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2024.05.19 14:03 Avienaks Unable to update payment after failed last month
My Adobe Account was running through my college ID email. My payment last month failed, credit card reasons beyond the discussion of this sub. However, now I want to update the payment, but the site does not want to update it. I mean the website on the front says it has updates, and show updating payment information. I had also kept my pc on for 3 to 4 hours (just in case). Still refuses to get updated. I akso cannot manage and cancel my plan, so I have got left with no option.
So, will I have to wait this out, till the plan gets suspended ?
Edit 1 : I have also tried various browsers Edit 2 : I also do not get asked for any otp when i try to update my payment Edit 3 : Country : India
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So, will I have to wait this out, till the plan gets suspended ?
Edit 1 : I have also tried various browsers Edit 2 : I also do not get asked for any otp when i try to update my payment Edit 3 : Country : India
2024.05.19 14:01 sunshxnee28 Digital Marketing Courses in Visakhapatnam
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I’ve been researching digital marketing courses available for people in Visakhapatnam, and I came across the Indian Institute of Digital Education (IIDE). From what I've found, IIDE seems like a fantastic option for anyone looking to dive into digital marketing, whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your skills.
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2024.05.19 13:55 ThrowRacookie18 Am I(23F) ungrateful towards my Partner(22M) who changed his whole Lifestyle for me?
Hi,
I (f23) am currently in the getting-to-know-you phase/situationship with someone who was my first crush/love (m22). I met him four years ago and developed a crush because he was always so kind and helpful. However, he was so immersed in his own world and focused on his studies that he never noticed me, even though we often spoke. I then changed my major and thought of him often but continued living my life. Four years later, he suddenly followed me on Instagram (he didn't have Instagram before); I was extremely surprised but also pleased. We then texted all night long, and for the next few days, we continued texting all day until 6 in the morning.
Everything was fine until we hit a topic... we didn't share the same religion; he was an atheist like his entire family. I'm the last person to force anyone to convert; it has to come from one's own conviction. But as foolish as I was, I tried to ignore it initially because he was the first person I really liked. I lied to my parents (with whom I have a very honest and good relationship) and compromised my own principles...and that's when the problems started... He wanted to meet every day although I told him that I did not want that because meeting secretly every day is very cumbersome and exhausting. But he would whine all the time and say that he would die etc. He never got angry, just really sad and kept repeating himself. Our whole acquaintance progressed really fast; he told me he loved me after just four days. If I accidentally fell asleep, he would text me a thousand times, saying he almost had a heart attack and was extremely worried. He also constantly wanted photos; he always wanted pictures. He even contacted a friend of mine asking her to send him photos of me. He also gave me extreme compliments every five minutes and always raved about my pictures, but sometimes it felt like he wasn't talking about me. Whenever I told him I felt bad, he would say he felt worse because I had feelings of guilt towards my parents and religion, but for him it was only about me. He also always said that he loved me more than I loved him although I had already done a lot against my morals for him, and once he even said that I only liked him because he is an engineer and had good grades in university.
After three weeks, I broke off contact because I saw that he was forcing himself to convert and that he had no real conviction, and I did not want him to be unhappy and later blame me. It was also all too much for me. I blocked him everywhere and then the horror began...(short background info: I have extreme test anxiety and get panic attacks, and he knew this) My body completely broke down... I got my period every two weeks and had severe eczema outbreaks. What's more, I was in the exam phase and suffer from extreme test anxiety with panic attacks. He knew this and even had my exam dates. He started contacting my friends, writing me emails, and even his friend came and talked to me the day before an exam (He knew nothing from the friend but the friend contacted random people until he got my number). It was extremely physically demanding and I even flunked a few exams. We had no contact for 4 months but he wrote me an email again saying he can't live without me and is currently really dealing with the topic of religion.
And now we come to my dilemma: He even started training in those four months because I once told him I like broad men, he changed his clothing style because I jokingly said he dresses like an old man (but I always told him I like him just the way he is), he has extensively studied religion (but it's still ongoing); he completely adjusts himself to me when I say I can't text for 2 months because I'm in the exam phase. He does everything I want but I am not happy. Whenever I text with him I get stomach aches and feel constricted. Although everything is much better now than before (except for one thing, he still constantly asks for photos and these discussions sometimes last over an hour). I feel really bad because he is really trying but I feel really bad with him and don't know what to do. I believe I will never find someone who loves and accepts me as I am like he does, and that also really scares me.
Important to note is we are both each others first relationship
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I (f23) am currently in the getting-to-know-you phase/situationship with someone who was my first crush/love (m22). I met him four years ago and developed a crush because he was always so kind and helpful. However, he was so immersed in his own world and focused on his studies that he never noticed me, even though we often spoke. I then changed my major and thought of him often but continued living my life. Four years later, he suddenly followed me on Instagram (he didn't have Instagram before); I was extremely surprised but also pleased. We then texted all night long, and for the next few days, we continued texting all day until 6 in the morning.
Everything was fine until we hit a topic... we didn't share the same religion; he was an atheist like his entire family. I'm the last person to force anyone to convert; it has to come from one's own conviction. But as foolish as I was, I tried to ignore it initially because he was the first person I really liked. I lied to my parents (with whom I have a very honest and good relationship) and compromised my own principles...and that's when the problems started... He wanted to meet every day although I told him that I did not want that because meeting secretly every day is very cumbersome and exhausting. But he would whine all the time and say that he would die etc. He never got angry, just really sad and kept repeating himself. Our whole acquaintance progressed really fast; he told me he loved me after just four days. If I accidentally fell asleep, he would text me a thousand times, saying he almost had a heart attack and was extremely worried. He also constantly wanted photos; he always wanted pictures. He even contacted a friend of mine asking her to send him photos of me. He also gave me extreme compliments every five minutes and always raved about my pictures, but sometimes it felt like he wasn't talking about me. Whenever I told him I felt bad, he would say he felt worse because I had feelings of guilt towards my parents and religion, but for him it was only about me. He also always said that he loved me more than I loved him although I had already done a lot against my morals for him, and once he even said that I only liked him because he is an engineer and had good grades in university.
After three weeks, I broke off contact because I saw that he was forcing himself to convert and that he had no real conviction, and I did not want him to be unhappy and later blame me. It was also all too much for me. I blocked him everywhere and then the horror began...(short background info: I have extreme test anxiety and get panic attacks, and he knew this) My body completely broke down... I got my period every two weeks and had severe eczema outbreaks. What's more, I was in the exam phase and suffer from extreme test anxiety with panic attacks. He knew this and even had my exam dates. He started contacting my friends, writing me emails, and even his friend came and talked to me the day before an exam (He knew nothing from the friend but the friend contacted random people until he got my number). It was extremely physically demanding and I even flunked a few exams. We had no contact for 4 months but he wrote me an email again saying he can't live without me and is currently really dealing with the topic of religion.
And now we come to my dilemma: He even started training in those four months because I once told him I like broad men, he changed his clothing style because I jokingly said he dresses like an old man (but I always told him I like him just the way he is), he has extensively studied religion (but it's still ongoing); he completely adjusts himself to me when I say I can't text for 2 months because I'm in the exam phase. He does everything I want but I am not happy. Whenever I text with him I get stomach aches and feel constricted. Although everything is much better now than before (except for one thing, he still constantly asks for photos and these discussions sometimes last over an hour). I feel really bad because he is really trying but I feel really bad with him and don't know what to do. I believe I will never find someone who loves and accepts me as I am like he does, and that also really scares me.
Important to note is we are both each others first relationship
2024.05.19 13:44 Diligent_Pear3383 Digital Marketing Courses in Jayanagar
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2024.05.19 13:41 Beneficial_Log9941 Thunderbird not loading new messages from server
Hi there,
I've been using thunderbird for months now and face a weird problem. I have added like 4-5 Mail Accounts with my custom domain which are hosted at my provider. To download this stuff I use the imap server of the provider and entered all specific details into thunderbird.
Everything worked perfectly for weeks when I noticed that thunderbird didn't download new emails. I noticed it because I added the same emails to my smartphone and the fairmail client did fetch the new mails but thunderbird didn't. The only way to fix this was deleting the mail accounts and adding them back into thunderbird. All the "new" mails got loaded in. I thought this is a one time expierence but this happened quiet a few times in the last 2 months now.
I use different email providers and it properly works on my smartphone. So the problem must be with thunderbird.
I am using thunderbird 115.11.0 (Supernove) on my Win10 desktop machine.
I hope I can fix this somehow because I dont want to delete my mailaccount once a month :(
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I've been using thunderbird for months now and face a weird problem. I have added like 4-5 Mail Accounts with my custom domain which are hosted at my provider. To download this stuff I use the imap server of the provider and entered all specific details into thunderbird.
Everything worked perfectly for weeks when I noticed that thunderbird didn't download new emails. I noticed it because I added the same emails to my smartphone and the fairmail client did fetch the new mails but thunderbird didn't. The only way to fix this was deleting the mail accounts and adding them back into thunderbird. All the "new" mails got loaded in. I thought this is a one time expierence but this happened quiet a few times in the last 2 months now.
I use different email providers and it properly works on my smartphone. So the problem must be with thunderbird.
I am using thunderbird 115.11.0 (Supernove) on my Win10 desktop machine.
I hope I can fix this somehow because I dont want to delete my mailaccount once a month :(
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2024.05.19 13:26 EzVox03 An Earlier Stage of Climate Skepticism
 | editorial/climate-alarmism submitted by EzVox03 to IntellectualElk [link] [comments] Climate Alarmism is not a new phenomenon. It’s a tired, desperate, yet sadly accepted phenomenon perpetrated (and believed) by the usual suspects. "If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” - Marcus Aurelius I recently had a chance to revisit the blockbuster "documentary" 'Inconvenient Truth' featuring the inventor of the Internet himself, Mr. Al Gore AKA "ManBearPig". Watching it all these years later is actually incredibly breathtaking in all its inaccuracies and doomsday prophesies. It's an embarrassment. I've tried to write about this for years now but the scope of this debate is so massive it requires so much time and energy I know I’ve yet to truly do it justice; but I’ve been committed to this debate since Inconvenient Truth was still in Movie Theaters, I was disgusted even then. However, if we allow ourselves to open our minds to just question what we're told by so-called "experts" I'm 100% certain that each of you, no matter who you are or what you believe or what your politics, would find yourself at least marginally disconcerted with manmade climate theory methodology and untold numbers of ethical violations. It's amazing to me how easily the name "global warming" successfully transitioned to "climate change" with absolutely zero public demand for the governments of this world to encourage thoughtful scientific debate and dialogue, and to put a stop to the suppression of scientific dissent and black balling. We've been told for 15 years now that we're on the verge of destruction because of our own consumption. We're supposed to suspend disbelief and known historical facts demonstrating the earth's climate has always been remarkably unpredictable. Mankind walked this earth before, during, and since the Ice Age which ended only 11,000 some years ago. The earth went through what's still an inexplicable Medieval Warming Period (MWP) just 800 years ago when it was significantly warmer than it is now, even after the ‘.85 Cº’ warming we’ve seen since 1880 which has half the world hyperventilating, seemingly incapable of logic and reason. Carbon also happens to be the sole variable on which climate researchers placed their focus. What a lucky break that must have been to start the rigorous scientific method required to elevate a simple 'theory' to '97% accepted science' - As a layman, I can personally think of multitudes of potential factors which may have an affect on climate. I find it remarkably convenient that the culprit was decidedly carbon emissions. That it was Carbon and no further research or variables needed to be considered whatsoever. What a lucky break. Consider how that finding has created industries, elected politicians, elicited funding, propelled careers - and, let's not forget the irreversible damage that finding did to the oil industry, chief antagonist of liberals for decades. The oil industry so loathed by ideologues was dealt its greatest blow. I find that remarkably convenient. Think of our gas prices before "Inconvenient Truth". Think of the blow to the wallets of the entire country and how debilitating to household budgets this has been. I believe we must find alternate sources of energy for one reason and one reason only - fossil fuels are a finite resource. So those of you who went out and bought a truly ridiculous Prius to symbolize commitment to the earth's health have done a great disservice to yourself riding around in that cramped up, ridiculous specimen of a yuppie-mobile. Your only reasonable rationale is the money you save at the pump; if that's the case, I get it. I just personally would choose to shut off my cable to save the money instead of sitting through 4 hours of paperwork and headache to peel out to Starbucks for a latte in my new Prius. It's really a sort of species of #HashtagActivism I digress. The U.N.'s International Council on Climate Change (IPCC) consists of what our leaders tell us are the most respected and expert persons on earth. Each year they issue annual findings which are used by governments around the world to make public pleas to the masses so seemingly jubilant to soak in every damned thing they hear without asking any questions. What shall we do? Spend trillions upon trillions of dollars in the name of a scientific theory which has completely broken the sanctity of the pillar of science. Scientific dissent is suppressed. Scientific research is refused for publication or peer review by scientific journals around the world. Climate Science is now and always has been in bed with politics and that is something I simply cannot tolerate without speaking my mind. Without asking questions. I've been alarmed by this since meeting, by pure happenstance, a scientific researcher from MIT back in 2008. I had already suspicions about Al Gore and the fanaticism surrounding what was called "global warming" at the time; but it was after exchanging emails with this man for several weeks regarding climate research and the information he had shared with me regarding the great number of colleagues at MIT and worldwide who were then and continue to be absolutely shocked and highly troubled by what's happened to science. Skepticism, debate, peer review, publicizing data and methods used to formulate theories was all thrown by the wayside in regards to this ONE singular "scientific" conclusion. We must remember that climate researchers can ONLY survive through government grants and special interests who fund their research. The research they conduct is most certainly impacted by the inappropriate conjoining of politics & science & money. It’s precisely what we were warned about by President Eisenhower in his Farewell Speech on the hazards of the Military & Industrial complex and the potential hazards of science becoming overly reliant upon government research grants, so independent research has lost objectivity. Eisenhower warned that ‘a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. The climate science community is largely dominated by a select few individuals, some of whom have dubious ties with Al Gore in particular and have been outed repeatedly for violating federal law regarding FOIA requests. Their incredible disregard for unbiased research or reliable climate data. The data itself has been found unreliable, at best... The data which the great majority of Climate science is entirely based came from highly vulnerable source (which they supposedly 'correct for' in their models; perhaps, but their models yet remain grossly exaggerated and have been year after year for 20 years now). Even the climate models utilized to project warming have been found to be breathtakingly inaccurate yet none of this information ever reaches the general public. I'm certainly no scientist, I make no claims of my own expertise. I simply desire to encourage others to seek the truth in an effort to my part, however small, at exposing what I and many many others regard as the most criminal, disgusting, calculated deception of our time. I am going to take the appropriate amount of time and energy necessary to convince those willing to open their minds to other possibilities. Disconcerting possibilities which are sadly very likely to be a fact of this crazy life. This subject pains me to realize that to go against climate theory is considered blasphemy by so many of you. Skeptics are condemned by run-of-the-mill private citizens based not on your own thoughtful conclusions - but the conclusions given to you by others. By the media. By the politician. And so many of us just take it in stride and pass judgement on those who DO care for truth. I sincerely implore any and all readers not to give up on educating yourselves on this subject of such great significance to our world. To seek truth of your own volition, and to ask questions while keeping an open mind. To look deeply into "ClimateGate", a scandal so monumental at the time I truly believed it would have ended the climate discussion. No. It should have been the beginning. But climategate, the scandal which exposed the top, most influential figures in climate as fraudulent, lying, deceptive manipulators hell bent on creating climate models that would fit their pre-concluded notions slipped right under the radar. One of the most prominent among them actually debated suicide in the wake of the scandal he rightfully anticipated, but which never materialized. No thanks to the manipulating, pathologoical lying - either blatant or by omission - mainstream media; who cares not a damn for a single person reading this line. |
2024.05.19 13:19 Illustrious_Dig_9376 Share iCloud photos from an iPhone as a link to windows user
Hi everyone, I have a iPhone 13 and I want to simply share all my photos in bulk to family members in another state. With Google drive/ photos, id simply find my directory-to-share, and add an email address. And the other party can just click on the darn link to view/download everything. Is there a easy way to do that in iPhone too? I don't have MacBook. I just want to accomplish this directly from the phone
Tyvm
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Tyvm
2024.05.19 13:18 pillowcase-of-eels [Music] Emilie Autumn's Asylum, pt. 6 – High-concept musician responds to online criticism by waging successful attrition war against her own fanbase
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Welcome back to the Asylum write-up, where we explore the decade-long slow-motion car crash that is the Emilie Autumn fandom.
Sorry this installment took so long to upload! Just a heads-up, I may take some time to deliver the last one too – these posts take forever to format on Reddit's finicky-ass editor, and my dumb real life is currently keeping me from precious Internet time. Thank you for your patience! You have my word that everyone who pre-ordered the final installment will receive a PERSONAL, HANDWRITTEN letter autographed and illustrated by me, a list of the snacks I consumed while composing this write-up, some exclusive behind-the-scenes secrets, and a pony.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.1 – Part 4.2 Part 5
This created a sort of primordial rift within the fanbase, between those who supported EA's right to speak her mind and regulate her own fan spaces however she pleased – and those who thought that her reactions were rude and inappropriate (at best), and that even fan spaces should allow for reasonable, non-abusive criticism of the artist.
Between a poorly-handled book release (see Part 3), the controversial (Part 2) or dubiously true (Part 4) contents of said book, and serious shade from various former collaborators (Part 5), more and more fans had pressing thoughts about EA's work ethic and choices. EA attempted damage control through drastic forum rules that made it virtually impossible to voice any “serious” critical opinion. It didn't work, of course: instead of squashing the mutiny, she created a schism.
Critical fans and active haters started congregating on unofficial platforms.
Either way, through these blogs, a number of potential drama bombs that had mostly flown under the radar were dredged up from over the years – some of which were hard to ignore, even for supportive fans. Where to begin?
There was that nonsense in-joke song, captured twice on camera during the 2009 tour (to very little outrage, at the time), crassly called “Manatee Retard”📺. Or EA's scathing response, in print, to a wheelchair user who found it insensitive that she used a bedazzled wheelchair as a prop to do sexy acrobatics on stage. (“Your offence taken at my hard-won self-acceptance proves that I indeed have something to fight against”, she wrote). Spoken word tracks where she made trivializing knock-knock jokes about serious mental illnesses she didn't have, like schizophrenia and OCD. Multiple instances of calling Britney Spears a “bimbo” and a “Hollywood fucked-up”, resentfully claiming that she only shaved her head because she was “hopped up on drugs” and certainly not because she was “bipolar”, a word the press liked to wield as an insult anyway. (“That's almost like calling someone a retard!” Yeah, heaven forbid.) The meanest, most distasteful paragraphs in the book. Basically everything problematic EA had ever said or written.📝 In retrospect, it had been a long time coming, but it was a lot to take in – and certainly more off-putting, even to less emotionally invested fans, than silly lies about her age and last name.
In another wing of Asylum Tumblr, some fans had had it up to here and just wanted to have fun. 🎵 If Plague Rats had learned one valuable lesson from EA, it was how to crack a joke in the face of absurd tragedy – and the general state of the EA fandom certainly warranted a few.
In 2012, Fight Like a Girl was released. After six long years, three of which had been peaceful, the Opheliac era was officially over. The new album and ensuing tour confirmed that the Asylum had entered a process of glamorous Broadway-style militarization. 🎵📺
The mood board was “Roman general meets Vegas showgirl meets Victorian street urchin”.🪞 The color palette was, to naysayers, “musty pink and rotten, stale piss yellow”. 🐀 The keyword was “REVENGE” (through the power of... self-expression! sorority! brutal assault with rusty medical implements!). The chorus of the title song had an intriguing run-on line about getting “revenge on the world, or at least 49% of the people in it” 🎵 – which seemed like an awful lot, and was widely interpreted (to cheers, boos, or uncomfortable sighs) as a misandrist jab at literally all men on Earth.
The show was essentially a demo version of the musical, in that the setlist vaguely reflected the order of events in the story – but prior reading was essential in order to get what the hell was going on on stage. This one Broadway reviewer had not perused the literature before seeing the show 🔍, and hated: the set, the choreography, the skits, the plot, the lyrics, the music, the concept. (Seriously, you should read the review. It's not even my show and I feel like quitting show business.)
Pre-show VIP encounters, now violin-free, were lorded over by EA's new manager🐀, whose official title was “Asylum Headmistress”. (Interesting choice – she sounds fun!) The swag bags were less substantial than before, and the “greet” part of the meet-and-greet was rarely more than a quick hug and photo op.
On Twitter, EA continued to embrace her “I am very badass” fronting attitude...
Spurred on by EA's rallying cries and “us vs them” mentality, loyalists turned the white-knighting up to 11. On Twitter, some Plague Rats got into cat fights with Lady Gaga's Little Monsters (what a time to be alive). Others tried to balance out the Tumblr negativity with initiatives like “Spreading a Plague of Love” – a “positive-only” confession blog, whose extreme fangirling, comically drastic rules and hyper-defensive tone📝 did not debunk the increasingly popular notion that “true Plague Rats” were a bunch of authoritarian and hopelessly brainwashed fanatics.
EA truthers and other anti-fans started lashing out at anyone who dared express any positive opinion of EA, solidifying claims that the backlash against EA was just a conspiracy of bitter, hysterical bullies.
All this to say: every passing day brought new reasons for fans to get mad at EA and each other, and everyone in the Asylum was in need of a laugh. It's not easy having a good time.🦠
Leading up to Fight Like a Girl and in the years that followed, user-submission-based meme blogs took off, most notably “Spreading a Plague of Lulz / Troll Like a Girl”. A lot of the early submissions were absurdist humor and toothless, cheezburger-Impact memes (a style that was, oddly, already dated at the time). Those often originated in good fun, and from loyal fans, on the official forum. But there was also true snark, satirizing EA's questionable ethics, outrageous claims, and easily spoofed artistic gimmicks. A new slang of Asylumspeak emerged: Glittertits (slight NSFW), GAGA!!, EA Gusta and all its memeface variants, Get outta mah house!, Are You Suffering?, Fight Like A Goat, [Random celebrity] copied EA (a subgenre in its own right), ...
Most of the “trolling” was directed at unrepentant bootlickers and, to a lesser extent, red-in-the-face haters and creeps. Meme blogs would post joke comments under “serious” or gushing submissions on Wayward Victorian Confessions, and taunt loyalist accounts by tagging them in their posts. When a few people complained on WVC that almost all of the Bloody Crumpets to date had been thin white able-bodied women, and a few fans responded by sharing their dream-casts for a more diverse line-up, the blog was flooded for days with confessions that “X should be a Crumpet” (candidates included RuPaul, Mitt Romney, Nicki Minaj, EA's therapist, and the WVC admins). Farcical shenanigans like that.
Ah, but some people will always cross the line, won't they. EA threads popped up on merciless, bully-friendly snark platforms like Lolcow, Pretty Ugly Little Liar, and Encyclopedia Dramatica. Snarkers with a mean streak and obsessive haters mingled in some of the more aggressive, 4-chan-spirited retaliation against EA – which would be called “brigading” in modern parlance. This included flooding EA's Goodreads page with one-star reviews (see part 4), repeatedly editing her Wikipedia page to include her legal name and birth year, and ensuring that Googling said name would bring up current pictures of her.
All of this compounded agitation fragmented the once-united fandom beyond recognition.🦠 Through substantial disagreements among fans, personal bickerings, layers upon layers of inscrutable in-jokes, and cross-platform telephone games, the Asylum morphed into a booby-trapped Escher room.
Satire blogs were taken in earnest. Earnest fan blogs scanned as satire. Memes would get called out as abuse. Appreciation without attached criticism would get mocked as bootlicking. Obvious jokes made by EA would be taken at face value. One divisive confession could trigger days and days of debate, to the point that WVC eventually banned confessions in response to other confessions. New waves of infighting created a confusing web of rival sub-factions🐀, each accusing the others of being toxic, cliquish, and delusional.
The shared fantasy was broken, the collective vision had crumbled, no onez was speaking the same language anymore. Fans would jump down the throat of other fans who held almost identical views about EA, except for that one thing she said or did that one time. Everyone had differing thoughts on what should or shouldn't acceptable to discuss, question, excuse, make fun of.
War is hell.
That's not entirely fair: unlike EA, the czar only did it that once.
By early 2013, as EA was gearing up for her third Fight Like a Girl tour at the end of the year, the official forum was... not as lively as it once had been. Not just because of the stifling rules and disgruntlement towards EA, or because EA herself hadn't really posted anything on there in years; the Internet was also changing, and forums in general were fast becoming passé.
This made it difficult for EA to create a safe space where she could talk to fans, and fans could talk to and about her, in a way she deemed suitable (ie, a space she could gate-keep and regulate enough to keep it completely free from negative criticism). Social media was a minefield; she still posted regularly, but didn't interact very much. So EA and the Headmistress came up with a way to filter out the unbelievers: an official fan club📝, aptly called the “Asylum Army”, with a $100 entry price.
Joining the AA came with a dog tag, a sew-on patch, and a lifetime membership certificate signed by EA and – for some reason – the Headmistress. (Unlike EA's best friend and sound engineer back in the forum's heyday, I don't think fans ever really embraced the FLAG-era manager as part of the Asylum in-group. She came across more as a coordinator / businessperson / adult chaperone, at best.🐀) So, slightly better goodies than you'd get by joining the other AA 🔍 ... but not by much. The main appeal was that members would have access to exclusive content, special merch, giveaways, early bird tickets for future shows, and regular video chats with EA.
The concept itself drew a fair amount of criticism, as you can imagine. Between the name🐀, the price, and the inherent gatekeeping of a pay-to-join fanclub, many balked at the monetizing of a concept that had once (like, three years back) been significantly more DIY, grassroots, and inclusive. 📝🐀
Then again, many also longed for a positive, drama-free space where fans could just be fans. And while the creation of the AA was generally recognized as a quick cashgrab, a lot of people were surprisingly cool with it. EA was trying to finance her dream musical, after all – although a number of fans wished she had gone about raising funds in a less sketchy way.
So around 400 fans shelled out (which, according to the Headmistress📝, “basically cover[ed] the cost of running the fanclub itself – keeping the database up, website, etc.”). Enough for a close-knit, but sizable community. But already, there was a conflict of interest: a high fanclub entry fee essentially demands that you pledge loyalty to the artist over loyalty to your fellow fans, who wish to join but can't afford to. Sharing, caring, and ensuring no one felt left out were some of the more positive values cultivated in the fandom... but leaking exclusive content would surely piss off other paying members🐀, and make EA feel betrayed all over again. (And she had barely just started to mellow out on social media!)
...But then again, this is the internet. After the first month of secret AA drops (lyric sheets, some photoshoot outtakes – nothing too juicy, really), there were, yes, some leaks. EA was predictably miffed, and retaliated by... ghosting the fanclub for weeks at a time in its first few months of existence (great look!). She eventually found the “solution” to her problem, by providing something you couldn't right-click-save (and which had been part of the promised perks to begin with): live interaction.
Over webcam, she was her usual in-person bubbly, charming, funny self. Everyone seemingly had a good time during the fanclub video chat, and this gave people faith and hope.
There were a few more events, giveaways, etc. As promised, ahead of the fall 2013 tour (the last one to date, it would turn out), AA members got priority access to show tickets and VIP bundles. The latter were much pricier than before, and only included soundcheck, a photo-op, and three goodies: a tin of loose-leaf tea, a signed printer-paper setlist, and a small flag that said “F.L.A.G.”.🔍 Some stuff continued to leak – but, as some of the outlaws pointed out (scroll down to the Disqus comments), they were mostly relaying information that was relevant to the entire fanbase, such as updates about ongoing projects (the dragged-out recording of the audiobook, for one).
In early 2014, lifetime memberships were closed, and replaced with monthly, quarterly and yearly subscription tiers. Bizarrely, you ended up paying $3 more per month if you bought a $99 yearly subscription📝 – but it did include the patch, dog tag, and piece of paper!
For the still-too-poor or still-undecided, there was always the forum! It wasn't as active as it used to be, but a few die-hards still managed to keep the lights on... until, inevitably, Someone Did Something and Ruined Everything. (Once again: EA's wrath is spectacular, but rarely completely unprovoked.) The incident features one notable figure in the Asylum community. Let's call him the Collector.
OK, so maybe you remember the meme I linked to in Part 4, with Christian Grey and the ginormous EA hoard. Well, that's the Collector's collection. The “Violin” promo that I called the "Holy Grail of the fandom" in the same paragraph? Also his. The handwritten lyrics that went for $940? Guess who won that auction. Over the years, the Collector had probably spent five figures on EA merch and shows, and although that fact was a little unsettling, he was a very active, easy-going, and generally well-liked fixture of the fandom.
One day in 2012, shortly after the Headmistress had replaced EA's old Chicago BFF as main forum admin, the Collector's account got banned or restricted over something dumb. When the ban wasn't lifted as quickly as he hoped, he took it... the way one takes things when one is unhealthily invested: he started spamming Headmistress and the mod team with increasingly rambling and abusive emails (lost to time, probably for the best). When that didn't work quickly enough, he tried a different route.
One of the many auctions that the Collector had won, some years prior, was EA's old iPod Touch📝 – which contained all of her favorite tunes and, buried somewhere in the data cache... a phone number. Which the Collector tried calling. And wouldn't you know it: EA picked up. She congratulated him on his sleuthing skills, listened patiently as he made his case, apologized for any distress caused by the unfair account restriction, and then they got married.
Kidding! She freaked the fuck out, hung up, and banned him for life from the forum and all EA shows and events.
After his ban, the Collector allegedly still tried to attend at least one VIP pre-show (one source in the comments says he was allowed to buy some merch, refunded for his ticket, and escorted out). He joined the Reform forum to bitch about EA and try to rally people to his cause, possibly made revenge posts about her on darker snark forums, and continued to hound the Asylum mod team. So in June 2014, EA came up with a radical and unexpected fix to the Collector problem.
The obliteration of the forum took everyone by surprise...
...Well, no point in living in the past. For those who could afford it, and still wanted to talk to/about EA after that (not everyone did 🐀), there was always the Asylum Army fanclub!
Over the summer of 2014, EA held regular live chats and Q&A's, and... many attendees really enjoyed them, and thought the AA was well worth the money after all. She also quietly parted ways with the much poo-pooed Headmistress around that time.
Turns out the fanclub had been the Headmistress' idea all along. EA had been reluctant from the start, and although she really enjoyed the live chats with a safe community of people “who are there for the right reasons”, she couldn't overcome her fundamental discomfort with the concept. Lifetime and regular members would receive a bunch of digital downloads and a -35% coupon on the Asylum Emporium for their troubles. EA said she would definitely pop back once in a while for live chats, for free, just for fun, but to my knowledge, she never did.
And so the most devoted fans were left standing in the rain...
But there were no chats or live shows anymore. There was only social media, where she ignored questions and vague-posted about overdue projects – and the newsletter📝, which was all saccharine love-bombing to promote bland dropshipped trinkets. For fans who remembered the handcrafted merch (and two-way communication) of the early years, it was a bitter pill to swallow.
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Welcome back to the Asylum write-up, where we explore the decade-long slow-motion car crash that is the Emilie Autumn fandom.
Sorry this installment took so long to upload! Just a heads-up, I may take some time to deliver the last one too – these posts take forever to format on Reddit's finicky-ass editor, and my dumb real life is currently keeping me from precious Internet time. Thank you for your patience! You have my word that everyone who pre-ordered the final installment will receive a PERSONAL, HANDWRITTEN letter autographed and illustrated by me, a list of the snacks I consumed while composing this write-up, some exclusive behind-the-scenes secrets, and a pony.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.1 – Part 4.2 Part 5
Places, everyone This is a test Throw your stones Do your damage Your worst, and your best (...) And if I had a dollar For every time I repented the sin And commit the same crime I'd be sitting on top of the world today (“God Help Me”, 2006🎵)Quick recap of where we left off. First, there were five to ten halcyon years of pleasant and meaningful interactions between EA and her blossoming fanbase, prominently by way of her official forum. Then, circa 2009-2010, EA's online presence shifted towards sudden anger outbursts, ban-hammering, and an increasingly top-down communication style.
This created a sort of primordial rift within the fanbase, between those who supported EA's right to speak her mind and regulate her own fan spaces however she pleased – and those who thought that her reactions were rude and inappropriate (at best), and that even fan spaces should allow for reasonable, non-abusive criticism of the artist.
Between a poorly-handled book release (see Part 3), the controversial (Part 2) or dubiously true (Part 4) contents of said book, and serious shade from various former collaborators (Part 5), more and more fans had pressing thoughts about EA's work ethic and choices. EA attempted damage control through drastic forum rules that made it virtually impossible to voice any “serious” critical opinion. It didn't work, of course: instead of squashing the mutiny, she created a schism.
Critical fans and active haters started congregating on unofficial platforms.
“WITH MUFFINS LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?”: TROLL LIKE A GIRL
So here we were, the early 2010s. The official forum (which had about 700 members in 2006, if you recall) was now thousands-strong, reaching just over 12,000 registered users in 2012 – not all of them active, but still. In terms of sheer numbers and content creation, the party was POPPIN'... but increasingly in parts of the Asylum that escaped EA's jurisdiction, such as Tumblr, where they could speak their mind freely.You play the victim very well You've built your self-indulgent hell You wanted someone to understand you Well, be careful what you wish for, because I do (“I Know Where You Sleep”, 2006🎵)In one wing of Asylum Tumblr, a smattering of call-out blogs emerged, which laid out EA's various lies, faux pas, shitty takes, and general deep-seated terribleness in detailed timelines and screenshots (or, short of that, long-winded bullet points). While many such blogs framed it as “serious” whistleblowing and did their best to remain as fact-based and neutral as they could, there was some genuine disgust, animosity and creepiness towards EA on that side of Tumblr; for some ex-fans, “exposing the truth” was mostly justify obsessive hatred, prying and verbal abuse. Some, for instance, felt the bizarre need to side with EA's mother in their estrangement. (One user, with the URL “emilyautumnfischkopf”, argued in a serious and down-to-earth tone - but with zero sources - that EA's upbringing had been nothing but peaceful and supportive until she ungratefully kicked her loving family to the curb for no reason at all. They were later revealed 🔍 to have an alternate handle as “eaisalyingcunt”.)
Either way, through these blogs, a number of potential drama bombs that had mostly flown under the radar were dredged up from over the years – some of which were hard to ignore, even for supportive fans. Where to begin?
There was that nonsense in-joke song, captured twice on camera during the 2009 tour (to very little outrage, at the time), crassly called “Manatee Retard”📺. Or EA's scathing response, in print, to a wheelchair user who found it insensitive that she used a bedazzled wheelchair as a prop to do sexy acrobatics on stage. (“Your offence taken at my hard-won self-acceptance proves that I indeed have something to fight against”, she wrote). Spoken word tracks where she made trivializing knock-knock jokes about serious mental illnesses she didn't have, like schizophrenia and OCD. Multiple instances of calling Britney Spears a “bimbo” and a “Hollywood fucked-up”, resentfully claiming that she only shaved her head because she was “hopped up on drugs” and certainly not because she was “bipolar”, a word the press liked to wield as an insult anyway. (“That's almost like calling someone a retard!” Yeah, heaven forbid.) The meanest, most distasteful paragraphs in the book. Basically everything problematic EA had ever said or written.📝 In retrospect, it had been a long time coming, but it was a lot to take in – and certainly more off-putting, even to less emotionally invested fans, than silly lies about her age and last name.
In another wing of Asylum Tumblr, some fans had had it up to here and just wanted to have fun. 🎵 If Plague Rats had learned one valuable lesson from EA, it was how to crack a joke in the face of absurd tragedy – and the general state of the EA fandom certainly warranted a few.
In 2012, Fight Like a Girl was released. After six long years, three of which had been peaceful, the Opheliac era was officially over. The new album and ensuing tour confirmed that the Asylum had entered a process of glamorous Broadway-style militarization. 🎵📺
The mood board was “Roman general meets Vegas showgirl meets Victorian street urchin”.🪞 The color palette was, to naysayers, “musty pink and rotten, stale piss yellow”. 🐀 The keyword was “REVENGE” (through the power of... self-expression! sorority! brutal assault with rusty medical implements!). The chorus of the title song had an intriguing run-on line about getting “revenge on the world, or at least 49% of the people in it” 🎵 – which seemed like an awful lot, and was widely interpreted (to cheers, boos, or uncomfortable sighs) as a misandrist jab at literally all men on Earth.
The show was essentially a demo version of the musical, in that the setlist vaguely reflected the order of events in the story – but prior reading was essential in order to get what the hell was going on on stage. This one Broadway reviewer had not perused the literature before seeing the show 🔍, and hated: the set, the choreography, the skits, the plot, the lyrics, the music, the concept. (Seriously, you should read the review. It's not even my show and I feel like quitting show business.)
Pre-show VIP encounters, now violin-free, were lorded over by EA's new manager🐀, whose official title was “Asylum Headmistress”. (Interesting choice – she sounds fun!) The swag bags were less substantial than before, and the “greet” part of the meet-and-greet was rarely more than a quick hug and photo op.
On Twitter, EA continued to embrace her “I am very badass” fronting attitude...
Often wonder if cyberbullies r aware they’re fucking w/ a girl who’s BFs w/ maker of the SAW films & is marrying a knife-throwing scorpion. (🐀📝)...and her taste for needlessly inflammatory statements. About an aisle sign in a supermarket:
If this does not infuriate you, then you're a fucking potato.(Again with the confounding crypto-ableism, EA! 🔍) She also went through a phase of raging against Lady Gaga 📝, who had stolen her idea of using a wheelchair on stage as an able-bodied woman. 🔍 That failed to convince anyone that she wasn't the histrionic diva that haters made her out to be.
Spurred on by EA's rallying cries and “us vs them” mentality, loyalists turned the white-knighting up to 11. On Twitter, some Plague Rats got into cat fights with Lady Gaga's Little Monsters (what a time to be alive). Others tried to balance out the Tumblr negativity with initiatives like “Spreading a Plague of Love” – a “positive-only” confession blog, whose extreme fangirling, comically drastic rules and hyper-defensive tone📝 did not debunk the increasingly popular notion that “true Plague Rats” were a bunch of authoritarian and hopelessly brainwashed fanatics.
EA truthers and other anti-fans started lashing out at anyone who dared express any positive opinion of EA, solidifying claims that the backlash against EA was just a conspiracy of bitter, hysterical bullies.
All this to say: every passing day brought new reasons for fans to get mad at EA and each other, and everyone in the Asylum was in need of a laugh. It's not easy having a good time.🦠
Leading up to Fight Like a Girl and in the years that followed, user-submission-based meme blogs took off, most notably “Spreading a Plague of Lulz / Troll Like a Girl”. A lot of the early submissions were absurdist humor and toothless, cheezburger-Impact memes (a style that was, oddly, already dated at the time). Those often originated in good fun, and from loyal fans, on the official forum. But there was also true snark, satirizing EA's questionable ethics, outrageous claims, and easily spoofed artistic gimmicks. A new slang of Asylumspeak emerged: Glittertits (slight NSFW), GAGA!!, EA Gusta and all its memeface variants, Get outta mah house!, Are You Suffering?, Fight Like A Goat, [Random celebrity] copied EA (a subgenre in its own right), ...
Most of the “trolling” was directed at unrepentant bootlickers and, to a lesser extent, red-in-the-face haters and creeps. Meme blogs would post joke comments under “serious” or gushing submissions on Wayward Victorian Confessions, and taunt loyalist accounts by tagging them in their posts. When a few people complained on WVC that almost all of the Bloody Crumpets to date had been thin white able-bodied women, and a few fans responded by sharing their dream-casts for a more diverse line-up, the blog was flooded for days with confessions that “X should be a Crumpet” (candidates included RuPaul, Mitt Romney, Nicki Minaj, EA's therapist, and the WVC admins). Farcical shenanigans like that.
Ah, but some people will always cross the line, won't they. EA threads popped up on merciless, bully-friendly snark platforms like Lolcow, Pretty Ugly Little Liar, and Encyclopedia Dramatica. Snarkers with a mean streak and obsessive haters mingled in some of the more aggressive, 4-chan-spirited retaliation against EA – which would be called “brigading” in modern parlance. This included flooding EA's Goodreads page with one-star reviews (see part 4), repeatedly editing her Wikipedia page to include her legal name and birth year, and ensuring that Googling said name would bring up current pictures of her.
All of this compounded agitation fragmented the once-united fandom beyond recognition.🦠 Through substantial disagreements among fans, personal bickerings, layers upon layers of inscrutable in-jokes, and cross-platform telephone games, the Asylum morphed into a booby-trapped Escher room.
Satire blogs were taken in earnest. Earnest fan blogs scanned as satire. Memes would get called out as abuse. Appreciation without attached criticism would get mocked as bootlicking. Obvious jokes made by EA would be taken at face value. One divisive confession could trigger days and days of debate, to the point that WVC eventually banned confessions in response to other confessions. New waves of infighting created a confusing web of rival sub-factions🐀, each accusing the others of being toxic, cliquish, and delusional.
The shared fantasy was broken, the collective vision had crumbled, no onez was speaking the same language anymore. Fans would jump down the throat of other fans who held almost identical views about EA, except for that one thing she said or did that one time. Everyone had differing thoughts on what should or shouldn't acceptable to discuss, question, excuse, make fun of.
War is hell.
SCORCHED EARTH SHENANIGANS: HONEY, I SHRUNK THE ASYLUM
Would you tear my castle down Stone by stone And let the wind run through my windows Till there was nothing left But a battered rose? (“Castle Down”, 2003🎵)Haters vs sycophants is not really the kind of conflict where one side can come out on top (if you're participating, you've already lost). But in the long tug-of-war between “grassroots” and “EA-sponsored” fan spaces, the ultimate winner is obvious – in that the former is gasping in agony, a shriveled husk of its former glory, while the latter... is non-existent. This is due in no small part to EA's tendency, like the Czars of old, to settle conflicts by setting Moscow on fire.🔍)
That's not entirely fair: unlike EA, the czar only did it that once.
By early 2013, as EA was gearing up for her third Fight Like a Girl tour at the end of the year, the official forum was... not as lively as it once had been. Not just because of the stifling rules and disgruntlement towards EA, or because EA herself hadn't really posted anything on there in years; the Internet was also changing, and forums in general were fast becoming passé.
This made it difficult for EA to create a safe space where she could talk to fans, and fans could talk to and about her, in a way she deemed suitable (ie, a space she could gate-keep and regulate enough to keep it completely free from negative criticism). Social media was a minefield; she still posted regularly, but didn't interact very much. So EA and the Headmistress came up with a way to filter out the unbelievers: an official fan club📝, aptly called the “Asylum Army”, with a $100 entry price.
Joining the AA came with a dog tag, a sew-on patch, and a lifetime membership certificate signed by EA and – for some reason – the Headmistress. (Unlike EA's best friend and sound engineer back in the forum's heyday, I don't think fans ever really embraced the FLAG-era manager as part of the Asylum in-group. She came across more as a coordinator / businessperson / adult chaperone, at best.🐀) So, slightly better goodies than you'd get by joining the other AA 🔍 ... but not by much. The main appeal was that members would have access to exclusive content, special merch, giveaways, early bird tickets for future shows, and regular video chats with EA.
The concept itself drew a fair amount of criticism, as you can imagine. Between the name🐀, the price, and the inherent gatekeeping of a pay-to-join fanclub, many balked at the monetizing of a concept that had once (like, three years back) been significantly more DIY, grassroots, and inclusive. 📝🐀
Then again, many also longed for a positive, drama-free space where fans could just be fans. And while the creation of the AA was generally recognized as a quick cashgrab, a lot of people were surprisingly cool with it. EA was trying to finance her dream musical, after all – although a number of fans wished she had gone about raising funds in a less sketchy way.
So around 400 fans shelled out (which, according to the Headmistress📝, “basically cover[ed] the cost of running the fanclub itself – keeping the database up, website, etc.”). Enough for a close-knit, but sizable community. But already, there was a conflict of interest: a high fanclub entry fee essentially demands that you pledge loyalty to the artist over loyalty to your fellow fans, who wish to join but can't afford to. Sharing, caring, and ensuring no one felt left out were some of the more positive values cultivated in the fandom... but leaking exclusive content would surely piss off other paying members🐀, and make EA feel betrayed all over again. (And she had barely just started to mellow out on social media!)
...But then again, this is the internet. After the first month of secret AA drops (lyric sheets, some photoshoot outtakes – nothing too juicy, really), there were, yes, some leaks. EA was predictably miffed, and retaliated by... ghosting the fanclub for weeks at a time in its first few months of existence (great look!). She eventually found the “solution” to her problem, by providing something you couldn't right-click-save (and which had been part of the promised perks to begin with): live interaction.
Over webcam, she was her usual in-person bubbly, charming, funny self. Everyone seemingly had a good time during the fanclub video chat, and this gave people faith and hope.
There were a few more events, giveaways, etc. As promised, ahead of the fall 2013 tour (the last one to date, it would turn out), AA members got priority access to show tickets and VIP bundles. The latter were much pricier than before, and only included soundcheck, a photo-op, and three goodies: a tin of loose-leaf tea, a signed printer-paper setlist, and a small flag that said “F.L.A.G.”.🔍 Some stuff continued to leak – but, as some of the outlaws pointed out (scroll down to the Disqus comments), they were mostly relaying information that was relevant to the entire fanbase, such as updates about ongoing projects (the dragged-out recording of the audiobook, for one).
In early 2014, lifetime memberships were closed, and replaced with monthly, quarterly and yearly subscription tiers. Bizarrely, you ended up paying $3 more per month if you bought a $99 yearly subscription📝 – but it did include the patch, dog tag, and piece of paper!
Sometimes I kind of want to be part of the cool kids and register to the Asylum Army. Then I remember how it came about, what you could get for the same price a couple years ago, how the whole thing was and is handled, and that I won’t support any of this bullshit. (And then I roll around naked in all the money I’m saving.) (🐀)Still, a number of fans rejoiced at the affordable monthly option, and joined – if not for the exclusive content and merch (which were... okay, but not much to write home about), then for the friendly, drama-free exchanges with an artist they actually did love, in spite of all the frustration.
For the still-too-poor or still-undecided, there was always the forum! It wasn't as active as it used to be, but a few die-hards still managed to keep the lights on... until, inevitably, Someone Did Something and Ruined Everything. (Once again: EA's wrath is spectacular, but rarely completely unprovoked.) The incident features one notable figure in the Asylum community. Let's call him the Collector.
OK, so maybe you remember the meme I linked to in Part 4, with Christian Grey and the ginormous EA hoard. Well, that's the Collector's collection. The “Violin” promo that I called the "Holy Grail of the fandom" in the same paragraph? Also his. The handwritten lyrics that went for $940? Guess who won that auction. Over the years, the Collector had probably spent five figures on EA merch and shows, and although that fact was a little unsettling, he was a very active, easy-going, and generally well-liked fixture of the fandom.
One day in 2012, shortly after the Headmistress had replaced EA's old Chicago BFF as main forum admin, the Collector's account got banned or restricted over something dumb. When the ban wasn't lifted as quickly as he hoped, he took it... the way one takes things when one is unhealthily invested: he started spamming Headmistress and the mod team with increasingly rambling and abusive emails (lost to time, probably for the best). When that didn't work quickly enough, he tried a different route.
One of the many auctions that the Collector had won, some years prior, was EA's old iPod Touch📝 – which contained all of her favorite tunes and, buried somewhere in the data cache... a phone number. Which the Collector tried calling. And wouldn't you know it: EA picked up. She congratulated him on his sleuthing skills, listened patiently as he made his case, apologized for any distress caused by the unfair account restriction, and then they got married.
Kidding! She freaked the fuck out, hung up, and banned him for life from the forum and all EA shows and events.
After his ban, the Collector allegedly still tried to attend at least one VIP pre-show (one source in the comments says he was allowed to buy some merch, refunded for his ticket, and escorted out). He joined the Reform forum to bitch about EA and try to rally people to his cause, possibly made revenge posts about her on darker snark forums, and continued to hound the Asylum mod team. So in June 2014, EA came up with a radical and unexpected fix to the Collector problem.
The official Asylum Fan Forum has been shut down permanently. I have personally paid thousands of dollars each year to keep the forum safe and secure for you ... Unfortunately, the forum has not been kept safe and secure for me, a truth which disappoints me greatly, instead becoming a place where people who have physically threatened myself and my staff prey upon forum members, pressuring them to contact me and my staff on their behalf. If the gullible wish to humor my stalkers (who live in their parent’s basement at age 30 something) and thus put me in danger, they may do it on their own dime. They may also fuck off, because stupidity can kill, and I won’t be your victim. To those who enjoyed the forum, you know who to thank for its closure. (“On the closing of the Asylum Forum”)Voilà! This is how a decade-long archive of shared history ends: not with a bang, but with a dirty delete and a sod-off communiqué.
The obliteration of the forum took everyone by surprise...
I was actually on the forum when it was taken down. I was navigating between posts and when I went to click on a different board, an error message came up. I honestly cried a little, I'm not ashamed to say. (WVC admin on Reddit, 2024)...and I do mean everyone:
Chicago BFF / ex-admin, the next morning: Whoa, EA forum shut down? Ex-mod: It turns out that if someone spends enough years actively “waging war” to destroy what they can’t have, eventually they’ll be successful. * eye roll * Not even mods got prior warning. Just all the sudden, poof, gone. BFF: Really? She did not let the moderators know?! This is sounding worse and worse. Uggh. I’m so sorry. Such a loss. (...) Ok, threats are serious, but why not just put it in archive mode so no one can post? (...) Sad. I shall light a candle in the forum's honor. (Facebook posts; scroll down for screenshots)It was a gut punch, especially for people who had poured countless hours into the community, or could have used some prior warning to save years of their own writing from the role-playing threads. One last chance to take a look around the place that had meant so much to so many.
From the wording of the announcement of closing the forum and a number of other things, it sometimes seems like EA doesn't like her fans much. :/ (🐀)Three months after the forum was nuked, Battered Rose (a venerable EA fansite, which had been around since the Enchant era and had one of the most complete EA galleries online) announced that it was shutting down too.📝 The admin, who had also been a long-time forum mod, cited a lack of “time, energy, passion, or money” to keep the website going... and being upset at the sudden disappearance of the forum. It was, truly, the end of an era for the Asylum.
...Well, no point in living in the past. For those who could afford it, and still wanted to talk to/about EA after that (not everyone did 🐀), there was always the Asylum Army fanclub!
Over the summer of 2014, EA held regular live chats and Q&A's, and... many attendees really enjoyed them, and thought the AA was well worth the money after all. She also quietly parted ways with the much poo-pooed Headmistress around that time.
Just spent over 4 hours giggling, drinking tea and playing guessing games in chat with EA and other Asylum Army members ... No griping, no downers, just lots of fun. I think I like the way the ‘new fandom’ is going and now I’m really glad I finally decided to join the Army. (September 4, 2014🐀; Battered Rose had closed the day before)The forum was lost forever, but perhaps that was a chance for a fresh start. Could this fanclub thing really be the Asylum Renaissance that fans had been longing for?
...I have come today to a very difficult but necessary decision, and that is to discontinue the Emilie Autumn Official Fanclub. The site itself, and the community chatroom, will remain open to you indefinitely, but I will no longer be making updates to the site. (Newsletter, September 8, 2014📝)...Never mind, then.
Turns out the fanclub had been the Headmistress' idea all along. EA had been reluctant from the start, and although she really enjoyed the live chats with a safe community of people “who are there for the right reasons”, she couldn't overcome her fundamental discomfort with the concept. Lifetime and regular members would receive a bunch of digital downloads and a -35% coupon on the Asylum Emporium for their troubles. EA said she would definitely pop back once in a while for live chats, for free, just for fun, but to my knowledge, she never did.
And so the most devoted fans were left standing in the rain...
She is happy, she made it. She is fulfilling her dreams, found love and happiness after all the pain. I understand that she now doesn’t need “us” anymore ... That doesn’t change the fact she broke my heart with taking the Asylum Army and the forum from me. Yet, I am happy for her. (🐀)...while naysayers pointed and laughed, Nelson-style.🦠
I don’t feel sorry at all for the people that paid for the Asylum Army fan club. Most of them knew that EA is an atrocious business woman and has broken many promises before. In fact, I laugh at them. They seriously thought that EA would actually stay consistent with this? (🐀)
EVERYTHING MUST GO: THE ASYLUM WHOLESALE
EA fans were left without an “official” home for about three years. This gave them plenty of time to be annoyed at EA for: not releasing the audiobook on time, not materializing any new project for a while... and the new sin of peddling random, ridiculously marked-up AliBaba jewelry as “merch” on her official store. Think faux-antique cameo pendants and $30 Big Ben rings (...because the Asylum story is set in London, get it?).The whole accessories section looks like a tacky overpriced English souvenir shop. (🐀)The fanbase lost a lost of steam in those in-between years, because there wasn't much to stick around for. As evidenced by the positive reception of the AA live chats, even in the midst of unresolved drama, out-loud interactions in a friendly environment have always been EA's saving grace. Considering the amount of online hate, there are shockingly few accounts of bad IRL encounters with EA: most people say that in live conversation, she comes across as a fun, warm, and genuinely sweet person. Some report that their negative opinion shifted after meeting her.
But there were no chats or live shows anymore. There was only social media, where she ignored questions and vague-posted about overdue projects – and the newsletter📝, which was all saccharine love-bombing to promote bland dropshipped trinkets. For fans who remembered the handcrafted merch (and two-way communication) of the early years, it was a bitter pill to swallow.
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Phone: 9025 500 600 Email: [admission@zuaneducation.com](mailto:admission@zuaneducation.com)2024.05.19 13:07 owchyow CoinStats iOS "Total Portolio Widget" no longer working
I believe there may be an issue when selecting the “Total Portfolio” option when using the “Portfolio Widget” on iOS.
BACKGROUND
Phone Model Name: iPhone 15 Pro
iOs Version: 17.4.1
CoinStats App: 5.12.0 (903)
Multiple Portfolios/Wallets/Exchanges connected e.g. Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, Binance etc. Note I have been using the CoinStats app for several years on a daily basis without any issues.
ISSUE
I have recently identified that the “Total Portfolio” option when using the Portfolio Widget is no longer reflecting the Top 4 holdings as reflected in the App.
To confirm, there is no issues within/using the CoinStats App, only the Widget. When “All Assets” is selected in the App, it correctly displays all holdings.
The Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option display 4 holdings, but not the “Top 4” as correctly displayed in the App. I cannot determine the basis on the 4 holdings displayed.
Eg. Correctly within the app, BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC will be the “Top 4” holdings however in the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio, it display AVAX, AR, ETHDYDX, DMT which I can confirm are held in different portfolios/wallets/exchanges (and not always the Top holding in that specific wallet).
Within the App I have tried changing the sort by QTY Total, Profit and Loss Options, Price but this not make any difference
Note if I select an individual Portfolio when using the Portfolio Widget (e.g. Ledger, MetaMask, Finance etc) it correctly shows reflect the top 4 holdings as per the App.
So to confirm, the issue relates to the Total Portfolio option when using the Portfolio Widget.
STEPS TAKEN TO RESOLVE ISSUE
I began with small steps and have finally reset everything from scratch. To confirm overall I have:
To narrow down the issue, I tried adding just 1 Portfolio being my Ledger Wallet via Ledger Live QR code.
I hold multiple BTC, ETH and various ALTS accounts which are correctly added to the App. However the issue persist in the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option which again displays 4 holdings of the Ledger wallet but not the Top 4 as correctly displayed in the App.
Again I cannot determine the basis on the 4 coins displayed. Further to confuse matters, I have multiple BTC accounts which are correctly added to the App, however the Widget only displays 1 of the BTC accounts which is not the largest amount nor is it the one with the latest transaction. I do not understand why the Widget it is selecting the 1 BTC account.
Finally I tried adding 2 different BTC accounts held on Trezor wallet. When selecting the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option, it display the balance of 1 of the accounts (not cumulative). However if I select Portfolio Widget/Trezor Wallet 1 (or 2), it shows the correct balance.
I cannot narrow down where the issue is coming from but I hope the above helps in solving the matter.
As mentioned I have used CoinStats app for several years on a daily basis and checking my portfolio balance is the key requirement which I can no longer do.
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BACKGROUND
Phone Model Name: iPhone 15 Pro
iOs Version: 17.4.1
CoinStats App: 5.12.0 (903)
Multiple Portfolios/Wallets/Exchanges connected e.g. Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, Binance etc. Note I have been using the CoinStats app for several years on a daily basis without any issues.
ISSUE
I have recently identified that the “Total Portfolio” option when using the Portfolio Widget is no longer reflecting the Top 4 holdings as reflected in the App.
To confirm, there is no issues within/using the CoinStats App, only the Widget. When “All Assets” is selected in the App, it correctly displays all holdings.
The Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option display 4 holdings, but not the “Top 4” as correctly displayed in the App. I cannot determine the basis on the 4 holdings displayed.
Eg. Correctly within the app, BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC will be the “Top 4” holdings however in the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio, it display AVAX, AR, ETHDYDX, DMT which I can confirm are held in different portfolios/wallets/exchanges (and not always the Top holding in that specific wallet).
Within the App I have tried changing the sort by QTY Total, Profit and Loss Options, Price but this not make any difference
Note if I select an individual Portfolio when using the Portfolio Widget (e.g. Ledger, MetaMask, Finance etc) it correctly shows reflect the top 4 holdings as per the App.
So to confirm, the issue relates to the Total Portfolio option when using the Portfolio Widget.
STEPS TAKEN TO RESOLVE ISSUE
I began with small steps and have finally reset everything from scratch. To confirm overall I have:
- Deleted every Portfolio/Wallet/Exchange from App
- Deleted CoinStats App
- Restarted Phone
- Reinstalled CoinStats App
- Added Portfolio/Wallet Exchange
To narrow down the issue, I tried adding just 1 Portfolio being my Ledger Wallet via Ledger Live QR code.
I hold multiple BTC, ETH and various ALTS accounts which are correctly added to the App. However the issue persist in the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option which again displays 4 holdings of the Ledger wallet but not the Top 4 as correctly displayed in the App.
Again I cannot determine the basis on the 4 coins displayed. Further to confuse matters, I have multiple BTC accounts which are correctly added to the App, however the Widget only displays 1 of the BTC accounts which is not the largest amount nor is it the one with the latest transaction. I do not understand why the Widget it is selecting the 1 BTC account.
Finally I tried adding 2 different BTC accounts held on Trezor wallet. When selecting the Portfolio Widget/Total Portfolio option, it display the balance of 1 of the accounts (not cumulative). However if I select Portfolio Widget/Trezor Wallet 1 (or 2), it shows the correct balance.
I cannot narrow down where the issue is coming from but I hope the above helps in solving the matter.
As mentioned I have used CoinStats app for several years on a daily basis and checking my portfolio balance is the key requirement which I can no longer do.
2024.05.19 13:06 Purple_Wrap9596 Help regarding Redshift Performance and DMS from RDS migration
Hello
Since I'm new to the AWS ecosystem, I'd like to seek some advice as I'm not quite sure how to approach this issue.
We have a primary database (RDS (MySQL)) that is connected to DMS, which replicates everything to a newly created Redshift cluster (dc2.large 2 nodes). We want to gradually transition to Redshift.
I have one particular case I'd like to get your opinion on:
SQL
Case 2: From what I've read, Redshift has DISTKEY and SORTKEY.
In general, I have several tables with 500-1500 million records. I typically perform WHERE + GROUP BY operations on them and then join the results to the main customer table. Here's an example pseudo-query that finds customers for a given store who have made at least 10 orders:
SQL
Unless there's a more sensible way to handle ?
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Since I'm new to the AWS ecosystem, I'd like to seek some advice as I'm not quite sure how to approach this issue.
We have a primary database (RDS (MySQL)) that is connected to DMS, which replicates everything to a newly created Redshift cluster (dc2.large 2 nodes). We want to gradually transition to Redshift.
I have one particular case I'd like to get your opinion on:
- Monthly tables: On RDS, many tables are created per month - e.g., orders_202401, orders_202402, etc. These tables are also replicated to Redshift in the same way. Is there a sensible way to combine all these monthly tables into one?
SQL
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW orders AS ( SELECT * FROM orders_202401 UNION ALL SELECT * FROM orders_202402 ... SELECT * FROM orders_202405 )However, it seems to me that it would be better to have everything in one table. Do you have any ideas on how to achieve this?
Case 2: From what I've read, Redshift has DISTKEY and SORTKEY.
In general, I have several tables with 500-1500 million records. I typically perform WHERE + GROUP BY operations on them and then join the results to the main customer table. Here's an example pseudo-query that finds customers for a given store who have made at least 10 orders:
SQL
SELECT client_id, name, surname, email FROM clients c WHERE shop_id = 200 INNER JOIN ( SELECT client_id FROM orders WHERE shop_id = 200 AND product_id IN (1, 2, 3, 4) -- optional GROUP BY client_id HAVING COUNT(order_id) > 10 ) s ON s.client_id == c.client_id AND s.shop_id = c.shop_idTable Information:
- clients: ~500 million records: 500 million unique client_id, 5000 unique shop_id (1 shop -> 20k - 150k client_ids)
- orders: 1600 million records - 300 million unique client_id, 4400 unique shop_id, 1600 million order_id
Unless there's a more sensible way to handle ?
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2024.05.19 12:58 NLSSMC Advice about dying grandmother (and a story about the Cardinal)
Hi! 👋
I need help and I also wanted to share a story or two, if that’s ok. So this is LOOONG. Please forgive any mistakes or wrong words
I’ve put the questions up top so feel free to ignore the rest. I just wanted to tell people about her.
Thank you so much in advance!
TL;DR
Part one: My beloved 98-yo Catholic grandmother in Sweden is dying, no other family member is Catholic. We don’t know what we need to do now before and after her passing.
Part two: Gran’s story and the Cardinal who Didn’t Forget.
——-
Part one
My Grandma is 98 and nearing the very end. She is a devout Catholic who converted in her 60s. No one else in the family is Catholic and there are very few Catholics in Sweden overall.
Her faith is incredibly important to her and I want to make sure she leaves the world properly from a religious standpoint.
Only I don’t know anything about it and I don’t know who to ask.
I would be so grateful for any guidance.
Questions:
1. Are there things we need to do for her from a religious perspective when the end comes? Last rituals?
Any special handling of the body?
Should we call a priest but who?
2. Swedish funerals usually don’t take place in three or four weeks after death. Is that okay?
3. Her service will be held in a Protestant church with a Protestant priest and buried in the family plot that’s there.
She has okayed this. She originally wanted to Catholic service in this particular church but it’s not allowed.
Are there any things (prayers, rituals etc) we can include to honor her faith?
4. Do I need to notify her local church? She is a member of the Secular Carmelites as well.
5a. Obituaries work a little differently in Sweden but I figured I’d ask. It’s common to include a little picture or symbol in them, everything from roses to sports team logos (yes, truly! 😂)
Most of the Catholic obituaries I see simply have a cross and . Is that the proper way to do it?
5b. Most obituaries include a quote.
Would this be appropriate?
”I am going towards you whom I have always sought, loved and always desired.”
It may sound odd I watched Sister Claire Crockett’s final vows and heard it and just knew instantly it should be in Gran’s obituary.
I haven’t been able to trace the source though.
THANK YOU! If you made it this far! —————————
Gran and the Cardinal
Now it’s story time!
Gran converted in her 60s “after a lifetime of searching” and was an eager theological correspondent.
She is a passionate fan of St John of the Cross and mysticism in general and is a member of the Secular Carmelites.
My Gran is Dutch, spent her first decade in Indonesia before coming back to Holland just in time for the German occupation.
She grew up Protestant but the war planted a seed in her mind and she set out to discover the spiritual world and learning as much as possible about every religion she could find, Taoism, Shinto, Hindu gurus, the works.
—
I asked her once what made her choose Catholicism in the end. She said that she had seen a small bookstore that interested her and unbeknownst was in a small, nondescript church.
Gran said she went in through the door and felt a “flash” or a rush or something she couldn’t quite describe and just knew. She spoke to a priest that very same day.
—-
Gran never quite lost hope that one of her children or grandchildren would convert (I was her best candidate but that has not happened. 😅)
—-
My grandmother had to stop going to Church maybe 10–15 years ago since hearing is so bad and it still grieves her.
She misses the community of the church, theological discourse, the connections she has made over the years. She felt lonely.
—
I don’t know how much the “regular Catholic” knows about different cardinals but we actually got a Swedish one, Anders Arborelius, a few years ago.
Gran knows him through the Carmelites and she has corresponded quite extensively with ”Bishop Anders”.
On one bleak day when Gran felt so along in the world, I tried to think of ways to cheer her up.
I did some googling and found an email address to the Cardinal himself and also to his secretary.
—
I wrote a long email asking of “Bishop Anders” would be willing to send her a card to remind her the church hasn’t forgotten her.
I didn’t expect an answer but later that same night, his secretary responded and it turned out she used to know my gran quite well.
The Cardinal was in Rome, she said, but he would probably look at the email when he got back.
That night (say 2AM), I got a response from the Cardinal about how well he remembers my Gran, and how much he likes and appreciates her.
A few day later, a lovely little letter with encouraging words and a blessing arrived in the mail.
One funny thing though! He had absolutely dreadful handwriting, so bad we actually send around a picture of it to family members asking them if they could decode it. 😂😂😂
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I need help and I also wanted to share a story or two, if that’s ok. So this is LOOONG. Please forgive any mistakes or wrong words
I’ve put the questions up top so feel free to ignore the rest. I just wanted to tell people about her.
Thank you so much in advance!
TL;DR
Part one: My beloved 98-yo Catholic grandmother in Sweden is dying, no other family member is Catholic. We don’t know what we need to do now before and after her passing.
Part two: Gran’s story and the Cardinal who Didn’t Forget.
——-
Part one
My Grandma is 98 and nearing the very end. She is a devout Catholic who converted in her 60s. No one else in the family is Catholic and there are very few Catholics in Sweden overall.
Her faith is incredibly important to her and I want to make sure she leaves the world properly from a religious standpoint.
Only I don’t know anything about it and I don’t know who to ask.
I would be so grateful for any guidance.
Questions:
1. Are there things we need to do for her from a religious perspective when the end comes? Last rituals?
Any special handling of the body?
Should we call a priest but who?
2. Swedish funerals usually don’t take place in three or four weeks after death. Is that okay?
3. Her service will be held in a Protestant church with a Protestant priest and buried in the family plot that’s there.
She has okayed this. She originally wanted to Catholic service in this particular church but it’s not allowed.
Are there any things (prayers, rituals etc) we can include to honor her faith?
4. Do I need to notify her local church? She is a member of the Secular Carmelites as well.
5a. Obituaries work a little differently in Sweden but I figured I’d ask. It’s common to include a little picture or symbol in them, everything from roses to sports team logos (yes, truly! 😂)
Most of the Catholic obituaries I see simply have a cross and . Is that the proper way to do it?
5b. Most obituaries include a quote.
Would this be appropriate?
”I am going towards you whom I have always sought, loved and always desired.”
It may sound odd I watched Sister Claire Crockett’s final vows and heard it and just knew instantly it should be in Gran’s obituary.
I haven’t been able to trace the source though.
THANK YOU! If you made it this far! —————————
Gran and the Cardinal
Now it’s story time!
Gran converted in her 60s “after a lifetime of searching” and was an eager theological correspondent.
She is a passionate fan of St John of the Cross and mysticism in general and is a member of the Secular Carmelites.
My Gran is Dutch, spent her first decade in Indonesia before coming back to Holland just in time for the German occupation.
She grew up Protestant but the war planted a seed in her mind and she set out to discover the spiritual world and learning as much as possible about every religion she could find, Taoism, Shinto, Hindu gurus, the works.
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I asked her once what made her choose Catholicism in the end. She said that she had seen a small bookstore that interested her and unbeknownst was in a small, nondescript church.
Gran said she went in through the door and felt a “flash” or a rush or something she couldn’t quite describe and just knew. She spoke to a priest that very same day.
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Gran never quite lost hope that one of her children or grandchildren would convert (I was her best candidate but that has not happened. 😅)
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My grandmother had to stop going to Church maybe 10–15 years ago since hearing is so bad and it still grieves her.
She misses the community of the church, theological discourse, the connections she has made over the years. She felt lonely.
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I don’t know how much the “regular Catholic” knows about different cardinals but we actually got a Swedish one, Anders Arborelius, a few years ago.
Gran knows him through the Carmelites and she has corresponded quite extensively with ”Bishop Anders”.
On one bleak day when Gran felt so along in the world, I tried to think of ways to cheer her up.
I did some googling and found an email address to the Cardinal himself and also to his secretary.
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I wrote a long email asking of “Bishop Anders” would be willing to send her a card to remind her the church hasn’t forgotten her.
I didn’t expect an answer but later that same night, his secretary responded and it turned out she used to know my gran quite well.
The Cardinal was in Rome, she said, but he would probably look at the email when he got back.
That night (say 2AM), I got a response from the Cardinal about how well he remembers my Gran, and how much he likes and appreciates her.
A few day later, a lovely little letter with encouraging words and a blessing arrived in the mail.
One funny thing though! He had absolutely dreadful handwriting, so bad we actually send around a picture of it to family members asking them if they could decode it. 😂😂😂
2024.05.19 12:55 Stage-Piercing727 Best Carry Handle Scope
 | submitted by Stage-Piercing727 to u/Stage-Piercing727 [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/fw3vaoj16d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f746be7a3b8a7925727f9811d39222dd26be9909 Get ready to enhance your shooting experience with our top picks for carry handle scopes. These versatile devices not only provide excellent clarity and accuracy but also come with a convenient carry handle for easy transportation and handling. Explore our roundup of the best carry handle scopes on the market, sure to impress any outdoor enthusiast or professional marksman. The Top 19 Best Carry Handle Scope
Reviews🔗Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Black Ir-E Crossbow Scope with LED Illuminationhttps://preview.redd.it/3qq4og626d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc7676684001ccf5ae92a483625cebd5991def58 I recently had the opportunity to try out the Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Ir-E Crossbow Scope. This black 1021 model was a great addition to my hunting gear, providing exceptional clarity thanks to its multicoated optics and 1-inch mono tube construction. The fast focus eyepiece is a game-changer, allowing me to quickly adjust my sight even when on the move. One feature that stood out was the illuminated cross-hair reticle, which came in both blue and red. It was perfect for low-light situations, making it easier for me to spot my target. I appreciated the adjustment click value of 0.5 inches at 100 yards, as it gave me accurate and consistent shot adjustments. However, there were a few downsides to this otherwise great scope. The exit pupil was smaller than I would have liked, making it a bit more challenging to see the cross-hair reticle at times. Additionally, the scope's weight was lighter than expected, which might not have been ideal for everyone. Overall, I'm happy with my experience using the Killer Instinct Lumix 4x32 Ir-E Crossbow Scope. It's a quality product with some small drawbacks, but its pros certainly outweigh the cons. If you're in the market for a reliable crossbow scope, this one is definitely worth considering. 🔗Mil-Spec Detachable AR-15 Carry Handlehttps://preview.redd.it/6d7ydxc26d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ee10f8948f8cbfd7095ce367789dcf067a5aeed I recently had the chance to try out this detachable carry handle for an AR-15 rifle. The black finish perfectly matched the rest of my gun, and the Mil-Spec construction added a level of durability I hadn't experienced before. Attaching and detaching it was a breeze, and it blended well with my existing red dot sight. However, I did find that it added a bit of weight to the overall gun, which I noticed especially after carrying it for extended periods of time. Overall, it's a solid choice for anyone looking to add a reliable carrying handle to their AR-15 setup. 🔗National Geographic Handheld Telescope - CF600, 50mm Aperture, Explore the Starshttps://preview.redd.it/ciylb7o26d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3836466afdba226d7889d9609c4cde2d57c1748 The National Geographic CF600 Carbon Fiber telescope has been my trusty companion for some stargazing sessions. Its sleek black carbon fiber design not only looks cool but is sturdy enough to handle the wear and tear of my eager fingers. The scope's 50mm lens and focal length of 600mm provide a great starting point for anyone interested in amateur astronomy, allowing me to get a decent view of the moon and some of the brighter stars in the night sky. One of the telescope's standout features is the alt-azimuth mount and tripod combo. It's smooth and easy to use, making it simple for me to move the scope up, down, and side to side while scanning the sky. I appreciate the two included eyepieces, which offer a range of magnification options, making the scenery even more intricate and detailed. However, my experience hasn't been entirely rosy. The tripod and pan handle could have been more robust. I found that they tended to wobble and shake, not necessarily due to the weight of the telescope but the vibration of my hands as I adjusted the scope. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a noticeable drawback. Overall, the National Geographic CF600 Carbon Fiber telescope is a great first telescope for the aspiring astronomy enthusiast in need of a simple and stylish tool to explore the night sky. With a few improvements, it could offer an even more enchanting starry-eyed experience. 🔗Versatile 50mm APO Astrograph Guide Scope with Finder Stalk and T-Threadshttps://preview.redd.it/fc0kvfo36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e126357ee449efb5feca98ad2c48188c5fb2fb1c I've been using the Sky-Watcher EvoGuide 50DX as my guide scope for a few weeks now, and let me tell you, it's been quite the journey. The first thing that struck me was the stunning contrast of the images it delivered. The ED glass really does its job in providing those deep, rich views of the stars. The finder stalk and V-style mounting rail made it a breeze to attach this little gem to my bracket. It was a smooth process and really made me feel like a pro astronomer. Although it's not a huge scope, its focal length of 242mm and f/4.8 aperture have proven to be a great match for my astrophotography. The built-in T-threads are also a bonus. With an optional adapter, I can easily transform it into a low-focal length astrograph. It's perfect for those times when I want to change up my observing style. However, there have been a few hiccups. Sometimes, the centering screws seem to play too loose, making it a bit of a challenge to get the telescope perfectly aligned with the mount. But overall, it's been a great addition to my stargazing setup. 🔗Portable 40x60 Monocular Telescope with Smartphone Holder and Tripodhttps://preview.redd.it/z4ev1ao36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4d93c8f234736d395a5c3c08421c4568d3b7570 As someone who's spent countless hours enjoying the great outdoors, I can confidently say that the Pankoo Monocular Telescope has become one of my go-to accessories. While hiking, I used it to observe the mesmerizing birdlife, and during a camping trip, I utilized its tripod to observe the night sky. The sharp, clear imagery that I saw through this telescope made every experience more unforgettable. However, there's one drawback – the product could have been easier to handle if it came with a carry handle. This 40x60 monocular is no stranger to diverse environments, making it suitable for every age as well as numerous outdoor activities. Climbing, hiking, driving, racing, traveling, sightseeing – this telescope is the perfect companion for them all! The added features, such as the smartphone holder and tripod, make it even more convenient to use on the go. The accompanying velvet bag, dust cover, and cleaning cloth ensure that your telescope stays pristine and ready for your next adventure. The user manual provided makes it easy to understand how to operate the telescope, completing the package. Overall, the Pankoo Monocular Telescope is a must-have for anyone eager to explore the world around them, but just remember to add a carry handle for optimal ease of use! 🔗Simmons Venture Black FMCWPTRIPODHARD/Soft Case Spotting Scopehttps://preview.redd.it/hf5ofsu36d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8e2eb9aae7a9fff6ebe9ddd3afb38bbba7e1e31 As a hunting enthusiast, I've used the Simmons 15-45x60 Venture Black FMCWPTripodHard/Soft Case spotting scope for several months, and it has proven to be a reliable option. The fully-multi coated optics deliver a bright image, even in low-light conditions, which is crucial when hunting at dawn and dusk. The scope's sturdy tabletop tripod with a built-in window mount ensures a stable viewing experience. One feature that stood out is the hard plastic case that safely stores the scope and tripod. The soft carrying case is a plus for easy transportation in the field. The lens has excellent clarity, making it great for identifying and tracking game at varying distances. However, I noticed that the eye relief can be uncomfortable when using higher magnification levels. Overall, the Simmons 15-45x60 Venture Black FMCWPTripodHard/Soft Case is a solid spotting scope option for hunters looking for affordability without sacrificing performance. The accessories make it a convenient and complete package for outdoor adventures. 🔗Klein Tools ET16 Borescope for Android Devices with Removable Carry Handle and 10-Foot Gooseneck Cablehttps://preview.redd.it/7rhlctg46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34d49bf9bcafdafdd9b2aedd2e6b9010688f4d2d I recently tried the Klein Tools ET16 Borescope for Android devices, and my experience was quite interesting. The product features a 10-foot (3m) armored gooseneck cable, which is a great addition for extended reach. However, I noticed that the camera seemed a bit tricky to operate with one hand while holding the phone in the other. One of the highlights of the product is its waterproof IP67 9 mm camera, which captures high-quality 640 x 480 pixel images and videos. I had no issues sharing these images and videos via text or email using the Klein Tools App available on Google Play store. While the borescope app is available on Google Play store, I found that some users experienced difficulties in connecting the device. I personally didn't face such an issue, but I noticed that the app didn't require any additional charging as it runs off the phone battery. Overall, my experience with the Klein Tools ET16 Borescope was mixed. On one hand, the product's features worked well and helped me capture images and videos effortlessly. However, the issue with the app not working for some users is a concern that the company needs to address. Despite the minor drawbacks, I still found the product to be useful for DIY enthusiasts and professionals alike. 🔗Ergonomic Black Mamba Top Handle for Enhanced Shooting Controlhttps://preview.redd.it/om51zkm46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e02f2eae3e59e163a1e5a577bb1760b5e28cbeac As a photography enthusiast, the SmallRig Black Mamba Top Handle quickly became my go-to accessory for capturing those perfect moments. The ergonomic design not only makes it a comfortable addition to my camera, but also enhances my shooting experience at any angle. The compact, lightweight construction of this top handle, made of aluminum alloy and silica gel, is a game changer for those of us who don't want to be weighed down during our shoots. One of the standout features of this handle is its sleek, Black Mamba-inspired shape, which not only exudes style, but also provides a smooth feel in my hands. However, I did notice that the top handle could use a few locking mechanisms to secure it more firmly on the device. Other than that, this top handle has become an essential part of my camera setup, truly elevating my photography experience. 🔗Lightweight Carbon Fiber Shovel Handle for Ultimate Digging Experiencehttps://preview.redd.it/zip0eqy46d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e53c57b6502ba1f72bce73192b64ef2abd16b8f2 I recently tried out this Carbon Fiber Travel Sand Scoop Shovel Handle Universal Lightweight Pole for Beach Metal Detecting Treasure Hunting Long Tube Rod and I must say, it was quite the handy tool. The carbon fiber material made it both robust and lightweight, which was a great combination for a tool that would be used for long periods of time. One of the standout features was the multi-functionality of the tool. It could be used for sand scooping, metal detecting and other activities, making it a great universal choice. The lightweight long pole provided a comfortable grip that was not easily slipped from my hand, ensuring a secure hold on the scoop. The scoop itself was quite handy, sifting out sand and dirt with ease, leaving just the metal object behind. Suitable for use on the beach, in water, or with a metal detector, this pole ensured optimal performance even when used for extended periods of time. Overall, I was quite impressed with the product and would definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys gardening and outdoor activities. 🔗Movcam Lens Carry Handle for Arri Alura Lenseshttps://preview.redd.it/qlo50ah56d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7e5e93feb2a8520b793ccf0f3d23552b9a43cd2 The Movcam Lens Carry Handle became an essential addition to my filmmaking kit. This ergonomic and robust handle perfectly complemented my Arri Alura 45-250mm lens, providing the perfect balance of comfort and stability. The handle easily attached to the lens, allowing for smooth and seamless transitions during shooting without the need for any additional tools or attachments. However, the Movcam Lens Carry Handle also had some minor drawbacks that needed to be addressed. First, the grip felt quite slick, making it difficult to achieve a secure hold when shooting in wet or slippery conditions. Second, the handle was not adjustable, making it challenging to accommodate different users or scenarios. These drawbacks did not significantly impact my overall satisfaction with the product, as I found the Movcam Lens Carry Handle to be a reliable and valuable companion during my film endeavors. 🔗Explore the Universe with Titan 70mm Telescope - Rotatable 360° and Smartphone Adapterhttps://preview.redd.it/db1b7no56d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f56d4c5b1ca1b13fa7d5c006cd14cc3434896d1 Exploring the cosmos just got easier with the Titan 70mm telescope. Its sleek design, portability, and ease of use make it a favorite for both beginners and experienced stargazers. With a 360mm focal length, this refractor offers two eyepieces for magnifications of 18x and 60x, enabling users to truly appreciate the beauty of the lunar terrain or deep sky wonders. One of the standout features of this telescope is the fully rotatable diagonal, which allows for the perfect viewing angle regardless of your position. And with the convenience of a full-length AZ panhandle mount, navigating the night sky is a breeze. Another highlight is the included smartphone adapter, which captures the wonders you see in the eyepiece and saves them for future exploration. And, for those who want to take their stargazing on the go, a travel case is provided, making this telescope a must-have for any space enthusiast. 🔗DJI RS Series Handheld Gimbal Briefcase Handle Reviewhttps://preview.redd.it/j65car166d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb090c96bbff9718a78de90e0aabcec5dcd88af3 Imagine a cinematographer armed with a sleek new tool — the DJI Briefcase Handle for RS Series. As someone who's tested it in real life, let me share my experience. Picture this: on a challenging set, this unassuming handle becomes your guardian angel, providing the extra stability and comfort you need for those low-angle shots. The first thing that stood out to me was the handle's design. It was lighter and smaller than I expected, making storage a breeze. The compatibility with the DJI RS series handheld gimbals is a breath of fresh air, and the lack of additional tools required for mounting is a huge plus. However, I did notice a small issue with the locking mechanism. If not tightened properly, it could potentially lead to an expensive drop. But this is a minor issue, and it's clear that the handle provides more stability and ease of use than I've experienced with other gimbals. It's become an essential part of my kit. Overall, the DJI Briefcase Handle for RS Series gets a solid 4.5 stars from me. It's an investment worth making for those seeking professional-quality, low-angle shots. 🔗UZI 5x20 Periscope: Adjustable Height, Durable and Weatherproof, with Detachable Handle and Carrying Casehttps://preview.redd.it/vbtzisi66d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f68460a5111d628f84e1ce5e10faaa699095dcf In my experience, the UZI 5x20 Periscope has been a handy tool for surveillance and exploration. Made of durable anodized aluminum housing, this periscope offers a sleek and weatherproof design. The glass lenses and prisms provided a sharp and clear view, allowing me to see in detail from a distance. One feature that stood out is the focusing eyepiece, which made it easy to adjust the focus based on the distance to the object I was observing. However, the lack of a detachable handle made it more difficult to hold and maneuver the periscope confidently when using it for extended periods. The height adjustment was a great addition, allowing me to see above and around obstacles for an improved view. The carrying case with a shoulder strap also made it convenient to transport and store the periscope when not in use. Overall, the UZI 5x20 Periscope has been a reliable tool for my daily needs, but its lack of a detachable handle and potential for some difficulty in assembling the scope properly were noticeable drawbacks. 🔗Compact NATO Top Handle for Select Sony Camerashttps://preview.redd.it/kugs2wv66d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71d78bb5ab171d5c52f7a26dfee5730d8935f3ab This Compact Nato Top Handle from Tilta has been a game-changer in my daily video shooting routine. It's a comfortable and ergonomic addition to my Sony a7 IV full camera cage, providing a secure attachment. The aluminum and stainless steel construction adds a sleek touch to my setup, and the black finish blends in perfectly. One of the highlights of this handle is its compatibility with select Tilta cages, making it a versatile accessory. The multiple 1/4"-20 and 3/8"-16 mounting points come in handy when attaching external accessories. Even the front cold shoe mounting point is a great feature. However, I couldn't help but notice an issue with the rear Arri mount holes. They appear to have the smaller, non-standard screw, making it incompatible with some accessories I wanted to use. Despite this minor setback, the overall experience with this handle has been positive. Its compact design suits small cameras well, and the Nato rails on the other side add an extra layer of stability. The aluminum and stainless steel construction not only adds ruggedness but also gives it a premium look. So, if you're looking for a comfortable handle with a minimalist design, this Tilta handle is worth considering. 🔗Portable Telescope Carry Handle for VC, VMC, and Refractor Modelshttps://preview.redd.it/zbwctfm76d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=066302ff63901428728eac97293d54c700f7228e As an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, I've been keeping a close eye out for accessories and tools that make handling my telescope smoother and more enjoyable. That's why when I stumbled upon the Vixen Optics Metal Carry Handle, I couldn't resist giving it a try. From the get-go, this little handle seemed like a practical and sturdy solution to make transporting my telescope much more manageable. The metal construction provided me with the reassurance of durability, not to mention it offered a perfect balance of weight distribution. However, it wasn't until closer inspection that I noticed a few essential details. For starters, the handle was designed solely for specific telescope models (VC, VMC, and refractor types), and it appeared that not every telescope would be compatible. Additionally, it came with only one screw, and the lack of a multi-tool was somewhat disappointing. Despite these minor quibbles, I found the Vixen Optics Metal Carry Handle to be a worthwhile investment. It has greatly streamlined my stargazing experience, giving me peace of mind as I transport my telescope to different locations with ease. Buyer's Guidehttps://preview.redd.it/omrinrg96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dbb0727523820de16b9d31a3c3aaea2991d8ce4 When it comes to scope selection, a carry handle scope is a versatile and practical choice for many shooters. Whether you're an avid hunter, target shooter, or competitive marksman, a carry handle scope can provide you with a reliable and accurate sighting system. In this buyer's guide, we'll discuss the features and considerations that are important when selecting a carry handle scope. We'll also provide some general advice to help you make an informed decision when choosing the right scope for your needs. Featureshttps://preview.redd.it/va64q2l96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60454f9b896fde2586b173e8e1723a59ac1a9bc5 Carry Handle DesignA carry handle scope should have a strong and durable carry handle that allows for easy and comfortable carrying of your firearm. Look for a handle that is ergonomically designed and made from a material that provides a good grip, such as rubber or polymer. The scope should also have a solid mount that securely attaches the scope to your firearm, ensuring a stable and aligned sight picture.Lens Qualityhttps://preview.redd.it/raeaumy96d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f352a4b5b4b3f5e62030ff53a2a3a2f14781994 The quality of the lenses in a carry handle scope is essential for accurate and clear sighting. Look for a scope with high-quality lenses made from low-dispersion glass, which reduces chromatic aberration and provides a crisp and clear image. The lenses should also be fully multi-coated to minimize glare and improve light transmission. This will result in a brighter, clearer, and sharper image, even in low-light conditions. Magnification and Objective Lens SizeThe magnification and objective lens size of a carry handle scope are important factors to consider. The magnification determines how much the image is magnified, while the objective lens size affects the amount of light that enters the scope. A scope with a larger objective lens will typically provide a brighter image, while higher magnification allows you to see targets at greater distances. Choose a scope with the appropriate magnification and objective lens size based on your shooting needs and environment. https://preview.redd.it/u4haf5ma6d1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bed87eef69027bbe9aee804c903f7fe195cd408 ConsiderationsBudgetAs with any purchase, budget is an important consideration when shopping for a carry handle scope. Higher-end scopes will typically offer better optics, more advanced features, and a more robust construction. However, there are also many quality scopes available within a lower price range. Consider your budget and the priorities for your shooting needs when selecting a carry handle scope.Purpose and EnvironmentThe purpose and environment in which you will be using your carry handle scope are also important factors to consider. Hunters may require a scope with a greater magnification range and more advanced features for precise shot placement, while target shooters and competitive marksmen may prioritize clarity and accuracy at a fixed range. The environmental conditions you will be shooting in, such as light levels and weather, should also be taken into account when selecting a carry handle scope.AdviceWhen looking for a carry handle scope, it's essential to read reviews and do your research. Talk to other shooters, consult with a professional at your local shooting or outdoor store, and read online forums and reviews to get an idea of what to expect from different scopes. Be sure to properly test the scope in your environment before making a final decision, and always follow proper scope mounting and care procedures to ensure the best performance and longevity.As with any purchase, be sure to choose a carry handle scope from a reputable manufacturer or retailer. This will help ensure that you are getting a quality product with reliable performance. Lastly, don't forget to factor in the cost of additional accessories, such as scope covers, sunshades, and mounts, which may be necessary for optimal performance and protection of your scope. FAQ**### What is a Carry Handle Scope?**A Carry Handle Scope is a type of rifle scope that is designed for hunting and long-range shooting. It combines a rugged construction with multiple reticle options to enhance accuracy and versatility. The carry handle scope is easily mounted above the rifle's action and is typically used in situations that require quick target acquisition.**### What are some popular brands for Carry Handle Scopes?**Popular brands for Carry Handle Scopes include Leupold, Vortex Optics, Bushnell, and Primary Arms. These brands offer a range of styles, magnification options, and reticles to cater to various shooting needs. **### What types of reticles are available on Carry Handle Scopes?**There are several types of reticles available on Carry Handle Scopes, including the BDC (Bullet Drop Compensator), Mil-Dot, and Illuminated reticles. BDC reticles display graduations that can be used to calculate bullet drop at different distances, while Mil-Dot reticles offer adjustments for both elevation and windage in terms of milliradians. Illuminated reticles allow for improved visibility in low-light conditions. ### What are the advantages of using a Carry Handle Scope verses other types of scopes?* Carry Handle Scopes are lightweight and compact, making them an ideal choice for those who prioritize mobility.
### How do I choose the right Carry Handle Scope for my needs?* Consider the type of shooting you'll be doing and select a scope with a suitable reticle and magnification range.
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2024.05.19 12:51 Kaiser_147 Vanguard caused me to lose my photos from my last vacation
Hi, so on Wednesday, with the new patch, I was doing a couple of things on my PC. One was making a video in Filmora with footage from my family vacation (it has taken me a couple of months to make the video, and it is very edited and extensive), and the other was that I wanted to play a game of TFT. The thing is that once the client updated, I logged in, and at the moment of entering the launcher, my antivirus gave me a notification about a conflict with Vanguard. Because of that, the client froze, and I closed it. I logged in again, and it started without problems. Shortly after, I noticed that my photos and videos in Filmora were gone. I checked the USB, and it was corrupted. That means that due to this, the USB got corrupted, causing me to lose all the photos and videos from my family vacation in the summer of 2023 (which were the best we ever had)
This is in my request sent to Riot Games
Dear Riot Games Support Team,
I am writing to express my deep concern and disappointment regarding a recent incident involving your program Riot Vanguard, which has negatively impacted my user experience and caused the loss of highly valuable personal data for me and my family. My name is ---------, and I am a loyal player of League of Legends registered with the username ----- and the email address ----------. Recently, while editing content from my family vacation in September 2023, which was undoubtedly the best we have ever had, I experienced a failure on my PC due to Riot Vanguard while logging in to play League of Legends. Unfortunately, this failure in the Riot Vanguard program caused some type of conflict with my PC, and as a result, my USB that was connected at that moment became corrupted. This USB contained all the photos and videos of our family vacation, which represent invaluable memories for my family and me. The loss of these data has been devastating and has had a significant emotional impact on all of us. I understand that technical problems can occur, but the loss of such important personal data is an extremely unfortunate and regrettable situation. As a loyal and valued user of Riot Games services for almost a decade, I trust that you will take the necessary steps to address this problem appropriately and provide an adequate solution or compensation. I am willing to cooperate by providing any additional information that may be necessary to resolve this problem satisfactorily. Please, I urge you to give due importance to my case and provide a response as soon as possible. I sincerely appreciate your attention and hope to receive a positive response from you.
Sincerely
And after 4 days, they have given me two very ambiguous responses with very little professionalism, in my opinion, for something so important.
"Vanguard is not capable of generating this type of interaction with any other application or antivirus that may have led to this type of failure with the USB connected to the computer. That's why we cannot help you recover this information.
I hope you have a good day, and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to write to us."
In both instances, they tell me the same thing when the same people from Riot have published dozens of Vanguard errors, even blocking hardware, and they tell me something like this... I'm seriously upset not only about losing something as valuable to me as to my family but also about how long they took and how little effort they made to provide support
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This is in my request sent to Riot Games
Dear Riot Games Support Team,
I am writing to express my deep concern and disappointment regarding a recent incident involving your program Riot Vanguard, which has negatively impacted my user experience and caused the loss of highly valuable personal data for me and my family. My name is ---------, and I am a loyal player of League of Legends registered with the username ----- and the email address ----------. Recently, while editing content from my family vacation in September 2023, which was undoubtedly the best we have ever had, I experienced a failure on my PC due to Riot Vanguard while logging in to play League of Legends. Unfortunately, this failure in the Riot Vanguard program caused some type of conflict with my PC, and as a result, my USB that was connected at that moment became corrupted. This USB contained all the photos and videos of our family vacation, which represent invaluable memories for my family and me. The loss of these data has been devastating and has had a significant emotional impact on all of us. I understand that technical problems can occur, but the loss of such important personal data is an extremely unfortunate and regrettable situation. As a loyal and valued user of Riot Games services for almost a decade, I trust that you will take the necessary steps to address this problem appropriately and provide an adequate solution or compensation. I am willing to cooperate by providing any additional information that may be necessary to resolve this problem satisfactorily. Please, I urge you to give due importance to my case and provide a response as soon as possible. I sincerely appreciate your attention and hope to receive a positive response from you.
Sincerely
And after 4 days, they have given me two very ambiguous responses with very little professionalism, in my opinion, for something so important.
"Vanguard is not capable of generating this type of interaction with any other application or antivirus that may have led to this type of failure with the USB connected to the computer. That's why we cannot help you recover this information.
I hope you have a good day, and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to write to us."
In both instances, they tell me the same thing when the same people from Riot have published dozens of Vanguard errors, even blocking hardware, and they tell me something like this... I'm seriously upset not only about losing something as valuable to me as to my family but also about how long they took and how little effort they made to provide support
2024.05.19 12:38 renhur Problem with the Gmail login in Apple Safari
My desktops and laptops are running macOS Sonoma 14.4.1. Whenever I sign in to Gmail via Safari on any computer, Safari suggests two accounts/email addresses - my own and another that doesn't belong to me and that I'd like to remove. Does anyone know how to do this?
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2024.05.19 12:17 s13sarah Second Shooting - Payment not received from photographer
 | So, I’ve been hired on as a second shooter by a photographer. She had me come out to a couples engagement session to meet them. She had promised bonus pay for making the trip out for my commute and my time. The location was 1 hr one way from my house, 2 hours round trip. In her email she mentioned I did not have to take photos, although I took a few. submitted by s13sarah to PhotographyAdvice [link] [comments] It has been 4 weeks now, I have not received my “bonus” pay for my commute and my time. I sent her an email reminding her that I never received payment on May 3rd. I attached a picture of her response. The wedding is in August to second shoot. What would you do in this situation? Call it a loss? Email her once again? |
2024.05.19 12:12 Icy_Rate445 EE are useless
im putting this in this reddit bc theres nowhere else that relates. so i ordered an iphone 15 pro on contract with EE. got an email confirming it with a £30 upfront thing and asking me to call them. i called them and the woman on the phone basically just did a credit check which was fine and told me the phone would be delivered to a shop in a town away from me, and they took another £30 saying the original £30 would be refunded (my car is broken down atm so i had to pay about £10 for a bus there and back as well) and i paid for weekend delivery as well. i get to the town only to find out the shop that the phone is being sent to has been shut down for years?? like wtf. so i call EE and explain the situation, and the guy on the phone eventually says itll be delivered to my home address the next day. well its the next day today, i call EE again and they say it isnt even being delivered tomorrow like the guy said. so now i have to wait for it to be cancelled and sent back so i can purchase it AGAIN. i dont think ive met such a useless company. i was originally gonna go with tesco mobile but when i tried to order it just flat out didnt work. why do these companies just not work??
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2024.05.19 12:04 True-Trick-345 Insurance claim I gave up on showing on insurance policy
Hi all,
I was checking my insurance policy on line today and saw a claim for £3000 from June 2021... I made a claim in summer 2021 but never got any money for it. Is it normal for the insurer to put a value on a claim they didn't pay out and put it on my record?
The claim (if anyone is interested): I flooded my house during the cooling off period for my insurance policy being taken out. I left the bathroom tap on and went to work for 12 hours (I have ADHD). I called the insurer the next morning and spoke to a guy who was working from home who told me to get a quote from a builder and call back. It took like 4-6 weeks to get that quote because it was COVID and everyone was either busy or isolating. When I called back they had no record of my original call. They asked me to send in all the documents and wait a few weeks to process, then they moved it to another department. That department asked me to send everything again and wait a few weeks for processing. They did this a few times with each department asking for the same documents to be sent again. During this time my kitchen, lounge and bathroom were a mess but they told me I couldn't start work to get it fixed or they wouldn't cover it. After several months they came right out and told me they thought it was a false claim, their reasons being :
I realised they weren't going to pay out and I was sick of living in a building site so I got it sorted myself. It was the underwriter Southern Rock whom I had this running with.
I am just wondering why it says I claimed for £3000 because my builders estimate was less than half that.
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I was checking my insurance policy on line today and saw a claim for £3000 from June 2021... I made a claim in summer 2021 but never got any money for it. Is it normal for the insurer to put a value on a claim they didn't pay out and put it on my record?
The claim (if anyone is interested): I flooded my house during the cooling off period for my insurance policy being taken out. I left the bathroom tap on and went to work for 12 hours (I have ADHD). I called the insurer the next morning and spoke to a guy who was working from home who told me to get a quote from a builder and call back. It took like 4-6 weeks to get that quote because it was COVID and everyone was either busy or isolating. When I called back they had no record of my original call. They asked me to send in all the documents and wait a few weeks to process, then they moved it to another department. That department asked me to send everything again and wait a few weeks for processing. They did this a few times with each department asking for the same documents to be sent again. During this time my kitchen, lounge and bathroom were a mess but they told me I couldn't start work to get it fixed or they wouldn't cover it. After several months they came right out and told me they thought it was a false claim, their reasons being :
- They didn't believe I had made the first call to their service and I didn't post pictures of the damage on social media. This was evidence to them that I had flooded the house then taken out the insurance policy.
- I only had contents insurance which was evidence that I had only taken out one policy that I intended to claim on (I had both home and contents, both with them, but I hadn't claimed on the contents because I had a £500 excess and don't think my stuff was worth that, so they assumed I didn't have it)
- They said that I had changed my story. This whole transferring departments and asking for the documents to be sent again was their investigation against me, and they said I had sent in different information. I knew this wasn't true because I had literally forwarded the same email each time.
- They said I had changed the date it happened. They said I had told them one date on the phone then showed them photos dated a week earlier. I had actually told them on the phone that I didn't remember the date but it had been during the cooling off period of the policy, so the lady I was speaking to put the last day of the policy. The photos I had were from the week before (half way through the policy).
I realised they weren't going to pay out and I was sick of living in a building site so I got it sorted myself. It was the underwriter Southern Rock whom I had this running with.
I am just wondering why it says I claimed for £3000 because my builders estimate was less than half that.
2024.05.19 12:04 Ill-Floor5574 Question for corporate retail buyers
I’m in sales at a manufacturing company which sells to most major retailers in the US.
I’ve been thinking about how you buyers always have someone trying to sell you something, different archetypes of personalities, ideals, etc.
Constantly feeling like your just being appeased because your a buyer. Thus a constant wariness and guard.
As a young guy in sales who’s been in the game for about 4 years, can you please let me know some things that can help me communicate with buyers in a more sincere way and not have them feel like I’m trying to gain?
I guess it’s kind of when you’re being sold to all the time, you become wizards at deciphering phonies, disingenuous behavior, etc. so any telltale signs of that, and what I could hypothetically do which will make you feel comfortable with me?
P.S I don’t get anywhere with LinkedIn, company portals, and rangeme so I get emails using a software and email directly. What is your opinion on that? Invasive? Any other ways which would be better?
Thanks!
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I’ve been thinking about how you buyers always have someone trying to sell you something, different archetypes of personalities, ideals, etc.
Constantly feeling like your just being appeased because your a buyer. Thus a constant wariness and guard.
As a young guy in sales who’s been in the game for about 4 years, can you please let me know some things that can help me communicate with buyers in a more sincere way and not have them feel like I’m trying to gain?
I guess it’s kind of when you’re being sold to all the time, you become wizards at deciphering phonies, disingenuous behavior, etc. so any telltale signs of that, and what I could hypothetically do which will make you feel comfortable with me?
P.S I don’t get anywhere with LinkedIn, company portals, and rangeme so I get emails using a software and email directly. What is your opinion on that? Invasive? Any other ways which would be better?
Thanks!