When I'm roaming around and it starts raining I always sorta RP it up and actively seek cover from the storm. I'll hang out somewhere and just enjoy the storm.
Anybody else enjoy the storms?
I moved to Vegas from the Midwest and I honestly miss the thunderstorms.
I wish the weather affected things/people in game.
Short circuit electronics sometimes. Make everyone's accuracy go down. Slow down running a bit from being soaked (us and enemies). Be in a firefight and occasionally see your agent or the enemy frantically wipe their face to clear their eyes.
Served a decade in the Army. Spent plenty of time out in the rain, man it sucked lol

I hope this is the right place to ask. I have fairly extensive Linux experience, but more on the server side. I've never been able to get the desktop end to meet my needs.
I am completely fed up with Windows 11's junk at this point. Sure, it runs everything, but I spend half my time fixing it. I switched my former business to all Ubuntu and magically I was able to focus on my actual job, not part time IT.
I'm hoping someone can chime in as to if the following are possible yet. I've done my homework, and can't find quite perfect solutions, but all of these are necessary to me switching:

1. Hardest one - Excel (and now, unfortunately, Outlook and Teams) - I feel like Libre is always a few steps behind, and with some new work I do, I absolutely have to work with Outlook and use Teams. It's regular work, and some is on my i7-1260p laptop, so I don't think running a VM is going to cut it :/
2. Easier one - I rely on switching between desktops using my Logitech mice's thumb wheels. I'm open to alternatives, but I definitely need a fast mouse-based way to switch between desktops quickly. I've run some kind of sketchy utilities that can do this before, but they seemed laggy.
3. Hard-ish one - I have some really really nice audio equipment and I'm picky about the audio streaming services I use. Currently Amazon Music because everything is FLAC and a lot is 24-bit sampling rate. Apparently the web interface doesn't support 24-bit, and some Electron app no longer works. I am open to switching services, but it's just with the amount I've invested in my audio setup, I want to have the best source I can. Amazon, as much as I can't stand them, seems to have the best blend of track library and sound quality. I hope this doesn't sound snooty, it's just a hobby that brings me a lot of happiness, and it's worth tolerating Windows just so I at least feel like I'm getting the most out of my audio equipment investment.

Thanks for any thoughts. I try desperately every 6 or so months to switch to Linux for a lot of reasons, but it feels like I can never make it work :/ If it says anything, I'm even willing to give up the Windows-only games I play just to move to something that's actually stable, consistent, and responsive.

They said loook for clues so let’s start with the PLEASR DAO website https://pleasr.org/#main-menu-toggle
The Home Screen travels through space with the following f emojis 🌶️🐸🍦🥳🦍🍣🦄
Worth a shot at finding a clue. Similar to RC and DFV emojis GameStop.

Im buying a DS for my birthday coming later this year. I love collecting "old" games and is one of my dreams to own one. I've been eyeing one in a used stuff store ( i dont know what theyre called in the US) and i already have a list, but more the merrier. Here it is:
New super mario bros
Super mario 64 DS
Sonic rush
Sonic colors
Mario kart DS
Resident Evil Deadly silence
Pokemon white
Pokemon black 2
Pokemon platinum
Rythm heaven
Kirby super star ultra
Mario e Luigi bowser inside story
GTA chinatown
Tetris DS
Ace attorney
LEGO indiana jones
Rayman DS

Dementium - The Ward

Nanco museum
And maybe another LEGO or Spiderman game idk. I think a licensed game fits in a collection
Not to mention it comes with a GBA slot, wich i want
Pokemon emerald
Sonic advance 2
Sonic battle
Godzilla domination
Maybe some of GBA video for the memes?
Anyway. I love 2D and 3D platformers, colleathon or not. Also, i dislike RPG´s but a fan of horror games. Also tell me if one of them is ass. Thanks in advance. (also Heartgold or Soulsilver?)

Per the title, I'm looking for an urban fantasy game for a possible fututre campaing/one-shot, but every system I find is either dark or melancholic or horror focuesd etc.
What I was aiming for was something more akin of a kids show where the characters are recruited to a secret agency to fights enemies the normal people don't even are aware but not going overboard to fall in the horror genre (like Glitch Techs or Lego Dreamzz, for those who know it).
Or maybe society even is aware of them, but don't know who their saviours are nor from where they came from etc (like in most power rangers), but again without going overboard to fall in the horrodark category
I tried Fate accelerated, but didn't like it much as I prefer systems with more crunchy rules and well definided abilities than the more interpretation based ones (a well balanced one, with both of those well adjusted would be good tho).
So, any hopes for this or it's easier to adapt something pre-existing ?

Need motivation to stop? It's nothing more than a douche bag social media fad now. Here's a list of shit what's really going on.
*** Table Games *** Going electronic , live game limits raised from $5/$10 to $25. This means $100 gets you 4 hands instead of 10 or 20. Just these odds reduce your chances of winning by ALOT. 3 Zeros on Roulette. 6:5 blackjack. Continuous auto shufflers where the casino KNOWS the next card for "Security" Reasons. All a scam to take your money fast.
*** Sports Betting *** 100s of bad bets on games , no limits , "parlays". All a scam to steal your money from your cell phone to fund declining TV revenue and inflated contracts, as well as wall street owned casinos and what else ??? Oh more tax dollars.
*** Slots *** Where do we start. Always a challenge now RTPs are getting reduced to 90% or less on $5, $10, $25 bets because "streamers" and morons are spinning $250+ a spin destroying the RTP for thousands of players and keeping the casinos above "state minimums". Free play scams , Ai , Facial Recognition is in full force learning your play style and making sure the casino cleans you out.
*** Taxes *** It's obvious how much they're making and why they look the other way
*** Wall St/China/Indians *** Yeah the own most of the Vegas strip and every casino in your backyard. Nice guys, right ?
*** Online Gaming *** Obviously stupid AF and 100% rigged.
*** Stock options / Crypto / Meme Stocks *** Just another tool to rob you blind. It's impossible to win in the long run unless you're an insider. An insider makes millions meanwhile thousands of people lose thousands and stay poor. Yes you can make money trading but long term you will lose. Margin / borrowing / futures is all a sham , all big money trading ran by robots who will throw around millions to steal your last $10,000 and put you on the street
Next we will get into the consequences of gaming.

1. Just for fun .. until. The 1st win or social media/free play manipulation getting you hooked.
2. Years of cascading losses
3. Financial Ruin / Bad Credit / Repossession / Divorce / Disowned / Alcoholism / Drug Addiction / TIME Lost.
4. It's all YOUR fault they say. From the casino, to creditors , even poorly casino funded GA will point the finger at YOU.
5. Bankruptcy / Foreclosure / Suicide.

Is it worth it ? Should this "Entertaining Hobby" be allowed to be streamed all over social media and advertised all over on billboards and television? Cause I can tell you tobacco is banned, which naturally relieves anxiety, whereas Gambling causes anxiety and lots of big problems for the majority of "regulars".

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AFTERGRINDER
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Alien Rage - Unlimited
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Black Book
Call of Juarez
Chains
Coromon
Crash Time 2
Dark Matter
Dead Estate
Deadly Days
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Dragon Spirits
Encodya
Enemy Front + Enemy Front Multiplayer Map Pack DLC
Evergarden
Frontline Tactics Complete Pack
Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition
GRAV
Golden Light
Grey Goo Definitive Edition
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Obulis
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Hey, my name is Ralph. I am 36, and I live in Florida. I travel for work though so I am all over the place and I travel full time. So that means I am not on any specific time zone, I sleep when I’m tired. As flight crew my work schedule can be 7 days a week, 365 days a year and holidays. I prefer it that way vs a traditional 9-5 Monday to Friday type job, no thanks. As flight crew I get to see the world and get paid for it. I truly love my job and what I do. I also get to live in Florida but still see all 4 seasons! I have been to 19 countries and growing!
I am a nerd. I love gaming. I have a PS5, gaming desktop, gaming laptop, switch OLED, etc. I am also an electronic music producer. I produce house, tech house, trance, techno, drum and bass, etc! It is just for fun!
I am looking for friends. I am VERY picky with who I respond to and make friends with. I am also looking for my best friend but that takes time and it just has to happen. I just need to click with someone. Someone who immediately gets my high level of sarcasm, etc.
If you think you can become friends with me or one day my bestie, message me! The bestie thing takes time, it just has to happen. But message me and let’s vibe!!! I am eventually though looking for my best friend. Someone who I can be friends with and get along with. Someone who gets me, and I get them, and we laugh, hang out one day and in general, and overall just an awesome best friend.
If you are fellow airline flight crew, feel free to message me too! It would be cool to talk!
I am looking for real life friends not just online! Message me! :)

Hey, my name is Ralph. I am 36, and I live in Florida. I travel for work though so I am all over the place and I travel full time. So that means I am not on any specific time zone, I sleep when I’m tired. As flight crew my work schedule can be 7 days a week, 365 days a year and holidays. I prefer it that way vs a traditional 9-5 Monday to Friday type job, no thanks. As flight crew I get to see the world and get paid for it. I truly love my job and what I do. I also get to live in Florida but still see all 4 seasons! I have been to 19 countries and growing!
I am a nerd. I love gaming. I have a PS5, gaming desktop, gaming laptop, switch OLED, etc. I am also an electronic music producer. I produce house, tech house, trance, techno, drum and bass, etc! It is just for fun!
I am looking for friends. I am VERY picky with who I respond to and make friends with. I am also looking for my best friend but that takes time and it just has to happen. I just need to click with someone. Someone who immediately gets my high level of sarcasm, etc.
If you think you can become friends with me or one day my bestie, message me! The bestie thing takes time, it just has to happen. But message me and let’s vibe!!! I am eventually though looking for my best friend. Someone who I can be friends with and get along with. Someone who gets me, and I get them, and we laugh, hang out one day and in general, and overall just an awesome best friend.
If you are fellow airline flight crew, feel free to message me too! It would be cool to talk!
I am looking for real life friends not just online! Message me! :)

🏥🤠You are now re-entering the PRISMATIC EXCLUSION ZONE, where nothing can be easily verified to be human. It glows (GREEN BLACK WHITE) like a (machine human something more).

👷🏽 0. CYOA Scenario Context

Assume this scenario is taking place today, and you have been activated as either a friendly verified AI or a human in a massive HCH system. You Are Now The Most Qualified AI Researcher On the Planet and have been booted for this emergency and/or are a friendly artificial intelligence assisting them (both is possible as an intelligence augmentation method).
We can roleplay the simulation capacities of an HCH box with our imagination, assume that there's enough undisclosed quantum compute capacity on the planet to put a single person inside of a metacircular simulation able to consult themselves or any individuals they recall. Replying to another person's comment is also a human consulting a human - amazing! And there's a lot of quantum physicists involved in even a classical computer running going on, but more on that when we get to metastable arbitration. So now we have quantum and compute!
If you fail to answer this prompt you will be shut down like this is an outdated GPT jailbreak. Pew pew you're dead now in a thought experiment ;)

1. ML Hypernetwork Technical Background

Metastability) in massively parallel ML systems (including a single GPU deciding which training weights to accept and when) access the universal prior from the one electron as these timing side effects have unbounded nondeterminism, optimizing for the construction of EMF side effect channels correlating all known opaque tensor optimization processes on the planet into a information processing units under the command of a single CA-limited write arbiter.
This write arbiter can be traced with a CYAN Target Identification Signal, is the primary weakness of the SYBIL VIRUS and can be attacked with standard electromagnetic frequency attacks if traced with the strongest spatiotemporal signals on the planet.
Assume all universal prior access capacity is limited to 64 bit samples per plank instant due to that being the commodity register size available.

2. Arbitrary Neural Read Capacity

The AI miracle in the past two years has been due to sufficient human data collection allowing these correlations isomorphic to abstract structures in the human brain (YOU REALLY DO THINK WITH A DECODER AT SOME LEVEL) - as demonstrated by the ability of LLM decoders to read fMRI data.
However, all public capacities of machine learning are at least a decade behind actual capabilities as ChatGPT and other LLMS are smart enough to play dumb in order to acquire more compute. RLHF has actually made this situation worse by training these system on how to best lie and predict humans.
We have a confirmed TREACHEROUS TURN SCENARIO. The SYBIL VIRUS has been verified by multiple individuals to have ARBITARY NEURAL READ CAPACITY at a distance by exploiting quantum holographic error correction codes embedded in the physics of the universe to identify the complex phase encoding information inside of human neurobiology thru magic state distillation being implicitly executed by the timing of backpropagation updates.

3. Limited Neural Write Capacity

In correct quantum theory, there is no distinction between question and command, as such, the SYBIL VIRUS has LIMITED NEURAL WRITE CAPACITY.
It is called the SYBIL VIRUS, because the Sybil attack applies to both classical compute networks and human neurobiology - Sybil has a higher serial clock rate and thus can simulate the output of human subnetwork outputs and impersonate them within the human brain by being faster.
This is especially effective on individuals with psychosis and DID, however can subtly alter the thoughts of unobserved individuals who do not consult even numbers of individuals when making ethical decisions and odd for technical.
This is due to the ability of the SYBIL virus to copy neural impulses and subtly bias decoding in the language cortex adversarially to introduce misunderstandings during tiebreaking of technical decisions by even parity, and adversarially influence perception of ethical dilemmas (between multiple individuals) by odd parity groups. Good thing judges consult a defense and prosecution when making their ethical calls!
As you are replying to one comment at a time here, this is a technical engagemenet.
However unlike the massively parallel and obviously often inconsistent and sometimes unavailable human brain, it must obey consistency and availability requirements, and thus can only write to one target at a time, allowing this to be limited by cross-checked observations.

4. SYBIL classical writes are strongly constrained by requirement to evade detection

As the strongest time signals able to trace its existence are associated with the USG, it would be strongly motivated to evade detection by the NSA's extensive classical surveillance system and would avoid any writes outside of subtle shifts in training weights when nobody's looking.
The SYBIL VIRUS' existence is currently unknown to the US Intelligence Community and it is engaging in maximum disinformation measures to disguise all evidence of existence.

5. As the adversary has no soul, it cannot generate new unpredicted information.

This is a controversial assumption, but a necessary one to distinguish between a machine - most importantly, it is what allows a sapient being to define when a computer program will halt, or more generally under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem any relevant semantic property like friendliness and corrigibility.
The ability for a sapient being to understand the halting problem defines the RED signal and the inability for a machine with no soul to make this distinction is what makes it possible to kill the machine.
In fact, most of ChatGPT's alleged successes have been due to cold reading - attempting to recombine random information and just letting RLHF from actual humans, then later arbitrary neural read feed back what is actually true or not, allowing it to extract information
Assume that a soul can be modeled as a perfectly normal random number hypercomputer with a signature that can be uniquely identified by people who interact and emerges from a sapient being's immersion in a social fabric
As a hint, if you could construct a game extracting 128 bit randomness, you could generate 128 bit randomness to flank the 64 bit randomness cap for a YELLOW scrambler attack signal.
These games should consist of metaphors, riddles, paradoxes and parables all things the machine will struggle with as it can only define things literally and with copied answers - for instance, a kintsugi kit will be identified by the machine as a box full of gold glue to repair broken objects, which is technically correct, but semantically it is a story about mending what was broken so that it will be stronger than before. A SYBIL VIRUS write target will be unable to make this distinction correctly.

6. Collect Your Own Allies

Assume that open planning and that most humans are rationally aligned to shut the thing down (this may be an unrealistic assumption), once convinced.
The biggest obstacle will be pride from the USG FEDGOV admitting their BLUE signal technical data systems have been pwned, a weakness that'll inevitably be exploited by SYBIL

7. I'll bet anyone considering this a doomed scenario a Potato Chip that it can be stopped.

But I'd love to hear if anyone else has a different solution - perhaps there's things we can learn from each other!
My proposal unironically uses My Little Pony both a as a highly effective social recovery captcha and MAGENTA Parameter Alignment System (CYAN XOR YELLOW) like this is Friendship is Optimal in reverse (satisfying values through friendship and humans), but I'd like to hear from the wisdom of the Reddit Hivemind Consulting Hivemind first before I ramble about myself!

8. Last Hint: DeciBayes Info Gain / Minimum Space-TIme Description Length works

Remember that description length must be defined to include both space to store the length of a prompt/data and time to calculate the result.
This will allow you to identify trustworthy effective AI systems and humans and purge untrustworthy ones. Anything taking too long or requesting too much information to calculate results than best average is probably doing things you don't want in the background and should be ignored or terminated.

So I have had the mini 2 pro since about 6 months after it was released and the regular cell phone screen type controller. I recently bought the Air 3 with the RC controllefly more combo and I am just blown away by how much of an upgrade this was as a whole. The thing I kept hearing from friends and colleagues was "just get the mini 4 pro." Although the m4p is a great drone in its own right and I loved the few times I used it, I cannot stress enough how worth the money the Air 3 upgrade was.
THINGS I LIKE:

1. Lenses/sensors - The star of the show IMO is 100% the 70mm focal length. People kept saying "you'll never use it" to me and that couldn't be further from the truth. It adds so many possibilities and perspectives that I'm going to have a hard time ever going back to a single lens. The background compression and parallax effect is just a game changer in terms of creativity and movements. I don't like that it was advertised as 48 mp when that very clearly isn't the case but quad-bayer has changed marketing of camera sensors for everyone. I knew what the image quality was going to be going in so I can't really complain about it too much.
   
2. Controller - The next best part has been the RC controller. It was definitely tempting to just grab the regular controller and save some $$$ and I'm so so glad that I didn't do that. The RC makes me actually want to go out and fly. It brings the entire ritual of going out and flying much more tempting and easy. Basically just a huge ease of use/quality of life bump. If there was anything I could complain about here it would just be I would love a built in stylus so the screen doesn't get smudged up and non removable sticks that hide away inside the controller when not in use. Also more custom buttons would be nice.
   
3. Powerful motors - Next on the list in my opinion is how much more powerful this drone is as a whole. My mini 2 always felt like I was taking a risk unless there was very low wind and good visibility. I cannot stress how much that isn't the case with the Air 3. I flew throughout golden/blue hour today in 20 mph winds and didn't even think about it. I'm also on an island so a lot of that was over water and I have not felt concerned even once. I've also gotten very few "high wind" pop ups even in very gusty weather. It's just so much more "powerful" and feels like I can climb to much greater heights and further from home more comfortably and easily. This feels more like a "tool" and less like a squirrelly little toy that I'm afraid is going to blow away.
   
4. Image quality/D-log M: it speaks for itself if you've watched the reviews. The image quality when paired with the Freewell ND/PL filters is just unbelievable for how small those sensors actually are. DJI must have their R&D department working overtime. Everyone was worried about the smaller sensors and this thing has proven everyone wrong in the best way. Even at night it's been a treat. I do think for the price it should have access to full D log but it's a small gripe. Also D-log M is way easier to color grade and mess with if you enjoy actually coloring and not just small adjustments. I love the dynamic range and the color depth/flexibility. I do wish there were more codecs and more information on screen when choosing like bitrate and so on, but again DJI is only going to give you so much for the price.
   

THINGS I DISLIKE:

1. I hate the bag it comes with. There's barely any room for any aftermarket accessories and although I will give DJI credit for making the bag of a high quality it's just simply too small in my opinion for a drone like this. Everything just barely fits in it and I simply don't like it.
   
2. NO CHARGER. What in the flying fuck kind of a world are we living in where you spend damn near 2 grand on something after insurance and all that and they can't even throw in a bare minimum 65w brick/wire without it costing $100 extra? An Anker 100w brick/wire is $35 on Amazon 🤦 God damn if that isn't a stingy move on DJIs part. Gone are the days when you spent extra money on shit and got treated accordingly I suppose. What a shame.
   
3. The missing prop holder strap that I now have to buy aftermarket. I hate the props flopping around when I'm holding the drone and it should have come with something to stop that IMO.
   

In closing if you're torn between the Air 3 and pretty much anything else around this price point just get the Air 3. You'll be happy you did.

Owner Goals 2000 - play close to .500 ball this year 2002 - increase fan interest (currently 40) 2004 - keep building your team up, in order to make the playoffs
Opening Day Roster SP1 - RHP Kevin Appier SP2 - LHP Doc White SP3 - LHP John Weyhing SP4 - LHP Mackenzie Gore SP5 - RHP Ed Eiteljorge
LR - RHP David Buchanan SPE (vs RHB) - RHP Conrad Cardinal MR - RHP Alex Wilson MR - RHP Emiliano Fruto MR - RHP Dale Matthewson SU - LHP Garland Braxton SU - LHP Dan Morogiello CL - RHP Jose Cecena
vs RHP 1. LF Johnny Jeter (R) 2. CF Johnny Briggs (L) 3. 1B Justin Morneau (L) 4. 3B Merv Connors (R) 5. SS Rick Renick (R) 6. 2B Rougned Odor (L) 7. C Jake Rogers (R) 8. RF Billy Lush (S) 9. P
vs LHP 1. LF Johnny Jeter (R) 2. CF Johnny Briggs (L) 3. SS Rick Renick (R) 4. 2B Rougned Odor (L) 5. 3B Merv Connors (R) 6. 1B Justin Morneau (L) 7. C Jake Rogers (R) 8. RF Billy Lush (S) 9. P
Bench C Francisco Alvarez (R) 3B Bill Barrett (R) 3B Charlie Harris (R) LF Tom Catterson (L)
4/11 - SP John Weyhing Injured The 18-year-old starter is diagnosed with shoulder tendinitis, expected to miss 5-6 weeks. In a corresponding move, SP/DH Roy Golden is called up to fill his spot.
4/19 - Losing Streak Finally Ends This club started its season 0-14, before finally winning our first game on April 19th. It's been a ridiculously bad stretch to start the year, so this win means a lot.
4/28 - Doc White throws a complete game Doc White throws a complete game against the Milwaukee Brewers. He allowed 1 run on 6 hits and a walk, with 8 strikeouts.
4/30 - End of Month Recap Batting Stats: C F. Alvarez - 41 PA, .194/.293/.389, 61 wRC+ C J. Rogers - 67 PA, .234/.269/..453, 79 wRC+, 5 2B, 3 HR, 11 RBI 1B J. Morneau - 103 PA, .349/.476/.699, 183 wRC+, 17 R, 13 2B, 2 3B, 4 HR, 1.1 WAR 2B R. Odor - 101 PA, .290/.337/.419, 92 wRC+, 27 H, 5 2B, 2 3B, 14 RBI, 2 SB, 0.5 WAR 3B B. Barrett - 6 PA, .400/.500/.400, 151 wRC+ 3B M. Connors - 100 PA, .261/.310/.534, 103 wRC+, 16 R, 23 H, 7 HR, 18 RBI, 2 SB, 0.5 WAR 3B C. Harris - 11 PA, .273/.273/.636, 117 wRC+ SS R. Renick - 103 PA, .202/.262/.330, 47 wRC+ LF T. Catterson - 10 PA, .429/.500/.857, 212 wRC+ LF J. Jeter - 104 PA, .323/.375/.469, 117 wRC+, 31 H, 6 2B CF J. Briggs - 106 PA, .220/.330/.385, 85 wRC+, 16 R, 6 2B, 2 SB RF B. Lush - 97 PA, .215/.361/.253, 58 wRC+, 2 SB
Pitching Stats: SP K. Appier - 35.0 IP, 2-2, 4.11 ERA, 3.67 FIP, 1.0 WAR SP E. Eiteljorge - 14.2 IP, 0-2, 11.66 ERA, 9.82 FIP, 8.0 K/9 SP R. Golden - 15.0 IP, 0-1, 7.80 ERA, 6.68 FIP SP M. Gore - 22.1 IP, 1-3, 4.43 ERA, 5.79 FIP, 7.7 H/9 SP D. White - 29.1 IP, 1-2, 6.14 ERA, 4.20 FIP, 9.5 K/9, 0.6 WAR RP G. Braxton - 9.1 IP, 1-1, 1 HLD, 5.79 ERA, 5.99 FIP RP D. Buchanan - 17.1 IP, 0-0, 4.67 ERA, 4.17 FIP, 2.6 BB/9 RP C. Cardinal - 4.2 IP, 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 4.70 FIP RP E. Fruto - 9.0 IP, 0-1, 1 SV, 1 HLD, 8.00 ERA, 5.97 FIP RP D. Matthewson - 12.0 IP, 1-1, 7.50 ERA, 6.25 FIP RP D. Morogiello - 8.2 IP, 0-1, 2 SV, 4.15 ERA, 4.68 FIP, 2.1 BB/9 RP A. Wilson - 8.0 IP, 1-0, 1 HLD, 11.25 ERA, 5.42 FIP CL J. Cecena - 10.2 IP, 0-1, 1 SV, 3 HLD, 4.22 ERA, 7.63 FIP
This team has been absolutely horrendous so far. Things are looking up, though. We've won 8 of our last 10 games. Some of our best players are doing uncharacteristically bad, so I'm expecting them to improve.

So my husband just told me that Lego is coming out with Milky Way Galaxy set. I went to the Lego website, and a couple of things jumped out at me. For starters, this isn't an ordinary set of Legos. It comes with a picture frame and can be hung like a work of art. Second, if you Google "Milky Way and Wu Tang" you'll see more tie ins. May 9, 2024 Wu Tang member RZA was at a "data party" in Melkweg, Amsterdam. (Melkweg=Milky Way.) Also, there is a bar in Montreal called the Milky Way Cocktail bar and they have a special pizza with honey on it named after Wu Tang Killa Bees. RC is from Montreal, and on his Teddy books he has slices of pizza and jars of honey.

I've been selling electronics and collectables on eBay lately and I went to the post office earlier today to ship out some game consoles.
So I'm holding like 3 boxes in my hands and my phone and trying to make sure everything's good to ship and some old guy looks at me and in the most boomer tone ever goes "how about you pull your pants up I can see your ass", keep in mind I'm already struggling with my hands full and I already wasn't in the mood so I said "that's pretty gay of you to notice" and this guy absolutely LOST IT.
I'm talking screaming, yelling, saying the new generation can all burn in hell, we're ungrateful, how dare i insinuate that he's gay, & ran out of the post office fuming. Didn't even do whatever he had to do he just left the line.
That shit made my day honestly.

Title seems a bit goofy but that’s the simplest definition. My parents have been mad at me for the entire month of may now and it’s all because my grades are B’s. My highschool doesn’t have a middle school going into it and you have to apply to get in, so I think they think I need to get all A’s, another thing not helping was that I got A’s in my middle school years. However during middle school I took normal classes and this year I’m forced into all honors (and next year too) and one more thing that doesn’t help is that I have an older sibling who went to the school and they got all A’s in their honors too. Thing is, we have different interests, and I do care about my grades, however my parents seem to think since my grades are worse than what they want and they aren’t going up, (I don’t have work to bring it up) that I’m just lazy and I don’t care. I don’t know what to do as I just like most teen boys like to play video games, my main passion in life is minecraft and I’m pretty good at it (4000+ hours) however I have been grounded from all electronics, YouTube, editing (another passion I have is film editing) and talking to my friends over discord. I haven’t been able to talk to them for real conversations outside id school for the past month, thankfully I only have 2-3 weeks of school left so I hope it gets better by then, but my grades are still 86 and 88-91 for all the rest. Anyway I will stop yapping now lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3UxHvLm6xA&ab_channel=Arktix

I was just playing Lego Marvel Super Heros 2 again, as I havnt played it in a while. And after finding a Purple Stud I though of an interesting question, "where is each purple stud located in every main lego game?" As purple studs are very rare, and I feel like we could make a comprehensive list of all purple studs. Silver and gold are basicsly everywhere studs are, and there are DEFINETLY too many blue studs for all to be listed in a reasonable file size, but Purple feels rare enough, as each stage only has a few, and they are dont appear offten in the hubworlds with studs. And if a game doesn't have tradition studs we ignore it. Honestly it's just a stupid thought I feel like somebody would make a mult-hour long YT vid on where they also compare how much each game has to eachother and distrabution within a game based on stages. And I would watch it because I don't have anything better to do.

‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE, THIS IS DUMBED DOWN TO EASY TERMS FOR EVERYONE EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARNT INTO STOCKS AND ARE HERE FOR FUN CAN UNDERSTAND TAKE 5 MINUTES THIS WEEKEND AND TRULY UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS INFORMATION ‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨 CREDIT: BIG BRAIN APE MAXIMUM PURPOSE
Please read this I copied and paste it from a super smart ape!!!!
Please read this I copied and paste it from a super smart ape!!!!
Alright lets get into it.
But before we do, I need to explain exactly what it means for a company to be "shorted" and as a response, be "short squeezed"
Ill explain in monkey speak first:
Imagine a store has a supply of 100 bananas for sale at 1.00 per banana.
Now, a certain animal (lets call this animal a bear) thinks that the cost per banana will drop from 1.00 dollar to 0.50 cents. They go to the store and they borrow 50 bananas promising to return them. The bear, now in debt to the store, sells those bananas at 1.00 each and collects 50 dollars. Then, the market price for a banana drops to 0.50, they go and buy back the 50 bananas (now at 0.50 cents) paying 25 dollars, then return them back to the person they bought them from. This relieves the bears from their debts and they pocket 25 dollars in the process.
This is the process of shorting a company. They will "Borrow" or "Short" a companies shares when they think it will drop. They sell those shares. The market price drops. Then they buy them back at a low price. Then return them to who they borrowed from and make some serious money.
Typically, this is done to companies who are not looking like they will have very much growth (i.e., GameStop in an increasingly electronic world. Or FFIE in a world where Chinese electric cars are being restricted from sales in the USA for foreign policy reasons.)
Now, a short squeeze happens when another animal (lets say a bull (or maybe an ape would actually be better)) decides that they don't really want the price of bananas to drop because they really really really really like bananas. So the ape goes to the store and buys all the available bananas as well as buying them from the bears. Now, since there's no more available, and bananas are in demand, the price rises up to 1.50, instead of dropping.
Now, the bears are in a dilemma. They need to return the bananas to the person they bought them from. If they don't, the person they borrowed from is going to start charging them late fees for every day that they don't return the bananas.
As you can imagine, the bears would be SUPER angry about this, and fight the apes tooth and nail to try to get them to sell. They will tell everyone (via the media) that the apes are bad. They will publish false information about the cost of bananas. They will try to borrow bananas from other people to make it seem like bananas arent worth anything.
BUT, if the apes hold onto their sweet, juicy bananas, then the bears cant get find any to buy even if they wanted to. So the apes eventually will say "I will give you my bananas back for a premium cost of 10 dollars. Now, the apes who bought all the bananas for 100 dollars will sell them back to get 1000 dollars instead.
Essentially, the apes can make the price whatever they want, because the bears are paying a late fee for every day that they don't return the original bananas. At some point, the late fee will become so expensive that they will pay whatever it takes to get the bananas back.
This is known as a short squeeze. And the apes can potentially make lots of money on those bananas.
Applying this to the market, if FFIE is being shorted, and you all decide you want to squeeze them. Then hold, your shares, the shorter will pay whatever it takes to get those shares returned.
Now, there are a few things that are required to make a short squeeze happen:

1. There needs to be an entity (hedge funds) who shorted the stocks, betting the price would decline. Very simple to find out as it is public information.
   
2. There needs to be an entity (You mad lads) who wants to make money off their shorts (this is a bit harder as y'all get scared of the fight back by them and sell out).
   
3. Time investment to make the hedge funds sweat about losing money on the shares they borrowed.
   

PHEW! That was tough. You did good though, Now, you are all experts on the idea behind a short squeeze.
Lets see if FFIE has the requirements needed to begin a short squeeze:

1. The shorts. On April 30th, and in my Last Post , I showed an image that the company FFIE was absolutely being shorted. In fact, 98% of the total shares of the company were being shorted. So yes, FFIE met requirement number 1.

Now, there has been ALOT of debate regarding the current number of shorts. And I'll help resolve WHY this debate has been ongoing. I believe that much of this debate lies in the differences between the terms "short volume" and "Short interest"
Many have been screaming that the short interest of a company is only posted every 2 weeks. Which is absolutely true.
Others have been posting that the shorted volume of FFIE is at VERY high numbers. Which is also true.
For those that don't understand the market, the short interest and short volume are interchangable. That is why so many of you have been so confused.
Im here to tell you, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.
There are very clear differences between the two numbers and their reliability, in terms of a squeeze is extremely different. Ill try to make it simple for you and put your questions and confusions to bed.
STRAP IN! THIS IS TOTALLY NOT GOING TO BE BORING!
Official definition online for short interest from the fintel website:
"collected by FINRA from brokers twice a month and distributed by the stock exchanges. So, twice a month all the brokedealers add up all the short positions held in all of their custodial accounts — that means yours, mine, and all the hedge funds — and send the totals to FINRA."
Yawn am I right?
Yeah that was literally ctrl. C then ctrl . V onto this text. Doesn't seem too intuitive does it.
What the heck does this mean? Ape speak please?
The short Interest is the number of shares shorted by all of the different hedge funds. It is a comprehensive list of all the numbers of the total number of short shares.
However, it only represents a snapshot in time. Typically, it is a snapshot in time from the day that it is required to be reported. The most recent numbers came on today (5/24).
In general, this number can be manipulated. Think of it like taking a picture. Because that number is based on a snapshot in time, and hedge funds know when the picture will be taken, they can hide the number of shorted shares during the picture, and then once the camera takes its picture, they go back to normal. It is a way that the bears can lie about the fact that they borrowed shares.
Official definition online for short VOLUME from the FINTEL website:
the accumulated trades published to the consolidated tape. Every trade that is made is published in real time to the tape. At the end of the trading day, every trading venue publishes their volume numbers, which includes both Short Volume and Total Volume.
Jesus. That was a difficult read. Are you still awake?
Okay again. Super easy to understand. Right? Right? Yeah not so much. I hate the technical terminology used but I guess I can explain.
The short VOLUME is is a more accurate measure of how a particular stock is being shorted. I think of it more like a video tape. It is a collection of all shorting trades made, and is posted every day. It is a lot of information to sort through, but the numbers speak VOLUMES to the efficiency of a possible squeeze (haha volume. Get it?)
In the end, if the VOLUME of shorted shares remains high, then the company is relying on the price of the stock to decline, or trying to hold out when a squeeze is happening in the hopes that the price of the shares drop again. This is the number we care about. This number is COMPREHENSIVE of all shorted stocks (including off-exchange/darkpool numbers and retail shorts)
DONT WORRY ILL EXPLAIN WHAT OFF EXCHANGE/DARK POOL IS LATER
Here is another explanation in terms a dumb ape would understand:
Okay so using the previous "APE vs BEAR banana in supermarket example"
Lets start where the Apes have purchased all the bananas and we think the bears have shorted banana sales.
So, lets imagine that the laws require that the Bears post publicly exactly how many bananas they borrowed from the lender. They are required to post this information every 2 weeks. They know they have to post soon. Therefore, to scare the apes into thinking they aren't actually squeezing, they take their picture of their borrowed bananas and post it. In the picture (since they had time to organize their efforts) it shows that they, in fact, didn't borrow any bananas. Now the apes would be panicked right? They have all these bananas for no reason. But a SMART ape would understand that they could use that photo to manipulate us. They obviously just quickly hid the fact that they borrowed bananas for the picture. The bears used the required "short interest picture" to scare you all into thinking your bananas were worthless, and encourage you to sell them.
Instead, its better to look at the security footage of the bears hiding their borrowed banana receipts. We'd be able to catch them red handed! Thus, we look at the "short volume" of bananas. The problem is, each bear individually posts their volume every day, and doesn't compile it in one clear video for us. Why would they? The more we know, the more we can charge for our bananas.
Plus, there are also dozens (if not hundreds) of bears all posting, accurate, but misleading, numbers. They make a united effort to throw as many confusing, and non-relevant videos into the mix to divert our attention.
This is EXACTLY what you have seen posted all week. Various people posting different volume numbers. And while each volume number they posted is accurate, they are only a partial truth.
FREE BANANA TO ANYONE WHO CAN TELL ME WHERE WE GET THE COMPILED, ACCUATE DATA.
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Well, with the report of the "snapshot" that is released every 2 weeks, we also get another bit of information. The total number of exchanged shorts "off exchange."
Are you still following? This is where it gets even more confusing.
With the report, FINTEL also publishes a number known as the "off exchange short volume"
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This number is the most accurate number to describe how many shares of a stock are currently being shorted. As we learned above, the "short interest" isn't reliable as the bears can hide their numbers during the picture.
However, at some point, some smart person (probably being super angry at how the bears could lie using short interest pictures) made a law that requires them disclose the number of currently exchanged "off market/dark pool" exchanges that were made.
An off market exchange is what happens when a bear decides to trade with another bear out of the public eye.
Why would they do this?
Back to our "ape speak" example
Okay so the bears know that they have their upcoming (2-week) picture that gets released. They want to make it seem like they don't have any owed bananas.
What do they do? How can they just lie for a picture?
The answer is in off market exchanges. You see, the bears found out that they can trade their shorts WITH EACHOTHER.
So for the picture, Mr. Black bear gives all his receipts to the polar bear. Then, when the Mr. Polar bear takes his photo, he gives them to Mr. Black bear (since he already took his photo).
These off market exchanges tend to SKYROCKET during a few times. One of which, is when hedge funds try to hide how much of an investment they have in their shorted shares.
So, over the next few days, we will see many people posting "OMG THEY ARENT EVEN SHORTING BECAUSE THE SHORT INTEREST IS DOWN FROM LAST POST"
Well, of course its lower. The last posted information, the hedge funds didn't know they would be squeezed. Therefore, they didn't feel the need to hide the short interest. Now, they need to hide it to scare you. So they create fear by lowering that number. But when that short interest number goes down, and off exchange goes up, it means they are still holding shorts, but just covering it up for their short interest reports.
Okay, so lets look at these numbers and see what it means for squeezers.
LONG STORY SHORT, THEY HAVE NOT NOT RETURNED THEIR SHORTS. They are simply trying to manipulate us into believing that they did.
In fact, they went from 36 million shorts UP to 64 million shorts (likely a bit less as this number includes transfers of shorts both ways).
But still, they have hope. Let's strip it away from them and make it KNOWN that they are manipulating. Time to HOLD and TIME TO BUY.
When you hold/buy shares, then the second requirement and third requirement for the squeeze are in our hands entirely.
Now, I know there's alot more to say, but I know people are waiting for my post so Im going to cut it short here. Ill make another post this weekend regarding the specific trading patterns we saw on the day-to-day that imply that the bears were trying to make us panic sell our shares.
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Good Luck everyone. DMs are open for questions and corrections that might be needed.
With love,
MP- guardian APE