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2024.05.19 16:59 Jlynneknight Can you help me get clarity? I need to see him for the next 12 years.....
I I guess I'm looking for validation that this is textbook, and I am looking at this correctly. I guess that is the effect of being gaslit - you don’t know your reality is really your reality. But I am here, and asking for help, because I will need to see him for the next 12 years (our kids go to the same school). This will be in passing and at events, but I am traumatized, still recovering, and just scared. I am looking for some insights because I spent about 2 months trying to fit my story into a box of emotional and narcissistic abuse…. But it's not that....I see that now. If you are able to share tidbits of knowledge, or point me in the direction of more clarity, I would appreciate it so much. Thank you so so much.
I am going to write out the cliff notes. I imagine a lot of you can fill in the parts I leave out as from what I read on here, it’s typical.
I met him walking my kid to school. He walked the same way every day. Over time, we became friends, and I learned he was trying to leave his marriage. Once he did, the relationship happened fast – too fast. He seemed so 100 percent sure of me and it was odd. I often looked disheveled walking to school and tired….I am not sure what he saw in me. But, I felt sure of him too, but wanted to go slower. I tried to slow it down, but at the same time, didn't. I am responsible for that. I felt like a hamster on a wheel after a few weeks and was able to tell him that I need the weekdays for myself, for my work, and for my kid. He seemed to respect that.
But he often romanticized the first few weeks together....even in the last days.
Quickly, I started to notice the emotional dysregulation. There was a lot going on for him: moving out, going through the divorce, parenting, work….so I understood it. I was also still getting to know him. Then severe trauma responses and triggers started happening. They would lead to these large child-like reactions with a lot of tears and anger. I didn't understand it but knew enough to know he had trauma to work through, and perhaps was feeling it for the first time. Each time this happened, there was nothing I could say to help or get him out of it, he would blame me a lot and say I was the cause, and he expected me (without saying it) to be there for him 110% even though I couldn’t. And truthfully, I didn’t want to….I wanted him to be able to handle that for himself or realize it was an issue. I didn't have the tools to deal with it and suggested he try deeper therapy. He agreed.
When he first met with the therapist, she told him it is like a virus takes over his brain and he is convinced in those moments. That was music to my ears at the time. But that is the last time I felt that way.
After a few months of this cycle continuing, I started detoriating. First my mental health, and then my physical health. I couldn’t breathe. I felt like we couldn’t go a few days without him reacting to something small. I wrote in my journal many times “there's no amount of validation I can give this person.”
I didn't point it to excessive adoration and validation, I could not see that really, but if he texted me 5 things and I responded to all 4 logistical ones and ended with "love you too" I was chastised. If I was driving and did not respond to an “i love you,” I was called out for it. At the end of October, I told him I needed the weekend to clean my apartment. It happened to be 60 degrees that day and of course, I would have preferred to be outside, but I am an adult and could not blow off my commitment to myself to clean. That day he messaged me 18 times that me missed me. He kept inviting me out. I kept asking him to stop, because clearly I would prefer to do something else than clean, but needed to. The missing was excessive. I didn’t even know what he meant. We lived next door to eachother. That night, I had to work, and he was upset with me because to him, it was optional and I should have chose to see him.
There were so many moments when he wanted so much comfort I couldn't provide. We were both single parents. That kind of affection goes to my kid....and I couldn't give it to him in that way. He would even want the affection when he hurt me.
He would see my daughter freak out at me and then say that I don’t love her enough, and he would joke they are the same….
It wasn’t a joke?
As time went on, and his therapy went on, and he felt validated by the therapist, the blame came on more and never left. It started in August, and even when I'd get an apology, it would be for the impact (what I'm responsible for) and not his intent. He'd argue with me over seeing his intent clearly. I'd say I don't care about your intent, you're killing me. It didn’t matter, nothing did.
I never felt like we could repair any incidents. As the blame went on, I really questioned myself. I wondered if he was right. What if I don't love enough? What if I don't receive love well? I've been in therapy for 20 years and know I have limitations but I'm not an asshole…
I felt coerced a lot of the time.
I felt he wanted me to change a lot....he wanted me to be less blunt, more loving, more balanced, work less even though he was awful with money, have sex when sick, injured or mentally dead from the day, always be happy to see him, don't be affected by the trauma responses and don't try to talk to him about it, don't take space and if I do, prepare for some kind of punishment, love him and miss him endlessly, do everything together, if I am dysregulated, he wanted me to regulate with him….
I noticed I started taking precautions to keep myself dafe. I didn’t realize I was setting boundaries to prevent the abuse but I was. I’d say I was busy when I wasn’t. I wouldn’t accept or ask him to get me from the airport, knowing I would not be 100% happy after a flight and that would cause a fight (as it did). I didn’t ask for help, and when I did ask for help, I would expect the help to not happen. I did not communicate anything he did “wrong” (like, you said you would drop off quarters for laundry on monday….do you have them?)
There were a lot of moments we would have deep conversations and I felt like we were getting somewhere, that he heard me.
I'll fast forward to the end because this is already way longer than I wanted….and it’s sad that I know it could be so much longer.
In the last month, he reacted and blamed me for everything. There were at least 5 major incidents. After the last one, I told him I was done. It was really bad and left me spending $50 to uber home in the snow, when I could barley walk as is (I had a herniated disc in my back and could barley walk). That month, I lost health insurance, and after begging for time to just take care of the injury, he told me we need intensive couples counseling. I had asked to just continue our therapist until we could change. That wasn't enough. The next weekend he asked me to go to a Gottman weekend. I said I couldn't leave my kid to do that right now and needed to take care of my help.
After that snow episode, that was really bad, laced with blame in the unpacking, I said I'm done, I can't do it. I was crying uncontrollably. I was scared. I really did not know who I was speaking to. After an hour, right when I needed to leave, he snapped out of whatever mindset he was in and told me he'd do anything, that he would work on anything, to please stay. I had to go, I could not think anymore. So in desperation, the only thing I asked for was to go alone on a trip with my daughter. He was scheduled to come with us. I said I needed time just with her. He agreed.
And honestly, he held up his end of the bargain....until he didn't.
3 days before the trip everything fell apart. I worked 12 hours that day and at the end of the day, went to pour water in a cup at home. It was the only time we had together before I left for the week. He hugged me from behind while I was pouring the water (....remember herniated disc in my back). I asked him to please stop and just let me have a second to pour the water.
He said "there's no turning back from this" and got his stuff to leave. I was floored. I was so upset because I knew where this was going - the blame game. He left, wouldn't come back, and then continued to blame me for the next 2 days about how I was an asshole the days before, only spent time with him out of obligation (not true), and rewrote history. I had a stomach bug all weekend and could not eat, but still tried to hang out as much as I reasonably could, and that was not enough.
The water incident was Wednesday, Thursday he had therapy and reinforced the blame, and I ended up leaving without saying goodbye. It was a week. I wanted to believe this relationship could survive a week. But I was clear with him days before: I am working up until I need to leave Friday so I can have real time off with my kid. He was upset I did not find him to say goodbye, even though he made no attempt to make peace earlier. But of course, my fault.
That night, he claimed down. Was nice. But it was a trap. After 12 hours of him being nice in text he said he was only doing it hoping I felt remorse and realized how wrong I was. He told me over and over he wouldn't see it differently. He said he read the transcript of our texts to 2 therapists and his friends and it’s clear: I am wrong. May be important to name here that we are both in our late 30’s.
I said that I want to work this out and I'll talk when we can actually discuss it and I'm willing to hear his side but not willing to blindly take all responsibility. He nailed me on every response, telling me how wrong my response was and what I should have done differently.
I was with my kid and could not talk. When I said "why are you doing this now, you know I can’t really respond" he told me to stop avoiding.
That night, he ghosted me for the first time in the relationship and I panicked. I called him a few times. No answer.
The next day, despite him never doing that to me before, he called me controlling for calling.
At 7am the next morning he told me our relationship was over in a text. This man, who 7 days before was professing his love and understanding of me ended the engagement in a text. This of course continued with a back and forth. I asked him to please stop. To please pause and talk to me when i'm back in 5 days. He told me to fight for the relationship or it was over. I said “I am just waking up with my 7 year old, in a hotel, please stop.” I asked him to attend couples therapy in 3 days to talk this out. He said “you accept all responsibility and change your behavior or we are done.” I asked if he was willing to talk and he said the problem was my perception and that it's wrong, so unless I change we are done. I knew this wasn't ok but I was so blindsided I did not know what to do. He agreed to go to couples therapy Thursday. We barley talked. There were a few more messages of him telling me he needs to know I can live a drama free life and celebrate his love and see it all as beautiful (almost verbatim). At this point, all I wanted to do is keep the dial down. I pushed back saying, “I cannot teach my daughter that someone can just tell her that her emotions and feelings are wrong, I hope you will be willing to talk and we can get on the same page.”
He agreed to go to couples therapy, and then didn't show up. He texted me 10 minutes before saying he was not going. I begged and pleaded. But he had the couples therapist to tell me he wasn't going to go. He had her tell me. I lost it. I lost my mind. I had been reeling for days. Not sleeping. Putting on a fake smile all day with my kid while I was dying inside. Staying up late to cry, process, read, figure out wtf was going on…
I called him about 10 times and of course, he told me it was inappropriate. He then picked up and gave me 10 minutes. He again wanted me to take all responsibility for everything. I was so shaken, I just fawned. I said ok. When I'm back I hope we can talk but if you want me to accept blame for now, fine.
Everything was calmer for 2 days until we were heading back and he texted me something along the lines of "don't fool me" I was like wtf? He said "there's no turning back. There's no other chances." I was like wait what? And then it was "don't make me look like a fool" I had no idea what was going on. I was like "um what is this?" He essentially was reinforcing his stance: I am to blame for everything in the present and past. If I try to talk to him about his side I'm wrong. I need to repent and one wrong move (defined by him) is a misstep and there's no room for error (his words). I was like....I will be in a relationship based in reality, and I will own my part and parts, but i will not be in something that i'm to blame for everything. That is not healthy. I have also been in abusive relationships before.
He then stopped messaging me. Didn't care that we got into flight issues. Didn't care we made the flight back. That night he came over and was a victim. Claimed in the 5 days I was gone he found himself. That he wasn't focused at work because of me and now he is. He wanted to try to be together. I had no idea what reality I was in. We slept together. He left. And told me we'd talk the next day. All of this felt so weird but I was just hoping he would snap out of this and back to reality and we would be able to talk. But I also knew this had to end at this point.
The next day, he didn't answer me all day. This was the opposite of behavior I ever experienced from him. Did not respond to texts or pick up the phone. We had a training appointment and he had the trainer tell me he wasn't coming. I broke down in tears. I begged him to just answer a text. He didn't. He drove by me while walking the dog and did not stop. I emailed him, expressing my confusion, telling him this is not what we agreed to. He blocked me. That night I got an email from him letting me know he was moving 10 min away. He lived next door in another apt building. He actually assured me the day before he “was not going anywhere.” In that email, he listed out the calls and texts I sent and how inappropriate it was. He never said we were done. He said taking space, needing space…so in my head I was confused but see it now.
I was inconsolable. I didn’t respond.
But here is the issue I am still in: I needed to see him dropping his kid at school the next day. I will need to see him for the next 12 years unless I move.
The following Friday he stood next to me at a school event. I purposely stood in the back to have space and be able to leave if I needed to. He went next to me. When I told him he should sit, he said he didn't want to make it obvious to his ex wife. I asked him to speak that Friday. He said ok but he was moving. I cried instantly. Already? I said ok.
On Saturday am, I saw the truck pull up and left the house. I called him that Saturday. I was blocked.
The next wednesday he asked me for a series of logistics in a text. None of which I handled yet. Wanting me to cancel flights and settle up money spent together. No mention or responsibility for all the money wasted on tickets we will never use. But then…in the text, asked for my engagement ring back.
I responded to logistics. Not the ring
He then called me 3 hours later because something went really wrong in his legal case. He wanted me to understand and validate him. I did....I just turned off my feelings for a moment. At the end he said, so about the flights. Can you handle it? "If i cancel it for you and your son i also have to do it for me and my kid. It's all on the same reservation" "well if you can go and not make sexual advances on me then we can try to go together.” I was like wtf? I could not have sex for months due to my injury. But he wanted to. Was this way of setting up blame that if we DID sleep together I would be to blame? I was like “I will cancel it for all of us.”
He then ran down more logistics and I said honestly you didn't seem done. I don't understand what you're doing. He said "im done" i hung up the phone.
He asked me for the ring again that night in a text. I said no, I need time to process this.
Everything since then has been a transaction. If i have a genuine emotion, he gets upset that i have it at all. He continues to sit next to me at school events because he claims he does not want his ex-wife to think we are done (this is insane to me….). I realize now that if it is a “good” interaction he is happy. If I am sad, then it is a “bad” one.
He never told his son we broke up, and shamed me for telling my daughter.
Recently he asked me a question and I was annoyed, and he said "can you not be mad at me?" I said “no, I can't not be mad at you…”
In the last 3 months, he’s said "I don't want to confuse things" has come up a lot. I don’t know if he is saying that to me or himself.
I have been so stuck trying to understand how I could not take space at all from him, to being totally discarded. I know he went back to spending, and drinking, but I don’t think he is seeing anyone.
He only responds when he wants to. He ignores other things. I never was able to get an MRI for my back because the claim went through a DR he set up for me and he never sent me the info when I asked.
I got the money back he owed me, but still lost so much money.
He told me he missed me one time.
I don’t know who this person is.
I will have to see him for the next 12 years while the kids are in school unless I move. I am not going to move just to avoid him, but I need to heal so I can be strong enough. I don’t know if he is going to try to come back. I have been in therapy and am getting clearer about what brought me into this in the first place.
Any clarity you can help me with, on this, and what may come from here, would be really helpful. It will help me direct some of my searches and begin to piece things together to process in therapy. I have severe anxiety when I run into him at school.
I have never had to heal from something like this before. At first, I thought it was healing from a narcissistic discard….this feels like so much more.
Does it sound like he will want to come back?
Is there ever closure?
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I am going to write out the cliff notes. I imagine a lot of you can fill in the parts I leave out as from what I read on here, it’s typical.
I met him walking my kid to school. He walked the same way every day. Over time, we became friends, and I learned he was trying to leave his marriage. Once he did, the relationship happened fast – too fast. He seemed so 100 percent sure of me and it was odd. I often looked disheveled walking to school and tired….I am not sure what he saw in me. But, I felt sure of him too, but wanted to go slower. I tried to slow it down, but at the same time, didn't. I am responsible for that. I felt like a hamster on a wheel after a few weeks and was able to tell him that I need the weekdays for myself, for my work, and for my kid. He seemed to respect that.
But he often romanticized the first few weeks together....even in the last days.
Quickly, I started to notice the emotional dysregulation. There was a lot going on for him: moving out, going through the divorce, parenting, work….so I understood it. I was also still getting to know him. Then severe trauma responses and triggers started happening. They would lead to these large child-like reactions with a lot of tears and anger. I didn't understand it but knew enough to know he had trauma to work through, and perhaps was feeling it for the first time. Each time this happened, there was nothing I could say to help or get him out of it, he would blame me a lot and say I was the cause, and he expected me (without saying it) to be there for him 110% even though I couldn’t. And truthfully, I didn’t want to….I wanted him to be able to handle that for himself or realize it was an issue. I didn't have the tools to deal with it and suggested he try deeper therapy. He agreed.
When he first met with the therapist, she told him it is like a virus takes over his brain and he is convinced in those moments. That was music to my ears at the time. But that is the last time I felt that way.
After a few months of this cycle continuing, I started detoriating. First my mental health, and then my physical health. I couldn’t breathe. I felt like we couldn’t go a few days without him reacting to something small. I wrote in my journal many times “there's no amount of validation I can give this person.”
I didn't point it to excessive adoration and validation, I could not see that really, but if he texted me 5 things and I responded to all 4 logistical ones and ended with "love you too" I was chastised. If I was driving and did not respond to an “i love you,” I was called out for it. At the end of October, I told him I needed the weekend to clean my apartment. It happened to be 60 degrees that day and of course, I would have preferred to be outside, but I am an adult and could not blow off my commitment to myself to clean. That day he messaged me 18 times that me missed me. He kept inviting me out. I kept asking him to stop, because clearly I would prefer to do something else than clean, but needed to. The missing was excessive. I didn’t even know what he meant. We lived next door to eachother. That night, I had to work, and he was upset with me because to him, it was optional and I should have chose to see him.
There were so many moments when he wanted so much comfort I couldn't provide. We were both single parents. That kind of affection goes to my kid....and I couldn't give it to him in that way. He would even want the affection when he hurt me.
He would see my daughter freak out at me and then say that I don’t love her enough, and he would joke they are the same….
It wasn’t a joke?
As time went on, and his therapy went on, and he felt validated by the therapist, the blame came on more and never left. It started in August, and even when I'd get an apology, it would be for the impact (what I'm responsible for) and not his intent. He'd argue with me over seeing his intent clearly. I'd say I don't care about your intent, you're killing me. It didn’t matter, nothing did.
I never felt like we could repair any incidents. As the blame went on, I really questioned myself. I wondered if he was right. What if I don't love enough? What if I don't receive love well? I've been in therapy for 20 years and know I have limitations but I'm not an asshole…
I felt coerced a lot of the time.
I felt he wanted me to change a lot....he wanted me to be less blunt, more loving, more balanced, work less even though he was awful with money, have sex when sick, injured or mentally dead from the day, always be happy to see him, don't be affected by the trauma responses and don't try to talk to him about it, don't take space and if I do, prepare for some kind of punishment, love him and miss him endlessly, do everything together, if I am dysregulated, he wanted me to regulate with him….
I noticed I started taking precautions to keep myself dafe. I didn’t realize I was setting boundaries to prevent the abuse but I was. I’d say I was busy when I wasn’t. I wouldn’t accept or ask him to get me from the airport, knowing I would not be 100% happy after a flight and that would cause a fight (as it did). I didn’t ask for help, and when I did ask for help, I would expect the help to not happen. I did not communicate anything he did “wrong” (like, you said you would drop off quarters for laundry on monday….do you have them?)
There were a lot of moments we would have deep conversations and I felt like we were getting somewhere, that he heard me.
I'll fast forward to the end because this is already way longer than I wanted….and it’s sad that I know it could be so much longer.
In the last month, he reacted and blamed me for everything. There were at least 5 major incidents. After the last one, I told him I was done. It was really bad and left me spending $50 to uber home in the snow, when I could barley walk as is (I had a herniated disc in my back and could barley walk). That month, I lost health insurance, and after begging for time to just take care of the injury, he told me we need intensive couples counseling. I had asked to just continue our therapist until we could change. That wasn't enough. The next weekend he asked me to go to a Gottman weekend. I said I couldn't leave my kid to do that right now and needed to take care of my help.
After that snow episode, that was really bad, laced with blame in the unpacking, I said I'm done, I can't do it. I was crying uncontrollably. I was scared. I really did not know who I was speaking to. After an hour, right when I needed to leave, he snapped out of whatever mindset he was in and told me he'd do anything, that he would work on anything, to please stay. I had to go, I could not think anymore. So in desperation, the only thing I asked for was to go alone on a trip with my daughter. He was scheduled to come with us. I said I needed time just with her. He agreed.
And honestly, he held up his end of the bargain....until he didn't.
3 days before the trip everything fell apart. I worked 12 hours that day and at the end of the day, went to pour water in a cup at home. It was the only time we had together before I left for the week. He hugged me from behind while I was pouring the water (....remember herniated disc in my back). I asked him to please stop and just let me have a second to pour the water.
He said "there's no turning back from this" and got his stuff to leave. I was floored. I was so upset because I knew where this was going - the blame game. He left, wouldn't come back, and then continued to blame me for the next 2 days about how I was an asshole the days before, only spent time with him out of obligation (not true), and rewrote history. I had a stomach bug all weekend and could not eat, but still tried to hang out as much as I reasonably could, and that was not enough.
The water incident was Wednesday, Thursday he had therapy and reinforced the blame, and I ended up leaving without saying goodbye. It was a week. I wanted to believe this relationship could survive a week. But I was clear with him days before: I am working up until I need to leave Friday so I can have real time off with my kid. He was upset I did not find him to say goodbye, even though he made no attempt to make peace earlier. But of course, my fault.
That night, he claimed down. Was nice. But it was a trap. After 12 hours of him being nice in text he said he was only doing it hoping I felt remorse and realized how wrong I was. He told me over and over he wouldn't see it differently. He said he read the transcript of our texts to 2 therapists and his friends and it’s clear: I am wrong. May be important to name here that we are both in our late 30’s.
I said that I want to work this out and I'll talk when we can actually discuss it and I'm willing to hear his side but not willing to blindly take all responsibility. He nailed me on every response, telling me how wrong my response was and what I should have done differently.
I was with my kid and could not talk. When I said "why are you doing this now, you know I can’t really respond" he told me to stop avoiding.
That night, he ghosted me for the first time in the relationship and I panicked. I called him a few times. No answer.
The next day, despite him never doing that to me before, he called me controlling for calling.
At 7am the next morning he told me our relationship was over in a text. This man, who 7 days before was professing his love and understanding of me ended the engagement in a text. This of course continued with a back and forth. I asked him to please stop. To please pause and talk to me when i'm back in 5 days. He told me to fight for the relationship or it was over. I said “I am just waking up with my 7 year old, in a hotel, please stop.” I asked him to attend couples therapy in 3 days to talk this out. He said “you accept all responsibility and change your behavior or we are done.” I asked if he was willing to talk and he said the problem was my perception and that it's wrong, so unless I change we are done. I knew this wasn't ok but I was so blindsided I did not know what to do. He agreed to go to couples therapy Thursday. We barley talked. There were a few more messages of him telling me he needs to know I can live a drama free life and celebrate his love and see it all as beautiful (almost verbatim). At this point, all I wanted to do is keep the dial down. I pushed back saying, “I cannot teach my daughter that someone can just tell her that her emotions and feelings are wrong, I hope you will be willing to talk and we can get on the same page.”
He agreed to go to couples therapy, and then didn't show up. He texted me 10 minutes before saying he was not going. I begged and pleaded. But he had the couples therapist to tell me he wasn't going to go. He had her tell me. I lost it. I lost my mind. I had been reeling for days. Not sleeping. Putting on a fake smile all day with my kid while I was dying inside. Staying up late to cry, process, read, figure out wtf was going on…
I called him about 10 times and of course, he told me it was inappropriate. He then picked up and gave me 10 minutes. He again wanted me to take all responsibility for everything. I was so shaken, I just fawned. I said ok. When I'm back I hope we can talk but if you want me to accept blame for now, fine.
Everything was calmer for 2 days until we were heading back and he texted me something along the lines of "don't fool me" I was like wtf? He said "there's no turning back. There's no other chances." I was like wait what? And then it was "don't make me look like a fool" I had no idea what was going on. I was like "um what is this?" He essentially was reinforcing his stance: I am to blame for everything in the present and past. If I try to talk to him about his side I'm wrong. I need to repent and one wrong move (defined by him) is a misstep and there's no room for error (his words). I was like....I will be in a relationship based in reality, and I will own my part and parts, but i will not be in something that i'm to blame for everything. That is not healthy. I have also been in abusive relationships before.
He then stopped messaging me. Didn't care that we got into flight issues. Didn't care we made the flight back. That night he came over and was a victim. Claimed in the 5 days I was gone he found himself. That he wasn't focused at work because of me and now he is. He wanted to try to be together. I had no idea what reality I was in. We slept together. He left. And told me we'd talk the next day. All of this felt so weird but I was just hoping he would snap out of this and back to reality and we would be able to talk. But I also knew this had to end at this point.
The next day, he didn't answer me all day. This was the opposite of behavior I ever experienced from him. Did not respond to texts or pick up the phone. We had a training appointment and he had the trainer tell me he wasn't coming. I broke down in tears. I begged him to just answer a text. He didn't. He drove by me while walking the dog and did not stop. I emailed him, expressing my confusion, telling him this is not what we agreed to. He blocked me. That night I got an email from him letting me know he was moving 10 min away. He lived next door in another apt building. He actually assured me the day before he “was not going anywhere.” In that email, he listed out the calls and texts I sent and how inappropriate it was. He never said we were done. He said taking space, needing space…so in my head I was confused but see it now.
I was inconsolable. I didn’t respond.
But here is the issue I am still in: I needed to see him dropping his kid at school the next day. I will need to see him for the next 12 years unless I move.
The following Friday he stood next to me at a school event. I purposely stood in the back to have space and be able to leave if I needed to. He went next to me. When I told him he should sit, he said he didn't want to make it obvious to his ex wife. I asked him to speak that Friday. He said ok but he was moving. I cried instantly. Already? I said ok.
On Saturday am, I saw the truck pull up and left the house. I called him that Saturday. I was blocked.
The next wednesday he asked me for a series of logistics in a text. None of which I handled yet. Wanting me to cancel flights and settle up money spent together. No mention or responsibility for all the money wasted on tickets we will never use. But then…in the text, asked for my engagement ring back.
I responded to logistics. Not the ring
He then called me 3 hours later because something went really wrong in his legal case. He wanted me to understand and validate him. I did....I just turned off my feelings for a moment. At the end he said, so about the flights. Can you handle it? "If i cancel it for you and your son i also have to do it for me and my kid. It's all on the same reservation" "well if you can go and not make sexual advances on me then we can try to go together.” I was like wtf? I could not have sex for months due to my injury. But he wanted to. Was this way of setting up blame that if we DID sleep together I would be to blame? I was like “I will cancel it for all of us.”
He then ran down more logistics and I said honestly you didn't seem done. I don't understand what you're doing. He said "im done" i hung up the phone.
He asked me for the ring again that night in a text. I said no, I need time to process this.
Everything since then has been a transaction. If i have a genuine emotion, he gets upset that i have it at all. He continues to sit next to me at school events because he claims he does not want his ex-wife to think we are done (this is insane to me….). I realize now that if it is a “good” interaction he is happy. If I am sad, then it is a “bad” one.
He never told his son we broke up, and shamed me for telling my daughter.
Recently he asked me a question and I was annoyed, and he said "can you not be mad at me?" I said “no, I can't not be mad at you…”
In the last 3 months, he’s said "I don't want to confuse things" has come up a lot. I don’t know if he is saying that to me or himself.
I have been so stuck trying to understand how I could not take space at all from him, to being totally discarded. I know he went back to spending, and drinking, but I don’t think he is seeing anyone.
He only responds when he wants to. He ignores other things. I never was able to get an MRI for my back because the claim went through a DR he set up for me and he never sent me the info when I asked.
I got the money back he owed me, but still lost so much money.
He told me he missed me one time.
I don’t know who this person is.
I will have to see him for the next 12 years while the kids are in school unless I move. I am not going to move just to avoid him, but I need to heal so I can be strong enough. I don’t know if he is going to try to come back. I have been in therapy and am getting clearer about what brought me into this in the first place.
Any clarity you can help me with, on this, and what may come from here, would be really helpful. It will help me direct some of my searches and begin to piece things together to process in therapy. I have severe anxiety when I run into him at school.
I have never had to heal from something like this before. At first, I thought it was healing from a narcissistic discard….this feels like so much more.
Does it sound like he will want to come back?
Is there ever closure?
2024.05.19 04:12 pizzapillowfort FMH Master Doc
The moment a lot of you have been waiting for is here!
A couple of notes before you read (or after because I would just jump into the list right away too)
Mentioned on Tiktok and on the pod once
Myspace Boyfriend
Mentioned on Tiktok
Third Boyfriend
Met on eCrush.com in 2002 and this was mentioned on the Cracked Up podcast, The Dave Glaser Podcast and Tiktok
The Kiwi
Met on a 2 week Model UN type youth trip in high school when Ali was 15, never a boyfriend but she had a huge crush on him, he tried to kiss Ali and she literally ran away, didn’t talk the rest of the trip but exchanged numbers and screen names (Ali’s was FineGal13 or BeachJewel760), she made him a mixtape cd called “Ali’s really cool mix for The Kiwi” but never sent it and she still has it. In 2021, he DM’d her when she posted photos of her and her mom in France and invites her to visit him in London, she says she can’t but says they should catch up if he comes to NYC
Fourth Boyfriend
Met on OkCupid when you had to use it on the computer, this was mentioned on Tiktok
The Homecoming Date or Light Switch
First boyfriend? (she goes back and forth calling him her first bf or a situationship), a family friend, a month younger than Ali, dated in high school but went to different high schools, football player, made him ask her to her Homecoming dance over email (her words), Ali hid in the bathroom the whole Homecoming dance, 3-4 revisits of this situations as adults, saw him on Bumble a few years ago and texted him that he had a typo in his bio, “he very much wanted to be with me” and now he’s married with a kid. His mom is still “obsessed” with Ali and she listens to FMH
Random college guy
Freshman year of college, Ali doesn’t have a nickname for him/doesn’t remember his real name, met this guy through a friend, was texting him to invite him over to hot tub but her phone autocorrected to “how about some hot rubbing tonight?” but Ali didn’t noticed/didn’t correct it and he never replied, Ali had a house party and got really drunk and was all over him, he left the party early, she messaged him on MySpace 3-4 times asking why he left
The Resident
Matched on Match.com, first guy she dated in NYC after college, older than Ali, a doctor, lasted 3 months ”maybe”, he didn’t like Ali’s friends, got a card from him on her birthday and it said “Love, The Resident” and it took Ali back a little, Ali drinks black coffee because of him, he coordinated having her mom visit NYC for her birthday then he broke up with her a week later
The Ghost
Met at a bar when she was 25, turns out they matched on OkCupid and they already had a date scheduled next week, they dated for 6-8 weeks, had sleepovers, “The worst ghosting experience I’ve ever had”, he borrowed The Great Gatsby from Ali’s roommate, planned to make dinner together after a beach trip in August with her friends and never showed up, Ali is blowing up his phone and gets no reply, two weeks later she finally texts “are you alive? check yes or no” and he responds “Yes”, Ali then ask if he could return the book and gets no reply again, 5 months go by and she receives the book in the mail with the note: “Here’s the book back. Sorry. P.S. sorry about last summer. I was in a bad place. You’re a great person and your salmon is amazing”, since then she has ran into him twice on the streets and matched with him on Bumble
The Coach/Mr. Adorable
First serious boyfriend at 26/27 in 2013, matched on Match.com or met through work depending if you’re listening to the pod or reading her OG blog, clean-cut look, played volleyball, Ali invited him to a friend’s birthday party and they made out in the streets at 4am, on their second date he asked Ali if she was seeing any one and when Ali said no he ask her to be his girlfriend 3 days after their first date, dated for almost 1.5 years or almost 2 years depending on if you’re listening to the pod or the Patreon, first time saying “I love you” to a guy, “lovely guy“, never would posted Ali on his instagram until Ali said something, he “lived” with her for two weeks while he was in between apartments, tried blind folding/hair pulling during sex and she didn’t like it, by the end of their relationship Ali didn’t like sex and thought she wasn’t a very sexual person, after they broke up Ali drunk texted him at 2am and he picked her up and she spent the night and she took her things in the morning in a rolly suitcase, from her blog in 2015: “I just want to be careful I don’t end up with another Mr. Adorable situation, where I find myself dating my platonic best friend”, had drinks with him in 2016 from the blog: “Not in a romantic way (at least on my end)”, Ali still talks to him sometimes through casual instagram DMs, he’s currently (as of 2021) dating someone for 4+ years and Ali thinks they’re going to get engaged
Trouble
OG 2015 FMH blog, never mentioned on the pod, “I was immediately enamored with him”, met at a Beer Olympic party but he worked with one of Ali’s best friends (Ali was still dating The Coach at the time), lived in BK, tattoos and stubble, Ali’s best friend said he was a “fuck boy”, “he very much made me see that it was the right thing for me and The Coach to not be together”, from her blog in 2015: “he has this look in his eye like he’s constantly laughing at me – in a super sexy way”, he texted her saying he didn’t see anything romantically with her and she sent a gif of someone shrugging
Personal side note: Ali has mentioned she has cheated on someone but never disclosed who she cheated on or with. I feel like she cheated on Mr.A/The Coach with Trouble because of the timeline. Just a guess.
Waffles
Matched on Bumble, OG 2015 FMH blog, he asked Ali fuck/marry/kill breakfast foods, dated 2 months around summer time, on Fourth of July while watching fireworks he said how they had a great day and Ali replied with something along the lines with “yeah, it would be better if I could call you my boyfriend”, he said he wanted a relationship but just not with Ali and shortly afterwards they stopped seeing each other
The Buffalo
Lived in Buffalo NY, 6’5, Scorpio, met in 2015 at Adults National volleyball (Ali’s team won that year) where he was heckling her while she was playing, asks Ali’s mom for her number and Ali’s mom said “I guess you’re tall enough” and told him to ask her himself, he flew her out and she met his parents, dated over summer, exclusive but never boyfriend/girlfriend (but called him her LD boyfriend on TikTok), texted and talked on the phone a lot, Ali’s best friend’s favorite ex “they had really good banter”, in October he invited her to his cousins wedding and she invited him to her friends wedding, after Ali bought her ticket to his cousins wedding (with the promise he would buy her ticket to her friend’s wedding) he ghosted and stonewalled her, she “poured her heart out to him on voicemail” and he never replied, she asked him to pay her back for her ticket and he got mad that she “made this about money”, 2 years later he told Ali that he freaked out because he really liked her and saw a future with her but knew she would never move to Buffalo and it would “never work”, Ali said at the time she would have considered moving for him, Ali used to have him blocked on Facebook and told all her friends not to update her on info about him (unless she asked). He’s now married and goes to Disney with his wife (which Ali kind of scoffs at?), Ali said on TikTok that she dodged a bullet
Baby Bic
Met him at Adults National years ago, had a flirtationship with him in 2016 when he was 19 years old, ran into him at the Adults Nationals 2021, last texts she got from him were about getting his fake ID taken away at the bar and him visiting her in NYC but Ali didn’t want to buy him beer and drink at her apartment
The Chef
Matched on Tinder around 2016, he loved karaoke, “total shit”, asked Ali to be his girlfriend and to meet his mom after a month, off and on dating, broke up the first time because he was talking to his ex, lied and flew to Mexico to see his ex while dating Ali, that ex sent Ali a Snapchat of them in bed together on that Mexico trip, Ali broke up with him via text and called him a shitty boyfriend, he’s the reason Ali deleted her Snapchat because of drunk Snaps he would send post break up, FB messaged Ali 6 years later (while Roark was visiting/staying with Ali) and said sorry for being a shit head. Ali’s best friends hated him
The Dentist
Met on Halloween in the wild, Canadian, dated NYE 2016- May 2017 “nice guy, not my guy”, one of Ali’s best friend’s favorite ex “he adored you, “he was too sweet for me” and “he had no edge to him”, he painted Ali’s cat for her 30th birthday but she was annoyed it was just Rory and not both cats, The Chef texted Ali while on a date/sleeping at his house
ASV - Aspiring Sober Vegan
Met through a friend (her best guy friend’s college roommate) the day before she had to fly out to her dad’s memorial, a doctor, into meditation, remembered him “being cuter” when they went on a first date, felt “the spark”, had “omg this is awesome sex”, Ali described this relationship as a “slow burn” and “the most attracted she ever been to a partner” even thought she didn’t think he was that cute in the beginning, dated 2-3 months before he tried to ghost Ali but they talked and broke up, four months later they start casually dating/FWB because he’s moving but this turns into a ‘middle distance relationship’ and he moves to Philly, had a lot of communication issues but didn't have a lot of fights, wants to live in Ohio and give a % of his income to charity, Ali was close to saying ‘I love you’ but didn’t, he uninvited her to meet his extended family and they got in a fight, broke up with her a couple weeks before their 6 month anniversary at the park while on a picnic and told her that she’s still his favorite person, Ali used to think he was “the one that got away” and would frequently have dreams about him. From what Ali knows, he's sober but not vegan
The Scientist
2017 or 2018ish, from San Diego, went on one date, Ali ended up ghosting him due to the decline in her dad’s health, saw him on Hinge while she was in San Diego for 3 months in 2020, texted him and apologized for ghosting him, ended up going on 2-3 more dates, took a selfie in front of his house and sent it to him but acted like she didn’t know that was his house and made a TikTok about it, things ended up not working but she doesn’t make it clear on who ended it. She can now see she shouldn’t have been going on dates during this time when her dad was sick.
Good on Paper Divorced Dude
Met a couple of years ago (she told this story on TikTok in 2020) on Bumble
The Groomsman
Met at her friend Ashley’s wedding in Chicago Oct 2019, had a “two night stand” with him, texted/talked/FT’d for 3-4 months, divorced, never dated seriously/FWB, saw each other a couple time when he came to NYC, Ali stopped talking with him due to FMH and her trying to find a serious relationship, he starts dating someone, follows FMH on insta, slid into her DM in 2022 and then sent her soup while she was sick, turns out he’s single again, 2 months later Ali is heading to Chicago and texts him “Hello! Reminder that my arrival to your neck of the woods is imminent” and turns out he is now seeing someone and Ali doesn’t see him while in Chicago (at least she doesn’t mention it)
Unnicknamed person
He was her plus one at her best friend from college’s NYE wedding 2019/2020, met and hung out with Ali’s mom, posted photos of them together on her personal Insta story, “fully dating but weren’t official hehe” doesn’t have a nickname/never gave him a nickname? This could be The Latvian/the person she texted her friend in DC about saying “I think I’m on a date with my husband”
He was browsing Bumble while Ali was in the bathroom during their first date, he was banned from Bumble and was using his grandma phone number. Ali turned down a second date
The Duke
Early FMH, went for long periods of time in between texts, 7-8 Zoom dates while Ali was in San Diego and he was in NY, Ali said you could see three of his ex’s on his instagram page (without scrolling), they finally went on one date and it was “meh” but they did kiss on their date
The Oyster
Matched on Bumble (he had one photo and no bio) two weeks before Valentines Day, Gemini, a lawyer, part of the 13 First Dates in 30 Days series (he was #13), dated Feb 2020-Aug 2020, love bomber, felt “the spark” and became official after 3 dates, best first date ever??? at the time, said “I love you” to Ali after two weeks, “For most of my relationship with The Oyster, he didn’t live in the city he had moved to Connecticut without telling me”, would fight all the time, opposite political views, Ali felt like a “fucking summer camp director” because she planned all their dates and he would get upset if Ali didn't have a plan, sought out a therapist (Megan) because of her relationship struggles because of him, went to Mass/church, he wanted a traditional marriage/life/wife/kids (at one point had Ali thinking she wanted that), didn’t want to live in NYC, didn’t support BLM, Cindy hated him
The Pilot
Went on 3 dates, texted a lot, didn’t hear back from him in four days and when she said she was looking to date someone who showed more consistency, he replied saying he met someone the day after their last date who seems to have more free time than Ali and he wants to pursue that but would like to be friends, Ali said on TikTok that this other women “bent her schedule to his schedule” and she was unwilling to do that. Mostly talked about him on TikTok
The Analyst
Matched on Bumble two years ago and went on one date, re matched in 2021 and he stood Ali up, she send him a text “getting stood up” script and he never replied. Only mentioned him on TikTok (?)
First date on the pod? I couldn't find anything else about him
The Scuba Diver
The Music Man
One date, “he didn’t do anything wrong, he’s just not for me”, amped up small talk, complimented Ali a lot which made her feel awkward cause she wasn’t feeling it, he texted her and asked for a second date and Ali sent the no ghosting script
The Bet
Uses the phrase “ok bet”, 28 years old shoe designer, only went on one dinner date to a spot he picked, turns out its cash only and he didn’t bring cash, was not into him , not looking for the same thing
The Dinosaur
Nickname was previously The Hawaiian, first date at Dinosaur BBQ, stood in a parking spot to save for Ali, he asked for a kiss after their date and Ali declined saying maybe next time
The Rose
He sent her a rose on hinge, first date was an hour long walk in the park while drinking beer
The Comic
Matched on Hinge, older than Ali (Ali’s friends express how happy they were to hear that), had brunch on their first date (was the first part of a double header but the second guy canceled), listed as “moderate” politically on Hinge, good and easy convo, went back and forth twice over text and then never heard back from him, “technically not ghosting...”
The Camper
Met in the wild at a volleyball tournament in July, lives in Chicago, 27 years old, hung out the whole time, over heard Ali asking someone to get her a make out partner, gave Ali his number, drunkly ask him for a FT date in the future and he didn’t reply, Ali texts him again about a volleyball thing and he replied back with not a lot of enthusiasm, Ali is going to Chicago in Sept for a volleyball tournament and she’s already planning on playing 4-on-4 with her best friend vs. his roommate and maybe The Camper, he texts her saying he has to work on the date of the tournament and won’t be able to do the 4-on-4 game, “I feel like I got broken up with someone I never want to date in the first place”
Went on a dinner date, was chatting up the waitress in a kind of creepy way, was bragging about a lot of things and it turned Ali off and Ali texted him her no ghosting script
The Accountant
1st matchmaker match, 31 years old, lives in BK, his dad has also passed away, easy to talk to, on the third date she wasn’t sure if she saw a future with him and in her gut doesn’t feel like this would be a slow burn, Ali breaks things off with him, months (?) later he sent Ali a 5 min long voice memo and they said they were both down to see each other as friends. He later on dated and ghosted Erica
The Aussie
Matched on Hinge, in politics, from Australia but lived all over the place, asked Ali what she’s looking for on the first date and he said he’s “casually looking for something serious”, Ali accidentally walks up to a different person on their second date, Ali texts him saying she would love to see him before he leaves on a trip and she wasn’t happy that it took him till the next day to reply and he can’t see her before he leaves
The Goalie
Was supposed to be Ali’s 2nd match, he’s a paying client, Ali didn’t hear back from him for a while when she told him where she lived, he wrote to the matchmaker saying that she lived too far away even though it states where she lives in her matchmaker profile
The Journalist
2nd matchmaker match, ended things because she was dating/pursuing things with The Discoball and paused her matchmakers matches
The Threepeat
Matched multiple times on dating apps but this recent time with Hinge, Amazon seller, first date was a pizza lunch date (with bubbles aka champagne) and he gave her a single yellow carnation, talked a lot about her “side hustles” aka her food blog, coaching, FMH and the pod (Ali didn’t mentioned the name on FMH), had an awkward half kiss during the date and then gave her a peck when they said goodbye, he had no night stands by his bed?, spent the night but told public pod they had a movie night, different kissing styles, 6 dates, broke things off with Ali two days before her first date with The Rower WHILE Ali was on a Halloween girls trip
The Rower
Dated from Halloween 2021 till early Feb 2022, Pisces who is 6 days older than Ali, has an ex-fiancé (they dated for 8 years, engaged for two of them, she broke off the engagement with him 1.5 years ago once he started dating Ali), has a shared dog with this ex, slept together around Xmas on the fourth date and Ali got a UTI, first time having “omg this is awesome sex” since ASV, first person Ali slept next to wearing an eye mask "that's a big step for me", had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, on New Years Day told her that he sees “long term relationship potential” with her but doesn’t want to be exclusive after 5 dates, “we didn’t talk all week”, he said he wasn’t as ready as he though to date someone seriously and “I don’t know why I don’t want to be in a relationship with you” they broke up over the phone, Ali said he’s a good human and wants to date someone like him, 3.5 weeks later Ali drunk texted him at 3:00 am saying “its really hard not to talk to you” which Ali said was a lie, he replied back (few days? A week later?) while Ali was on another date and it made her cry a bit, she replied back saying “the door is closed but not locked” in regards if he wants to get back together. “Fin… for now”
Matched on Hinge but didn’t go on a first date for two week, Gemini, used to be a singer in a band, moved from DC to NYC, went on 7 dates in 2022, had a dog w/ ex and ex got full custody once he moved, met one of his friends on the second date, slept with him on the second date “morning and night”, he tried to find the podcast without knowing the name, podcasted from his house in DC, he would send Ali photos of them together “all the time”, gave a virtual presentation from his hotel room, did Molly together in DC, had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, moved to BK (didn’t see each other for 2 months pre-move), had a sex-less sleepover (a milestone for Ali), he showed up for her on her dad’s death date (something that a person she’s dating has never done), used to listen to the pod but stopped before they stopped seeing each other, ghosted her after they had a talk about moving things forward to exclusive and Ali texted him something along the lines of “your silence is the answer” when she didn’t hear back from him for a week and he ghosted her. Ali said he sucks in #77 AUA
Lisbon
The Brit
M&M
The Come Back Kid
They went on 2-3 dates in Nov 2018 and reconnected in May 2022, "felt immediately comfortable", sat next to a very drunk lady on their second 1st date and was supportive but "didn't step on Ali's toes" when the drunk lady said something offensive to Ali, couldn’t remember if they slept together or not, knows about FMH, ghosted Ali
The Trainer
The Cold Brew
The Nomad
3rd matchmaker match, reminded Ali of The Oyster, wanted kids and didn’t want to live in NYC forever, Ali was upset at first because her matchmaker was supposed to screen for that but the matchmaker DID check and it wasn’t mentioned when she was screening The Nomad, no second date because those are dealbreakers to him
The Catcher
Matched on Bumble, “good not great” after their first date, ~April 2022, talked about sports a lot on their first date
The Gentleman
4th matchmaker match, knew about Ali’s FMH socials before their date, Ali didn’t like his texting style, awkward intro on their first date “like hugging a 2 x 4”, he runs a dating event company and actually email Ali to be a guest on the pod when FMH first started, awkward goodbye, didn’t discuss the actual first date on the main pod because she doesn’t want to give him a reason to reach out again
The Tennis Pro
Ali had a good time on their date, “He is an adult, he’s mature” BUT “I don’t think he was into it”
The Padre
Matched on Bumble, 3 dates, from San Diego, “energy mismatch”, doesn’t want to know or listen to FMH, no psychical connection/kiss, only a kiss on the cheek on their last date, “I haven’t spoken to him since Friday night [a week]”, she didn’t want to do what The Threepeat did to her (break up while on vacation/traveling), she said it might be a MOO
5th matchmaker match, found him on Bumble before their in-person date, ghosted Ali AND the matchmaker???
6th matchmaker match
Last match and Ali states she will not talk about this date or anything about it
JFK Kirk?
Matched on Bumble, didn’t realize he’s located in SD, exchanged personal instagram info, not sure where things went or how things ended
Kirk #1
Met in the wild, make out a lot the night they met, “stealing kisses throughout the night”, exchanged numbers, planned a date (no specifics, just the day) but when Ali texted him day of he asked to reschedule (no specifics again), he replied back that he’s picking up a rental car, told him she’s looking for someone to respect her time and he never replied back
First date of 2023, matched on The League, first nickname was “League Kirk”, hard to talk to, felt like Ali was always reaching for the next topic, likes to travel, “there wasn’t a vibe”, MOO
The Roommate
Used to be her friend’s roommate and have met before (Ali doesn’t remember but it was the day after that exclusive convo with The Rower), “totally cute”, reunited at their mutual friend’s engagement party January 2023, made out at the bar, comes back to her place and sleeps over (no sex), Ali questions why her friends never set them up and its because he was taking a break from dating, first date they made out a lot at the bar (again), “I really felt like we were already a couple”, “It didn’t feel like a first date”, mentions her FMH content has popped up on his FYP, tried texting him after their date and he wasn’t giving effort, she’s glad she didn’t sleep with him because “one night stands aren’t my thing”, MOO
The Belgian
Matched on Bumble, accidentally had their first date during a trivia night at a bar, easy to talk to
The Viking
Ali forgot they had a first date on the day of said date
Tinder Man
Matched on Tinder (duh) on Valentine’s Day, first Tinder date in three years, good convo on first date but got a pushy vibe from him at the second bar they went to, put his hand up her sweater and was kissing her in the bar, made Ali uncomfortable and she told him that after he asked her on a second date
The Historian
Matched on Bumble, good conversation on the first date with a wide range of topics like “urban planning and its impact on feminism”, he’s in grad school
The Georgian
Matched on Hinge, he asked if she was free on Friday and she said yes but didn’t hear back from him in two days and in that time she made plans for Friday, rescheduled for a Saturday afternoon date at a dive bar, ate on her way to her date “it would be next level rude to eat on the subway”, good first date, talked about places he wants to take her to
The Publicist
Matched on Tinder, lives in BK, Jewish, one year younger then Ali, good first date, invited him to the Chaotic Singles Party that night, came over to Ali's apartment (which Ali said was messy) before and he made her favorite cocktail for her, a couple of listeners met him at the CSP, goofy and silly convo mixed with deep and serious convos, second date was at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and a tasting menu dinner, he made a Resy reservation and Ali got an email saying she was added to it ”fuck receiving gifts, THAT’S my love language”, he's into words like Ali, he sneezed and Ali said "God bless you" but then corrected herself and said "gesundheit" and he leaned over and kissed her and said he loves that she cares about her words, he met her friends on the third date ”It felt so easy. It felt so comfortable”, her friends took “sneaky” picture and videos of them together which Ali said she loves a sneaky pic, took all their date recap videos on his phone, cooked Ali steak on their fourth date, "it's very comfortable", had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, Ali met two of his friends and some of his teammates he plays a rec sport with, had sex the day they took a trip outside of the city, Erica met him before their trip to Greece and I said “he’s dorky in a good way”, WhatsApp video chatted while in Greece and told her “see you in two days!” at the end of their call, said she felt less anxious about him compared to other relationships while on vacation, sent him a birthday present while she was in Greece, felt an energy shift coming back from vacation and didn’t hear back from him 3 days after she came home, Ali requested a call to talk about this distances she was feeling, ”I did the 12 date rule and it didn’t work!”, she said the distance help her see that they’re not compatible, went on a total of 9 dates. Ali talks about the “break up” on episode 123
Mr. Chaotic
Matched on Tinder but he saw Ali at the Chaotic Singles Party and Cassidy the host is there mutual friend, went to a brewery and played games on their first date (Ali said this was her favorite first dates in episode 147 where they recapped 2023), works in entertainment industry, very high energy, knows about FMH and he said she's entertaining to watch, splits his time between NYC and some unknown city, texted while she was in Greece, ”The man gives good texts”
Random Matchmaker Match
Withdrew his match to Ali because he found her FMH socials. Talked about on #71 AUA
Gone with the Wind
Matchmaker match, said some gross things about women in volleyball outfits on their first date, Ali told her matchmaker about this, ”I would describe him as misogynistic overall”, Ali was glad he did say those weird things so early on so she didn’t waste her time, the matchmaker flagged his account. This was around June 2023
The Rock
Ali knows him from an activity that they used to be involved with in the city (she's very vague about what this is) from 8 years ago, he had a very serious/long term GF when they met, follows her personal Insta, has never talked about him because he’s never been a “prospect”, summer 2023 they met up to catch up and found out that he’s now recently single but he’s moving out of NYC for work, Ali texts Cindy saying she thinks this is a date, Cindy said to tell him that you really want to kiss him, he ends up telling Ali “I really want to kiss you”, made out at the bar, Ali invited him back to her apartment and they had sex the night before Ali ended things with The Publicist, “one night stand vibes” but she said she was down to do it again, Patreon only and talked about on #75 AUA
The Tourist
Matched on Hinge, just moved to Brooklynn, went to a brewery in BK for their first date, Ali showed up to the date dripping in sweat, allergic to cats, he sent Ali a ‘no ghosting’ text the next morning
The Stout
Matched on Bumble, ”we had really great banter right away”, laughed the whole time on their first date, talked about going on a second date during their first date
Speed Racer
Matched on Bumble, drinks first date, axe throwing second date, made out after their second date, MOO, randomly texted Ali ~6 months later because he said one of Ali’s date recap videos about him popped up on his FYP (Ali and Erica think this is a lie), he thought Ali wasn’t into him, he claims he was doing all the work with texting even though there was only a few messages since they exchanged numbers after their second date
Billy Joel
Recently sober, Ali said she felt like they had several inside jokes before they met in person, ate pizza on her way to their first date, second date was getting coffee and going to the museum, they cooked dinner together for their third date at Ali’s apartment and they watched 90 Day Fiancé (he didn’t like it), he Googled how to clean a red wine stain when it spilled on her countertop, he asked if she wanted to have sex and she turned it down, the next day/the day before a 7am flight Ali booty called him and they had sex, she was drunk and said the sex wasn’t good/they stopped mid way, helped Ali pack for her flight, Ali said he’s at a crossroad and he doesn’t seem like a long term fit, Erica found a condom on the ground while cat sitting, Ali said she didn’t regret hooking up with him but wishes she hadn’t done it, MOO
Sales Cycle
30 seconds in and Ali said he was very boring, only really talked about his job, stared at Ali’s boobs, “might be a MOO”, texted her ‘merry christmas’
Matched on The League, 34 years old, requested a nickname change from Pie Guy to Dr. Laundry, he had to cancel their second date because he got hit by a car, went on two dates, Ali sent him a pic of his subway stop saying something along the lines of “the stop isn’t looking as cute today” and turns out someone he dated with in that photo, were supposed to go on a third date the night she got back from a bachelorette party but he didn't answer her text when she said she landed, the next day he asked her how her trip was not acknowledging her previous text at all, Ali expressed her disappointment and he replied that he was tired last night, she said she would've been understanding if he said something then ghosted her
Andddd I stopped listening to the podcast around the Dr. Pie Laundry Guy but have stayed up to date with everything via this sub.
I have a huge interest in dating culture, human behavior and data similar to Ali and this little project of mine was really interesting once I got the framework of this list. I started this list once I found this sub in December 2023 and started re listening to the Patreon while working out (and lost 10 lbs ayeee) and writing down information in my notes app. I did my best to keep this list unbiased and just give facts and information that was said.
My own thoughts after making this list is that I'm very sad for Ali. I didn't realize the extent of her dating history. I think about my own dating history or even my friends who are in their 30's and dating and Ali's dating lore runs so deep. Is Ali unlucky with love? Did she pass on someone that could have been great for her? How has she had so many dates with little success in a long term partner or even going beyond 6-8 dates? Or is Skyline the person she has been waiting for? What's the pattern with all this dates/men? So many questions.
I truly do hope Ali finds her guy because I believe theres someone for everyone. Until then, I'll be hopping into this sub (cause y'all are too funny and give the best advice) and waiting for Ali to find Mr. Height.
Enjoy and I look forward to everyone thoughts! I'll keep my eye out for any edits that need to be made.
Bonus quotes:
“Longest relationship was a little under a year and a half. Haven’t made it past 6 months with anyone else” - AUA #7 11/27/21
“I spent the first 10+ years of my dating life being sort of perennially single” -1. The Actual First One episode 2/21/21
"I think my parent's story is the reason why I think that I can romantically get back together with an ex and it'll work out" -The Dave Glaser Podcast 4/5/21
“Almost every relationship I’ve ever been in, with a couple of exceptions, started as a situationship.” -21. The Undefined One 7/11/21
“All of my boyfriends have been white” -Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“You definitely need an older guy” -Cindy on Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“I’ve been on the dating apps since high school. Dating websites at the time” -Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“Who would be the perfect man for Ali?”
“Clearly a combination of the The Dentist and [the early stages of] The Buffalo” -Cindy on Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“Do you consider The Rower or Disco ball to have been situationships?”
“No, I don't consider either The Rower or The Disco Ball to be situationships” -question asked on TikTok 11/9/22
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A couple of notes before you read (or after because I would just jump into the list right away too)
- Direct quotes from Ali herself are in italics.
- I tried my best to keep everything in timeline order. Some people like The Come Back Kid I placed in the order where they reconnected/talked about on the pod. But I did my best to note this.
- All this information came from the FMH podcast, the Patreon, the original FMH blog, TikTok and other podcast that feature FMH/Ali. I also crossed reference information with this sub. I got most of this done with the help of the Patreon and listening to 1.75x speed but I lost accessed to the Patreon because my subscription ended.
- I'm open to edits! Things around the matchmaker era confused me and if anything is incorrect or if I'm missing someone, please let me know! I will note where corrections are made.
- Some people don't have anything simply because only a name was said or I couldn't find any details about the person/date
- And of course, please be respectful of all the sub rules!
- Mr. Adorable aka The Coach
- Trouble
- Waffles
- Future Husband Brian (FHB)
- Cookie
- Peter Pan
- Ambiguous Goodbye Guy
- Bad Bitch Man
Mentioned on Tiktok and on the pod once
Myspace Boyfriend
Mentioned on Tiktok
Third Boyfriend
Met on eCrush.com in 2002 and this was mentioned on the Cracked Up podcast, The Dave Glaser Podcast and Tiktok
The Kiwi
Met on a 2 week Model UN type youth trip in high school when Ali was 15, never a boyfriend but she had a huge crush on him, he tried to kiss Ali and she literally ran away, didn’t talk the rest of the trip but exchanged numbers and screen names (Ali’s was FineGal13 or BeachJewel760), she made him a mixtape cd called “Ali’s really cool mix for The Kiwi” but never sent it and she still has it. In 2021, he DM’d her when she posted photos of her and her mom in France and invites her to visit him in London, she says she can’t but says they should catch up if he comes to NYC
Fourth Boyfriend
Met on OkCupid when you had to use it on the computer, this was mentioned on Tiktok
The Homecoming Date or Light Switch
First boyfriend? (she goes back and forth calling him her first bf or a situationship), a family friend, a month younger than Ali, dated in high school but went to different high schools, football player, made him ask her to her Homecoming dance over email (her words), Ali hid in the bathroom the whole Homecoming dance, 3-4 revisits of this situations as adults, saw him on Bumble a few years ago and texted him that he had a typo in his bio, “he very much wanted to be with me” and now he’s married with a kid. His mom is still “obsessed” with Ali and she listens to FMH
Random college guy
Freshman year of college, Ali doesn’t have a nickname for him/doesn’t remember his real name, met this guy through a friend, was texting him to invite him over to hot tub but her phone autocorrected to “how about some hot rubbing tonight?” but Ali didn’t noticed/didn’t correct it and he never replied, Ali had a house party and got really drunk and was all over him, he left the party early, she messaged him on MySpace 3-4 times asking why he left
The Resident
Matched on Match.com, first guy she dated in NYC after college, older than Ali, a doctor, lasted 3 months ”maybe”, he didn’t like Ali’s friends, got a card from him on her birthday and it said “Love, The Resident” and it took Ali back a little, Ali drinks black coffee because of him, he coordinated having her mom visit NYC for her birthday then he broke up with her a week later
The Ghost
Met at a bar when she was 25, turns out they matched on OkCupid and they already had a date scheduled next week, they dated for 6-8 weeks, had sleepovers, “The worst ghosting experience I’ve ever had”, he borrowed The Great Gatsby from Ali’s roommate, planned to make dinner together after a beach trip in August with her friends and never showed up, Ali is blowing up his phone and gets no reply, two weeks later she finally texts “are you alive? check yes or no” and he responds “Yes”, Ali then ask if he could return the book and gets no reply again, 5 months go by and she receives the book in the mail with the note: “Here’s the book back. Sorry. P.S. sorry about last summer. I was in a bad place. You’re a great person and your salmon is amazing”, since then she has ran into him twice on the streets and matched with him on Bumble
The Coach/Mr. Adorable
First serious boyfriend at 26/27 in 2013, matched on Match.com or met through work depending if you’re listening to the pod or reading her OG blog, clean-cut look, played volleyball, Ali invited him to a friend’s birthday party and they made out in the streets at 4am, on their second date he asked Ali if she was seeing any one and when Ali said no he ask her to be his girlfriend 3 days after their first date, dated for almost 1.5 years or almost 2 years depending on if you’re listening to the pod or the Patreon, first time saying “I love you” to a guy, “lovely guy“, never would posted Ali on his instagram until Ali said something, he “lived” with her for two weeks while he was in between apartments, tried blind folding/hair pulling during sex and she didn’t like it, by the end of their relationship Ali didn’t like sex and thought she wasn’t a very sexual person, after they broke up Ali drunk texted him at 2am and he picked her up and she spent the night and she took her things in the morning in a rolly suitcase, from her blog in 2015: “I just want to be careful I don’t end up with another Mr. Adorable situation, where I find myself dating my platonic best friend”, had drinks with him in 2016 from the blog: “Not in a romantic way (at least on my end)”, Ali still talks to him sometimes through casual instagram DMs, he’s currently (as of 2021) dating someone for 4+ years and Ali thinks they’re going to get engaged
Trouble
OG 2015 FMH blog, never mentioned on the pod, “I was immediately enamored with him”, met at a Beer Olympic party but he worked with one of Ali’s best friends (Ali was still dating The Coach at the time), lived in BK, tattoos and stubble, Ali’s best friend said he was a “fuck boy”, “he very much made me see that it was the right thing for me and The Coach to not be together”, from her blog in 2015: “he has this look in his eye like he’s constantly laughing at me – in a super sexy way”, he texted her saying he didn’t see anything romantically with her and she sent a gif of someone shrugging
Personal side note: Ali has mentioned she has cheated on someone but never disclosed who she cheated on or with. I feel like she cheated on Mr.A/The Coach with Trouble because of the timeline. Just a guess.
Waffles
Matched on Bumble, OG 2015 FMH blog, he asked Ali fuck/marry/kill breakfast foods, dated 2 months around summer time, on Fourth of July while watching fireworks he said how they had a great day and Ali replied with something along the lines with “yeah, it would be better if I could call you my boyfriend”, he said he wanted a relationship but just not with Ali and shortly afterwards they stopped seeing each other
The Buffalo
Lived in Buffalo NY, 6’5, Scorpio, met in 2015 at Adults National volleyball (Ali’s team won that year) where he was heckling her while she was playing, asks Ali’s mom for her number and Ali’s mom said “I guess you’re tall enough” and told him to ask her himself, he flew her out and she met his parents, dated over summer, exclusive but never boyfriend/girlfriend (but called him her LD boyfriend on TikTok), texted and talked on the phone a lot, Ali’s best friend’s favorite ex “they had really good banter”, in October he invited her to his cousins wedding and she invited him to her friends wedding, after Ali bought her ticket to his cousins wedding (with the promise he would buy her ticket to her friend’s wedding) he ghosted and stonewalled her, she “poured her heart out to him on voicemail” and he never replied, she asked him to pay her back for her ticket and he got mad that she “made this about money”, 2 years later he told Ali that he freaked out because he really liked her and saw a future with her but knew she would never move to Buffalo and it would “never work”, Ali said at the time she would have considered moving for him, Ali used to have him blocked on Facebook and told all her friends not to update her on info about him (unless she asked). He’s now married and goes to Disney with his wife (which Ali kind of scoffs at?), Ali said on TikTok that she dodged a bullet
Baby Bic
Met him at Adults National years ago, had a flirtationship with him in 2016 when he was 19 years old, ran into him at the Adults Nationals 2021, last texts she got from him were about getting his fake ID taken away at the bar and him visiting her in NYC but Ali didn’t want to buy him beer and drink at her apartment
The Chef
Matched on Tinder around 2016, he loved karaoke, “total shit”, asked Ali to be his girlfriend and to meet his mom after a month, off and on dating, broke up the first time because he was talking to his ex, lied and flew to Mexico to see his ex while dating Ali, that ex sent Ali a Snapchat of them in bed together on that Mexico trip, Ali broke up with him via text and called him a shitty boyfriend, he’s the reason Ali deleted her Snapchat because of drunk Snaps he would send post break up, FB messaged Ali 6 years later (while Roark was visiting/staying with Ali) and said sorry for being a shit head. Ali’s best friends hated him
The Dentist
Met on Halloween in the wild, Canadian, dated NYE 2016- May 2017 “nice guy, not my guy”, one of Ali’s best friend’s favorite ex “he adored you, “he was too sweet for me” and “he had no edge to him”, he painted Ali’s cat for her 30th birthday but she was annoyed it was just Rory and not both cats, The Chef texted Ali while on a date/sleeping at his house
ASV - Aspiring Sober Vegan
Met through a friend (her best guy friend’s college roommate) the day before she had to fly out to her dad’s memorial, a doctor, into meditation, remembered him “being cuter” when they went on a first date, felt “the spark”, had “omg this is awesome sex”, Ali described this relationship as a “slow burn” and “the most attracted she ever been to a partner” even thought she didn’t think he was that cute in the beginning, dated 2-3 months before he tried to ghost Ali but they talked and broke up, four months later they start casually dating/FWB because he’s moving but this turns into a ‘middle distance relationship’ and he moves to Philly, had a lot of communication issues but didn't have a lot of fights, wants to live in Ohio and give a % of his income to charity, Ali was close to saying ‘I love you’ but didn’t, he uninvited her to meet his extended family and they got in a fight, broke up with her a couple weeks before their 6 month anniversary at the park while on a picnic and told her that she’s still his favorite person, Ali used to think he was “the one that got away” and would frequently have dreams about him. From what Ali knows, he's sober but not vegan
The Scientist
2017 or 2018ish, from San Diego, went on one date, Ali ended up ghosting him due to the decline in her dad’s health, saw him on Hinge while she was in San Diego for 3 months in 2020, texted him and apologized for ghosting him, ended up going on 2-3 more dates, took a selfie in front of his house and sent it to him but acted like she didn’t know that was his house and made a TikTok about it, things ended up not working but she doesn’t make it clear on who ended it. She can now see she shouldn’t have been going on dates during this time when her dad was sick.
Good on Paper Divorced Dude
Met a couple of years ago (she told this story on TikTok in 2020) on Bumble
The Groomsman
Met at her friend Ashley’s wedding in Chicago Oct 2019, had a “two night stand” with him, texted/talked/FT’d for 3-4 months, divorced, never dated seriously/FWB, saw each other a couple time when he came to NYC, Ali stopped talking with him due to FMH and her trying to find a serious relationship, he starts dating someone, follows FMH on insta, slid into her DM in 2022 and then sent her soup while she was sick, turns out he’s single again, 2 months later Ali is heading to Chicago and texts him “Hello! Reminder that my arrival to your neck of the woods is imminent” and turns out he is now seeing someone and Ali doesn’t see him while in Chicago (at least she doesn’t mention it)
Unnicknamed person
He was her plus one at her best friend from college’s NYE wedding 2019/2020, met and hung out with Ali’s mom, posted photos of them together on her personal Insta story, “fully dating but weren’t official hehe” doesn’t have a nickname/never gave him a nickname? This could be The Latvian/the person she texted her friend in DC about saying “I think I’m on a date with my husband”
Starts FMH on January 2020 on Instagram/TikTok
The TravelerHe was browsing Bumble while Ali was in the bathroom during their first date, he was banned from Bumble and was using his grandma phone number. Ali turned down a second date
The Duke
Early FMH, went for long periods of time in between texts, 7-8 Zoom dates while Ali was in San Diego and he was in NY, Ali said you could see three of his ex’s on his instagram page (without scrolling), they finally went on one date and it was “meh” but they did kiss on their date
The Oyster
Matched on Bumble (he had one photo and no bio) two weeks before Valentines Day, Gemini, a lawyer, part of the 13 First Dates in 30 Days series (he was #13), dated Feb 2020-Aug 2020, love bomber, felt “the spark” and became official after 3 dates, best first date ever??? at the time, said “I love you” to Ali after two weeks, “For most of my relationship with The Oyster, he didn’t live in the city he had moved to Connecticut without telling me”, would fight all the time, opposite political views, Ali felt like a “fucking summer camp director” because she planned all their dates and he would get upset if Ali didn't have a plan, sought out a therapist (Megan) because of her relationship struggles because of him, went to Mass/church, he wanted a traditional marriage/life/wife/kids (at one point had Ali thinking she wanted that), didn’t want to live in NYC, didn’t support BLM, Cindy hated him
The Pilot
Went on 3 dates, texted a lot, didn’t hear back from him in four days and when she said she was looking to date someone who showed more consistency, he replied saying he met someone the day after their last date who seems to have more free time than Ali and he wants to pursue that but would like to be friends, Ali said on TikTok that this other women “bent her schedule to his schedule” and she was unwilling to do that. Mostly talked about him on TikTok
The Analyst
Matched on Bumble two years ago and went on one date, re matched in 2021 and he stood Ali up, she send him a text “getting stood up” script and he never replied. Only mentioned him on TikTok (?)
Ali and Roark start FMH: The Podcast February 2021
The BoomerangFirst date on the pod? I couldn't find anything else about him
The Scuba Diver
The Music Man
One date, “he didn’t do anything wrong, he’s just not for me”, amped up small talk, complimented Ali a lot which made her feel awkward cause she wasn’t feeling it, he texted her and asked for a second date and Ali sent the no ghosting script
The Bet
Uses the phrase “ok bet”, 28 years old shoe designer, only went on one dinner date to a spot he picked, turns out its cash only and he didn’t bring cash, was not into him , not looking for the same thing
The Dinosaur
Nickname was previously The Hawaiian, first date at Dinosaur BBQ, stood in a parking spot to save for Ali, he asked for a kiss after their date and Ali declined saying maybe next time
The Rose
He sent her a rose on hinge, first date was an hour long walk in the park while drinking beer
The Comic
Matched on Hinge, older than Ali (Ali’s friends express how happy they were to hear that), had brunch on their first date (was the first part of a double header but the second guy canceled), listed as “moderate” politically on Hinge, good and easy convo, went back and forth twice over text and then never heard back from him, “technically not ghosting...”
The Camper
Met in the wild at a volleyball tournament in July, lives in Chicago, 27 years old, hung out the whole time, over heard Ali asking someone to get her a make out partner, gave Ali his number, drunkly ask him for a FT date in the future and he didn’t reply, Ali texts him again about a volleyball thing and he replied back with not a lot of enthusiasm, Ali is going to Chicago in Sept for a volleyball tournament and she’s already planning on playing 4-on-4 with her best friend vs. his roommate and maybe The Camper, he texts her saying he has to work on the date of the tournament and won’t be able to do the 4-on-4 game, “I feel like I got broken up with someone I never want to date in the first place”
Ali’s Matchmaker contract starts in August 2021 - 6 matches
The SchmoozerWent on a dinner date, was chatting up the waitress in a kind of creepy way, was bragging about a lot of things and it turned Ali off and Ali texted him her no ghosting script
The Accountant
1st matchmaker match, 31 years old, lives in BK, his dad has also passed away, easy to talk to, on the third date she wasn’t sure if she saw a future with him and in her gut doesn’t feel like this would be a slow burn, Ali breaks things off with him, months (?) later he sent Ali a 5 min long voice memo and they said they were both down to see each other as friends. He later on dated and ghosted Erica
The Aussie
Matched on Hinge, in politics, from Australia but lived all over the place, asked Ali what she’s looking for on the first date and he said he’s “casually looking for something serious”, Ali accidentally walks up to a different person on their second date, Ali texts him saying she would love to see him before he leaves on a trip and she wasn’t happy that it took him till the next day to reply and he can’t see her before he leaves
The Goalie
Was supposed to be Ali’s 2nd match, he’s a paying client, Ali didn’t hear back from him for a while when she told him where she lived, he wrote to the matchmaker saying that she lived too far away even though it states where she lives in her matchmaker profile
The Journalist
2nd matchmaker match, ended things because she was dating/pursuing things with The Discoball and paused her matchmakers matches
The Threepeat
Matched multiple times on dating apps but this recent time with Hinge, Amazon seller, first date was a pizza lunch date (with bubbles aka champagne) and he gave her a single yellow carnation, talked a lot about her “side hustles” aka her food blog, coaching, FMH and the pod (Ali didn’t mentioned the name on FMH), had an awkward half kiss during the date and then gave her a peck when they said goodbye, he had no night stands by his bed?, spent the night but told public pod they had a movie night, different kissing styles, 6 dates, broke things off with Ali two days before her first date with The Rower WHILE Ali was on a Halloween girls trip
The Rower
Dated from Halloween 2021 till early Feb 2022, Pisces who is 6 days older than Ali, has an ex-fiancé (they dated for 8 years, engaged for two of them, she broke off the engagement with him 1.5 years ago once he started dating Ali), has a shared dog with this ex, slept together around Xmas on the fourth date and Ali got a UTI, first time having “omg this is awesome sex” since ASV, first person Ali slept next to wearing an eye mask "that's a big step for me", had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, on New Years Day told her that he sees “long term relationship potential” with her but doesn’t want to be exclusive after 5 dates, “we didn’t talk all week”, he said he wasn’t as ready as he though to date someone seriously and “I don’t know why I don’t want to be in a relationship with you” they broke up over the phone, Ali said he’s a good human and wants to date someone like him, 3.5 weeks later Ali drunk texted him at 3:00 am saying “its really hard not to talk to you” which Ali said was a lie, he replied back (few days? A week later?) while Ali was on another date and it made her cry a bit, she replied back saying “the door is closed but not locked” in regards if he wants to get back together. “Fin… for now”
2022
The DiscoballMatched on Hinge but didn’t go on a first date for two week, Gemini, used to be a singer in a band, moved from DC to NYC, went on 7 dates in 2022, had a dog w/ ex and ex got full custody once he moved, met one of his friends on the second date, slept with him on the second date “morning and night”, he tried to find the podcast without knowing the name, podcasted from his house in DC, he would send Ali photos of them together “all the time”, gave a virtual presentation from his hotel room, did Molly together in DC, had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, moved to BK (didn’t see each other for 2 months pre-move), had a sex-less sleepover (a milestone for Ali), he showed up for her on her dad’s death date (something that a person she’s dating has never done), used to listen to the pod but stopped before they stopped seeing each other, ghosted her after they had a talk about moving things forward to exclusive and Ali texted him something along the lines of “your silence is the answer” when she didn’t hear back from him for a week and he ghosted her. Ali said he sucks in #77 AUA
Lisbon
The Brit
M&M
The Come Back Kid
They went on 2-3 dates in Nov 2018 and reconnected in May 2022, "felt immediately comfortable", sat next to a very drunk lady on their second 1st date and was supportive but "didn't step on Ali's toes" when the drunk lady said something offensive to Ali, couldn’t remember if they slept together or not, knows about FMH, ghosted Ali
The Trainer
The Cold Brew
The Nomad
3rd matchmaker match, reminded Ali of The Oyster, wanted kids and didn’t want to live in NYC forever, Ali was upset at first because her matchmaker was supposed to screen for that but the matchmaker DID check and it wasn’t mentioned when she was screening The Nomad, no second date because those are dealbreakers to him
The Catcher
Matched on Bumble, “good not great” after their first date, ~April 2022, talked about sports a lot on their first date
The Gentleman
4th matchmaker match, knew about Ali’s FMH socials before their date, Ali didn’t like his texting style, awkward intro on their first date “like hugging a 2 x 4”, he runs a dating event company and actually email Ali to be a guest on the pod when FMH first started, awkward goodbye, didn’t discuss the actual first date on the main pod because she doesn’t want to give him a reason to reach out again
The Tennis Pro
Ali had a good time on their date, “He is an adult, he’s mature” BUT “I don’t think he was into it”
The Padre
Matched on Bumble, 3 dates, from San Diego, “energy mismatch”, doesn’t want to know or listen to FMH, no psychical connection/kiss, only a kiss on the cheek on their last date, “I haven’t spoken to him since Friday night [a week]”, she didn’t want to do what The Threepeat did to her (break up while on vacation/traveling), she said it might be a MOO
Roark leaves and Erica joins the pod Oct 31st 2022
Captain Kirk5th matchmaker match, found him on Bumble before their in-person date, ghosted Ali AND the matchmaker???
6th matchmaker match
Last match and Ali states she will not talk about this date or anything about it
JFK Kirk?
Matched on Bumble, didn’t realize he’s located in SD, exchanged personal instagram info, not sure where things went or how things ended
Kirk #1
Met in the wild, make out a lot the night they met, “stealing kisses throughout the night”, exchanged numbers, planned a date (no specifics, just the day) but when Ali texted him day of he asked to reschedule (no specifics again), he replied back that he’s picking up a rental car, told him she’s looking for someone to respect her time and he never replied back
2023
The FalconFirst date of 2023, matched on The League, first nickname was “League Kirk”, hard to talk to, felt like Ali was always reaching for the next topic, likes to travel, “there wasn’t a vibe”, MOO
The Roommate
Used to be her friend’s roommate and have met before (Ali doesn’t remember but it was the day after that exclusive convo with The Rower), “totally cute”, reunited at their mutual friend’s engagement party January 2023, made out at the bar, comes back to her place and sleeps over (no sex), Ali questions why her friends never set them up and its because he was taking a break from dating, first date they made out a lot at the bar (again), “I really felt like we were already a couple”, “It didn’t feel like a first date”, mentions her FMH content has popped up on his FYP, tried texting him after their date and he wasn’t giving effort, she’s glad she didn’t sleep with him because “one night stands aren’t my thing”, MOO
The Belgian
Matched on Bumble, accidentally had their first date during a trivia night at a bar, easy to talk to
The Viking
Ali forgot they had a first date on the day of said date
Tinder Man
Matched on Tinder (duh) on Valentine’s Day, first Tinder date in three years, good convo on first date but got a pushy vibe from him at the second bar they went to, put his hand up her sweater and was kissing her in the bar, made Ali uncomfortable and she told him that after he asked her on a second date
The Historian
Matched on Bumble, good conversation on the first date with a wide range of topics like “urban planning and its impact on feminism”, he’s in grad school
The Georgian
Matched on Hinge, he asked if she was free on Friday and she said yes but didn’t hear back from him in two days and in that time she made plans for Friday, rescheduled for a Saturday afternoon date at a dive bar, ate on her way to her date “it would be next level rude to eat on the subway”, good first date, talked about places he wants to take her to
The Publicist
Matched on Tinder, lives in BK, Jewish, one year younger then Ali, good first date, invited him to the Chaotic Singles Party that night, came over to Ali's apartment (which Ali said was messy) before and he made her favorite cocktail for her, a couple of listeners met him at the CSP, goofy and silly convo mixed with deep and serious convos, second date was at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and a tasting menu dinner, he made a Resy reservation and Ali got an email saying she was added to it ”fuck receiving gifts, THAT’S my love language”, he's into words like Ali, he sneezed and Ali said "God bless you" but then corrected herself and said "gesundheit" and he leaned over and kissed her and said he loves that she cares about her words, he met her friends on the third date ”It felt so easy. It felt so comfortable”, her friends took “sneaky” picture and videos of them together which Ali said she loves a sneaky pic, took all their date recap videos on his phone, cooked Ali steak on their fourth date, "it's very comfortable", had him watch 90 Day Fiancé, Ali met two of his friends and some of his teammates he plays a rec sport with, had sex the day they took a trip outside of the city, Erica met him before their trip to Greece and I said “he’s dorky in a good way”, WhatsApp video chatted while in Greece and told her “see you in two days!” at the end of their call, said she felt less anxious about him compared to other relationships while on vacation, sent him a birthday present while she was in Greece, felt an energy shift coming back from vacation and didn’t hear back from him 3 days after she came home, Ali requested a call to talk about this distances she was feeling, ”I did the 12 date rule and it didn’t work!”, she said the distance help her see that they’re not compatible, went on a total of 9 dates. Ali talks about the “break up” on episode 123
Mr. Chaotic
Matched on Tinder but he saw Ali at the Chaotic Singles Party and Cassidy the host is there mutual friend, went to a brewery and played games on their first date (Ali said this was her favorite first dates in episode 147 where they recapped 2023), works in entertainment industry, very high energy, knows about FMH and he said she's entertaining to watch, splits his time between NYC and some unknown city, texted while she was in Greece, ”The man gives good texts”
Random Matchmaker Match
Withdrew his match to Ali because he found her FMH socials. Talked about on #71 AUA
Gone with the Wind
Matchmaker match, said some gross things about women in volleyball outfits on their first date, Ali told her matchmaker about this, ”I would describe him as misogynistic overall”, Ali was glad he did say those weird things so early on so she didn’t waste her time, the matchmaker flagged his account. This was around June 2023
The Rock
Ali knows him from an activity that they used to be involved with in the city (she's very vague about what this is) from 8 years ago, he had a very serious/long term GF when they met, follows her personal Insta, has never talked about him because he’s never been a “prospect”, summer 2023 they met up to catch up and found out that he’s now recently single but he’s moving out of NYC for work, Ali texts Cindy saying she thinks this is a date, Cindy said to tell him that you really want to kiss him, he ends up telling Ali “I really want to kiss you”, made out at the bar, Ali invited him back to her apartment and they had sex the night before Ali ended things with The Publicist, “one night stand vibes” but she said she was down to do it again, Patreon only and talked about on #75 AUA
The Tourist
Matched on Hinge, just moved to Brooklynn, went to a brewery in BK for their first date, Ali showed up to the date dripping in sweat, allergic to cats, he sent Ali a ‘no ghosting’ text the next morning
The Stout
Matched on Bumble, ”we had really great banter right away”, laughed the whole time on their first date, talked about going on a second date during their first date
Speed Racer
Matched on Bumble, drinks first date, axe throwing second date, made out after their second date, MOO, randomly texted Ali ~6 months later because he said one of Ali’s date recap videos about him popped up on his FYP (Ali and Erica think this is a lie), he thought Ali wasn’t into him, he claims he was doing all the work with texting even though there was only a few messages since they exchanged numbers after their second date
Billy Joel
Recently sober, Ali said she felt like they had several inside jokes before they met in person, ate pizza on her way to their first date, second date was getting coffee and going to the museum, they cooked dinner together for their third date at Ali’s apartment and they watched 90 Day Fiancé (he didn’t like it), he Googled how to clean a red wine stain when it spilled on her countertop, he asked if she wanted to have sex and she turned it down, the next day/the day before a 7am flight Ali booty called him and they had sex, she was drunk and said the sex wasn’t good/they stopped mid way, helped Ali pack for her flight, Ali said he’s at a crossroad and he doesn’t seem like a long term fit, Erica found a condom on the ground while cat sitting, Ali said she didn’t regret hooking up with him but wishes she hadn’t done it, MOO
Sales Cycle
30 seconds in and Ali said he was very boring, only really talked about his job, stared at Ali’s boobs, “might be a MOO”, texted her ‘merry christmas’
2024
Pie Guy/Dr. LaundryMatched on The League, 34 years old, requested a nickname change from Pie Guy to Dr. Laundry, he had to cancel their second date because he got hit by a car, went on two dates, Ali sent him a pic of his subway stop saying something along the lines of “the stop isn’t looking as cute today” and turns out someone he dated with in that photo, were supposed to go on a third date the night she got back from a bachelorette party but he didn't answer her text when she said she landed, the next day he asked her how her trip was not acknowledging her previous text at all, Ali expressed her disappointment and he replied that he was tired last night, she said she would've been understanding if he said something then ghosted her
Andddd I stopped listening to the podcast around the Dr. Pie Laundry Guy but have stayed up to date with everything via this sub.
I have a huge interest in dating culture, human behavior and data similar to Ali and this little project of mine was really interesting once I got the framework of this list. I started this list once I found this sub in December 2023 and started re listening to the Patreon while working out (and lost 10 lbs ayeee) and writing down information in my notes app. I did my best to keep this list unbiased and just give facts and information that was said.
My own thoughts after making this list is that I'm very sad for Ali. I didn't realize the extent of her dating history. I think about my own dating history or even my friends who are in their 30's and dating and Ali's dating lore runs so deep. Is Ali unlucky with love? Did she pass on someone that could have been great for her? How has she had so many dates with little success in a long term partner or even going beyond 6-8 dates? Or is Skyline the person she has been waiting for? What's the pattern with all this dates/men? So many questions.
I truly do hope Ali finds her guy because I believe theres someone for everyone. Until then, I'll be hopping into this sub (cause y'all are too funny and give the best advice) and waiting for Ali to find Mr. Height.
Enjoy and I look forward to everyone thoughts! I'll keep my eye out for any edits that need to be made.
Bonus quotes:
“Longest relationship was a little under a year and a half. Haven’t made it past 6 months with anyone else” - AUA #7 11/27/21
“I spent the first 10+ years of my dating life being sort of perennially single” -1. The Actual First One episode 2/21/21
"I think my parent's story is the reason why I think that I can romantically get back together with an ex and it'll work out" -The Dave Glaser Podcast 4/5/21
“Almost every relationship I’ve ever been in, with a couple of exceptions, started as a situationship.” -21. The Undefined One 7/11/21
“All of my boyfriends have been white” -Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“You definitely need an older guy” -Cindy on Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“I’ve been on the dating apps since high school. Dating websites at the time” -Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“Who would be the perfect man for Ali?”
“Clearly a combination of the The Dentist and [the early stages of] The Buffalo” -Cindy on Ali’s BFF Special on Patreon 4/23/22
“Do you consider The Rower or Disco ball to have been situationships?”
“No, I don't consider either The Rower or The Disco Ball to be situationships” -question asked on TikTok 11/9/22
2024.05.18 23:02 Ok_Unit_8242 25% off for 398 apps
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2MD: VR Football Unleashed ALL☆STARA Fisherman's Tale
A Rogue Escape
Accounting+
Acron: Attack of the Squirrels!
After the Fall®
Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR
ALTAIR BREAKER
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
Alvo
Amid Evil
Ancient Dungeon
Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
Another Fisherman's Tale
Anshar 2: Hyperdrive
Arashi: Castles of Sin - Final Cut
Arcade Legend
Arcade Paradise VR
Arcaxer
Arcsmith
AREA MAN LIVES
Arizona Sunshine®
Arizona Sunshine® 2
Asgard's Wrath 2
Assassin’s Creed® Nexus VR
Audio Trip
Audioshield
AVICII Invector: Encore Edition
Bad Dreams
BAM
Barbaria
BARTENDER VR SIMULATOR
Battle Bows
Battle Talent
BattleGroupVR
BEAT ARENA
Beat Saber
Black Hole Pool
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad
Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition
BlazeRush: Star Track
Block Buster
BONELAB
Border Bots VR
Breachers
Breathedge: Cosmic Cluck
BRINK Traveler
Broken Edge
Budget Cuts Ultimate
Bulletstorm VR
Call of the Sea VR
Captain ToonHead vs The Punks from Outer Space
Car Mechanic Simulator
Carly and the Reaperman
Carve Snowboarding
CarX Rally VR
Catan VR
Cave Digger
Cave Digger 2 Dig Harder
Cities: VR
Clash of Chefs VR
CleanSheet Soccer
Colossal Cave
COMPOUND
Contractors
Contractors Showdown
Cook-Out
CookieRun: The Darkest Night ~ Chapter1 ~
Cooking Simulator VR
Cosmodread
Cosmonious High
Crashland
Crazy Kung Fu
Creed: Rise to Glory - Championship Edition™
Crimen - Mercenary Tales
Crisis Brigade 2 reloaded
Crumbling
Cybrix
Darksword: Battle Eternity
Dash Dash World
Dead Effect 2
Dead Hook
Dead Secret Circle
Death Horizon: Reloaded
Death Lap
Deisim
Demeo
Demeo Battles
Demeter
Down the Rabbit Hole
Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu
Dragon Front Rising
Drop Dead: Dual Strike Edition
Drop Dead: The Cabin
Drums Rock
Drunkn Bar Fight
Dungeons Of Eternity
DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate
Electronauts
Eleven Table Tennis
Elven Assassin
End Space
Eolia
Espire 1: VR Operative
Espire 2: Stealth Operatives
Eternal Notre-Dame
Eternal Starlight
Exorcist: Legion VR
Eye of the Temple
Figmin XR Mixed Reality
Final Space VR - The Rescue
First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Flight 74
Floor Plan 2
Flow Weaver
ForeVR Bowl
ForeVR Pool
FREEDIVER: Triton Down
Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja 2
Gadgeteer
Galactic Catch
Gambit!
Garden of the Sea
GAZZLERS
Genotype
Gesture VR
Ghost Giant
Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord
Ghosts of Tabor
Gladius
Golf 5
GOLF+
GORN
Gravity Lab
Green Hell VR
GRID Legends
Guardians Frontline
Guided Meditation VR
Gun Club VR
Gun Jam VR
Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue
Hellsweeper VR
Holopoint
Homestar VR: Special Edition
Homeworld: Vast Reaches
HouseFlipper VR
Hubris
HUMANITY
Hunt Together
Chess Club
I Expect You To Die
I Expect You To Die 2
I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine
iB Cricket
In Death: Unchained
Interkosmos 2000
Into the Radius
INVERSE
IRON GUARD
Iron Rebellion
Ironlights
IRONSTRIKE
Island Time
ISLANDERS VR Edition
Job Simulator
Journey to Foundation
Jupiter & Mars
Jurassic World Aftermath Collection
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Kill It With Fire VR
Killer Frequency
Kingspray Graffiti
Knockout League
Larcenauts
Last Labyrinth
Lawn Mowing Simulator VR
Layers of Fear VR
LEGO® Bricktales
LES MILLS BODYCOMBAT
LES MILLS XR DANCE
Let's Create! Pottery VR
Lies Beneath
Linelight
Little Cities
Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing
Loco Dojo Unleashed
Lucky's Tale
Luna
Mannequin
MarineVerse Cup
Marvel's Iron Man VR
Maskmaker
Max Mustard
Medal of Honor™: Above and Beyond
Medieval Dynasty New Settlement
Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem
Mini Motor Racing X
Mixture
Morels: Homestead
Moss
Moss: Book II
MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE
MultiBrush
MVP Football - The Patrick Mahomes Experience
Myst
Nano
Neko Atsume Purrfect Kitty Collector
NFL PRO ERA
NFL PRO ERA II
Ninja Legends
No More Rainbows
Not For Broadcast
OhShape
Omega Pilot
Onward
Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission VR
OrbusVR: Reborn
Outta Hand
Paint the Town Red VR
Painting VR
Papaye Bang Bang VR
Paradiddle
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Path of the Warrior
PathCraft
PatchWorld - Multiplayer Music Maker
Pavlov Shack
Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom
Per Aspera VR
Phantom: Covert Ops
Pickleball Pro
Pinball FX2 VR
Pistol Whip
Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure
Pixel Ripped 1995
PowerBeatsVR
PowerWash Simulator VR
Premium Bowling
Presentiment of Death
Primal Hunt
Primal Hunt
Prison Boss VR
Prison Boss VR
Project Demigod
Project TERMINUS VR
Propagation: Paradise Hotel
Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odyssey
Puzzling Places
Raccoon Lagoon
Racket Club
Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR
Racket: Nx
Radial-G: Proteus
Ragnarock
REAKT Performance Trainer
Real VR Fishing
Recombination Anniversary Edition
Red Matter
Red Matter 2
Resident Evil 4
Resist
Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye
Rez Infinite
Rezzil Player
Richie's Plank Experience
Robo Recall: Unplugged
Rooms of Realities
RUINSMAGUS
RUNNER
RUSH
Sairento VR : Untethered
Sam and Max: This Time It's Virtual!
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party
SculptrVR
Shadow Point
Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok
Shave & Stuff
Shooty Fruity
Shores of Loci
Sky Climb
Smash Drums
Sniper Elite VR
Sniper Elite VR: Winter Warrior
Snow Wars
SOLARIS OFFWORLD COMBAT
Song in the Smoke
SOUL COVENANT
Space Docker VR
Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash!
Space Pirate Trainer DX
Space Salvage
Spacefolk City
Spaceteam VR
Spice & Wolf VR
Sports Scramble
STACK
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge
Star Wars™ Pinball VR
Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending
Stranger Things VR
STRIDE
STRIDE: Fates
SUPERHOT VR
Survival Nation
Survivorman VR: The Descent
Sushi Ben
Swarm
SWARM 2
Sweet Surrender
SWORDS of GARGANTUA
Swordsman
Synth Riders
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown
Tennis Esports
Tennis League VR
Tentacular
Tetris® Effect: Connected
The 7th Guest VR
The American Dream
The Climb
The Climb 2
The Last Clockwinder
The Last Worker
The Light Brigade
The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
The Signifier
The Tale of Onogoro
The Twilight Zone™
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution
The Wizards
The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood
Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street
Thumper
Tiger Blade
Tilt Brush
Time Stall
Titanic: A Space Between
Titans Clinic
TOKYO CHRONOS
TOSS!
TOTALLY BASEBALL
Townsmen VR
Toy Monsters
Track Craft
Traffic Jams
Tropico
Trover Saves the Universe
UBOAT: The Silent Wolf
Ultrawings
Ultrawings 2
UNBINARY
UNDERDOGS
Unearthed
Unplugged: Air Guitar
Until You Fall
Vacation Simulator
VAIL
Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice
Ven VR Adventure
Vermillion - VR Painting
Virtual Desktop
Virtual Virtual Reality
Virtual Virtual Reality 2
Virtuoso
Vox Machinae
Walkabout Mini Golf
Waltz of the Wizard
Wands
Wands Alliances
Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall
Warplanes: Air Corp
Warplanes: Battles over Pacific
Warplanes: WW1 Fighters
We Are One
WHAT THE BAT?
Windlands
Windlands 2
Wings 1941
World Of Mechs
World War Toons: Tank Arena VR
Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife
YUKI Space Ranger
Yupitergrad
Yupitergrad 2: The Lost Station
Zero Caliber: Reloaded
Ziggy's Cosmic Adventures
ZOMBIE BAR SIMULATOR
Zombieland: Headshot Fever
ZOOKEEPER : Blast Quest
Zooma: Deluxe Edition
2024.05.18 20:58 darksideofyellow [PC][2013ish] Online chat room game similar to Habbo hotel
Ive been looking for this online chat room game that i played in around 2013-2014ish. It's similar to harbor hotel but more 2d. I remember the avatars were small and had no faces and you just went to different rooms and chatted. You had your own room and could decorate it. The avatars were animeish when you click on someone and they were almost fantasyish with different colorful skins. The whole point of the game was just chatting and stuff. The game was 2d and very simplistic.
Console: PC
Genre: Chatroom
Estimated year of release: I remember playing it in 2013 but I wasn't new then. So maybe 2010ish?
Graphics: 2d. Like realistic simple cartoon. I don't even know how to describe it. The profile avatars were more detailed and human like though.
Gameplay: It was a click to move game.
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Console: PC
Genre: Chatroom
Estimated year of release: I remember playing it in 2013 but I wasn't new then. So maybe 2010ish?
Graphics: 2d. Like realistic simple cartoon. I don't even know how to describe it. The profile avatars were more detailed and human like though.
Gameplay: It was a click to move game.
2024.05.18 06:13 HopefulLeadership568 Flying 5 weeks post op: my experience
At the beginning of April, I had a medial meniscus root repair, 2 stiches. My surgeon wanted me NWB for 4 weeks, 2 weeks PWB with crutches, and post-6 weeks I will slowly start to drop the crutches. I have been doind light PT since day 3 and started seeing my athletic trainer about 12 days post op. Flexion is currently around 110 degrees.
I needed to take a 5.5 hour flight 5 weeks post-op for work (just happened this week). I was cleared by my AT to fly last week, but she instructed me to wear a compression sleeve from my foot to my mid thigh and continue with the baby aspirin. I was pretty nervous working up to this, mostly bc I am still not fully weight bearing and wanted to share my key takeaways since there have been some questions.
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I needed to take a 5.5 hour flight 5 weeks post-op for work (just happened this week). I was cleared by my AT to fly last week, but she instructed me to wear a compression sleeve from my foot to my mid thigh and continue with the baby aspirin. I was pretty nervous working up to this, mostly bc I am still not fully weight bearing and wanted to share my key takeaways since there have been some questions.
- My husband dropped me off at the airport and brought my bag to the check in desk so I didnt have to try and pull it. I would have been able to do so but it would have been hard.
- I secured wheelchair service at both airports and I will say, these people are angels. They made sure I was safe, made it to my gate, and I even got to stop by the lounge on my flight out to get coffee. Make sure to tip your person as they work really hard and dont make a lot.
- I had to get the pat down since I cannot take the brace off while walking. It was fine, not invasive, just plan a little extra time, especially if you are female as they have to call a woman to pat you down and at both airports there were more male TSA agents.
- I checked my normal carry-on roller bag so I wouldnt have to deal with it. Having someone who can manage the bag if you are still on crutches will be important; the wheelchair person helped me get the bag off the carousel once I landed.
- I was fortunate enough for this flight (and another next week) to be in first as this is required work travel. Having the bulk row made a HUGE difference so I could actually elevate my leg. I would recommend paying for the extra legroom in economy or first if you have to fly while you are still NWB or PWB since actually standing up on the flight is HARD.
- One of the HARDEST things was actually getting into the plane. The step up was really high and I felt that I put too much weight on my surgical leg to propel up. I made it, it was fine… but not easy. Getting out of the plane was easy.
- I wore my compression sleeve the entire flight out to PHL. I didnt need ice but I did bring two 1-gallon ziplock bags. On the flight home, I needed ice so I asked the FA to fill up one and I placed it in the second bag to avoid leaking. I also brought a dish towel to place on my leg.
- I took baby aspirin every 12 hours starting the day before the flight and everyday before the return flight. I dont know if this ACTUALLY helped (limited evidence) but it made me feel better.
- I tried to hydrate a lot the day or two before and while on the flight.
- The FA were able to help me get my crutches down so I could go to the bathroom a couple times during each flight. I tried to time it around smooth travel. Obviously this isnt easy to predict but I was able to manage. Go slow… it is doable. Warning, the bathroom doors dont stay open without holding them.
- I did all the PT exercises that I could, as often as I could, while seated and made sure I stood up every 2 hours minimum. I wore my Birkenstocks so I could keep an eye on my toes.
- The flight out was actually fine. It was really early so I was well rested. The flight home was rough. I had been working, standing and moving for 2 days at this point, and I was swollen BEFORE I boarded the return. By the time I landed back home, my leg(s) were really swollen and my toes looked like sausages. It was a little unnerving but it went away by the time I woke up. I wish I had stood up more. Moved More.
- I am able to unlock my brace to 90 degrees when I am seated, and can even take it off so that actually helped a lot and made things more comfortable.
- Staying at a hotel alone was an entirely different adventure that I am happy to share
- I have another 6hr flight in a few days. I can update if anything new happens.
2024.05.18 01:19 APurplePenguin_ [S] Penguins: Survivor Canada (S5)
Penguins: Survivor Canada is here! 16 Castaways will assort themselves into two tribes, Jouer and Dernier, and will battle it out for the prize of 1 million dollars!
Welcome back to the BrantSteele series with no effort whatsoever put into it, I'm penguin and this is Penguins: Survivor Canada!
https://brantsteele.com/survivo05/r.php?c=kQCS4XhP
Lets meet our castaways!
the Jouer tribe:
Craig Johnston, 27, Axe Thrower by u/swoldow
Jordan "Jojo" Lanston, 18, Blogger by u/AshZomboy
June Lau, 56, Hotel Receptionist by u/Twig7665
Leonardo "Leo" Costa, 36, Environmental Scientist by u/Nahuelfire39
Mercedes "Merces" Lopez, 41, Grandma of 3 by u/survivorgoldenboy
Randy Marton, Rancher by u/SilverOwl24 (no age provided)
Viktor "Zeystev" Zeystev, 37, Lawyer by u/swoldow
Walter Bloo, 48, Personal Trainer by u/AshZomboy
Dernier Tribe:
Amanda Harker, Vegetarian Chef by u/SilverOwl24 (no age provided)
Andre Johnson, 43, Teacher by u/xXiDamXx
Emilly Ford, 26, Private Detective, by u/survivorgoldenboy
Ignacio "Nacio" Ortega, 22, Ride Sharer by u/Twig7665
Joo-Won Ju, 27, Waitress by u/Nahuelfire39
Joshua "Josh" Samson, 37, Motivational Vlogger by u/Twig7665
LaQuanna Thomas, 27, Movie Theater Popcorn Vendor by u/swoldow
Trisha "Trish" Brown, 30, Novelist, by u/ToastieGreep
Winner: Jordan "Jojo" Lanston
Runner-Up: Randy Marton
Fan Favorite (Brantsteele): LaQuanna Thomas
Fan Favorite (My Choice): Andre Johnson
Thoughts: Great season. I didn't like that alot of the votes were boring unanimous ones (maybe I'm just spoiled from the insane votes in Japan lol) but still a great season overall. Jojo and Randy's insane underdog run was insane to watch! After Craig was gone they had to overcome a 2-5 deficit and pulled it off! Amazing work from Jojo and Randy. LaQuanna being eliminated with 0 votes against her do to being rocked out is sooo unfortunate. Zeystev was a great pre-merge villain, and Josh was a great merge villain. What an underdog story!
Previous Seasons:
Borneo
Australia
India
Japan
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Welcome back to the BrantSteele series with no effort whatsoever put into it, I'm penguin and this is Penguins: Survivor Canada!
https://brantsteele.com/survivo05/r.php?c=kQCS4XhP
Lets meet our castaways!
the Jouer tribe:
Craig Johnston, 27, Axe Thrower by u/swoldow
Jordan "Jojo" Lanston, 18, Blogger by u/AshZomboy
June Lau, 56, Hotel Receptionist by u/Twig7665
Leonardo "Leo" Costa, 36, Environmental Scientist by u/Nahuelfire39
Mercedes "Merces" Lopez, 41, Grandma of 3 by u/survivorgoldenboy
Randy Marton, Rancher by u/SilverOwl24 (no age provided)
Viktor "Zeystev" Zeystev, 37, Lawyer by u/swoldow
Walter Bloo, 48, Personal Trainer by u/AshZomboy
Dernier Tribe:
Amanda Harker, Vegetarian Chef by u/SilverOwl24 (no age provided)
Andre Johnson, 43, Teacher by u/xXiDamXx
Emilly Ford, 26, Private Detective, by u/survivorgoldenboy
Ignacio "Nacio" Ortega, 22, Ride Sharer by u/Twig7665
Joo-Won Ju, 27, Waitress by u/Nahuelfire39
Joshua "Josh" Samson, 37, Motivational Vlogger by u/Twig7665
LaQuanna Thomas, 27, Movie Theater Popcorn Vendor by u/swoldow
Trisha "Trish" Brown, 30, Novelist, by u/ToastieGreep
Winner: Jordan "Jojo" Lanston
Runner-Up: Randy Marton
Fan Favorite (Brantsteele): LaQuanna Thomas
Fan Favorite (My Choice): Andre Johnson
Thoughts: Great season. I didn't like that alot of the votes were boring unanimous ones (maybe I'm just spoiled from the insane votes in Japan lol) but still a great season overall. Jojo and Randy's insane underdog run was insane to watch! After Craig was gone they had to overcome a 2-5 deficit and pulled it off! Amazing work from Jojo and Randy. LaQuanna being eliminated with 0 votes against her do to being rocked out is sooo unfortunate. Zeystev was a great pre-merge villain, and Josh was a great merge villain. What an underdog story!
Previous Seasons:
Borneo
Australia
India
Japan
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Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
Puzzle Bubble VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3202625546470498
Puzzling Places https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3931148300302917
Racket Club https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6022041731249559
Racket NX https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2255408847836468
Ragnarock https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3749621795127676
Real VR Fishing https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2582932495064035
Red Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2180753588712484
Red Matter 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3682089508520212
Resident Evil 4 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2637179839719680
Robo Recall Unplugged https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1906871599408213
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5736173679792982
Shadow Point https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2088119334554800
Smash Drums https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3630025217090808
Sniper Elite VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2544573735586536
Space Pirate Trainer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1663790613725314
Star Wars VR Pinball https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3180994211970184
Superhot VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1921533091289407
Swarm https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2236053486488156
Synth Riders https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2436558143118760
Tetris Effect Connected https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3386618894743567
The 7th Guest VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5223884527630557
The Climb 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2617233878395214
The Last Clockwinder https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4837365566303714
The Light Brigade https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2681027292004911
The Room VR Dark Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2124523024270629
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2897337400373711
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5190288877703616
Ultra Wings 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3215828205181680
Underdogs https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5302178529865980/
Unplugged Air Guitar https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4714094898617280
Until You Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567459230020142
Ven VR Adventure https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3327317663977182
Virtual Desktop https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2017050365004772
Walkabout Minigolf https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2462678267173943
Waltz of the Wizard https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2280285932034855
War Planes Battles Over the Pacific https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3984056454948095
War Planes WW1 Fighters https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3922378427824210
Zombieland Headshot Fever https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2792447070854325
Meta Quest Device Referral https://www.meta.com/referrals/link/Zyxious
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After the Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2160364850746031
Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
Puzzle Bubble VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3202625546470498
Puzzling Places https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3931148300302917
Racket Club https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6022041731249559
Racket NX https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2255408847836468
Ragnarock https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3749621795127676
Real VR Fishing https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2582932495064035
Red Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2180753588712484
Red Matter 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3682089508520212
Resident Evil 4 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2637179839719680
Robo Recall Unplugged https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1906871599408213
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5736173679792982
Shadow Point https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2088119334554800
Smash Drums https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3630025217090808
Sniper Elite VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2544573735586536
Space Pirate Trainer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1663790613725314
Star Wars VR Pinball https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3180994211970184
Superhot VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1921533091289407
Swarm https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2236053486488156
Synth Riders https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2436558143118760
Tetris Effect Connected https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3386618894743567
The 7th Guest VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5223884527630557
The Climb 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2617233878395214
The Last Clockwinder https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4837365566303714
The Light Brigade https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2681027292004911
The Room VR Dark Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2124523024270629
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2897337400373711
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5190288877703616
Ultra Wings 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3215828205181680
Underdogs https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5302178529865980/
Unplugged Air Guitar https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4714094898617280
Until You Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567459230020142
Ven VR Adventure https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3327317663977182
Virtual Desktop https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2017050365004772
Walkabout Minigolf https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2462678267173943
Waltz of the Wizard https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2280285932034855
War Planes Battles Over the Pacific https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3984056454948095
War Planes WW1 Fighters https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3922378427824210
Zombieland Headshot Fever https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2792447070854325
Meta Quest Device Referral https://www.meta.com/referrals/link/Zyxious
2024.05.17 22:34 Zyxious Discounts on 95 games in alphabetical order! Including Underdogs, CleanSheet Soccer, The 7th Guest VR, Racket Club and many more!
A Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2299967930057156
After the Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2160364850746031
Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
Puzzle Bubble VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3202625546470498
Puzzling Places https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3931148300302917
Racket Club https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6022041731249559
Racket NX https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2255408847836468
Ragnarock https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3749621795127676
Real VR Fishing https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2582932495064035
Red Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2180753588712484
Red Matter 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3682089508520212
Resident Evil 4 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2637179839719680
Robo Recall Unplugged https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1906871599408213
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5736173679792982
Shadow Point https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2088119334554800
Smash Drums https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3630025217090808
Sniper Elite VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2544573735586536
Space Pirate Trainer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1663790613725314
Star Wars VR Pinball https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3180994211970184
Superhot VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1921533091289407
Swarm https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2236053486488156
Synth Riders https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2436558143118760
Tetris Effect Connected https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3386618894743567
The 7th Guest VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5223884527630557
The Climb 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2617233878395214
The Last Clockwinder https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4837365566303714
The Light Brigade https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2681027292004911
The Room VR Dark Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2124523024270629
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2897337400373711
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5190288877703616
Ultra Wings 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3215828205181680
Underdogs https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5302178529865980/
Unplugged Air Guitar https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4714094898617280
Until You Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567459230020142
Ven VR Adventure https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3327317663977182
Virtual Desktop https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2017050365004772
Walkabout Minigolf https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2462678267173943
Waltz of the Wizard https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2280285932034855
War Planes Battles Over the Pacific https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3984056454948095
War Planes WW1 Fighters https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3922378427824210
Zombieland Headshot Fever https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2792447070854325
Meta Quest Device Referral https://www.meta.com/referrals/link/Zyxious
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After the Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2160364850746031
Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
Puzzle Bubble VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3202625546470498
Puzzling Places https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3931148300302917
Racket Club https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6022041731249559
Racket NX https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2255408847836468
Ragnarock https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3749621795127676
Real VR Fishing https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2582932495064035
Red Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2180753588712484
Red Matter 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3682089508520212
Resident Evil 4 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2637179839719680
Robo Recall Unplugged https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1906871599408213
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5736173679792982
Shadow Point https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2088119334554800
Smash Drums https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3630025217090808
Sniper Elite VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2544573735586536
Space Pirate Trainer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1663790613725314
Star Wars VR Pinball https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3180994211970184
Superhot VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1921533091289407
Swarm https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2236053486488156
Synth Riders https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2436558143118760
Tetris Effect Connected https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3386618894743567
The 7th Guest VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5223884527630557
The Climb 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2617233878395214
The Last Clockwinder https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4837365566303714
The Light Brigade https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2681027292004911
The Room VR Dark Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2124523024270629
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2897337400373711
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5190288877703616
Ultra Wings 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3215828205181680
Underdogs https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5302178529865980/
Unplugged Air Guitar https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4714094898617280
Until You Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567459230020142
Ven VR Adventure https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3327317663977182
Virtual Desktop https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2017050365004772
Walkabout Minigolf https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2462678267173943
Waltz of the Wizard https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2280285932034855
War Planes Battles Over the Pacific https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3984056454948095
War Planes WW1 Fighters https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3922378427824210
Zombieland Headshot Fever https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2792447070854325
Meta Quest Device Referral https://www.meta.com/referrals/link/Zyxious
2024.05.17 22:34 Zyxious Discounts on 95 games in alphabetical order! Including Underdogs, CleanSheet Soccer, The 7th Guest VR, Racket Club and many more!
A Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2299967930057156
After the Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2160364850746031
Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
Puzzle Bubble VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3202625546470498
Puzzling Places https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3931148300302917
Racket Club https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6022041731249559
Racket NX https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2255408847836468
Ragnarock https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3749621795127676
Real VR Fishing https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2582932495064035
Red Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2180753588712484
Red Matter 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3682089508520212
Resident Evil 4 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2637179839719680
Robo Recall Unplugged https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1906871599408213
Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5736173679792982
Shadow Point https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2088119334554800
Smash Drums https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3630025217090808
Sniper Elite VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2544573735586536
Space Pirate Trainer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1663790613725314
Star Wars VR Pinball https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3180994211970184
Superhot VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1921533091289407
Swarm https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2236053486488156
Synth Riders https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2436558143118760
Tetris Effect Connected https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3386618894743567
The 7th Guest VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5223884527630557
The Climb 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2617233878395214
The Last Clockwinder https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4837365566303714
The Light Brigade https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2681027292004911
The Room VR Dark Matter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2124523024270629
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2897337400373711
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5190288877703616
Ultra Wings 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3215828205181680
Underdogs https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5302178529865980/
Unplugged Air Guitar https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4714094898617280
Until You Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567459230020142
Ven VR Adventure https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3327317663977182
Virtual Desktop https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2017050365004772
Walkabout Minigolf https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2462678267173943
Waltz of the Wizard https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2280285932034855
War Planes Battles Over the Pacific https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3984056454948095
War Planes WW1 Fighters https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3922378427824210
Zombieland Headshot Fever https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2792447070854325
Meta Quest Device Referral https://www.meta.com/referrals/link/Zyxious
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After the Fall https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2160364850746031
Another Fisherman's Tale https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4543286815791830
Arizona Sunshine 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5245041552210029
Asgard's Wrath 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2603836099654226
Assassin's Creed Nexus https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5812519008825194
Audio Trip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2484044451715693
Beat Saber https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2448060205267927
Blade & Sorcery: Nomad https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2031826350263349
Bone Lab https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4215734068529064
Broken Edge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5136958036416423
Brink Traveler https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3635172946605196
CleanSheet Soccer https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5005632286166834/
Crazy Kung Fu https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3846153838783795
Creed Rise to Glory https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2366245336750543
Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5081572398619813
Death Horizon Reloaded https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2115015981923610
Dead Second https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3780317308718524
Demeo https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3634830803298285
Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2476104599150595
Drop Dead Dual Strike Edition https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1935017546592600
Drop Dead the Cabin https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4691479430874595
Dungeons Of Eternity https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/6341779295861881
Espire 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3529713943716002
Eleven Table Tennis https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1995434190525828
Eye of the Temple https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5361030930653377
ForeVR Bowl https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3420508614708029
ForeVR Pool https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4760607174068295
Fruit Ninja 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4917905281646450
Gadgeter https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2567395559960697
Gazzlers https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4912697945406928
Golf+ https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2412327085529357
Gorn https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3349689215139117
Green Hell VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3815577785147028
Hubris https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5722114367801351
I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1987283631365460
I Expect You to Die 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2970998659623177
I Expect You to Die 3 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4676322075753574
In Death Unchained https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2334376869949242
Into the Radius https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5817243991680545
Job Simulator https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3235570703151406
Journey to the Gods https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1853479764707533
Jurassic Park Aftermath Collection https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2708465082504733
Les Mills Body Combat https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4015163475201433
Little Cities https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4988470131168299
Lucky's Tail https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/3652037328256745
Marvel's Ironman VR https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/5017327094985781
Mini Motor Racing X https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2371757336252737
Mother Gunship Forge https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4188843481174389
Moss https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/1654565391314903
Moss Book 2 https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/4395292760584049
Myst https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2719294624823942
Oh Shape https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2522558964527688
Onward https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2677344882310094
Pistol Whip https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2104963472963790
Premium Bowling https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/2773034772778845
Propagation VR Paradise Hotel https://www.oculus.com/appreferrals/Zyxious/8826022237415280
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2024.05.17 20:10 ZestyRasputia I quit this week
Originally I had given about a 5 week notice because I’m a trainer and it can be hard to replace us… but after being sick last week and returning to chaos and bullshit, I couldn’t take it anymore. I already have a dream job lined up, so I don’t need a reference and I never plan on coming back to work for this terrible company.
Besides the terrible pay, lack of support, unrealistic expectations of trainers, and complete disregard for pet safety- I already had the ick about working for PetSmart due to the inhumane and disgusting behavior towards pets from our hotel manager. It’s a Christmas miracle that she still has a job. Here are her greatest hits:
I thought that by becoming a trainer I could distance myself from the atrocities of the hotel, and at first it was great. I love being with clients and helping them with their dogs, it’s everything else that came with working for fuck ass PetSmart that ruined it. I’ve already received several texts from clients who are sad to see me go and I feel bad for abandoning them- but no job is worth my mental health.
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Besides the terrible pay, lack of support, unrealistic expectations of trainers, and complete disregard for pet safety- I already had the ick about working for PetSmart due to the inhumane and disgusting behavior towards pets from our hotel manager. It’s a Christmas miracle that she still has a job. Here are her greatest hits:
- after a dog who is a known resource guarder bit another associate (this is like associate number 7 at this point) and drew blood, she joked about it with the pet parent. That dog is still allowed to come to this day.
- allowed an aggressive Rottweiler to continue coming despite numerous complaints from associates and no one being able or willing to handle the dog. He sent two associates to the hospital after viciously mauling them.
- only kicked out another aggressive dog after the Rottweiler mauling occurred to save face because associates had been complaining for over a year that they couldn’t get this dog out of her kennel, or to her kennel without being attacked. The hotel manager’s solution prior, was to get the dog out with a blanket and to let it walk into its kennel unleashed.
- she regularly down plays serious situations to pet parents and flat out lies to them. Like the time we had that mystery illness sweeping through the store and she was telling people it wasn’t serious (dogs were dying)
- she also talked shit to the SL in an attempt to block me from leaving the hotel and becoming a trainer. If it wasn’t for our DL being in the same puppy class as me and my dog, and the area trainer sticking up for me- I probably wouldn’t have gotten the job.
I thought that by becoming a trainer I could distance myself from the atrocities of the hotel, and at first it was great. I love being with clients and helping them with their dogs, it’s everything else that came with working for fuck ass PetSmart that ruined it. I’ve already received several texts from clients who are sad to see me go and I feel bad for abandoning them- but no job is worth my mental health.
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2024.05.17 15:51 I_Only_Have_One_Hand Some great restaurants here in 1972
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2024.05.17 05:48 punkrockbipolar My old username was climaxes and also x!Kevin!x lmao
I would play a lot of habbo from age 9-16 tbh. If you played .com like before 2013 you might know me! I ended up selling all my supers for real life cash & amazon gift cards lol. I used to have a best friend on there named Izzy but to this day I honestly don’t know if that person was really a boy or girl. I was known for battle ball, I forgot that snowball game but I was top 3 best in the USA hotel lol. After that I was a big gambler on there that was so much fun. After gambling I just became a hallway kid lolol it’d be awesome to get in contact with old friends
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2024.05.17 04:42 IceSmash1 Habbo Hotel: Just Another Day (Project)
I'm seeking help to preserve a rare and cherished book, Habbo Hotel: Just Another Day, of which only a handful of copies exist. As one of the fortunate owners, I've invested significant time and resources into acquiring this awesome book.
Now, I'd like to share it with the world by creating a digital PDF, but I'm hesitant to part with it due to the risk of damage or loss. I'm looking for a cost-effective way to scan the book while ensuring its safety.
If there's a cost involved, I hope the community will consider donating to support my effort to preserve our gaming heritage. Together, we can make this rare book accessible to all while safeguarding Habbo's legacy.
You can view images of the book + timestamp HERE!
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Now, I'd like to share it with the world by creating a digital PDF, but I'm hesitant to part with it due to the risk of damage or loss. I'm looking for a cost-effective way to scan the book while ensuring its safety.
If there's a cost involved, I hope the community will consider donating to support my effort to preserve our gaming heritage. Together, we can make this rare book accessible to all while safeguarding Habbo's legacy.
You can view images of the book + timestamp HERE!
Comment your ideas and suggestions on how to preserve and share this rare book below!
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2024.05.17 03:44 Sure-Assistance-8502 Miss Carly's POST 31---The Book of John
Sometimes a person deserves his own post, and I think John is deserving. On July 27, 2020, Carly posted"
"It's been a rough week for John, one of our homeless volunteers we are working on finding housing for. First he stood up too fast and knocked himself out when he hit his head on the underside of the bridge he sleeps under......Just as his head was healing, he lay down in some grass to take a nap and wait for his new roomie to get home from volunteering at our place....but he laid in the wrong spot..He ended up in the hospital and no-one could figure out what happened. A horrible plant (wild parsnip) had attacked John's arm! He is still in the hospital, unfortunately his arm may not make it. I sent him flowers and Jessica went to visit him right away. That meant a lot to John...we are his family. He said, "now these people know I'm not just a Hobo under the bridge".
Some of the comments were interesting under that particular post. Shari D asks, "can we pool our money and get him a hotel room for at least a month when he gets out?". MC quickly responds, "He can stay with our other John, so I wouldn't want to waste the money". But she also adds later, "You can drop off gift cards here and we will take them".
Fast forward to a post on September 14, 2020 when John is out of the hospital. She explains, "the poison from the plant attacked his arm eating away at his flesh, causing horrible infection, begun to shut down his organs. We have him indoors now and he volunteers around here learning to use just one arm. As a a result of him spending so much time in the hospital, he has finally accepted the love and belonging here. It was during one of those quiet moments in the hospital when his whole body was shaking with pain and he was pretending like it didn't hurt at all...he looked up at me and said that we have changed his life...he said he is a person and he matters. John starts his position here as a trainer. John will be here on the slower, quieter days...it's the only way I can get him to stay indoors. He feels he owes me something so I have created this job just for him.....they said we couldn't do it...well we did...all it takes is love, follow through and realness."
Fast forward again to a post on January 12, 2021 (after John passes away), "what a beautiful way to celebrate John's life. Just before he died he said, "I'm not just a bum under the bridge anymore. I have a family now". He was so happy before the end...huge thanks to Christensen Funeral Home & Creation for not accepting a penny in payment. We tried and they refused to take it."
As Liz said today in a comment on Miss Carly's FB page today in reference to the current AG issues, "one of my favorite lines is, there are 3 sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth". Here is John's version:
A anonymous Redditor provided me with a text that they shared back and forth with John before he passed away. It reads, "I can't believe Miss Carly put my issue on the internet I'm so f\**** pissed not only that she used my name now anybody with any sense knows I volunteer there so they're going to put two and two together since I started working for Miss Carly. You know she likes to be in the Limelight and she likes to be in front of the camera not only that she put when I hit my head and I was knocked out she put that on there that's embarrassing does she not realize that and then she puts my name on the internet how I knock myself out that's embarrassing I'm so f***** pissed"*.
One more thing I want to mention....do you recall hearing that a volunteer would be paid $10 to sleep outside Miss Carly's (in the side yard) to pass out items during her 'night ministry'? Yes, that was also John. He even did it after getting out of the hospital. It was freezing out, and there was no protection from the elements. His skin was so sensitive from his skin graft (and caused extreme pain), but nevertheless Miss Carly took care of him by providing him everlasting love and realness.
The End.
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"It's been a rough week for John, one of our homeless volunteers we are working on finding housing for. First he stood up too fast and knocked himself out when he hit his head on the underside of the bridge he sleeps under......Just as his head was healing, he lay down in some grass to take a nap and wait for his new roomie to get home from volunteering at our place....but he laid in the wrong spot..He ended up in the hospital and no-one could figure out what happened. A horrible plant (wild parsnip) had attacked John's arm! He is still in the hospital, unfortunately his arm may not make it. I sent him flowers and Jessica went to visit him right away. That meant a lot to John...we are his family. He said, "now these people know I'm not just a Hobo under the bridge".
Some of the comments were interesting under that particular post. Shari D asks, "can we pool our money and get him a hotel room for at least a month when he gets out?". MC quickly responds, "He can stay with our other John, so I wouldn't want to waste the money". But she also adds later, "You can drop off gift cards here and we will take them".
Fast forward to a post on September 14, 2020 when John is out of the hospital. She explains, "the poison from the plant attacked his arm eating away at his flesh, causing horrible infection, begun to shut down his organs. We have him indoors now and he volunteers around here learning to use just one arm. As a a result of him spending so much time in the hospital, he has finally accepted the love and belonging here. It was during one of those quiet moments in the hospital when his whole body was shaking with pain and he was pretending like it didn't hurt at all...he looked up at me and said that we have changed his life...he said he is a person and he matters. John starts his position here as a trainer. John will be here on the slower, quieter days...it's the only way I can get him to stay indoors. He feels he owes me something so I have created this job just for him.....they said we couldn't do it...well we did...all it takes is love, follow through and realness."
Fast forward again to a post on January 12, 2021 (after John passes away), "what a beautiful way to celebrate John's life. Just before he died he said, "I'm not just a bum under the bridge anymore. I have a family now". He was so happy before the end...huge thanks to Christensen Funeral Home & Creation for not accepting a penny in payment. We tried and they refused to take it."
As Liz said today in a comment on Miss Carly's FB page today in reference to the current AG issues, "one of my favorite lines is, there are 3 sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth". Here is John's version:
A anonymous Redditor provided me with a text that they shared back and forth with John before he passed away. It reads, "I can't believe Miss Carly put my issue on the internet I'm so f\**** pissed not only that she used my name now anybody with any sense knows I volunteer there so they're going to put two and two together since I started working for Miss Carly. You know she likes to be in the Limelight and she likes to be in front of the camera not only that she put when I hit my head and I was knocked out she put that on there that's embarrassing does she not realize that and then she puts my name on the internet how I knock myself out that's embarrassing I'm so f***** pissed"*.
One more thing I want to mention....do you recall hearing that a volunteer would be paid $10 to sleep outside Miss Carly's (in the side yard) to pass out items during her 'night ministry'? Yes, that was also John. He even did it after getting out of the hospital. It was freezing out, and there was no protection from the elements. His skin was so sensitive from his skin graft (and caused extreme pain), but nevertheless Miss Carly took care of him by providing him everlasting love and realness.
The End.
2024.05.16 16:34 Syncflow625 Archetype Journey - Diagnosed with STPD and BP Type 1 w/Psychotic Feature
I got recently diagnosed of Schizotypal Personality Disorder because of my referring different mythology, deities, and religious concepts interconnected with each other.
I was suffering from depression from roughly around 2015 to 2019 then there would be moments when I would get a lack of sleep and I would feel better (hypomanic) this went on for a while me cycling depression and hypomania. It wasn't until 2018 that I was introduced to cannabis being high opened my eyes to new possibilities like I could be this happy. I realized I'm a highly anxious person and cannabis allows me to relax.
In 2020 I had a psychotic episode where I was walking with my mom to the subway and I was on my way to an interview with Equinox to become a Personal Trainer, I just wanted to help people get better. During the subway ride, I was happy as a peach, but then I heard whispering from the other side of the subway cart, it was a little who was just mumbling to herself and she was just looking around with a paranoid taste. I looked at her and sent her love and kindness and she nodded at me and closed her eyes. Then I received a text from Jude mentioning about Flushing Printer, but I interpreted it as I need to go to Flushing Hospital. I left the subway cart and I called an Uber, as my Uber lifted me up I had an internal monologue, I had a voice.
The voice said "Son you are worthy, to be King!", the worthy part I liked, but becoming a King I said "I don't know want to be a King and be burdened with responsibility" I asked the Uber Driver where he was from, Brooklyn = King so I said he can be king. Then I went to call two people who I had a crush at the time, one I would be referred to as a Lady Sif and another a Valkyrie, I just automatically assumed their title and they responded normally. I assume I was Thor.
I got to Flushing Hospital and I bypass the security and followed an old man going to see his daughter or wife, I still have no reason why I was there, I thought I was going to perform a miracle, and I was on the 4th floor by then. I was answering's doctor's call which were empty. Then the medical staff noticed I was there, there was another older gentleman who said "You have nice hair" and my Grandfather would say the same thing.
The security team arrived to escort me out and they were disappointed in themselves for missing me and allowing me to come in, they were annoyed by my presence.
Since then I've gone through many Archetype.
Marvel Thor was cast out of Heaven due to arrogance and to learn humility. I equate that to Lucifer, a lightbearer, and Lucifer is equates to a Dragon. I have this book call "An Initiate's Guide to the Path of the Dragon" which ties everything for Dragon path.
I went through a plethora of ArcheType I really thought I was God because I was able to create a pantheon a series of what I would call evidence.
Aang The Avatar: The Last Air Bender shares the same name as my Vietnamese Name "An" it's pronounced the same. An in Sumerian is number 60, I am also number 60 in my Kung Fu Lineage. Then I received the name "Samuel Wiest" and from there things started to get biblical. I have a degree in BTech Computer Information system so I started to see things as in codes.
I would mean "Daniel" would be "God is my judge" and Ingram "angel, raven, or ruler" the most recent archetype if Dream, and I would use his Family Tree mostly recognizing the different archetypes and characters around me.
I received a Hot Pink Umbrella that said Dream Hotel from a local park that has Graffiti "I LOVE YOU JESUS!" and "ELI" "MER" "SIL" and "SUPA" tagged on the billboard.
I've cycled through and attached to different archetypes, I still use Dream and N30 Morpheus as my "high self".
Anansi the Spider, King of Stories, and Loki, God of Stories has been resonating a lot.
I meant this clown named Spatz Donavan and he worked with Jim Carey to get into spirituality, he worked with performers like Michael Jackson. I called Spatz Merlin, but Merlin is also Odin and I'm Loki his blood brother.
There are just a lot of things that happened that connect to each other, like the show Mr. Robot and Raganarok the endings are the same where it was all in the character's head.
On Facebook, there a lot of people who seem to pick up on the Lucifer archetype and then Lucifer in the Netflix series becomes a boddhisatva of Hell.
There is a trend where Anti-Heroes or the An Thai Christ, I use my name as part of the equation.
An = Peace Shalom = Peace
Lately I've been exploring the Abrahamic religion because I want to learn more about the Holy Spirit.
I was wondering if this is a common thing to explore archetype.
I looked in Anansi the Spider because it contained "An" my name and my initial is AT = @
@ looks like O+a which reminds me of the Netflix Series The OA (Original Angel)
The most recent death Akira Toriyama's initial is AT, he is known for Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest. Dragon Ball characters such as Son Goku take after Sun Wu Kong, and Sun Wu Kong is Hanuman.
After watching the show Loki, I believe we are all variants of each other, so there is a say "view all as your mother", since people as variants from one another helps me navigate.
Journey to the West, Sun Wu Kong because a Buddha
I believe I connect with Chenrezig aka Avalokiteshvara the most, after watching ABC: American Born Chinese, I'm a firmly believer that my mother is Guan Yin and I'm learning the path back to Source.
I'm writing because it's the only thing that brings me joy and hopefuly opens to other who would like to share their story.
I personally don't subscribe to Schizotypal Personability Disorder, but I'll borrow the name because I do look at SchizoPoster's Memes.
I learned OM MANI PADME HUM Mantra from a group of Guan Yin' Disciples in California, ever since then my parents have taken on meditation practice and even setup an altar since I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder which I definitely do have since I've felt the highs and lows, writing because I feel low right now and didn't know where else where I would post and discuss besides Reddit.
Anyways I wonder if this has to do anything with the Arisings and Passings or has anyways gone though this Archetypal journey?
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I was suffering from depression from roughly around 2015 to 2019 then there would be moments when I would get a lack of sleep and I would feel better (hypomanic) this went on for a while me cycling depression and hypomania. It wasn't until 2018 that I was introduced to cannabis being high opened my eyes to new possibilities like I could be this happy. I realized I'm a highly anxious person and cannabis allows me to relax.
In 2020 I had a psychotic episode where I was walking with my mom to the subway and I was on my way to an interview with Equinox to become a Personal Trainer, I just wanted to help people get better. During the subway ride, I was happy as a peach, but then I heard whispering from the other side of the subway cart, it was a little who was just mumbling to herself and she was just looking around with a paranoid taste. I looked at her and sent her love and kindness and she nodded at me and closed her eyes. Then I received a text from Jude mentioning about Flushing Printer, but I interpreted it as I need to go to Flushing Hospital. I left the subway cart and I called an Uber, as my Uber lifted me up I had an internal monologue, I had a voice.
The voice said "Son you are worthy, to be King!", the worthy part I liked, but becoming a King I said "I don't know want to be a King and be burdened with responsibility" I asked the Uber Driver where he was from, Brooklyn = King so I said he can be king. Then I went to call two people who I had a crush at the time, one I would be referred to as a Lady Sif and another a Valkyrie, I just automatically assumed their title and they responded normally. I assume I was Thor.
I got to Flushing Hospital and I bypass the security and followed an old man going to see his daughter or wife, I still have no reason why I was there, I thought I was going to perform a miracle, and I was on the 4th floor by then. I was answering's doctor's call which were empty. Then the medical staff noticed I was there, there was another older gentleman who said "You have nice hair" and my Grandfather would say the same thing.
The security team arrived to escort me out and they were disappointed in themselves for missing me and allowing me to come in, they were annoyed by my presence.
Since then I've gone through many Archetype.
Marvel Thor was cast out of Heaven due to arrogance and to learn humility. I equate that to Lucifer, a lightbearer, and Lucifer is equates to a Dragon. I have this book call "An Initiate's Guide to the Path of the Dragon" which ties everything for Dragon path.
I went through a plethora of ArcheType I really thought I was God because I was able to create a pantheon a series of what I would call evidence.
Aang The Avatar: The Last Air Bender shares the same name as my Vietnamese Name "An" it's pronounced the same. An in Sumerian is number 60, I am also number 60 in my Kung Fu Lineage. Then I received the name "Samuel Wiest" and from there things started to get biblical. I have a degree in BTech Computer Information system so I started to see things as in codes.
I would mean "Daniel" would be "God is my judge" and Ingram "angel, raven, or ruler" the most recent archetype if Dream, and I would use his Family Tree mostly recognizing the different archetypes and characters around me.
I received a Hot Pink Umbrella that said Dream Hotel from a local park that has Graffiti "I LOVE YOU JESUS!" and "ELI" "MER" "SIL" and "SUPA" tagged on the billboard.
I've cycled through and attached to different archetypes, I still use Dream and N30 Morpheus as my "high self".
Anansi the Spider, King of Stories, and Loki, God of Stories has been resonating a lot.
I meant this clown named Spatz Donavan and he worked with Jim Carey to get into spirituality, he worked with performers like Michael Jackson. I called Spatz Merlin, but Merlin is also Odin and I'm Loki his blood brother.
There are just a lot of things that happened that connect to each other, like the show Mr. Robot and Raganarok the endings are the same where it was all in the character's head.
On Facebook, there a lot of people who seem to pick up on the Lucifer archetype and then Lucifer in the Netflix series becomes a boddhisatva of Hell.
There is a trend where Anti-Heroes or the An Thai Christ, I use my name as part of the equation.
An = Peace Shalom = Peace
Lately I've been exploring the Abrahamic religion because I want to learn more about the Holy Spirit.
I was wondering if this is a common thing to explore archetype.
I looked in Anansi the Spider because it contained "An" my name and my initial is AT = @
@ looks like O+a which reminds me of the Netflix Series The OA (Original Angel)
The most recent death Akira Toriyama's initial is AT, he is known for Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest. Dragon Ball characters such as Son Goku take after Sun Wu Kong, and Sun Wu Kong is Hanuman.
After watching the show Loki, I believe we are all variants of each other, so there is a say "view all as your mother", since people as variants from one another helps me navigate.
Journey to the West, Sun Wu Kong because a Buddha
I believe I connect with Chenrezig aka Avalokiteshvara the most, after watching ABC: American Born Chinese, I'm a firmly believer that my mother is Guan Yin and I'm learning the path back to Source.
I'm writing because it's the only thing that brings me joy and hopefuly opens to other who would like to share their story.
I personally don't subscribe to Schizotypal Personability Disorder, but I'll borrow the name because I do look at SchizoPoster's Memes.
I learned OM MANI PADME HUM Mantra from a group of Guan Yin' Disciples in California, ever since then my parents have taken on meditation practice and even setup an altar since I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder which I definitely do have since I've felt the highs and lows, writing because I feel low right now and didn't know where else where I would post and discuss besides Reddit.
Anyways I wonder if this has to do anything with the Arisings and Passings or has anyways gone though this Archetypal journey?
2024.05.16 05:45 larki18 [DUMMY MAGAZINE, 2006] "The people who criticise us for being too poppy don't get it. People are afraid to write a song any more, or they can't...The best bands ever have all written great songs. You can still do it and do it intelligently and it can be original."
Cigarettes and rebellion have always gone hand-in-hand, and in an age of cigarette packet-sized health warnings, now more than ever, smoking a fag says: 'I do not give a fuck.' But if Brandon Flowers is hoping to strike a seditious pose by sparking up at the start of the interview, it's not going according to plan. The Killers' frontman is on all fours rooting through the junk that carpets the anteroom at the band's rehearsal space. "Has anyone seen my lighter?" he asks, rocking back on his heels. The question hangs in the air while Brandon cocks his head, waiting for an answer like a meerkat listening for a predator. Twenty-five years old and with a delicate bone structure, there's something almost dainty about him. Receiving no response, he returns to his search. "Oh, Jeez," he sighs. "I had it just a minute ago."
It's a scene that emphatically does not suggest a rebel without a cause. The mess isn't helping. The Killers' HQ - an industrial unit sandwiched between a construction supplier and the offices of a housing development just off Dean Martin Drive in West Las Vegas - is ankle-deep in designer clothing. A Dior Homme suit lies crumpled by the door; there's a pile of shoes topped like a sundae by a pair of Marc Jacobs trainers; and anyone wishing to enter the shoebox room the band use as an office must negotiate a mountain of discarded jeans. Many items are identifiable as coming from the wardrobe of Hot Fuss, The Killers' hugely successful 2004 debut album - triple platinum in the UK with two weeks at Number One and five million sold worldwide. Look! There are the shirts, ties and suit jackets they wore when they thrilled Glastonbury 2005 with indie rock anthems Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me. That was the crowning moment of a two-and-a-half year tour that finally concluded in October of last year. It seems that after playing that final date in Miami, they returned to Vegas and shrugged off their image onto the floor of this bland white box.
Now a fine layer of dust covers the dead clothes. The Killers have no further use for white tuxedos on their second album, Sam's Town. Today, Brandon wears a black polo shirt, black pin-stripe waistcoat, black jeans and black boots. Where there used to be a layer of foundation, there is now a beard - an untrimmed beard at that. Dave Keuning (30, guitar), Mark Stoermer (29, bass) and Ronnie Vannucci (29, drums) all echo Brandon's black ensemble. Ronnie has added Aviator shades and a handlebar moustache for a dash of motorcycle cop, Dave's frizzy bubble of hair gives him a Marc Bolan-ish air, and there's something very teenage about Mark's scuffed Vans.
Short of walking around wearing sandwich boards saying, "Our new record is a bit heavier than the last one," The Killers couldn't hope to communicate that message more effectively. And they have gained some musical girth on Sam's Town. The pop hooks that made Hot Fuss so irresistible survive intact - see the ringing guitar riffs on first single When You Were Young - but there's a newfound punchiness, coupled with an epic sweep. The minor-to-major uplifts on Bones are fabulously dramatic, the coda to Why Do I Keep Counting? thrillingly intense. Comparisons to Bruce Springsteen have been made. If they overstate the case a little, they are at leaset qualitatively accurate. The Killers are back and this time it's serious - they've got the bootlace ties to prove it.
"Hey, it says here that Springsteen's headlining Glastonbury next year," shouts Ronnie, who's flicking through the NME. He nods sagely at the page without looking up.
"Really?" asks Dave, nicknamed Crazy Dave on account of his alledgedly volatile nature.
"The Boss is headlining one night, we're playing second on the bill the next night and Kylie's headlining the Sunday," says Brandon, charging like a bull through Michael Eavis' as-yet-unannounced line-up with what subsequently proves to be a characteristic gaucheness.
But that lighter is proving elusive. This being America, none of the people hurrying to-and-fro prepping the world for the release of Sam's Town smokes. Manager Robert Reynolds - Bobby Rey to the band - barks into his mobile, booking his band onto eye-wateringly demanding tours. "We're going to make a lot of money," he cackles to himself before switching calls to make a series of stern pronouncements on legal matters. Dave, Mark and Ronnie disappear for a jam session. Artwork is approved, B-sides are decided on and schedules are hammered out.
"I can't find it," Brandon says, finally. But he's not going to be denied the opportunity to underline The Killers reinvention with a puff of smoke. "Let's go to the gas station. I'll have to buy one. It's too busy to talk here anyway."
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Brandon's black (of course) Volkswagen Touraeg four-wheel drive is barrelling down West Flamingo Road into town. "I was a bell boy there," he says, pointing out of the driver's window at the stucco facade of the Gold Coast casino. "I was working there when we were signed."
Coming from Las Vegas, it is perhaps inevitable that casinos play a big part in The Killers' story; not only is Sam's Town named after one, it was recorded in one, too.
The band began writing songs while on the road with Hot Fuss, turning up early for soundchecks to run through new ideas. On a trip home to Vegas, George Maloof, a hotelier known for cultivating famous friends, invited them to record the album in the new studio he'd built at The Palms, his flagship hotel-cum-gambling den. When the tour finished in October 2005, they returned to Vegas and spent five month finessing the songs they'd sketched out on the road. Then, in February, they decampled to the third floor studio at The Palms and recorded Sam's Town over 11 weeks.
Producer Flood (U2, Depeche Mode) encouraged them to experiment. They overdubbed, fiddled with synthesizers and played with new equipment. It took them five weeks to get the backing vocals right. The band sang the harmonies, then double-tracked them four times. The end result recalls Queen wondering, "Is this is the real life? Is this just fantasy?" When Ronnie, a trained classical percussionist, brought some kettledrums down, eyebrows were raised; but the fabulously bombastic coda on Why Do I Keep Counting? vindicates his indulgence.
"That's kind of the Ben Hur of the album," he says. He's not wrong. Sam's Town is a record on an epic scale. "Yeah, it has drama," he continues. "But, at the same time, I think it's a little more exposed than Hot Fuss. It's a little more naked. Last time it was about a lot of fictional things." By "fictional", Ronnie means that Hot Fuss wore its predominantly British influences for all to see. Brandon's taste in music is rabidly Anglophile - he constantly references The Smiths, The Cure and Joy Division - and it showed. By contrast, Sam's Town is an unequivocally American record. The lyrical imagery is pure American dream - cars, girls, wide-open spaces and escaping to a better life. "We're burning down the highway skyline/On the back of a hurricane that started turning/When you were young," sings Brandon on When You Were Young. That's the basis of the Springsteen comparisons then, though the lack of pathos more closely recalls another blue-collar rocker from New Jersey - Jon Bon Jovi.
The phrase "this town" recurs throughout the album, and it's always receding into the distance as The Killers escape to a new life. "This town was made for passing through/I never did get along with everybody else," sings Brandon on This River Is Wild. On Read My Mind he "never really gave up on breaking out of this two-star town", while on the title track he offers something of an explanation: "Nobody ever had a dream round here."
"With the first record, there was this feeling that there was this world out there that we didn't know," says Mark later in the day. Before The Killers, he studied philosophy: now he's their quiet one. "We wanted to get out and away from this and be somewhere else. We hadn't had a lot of experience - hadn't travelled much - then we were gone for three years. We didn't sit down and say that we wanted to make a record about how we're glad to be home, but that's what happened naturally."
It's not an angsty record. The Killers have already escaped with Hot Fuss, and, having done so, they view the experience fondly now they're back. There's a mistiness to Brandon's eyes as he explains how the album got it's name.
"Sam's Town is a casino on the edge of Vegas," he says. "I grew up in Henderson, which is out on the way to the Hoover Dam. My mom and dad lived in a trailer park, and my dad used to hitchhike up and down Boulder Highway, which is the only way you could get to Vegas. Sam's Town was the first thing you saw on your way in to town. So, when you're driving down Boulder Highway from Henderson, I always thought you finally knew you were getting somewhere when you saw Sam's Town. It was kind of like a beacon."
"It's not a completely American album," contines Brandon. "We still have our English influence, but we're also from the Wild West. Somehow we've managed to unify all that on this album. it's just such a perfect resemblence of what we are."
At the petrol station, Brandon rummages through the glove box looking for change to buy a lighter. "This is a great album," he says, pointing at Highway Companion, the latest from iconic American rocker Tom Petty. "I've always been a big fan of his. He's such a great American artist."
Yes, Brandon: we get the point.
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When Brandon finally lights his cigarette, he smokes it awkwardly, like a child mimicking something he's seen the grown-ups doing. However, when he cheerfully admits that, "I feel the same mentally as I did when I was 12," it's not a knowing nod to the fact that he sometimes behaves like a loveably precocious child, but a reference to an unusually comprehensive grounding in pop music at an early age.
When Brandon sings about "this town", he doesn't mean Las Vegas. He means Nephi, Utah or Henderson, Nevada, where he spent his childhood. His parents are Mormon and he is the youngest of six children. "I was a surprise," he says. "I've got a 42-year-old sister." If he was issues about his "surprise" status, he chooses to gloss over them. "It turned out perfect because my brother was a teenager when I was a kid," he says. "He would bring home things like Rattle And Hum by U2 and I would watch it. I remember he bought Live In Dallas by Morrissey. It was always him watching these things, or his door was shut and you'd hear The Head On The Door by The Cure blasting through the house and rattling the walls."
The Killers were formed when Brandon answered an advert Dave had placed in a local paper in late 2002. Dave cited Oasis as a big influence; Brandon had seen them play recently and responded; and, as Dave has said in previous interviews: "He was the only person to reply to my ad who wasn't a complete freak." However, the band was born in Brandon's brothers bedroom.
"His room was like a shrine," enthuses Brandon. "It was a holy place. I wish I could show you a picture of it. It was covered in posters. There'd be a big picture of Elvis wearing a bow tie that just said 'The Smiths' [the artwork for The Smiths 1987 single Shoplifters Of The World Unite]. You had The Cure wearing face paint [the artwork to The Cure's 1985 single In Between Days] - all that kind of stuff. I remember Morrissey being on the cover of the NME, with the halo [from 1985] - stuff like that. You just wanted to know about these people 'cause they were so cool. My brother seemed like such a cool person. But he was a teenager, so he wasn't going to be that nice to me, a kid."
Brandon was fascinated by his brother's collection of music, magazines and posters, but he was denied access to them - officially, at least. "I would sneak in," he says. "I knew he'd be angry if he found out, but I would go in as soon as he left the house." For a long time Brandon was too scared to actually play anything. "That didn't come 'til later. I just used to go in there because I liked it. Then I got to the point where I'd actually take a tape out and put it in. It took more guts to do that."
It was a life-changing moment. "I was ten and the first song I played was Sing Your Life by Morrissey. I remember dancing about to it."
The lyrics to Sing Your Life include the lines, "Sing your life/Just walk right up to the microphone/And name all the things that you love/All the things that you loathe." It's intriguing to wonder what Morrissey makes of the neophyte he inspired with these lines.
Eventually, Brandon inherited his brother's tape collection. "It was around the same time CDs started coming out in a big way. He started buying CDs and gave me his tapes. And that was it: it took off from there. I got a hundred of the best albums - all the New Order, all the Morrissey, all The Smiths, The Beatles. I started buying posters. I went to see The Cure in concert. It was just kind of a continuation of my brother. And it was nice because, though my parents were strict, they were already used to it from him. There was no, 'My dad doesn't understand me,' or any of that kind of stuff. My mum likes The Smiths."
Brandon was 13 and his favourite band was late-'70s/early-'80s American new wavers The Cars, and particularly their jaw-droppingly catchy 1979 single Just What I Needed.
"I wouldn't exist without that song," he says. "That was the one. I remember driving around with my mum when I was 13, and we're living in Nephi - a really small town - and I felt so cool when I put that song on. Like: 'I have something that none of these kids I'm going to middle school with tomorrow have.' That excitement is what music's about, isn't it? That's why I understand the mentality of people that don't like us because we've sold so many records. I used to like it when no one else knew about a band. So I get that - I do."
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Brandon's first band was called Blush Response. It was never going to work out. Not because he refused to move to Los Angeles with them, but because he is utterly - comically - shameless. He's given to making outrageously boastful statements like: "It's not like the '60s, '70s and '80s now. There are only a few bands around that are really good, that just do it. I mean, there's what, five or six of us?"
For the record, in Brandon's estimation, those bands are Franz Ferdinand, Razorlight, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and, of course, The Killers.
"I don't want people to think I'm lumping myself with other people just to make us sound cool," he says. Really? It sort of sounds like you are. But he just steamrolls through it. "Yeah, but you know what I mean," he says, grinning at his own cheekiness. He's so disgracefully forward you can't help but laugh along with him - Oh you are awful, Brandon! But joking aside, The Killers are the most commercially successful of all the bands he mentions.
Later, back at the rehearsal space, the band run through Sam's Town at deafening volume in preparation for the forthcoming tour - first the US, then the world. The infectious, almost contagious, chorus of When You Were Young sounds fabulous, as do the U2-like guitars and Twin Peaks synths of Read My Mind. Meanwhile, Smile Like You Mean It and Somebody Told Me benefit from the newfound harder edge.
They somewhat heavy-handedly underline the new direction by playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath and Get It On by T Rex. That's the thing: The Killers are not a subtle band. Their songs are like a wet kiss from a girl who's a bit too drunk. They are big and brash, and not everyone loves them for it. Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me might go down as well at hip nightclubs as they do on the festival circuit, but the DJs play them with the same guilty look they wear when playing a pop record.
"I hate that," says Brandon. "Like writing a song you can hum somehow cheapens it? It makes me think of this quote by Morrissey. Everybody knows how he read Oscar Wilde, Keats and Yates when he was growing up and that he wanted to be a writer. He was talking to this journalist who asked why he hadn't become a writer, and Morrissey said: 'What I do is more powerful than what you do because I can write down these words and you get it to a melody. How can you beat that?' I'm of the same opinion. I don't understand why a good melody that's memorable is a bad thing."
Being dismissed as pop particular aggrieves Ronnie. "When we first came out we got compared to Duran Duran all the time. Jesus Christ! We got a keyboard player now all of a sudden he's Nick Rhodes! Come on!"
"The people who criticise us for being too poppy don't get it," agrees Mark. "I think that's the problem with a lot of rock music. People are afraid to write a song any more. Either that or they can't. And that attitude hurts music in general. The best bands ever have all written great songs. You can still do it and do it intelligently and it can be original. This isn't a studio creation with a producer writing these songs for us. We're not Avril Lavigne, or something like that. We're a real band writing real songs, just like a punk band would do, except that we write pop songs."
You get the impression that The Killers knack for showboating pop hooks that border on vulgar is inextricably tied up with the brazen side of Brandon's personality. But while his ebullient charisma, not to mention the songs themselves, mitigates his outrageousness, there is a less attractive side to his ego. He has a combative streak. He can't resist taking pot shots at emo bands, notably Fall Out Boy, whith whom The Killers share an A&R man.
Has he heard how many emo kids it takes to change a light bulb? "No." None. They just sit in the dark and cry. It's a full 30 seconds before he stops laughing. When he does he admits: "Yeah, we've had problems with other bands. You know, when you walk in the room it's like..." He whistles the theme to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. "We're like gangs."
And while the other members of the band are diplomatic on the subject of Brandon, you don't have to read too deeply between the lines to conclude that there have been internal issues, too.
"Some people will think Brandon's the big genius," says Dave, visibly bridling. "There are songs, such as Why Do I Keep Counting?, where he's written every note. But there are others, like When You Were Young, that were more of a collaboration - like Mr Brightside, where I had some of the music and Brandon came up with the lyrics. We always have arguments about who wrote what. The truth is that we all help in that process."
When asked how success affected them, Ronnie says: "There were certain things that needed adjusting. When you're on tour for two years, people can get a little needy. It doesn't help that you're surrounded by yes men and everybody's working for you. At times we've had to say, 'Who do you think you are?' to people. No one wears the trousers, but some people would like to. I think if it wasn't for the people in the band kicking each other in the ass... Let's just say there was some ass-kickin'."
It doesn't take a genius to work out whose ass needed kicking most often.
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It's the following day and The Killers are back at their rehearsal space. The topic of discussion is what to wear in the video for Bones, the second single. It's a big deal: the director is Tim Burton. "I feel like Frank Sinatra when I sing it," announces Brandon. "With maybe a little bit of Morrissey and a little bit of Elvis, too."
Of course he does. But if securing the services of Tim Burton tells you one thing, it's that The Killers are about to get even bigger, perhaps even make the leap to the same level as Coldplay et al. Already stars, they are about to become superstars. Brandon can hardly wait.
"Do you know that Rolling Stone didn't want to put us on the cover last time," he says indignantly. "They didn't think we were stars. We sold five million albums! What more do they want from a band?"
Whatever was required, Brandon would be happy to do most things. "I'll do stuff that some people don't want to do, 'cause I want people to hear the music," he says. However, even he has limits. "The Rolling Stone thing made the record label think: 'What can we do to make them stars?' If I go on vacation with my wife, do they have to send somebody to be there to take pictures of me? Is that how you become a star? I don't want that. I walked down the red carpet one time and I realised I don't like it. But you don't have to walk down the red carpet for people to hear your music. We do still have some of that indie blood running through our veins."
He heads off at a tangent: "When you walk around Liverpool, you think of The Beatles, or you go to Manchester and you think of The Smiths or Oasis. I want you to come to Las Vegas and think of Sam's Town. And I think we've started to capture that, which is a truer version of The Killers, 'cause that's where we're from."
He pauses.
"I used to live across the street from Sam's Town. Maybe it'll be like our Abbey Road where people go to take pictures."
Is that what he'd like?
"I wouldn't mind it," he says, desperately hoping it will come true.
He puts a cigarette between his lips, looks down at his trouser pockets and pats them in search of the lighter he bought yesterday.
"Hey, I don't suppose you've got one?"
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It's a scene that emphatically does not suggest a rebel without a cause. The mess isn't helping. The Killers' HQ - an industrial unit sandwiched between a construction supplier and the offices of a housing development just off Dean Martin Drive in West Las Vegas - is ankle-deep in designer clothing. A Dior Homme suit lies crumpled by the door; there's a pile of shoes topped like a sundae by a pair of Marc Jacobs trainers; and anyone wishing to enter the shoebox room the band use as an office must negotiate a mountain of discarded jeans. Many items are identifiable as coming from the wardrobe of Hot Fuss, The Killers' hugely successful 2004 debut album - triple platinum in the UK with two weeks at Number One and five million sold worldwide. Look! There are the shirts, ties and suit jackets they wore when they thrilled Glastonbury 2005 with indie rock anthems Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me. That was the crowning moment of a two-and-a-half year tour that finally concluded in October of last year. It seems that after playing that final date in Miami, they returned to Vegas and shrugged off their image onto the floor of this bland white box.
Now a fine layer of dust covers the dead clothes. The Killers have no further use for white tuxedos on their second album, Sam's Town. Today, Brandon wears a black polo shirt, black pin-stripe waistcoat, black jeans and black boots. Where there used to be a layer of foundation, there is now a beard - an untrimmed beard at that. Dave Keuning (30, guitar), Mark Stoermer (29, bass) and Ronnie Vannucci (29, drums) all echo Brandon's black ensemble. Ronnie has added Aviator shades and a handlebar moustache for a dash of motorcycle cop, Dave's frizzy bubble of hair gives him a Marc Bolan-ish air, and there's something very teenage about Mark's scuffed Vans.
Short of walking around wearing sandwich boards saying, "Our new record is a bit heavier than the last one," The Killers couldn't hope to communicate that message more effectively. And they have gained some musical girth on Sam's Town. The pop hooks that made Hot Fuss so irresistible survive intact - see the ringing guitar riffs on first single When You Were Young - but there's a newfound punchiness, coupled with an epic sweep. The minor-to-major uplifts on Bones are fabulously dramatic, the coda to Why Do I Keep Counting? thrillingly intense. Comparisons to Bruce Springsteen have been made. If they overstate the case a little, they are at leaset qualitatively accurate. The Killers are back and this time it's serious - they've got the bootlace ties to prove it.
"Hey, it says here that Springsteen's headlining Glastonbury next year," shouts Ronnie, who's flicking through the NME. He nods sagely at the page without looking up.
"Really?" asks Dave, nicknamed Crazy Dave on account of his alledgedly volatile nature.
"The Boss is headlining one night, we're playing second on the bill the next night and Kylie's headlining the Sunday," says Brandon, charging like a bull through Michael Eavis' as-yet-unannounced line-up with what subsequently proves to be a characteristic gaucheness.
But that lighter is proving elusive. This being America, none of the people hurrying to-and-fro prepping the world for the release of Sam's Town smokes. Manager Robert Reynolds - Bobby Rey to the band - barks into his mobile, booking his band onto eye-wateringly demanding tours. "We're going to make a lot of money," he cackles to himself before switching calls to make a series of stern pronouncements on legal matters. Dave, Mark and Ronnie disappear for a jam session. Artwork is approved, B-sides are decided on and schedules are hammered out.
"I can't find it," Brandon says, finally. But he's not going to be denied the opportunity to underline The Killers reinvention with a puff of smoke. "Let's go to the gas station. I'll have to buy one. It's too busy to talk here anyway."
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Brandon's black (of course) Volkswagen Touraeg four-wheel drive is barrelling down West Flamingo Road into town. "I was a bell boy there," he says, pointing out of the driver's window at the stucco facade of the Gold Coast casino. "I was working there when we were signed."
Coming from Las Vegas, it is perhaps inevitable that casinos play a big part in The Killers' story; not only is Sam's Town named after one, it was recorded in one, too.
The band began writing songs while on the road with Hot Fuss, turning up early for soundchecks to run through new ideas. On a trip home to Vegas, George Maloof, a hotelier known for cultivating famous friends, invited them to record the album in the new studio he'd built at The Palms, his flagship hotel-cum-gambling den. When the tour finished in October 2005, they returned to Vegas and spent five month finessing the songs they'd sketched out on the road. Then, in February, they decampled to the third floor studio at The Palms and recorded Sam's Town over 11 weeks.
Producer Flood (U2, Depeche Mode) encouraged them to experiment. They overdubbed, fiddled with synthesizers and played with new equipment. It took them five weeks to get the backing vocals right. The band sang the harmonies, then double-tracked them four times. The end result recalls Queen wondering, "Is this is the real life? Is this just fantasy?" When Ronnie, a trained classical percussionist, brought some kettledrums down, eyebrows were raised; but the fabulously bombastic coda on Why Do I Keep Counting? vindicates his indulgence.
"That's kind of the Ben Hur of the album," he says. He's not wrong. Sam's Town is a record on an epic scale. "Yeah, it has drama," he continues. "But, at the same time, I think it's a little more exposed than Hot Fuss. It's a little more naked. Last time it was about a lot of fictional things." By "fictional", Ronnie means that Hot Fuss wore its predominantly British influences for all to see. Brandon's taste in music is rabidly Anglophile - he constantly references The Smiths, The Cure and Joy Division - and it showed. By contrast, Sam's Town is an unequivocally American record. The lyrical imagery is pure American dream - cars, girls, wide-open spaces and escaping to a better life. "We're burning down the highway skyline/On the back of a hurricane that started turning/When you were young," sings Brandon on When You Were Young. That's the basis of the Springsteen comparisons then, though the lack of pathos more closely recalls another blue-collar rocker from New Jersey - Jon Bon Jovi.
The phrase "this town" recurs throughout the album, and it's always receding into the distance as The Killers escape to a new life. "This town was made for passing through/I never did get along with everybody else," sings Brandon on This River Is Wild. On Read My Mind he "never really gave up on breaking out of this two-star town", while on the title track he offers something of an explanation: "Nobody ever had a dream round here."
"With the first record, there was this feeling that there was this world out there that we didn't know," says Mark later in the day. Before The Killers, he studied philosophy: now he's their quiet one. "We wanted to get out and away from this and be somewhere else. We hadn't had a lot of experience - hadn't travelled much - then we were gone for three years. We didn't sit down and say that we wanted to make a record about how we're glad to be home, but that's what happened naturally."
It's not an angsty record. The Killers have already escaped with Hot Fuss, and, having done so, they view the experience fondly now they're back. There's a mistiness to Brandon's eyes as he explains how the album got it's name.
"Sam's Town is a casino on the edge of Vegas," he says. "I grew up in Henderson, which is out on the way to the Hoover Dam. My mom and dad lived in a trailer park, and my dad used to hitchhike up and down Boulder Highway, which is the only way you could get to Vegas. Sam's Town was the first thing you saw on your way in to town. So, when you're driving down Boulder Highway from Henderson, I always thought you finally knew you were getting somewhere when you saw Sam's Town. It was kind of like a beacon."
"It's not a completely American album," contines Brandon. "We still have our English influence, but we're also from the Wild West. Somehow we've managed to unify all that on this album. it's just such a perfect resemblence of what we are."
At the petrol station, Brandon rummages through the glove box looking for change to buy a lighter. "This is a great album," he says, pointing at Highway Companion, the latest from iconic American rocker Tom Petty. "I've always been a big fan of his. He's such a great American artist."
Yes, Brandon: we get the point.
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When Brandon finally lights his cigarette, he smokes it awkwardly, like a child mimicking something he's seen the grown-ups doing. However, when he cheerfully admits that, "I feel the same mentally as I did when I was 12," it's not a knowing nod to the fact that he sometimes behaves like a loveably precocious child, but a reference to an unusually comprehensive grounding in pop music at an early age.
When Brandon sings about "this town", he doesn't mean Las Vegas. He means Nephi, Utah or Henderson, Nevada, where he spent his childhood. His parents are Mormon and he is the youngest of six children. "I was a surprise," he says. "I've got a 42-year-old sister." If he was issues about his "surprise" status, he chooses to gloss over them. "It turned out perfect because my brother was a teenager when I was a kid," he says. "He would bring home things like Rattle And Hum by U2 and I would watch it. I remember he bought Live In Dallas by Morrissey. It was always him watching these things, or his door was shut and you'd hear The Head On The Door by The Cure blasting through the house and rattling the walls."
The Killers were formed when Brandon answered an advert Dave had placed in a local paper in late 2002. Dave cited Oasis as a big influence; Brandon had seen them play recently and responded; and, as Dave has said in previous interviews: "He was the only person to reply to my ad who wasn't a complete freak." However, the band was born in Brandon's brothers bedroom.
"His room was like a shrine," enthuses Brandon. "It was a holy place. I wish I could show you a picture of it. It was covered in posters. There'd be a big picture of Elvis wearing a bow tie that just said 'The Smiths' [the artwork for The Smiths 1987 single Shoplifters Of The World Unite]. You had The Cure wearing face paint [the artwork to The Cure's 1985 single In Between Days] - all that kind of stuff. I remember Morrissey being on the cover of the NME, with the halo [from 1985] - stuff like that. You just wanted to know about these people 'cause they were so cool. My brother seemed like such a cool person. But he was a teenager, so he wasn't going to be that nice to me, a kid."
Brandon was fascinated by his brother's collection of music, magazines and posters, but he was denied access to them - officially, at least. "I would sneak in," he says. "I knew he'd be angry if he found out, but I would go in as soon as he left the house." For a long time Brandon was too scared to actually play anything. "That didn't come 'til later. I just used to go in there because I liked it. Then I got to the point where I'd actually take a tape out and put it in. It took more guts to do that."
It was a life-changing moment. "I was ten and the first song I played was Sing Your Life by Morrissey. I remember dancing about to it."
The lyrics to Sing Your Life include the lines, "Sing your life/Just walk right up to the microphone/And name all the things that you love/All the things that you loathe." It's intriguing to wonder what Morrissey makes of the neophyte he inspired with these lines.
Eventually, Brandon inherited his brother's tape collection. "It was around the same time CDs started coming out in a big way. He started buying CDs and gave me his tapes. And that was it: it took off from there. I got a hundred of the best albums - all the New Order, all the Morrissey, all The Smiths, The Beatles. I started buying posters. I went to see The Cure in concert. It was just kind of a continuation of my brother. And it was nice because, though my parents were strict, they were already used to it from him. There was no, 'My dad doesn't understand me,' or any of that kind of stuff. My mum likes The Smiths."
Brandon was 13 and his favourite band was late-'70s/early-'80s American new wavers The Cars, and particularly their jaw-droppingly catchy 1979 single Just What I Needed.
"I wouldn't exist without that song," he says. "That was the one. I remember driving around with my mum when I was 13, and we're living in Nephi - a really small town - and I felt so cool when I put that song on. Like: 'I have something that none of these kids I'm going to middle school with tomorrow have.' That excitement is what music's about, isn't it? That's why I understand the mentality of people that don't like us because we've sold so many records. I used to like it when no one else knew about a band. So I get that - I do."
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Brandon's first band was called Blush Response. It was never going to work out. Not because he refused to move to Los Angeles with them, but because he is utterly - comically - shameless. He's given to making outrageously boastful statements like: "It's not like the '60s, '70s and '80s now. There are only a few bands around that are really good, that just do it. I mean, there's what, five or six of us?"
For the record, in Brandon's estimation, those bands are Franz Ferdinand, Razorlight, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and, of course, The Killers.
"I don't want people to think I'm lumping myself with other people just to make us sound cool," he says. Really? It sort of sounds like you are. But he just steamrolls through it. "Yeah, but you know what I mean," he says, grinning at his own cheekiness. He's so disgracefully forward you can't help but laugh along with him - Oh you are awful, Brandon! But joking aside, The Killers are the most commercially successful of all the bands he mentions.
Later, back at the rehearsal space, the band run through Sam's Town at deafening volume in preparation for the forthcoming tour - first the US, then the world. The infectious, almost contagious, chorus of When You Were Young sounds fabulous, as do the U2-like guitars and Twin Peaks synths of Read My Mind. Meanwhile, Smile Like You Mean It and Somebody Told Me benefit from the newfound harder edge.
They somewhat heavy-handedly underline the new direction by playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath and Get It On by T Rex. That's the thing: The Killers are not a subtle band. Their songs are like a wet kiss from a girl who's a bit too drunk. They are big and brash, and not everyone loves them for it. Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me might go down as well at hip nightclubs as they do on the festival circuit, but the DJs play them with the same guilty look they wear when playing a pop record.
"I hate that," says Brandon. "Like writing a song you can hum somehow cheapens it? It makes me think of this quote by Morrissey. Everybody knows how he read Oscar Wilde, Keats and Yates when he was growing up and that he wanted to be a writer. He was talking to this journalist who asked why he hadn't become a writer, and Morrissey said: 'What I do is more powerful than what you do because I can write down these words and you get it to a melody. How can you beat that?' I'm of the same opinion. I don't understand why a good melody that's memorable is a bad thing."
Being dismissed as pop particular aggrieves Ronnie. "When we first came out we got compared to Duran Duran all the time. Jesus Christ! We got a keyboard player now all of a sudden he's Nick Rhodes! Come on!"
"The people who criticise us for being too poppy don't get it," agrees Mark. "I think that's the problem with a lot of rock music. People are afraid to write a song any more. Either that or they can't. And that attitude hurts music in general. The best bands ever have all written great songs. You can still do it and do it intelligently and it can be original. This isn't a studio creation with a producer writing these songs for us. We're not Avril Lavigne, or something like that. We're a real band writing real songs, just like a punk band would do, except that we write pop songs."
You get the impression that The Killers knack for showboating pop hooks that border on vulgar is inextricably tied up with the brazen side of Brandon's personality. But while his ebullient charisma, not to mention the songs themselves, mitigates his outrageousness, there is a less attractive side to his ego. He has a combative streak. He can't resist taking pot shots at emo bands, notably Fall Out Boy, whith whom The Killers share an A&R man.
Has he heard how many emo kids it takes to change a light bulb? "No." None. They just sit in the dark and cry. It's a full 30 seconds before he stops laughing. When he does he admits: "Yeah, we've had problems with other bands. You know, when you walk in the room it's like..." He whistles the theme to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. "We're like gangs."
And while the other members of the band are diplomatic on the subject of Brandon, you don't have to read too deeply between the lines to conclude that there have been internal issues, too.
"Some people will think Brandon's the big genius," says Dave, visibly bridling. "There are songs, such as Why Do I Keep Counting?, where he's written every note. But there are others, like When You Were Young, that were more of a collaboration - like Mr Brightside, where I had some of the music and Brandon came up with the lyrics. We always have arguments about who wrote what. The truth is that we all help in that process."
When asked how success affected them, Ronnie says: "There were certain things that needed adjusting. When you're on tour for two years, people can get a little needy. It doesn't help that you're surrounded by yes men and everybody's working for you. At times we've had to say, 'Who do you think you are?' to people. No one wears the trousers, but some people would like to. I think if it wasn't for the people in the band kicking each other in the ass... Let's just say there was some ass-kickin'."
It doesn't take a genius to work out whose ass needed kicking most often.
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It's the following day and The Killers are back at their rehearsal space. The topic of discussion is what to wear in the video for Bones, the second single. It's a big deal: the director is Tim Burton. "I feel like Frank Sinatra when I sing it," announces Brandon. "With maybe a little bit of Morrissey and a little bit of Elvis, too."
Of course he does. But if securing the services of Tim Burton tells you one thing, it's that The Killers are about to get even bigger, perhaps even make the leap to the same level as Coldplay et al. Already stars, they are about to become superstars. Brandon can hardly wait.
"Do you know that Rolling Stone didn't want to put us on the cover last time," he says indignantly. "They didn't think we were stars. We sold five million albums! What more do they want from a band?"
Whatever was required, Brandon would be happy to do most things. "I'll do stuff that some people don't want to do, 'cause I want people to hear the music," he says. However, even he has limits. "The Rolling Stone thing made the record label think: 'What can we do to make them stars?' If I go on vacation with my wife, do they have to send somebody to be there to take pictures of me? Is that how you become a star? I don't want that. I walked down the red carpet one time and I realised I don't like it. But you don't have to walk down the red carpet for people to hear your music. We do still have some of that indie blood running through our veins."
He heads off at a tangent: "When you walk around Liverpool, you think of The Beatles, or you go to Manchester and you think of The Smiths or Oasis. I want you to come to Las Vegas and think of Sam's Town. And I think we've started to capture that, which is a truer version of The Killers, 'cause that's where we're from."
He pauses.
"I used to live across the street from Sam's Town. Maybe it'll be like our Abbey Road where people go to take pictures."
Is that what he'd like?
"I wouldn't mind it," he says, desperately hoping it will come true.
He puts a cigarette between his lips, looks down at his trouser pockets and pats them in search of the lighter he bought yesterday.
"Hey, I don't suppose you've got one?"
2024.05.16 05:09 kp313 Anything I should know before arriving in Jakarta?
Hey Y'all!
A few months ago, I made this post
Well, the time has come and I will be arriving in Jakarta for my 3 month internship on June 1st. My VISA is covered, and my housing is settled. I'll be staying in South Jakarta near the Kristal Hotel and International school.
I've done tons of research on Jakarta and Indonesia, but I'm a bit anxious. Is there anything I should know about Jakarta before arriving on June 1?
Bonus Questions (if you know the answer):
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A few months ago, I made this post
Well, the time has come and I will be arriving in Jakarta for my 3 month internship on June 1st. My VISA is covered, and my housing is settled. I'll be staying in South Jakarta near the Kristal Hotel and International school.
I've done tons of research on Jakarta and Indonesia, but I'm a bit anxious. Is there anything I should know about Jakarta before arriving on June 1?
Bonus Questions (if you know the answer):
- Best mall for electronics? Like for jailbroken video game consoles, etc.
- Best place to get a few suits made.
- Do you know of any bars that play hiphop music.
- Which Indonesian food should I try first?
- Besides Bali, can you tell me of other nice Indonesian vacation spots/beaches, etc.
- Do you have any personal trainer recommendations?
- Where should I avoid in Jakarta or Indonesia?
- 30 years old
- African-American Male
- Married
- Only speak/read English, but I'm trying to learn a few Indonesian words.
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Hello!
Here is an assortment that I'm trying to trade. Close ups available upon request.
*[For Trade]*
Gundam model kits
Nintendo Switch
- Mortal Kombat Deception CIB
- Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks CIB
- Tetris Worlds CIB
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King CIB w/ Final Fantasy XII demo disc
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves GOTY Edition CIB (small ding in the plastic on the spine)
- Ni No Kuni II Revenant Kingdom: Premium Edition (code used) CIB
- Wii Play CIB
- Rayman Raving Rabbids (Gamestop box)
- Mario & Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Loose)
- Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Loose)
Nintendo 3DS
- Tetris Axis (Loose)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Loose)
Gameboy Advance
- Ms. Pac Man Maze Madness (Loose)
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (Loose)
- Replacement Nintendo DS Lite Stylus (White or Black)
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Here is an assortment that I'm trying to trade. Close ups available upon request.
*[For Trade]*
Gundam model kits
- SD Gundam Cross Silhouette RX-78F00 Gundam(NIB pics)
- Ecopla SD Gundam RX-93 V Gundam (NIB pics)
Nintendo Switch
- Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin CIB
- Slay the Spire CIB
- Alwa’s Collection CIB
- Live A Live CIB
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe CIB
- Shin Megami Tensei V sealed
- TMNT Cowabunga Collection Sealed
- TMNT Shredders Revenge Sealed
- Astral Chain CIB
- Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom CIB
- Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Splatoon 2 Edition NIB
- Islet SRG edition CIB (with sticker and sealed trading cards)
- Bust A Groove (case and manual only)
- Final Fantasy VIII: 1998 Collector’s CD vol. 2 (disc only)
- Dance Dance Revolution Konamix (disc only)
- Music from FFV and FFVI video games (disc only)
- Gran Turismo (disc only)
- Gran Turismo 2: Arcade Mode + Simulation Mode (2 discs only)
- Marvel Super Heroes (disc only)
- Metal Gear Solid (disc 1+2 only)
- Spin Jam (disc only) -Pocket Fighter (disc only)
- Resident Evil 2 Demo (disc only)
- R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (disc only)
- Ridge Racer: Disc 2 Bonus Turbo Mode Disc (disc only)
- Soulblade (disc only)
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (disc only)
- Star Wars Master is Teras Kasi (disc only)
- Tekken 3 (disc only)
- Time Crisis Project Titan (disc only)
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (disc only)
- Mortal Kombat Deception CIB
- Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks CIB
- Tetris Worlds CIB
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King CIB w/ Final Fantasy XII demo disc
- Baulder’s Gate Dark Alliance CIB
- Puzzle Quest CIB
- Justice League Heroes CIB
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance CIB
- X-Men The Official Game CIB
- Lego Indiana Jones The Original Adventure CIB
- X-Men Legends CIB
- X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse CIB
- PopCap HITS! Vol.1 CIB
- Lego Star Wars The Video Game CIB
- Champions of Norrath CIB
- Lego Batman The Video Game (disc only)
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves GOTY Edition CIB (small ding in the plastic on the spine)
- Diablo III CIB
- Lego Hobbit CIB
- Lego Jurassic Park CIB
- Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham CIB
- Ni No Kuni II Revenant Kingdom: Premium Edition (code used) CIB
- Kingdom Hearts 3 CIB [trade pending]
- Horizon Zero Dawn Definitive Edition CIB
- Horizon Forbidden West CIB
- Hogwarts Legacy Sealed
- Eiyuden Chronicles Rising Sealed
- Timespinner CIB
- Wii Play CIB
- Rayman Raving Rabbids (Gamestop box)
- Resident Evil 4 CIB (Manual cover is ripped)
- Epic Mickey CIB
- Epic Mickey 2 CIB
- Mario Party 8 (case and manual only, no game)
- DK Bongos controller x2
- Donkey Konga CIB
- Mario & Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Loose)
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village (loose)
- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (case and game only, no manual)
- Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Loose)
- Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (loose)
- Lego Batman The Video Game loose
- Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes CIB
- Puzzle Chronicles CIB
- Lego The Lord of the Rings CIB
- Jewel Master Cradle of Athena CIB
- Spider-Man Edge of Time loose
- Lego Battles loose
- Magnetica loose
- Elite Beat Agents loose
- Lego Indiana Jones The Original Adventure loose
- X-Men Destiny loose
- MySims loose
- Cooking Mama loose
- Lego Harry Potter loose
- Lego Harry Potter Year 3 loose
- Bejeweled 3 loose
- Jewel Quest Expeditions loose
- Lego Indiana Jones 2 The Adventure Continues
- Lego Battle Ninjago loose
- The Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s End loose
- Bust-a-Move DS loose
- Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga loose
- Lego Star Wars III loose
- Jewel Master Egypt loose
- Jewels of the Tropical Lost Island loose
- Personal Trainer Cooking loose
- The Quest Trio loose
Nintendo 3DS
- Tetris Axis (Loose)
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (case and inserts, no game)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Loose)
Gameboy Advance
- Ms. Pac Man Maze Madness (Loose)
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (Loose)
- Bomberman Tournament (box + inserts only, no game) - top flap has a 2 inch tear
- Sega Sports Tennis 2K2 (case and manual only, no game) Jewel case has a small crack on the front
- Virtua Tennis (case and manual only)
- Replacement Nintendo DS Lite Stylus (White or Black)
- N64 Rumble Pak loose
- N64 Transfer Pak loose
- 3D printed Question Mark Block Nintendo Switch Cartridge and SD card storage box pictures
- Unicorn Overlord (Switch)
- Dragon Quest: The Dark Prince (Switch)
- Star Ocean: Second R (Switch)
- Baten Kaitos I & II HD remake (Switch)
- Super Mario RPG (Switch)
- Fire Emblem Engage (Switch)
- Just Dance 2021/2022 (Switch)
- Metroid Prime Remaster (Switch)
- The World Ends With You: Final Remix (Switch)
- Legend of Zelda Wind Waker (GC)
- GameCube Wave bird OEM dongle
- Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii)
- Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (GC)
- Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (Wii)
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Switch)
- Dragon Quest Treasure Hunters (Switch)
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap (Switch)
- Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World (Switch)
- Pokémon TCG cards
- Lorcana TCG cards
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2024.05.15 05:22 featherwinglove I did it again, a new Trimps novelization (more faithful to story messages than the other one) Tightniks Run Zero
[OC Intro: The game is modded to increase basic jobs cost, seasonal events are disabled. Much of the crash details are based on NASA/SP-2008-565 Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report recommendations especially Chapter 3 "Occupant Protection".]
The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries. He has only a few minutes of APU power left, goes over the best clearing he can find, and radars it. It varies by only a few feet from the aerodynamic glideslope there. He spots it out on the cameras and circles to go after that spot. He's only at two hundred feet now. With one hand on the stick, he uses the other to open the pressure equalization valve on the side hatch, then at one hundred feet, gets it undogged. Depending on how much damage he's going to get, it's less likely to be stuck closed and trap him. The dynamic vacuum this pulls in the cockpit rips most of the survival pack data cards from that rack and scatters them across the landscape. Crap, I'm gonna need those! Refocusing on surviving the next few seconds, he turns on the radar for the final approach, takes a last look around, then straight ahead at his forward camera and PFD, he clicks his HANS and shoulder strap locks in; after that, he can barely move, but that now is better than dying in this crash with a broken neck. He's a decent pilot and brings up the flare gently. Bringing up the alpha on this delta-winged ship, he balloons a little, but keeps the nose going up and restores a zero aerodynamic sink rate just above the highest terrain indicated by the radar altimeter. The ship bumps a little in the ground effect, and he can see the radar altitude cycling irregularly up and down about five feet at a time. Rougher than it looked from higher up! The body flap protecting the dead engines hits first, and the nose comes rapidly down. It hits, the screens go blank, and Tightniks is surrounded by airbags, some lifting his feet from the rudder petals and his hand from the control stick. It's blinding, it's disorienting, it's noisy, and, to his relief, it's long! It takes several seconds before the crashing cockpit stops moving. How many times did he flip over? Did he go sideways and roll? Am I rightside up? Are we really stopped on the ground? The airbags deflate, and he can move his arms. He gets his restraints loose and inspects himself. "Uck!" he says out loud (without the 'f'). No broken bones. His pressure suit can take his blood pressure. 116/81, pulse 112, blood oxygen 99 reads off on his left arm, I'll friggin' take it!
The ship is amazingly intact from what he can tell. He can't get any readings. The systems test meter seems to be working, but can't find any voltages anywhere. The ship seems to be completely dead. Behind him, 10 passenger seats are all surrounded by airbags and the back of the cabin ends in some sort of dirt-and-gravel and there's a bit of daylight seeping in around the edges. He was the only one on board, though, so their deployment was mostly academic (they might have stiffened the structure a little during the crash, but that's probably trivial.) Tightniks gets out of his spacesuit. The air on this planet is actually breathable. He gets the hatch open, steps outside and-
"A green shimmer erupts then disappears, and you hit the ground."
The human emerges from the glowing green mist and hits the ground. Groans. Pushes against that ground, trying to get back up. Where am I? What's my name? I remember nothing. Aren't babies born naked? He's got a dark blue button-down shirt on. A uniform? A shoulder patch. Gets up, looks around. I feel really heavy. I'm not that fat, am I? He picks up a small stone from the ground, this also feels heavier than it should. He rises to his feet and holds it out somewhat (he's unable to fully extend his arm) and lets it go. The stone hits the ground near his feet quickly and with remarkable speed. It's the gravity, it's greater than it is on- ...where am I from? This is- ...not my home planet? "Oooh..."
"Ka?" it says.
What is that? It's cute, at least.
It is not tame. He has no hope of catching it on foot. The creature seems to like the berries. Maybe if I gather some of those into one place and set some kind of trap...
33s: First trap.
I got one! The human lumbers up to the trap and gets the catch open. Do you bite? It doesn't matter much to me; I'm so friggin' screwed.
It doesn't. It looks at the human with a sense of wonder, actually. A blink and tilt of the head. Seems almost to be asking, Is it you? My purpose? My savior? Once out of the trap, which is totally wrecked, he has to make a new one from scratch, it follows him around like a imprinted hatchling bird.
Wiry little fella, you are. You're going to need some bulking up to do anything useful. The- ...'trimp', I guess... The trimp seems just barely able to feed itself. The human lets him into the broken ship's intact cabin, and it curls up comfortably in a passenger seat for a nap.
1m03s: Second trap.
"Apparently the Trimps breed if they're not working. Doesn't look pleasant."
What are they doing?
The trimps appear to be androgynous, and these two have paired off in the back of the ship. They're holding something carefully within a few hours, feeding it berries, grass, and- ...corundum.
Corundum?? Whatever that is, it isn't a baby.
1m35s: Third trap.
Only it IS a baby! The third trimp he trapped immediately joined the other two in raising it. They have a strange diet of food the human has found compatible with his own body, but they also eat rocks! They're careful to crush and sort aluminate minerals from silcate ones and only eat aluminate. Actually, they don't eat aluminate, they're only feeding it to the baby.
2m06s: Fourth trap.
All four are raising the same child, who is just starting to toddle. It seems these fellas have alumina or maybe even aluminum bones. The human takes a nap and wakes to find the first child grown up and they're starting to raise a second child, all five of them.
2m46s: Huts.
The human found a working bit of electronics. He calls it a pad, but maybe it's more like a smartphone. It has plans for two residential structures. The first, the smaller one, he can build right away, but the second one needs something called "drywall", and he has to figure out how to make that before he can build it. Huts and houses, apparently.
3m13s: 10 pop, full, first farmer.
The trimp he trained to farm and make paper took an incredible 50 units of food to get bulked up to do the work, and now it's not participating in rearing the child. But less than an hour after the trimp started farming and pulping, the child was out on its own, and the trimps did not start another. The ten seats on the ship were all full. Well, eleven counting the one up front that the human sleeps in. The pilot starts exploring the area.
3m28s: Battle.
Wait, what are you do-
The hostile roars and charges at the human, but one of his trimps jumps in front of him with a stick and they fight. It started right when the human got far enough away from the ship that the hostile non-trimps away from the ship began to regard him as leaving his own territory. After the trimp defeats the first enemy, it continues after other hostiles.
3m53s: Shield I in Z1c5.
The human is easily able to recover the loot in the territory cleared by the fighting trimp. Then he sees something glinting in the- That can't be! What the heck is that? It's a data card that fits his pad. It quite clearly regards trimp combat. He gets it loaded into his pad and studies it. I can do this, it just takes some wood. He returns to the ship to discover that they had already started on a new child before the fighter had even expired in battle. The human concentrates on his research.
4m38s: Mskel in Z1c11 defeated.
The remains of this one seem rather white and shiny. It's titanium! This enemy had titanium bones! He'll store them away. They'll be useful someday, I'm sure.
5m52s: Dagger I in Z1c20.
Where are these data cards coming from? The human wonders as he loads this one into his pad, It's for a weapon it calls a dagger. He blinks. I don't know what a dagger is. I'll take your word for it, data card. Needs metal. He has gathered some, but ore is plentiful. He can just dig and smelt it whenever he wants. For now, I'll continue researching.
6m18s: Arable in Z1c21.
It's an old cave that trimps like to live in. Why weren't they able to live there before? How could these friendly critters be confined to only the exact spot where THAT thing, he looks back where he came from, not remembering that he piloted the wrecked ship to its current resting place, crashed? This is really strange. I'll let them fill up this cave before advancing further. Wait, what about defenses? The hostiles never try to reclaim territory that they've lost, so he stops worrying about that fairly quickly.
8m22s: First hut is 0.3% first ever AP.
The trimps seem fairly easy to please in terms of living quarters. Two move into his first hut and start raising a child. The human has his tent, uniform, and the heater pilfered from his space suit. Not much of a mud fan.
9m59s: Miners in Z1c30.
Oh, what's on this data card? Sl3niw? Oh, I'm holding the pad upside down. Miners. I can teach trimps how to mine ores and smelt met- 200 units of food? Each job is getting more expensive to train a trimp for. He puts his bee nickels to his eyes and spots another data card probably 10 enemies away. "Sc"? Does that means science? I can teach trimps to do science??
13m57s: Scientists in Z1c40.
Due to the expense of training trimps, the human couldn't afford to build them shields until now, he's got Sh1-3 made for the fighter to capture the science training data card. 14m02s: One head went into that turtlimp shell, that of his fighter, but two came out: his fighter still has his head on, and he managed to get the turtlimp's head off. It rushes off after the deadly penguimp in the next cell. The shields are not doing all that much good, actually, but they're better than nothing. The human picks up and loads the science data card and- Holy runny sugar-free fudge crap! 1000 food units, but it'll endow them with the ability to speak. Good. I'm getting bored with no one to talk to.
14m28s: Bloodlust purchased and AutoFight enabled (that delay after getting it is an effect of jacking up the job cost.)
As the human buries this expired little trimp warrior, he comes to the sobering realization that he has more trimp graves in his growing trimp colony than he does live trimps. And yet they seem more hopeful now than before I got to know any of them. They seem to think I'm the solution to all their problems or- Those two look east somberly, then notice that he's watching them and smile back and wave at him. ...one problem that is specific, but very, very huge for them. [The only reason I say 'east' is because that's right on a map, and the game advances right across a row, then up. I might say 'northeast' on occasion for that reason.]
20m47s: Z1c73, Miners taken.
Are you my new mining foreman? The trimp who took to the mining training has dark brown fur that lays flat on its head. It's unusual in not having any bits that stick out from its head, ahoge or whatever. This one is relatively quiet, and while it has assimilated the mining and smelting knowledge, it needs to bulk up to do any mining. Smelting is relatively easy, and getting a strong natural draft going in a furnace is almost trivial with the increased gravity. This trimp builds furnaces like nothing. And likes to nap in holes it digs right on the spot; it's weird that way. [Puchim@s Yukipo, and furnaces are not explicit in Trimps.]
21m58s: Farming in Z1c80.
The resourcing "books" are not data cards but paper scrolls, apparently lost to the trimps. It seems that they were civilized in the recent past and some calamity swept over the planet to reduce them to this. Did I have something to do with it? Amnesia sucks harder than a Dyson- ...what's a Dyson? Whatever, it sucks. This disaster happening just before I crash in the only spot with trimps still alive would be a seriously crazy coincidence! Something is really, really wrong about all this. [The author has not sought or received product placement permission or fee from Dyson Technology Ltd. or any resellers of their stuff, just they literally suck balls and made my favorite vacuum cleaner.]
23m50s: Builder in Z1c90.
They've rescued an, I dunno, gelding trimp? It just started to build a shed around the piled lumber I left to build one. It's really slow compared to me, and just banged its thumb, but it is super cute with that long reddish head fur. That particular trimp is also fascinated with pink ribbons and likes to decorate its head fur with them. Because of its inherent inability to participate in rearing children, it isn't counted in the population. [Puchim@s Io, builder on the basis of Iori seen building in 1x10.]
26m02s: Zone 2, 44 pop, 5.5s RC with Z0/1.
It's some sort of tactical manual - tactical coordination. Coordination! He's starting to sort out some trimpese on the research he has done so far. It needs a lot of metal, so they won't be able to implement it for some time. Hopefully, they're still good one at a time, but these enemies seem to be getting bigger as we go along. Uh oh!
27m33s: Gym in Z2c5.
It's some sort of training dojo or sporting arena. The human examines the ruins, I think I can back-engineer drawings for this, get one built, and see what happens.
29m02s: 1g, 47 pop, 10.8s RC with Z1/2.
The two fighting trimps now with their gym and coordination are dodging and blocking enthusiastically, and making much faster ground against the bad guys then a little while ago when it was just one trimp fighting at a time and unable to avoid the enemy hitting back.
40m46s: Fresh turkimp in Z2c74, 63 pop, 7.9s RC, Sh1-10, Da1-5, Bo1-3, Ma1-3, Hm1-3, 6g.
Oh, wow, the laborers seem really hot after this turkimp. He cooks it up and tries a slice. It's really awesome! I have to work alongside his laboring trimps to share it, but I'm getting used to the gravity now. That scroll we found back in Z2c10 really helped. Trimps' techniques and appliances for handicapped individuals, and I'm really handicapped in this higher gravity. He joins the woodcutters with the turkimp; they're the most numerous resource laborer right now, building more gyms, enough that the block/dodge ability of the fighting trimps is almost caught up to the enemy's ability to cause damage.
43m15s: Zone 3, 63 pop, 7.9s RC with Z1/2.
I'm neglecting my science and trimp scientists are really expensive. Curiously, that grey-haired one can't speak all that well, only says "Tai" and "Shijou", but it can write and draw like nobody's business. It's the only scientist so far. [Puchim@s Takanya: Online references probably still claim that she can utter the first two syllables of any word, but she can actually utter only the first two kana syllables of someone's name, most often the given name of basis human Takane Shijou, who also has that habit. (All the utterances of the puchidoru are based on the speech foibles of their basis humans except maybe Piyopiyo, where I haven't seen anything match up so far.)]
47m32s: Finally, we can make drywall and houses. 59m30s: Z3c77, 94 pop, 7.8s RC.
Oh, those poor things are really struggling up at the front. These trimps are enthusiastic and know no fear, but I still feel like telling them to stop for a while. I don't have the heart to keep them from trying while they're still doing some damage.
1h05m24s: Zone 4, 107 pop, 9.3s RC with Z3/4. 1h15m26s: Zone 5, 120 pop, 8.2s RC with Z3/4.
"What is that?" the human asks. He has three scientists. His first does all the writing, but the other two can actually speak. One of them hops up on a rock spire beside the human to reach his eye level.
At the next ridge line, over the lowest and most passable gap in the terrain, this really mean looking hovering sausage monster.
"I dunno," the scientist trimp shrugs, "But it's making me hungry. Looks like a perfectly cooked frankfurter from here." [John Morell's dubious dirigibles.]
"Oh, yeah," the human nods, "that's a blimp."
"A blimp?" the trimp tilts its head quizzically at the human, "How could you know?"
"I wish I could tell you, little buddy," the human extends his arm braces to descend the pass on the side of the zone boundary in the boss enemy's direction, then grunts, "Let's go kill it."
1h16m11s: Z1c9, 120 pop, 10.3s RC with Z4/5. 1h33m34s: Zone 6, 151 pop, 7.4s RC with Z4/5.
1h33m54s: TP in Z1c3.
"What's this?" the human asks, having picked up the little square document with the curling corners.
"Oh," the hungry scientist looks at it, "It's a garden path, follow me."
"You want to lead me down the garden path?" the human says.
"Yeah," the scientist says.
"Are you kidding?" the human asks.
"No," says the other scientist, "We don't get human humor. Listen, these fighters can't go, let them wear themselves out here, then we'll take the next group through this garden."
"Okay," the human nods, watching two more trimps join the fray as he issues the Z5 coordination orders, "they're doing pretty well after all that block training research we just wrapped up." [That's a common artifact, even in normal games, Z5 Traintacular combines with many gyms, enough population to add several trainers, affording Blockmaster, which is expensive on a run zero, plus a break on Tion Z5, a 40% all-stat increase. I don't think Zach designed it into the game on purpose, it just worked out this way.]
1h34m07s: 151 pop, 10.5s RC with Z5/7. 1h37m44s: Drop from Z6c39, TP for 3.
"Now we have these access map frags we can use to route through the old trimpopoli," the scientist explains, "Atlimpis for food, Morimpa for gems, Everimp for metal, and Impazon for wood."
"What about the garden?" the human asks.
"Well, we got lucky with Tricky Paradise," the scientist says, "but you can randomize the route and maybe get lucky. What's with that look?"
"Somehow, I'm remembering 'frag' as something that blew up with deadly pieces," the human says. [Different video games - ones with better graphics and worse gameplay Ｏ(>▽<)Ｏ]
1h39m59s: Blues back up to the top on series I...
"Tai, Tai!" the first ever trimp scientist stops the human just before he upgrades the mace and dagger to Mk.6 and Mk. 8 respectively. It has a note for him.
"Why do you keep calling me that?" the human asks, "Do you think that's my name?"
"Shijou, Shijou," it nods as though to indicate, I KNOW it is. Then it proffers its note again. The human takes it and reads, "Don't upgrade the first row equipment right now."
"Why not?" the human asks.
"Shijou," it points at the end of the mapped route, where there's a scroll sticking out of the thistles.
2h24m07s: Zone 8, 224 pop, 12.2s RC with Z7/12.
"Your settlement is getting crowded, there's Trimps in the streets, and you're taking heat. You feel a sudden strong desire to create a map, though you're not quite sure how that would help."
2h49m10s: Zone 9, 357 pop, 9.5s RC with Z8/15.
"You can't shake the feeling that you've been here before. Déjà-vu?"
The trimps really seem to like the new high capacity mansions, and the village has rapidly expanded since they started building them.
"There's something familiar about this," the human says.
"Tai," the grey one that writes clings to his arm and shows him a note that says, "Don't give up now."
"We must persist," says the yellow one has found a foothold it can grab onto and grabs the human's shoulder gently, "If you give up to early, we'll never solve this. You'll be stuck here forever."
The human puts his hand over the trimp's paw on his shoulders, then looks at him, "I can die, too."
"No, you can't," the trimp says quietly, "Please don't test that, tall one."
"Death is just another path..." he remembers.
"Gan," the grey one squeaks. [That's the first two kana syllables of "Gandalf"]
"...one that we all must take," the human continues, "The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it-"
"A green mist," the yellow trimp interrupts, "flash of fire, we're all gone and our progress forgotten. The wandering stars return to that day, and you again crash that ship- ...a little better every time."
"Wait," the human looks around, "have I been here before?"
"I-" the yellow trimp tries in futility to share what little it knows, "...or... somebody got just a little coolant into the-"
"Into the what?"
"This side up," the grey one's note says.
"Into the that," the yellow one points at the note, "It really helped. You- ...I don't think we've ever had mansions before."
Well, of course they didn't have mansions before. That was one of my ship's data cards. How did it get way out here? Will anything start to make sense?
3h02m13s: Zone 10, 387 pop, 8.7s RC with Z8/15; '28s: 11.1s RC with Z9/19. 3h16m41s: Tough snimp after food book, L10 rand dept from lo-hi-med 118/25/96, 4 Items.
"That's twice our frags led us to gem-rich Moria," the human says.
"Morimpa," the new red trimp scientist corrects, there now being 5 scientists. [There'd be more if there were more turkimp.]
"The question is how do we use all these gems?" the human looks at the village zoning plans again, "I like those mansions and all, but they use hardly any gems compared to, well-" he gestures at the pile of over two dozen thousand gems they've gathered, "-that! And still a lot of wood and lumber."
"I think there's something," the yellow one sighs, "I wish I knew more."
Quite some time later, after they're done looting that route for equipment plans, the trimps are again advancing through Zone 10, and he hears it.
"Tai?" the grey one wonders.
"Where are you going?" the yellow one asks.
"To the farm," the human answers.
"Whatever for?" the red one seems exasperated.
"Shijou?" the grey one sighs, then looks at the fighting front. It's been around long enough to remember, "Shijou!"
"You guys already get so much to eat this doesn't do you much good," the human explains.
3h32m33s: L11 112/35/78 rand sea, dropped from Z11c6 with disband, 4.
"What's wrong?" the red one asks.
The human comforts one of the wounded. Once trimps start into a zone fight, they have to finish before they bleed out. He's really bothered making them desert in front of that second turkimp. "They had a lot left in them," he sighs, rubbing his eyes, "but we can't keep that much dead turkimp at once, we have to leave it alive to use up all of this one."
"Shijou," the grey one presents a note, "We need this map right away, anyway. Don't worry about it, Tightniks."
"Tightniks?" he looks at the grey one, "Is that me? How do you know?"
"Tai," the grey one points at the top of the human's left breast pocket.
"Ah, crud," the yellow one curls its tail around in front of itself as trimps do when they're embarrassed, "Is that really a name tag?"
The human hadn't even noticed it since the green flash blew up his memory as he was stepping out of the ship.
4h04m22s: Block (sub-8h AP is only 0.3%), taking it, 504 pop, 9.8s RC with Z10/24.
It's a pretty thick book about using shields for block instead of hit points. The pad has the stats analysis. Sh3-1 is only giving us 9% of our hit points. Turning to his trimp scientists, he says, "It seems to me to be worth it."
"Let's," the yellow one nods.
"Shijou," it hands him a note, "It scales badly, but that won't matter for a long time. I think there's a way to undo it before it matters."
"Doing it." The human takes out his pad and starts scanning.
4h29m05s: L14 rand moun 137/26/80 is really good for a lo-hi-med. 4h30m52s: Hotels.
"Ah," the yellow one says, "I knew there was something. That must be it."
5h08m09s: L15 lo-hi-hi rand gard 129/28/82 (just got explorers). 5h09m32s: Picked up Wall.
"Dam," the human says.
"Damn?" the red one chuckles.
"No," the human says, "Earthen wall dam; it's a thing that makes artificial lakes by holding rivers back."
"Lakes?" the yellow one asks, "Rivers?"
"Oh yeah," the human says, "This planet doesn't have enough rain for those..."
5h48m21: Leaving Wall from about c70 to fetch Tion Z15.
"You can't resume the map from the same point if you start another," the human reads the grey one's note.
"We can go back to the same point on that route if we hold there and finish Zone 15, right?" Tightniks asks.
"Shijou!" it seems to be saying yes.
"Yes," the yellow one adds, "but we're out of Series III upgrades, and you need a fresh map route to start up Series IV."
"We should be okay," Tightniks says, "but if we have to start it over, I don't see that being a big deal." As they advance through the rest of Zone 15, Tightniks resumes his usual duties at the research desk instead building and running traps like he was before.
The trimps seem hopeful at this decision.
5h49m10s: Fresh turkimp. 5h50m16s: Zone 16, 1071 pop, 13.4s RC with Z15/75, 13m43s turkimp (skel in c1.)
"Z:16 Seriously? Another Blimp so soon?"
"So," Tightniks lowers his bee nickels and looks at the red one, "is it going to be boss fights at the end of every zone from now on?"
"Hmm," the red trimp looks up past the human at some random rock spire or cloud.
"Well?" the human persists.
"Yup," he says.
"Hmph," Tightniks grabs a Sw3-1 of the rack and advances towards the front, "Before then, we have another Mister Titanium."
"What does he like about skeletimps?" the red one asks the grey one as the human marches off.
"Shijou?" the grey one seems just as confused by that.
"He's not going back to the ship, and he's not getting himself killed," the yellow one smiles, "so I'll take it."
5h58m32s...
"Hey guys, go for the mortar!" the human suggests to his 75 fighting trimps in the Wall's boss fight.
"I can tell from your bedtime stories that you're used to the artillery in that other place," the yellow one gripes, "but fighting works differently here, there's no artillery."
And the human instantly collapses laughing, the scientists a little worried he might have injured himself in the planet's severe gravity. But he's okay, at least physically, "Mortar is the stuff between the bricks, fellas. That's is a brickimp, right?"
5h59m18s: Wall, 1076 pop, 13.3s RC, 1% AP for sub-8h finish, first L16 roll good 156/35/84 moun, 10 for the metal.
Beyond the Wall was a more edenic section of the trimpolis ruins, doubling the production of the lumberjacks. The trimps are actually really happy with the mode of all of the laborers moving between the three big jobs, along with the turkimp, except for the foremen specialized at leading the job. It isn't enough to boost their productivity, but the human goes to them with trays of sandwiches.
6h06m52s: 50 map run 0.3% AP...
6h19m13s: Zone 17, 1141 pop, 16.0s RC with Z16/94, no turkimp.
"Z:17 You climb a large cliff and look out over the new Zone. Red dirt, scorched ground, and devastation. Is that a Dragimp flying around out there?!"
"Hmm," the human surveys the new zone with his bee nickels, "Looks like crap. Any ideas?"
"You're the idea man," the yellow one groans.
"Set the map flag," he puts his bee nickels away, "We'll run a depth for practice and to load up on gems for more hotels."
"Righto," the red one gets to work.
6h44m34s: First DCP. (Draglimp Care Package; I refuse to call it a tribute.)
"Oh," the human says, "It's tame now, so it brings back gems in exchange for food?" He looks at his gaping scientists, "That's what it looks like, huh? Guys? Yo!"
"Tai..." the grey one sighs.
Draglimp, the dragimp imprinted on Tightniks, lands beside the human, drops some gems at his feet, and accepts some scratching behind its horns before diving into the food bowl.
"You tamed a dragimp???" Grey's note says.
"Well," the yellow one huffs, "I guess that happened."
8h18m53s: L20 depth of 154/27/79.
"Mapping up here?" the red one half closes one eye and tilts his head.
"Yeah," the human says while fitting together the depth map fragments, "With the coordination book not right at the end, we have an extra mark of coordination to take advantage of. Let's take our housing up to 2000 or so, shall we?"
"Okay," the yellow one says from a pile of logs, "What's all the wood for?" They had been collecting it for days now.
"The series upgrades follow a rather specific pattern," Tightniks explains, "Just on the other side of this blimp is Zone 21, where we should be able to find the Shield series V, right?"
"Shijou!" the grey one nods.
8h56m17s: 1% AP for 100 map runs, leaving it, 1751 pop, 24.8s RC with Z20/232. 8h56m54s: Zone 21...
"Ooooookay," Tightniks growls, "There is something off about this thing."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the yellow one with concern about their human starship pilot friend.
The human stoops, picks up the little green gem on the ridge between Zone 20 and 21, looks at it, huffs, and asks, "Any idea where this comes from?"
"Err..." the red one seems hesitant to say, "I think you made it."
"Really?" the human huffs, "How could that be?" Then he tosses it at Red, "See if anything reacts to it. It might be radioactive, so we should take turns to minimize exposure."
"Really?" Red's holding it now, "What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm pissed off for no reason I can figure out," the human says, "I think it's coming from that."
"Frags," the red one says quickly, "I think it's arranging a route. You're good with maps," it tosses the gem to the grey scientist.
"Shijou," the grey one says hopefully, and has a map drawn within a few minutes. [Whether it looks like the one in Puchim@s 1x61 is anyone's guess. That one annoyed me as well as Chihya.]
9h02m37s: L21 moun first roll was a decent 160/26/84. 9h21m00s: Starting run 5 of that map...
Tightniks had taken his anger out on some food and wood to build about 8000 traps. Now he's leaning against a rock spire in his increasingly tattered uniform. A nap begins, perhaps unintentionally.
Wild trimps are examining the pile, finding it unwelcoming, and also finding no place in the town, just mill about. It looks like they want to help.
"Ku?" it's a blue trimp, probably a farmer waiting for stuff to grow, climbs up on the rock spire the human is leaning against, starts patting him on the head, "Ku. Ku ku." [Puchim@s Chihya.]
9h23m09s: Still working that lap...
Tightniks wakes up from that nap, and the grey one is standing there. "Shijou," it says with a note of concern, although not much of one. The note it holds says, "It wasn't me."
"Oh, what wasn't you, buddy?" He stretches out a bit, feeling somewhat refreshed. It feels like somebody washed his face and hair while he was sleeping.
The grey one is also holding a small mirror, apparently broken off from a larger mirror and with the sharp edges filed down to make the edges safe.
The human takes it from the grey trimp and holds it in front of his face to discover that somebody has bound up all his hair into about twenty little pigtails. He touches them with his other hand to confirm. "Eh, whatever." He hands the mirror back and goes back to sleep. [Puchim@s Koamimami.]
9h30m08s: The following run...
"He's not throwing stuff every which way yet," the yellow one whispers to the red one, watching the human snoozing with his pad on his knee.
"You remember that, too?" the red one asks.
"'Remember'?" the yellow one turns to face the red one, "I s'pose that's better than imagining it."
"I remember it, too," the grey one says via a playing card sized note.
"If we're stuck in a time loop," the yellow one sighs, "maybe this cycle will be different."
"Tai..." the grey one admires him for a moment. Then thumbs in the direction of the mountain, "Heh, Shijou!" it laughs.
9h35m58s: Run 8, c9 of that map.
The scientists nap and take notes, and meditate and take notes, and draw stuff. The grey one often storyboards for the other nine because it's the best at drawing stuff. They have come up with a list, and most probably "order" (they're debating whether their ranking means "order" (sequence of things happening over the various loops) or "frequency" (what proportion of previous loops they have happened in). But they've come up with this, from first (or perhaps most often) to most recent (or perhaps least often):
- The ship crashes (they're pretty sure that happens every loop) - The human builds huts - The human teaches some of his trimps to speak and do science - The human builds houses - The human makes maps - The human builds mansions - The human blows up and gets himself killed somewhere around Z17 to Z21, often on a dragimp - The human only recently/occasionally builds hotels - The human only recently/rarely tamed a dragimp - The human only recently/rarely maps the Dimension of Anger
They're all agreed that that they have never finished the Dimension of Anger. What they are not all agreed on is that they've never done this conference to figure out whether they're in a time loop or what that might mean. [See also Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect" ...which was sort of a time loop but they weren't going back in time. It's very interesting, but its meta makes no sense - no one ever went looking for the Bozeman in 80 years? No one who went looking for the Bozeman also got stuck? No one noticed the passage of time outside the little area of space where the not-quite-a-time-loop was happening? Errr... sci-fi writers, don't be half-assed about your time loops, lmao! Be like Harold Ramis- ...what am I saying?? (That would be Groundhog Day, which grafted a time loop into a romcom; there are no other sci-fi elements. But it was a full-blown time loop and not half-assed like "Cause and Effect".)]
9h54m06s: Dropped from Z21c95...
I think it would be a bad idea to bypass that green area, as much as I'd rather not face it. Both his domesticated trimps, which are breeding up a new group of fighters, and the wild trimps he has decided just now not to open the traps for, stare at him and point in that direction. He shoulders a huge Shield V-3 and grabs an Mace IV-2 as well and announces, "We're doing it." Thus equipped, he marches off into the Dimension of Anger.
10h27m53s: Taking Pi4-2; recently had taken Pa4-2...
The group at the front had expired, and the snimp in DoAc95 glares at the advancing colony of trimps, which had halted only because of it. It refuses to counterattack the vulnerable colony and its human, instead snorting and huffing, waiting for the next bunch of 232 fighting trimps to come in range.
Tightniks runs along the line of traps, releasing the recently tamed trimps, singing a song that he doesn't remember the meaning of, that he doesn't remember was crafted by an ethnically Chinese guy out of an African language, and later mastered by two caucasians over the internet before they ever met in person. "Baba yetu yetu uliye, mbinguni yetu yetu amina..." because it just happened to be stuck in his head. [Because the Doylian author decided on a whim to. Christopher Tin got it into Civilization IV and at the time (2010 July), I made the best video for it on YouTube, which got subsequently blown to shreds when Peter Hollens and Malukah re-recorded the song from scratch in their own voices and instruments in 2014, pity with no English translation, the purpose of my video.]
Noticing the last batch of metal he needs coming out of the furnace, he waves the waiting grey scientist to fire up the forge [to use the term properly and not as the game does], for it was time to wrap up the forging dies for the Spetum IV, Mark 2 pike heads.
"Shijou!" the grey one cheers, setting aside a snack that looks like maybe ramen, and starts jumping up and down on the bellows handle.
It takes a while for the human to chip out the tip in the two halves of the forging die, and then polish it, and then heat it up in the forge, and then quench it, inspect it, and put it into service crafting thousands of new pike heads for the fighting trimps.
But only one second passed on the map frame clock (10h27m54s) four cells behind that snimp, in the case being brooded over by this huge, and if it's honest, rather concerned megablimp.
10h35m45: Portal PB, 45 He, 4.247 He/hr, 1891 pop, 22.7s RC with Z20/232, no turkimp.
The last head of the map's boss monster goes limp as one of the fighting trimps' mace heads bounces of it, and the huge thing settles on its tail, resting on the package that seems to be the prize of this map. And there's a popping sound, and then something mechanical.
Is that a scroll compressor? Tightniks looks at the package. The deflating monster's lifting envelope material drapes over everything underneath it. "Red, Shijou!" he snaps and points, "roll up that side of it. Keep this part from sucking down on the extractor nozzle!"
All ten of the scientists jump in, literally, pushing the gas in the bag towards the compressor. Tightniks as well, rolling up the front.
Until he kicks, and nearly trips over, a smaller package that might be the explanation for the reason why the center of the monster's defense seemed to be a little away from the big package he could see. It's in the right place, he realizes. He gets it uncovered and reads stenciled-and-sprayed block letters on it:
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE DOWN"
Perhaps the Dimension of Anger is so named because of the rage suddenly rising up in Tightniks' throat. It isn't so much as the free-floating aggression suddenly has an answer, there is definitely a fresh batch of rage and anger as he grips the nearest Mace IV, Mark 3 with both hands and gets it over his shoulder, its target obviously this object, anger at the realization he screams at the top of his lungs, "We are stuck in a mutha FAH-king time loop!!" His swing begins. [Tightniks almost never cusses, unlike Snugniks.]
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The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries. He has only a few minutes of APU power left, goes over the best clearing he can find, and radars it. It varies by only a few feet from the aerodynamic glideslope there. He spots it out on the cameras and circles to go after that spot. He's only at two hundred feet now. With one hand on the stick, he uses the other to open the pressure equalization valve on the side hatch, then at one hundred feet, gets it undogged. Depending on how much damage he's going to get, it's less likely to be stuck closed and trap him. The dynamic vacuum this pulls in the cockpit rips most of the survival pack data cards from that rack and scatters them across the landscape. Crap, I'm gonna need those! Refocusing on surviving the next few seconds, he turns on the radar for the final approach, takes a last look around, then straight ahead at his forward camera and PFD, he clicks his HANS and shoulder strap locks in; after that, he can barely move, but that now is better than dying in this crash with a broken neck. He's a decent pilot and brings up the flare gently. Bringing up the alpha on this delta-winged ship, he balloons a little, but keeps the nose going up and restores a zero aerodynamic sink rate just above the highest terrain indicated by the radar altimeter. The ship bumps a little in the ground effect, and he can see the radar altitude cycling irregularly up and down about five feet at a time. Rougher than it looked from higher up! The body flap protecting the dead engines hits first, and the nose comes rapidly down. It hits, the screens go blank, and Tightniks is surrounded by airbags, some lifting his feet from the rudder petals and his hand from the control stick. It's blinding, it's disorienting, it's noisy, and, to his relief, it's long! It takes several seconds before the crashing cockpit stops moving. How many times did he flip over? Did he go sideways and roll? Am I rightside up? Are we really stopped on the ground? The airbags deflate, and he can move his arms. He gets his restraints loose and inspects himself. "Uck!" he says out loud (without the 'f'). No broken bones. His pressure suit can take his blood pressure. 116/81, pulse 112, blood oxygen 99 reads off on his left arm, I'll friggin' take it!
The ship is amazingly intact from what he can tell. He can't get any readings. The systems test meter seems to be working, but can't find any voltages anywhere. The ship seems to be completely dead. Behind him, 10 passenger seats are all surrounded by airbags and the back of the cabin ends in some sort of dirt-and-gravel and there's a bit of daylight seeping in around the edges. He was the only one on board, though, so their deployment was mostly academic (they might have stiffened the structure a little during the crash, but that's probably trivial.) Tightniks gets out of his spacesuit. The air on this planet is actually breathable. He gets the hatch open, steps outside and-
"A green shimmer erupts then disappears, and you hit the ground."
The human emerges from the glowing green mist and hits the ground. Groans. Pushes against that ground, trying to get back up. Where am I? What's my name? I remember nothing. Aren't babies born naked? He's got a dark blue button-down shirt on. A uniform? A shoulder patch. Gets up, looks around. I feel really heavy. I'm not that fat, am I? He picks up a small stone from the ground, this also feels heavier than it should. He rises to his feet and holds it out somewhat (he's unable to fully extend his arm) and lets it go. The stone hits the ground near his feet quickly and with remarkable speed. It's the gravity, it's greater than it is on- ...where am I from? This is- ...not my home planet? "Oooh..."
"Ka?" it says.
What is that? It's cute, at least.
It is not tame. He has no hope of catching it on foot. The creature seems to like the berries. Maybe if I gather some of those into one place and set some kind of trap...
33s: First trap.
I got one! The human lumbers up to the trap and gets the catch open. Do you bite? It doesn't matter much to me; I'm so friggin' screwed.
It doesn't. It looks at the human with a sense of wonder, actually. A blink and tilt of the head. Seems almost to be asking, Is it you? My purpose? My savior? Once out of the trap, which is totally wrecked, he has to make a new one from scratch, it follows him around like a imprinted hatchling bird.
Wiry little fella, you are. You're going to need some bulking up to do anything useful. The- ...'trimp', I guess... The trimp seems just barely able to feed itself. The human lets him into the broken ship's intact cabin, and it curls up comfortably in a passenger seat for a nap.
1m03s: Second trap.
"Apparently the Trimps breed if they're not working. Doesn't look pleasant."
What are they doing?
The trimps appear to be androgynous, and these two have paired off in the back of the ship. They're holding something carefully within a few hours, feeding it berries, grass, and- ...corundum.
Corundum?? Whatever that is, it isn't a baby.
1m35s: Third trap.
Only it IS a baby! The third trimp he trapped immediately joined the other two in raising it. They have a strange diet of food the human has found compatible with his own body, but they also eat rocks! They're careful to crush and sort aluminate minerals from silcate ones and only eat aluminate. Actually, they don't eat aluminate, they're only feeding it to the baby.
2m06s: Fourth trap.
All four are raising the same child, who is just starting to toddle. It seems these fellas have alumina or maybe even aluminum bones. The human takes a nap and wakes to find the first child grown up and they're starting to raise a second child, all five of them.
2m46s: Huts.
The human found a working bit of electronics. He calls it a pad, but maybe it's more like a smartphone. It has plans for two residential structures. The first, the smaller one, he can build right away, but the second one needs something called "drywall", and he has to figure out how to make that before he can build it. Huts and houses, apparently.
3m13s: 10 pop, full, first farmer.
The trimp he trained to farm and make paper took an incredible 50 units of food to get bulked up to do the work, and now it's not participating in rearing the child. But less than an hour after the trimp started farming and pulping, the child was out on its own, and the trimps did not start another. The ten seats on the ship were all full. Well, eleven counting the one up front that the human sleeps in. The pilot starts exploring the area.
3m28s: Battle.
Wait, what are you do-
The hostile roars and charges at the human, but one of his trimps jumps in front of him with a stick and they fight. It started right when the human got far enough away from the ship that the hostile non-trimps away from the ship began to regard him as leaving his own territory. After the trimp defeats the first enemy, it continues after other hostiles.
3m53s: Shield I in Z1c5.
The human is easily able to recover the loot in the territory cleared by the fighting trimp. Then he sees something glinting in the- That can't be! What the heck is that? It's a data card that fits his pad. It quite clearly regards trimp combat. He gets it loaded into his pad and studies it. I can do this, it just takes some wood. He returns to the ship to discover that they had already started on a new child before the fighter had even expired in battle. The human concentrates on his research.
4m38s: Mskel in Z1c11 defeated.
The remains of this one seem rather white and shiny. It's titanium! This enemy had titanium bones! He'll store them away. They'll be useful someday, I'm sure.
5m52s: Dagger I in Z1c20.
Where are these data cards coming from? The human wonders as he loads this one into his pad, It's for a weapon it calls a dagger. He blinks. I don't know what a dagger is. I'll take your word for it, data card. Needs metal. He has gathered some, but ore is plentiful. He can just dig and smelt it whenever he wants. For now, I'll continue researching.
6m18s: Arable in Z1c21.
It's an old cave that trimps like to live in. Why weren't they able to live there before? How could these friendly critters be confined to only the exact spot where THAT thing, he looks back where he came from, not remembering that he piloted the wrecked ship to its current resting place, crashed? This is really strange. I'll let them fill up this cave before advancing further. Wait, what about defenses? The hostiles never try to reclaim territory that they've lost, so he stops worrying about that fairly quickly.
8m22s: First hut is 0.3% first ever AP.
The trimps seem fairly easy to please in terms of living quarters. Two move into his first hut and start raising a child. The human has his tent, uniform, and the heater pilfered from his space suit. Not much of a mud fan.
9m59s: Miners in Z1c30.
Oh, what's on this data card? Sl3niw? Oh, I'm holding the pad upside down. Miners. I can teach trimps how to mine ores and smelt met- 200 units of food? Each job is getting more expensive to train a trimp for. He puts his bee nickels to his eyes and spots another data card probably 10 enemies away. "Sc"? Does that means science? I can teach trimps to do science??
13m57s: Scientists in Z1c40.
Due to the expense of training trimps, the human couldn't afford to build them shields until now, he's got Sh1-3 made for the fighter to capture the science training data card. 14m02s: One head went into that turtlimp shell, that of his fighter, but two came out: his fighter still has his head on, and he managed to get the turtlimp's head off. It rushes off after the deadly penguimp in the next cell. The shields are not doing all that much good, actually, but they're better than nothing. The human picks up and loads the science data card and- Holy runny sugar-free fudge crap! 1000 food units, but it'll endow them with the ability to speak. Good. I'm getting bored with no one to talk to.
14m28s: Bloodlust purchased and AutoFight enabled (that delay after getting it is an effect of jacking up the job cost.)
As the human buries this expired little trimp warrior, he comes to the sobering realization that he has more trimp graves in his growing trimp colony than he does live trimps. And yet they seem more hopeful now than before I got to know any of them. They seem to think I'm the solution to all their problems or- Those two look east somberly, then notice that he's watching them and smile back and wave at him. ...one problem that is specific, but very, very huge for them. [The only reason I say 'east' is because that's right on a map, and the game advances right across a row, then up. I might say 'northeast' on occasion for that reason.]
20m47s: Z1c73, Miners taken.
Are you my new mining foreman? The trimp who took to the mining training has dark brown fur that lays flat on its head. It's unusual in not having any bits that stick out from its head, ahoge or whatever. This one is relatively quiet, and while it has assimilated the mining and smelting knowledge, it needs to bulk up to do any mining. Smelting is relatively easy, and getting a strong natural draft going in a furnace is almost trivial with the increased gravity. This trimp builds furnaces like nothing. And likes to nap in holes it digs right on the spot; it's weird that way. [Puchim@s Yukipo, and furnaces are not explicit in Trimps.]
21m58s: Farming in Z1c80.
The resourcing "books" are not data cards but paper scrolls, apparently lost to the trimps. It seems that they were civilized in the recent past and some calamity swept over the planet to reduce them to this. Did I have something to do with it? Amnesia sucks harder than a Dyson- ...what's a Dyson? Whatever, it sucks. This disaster happening just before I crash in the only spot with trimps still alive would be a seriously crazy coincidence! Something is really, really wrong about all this. [The author has not sought or received product placement permission or fee from Dyson Technology Ltd. or any resellers of their stuff, just they literally suck balls and made my favorite vacuum cleaner.]
23m50s: Builder in Z1c90.
They've rescued an, I dunno, gelding trimp? It just started to build a shed around the piled lumber I left to build one. It's really slow compared to me, and just banged its thumb, but it is super cute with that long reddish head fur. That particular trimp is also fascinated with pink ribbons and likes to decorate its head fur with them. Because of its inherent inability to participate in rearing children, it isn't counted in the population. [Puchim@s Io, builder on the basis of Iori seen building in 1x10.]
26m02s: Zone 2, 44 pop, 5.5s RC with Z0/1.
It's some sort of tactical manual - tactical coordination. Coordination! He's starting to sort out some trimpese on the research he has done so far. It needs a lot of metal, so they won't be able to implement it for some time. Hopefully, they're still good one at a time, but these enemies seem to be getting bigger as we go along. Uh oh!
27m33s: Gym in Z2c5.
It's some sort of training dojo or sporting arena. The human examines the ruins, I think I can back-engineer drawings for this, get one built, and see what happens.
29m02s: 1g, 47 pop, 10.8s RC with Z1/2.
The two fighting trimps now with their gym and coordination are dodging and blocking enthusiastically, and making much faster ground against the bad guys then a little while ago when it was just one trimp fighting at a time and unable to avoid the enemy hitting back.
40m46s: Fresh turkimp in Z2c74, 63 pop, 7.9s RC, Sh1-10, Da1-5, Bo1-3, Ma1-3, Hm1-3, 6g.
Oh, wow, the laborers seem really hot after this turkimp. He cooks it up and tries a slice. It's really awesome! I have to work alongside his laboring trimps to share it, but I'm getting used to the gravity now. That scroll we found back in Z2c10 really helped. Trimps' techniques and appliances for handicapped individuals, and I'm really handicapped in this higher gravity. He joins the woodcutters with the turkimp; they're the most numerous resource laborer right now, building more gyms, enough that the block/dodge ability of the fighting trimps is almost caught up to the enemy's ability to cause damage.
43m15s: Zone 3, 63 pop, 7.9s RC with Z1/2.
I'm neglecting my science and trimp scientists are really expensive. Curiously, that grey-haired one can't speak all that well, only says "Tai" and "Shijou", but it can write and draw like nobody's business. It's the only scientist so far. [Puchim@s Takanya: Online references probably still claim that she can utter the first two syllables of any word, but she can actually utter only the first two kana syllables of someone's name, most often the given name of basis human Takane Shijou, who also has that habit. (All the utterances of the puchidoru are based on the speech foibles of their basis humans except maybe Piyopiyo, where I haven't seen anything match up so far.)]
47m32s: Finally, we can make drywall and houses. 59m30s: Z3c77, 94 pop, 7.8s RC.
Oh, those poor things are really struggling up at the front. These trimps are enthusiastic and know no fear, but I still feel like telling them to stop for a while. I don't have the heart to keep them from trying while they're still doing some damage.
1h05m24s: Zone 4, 107 pop, 9.3s RC with Z3/4. 1h15m26s: Zone 5, 120 pop, 8.2s RC with Z3/4.
"What is that?" the human asks. He has three scientists. His first does all the writing, but the other two can actually speak. One of them hops up on a rock spire beside the human to reach his eye level.
At the next ridge line, over the lowest and most passable gap in the terrain, this really mean looking hovering sausage monster.
"I dunno," the scientist trimp shrugs, "But it's making me hungry. Looks like a perfectly cooked frankfurter from here." [John Morell's dubious dirigibles.]
"Oh, yeah," the human nods, "that's a blimp."
"A blimp?" the trimp tilts its head quizzically at the human, "How could you know?"
"I wish I could tell you, little buddy," the human extends his arm braces to descend the pass on the side of the zone boundary in the boss enemy's direction, then grunts, "Let's go kill it."
1h16m11s: Z1c9, 120 pop, 10.3s RC with Z4/5. 1h33m34s: Zone 6, 151 pop, 7.4s RC with Z4/5.
1h33m54s: TP in Z1c3.
"What's this?" the human asks, having picked up the little square document with the curling corners.
"Oh," the hungry scientist looks at it, "It's a garden path, follow me."
"You want to lead me down the garden path?" the human says.
"Yeah," the scientist says.
"Are you kidding?" the human asks.
"No," says the other scientist, "We don't get human humor. Listen, these fighters can't go, let them wear themselves out here, then we'll take the next group through this garden."
"Okay," the human nods, watching two more trimps join the fray as he issues the Z5 coordination orders, "they're doing pretty well after all that block training research we just wrapped up." [That's a common artifact, even in normal games, Z5 Traintacular combines with many gyms, enough population to add several trainers, affording Blockmaster, which is expensive on a run zero, plus a break on Tion Z5, a 40% all-stat increase. I don't think Zach designed it into the game on purpose, it just worked out this way.]
1h34m07s: 151 pop, 10.5s RC with Z5/7. 1h37m44s: Drop from Z6c39, TP for 3.
"Now we have these access map frags we can use to route through the old trimpopoli," the scientist explains, "Atlimpis for food, Morimpa for gems, Everimp for metal, and Impazon for wood."
"What about the garden?" the human asks.
"Well, we got lucky with Tricky Paradise," the scientist says, "but you can randomize the route and maybe get lucky. What's with that look?"
"Somehow, I'm remembering 'frag' as something that blew up with deadly pieces," the human says. [Different video games - ones with better graphics and worse gameplay Ｏ(>▽<)Ｏ]
1h39m59s: Blues back up to the top on series I...
"Tai, Tai!" the first ever trimp scientist stops the human just before he upgrades the mace and dagger to Mk.6 and Mk. 8 respectively. It has a note for him.
"Why do you keep calling me that?" the human asks, "Do you think that's my name?"
"Shijou, Shijou," it nods as though to indicate, I KNOW it is. Then it proffers its note again. The human takes it and reads, "Don't upgrade the first row equipment right now."
"Why not?" the human asks.
"Shijou," it points at the end of the mapped route, where there's a scroll sticking out of the thistles.
2h24m07s: Zone 8, 224 pop, 12.2s RC with Z7/12.
"Your settlement is getting crowded, there's Trimps in the streets, and you're taking heat. You feel a sudden strong desire to create a map, though you're not quite sure how that would help."
2h49m10s: Zone 9, 357 pop, 9.5s RC with Z8/15.
"You can't shake the feeling that you've been here before. Déjà-vu?"
The trimps really seem to like the new high capacity mansions, and the village has rapidly expanded since they started building them.
"There's something familiar about this," the human says.
"Tai," the grey one that writes clings to his arm and shows him a note that says, "Don't give up now."
"We must persist," says the yellow one has found a foothold it can grab onto and grabs the human's shoulder gently, "If you give up to early, we'll never solve this. You'll be stuck here forever."
The human puts his hand over the trimp's paw on his shoulders, then looks at him, "I can die, too."
"No, you can't," the trimp says quietly, "Please don't test that, tall one."
"Death is just another path..." he remembers.
"Gan," the grey one squeaks. [That's the first two kana syllables of "Gandalf"]
"...one that we all must take," the human continues, "The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it-"
"A green mist," the yellow trimp interrupts, "flash of fire, we're all gone and our progress forgotten. The wandering stars return to that day, and you again crash that ship- ...a little better every time."
"Wait," the human looks around, "have I been here before?"
"I-" the yellow trimp tries in futility to share what little it knows, "...or... somebody got just a little coolant into the-"
"Into the what?"
"This side up," the grey one's note says.
"Into the that," the yellow one points at the note, "It really helped. You- ...I don't think we've ever had mansions before."
Well, of course they didn't have mansions before. That was one of my ship's data cards. How did it get way out here? Will anything start to make sense?
3h02m13s: Zone 10, 387 pop, 8.7s RC with Z8/15; '28s: 11.1s RC with Z9/19. 3h16m41s: Tough snimp after food book, L10 rand dept from lo-hi-med 118/25/96, 4 Items.
"That's twice our frags led us to gem-rich Moria," the human says.
"Morimpa," the new red trimp scientist corrects, there now being 5 scientists. [There'd be more if there were more turkimp.]
"The question is how do we use all these gems?" the human looks at the village zoning plans again, "I like those mansions and all, but they use hardly any gems compared to, well-" he gestures at the pile of over two dozen thousand gems they've gathered, "-that! And still a lot of wood and lumber."
"I think there's something," the yellow one sighs, "I wish I knew more."
Quite some time later, after they're done looting that route for equipment plans, the trimps are again advancing through Zone 10, and he hears it.
"Tai?" the grey one wonders.
"Where are you going?" the yellow one asks.
"To the farm," the human answers.
"Whatever for?" the red one seems exasperated.
"Shijou?" the grey one sighs, then looks at the fighting front. It's been around long enough to remember, "Shijou!"
"You guys already get so much to eat this doesn't do you much good," the human explains.
3h32m33s: L11 112/35/78 rand sea, dropped from Z11c6 with disband, 4.
"What's wrong?" the red one asks.
The human comforts one of the wounded. Once trimps start into a zone fight, they have to finish before they bleed out. He's really bothered making them desert in front of that second turkimp. "They had a lot left in them," he sighs, rubbing his eyes, "but we can't keep that much dead turkimp at once, we have to leave it alive to use up all of this one."
"Shijou," the grey one presents a note, "We need this map right away, anyway. Don't worry about it, Tightniks."
"Tightniks?" he looks at the grey one, "Is that me? How do you know?"
"Tai," the grey one points at the top of the human's left breast pocket.
"Ah, crud," the yellow one curls its tail around in front of itself as trimps do when they're embarrassed, "Is that really a name tag?"
The human hadn't even noticed it since the green flash blew up his memory as he was stepping out of the ship.
4h04m22s: Block (sub-8h AP is only 0.3%), taking it, 504 pop, 9.8s RC with Z10/24.
It's a pretty thick book about using shields for block instead of hit points. The pad has the stats analysis. Sh3-1 is only giving us 9% of our hit points. Turning to his trimp scientists, he says, "It seems to me to be worth it."
"Let's," the yellow one nods.
"Shijou," it hands him a note, "It scales badly, but that won't matter for a long time. I think there's a way to undo it before it matters."
"Doing it." The human takes out his pad and starts scanning.
4h29m05s: L14 rand moun 137/26/80 is really good for a lo-hi-med. 4h30m52s: Hotels.
"Ah," the yellow one says, "I knew there was something. That must be it."
5h08m09s: L15 lo-hi-hi rand gard 129/28/82 (just got explorers). 5h09m32s: Picked up Wall.
"Dam," the human says.
"Damn?" the red one chuckles.
"No," the human says, "Earthen wall dam; it's a thing that makes artificial lakes by holding rivers back."
"Lakes?" the yellow one asks, "Rivers?"
"Oh yeah," the human says, "This planet doesn't have enough rain for those..."
5h48m21: Leaving Wall from about c70 to fetch Tion Z15.
"You can't resume the map from the same point if you start another," the human reads the grey one's note.
"We can go back to the same point on that route if we hold there and finish Zone 15, right?" Tightniks asks.
"Shijou!" it seems to be saying yes.
"Yes," the yellow one adds, "but we're out of Series III upgrades, and you need a fresh map route to start up Series IV."
"We should be okay," Tightniks says, "but if we have to start it over, I don't see that being a big deal." As they advance through the rest of Zone 15, Tightniks resumes his usual duties at the research desk instead building and running traps like he was before.
The trimps seem hopeful at this decision.
5h49m10s: Fresh turkimp. 5h50m16s: Zone 16, 1071 pop, 13.4s RC with Z15/75, 13m43s turkimp (skel in c1.)
"Z:16 Seriously? Another Blimp so soon?"
"So," Tightniks lowers his bee nickels and looks at the red one, "is it going to be boss fights at the end of every zone from now on?"
"Hmm," the red trimp looks up past the human at some random rock spire or cloud.
"Well?" the human persists.
"Yup," he says.
"Hmph," Tightniks grabs a Sw3-1 of the rack and advances towards the front, "Before then, we have another Mister Titanium."
"What does he like about skeletimps?" the red one asks the grey one as the human marches off.
"Shijou?" the grey one seems just as confused by that.
"He's not going back to the ship, and he's not getting himself killed," the yellow one smiles, "so I'll take it."
5h58m32s...
"Hey guys, go for the mortar!" the human suggests to his 75 fighting trimps in the Wall's boss fight.
"I can tell from your bedtime stories that you're used to the artillery in that other place," the yellow one gripes, "but fighting works differently here, there's no artillery."
And the human instantly collapses laughing, the scientists a little worried he might have injured himself in the planet's severe gravity. But he's okay, at least physically, "Mortar is the stuff between the bricks, fellas. That's is a brickimp, right?"
5h59m18s: Wall, 1076 pop, 13.3s RC, 1% AP for sub-8h finish, first L16 roll good 156/35/84 moun, 10 for the metal.
Beyond the Wall was a more edenic section of the trimpolis ruins, doubling the production of the lumberjacks. The trimps are actually really happy with the mode of all of the laborers moving between the three big jobs, along with the turkimp, except for the foremen specialized at leading the job. It isn't enough to boost their productivity, but the human goes to them with trays of sandwiches.
6h06m52s: 50 map run 0.3% AP...
6h19m13s: Zone 17, 1141 pop, 16.0s RC with Z16/94, no turkimp.
"Z:17 You climb a large cliff and look out over the new Zone. Red dirt, scorched ground, and devastation. Is that a Dragimp flying around out there?!"
"Hmm," the human surveys the new zone with his bee nickels, "Looks like crap. Any ideas?"
"You're the idea man," the yellow one groans.
"Set the map flag," he puts his bee nickels away, "We'll run a depth for practice and to load up on gems for more hotels."
"Righto," the red one gets to work.
6h44m34s: First DCP. (Draglimp Care Package; I refuse to call it a tribute.)
"Oh," the human says, "It's tame now, so it brings back gems in exchange for food?" He looks at his gaping scientists, "That's what it looks like, huh? Guys? Yo!"
"Tai..." the grey one sighs.
Draglimp, the dragimp imprinted on Tightniks, lands beside the human, drops some gems at his feet, and accepts some scratching behind its horns before diving into the food bowl.
"You tamed a dragimp???" Grey's note says.
"Well," the yellow one huffs, "I guess that happened."
8h18m53s: L20 depth of 154/27/79.
"Mapping up here?" the red one half closes one eye and tilts his head.
"Yeah," the human says while fitting together the depth map fragments, "With the coordination book not right at the end, we have an extra mark of coordination to take advantage of. Let's take our housing up to 2000 or so, shall we?"
"Okay," the yellow one says from a pile of logs, "What's all the wood for?" They had been collecting it for days now.
"The series upgrades follow a rather specific pattern," Tightniks explains, "Just on the other side of this blimp is Zone 21, where we should be able to find the Shield series V, right?"
"Shijou!" the grey one nods.
8h56m17s: 1% AP for 100 map runs, leaving it, 1751 pop, 24.8s RC with Z20/232. 8h56m54s: Zone 21...
"Ooooookay," Tightniks growls, "There is something off about this thing."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the yellow one with concern about their human starship pilot friend.
The human stoops, picks up the little green gem on the ridge between Zone 20 and 21, looks at it, huffs, and asks, "Any idea where this comes from?"
"Err..." the red one seems hesitant to say, "I think you made it."
"Really?" the human huffs, "How could that be?" Then he tosses it at Red, "See if anything reacts to it. It might be radioactive, so we should take turns to minimize exposure."
"Really?" Red's holding it now, "What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm pissed off for no reason I can figure out," the human says, "I think it's coming from that."
"Frags," the red one says quickly, "I think it's arranging a route. You're good with maps," it tosses the gem to the grey scientist.
"Shijou," the grey one says hopefully, and has a map drawn within a few minutes. [Whether it looks like the one in Puchim@s 1x61 is anyone's guess. That one annoyed me as well as Chihya.]
9h02m37s: L21 moun first roll was a decent 160/26/84. 9h21m00s: Starting run 5 of that map...
Tightniks had taken his anger out on some food and wood to build about 8000 traps. Now he's leaning against a rock spire in his increasingly tattered uniform. A nap begins, perhaps unintentionally.
Wild trimps are examining the pile, finding it unwelcoming, and also finding no place in the town, just mill about. It looks like they want to help.
"Ku?" it's a blue trimp, probably a farmer waiting for stuff to grow, climbs up on the rock spire the human is leaning against, starts patting him on the head, "Ku. Ku ku." [Puchim@s Chihya.]
9h23m09s: Still working that lap...
Tightniks wakes up from that nap, and the grey one is standing there. "Shijou," it says with a note of concern, although not much of one. The note it holds says, "It wasn't me."
"Oh, what wasn't you, buddy?" He stretches out a bit, feeling somewhat refreshed. It feels like somebody washed his face and hair while he was sleeping.
The grey one is also holding a small mirror, apparently broken off from a larger mirror and with the sharp edges filed down to make the edges safe.
The human takes it from the grey trimp and holds it in front of his face to discover that somebody has bound up all his hair into about twenty little pigtails. He touches them with his other hand to confirm. "Eh, whatever." He hands the mirror back and goes back to sleep. [Puchim@s Koamimami.]
9h30m08s: The following run...
"He's not throwing stuff every which way yet," the yellow one whispers to the red one, watching the human snoozing with his pad on his knee.
"You remember that, too?" the red one asks.
"'Remember'?" the yellow one turns to face the red one, "I s'pose that's better than imagining it."
"I remember it, too," the grey one says via a playing card sized note.
"If we're stuck in a time loop," the yellow one sighs, "maybe this cycle will be different."
"Tai..." the grey one admires him for a moment. Then thumbs in the direction of the mountain, "Heh, Shijou!" it laughs.
9h35m58s: Run 8, c9 of that map.
The scientists nap and take notes, and meditate and take notes, and draw stuff. The grey one often storyboards for the other nine because it's the best at drawing stuff. They have come up with a list, and most probably "order" (they're debating whether their ranking means "order" (sequence of things happening over the various loops) or "frequency" (what proportion of previous loops they have happened in). But they've come up with this, from first (or perhaps most often) to most recent (or perhaps least often):
- The ship crashes (they're pretty sure that happens every loop) - The human builds huts - The human teaches some of his trimps to speak and do science - The human builds houses - The human makes maps - The human builds mansions - The human blows up and gets himself killed somewhere around Z17 to Z21, often on a dragimp - The human only recently/occasionally builds hotels - The human only recently/rarely tamed a dragimp - The human only recently/rarely maps the Dimension of Anger
They're all agreed that that they have never finished the Dimension of Anger. What they are not all agreed on is that they've never done this conference to figure out whether they're in a time loop or what that might mean. [See also Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect" ...which was sort of a time loop but they weren't going back in time. It's very interesting, but its meta makes no sense - no one ever went looking for the Bozeman in 80 years? No one who went looking for the Bozeman also got stuck? No one noticed the passage of time outside the little area of space where the not-quite-a-time-loop was happening? Errr... sci-fi writers, don't be half-assed about your time loops, lmao! Be like Harold Ramis- ...what am I saying?? (That would be Groundhog Day, which grafted a time loop into a romcom; there are no other sci-fi elements. But it was a full-blown time loop and not half-assed like "Cause and Effect".)]
9h54m06s: Dropped from Z21c95...
I think it would be a bad idea to bypass that green area, as much as I'd rather not face it. Both his domesticated trimps, which are breeding up a new group of fighters, and the wild trimps he has decided just now not to open the traps for, stare at him and point in that direction. He shoulders a huge Shield V-3 and grabs an Mace IV-2 as well and announces, "We're doing it." Thus equipped, he marches off into the Dimension of Anger.
10h27m53s: Taking Pi4-2; recently had taken Pa4-2...
The group at the front had expired, and the snimp in DoAc95 glares at the advancing colony of trimps, which had halted only because of it. It refuses to counterattack the vulnerable colony and its human, instead snorting and huffing, waiting for the next bunch of 232 fighting trimps to come in range.
Tightniks runs along the line of traps, releasing the recently tamed trimps, singing a song that he doesn't remember the meaning of, that he doesn't remember was crafted by an ethnically Chinese guy out of an African language, and later mastered by two caucasians over the internet before they ever met in person. "Baba yetu yetu uliye, mbinguni yetu yetu amina..." because it just happened to be stuck in his head. [Because the Doylian author decided on a whim to. Christopher Tin got it into Civilization IV and at the time (2010 July), I made the best video for it on YouTube, which got subsequently blown to shreds when Peter Hollens and Malukah re-recorded the song from scratch in their own voices and instruments in 2014, pity with no English translation, the purpose of my video.]
Noticing the last batch of metal he needs coming out of the furnace, he waves the waiting grey scientist to fire up the forge [to use the term properly and not as the game does], for it was time to wrap up the forging dies for the Spetum IV, Mark 2 pike heads.
"Shijou!" the grey one cheers, setting aside a snack that looks like maybe ramen, and starts jumping up and down on the bellows handle.
It takes a while for the human to chip out the tip in the two halves of the forging die, and then polish it, and then heat it up in the forge, and then quench it, inspect it, and put it into service crafting thousands of new pike heads for the fighting trimps.
But only one second passed on the map frame clock (10h27m54s) four cells behind that snimp, in the case being brooded over by this huge, and if it's honest, rather concerned megablimp.
10h35m45: Portal PB, 45 He, 4.247 He/hr, 1891 pop, 22.7s RC with Z20/232, no turkimp.
The last head of the map's boss monster goes limp as one of the fighting trimps' mace heads bounces of it, and the huge thing settles on its tail, resting on the package that seems to be the prize of this map. And there's a popping sound, and then something mechanical.
Is that a scroll compressor? Tightniks looks at the package. The deflating monster's lifting envelope material drapes over everything underneath it. "Red, Shijou!" he snaps and points, "roll up that side of it. Keep this part from sucking down on the extractor nozzle!"
All ten of the scientists jump in, literally, pushing the gas in the bag towards the compressor. Tightniks as well, rolling up the front.
Until he kicks, and nearly trips over, a smaller package that might be the explanation for the reason why the center of the monster's defense seemed to be a little away from the big package he could see. It's in the right place, he realizes. He gets it uncovered and reads stenciled-and-sprayed block letters on it:
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE DOWN"
Perhaps the Dimension of Anger is so named because of the rage suddenly rising up in Tightniks' throat. It isn't so much as the free-floating aggression suddenly has an answer, there is definitely a fresh batch of rage and anger as he grips the nearest Mace IV, Mark 3 with both hands and gets it over his shoulder, its target obviously this object, anger at the realization he screams at the top of his lungs, "We are stuck in a mutha FAH-king time loop!!" His swing begins. [Tightniks almost never cusses, unlike Snugniks.]