dark (Radio Edit)
Call Me Karizma (feat. AViVA) - Down
DREAMERS (feat. IRONTOM) - Don't Go Dark
HARBOUR - I've Only Started Running
Layto - War
sombr - weak
Young Rising Sons - La La Lonely
joan - nervous
quinnie - flounder
JOSEPH - Nervous System
The Chain Gang Of 1974 - Highwire Days
Michigander - Superglue
JR JR (feat. Yoke Lore) - More of Your Love
Blondshell - Joiner
93FEETOFSMOKE - ain't talkin bout shit 2
Sans Soucis - Merchants
TAELA - Not My Problem
Yelle - Top Fan
Matthew Hall - Inconvenient
Lil Xtra - Parties
Honeywhip - Kaleidoscoping
Daisy Jones & The Six - Regret Me
deem spencer (feat. DaVionne) - 27
Max Volante - Waking Up 2 A Heartbreak
Bestfriend - Anxious People
PACKS - 4th of July
Teenage Joans - Terrible (Montgomery Remix)
BAYBE - Dinner For One
Gabby's World - Sank
GLU (feat. Phantogram) - MY DEMONS
Free Range - Growing Away
Lady Moon - Wild Geese
MAITA - Honey, Have I Lost It All? (Acoustic)
Growing Pains - Memory from Last Year
Magic Gardening Club - Far Gone
Pearla - Unglow The
Carol - Your Eyes Say
Tim Buds - arcadia
Rich Poverty (feat. Arild Aas) - A.I Love You
Big Dumb Baby - Jenny's Place
Daydream Review - Have You Found What You're Looking For?
Bittersweethearts - Run From You
Rock
Albums
Uriah Heap - Chaos & Colour
Steve Vai - Vai/Gash
White Reaper - Asking For A Ride
Bass Drum of Death - Say I Won't
The Inspector Cluzo - HORIZON
...And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Grief Symposium - ...In The Absence Of Light
Oozing Wound - Oozing Wound
Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar
Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen
Anchor Lane - Call This a Reality?
Love Gang - Meanstreak
Malleus - The Fires of Heaven
Holy Popes - Holy Popes
Jockey - Bleak And Colorful
Superterrestrial - The Fathomless Decay
Enslaved - Forest Dweller (EP)
Homewrecker & the Bedwetters - Undressing (EP)
Ladybird - Ladybird (EP)
Neurova - Self Titled (EP)
//LESS - Social Disappointment (EP)
Vaughanstrosity - Memes And Dreams (EP)
Heaven's Gate - Heaven's Gate (EP)
Singles
Papa Roach (feat. Beartooth) - Cut The Line
Ghost (feat. Joe Elliott) - Spillways
MoonDeity (feat. Scarlxrd) - DXN'T LXSE
Motörhead - Greedy Bastards
Atreyu - Drowning
Dope - Dive
Avatar (with Lzzy Hale) - Violence No Matter What
August Burns Red - Backfire
Nomy - Burning down
Lordi - Lucyfer Prime Evil
The Exies - Spirits High
Mudhoney - Almost Everything
First to Eleven - The Red (Chevelle Cover)
Angelmaker - Knee Deep
Savage Hands - Angel Dust
Halflives - everybody knows it
Deathstars - This Is
GHØSTKID - HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE
Subway To Sally - Leinen los
Royal Bliss - Full Moon Rising
Alexis Munroe - Burn
Andromida - Judgement II
Unearth - The Wretched: The Ruinous
From Fall to Spring - DRAW THE LINE
Decyfer Down - Cycles
Enterprise Earth - The World Without Us
The Man Who - Lose My Mind
Ne Obliviscaris - Graal
Awake At Last - Divine Intervention
Forever Still - Can't Begin To Explain
Archetypes Collide - What If I Fall
Patrick Wolf - Nowhere Game
The Last Internationale - Running for a Dream
September Mourning (feat. Black Dave) - Wake the Dead
Viscera - Rats with Wings
The Answer - Livin' On The Line
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Ultimate Hammer
Main-De-Gloire - W.a.R.
bodyimage (feat. Smrtdeath) - break my fucking sp*ne
Tribulation - Axis Mundi
Classic Jack - Black Crown
Storm Orchestra - Suspect
Allt - Emanate
Writing The Future - Sk1nD3ad
Heruin - BAD
Rotten Sound - Suburban Blues
The Weight of Atlas - Got the Life
Lions At The Gate - The Ledge
Pollyanna - Judas (Lady Gaga Cover)
DEAR MOTHER (feat. Marcela Bovio) - Heart
The Intersphere - Bulletproof
Set for Tomorrow - Vile Minds
Diamonds to Dust - Northern Fires
BLACKGOLD - Boogeyman
A Light Divided - Inhale / Exhale
Marina - The Hatemonger
Aara - Emphase der Seelenpein
FiveByFive - All Through the Night
Bitter Bliss (feat. Emmure) - Ghost
Straight Shot Home - Borrowed Time
fromjoy (feat. PeelingFlesh) - docility
COLDSTATE - Web of Lies
HEAVENSGATE - GINSICK
TEMPT - We Will Rock You
Samsara - Narcissist
Plagues - Pledge
Swollen Teeth - Swollen Teeth
Blueshift - Faint Light
Tuys - Look Alive
Stange Vacation - Spark
Slay Squad - X
Sadist - Breathin' Cancer
The Convalescence - No Survivors
Exodia The Destroyer (feat. Tyrantula FL & Ov Ruin) - Dark Magician
Emery Heights - Riptide
In Vanity - Birdcage
Veiled (feat. Kyle Lamb) - Relinquished
When Plagues Collide - Monopoly of Violence
THE NEW DEATH CULT - Get Ready (Eukaryote's Anthem)
Åskväder - Don't Worry
Monashee - Lightbringer
Who They Fear - Catatonic
Saisei 再生 - Tsutkuyomi
HATED - N9ver Better
Dragged Out - Bastard Son
Dear Fiend - Those We Left Behind
Basic White - Never Knew
Postmortem Promises (feat. Mike Greenwood) - Soil Tongue
Fires in the Distance - Harbingers
Colosseums - Designer Antichrist
Dawn of Ouroboros - Rise from Disillusion
Demonstealer (feat. Anabelle Iratni, James Payne, & Martino Garattoni) - Monolith of Hate
Blossom - Forlorn
Glen Matlock - Head on a Stick
FRSTMRNE - ISOLATION
vianova - To Catch a Ray of Light
BRAINDEAD - Cherophobia
The Ember, The Ash - (feat. William Melsness) Venerate / Abnegate
CHAINTWIST - Feral
Living Scars - Wake Me Up
No Wukkas - Sick Stan
Vile Earth - Leech
Shoot On Sight - The End
Vilified (feat. Brian Wille) - Dreaming We're Sleeping
The Colony - Ex-Hail
Venamoris - Drowning Emotion
Xalpen - Moon-Woman
Adalia - This Means War
New Demons - Comatose
Dying By Science - Murder Cookies
Nehoda - Good News And The End Of The World Blues
Riyah - Perfect
I, Of The Storm - Cataclysm
Parting With Origin - Death Before Dishonor
Three Arm Thief - The Bridge
Typecode (feat. ghostofblu) - Bleach Bath
Everghost - Instinct
Now After Nothing - Sick Fix

In the queen of spades, the queen starts with three more people on her team, but finishes by herself. The three people that started with her, are they citizens too, just like the KoC team? When the game is over and these three people are on the player team, are they saved too and are given the opportunity to go back? Shouldn't have they died at the end of the game? Have they found a way to cheat the whole system?
I know this is a game only from the Netflix series and that it doesn't appear on the manga but anyway, I thought it was strange.

For once, I'm not building on anyone else's idea. This one is all mine. But even though I'll be walking you through a cinematic adventure of how this game would play out (with a special solution for each player who specializes in a certain suit), I've got a lot of commentary on the storyline behind it, which is why this is as long as it is. :)
(My KoH idea and QoD idea are here for later.)

Game: Water Weight
Duration: Until the game is cleared
Venue: Pool
Players: 20
The Rules:

• Players will have ten minutes to find and fill any vessel with pool water
  
• Players must lift their vessel at least once. Pool water must be in the vessel for this lift to be scored
  
• Players are forbidden from changing their vessel
  
• Players are forbidden from refilling their vessel
  
• Players are forbidden from sabotaging other players
  
• GAME CLEAR for the player who lifts the heaviest vessel
  
• GAME OVER if a player cannot lift their vessel at least once
  

= THE CITIZEN

There are two narrative concepts I want to get across.

The first is about the Jack of Spades themselves: the show was hit or miss about demonstrating who each citizen truly was in how they played their game, but I want the JoS - and what they value - to be crystal clear. Not to rip on the show! But as much as I learned about the KoD, QoH, KoC and a bit of the KoS right at the end, I didn't 'get' who the QoS and JoH were beyond, "Hey cool, that's a cool game, I like that game."

This JoS will come with a bad case of 'work smart, not hard' and massive confidence in their abilities. They're a smug, smart-ass jock who built a career on preaching self-made entrepreneur and shallow gym bro philosophy. It borrows from the worst traits of the QoS and KoS to keep it all in the Spades family: we'll get that kinda high-school bully vibe from the QoS, which was cool for her character, and the self-assured righteousness of the KoS, who was acting out of desperation and as a last resort but was convinced that his way was the only way to do things. No asking any of the other citizens for ideas, just pew-pew-pew ha-ha you're dead, which is the best thing the Spades could've asked for.

In short, meet your rich, ripped, Hustle Culture Twitch Streamer who starts every morning stream with twenty minutes of meditation and a smoothie made with seven kinds of organic grass, and starts every afternoon stream by posting that you're poor because you've locked yourself into a poverty mindset instead of fully embracing the grind. Yes, they have a trust fund.

The second concept is about the Borderland. From what I've seen, the numeral cards seem difficult because of their rules, but the face cards get their difficulty from the citizen's underlying beliefs.

Jacks' games appear to use a black-and-white system: you either exemplify the suit's values even better than the Jacks do and figure out the 'true' strategy for the game, or you don't and you die.

Queens' games (from the limited info we have) seem like you're expected to know the game's strategy, but won't expect the specially crafted curveballs made for a particular type of player (like "Hey, if I win, you get to stay here forever. Sweet, now you're all on my side, you cowards :)").

Kings will straight up tell you every single rule of the game ("I'm gonna shoot you in the face"), telegraph what's coming after you ("Me shooting you in the face"), but be so good at playing anyway that it's only to give you a sporting chance ("I have a blimp following me. My guns are very loud. I don't even know how I'm still finding survivors lol").

All that to say, here's our Jack of Spades:

• Very strong
  
• Very punchable
  
• Thinks you're stupid
  
• Will berate you to your face for an hour, then say "namaste" as he leaves to be the bigger man
  
• "There are two kinds of people in this world..."
  
• Can, unfortunately, back up a lot of what he says
  
• Will not attribute that to anything other than 'hard work and persistence'
  
• Definitely should
  
• Does not wear sleeves so everyone can see his sick arm tat
  
• Congratulations, everyone: this is your tourist-who-happened-to-be-in-Tokyo-when-the-meteor-hit
  

Okay, great! :) I think that sets our scene.

= THE GAME

(sorry, i just lost, my bad, okay continue with the rest of this now)

Nineteen players arrive at the pool of an indoor community centre, where the JoS is already waiting. He'll be the twentieth player in this game, but on equal footing with everyone else.

The pool is full and clean. Doors throughout the building are unlocked, including long-abandoned cafeterias (whatever you call that little indoor food spot that sells those hotdogs) and an attached gym. For all intents and purposes, there are no tricks or traps in this building. Violence isn't banned but most of it will probably run up against the 'no sabotage' rule, and trying to kill your competition in the ten minutes where everyone's alone and scattered away from the pool is a real "Save it for the QoS, bucko."

= Phase One - Spot

At the start of the game, the nineteen other players are expecting to sprint and find something they can fill with water, lift, and have it outweigh what anyone else does. People lose time struggling with something that's already heavy (like a barbell plate with grooves that could 'technically' be filled with water) or bulky items that could otherwise carry a lot of water (like a janitor sink that they might be able to bash loose and then plug up - or a mop bucket).

The JoS will not do this.

Phase One's time limit was picked deliberately. It's to prevent the players from getting too much time to think. Phase Two was to make sure they couldn't stop thinking about the poor choice they'd made in that limited amount of time. At the very least, if someone does get too clever about it, that can still always backfire. There shouldn't be enough time to find a loophole around the vessels and make sure it doesn't fail on some Gotcha! technicality.

The JoS is also committed to his one strategy. If this game had to be replayed a hundred times, he'd do the same thing in all of them:

• Wait for everyone to sprint out of the room
• Veeeeery casually (while still respecting the ten minute limit) make it to the food vendor spot
• Grab a plastic cup
• Fill it up at a fountain
• Walk on back to the pool and enjoy this novel treat of non-organic fountain water
• Wait for everyone to spint back with their selection and frantically plunge their vessels into the pool to fill it
• Get right into the last twenty seconds of Phase One's ten minutes
• Dump out the rest of the drink and fill it with water from the pool
• "Namaste"

= Phase Two - Lift

The players will have two tasks set out for them: lift up your vessel with the water in it, and ignore whatever the JoS is doing.

Some players will have done an excellent job at getting a big tub plugged up and into the pool, and have to spend the rest of the game trying to lift it out - without tipping it - after it sinks directly to the bottom.

Other players will get their vessel out of the pool, but discover some sort of leak and need to lift it up as soon as they can. Mixed results for these folks, since we all know a full rep isn't done until you've gone up and down. Heavy on the way up isn't going to score too high when half - or all - the water is gone before your arms come back to your sides.

Some clever folks will realize they can technically help each other. Not only will this be allowed, but the JoS will encourage them. After all, they're the ones risking that whole 'don't sabotage' rule. So they take turns, trying to play it as a Clubs game, kindly ignoring how only one player will be able to survive.

And of course there'll be the disqualifications. Somebody went too hard and tipped theirs over before they could get it up. This one won't get the same generosity: you can help others with their lift, sure, but the lift has to be a complete rep. If there's no water left, that's it. The 'no refill' rule and 'no changing your vessel' will handle everything else.

As for the JoS?

Well.

I like to imagine a greater arbitrator in the Borderland - y'know, whovever's shooting those lasers - will have the final say in the enforcement of fair play, but the definition of 'fairness' in any game is set at what that citizen declares ahead of time. The JoS (remember: he thinks you're stupid) slipped a li'l wiggle room into one of the rules to tip things completely in his favour.

At this point, there's no more time limit. Everyone gets their turn and they can technically re-lift their vessel as many times as they want... but the risk is that each time they do, more water will be spilled and the vessel will weigh less. The game only ends after the heaviest vessel is lifted, and if they can't figure out how to make their vessel heavier, there's not much of a point.

And the JoS is still going with his 'lift'. He's a guru with a regular audience for daily 24-hour pre-recorded charity streams; of course he'd be back in his element on giving commentary, life advice, and gratitude for the grind while he draws this out, holding his cup of water.

:P Some of you might already know what the JoS is up to.

"People talk about strength as if it's all in the body," he'll be expounding at his thirty-minute mark (folks are getting uncomfortable waiting), "but you know what else is in your body?" Doesn't wait for an answer. "Your mind. Your spirit. Your essence. Back when Native Americans used to exist, they would say true strength came from within. That's why the pollutants of the world - poverty, hate, laziness, fear - would leave them feeling weak, even if they were the strongest warrior in their kingdom. And that's why the mightiest of them didn't only train their bodies. They trained their soul to get out of that loser mindset holding them back."

Voices carry over water, btw, so everyone's gettin' this at full volume

"You all came here today with answers for 'heavy' -" fuck he's still going "- but when I look around, I only see things that happen to weigh a lot. I see what society has told us to want, but society never wanted us to succeed. So I ask you: to everyone who brought something that 'weighs a lot', what's heavier? Your buckets and your weights and your broken sinks, or my simple plastic cup of water?"

There's gonna be one person who, at that moment, accidentally punctates the JoS' sentence by crumpling under the weight of an exercise ball that they'd filled up like a water balloon, agonizingly watching as it explodes around them on impact. The JoS will be very pleased by this.

"Exactly, chat," he'll say with his arm outstretched, and that very special cup of water securely in his hand. "That depends on how long I hold it." And for that person who crumpled - "Disqualified."

= Sizing Up the Competition

As much as I love the thought of this guy winning 'cause it would be hilarious, I do want a clear way of defeating him. Obviously there isn't a No Deaths option available, and there isn't a twist to get more than one person to survive either. The thing about dumb, shallow rules being defined by a person like this is that they leave very selective places open for interpretation.

Case in point:

JoS: "'Heavy'? Heaviness isn't absolute. Heaviness is a construct. Heaviness is a choice. You're choosing to believe it's something that gets measured by 'science' and 'gravity' - but that's that loser mindset again. The strongest person in the world isn't the guy who lifts up the biggest mountain or takes home the biggest cheque. It's the mother who doesn't eat so her kids can have dinner. It's the dad who quits his job to start investing like the pros and take home an even bigger cheque. It's like me and this cup of water, making it to the end, surviving because we know what it takes. We used to imagine so much for ourselves as kids, but for some of you? It's too late. You already choked."

Player 1: "... okay but if it's - like, perspective-based, doesn't that mean we could lift two identical objects with water and I'd win because I don't exercise as much as you, so it'd automatically be heavier for me?"

JoS: "That's a great question, nerd, but kind of a waste of my time to ask it. 'Cause I don't see you with a cup of water."

Player 2: "Hey, I'm super sad, and I drank some pool water by mistake, so doesn't that make me my own vessel who's super heavy?"

JoS: "I don't normally respond to questions like that, ones that get asked in bad faith by haters and trolls, so I'll instead answer your question with another question: does that mean you're changing your vessel?"

Player 2: "... No?"

JoS: "Then no."

This is a Spades game. Trying to Diamonds your way through it is only going to work if you have someone willing to listen to your bullshit. You can't 'well, actually' your way out of running super-fast from a collapsing stadium, and you can't 'what if' your way out of not changing your vessel, not refilling it, and not sabotaging other players. Let the record show that the JoS only ever gave his opinions, not financial advice.

= The Spades Solution ♠️

Brute force it is.

The 'how heavy is a glass of water' story is awkwardly popular among motivational speakers. It's a metaphor for stress: "If I have a big problem, that'll stress me out. But if I have a little problem that I won't let go of, and if I let it eat me alive, that'll eventually cause me more stress than that big problem ever could. The stress depends on how long I hold onto it, like how a little cup of water can get wildly heavy if I hold it up for an entire day."
Yes, it's the Boomer 'loser mindset'. "Just put down the glass lol"

What that story doesn't touch on is how much 'heavier' the glass of water would 'be' if you were, for example, holding it while your arms were already, purposely exhausted. The JoS is trying to go from 0 to 100 by starting while he's fresh, but the players can catch up or even pull ahead by giving themselves a tire-myself-out headstart and then going until their vessel becomes the heaviest thing they've ever held. And then lifting that. And then winning because theirs was therefore the heaviest.

Now - if you were a Diamonds specialist, your first thought would probably be, "wtf that doesn't make sense. We can't even measure that. Why not give us points based on whimsy and birthdays too then?"

If you were a Hearts specialist, you might be thinking, "this is just like that 'surprise, it's two buttons' crap they pulled in Tag. They might as well be having us play 'here, eat this brick, you lose if you die' smh"

And if you were a Clubs specialist, there's a pretty good chance you thought, "Well I already know there's only one person making it out alive so screw all of you anyway"

But good news!

Put those valid points aside.

If you're a Spades specialist - and if you're not but you're in this game, you'd better start loving Spades real quick - you, and only you, have the true and objectively correct opinion:

"Ohhhhhhhhhh. Okay. That's so stupid, wtf, but okay, yeah, I get it. Stupid. Why can't we ever have a normal game like 'run through this mystery maze while something that sounds suspiciously like one of the tigers we didn't kill during that numbered Spades game where we straight-up had to kill a bunch of tigers and it comes back for its revenge by chasing us'? Or eat a brick or something, damn idk - but okay ig, let's do it"

(hell ya spades)

If, by some miracle, you played this game by copying everything the JoS did and had an identical cup of pool water, you've got Phase Two laid out in front of you: instead of lifting the vessel with the most weight, like this game seemed to have been about, the goal is now clearly to hold it up for longer than the JoS can.

This is some Two of Spades dangling-off-that-balcony stuff; pure endurance on an equal battle ground, and nothing else. Keep your eyes on your own prize so you don't get accused of sabotage somehow, and hold it the same way as the JoS so you aren't accused of holding it differently/more easily/less 'heavily'. Endure. Win. Game clear.

If, however, you did not pick the same thing as the JoS, then first, congratulations on being a normal human being (read: not a Diamond), and second, you better hope you've still got some water in whatever it was you picked as your vessel.

If you don't and you haven't lifted anything yet, the game would've already stopped here for you. The rules say any vessels you lift have to have water in them to count. Disqualified.

If you don't but you already lifted your vessel at least once, that's probably it. You just have to sit around hope that somehow the JoS slips on nothing and everyone else breaks their necks too. The odds of retroactively making your vessel 'heavier' are fighting the twin problems of 'no sabotage' and 'no changing vessels', after all.

Should recontextualization count, in this case, as breaking the 'changing your vessel' rule? Perhaps! Maybe! The JoS might certainly say so! Would explaining why it shouldn't count as changing your vessel, in and of itself, count as sabotaging the JoS in some way? Absolutely 100%, blocked and reported, this is a great way to thin those Hearts players out. (I'm just joking, the Hearts will be fine, this will absolutely get more Diamonds.)

If you are lucky enough to still have water in your vessel, allowing you to lift it up again to try and get a higher score, start doing push-ups. Do squats. There's no time limit. This place has a gym - and a pool! - and players aren't allowed to commit sabotage. While the Clubs and Hearts are forming their crisis-fuelled peace treaties and the Diamonds are looking up the exact definitions of 'refill', 'change', and 'commit' (lol lasered another one), you - as the Spades player - notice the JoS hasn't put their cup down yet.

It's the bare reveal of his "work smart, not hard" mantra, where stretching the meaning of the GAME CLEAR condition to cheat has let him watch what everyone else does (maybe slipping on water, dropping their vessels, something else that disqualifies them) before making his own move. Then, by having a vessel with some bullshit 'heaviness' he can change on the fly - holding it until it's technically 'heavier' than whatever the 'heaviest' vessel is - he gets to play with perfect information over everyone else, leaving little up to chance and risking even less.

The others will catch on to your plan, but they won't understand the Spades-y spirit of it. They're going to tire themselves out as much as they're able to, lift their now-much heavier vessel, then see if that changes anything in the JoS' strategy. You, being Spades, don't really care too much about how that's giving the JoS more chances for more players to be disqualified or run out of water by spilling their vessel over repeated attempts at doing the bare minimum.

Some are going to wait the JoS out and see how far the guy's gonna go until he finally completes his rep with this cup of water. You, being a Spades, don't super-duper care about that either. It's gonna take forever, probably, and while they're waiting, the JoS is locking his position in as #1 because his arm is getting evermore tired while they stare at him, and he only has to go a bit farther than the 'heaviest' complete rep by someone else to win. So you could guess where he was gonna stop if you had to. It's like being the last to bid on the Price Is Right - sure, the JoS don't know the exact amount to bid, but all he's got to do is beat the other bids and now he can go exactly one dollar higher.

The JoS doesn't need to kill himself.

tee-hee :3c

You're gonna almost-kill yourself. What you need to do is exhaust yourself to the point of a fatal collapse - as close as you can get to it - and then successfully lift up that vessel of yours. This will, by the game's definition, make it the heaviest vessel of all, and the only way to get it heavier is for someone to complete a rep that takes them even further past your point of near-lethal exhaustion.

He's not gonna win that by holding out one arm with a cup.
And he has very little weight from the cup itself to help him establish any of its heaviness (unlike you, who grabbed something real weighty that you can put right down as soon as you're done lifting it). That means it's all up to how much sheer exhaustion he's enduring, and to win, it's gotta be a little more than you put in.

His cheats must've seemed watertight on paper, but here, where every strategy is written in blood, you found the hole in his armour. And you're not letting that opportunity go.

How much is a 'little more', some nerd asks? What happens if the JoS manages to complete an even heavier rep after you?

"Well," you say, lighting a metaphorical cigarette, then staring off into the infinite horizon, "I guess I'll have to try again and do better. All it'll take that time is losing some of my
W A T E R W E I G H T"

= The Clubs Solution ♣️

Step 1: jfc let the Spades do whatever they want. Their King game is some guy running around yelling "witness me! :)" - be glad this isn't some game with a thirty-second montage clip of a team cage death match or something. Or about eating a brick. It was 50/50 out of one of those.

Step 2: The JoS will eventually have to complete a rep, and someone else is going to have to stand by to beat the weight of that one. The sooner it happens, the better, because it forces the JoS to exceed the weight of the new record while having just broken the previous record, since recovering too much energy between reps makes it harder to be 'as exhausted' as needed to complete one that's heavier.

Step 3: Help anyone else break the JoS' record. Be really, really supportive about it. You don't know what counts as 'sabotage', so you don't want to encourage someone to do something they aren't already gearing up to do, but once they've stated their intentions, you should be good to go

Step 4: Easy way to 'artificially' make someone's rep harder without messing with any of the vessels (i.e. without stacking vessels on top of each other to add weight, which might be interpreted as changing or refilling them): whoever's on your team and lifting their own vessel, hop on their back. Hop off as soon as they're done so they have as much of a chance as possible to recover from having that weight removed, just in case the JoS beats this record too and you need someone to beat his rep

Step 5: Your first priority is taking out that JoS. He's the one who keeps setting the bar slightly higher than everyone else. Your second priority is whoever beats the JoS. You're going to repeat Step 3 and 4 until the number of players is finally down to someone you can beat

Step 6: Best-case scenario is always that someone collapses and dies without finishing their rep. Second-best is that someone panics and murders the JoS, which would kill whoever stabs him, but might successfully kill the JoS off. That might mean the game immediately ends because there's no more JoS to run the game again, or it might fail because a laser takes that player out before they get too close to the JoS

Step 7: Conserve all other energy since you might need it to lift something heavy

Step 8: If someone asks for tips on how to lift something heavier, genuinely support them by suggesting they stab themselves, which would fill them with adrenaline and a big ol' case of the Bleeding Out and Might Die afterwards

Step 9: Any game can be a team game 👍

= The Diamonds Solution ♦️

Fuck Spades fr, brick-ass eating mfrs, next game better be a normal goddamn round of chess istg

= The Hearts Solution ♥️

You did not enter this game.

I just wrote this post the other day, which was building on Karolmo's concept for the Queen of Diamonds from a year ago. Their other idea that tickled me was their concept for the King of Hearts, which I think I loved even more than their excellent QoD game. So here's my take on their take for the KoH. :)
(And we can always say it was the previous KoH's game, since we saw in s2 that that KoH had something involving monster sounds and running around a concrete maze. :) This is different.)
King of Hearts
Karolmo's concept was a 20-person game where players would guess who the KoH was. Each player had a computer with all the players listed, and if they used that to choose correctly, the KoH would be killed and all remaining players would clear the game. If they chose incorrectly, then whoever guessed wrong and whoever was guessed would both be lasered, and the game would continue with two fewer people.
I'm proposing this:

• Game: Heavy Is the Head
• Venue: a big mall with 20 accessible shops spread out across it (all other shops are dark or boarded up)
• Player Limit: exactly 20 players or all remaining inhabitants of the Borderland (in case fewer than 20 people are still alive)
• Time Limit: 120 minutes

Rules:

• At the start of the game, all players will be assigned to a shop, which includes that shop's cash register. The game will begin once all players are at their cash register and all rules have been announced.
• Players will need to identify the King of Hearts. Four clues will be provided at the following times: 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, and 110 minutes into the game.
• Players must use their register to vote for the King of Hearts. The King of Hearts may use their register to vote for any player.
• Players can only vote once. The King of Hearts has unlimited votes.
• Votes will be tallied at the end of the game.
• Only the King of Hearts can vote.
• GAME CLEAR if all players vote for the King of Hearts according to the rules.
• GAME CLEAR if the King of Hearts survives.
• GAME OVER if both CLEAR conditions are met.
• GAME OVER for any player who receives a vote according to the rules.

First thing's first: this is a King of Hearts game. You don't get points for guessing there's a trick - by now, that should be assumed, and the rules themselves will spell it out: something's fishy.
Second, narratively, although these rules are announced to all players from overhead, there'll be a silent Y/N prompt appearing on the register (it's just a register for the aesthetic; Karolmo said 'computer' originally) to ask the player a question: "Would you like to be the King of Hearts?"
In my original comment on Karolmo's post, everyone who said 'no' would've been assigned the KoH role anyway. It was my tie-in to a "Those who seek power are the least deserving of it" idea. Now I want to fully lean into the "heavy is the head that wears the crown" theme, so if you want to be the KoH, have at it. By selecting 'yes', the player will receive a message saying, "You are the King of Hearts!" This will disappear after ten seconds. The question will remain on the screen, but their answer will be cleared. Same for selecting 'no', except the message says, "You are not the King of Hearts!"
What this does is inject paranoia and the benefit of the doubt into the game. That's key, because every Hearts game we've had so far relied on chipping away at trust in a 'guilty until proven innocent' direction. The Seven of Hearts kept an adversarial nature the entire time, even if the players' motivations behind it flipped at the end. The Ten of Hearts only had people trusting each other again when the screams of everybody being murdered had finally thinned out. More than the Jack of Hearts, though, which gave clear proof of everyone betraying everybody else, the KoH game isn't giving anything beyond blind faith in each other to work with. (QoH was kinda doing her own thing, but where that was about faith in yourself, this one is faith in others. That's ostensibly harder for the kind of people who'd feel prepared to take this challenge on.)
More importantly, it's a head game within a head game. The other Kings seemed to prey on people's confidence towards the suit: KoD had folks overthink their logic into choice paralysis, KoS had one-man armies being picked off until egos got put aside to form a team, and KoC had people's unwavering trust in their team prevent them from making any strategic sacrifices. This is the same thing. For folks coming in expecting a twist and a cleverly hidden No Deaths solution (as per 'every' Hearts challenge), they instead get:

• An upfront understanding that everyone was offered a chance to become the KoH
• The potential for the real KoH to be hiding among them like the JoH was
• The equal potential for there to be no KoH at all (as in, no citizen KoH hiding somewhere)
• An obvious No Deaths solution, which is for everyone to refuse the offer, have no one be the KoH, and therefore have no one needing to vote, which is great, because that respects the 'only the KoH can vote' rule needed to meet the first CLEAR condition
• An obvious With Deaths solution of just being the KoH and killing everyone else to make sure you win through the second CLEAR condition
• An implied twist that being the KoH is actually the safest role to be, because if no one else's votes count and the KoH can vote as many times as they want, they just have to say 'yes' and wait out the clock. They may not even have to keep a low profile about it, because if they're the only ones with a vote, and if the CLEAR condition specifically says players have to vote for the KoH, then killing the KoH won't do any logical good. All of that could lead to frank, open and honest conversations that bring everyone on board to meet one or the other CLEAR condition
• The implied re-twist that being the KoH is still the riskiest role, because they have no way of knowing if players can vote on behalf of a corpse, if players can change anybody else's votes, if somebody can straight-up vote on the KoH's behalf, if multiple KoHs will independently decide to kill everyone else and lead them to an All Deaths failure, or if there actually can be multiple KoHs in the first place
• The possibility that everyone didn't get that choice to be the KoH after all, because maybe the question was supposed to go one-by-one through the players and then stop at the first person who said 'yes' to it
• The growing realization that if there's any potential for someone to be the KoH, it'll be easier to force a confession than it will be to trust that nobody took the deal
• The concrete realization that are are four clues to be announced, which are wildcards until then and might tear apart any decision they reach
• The painful acknowledgement that they do not know what the other players will actually do, logic be damned. What if someone smashes in a cash register or goes on a murder spree so not every player can vote? What if someone just screws up by accident or loses their mind? What if someone just mouths off or has a grudge from a different game and wants to use this as their chance to get revenge? What if someone's just stupid?

Because it's a Hearts game. You're battling trust against betrayal by other players. That's the reason the game is two hours long: it's a luxurious amount of time to overthink a simple set of instructions: "Follow the rules to clear the game, unless the KoH is still alive, in which case you need to break at least one rule. But if the KoH isn't alive, don't break any, okay? But if they are, you have to. Unless they aren't. Then don't. okay i love you"
By comparison, the Seven/Ten/Jack of Hearts all gave that answer away: yes, there is a wolf/witch/Jack you need to hunt down. We're confirming it for you." With the KoH being a giant [insert shrug emoji], the first No Deaths solution that players will see might as well not exist for all the actual good it's going to do them.
The narrative of this game would follow half of the players' confidence unraveling. Some would be convinced about a plan, others would only see room for chaos. Some would overthink every word of the rules, some would insist it's obnoxiously straightforward. Some would be convinced they could work together, and others would swear there's a traitor among them somewhere out to shatter that option.
The other half would be as confident as they were when they walked in: pacifist runs are for suckers, let's kill us a goddamn king.
It'd get worse in the lead-up to the first clue. Camps would form between 'Team Multiple KoH' and 'Team There Is Only One KoH', as well as 'KoH might be transferable title' and 'KoH is a pre-defined person and that choice was only there to throw us off the scent'. That idea about others being able to vote on your behalf by using your register would lead to a flurry of, "Well, maybe we all vote for the KoH using the KoH's register" that spirals into "Then we have to hunt the KoH down to know whose register it is" and "Would that still count as the player voting or as the KoH voting," and then launch into new discussions about whether having a vote cast at all is proof that someone is the KoH or not.
When the clues finally appear, they're as helpful as you'd expect. An information board at the centre of the mall and banners throughout the halls will be lighting up to reveal the hints:

• At 30 minutes, it gives the number of players that said yes to being the KoH. This confirms that the question was asked, and might screw over anyone who denied seeing it on their register.
• At 60 minutes, it lists the names of players in the order of how fast they were in responding to the question. Here, some folks who truly never saw it may be vindicated, but others at the top of the list who were quick to say 'no' will have to figure out how to separate themselves from those who instantly said 'yes'.
• At 90 minutes, it gives the number of players that have changed their answer to KoH question. Not only will this be the first confirmation that that can be done, but oh boy, that might be the first time some people have thought to try.
• At 110 minutes (10 minutes before the end of the game), it'll give the number of votes that have been cast. It will not distinguish between player votes and KoH votes, and it will not say who has voted.

So! :)
What's the solution? The infamous, obligatory No Deaths surprise?
Lmaooooooooooooooooooo
Option 1: Nobody says 'yes' to being the KoH, no votes are cast

• Meets the first clear condition
• Fails the second clear condition
• All good here - you've survived both game over conditions :)

Option 2: At least one person says 'yes' to being the KoH, the KoH uses someone else's cash register to vote for anybody that's not the KoH

• Fails the first clear condition
• Meets the second clear condition
• All good here - fails the first game over condition as well as the second, because that's not what the rules to vote were :)

That's it.
'Meet one of the clear conditions' - that's how you win.
The first clear condition says players have to vote according to the rules. Since one of the rules is that the only one who can vote is the KoH, if there isn't a KoH, then the only 'correct' way to vote as one of the players is... inconsequential. You're not allowed to vote. You may decide to tap something into your cash register anyway, but it won't do anything. Yay - everyone has done their part. :)
There's also no KoH that exists to be able to survive, so as long as no one said 'yes' to that, they won't have to worry about the second clear condition. It doesn't apply. At worst, you could say the KoH did not survive, which means the same thing: you've blocked the fail condition that would kick in if you accidentally met both clear conditions by the end of the game.
Basically, Option 1 is "It's nap time for two hours, enjoy the break."
But it's pretty damn likely someone hit 'yes' by accident, gave in to greed, or felt pressured to go back and change their answer to 'yes' (after all, the option is still waiting there on the register). It's why this game is nice enough to offer an alternative No Deaths solution. Option 2 is "So you screwed up. Somebody said yes, or at least somebody else said 'yes' using the newly crowned KoH's register, so now we have a KoH who needs to own that responsibility by voting incorrectly."
The rules say any player can use their register to vote for the KoH, so by voting for someone who isn't the KoH, congratulations, you have failed to vote correctly. But remember: only the KoH can actually vote, so it's up to them to be one to do that. And they can use their register to vote for any player, so it's also up to the KoH to walk their ass on over to someone else's register - which, for anyone who's not the KoH, is only used to vote for the KoH (unless they are also the KoH, in which case, oh no) - and cast that rule-breaking vote.
Doing so means all players will have successfully and utterly failed to meet the first clear condition: a vote was cast, it was not for the KoH, the KoH did not use their own register to cast this vote so it doesn't count, but the KoH did cast it so it counts just enough to be wrong, so not all players voted for the KoH according to the rules, and the player who received that vote is A-OK. Since the KoH should still be alive, hooray, it's time for a Hindenburg party! :D
True to an Alice in Borderland game, it's so straightforward that it should seem ridiculous. It's "Hey, why don't we at least burn the dead girl first" simple. It's "Hey, the goal is this bus right here, the word is painted on the side" simple. It's "idk fight a bunch of tigers or something lol" simple. It's "omg i love blackjack" simple. It's saying, "Hey, do one of these two things, okay? Don't do both, but do one of them. ok i love you"
But true to a Hearts game, simple doesn't mean easy.
Getting everyone to agree to say 'no' to being the KoH is one thing. Trusting that everyone said 'no' is another. And then we ramp it up by shouting, "Hey everybody, since we don't trust each other, there's actually a second solution to this! We just need someone to freely admit they're the KoH, be sure that someone else isn't a KoH, and then have the true KoH vote to kill our volunteer non-KoH using somebody else's register! That should break the logic of this whole thing! Please don't kill the KoH while they're doing this btw, because we don't know how many KoHs there are and we might not be able to convince a second one to help if we're rude like that. I mean, unless you all want to pinkie-swear that each of us said 'no' to that question in the first place. In fact, we can go back to our registers right now and switch our answers to 'no' just to be safe, because flipping our answers to that question turned out to be something we can do. But we'll still have to use the honour system anyway, because technically anyone could sneak out of sight for a second and flip their answer right back, or they could be lying about not being a second KoH, which means we might end up accidentally voting for a KoH like the rules said to do, which'll logic ourselves back into hitting both clear conditions and therefore failing the whole game. :'("
To which someone else might more bluntly reply, "Or we could murder each other! :) I vote for murder!"
To which someone-even-more else might add, "Yeah, I'm not big on leaving it up to any of you to decide my fate either, so I'm gonna vote for that other guy's plan about the murder. Oops - I mean 'not vote', since I'm not the KoH or anything haha"
And again, that's the point: these players could have the frankest, most honest, and most strategic conversation in the world about a solution twenty times more complex... and still end up with only one survivor because the fear and paranoia crept in on them anyway. But it's the thought of someone cheating them out of being the survivor that's far more than enough to promise that nobody's making it out alive.

Just out of curiosity, is anyone running KOC on Linux?
I was able to get it to install through Steam's Proton 7.0 and Proton Easy Anti Cheat add-on. I haven't tried a match yet but I played around in the hideout and it seems to be working fine.
Just wondering if any of the Linux gurus out there have given it a shot.

Guys, if any of you have played any ranked gamemodes recently, you know what I am talking about. 90% of leaderboards is cheaters, and it is impossible to go a few minutes without queueing a cheater. Not only this, but these guys upload videos titled things like "King of the Game" and "Best in the Game" with them just blatantly autoclicking and aimassisting.
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KocYoPbzFP0&ab_channel=Meradon
This is some of the most blatant gameplay I have ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3aQFhxgSw&ab_channel=woklywo
obvious autoclicker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WaPEjY4gC8&ab_channel=sare
obvious autoclicker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6IlqOKupw&ab_channel=notDuel
blatant aimassist
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Okay why is this so common, and why don't they get banned?
There is obvious corruption in the community, and anti cheats haven't been updated in years. These cheaters being the only people on leaderboards is killing the game. This is the end of potpvp and practice.

Over the holidays, I took a deep dive into the 1988 Olympics team final. Watching the event and reading contemporaneous media accounts was eye-opening. That context changed how I looked at the Seoul Olympics and the narrative of the “stolen” bronze medal. (This is very long, so the tl;dr is: if you want to argue that the U.S. should have won that bronze medal, you have to accept Bela Karolyi’s disregard of the rules and ignore the fact that the DDR had one hand tied behind their back in team finals.)

Post-LA mediocrity: In which Greg Marsden is perhaps not the model of integrity you think he is

At 1985 Worlds, with all the Communist countries in attendance, Team USA finished in 6th place, about three full points behind the 5th place team. At every Worlds since 1962, they finished between 5th and 8th place. In the all-around final, their highest finish was 14th. One American woman qualified for one event final and finished next-to-last.
In the lead-up to 1987 Worlds, the USGF hired a neutral coach, hoping to reduce the influence of personal coaches who all had financial conflicts of interest. Bela Karolyi was part of the committee that decided to hire a neutral coach and, according to Mike Jacki at 1987 Pan Ams, nominated Greg Marsden.
After a run of six college championships in a row, Marsden probably seemed like a great choice. But coach politics got in the way. Bela was reportedly furious that Marsden didn’t select him as his assistant for 1987 Pan Ams. Marsden literally couldn’t hire Bela or any male coach as his assistant. Jacki is incorrect in the previous link when he states it was customary to have a female coach on the floor during the team final. It was actually mandated in the Code that at least one coach had to be female. This is important foreshadowing for later, when key figures in the USGF did not have a clue what the rules were.
Marsden comes off as incredibly naïve about the American team’s standing in international gymnastics. At 1987 Pan Ams, he was asked about the team’s prospects in the upcoming World Championship and cited their success at Pan Ams as proof that they were contenders for medals at Worlds.
While part of his job was hyping the team (and Marsden, if nothing else, was very good at promoting his teams), Pan Ams was not an indicator of how Team USA would stack up against the Eastern Bloc. The comparison is deeply silly. His stated goal — showing the world that “USA gymnastics is back” — suggests he thought their mediocre showing in 1985 was a fluke, when the real fluke was their success in 1984.
At 1987 Worlds, the team repeated their 1985 finish: 6th place, and about 3 full points behind the 5th place team. Once again, no American finished higher than the teens in the all-around final. As in 1985, one American qualified to a single event final and finished well out of medal contention.
This wasn’t a bad team, but they weren’t competitive internationally. Their compulsories were competent. In optionals they struggled as often as not. They had some good individual scores here and there, but even some of them are suspect. Missy Marlowe’s 9.9 on bars in optionals only makes sense as the anchor of a rotation that mostly ranged from average to disastrous. (Her bars routine in the all-around wasn’t significantly worse than her team final routine but scored a 9.75, in line with her similar performance in Seoul the next year.) They have three beam falls. Nearly every landing on floor is badly piked.
(One thing to remember for later: the springboard is pulled by a coach at this competition. The coach pulls the board to the side and gets off the podium. This entirely normal behavior is only noteworthy because of what happens the following year.)
There are flashes of excellence. A lot of potential, but not yet at a point where they were realistically in contention for medals without other teams having disasters. But things turned out to be more interesting than the scores indicated.
The story of Greg Marsden and the elite program has been told as “Marsden went to a party at Worlds and was disgusted by the rampant score trading, so he quit and never looked back.” If contemporary media accounts are to be believed, this is not what happened.
In March 1988, the American Cup broadcast had a segment on Marsden’s exit. He claimed he left because he was promised complete control of the team but found himself wrangling with personal coaches and the bureaucracy of the USGF. However, in April 1988, his story changed. In the Los Angeles Times, he told the first iteration of the score fixing story and implicated himself in the scheme.
He alleged that at ’87 Worlds, the Romanian head coach approached him about trading scores. Marsden said he spoke to others in the American delegation and they agreed to it. Ultimately the plan fell apart, as the Romanian athletes actually deserved the agreed-upon scores, while the American athletes failed to do well enough to make the agreed-upon scores plausible.
If this incident really happened, you could argue that the Romanian coach saw Marsden as an easy mark. He got insurance to balance out potential under-scoring, and he didn’t have to give anything in exchange to a team that wasn’t good enough to cheat without arousing suspicion.
Marsden’s allegations caused an uproar. Other members of the American delegation to Worlds denied everything. The FIG acknowledged that score fixing was difficult to police and told the LA Times about their efforts to curb corruption. In a third article in that paper, Marsden doubled down on his original complaints about too many cooks in the kitchen. I want to direct you to this section in particular:
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“The people running the show are not program people--one is a judge, Jackie Fie (USGF women’s international technical coordinator), and the other two are businessmen--Mike Jacki and Mike Donahue (president of the USGF),” Marsden said. “They are not coaches, and they are trying to tell the coaches how to run the program and coach the athletes. These are the people who play the politics behind the scenes.
“I don’t think these people are intentionally trying to disadvantage the athletes, I just think they don’t know what needs to be done. I think that Jacki and Donahue need to stay in the business part of it, and when it comes to program [sic], rely on the people who prepare the athletes. In fact, they have told me that they think the coaches are all jerks. My impression was that they merely tolerated us.
“The personal coaches are frustrated, and I had hoped my resigning would inspire them to stand up to those people. But their concern is if they stand up it will hurt their athletes, and their athletes won’t be chosen for things.
“These people are not . . . giving us the results we want, yet somehow they are never held accountable for those results.”
Jacki says neither he nor anyone at the USGF tells the coaches how to run their program. Interestingly, Jacki does plan to eliminate the committee that controls the women’s program decisions, and actually hire the personal coaches of the top seven athletes to make the decisions. He said this move was not precipitated by Marsden’s objections.

In other words, Marsden didn’t think either of the men knew anything about gymnastics yet thought they should stay involved, but Jackie Fie and the women’s program committee needed to go. At this point I have not found anything about who else was on this committee, but removing Jackie Fie from involvement in the women’s program was lunacy.
In a profile of Fie upon her retirement, former USGF executive director Frank Bare said of her, “She virtually developed the girls sport in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.” As she got involved with the FIG, she learned German in order to be able to participate in the Women’s Technical Committee. After the 1992 Olympics, she became president of the WTC. She developed judges’ shorthand. As WTC president, she laid the groundwork of the modern Code of Points. The Code published in 1997 was, as far as I can tell, the first to include diagrams of execution deductions. She introduced computer analysis to detect bias in judging. Her goal was to make judging both predictable and defensible.
If the USGF had been run by competent adults, you would expect Jackie Fie to remain heavily involved. But the USGF decided to eliminate the women’s program committee, removing her and the judges from having input. This would lead directly to the perception years later that the judges were Marta’s lapdogs, as they had essentially no authority. But giving the judges a say would have meant someone could tell the personal coaches what to do, and the personal coaches wouldn’t have it.
Based on these LA Times articles, it’s possible Don Peters (of “permanently banned from coaching for sexual contact with minors” fame) used Marsden’s criticism as an opportunity to seize power in the organization — kick up a fuss, demand the removal of all checks and balances, and wind up king of the hill. If that’s the case, he overestimated his ability to outmaneuver Bela Karolyi. Bela replaced Peters as head coach of the Seoul Olympic team a few months later, when his athletes comprised half the team plus both alternates, while none of Peters’ athletes made the team.
This, by the way, is exactly how we wound up with the coaches voting on the team in 1992. They removed neutral figures and put power into the hands of people with built-in conflicts of interest, because people like Marsden and Peters had argued that the coaches knew best. This is why the federation’s response to Little Girls in Pretty Boxes was ultimately toothless. Start by Believing details efforts by USAG medical personnel in the mid-1990s to provide better training on nutrition and wellness to coaches. The coaches largely resisted because they were accountable to no one. If you apply this to other aspects of the sport, like routine construction or overtraining or “why did two athletes take up all the warmup time at 2021 Worlds,” you can draw straight lines to how we got into the current dumpster fire and its subsidiaries.

1980s scoring: the Code is not what you probably think

It’s important to understand how the Code worked in the 1980s, because it’s quite different from the final 10.0 Code. The highest skill rating was D, meaning Kelly Garrison’s eponymous beam mount — still the most difficult in the modern Code — was worth the same as a full illusion turn on beam in 1988. There is a definite tension between difficulty and execution, and a struggle to reward each. (And boy, do I hope I've understood this correctly, because this is complicated.)
10.0 Codes had a base score achieved through execution and basic routine composition, with bonus available to reach a possible 10.0. However, the concept of start values was not introduced until 1993. In 1988, the base score was 9.5, with the remaining five tenths available through adding a D skill (one tenth), premiering original skills (two tenths), using rare skills (one tenth), and the virtuosity bonus (two tenths). (Yes, that’s six tenths. You got a maximum of five.)
Routines could only get the virtuosity bonus if they incurred no more than three tenths in deductions. If you got a medium deduction (two tenths), you could only get half the bonus. It was a reward for “a nearly faultless performance.” Getting to 9.5 was about competence. Getting to 9.8 was about command. Getting to 10.0 was about excellence.
This brings me to Missy Marlowe’s uneven bars routine in the team final. It is a good routine. In comparison with the routines getting scores of 9.8 or higher, it is not a great routine. She has nowhere near the difficulty of the routines that made the uneven bars final. Her handstands are well short of vertical nearly every time, and her Tkatchev is extremely low. There’s a series of transitions which I think was copied from the compulsory bars routine. This was not strictly verboten — you only got a deduction for using the mount, dismount, or more than three connected elements of the compulsory — but it’s not a great strategy when the Code is trying to incentivize originality and risk.
And it was all fixable. This routine looks more or less identical to the one that got a 9.75 at Worlds the year before. In a program run by competent professionals, her handstand problems at the very least could have been identified and addressed long before the Olympics.
Compare this with the East Germans’ set from 1987 Worlds (this begins after the first routine, which had a fall on the dismount). Their routines tended to contain unusual elements and unusual combinations. One DDR routine didn’t even necessarily look like the next one — they didn’t all throw a Deltchev or use the Jentsch mount. There was no “national style” to their routines, and they would never put up two athletes doing the same routine. It’s clear to me that they looked at the Code and learned how to hack it effectively to maximize scores.
Those routines aren’t always to my taste, but that’s a different standard than “were they effectively utilizing the Code?” A good modern example of this is Nina Derwael’s floor routine. A lot of gym nerds have expressed skepticism about it because it only has two tumbling passes and because it’s pretty unusual. But Derwael tied or outscored Skinner, Chiles, Lee, and McCallum in floor qualification in Tokyo. It’s hard to argue that it isn’t effective, even if it isn’t to your taste.
Did the DDR have an unfair advantage because Ellen Berger, the president of the Women’s Technical Committee, was East German? You could make that argument. But to my knowledge, only the United States has kicked a member of the Women’s Technical Committee out of their process. Why in the world would you ignore your countrywoman who is literally on the committee writing the rules?
(The answer is probably hidden in the word “countrywoman,” but I digress.)
There’s also the matter of imperfect 10.0s. You could probably find little things to nitpick in every 10.0 ever awarded. Some were undoubtedly the products of corruption. But by the end of the 1980s, it’s clear that the majority of 10.0s were for virtuosity, not perfection. You definitely get a sense from this point forward in the 10.0 system that greater difficulty was rewarded with some leniency on execution. A full-twisting Yurchenko would probably get more scrutiny than a double-twisting Yurchenko. But let’s note that something (ironically) huge was introduced the year after these Olympics: the half-tenth deduction.
Dagmar Kersten’s routine in the uneven bars final in Seoul is a very good example here. It’s a beautiful routine, one of the most difficult of the 1988 Olympics. She had a tiny hop forward on the landing which should have gotten a tenth taken off her final score. Bart Conner complained about this routine outscoring Boginskaya purely on the basis of Boginskaya sticking her dismount. But in every other respect, Kersten’s is far superior. How do you give the same deduction to that tiny mistake as you do to a more significant mistake? Not yet having the half-tenth as an option, judges gave maximum scores to routines that deserved better than 9.9 in spirit if not by the letter of the law.
There were sociopolitical factors in the 10.0 dying out — the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the FIG’s attempts to crack down on corruption — but I really think the introduction of the half-tenth deduction had a huge impact on the way routines were adjudicated. The 1988 quad had 42 perfect scores awarded in two Worlds and the Olympics. The 1992 quad had 22 perfect scores, 18 of which were awarded at 1989 Worlds. 1991 Worlds and the Barcelona Olympics had 2 each. Being able to differentiate between tiny errors and small errors really brought scores back under control.
(Aside: Not really about gymnastics, but let’s take a moment to consider that Worlds in 1989 happened in Stuttgart, West Germany, and ended 18 days before the Berlin Wall fell. They were 150 miles away from the border of a country that was actively collapsing and just… having a world championship. Somebody please make a movie.)

Why the US deserved that deduction and the DDR deserved that bronze medal

This story has been passed down as “Rhonda Faehn pulled the springboard and stayed on the podium because she didn’t want to walk in front of the judges.” I had imagined her moving to one end of the mat or the other. I was shocked when I saw the video. She pulled the board away, stood it on its side, and crouched down behind it for the rest of the routine. I have never seen anything like it. It is hugely distracting. It’s hard to imagine the judges not spending the entire routine wondering what she’s doing. I could also imagine the judges not realizing she was an athlete because why wasn’t a coach pulling the board?
Faehn stated in a 2018 Deadspin article that Bela told her to do this. The only possible explanation is that Bela’s athletes were trained to do what he said uncritically, because this is not what you do and she should have known that. This baffling behavior isn’t repeated for any other American routine in the 1988 Olympics. Clearly someone in the American delegation realized the mistake. It is inexplicable that Bela told her to do this.
Bela Karolyi started claiming the deduction was unfair before NBC’s broadcast finished. He claimed athletes have a right to be on the podium, when Faehn was an alternate and all the team members already competed, meaning she was no longer a potential member of the team. Don Peters immediately claimed it was retaliation for the deduction Ellen Berger didn’t take in 1984. Conveniently Peters paints himself as the diplomat who managed to keep the U.S. from getting a deduction in 1984, perhaps to undermine Karolyi, who had usurped him as head coach of the U.S. team in 1988.
At the end of the team final, Bart Conner decried the deduction as violating the spirit of the rule, which he claimed is to prevent coaches from providing coaching on the podium. With all due respect, this is a terrible argument. Other rules cover “don’t coach the athlete through the routine and “don’t block the judges.” This one is about ensuring the athlete’s safety and not distracting the judges in the process.
This deduction was entirely appropriate. The idea that it wasn’t deserved is pandering to Bela Karolyi, who consistently acted like he was above the rules. There was a known, predetermined punishment for remaining on the podium. Ellen Berger didn’t decide on a whim to impose the deduction, nor did she impose it on her own. The Women’s Technical Committee (sans Fie, who recused herself) voted unanimously to impose it.
American print media characterized this as Ellen Berger “catching” Faehn on the podium, when she did this in plain view of the judges and the cameras. They called it an obscure, rarely enforced rule, instead of acknowledging that violations of it are unheard of. According to a New York Times article, two USGF officials watched tapes of the entire compulsory round to see if the Americans were getting singled out with this deduction. Surprise — no one else got that penalty because no one else broke that rule. American journalists were (and are) extremely ignorant about the sport, and the narrative of East Germans being cheating cheaters who cheat was conveniently at hand.
It’s also worth noting that FIG president Yuri Titov proved himself to be characteristic of FIG presidents who refuse to back up their subordinates. Titov apologized to the Americans and said, “Everyone knew what [Berger] was pressing for, but what can you do?” Truly a leader.
(In 2004, Bruno Grandi pulled a similar stunt when the FIG would not change the final standings of the men’s all-around. He wrote a letter to Paul Hamm saying he should voluntarily give up his gold medal, undercutting the decision of his subordinates in similar fashion. The USOC refused to deliver the letter to Hamm.)
Sports Illustrated tried to insinuate that Berger was out of line when she cautioned judges at compulsories not to let the scores drift higher as the day went on. Their evidence? The DDR was in the first session and the U.S. was in the fourth. Rather than acknowledging that that’s how scoring ought to work, they called it unfair. It’s ludicrous to imagine Ellen Berger remembered what the U.S. looked like at Worlds the year before — when they finished more than 6 points behind the DDR — and thought they were a serious medal threat. Remember, according to Marsden, the American team in ’87 didn’t even perform well enough to cheat plausibly.
(Interestingly, in that article, SI characterized USGF officials as “foaming at the mouth” about the deduction yet concluded that Berger was the unreasonable one.)
The Chicago Tribune made this claim: “The Soviets, trying to regain the top spot they lost to the Romanians at last year’s World Championships, seemed to get the benefit of the doubt from the judges, who put four Soviets and just one Romanian in the top seven.” I’m reminded of Kathy Johnson saying she and her peers were told the Soviets were just overscored, only to be shocked when they actually saw the Soviets and realized how good they were.
In the American media, any medal for the Eastern Bloc was automatically suspect. From this side of the Cold War we know this was ridiculous. There are arguments to be made in a large number of outcomes, but if anyone is still seriously questioning whether the Soviets were really that good, they are not approaching the question honestly.
And I would argue that the same is true of the DDR. Ultimately it’s incredibly unfair to the gymnasts representing East Germany, who were great athletes. When we’re feeling generous toward these gymnasts, we talk about them as victims of horrific coaching abuse or of the East German doping program, but unlike gymnasts from other countries who have suffered abuse, we rarely talk about the East Germans’ actual gymnastics. And I think we should acknowledge them, because they accomplished something remarkable in 1988.
During warmups before the team final, Martina Jentsch injured her ankle and had to withdraw from the competition. This was characterized as “supposedly” due to injury in American print media, because again, we were trained to view the DDR with suspicion even if it didn’t make sense. This was not a nefarious plot; this was potentially devastating to the East German team’s chances. It’s maybe not as dramatic as Simone withdrawing during the Tokyo Olympics, but it’s close. Jentsch wasn’t just another East German bars worker. She was their national champion on vault and floor.
Aside from depriving the team of perhaps its highest floor and vault scores, Jentsch’s withdrawal also meant that East Germany could not drop any scores. This format was 6-6-5. Everyone did every event and then the lowest score was dropped. East Germany did not have that luxury. And the meet started off catastrophically for them — two falls on beam. At the end of the first rotation, their lead from compulsories was gone.
But beam was the only apparatus where the Americans were unequivocally better than the East Germans. The East Germans had a huge handicap, and the Americans couldn’t capitalize on it. If the DDR had had six athletes on the field of play, the Americans would not have been in contention to start with, with or without the deduction.

To sum up

In 1987, while Greg Marsden may or may not have sold out his integrity, the Americans struggled. While scores improved between 1987 and 1988, the routines show many of the same flaws of construction and inconsistency as the year before. This leads me to the conclusion that none of the coaches or officials in the American program learned real lessons from ’87 Worlds. Team USA was failed by the men running the program, who were more interested in jockeying for power (and maybe settling personal grudges) than in preparing their athletes.
Say it was Bulgaria narrowly edging out the U.S. while down an athlete. I doubt we’d still be talking about 1988 in terms of “the medal was stolen.” I think we’d talk about Bulgaria’s amazing fortitude in the face of an incredible challenge. I think we’d be more realistic about the Americans’ lack of competitiveness at the time. I think we’d be more willing to say that fourth place was a good finish, and the correct one.
But it wasn’t Bulgaria. It was East Germany, a country which was shorthand for corruption and foul play — and rightly so. East Germany’s state-run doping system is a stain on many sports in this era and did long-lasting damage to athletes at all levels of sport, not just their Olympians. In this instance, however, I would argue that this is unfair to the East German gymnasts who accomplished something phenomenal against extraordinary odds. We were all inured to the caricature of the East German judge, and we let Don Peters and Bela Karolyi use our biases to excuse their failure.

Xiaohongshu in 2022

Steven Luo (Head of Brand Marketing Solutions for Fashion and Luxury) from Xiaohongshu stated at a press conference earlier this month that the company helped Estee Lauder launch a campaign in September to promote its Revitalizing Supreme+ Moisturizer. This was through the influencers of its platform. Over the years, Xiaohongshu incubated thousands upon thousands of KOLs and KOCs who have a strong following. According to Mr. Luo, the campaign was designed to reach the platform's micro-influencers. These are people who have a larger following than the average user but less than the mega-influencer's and yet feel a stronger connection with their followers. Xiaohongshu invited 97 microinfluencers to try Estee Lauder moisturizer, and then upload their feedback to their channels. The hashtag "Estee Lauder Supreme+ Moisturizer Revitalizing Supreme+ Moisturizer” has been viewed 54 million times. Users can also purchase the brand's products directly via Xiaohongshu’s e-commerce website. Luo stated that Estee Lauder was informed that they would not filter reviews. He also stressed that Xiaohongshu is proud of its reputation as a trusted source for useful, trustworthy content.
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Xiaohongshu challenges .

Xiaohongshu was caught in the crossfire in October after several domestic media outlets exposed the phenomenon of ghostwriters being hired by brands to create fake content and puff pieces about products. The hashtag "Shopping notes on Xiaohongshu" was shared by others for a mere four yuan fee and went viral on Weibo. It has gathered over 78.6M reviews and prompted more than 1,609 discussions. Some netizens shared their experiences of merchants inviting them to share promotional materials that appeared to be shopping reviews.
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Crackdown the fake comment

in response to this controversy, Xiaohongshu stated that it remains determined to crackdown on the gray market for review cheating and ghostwriting. Cindy Shen, a former employee of Xiaohongshu, stated in a recent interview that ghostwriting could damage the app's credibility and cause a loss of advertising revenue as it is excluded from transactions between merchants, users, and other parties.
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Xiaohongshu took a number of steps over the years to ensure a community that is authentic and monetizes consumer interactions on the platform.

Open a Little red Book Official account

The very first step is to register in the Little Red Book’s system (小红书入驻平台) as a merchant or a company. Registering on the app can be somewhat complicated, lots of paperwork has to be done … in Chinese https://marketingtochina.com/xiaohongshu-agency-china/

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I finished KoC a long time ago (I love King Knight, though my favorite is still Specter) but left Joustus mostly alone. I decided to fire up Treasure Trove today to check my save files and noticed the Crag of Joustus and the Tower of Joustus are still incomplete in my save.
Since Chester outright sells cheat cards (of which I never used thus far) is the game designed in a way that you are supposed to/expected to cheat to win? because I'd rather not, if I can help it.

There’s a lot of cheating going on in KOC that the devs try to downplay. The scummy cheaters are using auto-catching scripts to rise their way through the ranks. Nothing is being done about it and currently the anti cheating software is a joke. League is an absolute joke at this point because There are so many cheaters who press F1 to win. What’s the point of sweating or pouring energy into the game while there’s cheaters like Kino lurking around using autocatch?
Edit:
EVIDENCE 1: They want to claim it was an “visual bug”

Waiter - what really means to be a waiter?
According to the Cambridge dictionary, the Waiter is "a man whose job is to bring the food to customers at their tables in a restaurant."
According to us, this is the most absurd description of a Waiter ever.
The Waiter is a lot more than a person who brings the food to the table. To be successful and make money with this job, you need to realize that!
Here is what a Waiter or Waitress really is:
-the Waitress is a person who communicates directly with the guests about their food and beverage needs, relays their orders to the kitchen and the bar, and professionally serves the prepared items according to the guests' desires. A good waitress acts as a welcoming host to her guests. She is a highly trained and skillful professional who possesses a vast knowledge of the Food and Beverage field.
The Waitress is a well organized, multitasking person who knows and follows the F&B service procedures like:
Steps of service
Greeting the guests and explaining the daily specials
Presenting and opening a bottle of wine
Carrying plates and large food trays
Selling, up-selling and cross-selling
Carving meat
Filleting a fish and many others.

The waiters are the face of the establishment and the only people in direct contact with the restaurant guests who can influence their decision-making and choice!

If you are a waite waitress you already know that in our business we make money by providing great service to our guests and they reward us with a TIP!
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Our salaries are not that high and we all rely on a good TIP from our guests. So, the answer to the question “How to make money as a waiter /waitress” is: By making more TIP!
I know that what I will say next may surprise or disappoint a lot of you but it is one hundred percent true and correct so read and learn:
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR TO MAKE A BETTER TIP IS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF!!!
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Let me make this clear! Confidence is not being cocky, little bastard without any knowledge and experience who act confidently of pure stupidity and ignorance!
Confidence comes from Knowledge, Experience, and Hard Work!
Let’s discuss all those three separately:

WAITER KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer confidently any guest’s question about the food items on the menu?
Can you suggest confidently the chef’s specials?
Can you suggest confidently a bottle of wine to your guests?
Do you know what is the next step of your service procedure and can you perform it with confidence? This is why LQA Standards and The Steps of Service are so important.
Do you have the confidence to engage the guests in a small talk about the restaurant, the region, and the country you are situated in?
Do you have the confidence to handle a complaint from a guest who is disappointed by your service or from the quality of the food?
The truth is that you can do all these without confidence and still get through the evening. But if you do it with confidence the guests will notice that. They will feel comfortable in your hands and will be able to enjoy their dinner. A happy guest is 10 times more likely to tip you good than one who is not!

Getting the knowledge requires time and effort!

You have to sit down and learn your restaurant menu thoroughly! Learn all the ingredients and the preparation of every item on the menu. Know the time needed to prepare it!
Put an effort to memorize the chef’s specials and be able to answer any questions the guests may ask about it. This is a daily routine! Don’t overlook it!
Learn your wine menu, be able to describe a bottle of wine by test, region, and other characteristics so the guests can make an educated choice! This takes time and testing and a lot of discussion with the sommelier and your guests too! Your guests are a great source of information about the wine they drink! Talk with them!
You should be able to talk freely about the restaurant, the hotel or the region you are working in with your guests! Give them valuable information and they will appreciate that greatly! Make an effort to learn it!
How good you are with handling guest’s complaints? Have you done training on it? Do you know the steps of handling guest’s complaints? In our business complaints are daily events! The better you are at handling guest’s complaints the more confident you are in doing your job! Especially if you are a Head Waiter, you have to have that knowledge.
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EXPERIENCE AS A WAITER

If you are a young waitewaitress or a beginner you cannot have experience. Therefore, it is so much more important for you to put in the effort and get the knowledge! For you as a beginner is of most importance to not be afraid to put yourself on the front line and gain the experience you need as fast as possible! Don’t be afraid to make mistakes! We all make mistakes and this is the best way to learn! Just don’t make the same mistake time after time again!
Don’t hide in the back of the restaurant polishing cutlery or cleaning the floor! Take the initiative and ask your head waiter or your manager to let you try new things every day so you can learn! It could take you years to gain the experience you need and it could take you just a few months! It depends on you!
For a waitewaitress with few years behind their back to not have the required experience is unacceptable! To not have the knowledge also! That means you have wasted your time by not taking responsibility, by hiding behind your managers or colleagues back, and by ignoring your duties as a waitewaitress. It is sad how many people like that we meet in our restaurants!

HARD WORK

Here everything is very simple!
When you work hard you have confidence because you know that you have done everything to your knowledge and abilities to finish the job properly! No one can blame you, that you have made a mistake!
When you take shortcuts and you are not putting in your best effort you always look behind or around you to see if someone has noticed it! This fear that someone will see you cheating and call you out is turning you into a little, scary mouse. I have never seen a mouse with confidence!

Here are five additional steps that will help you increase your TIP:

1. start on a good foot by greeting the guests ASAP and with a smile
2. Speak with your guests with a friendly, positive attitude. Establish a connection with them. Small talk is a great way to improve your TIP.
3. Up-sell - IN the United States, the guests tip by the amount they spend. The bigger the check, the bigger the TIP. It only makes sense to try and sell higher quality (price) wines and food.
4. If your restaurant has such a policy in place, give your guests something free or ask your manager for permission; -Hey Scott, on table 5 are great people, spent a lot of money, and had a great time. I want to invite them for a free cup of coffee." This will help the restaurant to turn those guests into regulars and significantly improve your TIP percentage. Even a piece of candy with the check or before that will go a long way.
5. Write them a note - bringing the check is a "dry" procedure unless you write a simple "Thank You" on it. That will make your guests feel special, and they will reward you with a better TIP.

Every man creates his own fortune or misery! You chose what do you want to create for yourself!
I wish you all good luck and great success,
Ned
The Waiter’s Academy

Source
Great read from KOC

I asked the 22-year-old what led him to such a mature mindset. Ayton’s answer was simple: his 25-game suspension last season for taking a banned diuretic.
“I let my team down. I got bombarded and destroyed by the internet. And you know what, I deserved that,” Ayton told me. “I thought, ‘Who am I to say I’m a certain way when I didn’t prove it?’ So I felt motivated to go out there and fix my name, to find myself, and show who I really am. That suspension felt like the bottom of the pit. Then professionalism hit me. I knew I wasn’t gonna cheat myself. I worked harder and harder. I didn’t care if I wasn’t playing, I wanted to get better. I was locked in. I was in the pen for 25 games and came out an OG.”

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