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2024.05.19 14:44 RainInMyBr4in The murder of Raonaid Murray

Raonaid Murray was a 17 year old Irish teenager who was violently murdered on the morning of September 4th 1999. Despite extensive investigation and appeals, her murder has never been solved and the murder weapon has never been found.
Raonaid Murray was born on January 6 1982 to parents Jim and Deirdre Murray. She also had two older siblings, a sister, Sarah and a brother, Daniel. She had attended St Joseph of Cluny secondary school in Killiney where she was a high achiever. She completed her leaving certification exams in 1999. After she had completed school, she went on to work part time in a fashion boutique in the town of Dún Laoghaire in Dublin. However, she intended to re-sit her leaving certification at the Institute of Education and hoped she would be able to attend the arts faculty in University College Dublin after completion. Her family stated that she liked reading and poetry and had expressed hopes that she might one day be a successful writer. Her friends fondly remembered her for always wearing bright colours, her optimistic attitude and her commitment to an active social life.
On the evening of September 3rd, Raonaid spent time socialising in Scott's pub in the town of Dún Laoghaire. She had finished her shift at the boutique at around 9:40pm and was excited to socialise. CCTV footage shows her leaving the shopping centre carrying a bag and walking with a friend. However, this would be the last time that she would be seen alive. At around 11:20pm, Raonaid left the pub so she could go home and change as she had purchased a new outfit that day and wanted to wear it out. She had planned to meet her friends again at the paparazzi nightclub in town. The walk home should only have taken her 15-20 minutes but she never made it. Approximately 20 minutes after she left the pub, an eyewitness claimed they saw her arguing with a young man on the Glenageary upper road. She then crossed over to Silchester Road and entered the laneway that would take her to her home in Silchester Park. Almost immediately after this, a female voice was heard from the alley saying something like "Leave me alone" or "Get away" followed by "Fuck off". A loud woman's scream was then heard, followed by silence. One of Raonaid's friends, concerned as to how long she was taking, called her house phone but when her father Jim answered, the friend quicky hung up.
Early on the morning of September 4th, at around 12:30am, Raonaid's sister and her friends found her body lying in the alleyway, 500 yards from her front door. She was still clutching her shopping bag that contained her new outfit. A Garda investigation would later reveal that she had been stabbed 30 times although many of the stab wounds hadn't managed to pierce her clothing. She had also managed to stagger 200 yards from where she was attacked to where she was found, this was determined by the blood trail. Gardaí strongly suspected that the perpetrator was someone she knew based on the extremely frenzied nature of the attack which could suggest a personal grudge. Raonaid had a deep wound to her chest, abdomen, right arm and a fatal wound to her left armpit. In addition, she had not been sexually assaulted and nothing had been stolen.
A large scale investigation was launched and over 100 Gardaí were assigned to the case but despite extensive interviews and searches, no motive was uncovered and the murder weapon was never found. Garda believe the blade used was probably a kitchen knife which further supported the theory that this was a crime of passion. By 2008, 8000 people had been interviewed, 3000 statements had been taken and 12 arrests were made. Despite this, no primary suspect has ever been identified and the investigation has effectively gone cold. A few months after her death, her gravestone was desecrated by an unknown individual/individuals which Garda believe could be people involved in her murder. A more recent review of the original investigation showed that Gardaí had botched the case from the start as they seemed to be waiting for a killer to simply present themselves. When this didn't happen, they ignored important clues, misinterpreted evidence, failed to carry out proper searches, and ignored their own procedures. According to one of the officers who reviewed the case, "It was nothing short of a shambles. They were convinced someone would present themselves or some family would contact them to say someone came home covered in blood. When this didn’t happen, the investigation just went nowhere".
In 2010, with the advancement of forensic technology, DNA was successfully removed from under Raonaid's nails. Curiously, when tested, it showed that the material belonged to a woman and it was confirmed that it did not belong to anyone known to her. This knowledge changed the line of thinking considerably as prior to this, the Garda had been adamantly searching for a male. It was theorised that if the attacker was a woman, it would explain why many of the stab wounds were weak and didn't pierce her clothing. In addition, a young woman was allegedly seen walking quickly away from the area shortly after the murder. Despite this renewed line of thinking, the investigation has remained cold with no new leads.
It's been 24 years since Raonaid was murdered in cold blood and nobody has been charged for this heinous crime and her family have still received no justice. Despite the offer of a €190,000 reward, the family and Garda have been met with silence. The investigation continues and renewed appeals for information have been made but to date, the case remains unsolved.
Sources: https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0903/813922-raonaid-murray/
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/herald/female-dna-found-under-raonaids-nails/27938356.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe-travel/ireland/the-mystery-of-south-dublin-schoolgirl-raonaid-murrays-unsolved-murder-9fpdwznbq
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Raonaid_Murray#:~:text=Raonaid%20Murray%20(6%20January%201982,this%20murder%20case%20remains%20unsolved.
https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/raonaid-murray
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2024.05.19 13:30 EmbarrassedRow2044 Pls help my dumba$$ to get into Linux :/

Why I'm switching to Linux :- my brother dropped my laptop nd I've to watch lectures so i tookout my 7y/o laptop but itsss so laggy now for some reason nd i heard that Linux is pretty light so i thought switching to Linux is the better option (btw even the video player lags :/ idk why)
Why am I posting this? :- I don't know which Linux version should I install cz there r soo many nd I'm a medical student,I don't even know how to code hello world so i just want a light system where I double click nd things open not to like code or open wiki to do things (also there weren't many good results on Google)
System specs :- Intel i5 6200u,8gb ram,some random 2gb Ram amd gpu
My basic needs :- any browser (for lectures nd YouTube), Spotify (or any music streaming service) , telegram ( to talk to some friends) nd fl studio {or any other DAW}(optional)
Thanks ^⁠_⁠^
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2024.05.19 08:21 idlechat [2024 Read-Along] Week 20, The Silmarillion - Quenta Silmarillion - Of Maeglin (Chapter 16)

[Eöl] shunned the Noldor, holding them to blame for the return to Morgoth, to trouble the quiet of Beleriand; but for the Dwarves he had more liking than any other of the Elvenfolk of old.
Welcome one and all again to the 2024 Read-Along and Discussion of The Silmarillion here on tolkienfans. For Week 20 (May 12-May 18), we will be exploring The Quenta Silmarillion (The History of the Silmarils) chapter 16, "Of Maeglin."

Aredhel, the daughter of Fingolfin, resided awhile in Nevrast with her brother Turgon, but later went with her people to dwell in the hidden city of Gondolin. However, she soon wearied of her hidden life in Gondolin and was permitted to set out purportedly to visit with Fingon in Hithlum with three lords of the household of Turgon. Upon reaching the Ford of Brithiach, she commanded her companions to instead turn south in the hope of passing through Doriath to eventually find the Sons of Fëanor, "her friends of old".
Upon arriving at the borders of Doriath, they were refused entry by King Thingol. And so Aredhel and her companions instead sought the dangerous route between the haunted valley of Ered Gorgoroth and the northern edge of Doriath. This passed through the land of Nan Dungortheb, where Aredhel was separated from her companions. They searched but could not find her, and barely escaping death themselves returned to Gondolin to share their tale, and there was great sorrow at the assumed fate of Aredhel.
But Aredhel, having lost her companions, continued on and eventually arrived in Himlad, where she was welcomed by the people of Celegorm and waited for his return. There for a while she was satisfied, but as the year lengthened, she took to riding further afield, seeking new and unknown paths and fields. By chance, she crossed into the forest of Nan Elmoth, where dwelt Eöl, who was named the Dark Elf. In earlier days, he was of the kin of Thingol, but he had left Doriath and fled to the shadows of Nan Elmoth. He loved not the Noldor, but learned from the Dwarves much skill of metalwork, and was often a guest to the halls of Nogrod and Belegost. He espied Aredhel from afar and desired her, and ensnared her in enchantments so she could not find the way out, but instead came deeper into Nan Elmoth. Being weary, she finally came to the halls of Eöl, and he welcomed her, and took her for his wife, and it was a long time before any of her kin heard rumour of her again.
Though at Eöl's command she was required to shun sunlight, it is not said that she was completely unwilling to their union, and in the darkness of Nan Elmoth was born their son, who, in her heart, she named Lómion, which means "Child of the Twilight" in Quenya. But Eöl gave him no name until he was twelve years old, at which time he named him Maeglin, that is "Sharp Glance".
As Maeglin grew to full maturity, he resembled, in face and form, one of the Noldor. But speaking few words, except in matters important to him, he resembled his father in mood and spirit. Often he went with Eöl to the cities of the Dwarves, and learned much from them, especially the craft of finding ores and metals in the mountains. Yet he loved his mother more and would often listen to her tales regarding the Noldor, and the valour of the House of Fingolfin, while Eöl was abroad.
In speaking of her kin to Maeglin, Aredhel desired to see them again, and these tales stirred also in Maeglin the desire to see the Noldor. But upon revealing his inner wishes to Eöl, his father became infuriated, and threatened to bind his son if he would associate with the Noldor. Maeglin became cold and silent, and no longer went abroad with Eöl, and Eöl mistrusted him. One midsummer, Eöl went away to a feast in Nogrod. During this time, the desire grew hot in the heart of Maeglin to leave Nan Elmoth and look upon his mother's people and to seek the city of Gondolin. Seeing this, Aredhel was glad and they departed, telling Eöl's servants they sought the sons of Fëanor.
However, Eöl returned earlier than anticipated and found his wife and son two days gone. He set out immediately in wrathful pursuit. On entering Himlad, Eöl was ambushed by the riders of Curufin, and was taken to their lord. Curufin mockingly asked Eöl what urgent matter brought him to his land, and Eöl told him that he wanted to join his wife and son on their visit to him. Upon learning from Curufin that they turned westward, travelling along the northern fence of Doriath, Eöl asked leave to discover their purpose. Curufin instead coldly bid him go back to Nan Elmoth.
Thus Eöl rode off in haste, full of shame and anger. He perceived that Aredhel and Maeglin were heading towards Gondolin and rode after them. As the two arrived at the Outer Gate of Gondolin, they were received joyfully and passed inside the Hidden Kingdom, where Turgon listened with wonder to the story of his sister, and gave Maeglin the highest honour in his realm. Eöl watched them from afar and followed them to the city, but was taken in by the Guard, and was brought before Turgon after claiming to be husband and father to Aredhel and Maeglin. Aredhel confirmed this and Turgon welcomed Eöl as his kinsman, giving him leave to stay in Gondolin. But Eöl insulted the King, and bid Maeglin to "leave the House of the slayers of his kin, or be accursed". Maeglin did not answer.
Turgon then set a choice before Eöl and Maeglin of either abiding in Gondolin, or dying in Gondolin. Eöl stood a long time in silence, before he abruptly took a spear from under his cloak and threw it at Maeglin, crying "the second choice I take, and for my son also! You shall not hold what is mine!" But Aredhel came between the spear and Maeglin, and was struck. Eöl was restrained, set in bonds and led away. However the tip of the spear was poisoned, and Aredhel died in the night. Eöl was brought before Turgon and no mercy was shown to him; he was led to the Caragdûr, a precipice upon the northern side of the city, to be cast down. Maeglin stood by in silence, and Eöl cried out "so you forsake your father and his kin, ill-gotten son! Here shall you fail of all your hopes and here may you yet die the same death as I". And he was cast over the cliff-edge. Thus ended Eöl, Dark Elf, of the shadows of Nan Elmoth.
Maeglin grew great in stature in Gondolin, and was high in the favour of Turgon. He rose to be mighty amongst the Princes of the Noldor, and was the greatest other than Turgon in the realm of Gondolin. And yet not all things went as he would have liked, though he did not reveal his heart. For from his first days in Gondolin, he loved Idril Celebrindal, his first cousin, and desired her, but without hope. For the Eldar did not wed with kin so close, and further, Idril loved him not at all. Maeglin's love turned to darkness, and he sought more to have his will in all matters, no matter the cost to him, if it might grant him more power.
And so it came to be that in Gondolin, at the height of all its bliss, majesty, and beauty, a dark seed of evil was sown in the heart of Maeglin.[1]
Of Maeglin at The Lord of the Rings Wiki: This chapter introduces Maeglin, and his father Eöl, and tells the history of Maeglin's life from his birth to his becoming a citizen of Gondolin. Also in this chapter is the death of Eöl.
Chapter discussion at Entmoot TolkienTrail.
Chapter discussion at The Barrow-Downs.
Questions for the week:
  1. Eöl is described as grim -- "his eyes could see deep into shadows and dark places." Does this just mean his eyes have adjusted to life in the dark, or is there also a hint of his being able to see beyond what is there, in a "foresight" or "farsighted" kind of way?
  2. Maeglin and Eöl argue because Eöl won't let him see his mother's kin which causes a major rift between the two. Why did Eöl object?
  3. What is significant of Maeglin's given name of Lomion, i.e. "Child of the Twilight" by his mother, Aredhel, but at age 12, Eöl named him Maeglin, i.e. "Sharp Glance".
  4. Why did Eöl have more liking for the Dwarves "than any other of the Elvenfolk of old."?
For drafts and history of this chapter see The War of the Jewels, "Part Three: The Wanderings of Húrin and other Writings not forming part of The Quenta Silmarillion", Chapter III, "Maeglin)", pp. 316-339.
For further history and analysis of this chapter, see Arda Reconstructed (by Douglas Charles Kane), p. 155.
Be sure to have your copy of The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad on hand as you go through this chapter.
Some Tolkien-related hangouts on YouTube (relevant to this week):
The Silmarillion Reader's Guide at Tea With Tolkien.
The Silmarillion Reader's Guide by askmiddlearth on Tumblr.
Quettaparma Quenyallo (QQ) - The most extensive list of Quenya words available on the internet, by Helge Fauskanger, 1999-2013.
Tolkien Collector's Guide - Guide to Tolkien's Letters
A (Hopefully) Light Guide to the Silmarillion — Or What I Wish I’d Known Before Reading It by u/Ok_Bullfrog_8491/
The Definitive Family Tree of the Tolkien Legendarium by u/PotterGandalf117
Wikipedia - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Announcement and Index: (Take 2) 2024 The Silmarillion and The Fall of Gondolin Read-Along
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2024.05.19 08:08 Iam-scared-of-myself Venting about people, systems, racism, the world in general. NO HATE TOWARDS ANYONE, THIS IS JUST VENTING FRUSTRATION

*CONTAINS SWEARING*
This is gonna be a hefty and most likely triggering post for specific groups of people out there (meaning people who struggle with anger, people who don't want poltical content/opinions etc), so please stop reading and leave if you figure this is gonna be rough for you. This will (mainly) be about the conflict between Palestine and Israel. (and apparently a long one) No hate towards any specific groups of people, but I do have a lot of *frustration regarding behaviours*.
Before I start, I want you to remember some facts about me as you read;
I am autistic
I am heavily influenced by world peace, hate, racism and other unfair situations
I have incredibly high standards for myself that I strive to not break, including, but not limited to, being kind and respectful *always*, despite being in a bad mood, not liking someone, or disagreeing, especially political disagreements
I have always, and will always, stand against widespread hate, racism and other discrimination towards any specific religions, ethnicities, nationalities, cultures, etc.
I also want you to know that I named this throwaway accordingly.
So let's get this shitshow started then, shall we.
As the details of the conflict stands, it is beyond obvious to me that this is racism and, literally, a Holocaust. Not *the* Holocaust, but *a* Holocaust. Oxford Languages has the term defined as a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war . I'd say that's very much accurate. Proof to come.
Regardless, this situation has had me very pressed the last almost 8 months, as I know most other people have been too. Without getting too much into the conflict itself, I want to talk a little about what I've seen from the Jewish community.
This is where I advise anyone who struggles with anger especially to leave and try to keep your day positive. If you have a magical potion to stay stable after this, who am I to stop you...
Alright, onto the dreaded part. And yes, I am stalling.
I have never, and I truly mean *never* had any hateful thoughts or opinions about religions (other than Christianity but that's one for another time), and as we are all aware of, The Holocaust had massive effect on the world some 80 years ago. I have always seen Jews as victims due to this, but in recent times I've realised that a lot of them, too, see themselves as victims. The issue is that they aren't the victims right now. They (Israel) aren't defending themselves, they have nothing to defend themselves against. Israel is currently doing the exact same thing as Germany did to them, to Palestine. Sure, maybe at some point who knows when, Palestine *was* the land of Jews, but since then, multiple religions have been thriving together on that land, including Jews. They were never excluded. From what I've understood, there weren't any wars or conflicts going on within the country that didn't happen elsewhere. The issue began when in the late 1940's zionists brutally murdered families to steal their homes. I'm sure the situation was so much more complex than that, but in a nutshell that is basically it. The fact that everyone today have been so desensitized from the travesties happening around the world is depressing and hope-killing. I truly am well on the way to giving up, and at this point in time I'm so angry all the time due to the Middle East's situation.
So a few weeks ago, probably closing in on months at this point, I randomly got a notification from reddit about someone posting on /Jewish. They didn't say anything explicit, so I pressed the notification and I was met with the worst victimization and ignorance I've ever seen. I truly believed most jews would see this for what it is, and not let some racist maniac spoon-feed them propaganda and hate, but I was brutally and humbly proven wrong. They were mocking proPAL parades, hating on news anchors and civilians alike calling this a genocide, insisting that Israel has no other choice, saying "casualties happens in war", convincing each other that zionism is a good thing, and feeling sorry for themselves when friends and families cut contact because they said they supported Israel and saw this as the only solution. Some might have been genuine problems, idk, but for the most part, that subreddit seems to only be about hating the rest of the world because their great grandparents were killed. I know I sound like a complete asshole, but the world isn't antisemetic anymore - they are actively looking for it and then using that one person telling them to stop feeling so sorry for themselves as proof that everybody in the world wants to throw them back in gas chambers.
I commented on my personal once where I mentioned that judaism and zionism are two separate things and got downvoted to oblivion. Someone replied saying that my comment was very much exactly what they too feel, but I got downvoted *simply because* I referred to them as separate entities. That is another criticism they've recieved lately; the pure idea of zionism is on the complete opposite side from what Judaism stands for. I've seen so many of the members there calling Jews protesting against Israel "self-hating" and traitors.
I've also made so many replies that I never sent because I know for a fact they would do anything in their power to ban me from ever using reddit again, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got doxxed and harrassed IRL from it. I saved them all, though. I found that it was kind of therapeutic to get it out, but it still bugs me that I never found a way to say it to them. I once also made a post about my rage for their behaviour connected to this genocide, but I thankfully stopped myself before I posted it. I'm so enraged by their sheer ignorance and hypocritical behaviour, all the while Gaza is still being eradicated and slaughtered, war crimes happening day in-day out, inhumane atrocities by the IOF being posted and hailed, and they have the audacity to say that they are the victims? That Israel has no other choice but martyring tens of thousands of CHILDREN? Starving the entire Gaza Strip, segregating West Bank, literally teaching their young in school to hate and attack arabs? That last one might not be true as I don't speak Hebrew or Arabic, so anyone could've just made up the translation, but I still feel it's worth mentioning in case it actually *is* real.
My point is that the guts they have to claim to be so moral, yet still be so unfaced from what's happening in Gaza is beside me. Sure, for those living near the Gaza wall, I'm positive that hearing bombs and screams were traumatizing as fuck, but to then leave for work the next day and claim that "shit happens"? It's insane! It's inhumane. They can leave whenever they like, children can play football (soccer) in the streets and not having to worry about shit, hotels and restaurants with 5-star ratings thriving, plants and flowers still blooming, absolutely no threats on a daily basis. The fact that people are still calling this a war, something necessary, is beyond devastating to me. There are millions still siding with zionism, claiming there's nothing wrong with the belief that you have an innate right to some dirt simply because your holy book says that thousands of years ago, your religion lived there, and simply because of that religious fact you are rightfully owed thousands of young lives, the death of an entire country with its own culture, just to feed the irrational religious political system? How in God's name has that ever, *IS* that still okay? If Muslims were the ones saying that shit, they would've been completely destroyed by now, today's generation wouldn't know what the fuck Islam was. They are still being slaughtered though, because they're saying it's *not* okay. How is that not racist again?
My brother and I got into a heated argument a few days ago about this. I am very much *for* Palestine to have human rights and to own their own land - he is very much *against* "ugly blackies" having any rights because they're *not* human. Boi when I tell you I got so angry I started crying. And the worst part about that fight? He claims that Jews aren't any better, however they still deserve to defend themselves against children running on the beach. "But Hamas-" is so over-used and outdated by now, it just proves that he doesn't follow up on statistics and evidence. Even if there only were one-sided news (from Gaza), the fact that the ICJ ruled Israel's actions a genocide and war crimes still proves everything he claims to be "n*****'s propaganda". And the fact that he so underminds my autism and *need* for factual evidence before discussing it also goes to show that he genuinely does not care about anything other than the black "terrorists" being eradicated. I said "So you're not just a racist, you're just plain racist?" he just scoffed and looked at me as if I just said the most nonsensical bullshit gibberish ever, practically saying "I'm not gonna say anything, but it really took you that long to realise?" Either that, or he actually didn't comprehend the words coming out of my mouth, like it was a foreign language or something. Because he genuinely does not have a single reason to be racist.
He can't even blame suicide attacks because 1) not all are carried by muslims, and 2) between 1981-2015 around 45,000 were killed by suicide attacks worldwide, where in 2019 the total death toll was only 1,699 more than amount of attacks; whereas in Gaza, between Oct 7 to present there are about 34,000 confirmed palestinian deaths, and assumed around 42,000 with unconfirmed deaths. If, in 36 years, "muslim terrorism" killed about the same amount as Israel has in almost 8 months, how on earth are Arabs the terrorists?
And I've also seen the argument that 30,000 is nothing compared to the total population in Gaza, as if that makes it okay. I will, again, make example of The Holocaust. When 30,000 Jews were martyred, people were already catching on, and this was without the technology we have today.
How have we been allowing this to happen to Palestinians *with* our technology today? Why haven't people been doing more; striking our jobs, cummute chauffeurs striking, proper permanent boycotts, more coverage from news anchors and private people alike? Even if it is to officially reclaim your love for white supremacy, you're still talking about it. Why are people still not reading up on this? Why does millions still not know that this *didn't* begin on October 7th? And why are there still those who claim that the past doesn't matter today? I have so many questions, and if I do get an answer I will only end up with more questions. How hasn't the world stopped over this? Why are people so okay knowing that there are children being intentionally murdered every single day? How can you go to work and talk about Dave's new tie? Or your 6 year old's birthday party with 15 other 6 year olds? Hasn't it crossed your mind that if the roles were reversed, your precious princess would be the one burried under tons of rubble, dying slowly while simontaniously starving, dehydrating, suffocating and crushing, and *knowing* that absolutely no one cares because you're [skin color] and it's normal for your kids to be horrendously massacred? "Oh but the Taliban-ISIS-Al Qaeda" OKAY so what are you gonna do to help save innocent lives and suffering??? How are you gonna contribute to STOP these organizations that have manipulated and murdered to rule their country and are intentionally making the citicens miserable? Are you even aware that your own govurnment is essentially the same fucking thing, just disguised as a well dressed, polite gentleman? Aren't you sick of all those ads on TV showing brown children with flies in their eyes? Or your mama telling you to think about the starving children in Africa? Because I am.
I am so sick and tired of how inhumane humans have come to be. You don't see animals (and I'm trying my best to not mention how humans *are* animals, guess I failed) intentionally kill another animal simply because they're that animal. They kill prey; polar bears kill seals, seals kill penguins, penguins kill fish, fish kill amoebas, and you can get to that result from absolutely everything. What you don't find as a natural event is a golden, brown mane lion attack and kill an albino lion simply because it's albino. You don't see a school of fish swim away from one with two heads, because "*omg Jared is such a freak with his two heads*." So why the FUCK DID WE START DOING THAT? Where did this hunger for power come from? You *will* see a female lion tell the king that enough is enough, and he *will* accept that. I could go on and on for DAYS if I got the chance, but I don't wanna get too off topic here.
I've started a list of all the universally illegal shit Israel has done, and once I'm satisfied with it, I'll make one comparing Israel to Palestine, and then Arabs/Muslims as a whole. I can guarantee that I will still hear "on-sided sources" still, or "You can't trust Wikipedia!" Have you ever tried to edit or create an article on Wikipedia? I have, and I had to confirm that I had a degree or a current valid work ID to prove that I was elgible to speak on the topic. I tried to make a site for myself... Sure, there are more trustworthy sites, but even in a discussion about wether or not being trans is a mental illness, where I quoted and linked all of the most well known official sources like WHO, I was still slapped with "but this shady ass article from a random Deutch website that explicitly says everything I've said, yet still isn't actually saying the same thing because I misquoted and mixed the words to form my own sentence says that it is" when they literally linked a website called "disabled world". I will say though, I agree with that name. Today's world is so non-funtional for neurotypical, hetero, white MEN, it's no fucking wonder everyone else are classified as disabled or whatever. Also, on that disabled topic, if you've made it this far, please don't say "differently abled". A quote unquote quote (heh geddit? cuz it's rephrased and I don't have the book near me rn to directly quote) from Devon Price's "Unmasking Autism" that I really like: "You wouldn't say "a person with Asianness", you'd say "an Asian person"." We are disabled because today's world isn't made for us, and for the most part isn't even accomodated or accessible to us. We are different, yeah, but literally everyone is. We just got that term because we can't do the same things as you (assuming you're neurotypical) without aid. We are able, just not like you. Of course, if an autistic person tells you they prefer "person with autism", listen to them! But most of us embrace it as a part of us because we can't just get rid of it. Autism is what make me me, I wouldn't be me without my autism, so I *am* autistic, for better or for worse. :)
I find it kinda ironic that I started this as a venting about a lot of Jews' hypocritical behaviour, and now ending up on autism. Yaknow, cuz Dr. Asperger during WW2 experimented and tortured autistic people, and found out that some where more alike him than others, which then coined the term Aspergers for the Autistic Community.
Anywho, I feel better now, so thanks for letting me vent a little (a lot). I want to finish off by restating my intro; I have not, and will not tolerate any hate, racism or discrimination towards any religion, ethnicity, nationality, culture etc. This post is not intended as a rant about how aweful jews are, because they're not. I just wanted to air some frustration over their behaviour regarding I/P genocide. This is also not about *all* Jews, but that's the same discussion as "not all men" so I'll leave it at that.
I will delete this account in a week, so if you have any questions, be fast ig. If you find I've mis-phrased, used irrationally insensitive wording or any other complaints that calls for a repost, I will fix it and post an updated version. My DMs will also be available if that should be of interest, but I will not be responding to hate or personal attacks for my opinions. If the issue is my wording, again, tell me and I'll fix it.
At this point I've written so much that I don't remember if I found anything myself that I figured was worth fixing, and I've proof read it so many times that my eyes are crossing and giving me a headache lol
Gosh I'm scared of posting this. I don't want anyone to read this and think I support what A. H. did in 1940 cuz I cannot begin to describe my hatred for that man
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2024.05.19 06:45 LawfulnessPlane8248 I need to find this man please.

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2024.05.19 02:32 Bible_says_I_Own_you Talking points for your PIMI family

The strategy here is to use the GB and WT words against them and also use the Bible as an authority. You’ll force them to say they don’t believe the GB or the Bible if they try to criticize you.
“Do you believe the GB is the faithful slave?” They don’t know who the faithful slave is and neither do you. It’s been identified as 5 different people or groups over the years. CT Russel was first, JFK Rutherford and the corporate members next, the 144,000, the part of the 144,000 that is teaching the other part, then just the GB. Will it change again in a minute? If it was clear, there wouldn’t be a need to change it.
I’m not apostate for believing whats true and believing the Bible. If I was to say what’s in the WT now 10 years ago, I’d be apostate. If in 10 years form now I said what’s in the WT now, I’d be apostate. I’ll just stick with what the Bible says and not get too fancy.
I believe jeffrey winder when he says the GB are not inspired and make mistakes. Also when the Bible says each one should carry his own load. I’m not inspired either. But I’m the one who has to bear the consequences for my decisions.
“Do you report service time?” I talk about the Bible as much now as I ever did. [i criticize it as being stupid but I’m not saying that.] I’ll report time when the Bible says to.
Several WT article and videos say you are to blame if you suffer the consequences of believing the WT and later it was revealed Jehovah never cared about that. It says that people who believed what they heard at the conventions and COs about 1975 are you own fault for fixating on dates. It says brothers who spent 12 years in prison over civilian service in Greece should be grateful they spent time in jail after new light said it wasn’t necessary. [See my post history] I’m just taking responsibility for my own actions. Would hate to make a decision based on new light, then suffer consequences, then be told it was my own fault when the new light was changed again. Lots of people died from refusing organ transplants and lots of brothers went to prison when they didn’t need to.
I trust Bible words over Bible principles. Bible words don’t change. Bible principles say beards are bad and also says they’re good. It’s too confusing. I’ll just stick with with the Bible says. Hard to know for sure what music or dancing or medicine God hates. He probably doesn’t hate a lot of stuff we’re told he does.
If the Bible says I can’t do it, I’ll obey, if it doesn’t say that, I’ll assume it’s probably fine.
David Splane said we shouldn’t be applying anything in an antitypical manner unless the Bible specifically says to do that. The 2560 days was used to show the end of the world a lot of times. Not sure why it’s even being applied in an antitypical way.
I don’t think anyone knows who the king of the north is. It is “evidently” one country and then later it is “evidently” another country. Just hard to know.
The WT says there are people who pretend to be anointed. I have no idea and neither do you if anyone is or not.
The generation is 110 years old now. I guess I can just live my life and Jehovah sort out the end of the world.
David Splane said to check the facts regarding negative stories so I did. I watched Geoffrey Jackson testify and read the transcripts f the court cases. The states website isn’t apostate and the court transcripts aren’t taken out of context.
What did you find?
Geoffrey Jackson said JWs weren’t god’s spokesperson right in in court, which was surprising. I’d think he would use that opportunity to give a bold witness. The WT lawyer in Canada said family relations continue normally when someone is Daft and they don’t shun. Brother elder in noweigh said JWs don’t DF minors and that JWs don’t shun. The next days they showed a video instructing the congregations how to shun and how thorough it should be. I don’t think the lawyers care about stopping the preaching. They just don’t want kids being shunned. It wasn’t a good look seeing away lawyers say we don’t shun at all and then seeing a video by the organization showing that shunning needs to be absolute.
Show me in the Bible where it says it’s wrong.
If the new light is loving and scriptural, what was the old light?
I obey God as ruler rather than men.
It seems like a conflict of interest to say after all our research and prayer we humbly conclude we are the faithful slave and you need to do everything we say even if we make mistakes.
The current two tiered DF arrangement is the same as it was in 1974. It was changed in 1980 when ray Franz wrote his book and is not back to 1974 level after the court loss in Norway. Jehovah is very sensitive to current events it seems.
People who are DFd aren’t suffering the consequences of their own actions. Mark Sanderson said the Bible never said people should be shunned over immorality or for any other reason other than being the Antichrist and dying Jesus never came in the flesh. Means those people suffered a lot more than the Bible wanted them to. It wasn’t their choice. I believe mark Sanderson on this. Lots people committed suicide when they were treated like the Antichrist.
The Bible only says to DF for denying Jesus came in the flesh. Like atheist maybe. You can be DF’d for 33 things. You think a guy who smokes deserves to never speak to his grandchildren ever again? What didnt Jehovah just say that? You think a married people should be treated like the Antichrist because they do oral sex? They’re married. What difference does it make what they do naked? Show me that in the Bible.
The Bible doesn’t say to talk to the elders. It doesnt talk about judicial committees. A pdf says that. Not the Bible.
I obey God as ruler rather than men. I’m loyal to God.
“1914 doesn’t matter. We never preach about that” 1914 is linked to 1919. If 1914 doesn’t matter, what happened in 1919? [This is when John measured the temple and said Rutherfords hostile take over of a lucrative printing company was when Jesus picked the one true religion.]
The last days started in 1799 and 1874 and 1914. I can’t keep up. I’m going to college and I’ll let Jehovah sort the rest out.
“This is the only religion that checks all the boxes WT has made for itself.” This religion checks those boxes too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo
Established in 1914, the leadership is anointed, they preach, international, no trinity, no hellfire, no Christmas, no birthdays, full water immersion after studying, no infant baptism, and they disfellowship.
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2024.05.19 02:21 Bible_says_I_Own_you Taking points for your PIMI family

The strategy here is to use the GB and WT words against them and also use the Bible as an authority. You’ll force them to say they don’t believe the GB or the Bible if they try to criticize you.
“Do you believe the GB is the faithful slave?” They don’t know who the faithful slave is and neither do you. It’s been identified as 5 different people or groups over the years. CT Russel was first, JFK Rutherford and the corporate members next, the 144,000, the part of the 144,000 that is teaching the other part, then just the GB. Will it change again in a minute? If it was clear, there wouldn’t be a need to change it.
I’m not apostate for believing whats true and believing the Bible. If I was to say what’s in the WT now 10 years ago, I’d be apostate. If in 10 years form now I said what’s in the WT now, I’d be apostate. I’ll just stick with what the Bible says and not get too fancy.
I believe jeffrey winder when he says the GB are not inspired and make mistakes. Also when the Bible says each one should carry his own load. I’m not inspired either. But I’m the one who has to bear the consequences for my decisions.
“Do you report service time?” I talk about the Bible as much now as I ever did. [i criticize it as being stupid but I’m not saying that.] I’ll report time when the Bible says to.
Several WT article and videos say you are to blame if you suffer the consequences of believing the WT and later it was revealed Jehovah never cared about that. It says that people who believed what they heard at the conventions and COs about 1975 are you own fault for fixating on dates. It says brothers who spent 12 years in prison over civilian service in Greece should be grateful they spent time in jail after new light said it wasn’t necessary. [See my post history] I’m just taking responsibility for my own actions. Would hate to make a decision based on new light, then suffer consequences, then be told it was my own fault when the new light was changed again. Lots of people died from refusing organ transplants and lots of brothers went to prison when they didn’t need to.
I trust Bible words over Bible principles. Bible words don’t change. Bible principles say beards are bad and also says they’re good. It’s too confusing. I’ll just stick with with the Bible says. Hard to know for sure what music or dancing or medicine God hates. He probably doesn’t hate a lot of stuff we’re told he does.
If the Bible says I can’t do it, I’ll obey, if it doesn’t say that, I’ll assume it’s probably fine.
David Splane said we shouldn’t be applying anything in an antitypical manner unless the Bible specifically says to do that. The 2560 days was used to show the end of the world a lot of times. Not sure why it’s even being applied in an antitypical way.
I don’t think anyone knows who the king of the north is. It is “evidently” one country and then later it is “evidently” another country. Just hard to know.
The WT says there are people who pretend to be anointed. I have no idea and neither do you if anyone is or not.
The generation is 110 years old now. I guess I can just live my life and Jehovah sort out the end of the world.
David Splane said to check the facts regarding negative stories so I did. I watched Geoffrey Jackson testify and read the transcripts f the court cases. The states website isn’t apostate and the court transcripts aren’t taken out of context.
What did you find?
Geoffrey Jackson said JWs weren’t god’s spokesperson right in in court, which was surprising. I’d think he would use that opportunity to give a bold witness. The WT lawyer in Canada said family relations continue normally when someone is Daft and they don’t shun. Brother elder in noweigh said JWs don’t DF minors and that JWs don’t shun. The next days they showed a video instructing the co gregarious how to shun and how thorough it should be. I don’t think the lawyers care about stopping the preaching. They just don’t want kids being shunned. It wasn’t a good look.
Show me in the Bible where it says it’s wrong.
If the new light is loving and scriptural, what was the old light?
I obey God as ruler rather than men.
It seems like a conflict of interest to say after all our research and prayer we humbly conclude we are the faithful slave and you need to do everything we say even if we make mistakes.
The current two tiered DF arrangement is the same as it was in 1974. It was changed in 1980 when ray Franz wrote his book and is not back to 1974 level after the court loss in Norway. Jehovah is very sensitive to current events it seems.
People who are DFd aren’t suffering the consequences of their own actions. Mark Sanderson said the Bible never said people should be shunned over immorality or for any other reason other than being the Antichrist and dying Jesus never came in the flesh. Means those people suffered a lot more than the Bible wanted them to. It wasn’t their choice. I believe mark Sanderson on this. Lots people committed suicide when they were treated like the Antichrist.
The Bible only says to DF for denying Jesus came in the flesh. Like atheist maybe. You can be DF’d for 33 things. You think a guy who smokes deserves to never speak to his grandchildren ever again? What didnt Jehovah just say that? You think a married people should be treated like the Antichrist because they do oral sex? They’re married. What difference does it make what they do naked? Show me that in the Bible.
The Bible doesn’t say to talk to the elders. It doesnt talk about judicial committees. A pdf says that. Not the Bible.
I obey God as ruler rather than men. I’m loyal to God.
“1914 doesn’t matter. We never preach about that” 1914 is linked to 1919. If 1914 doesn’t matter, what happened in 1919? [This is when John measured the temple and said Rutherfords hostile take over of a lucrative printing company was when Jesus picked the one true religion.]
The last days started in 1799 and 1874 and 1914. I can’t keep up. I’m going to college and I’ll let Jehovah sort the rest out.
“This is the only religion that checks all the boxes WT has made for itself.” This religion checks those boxes too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo
Established in 1914, the leadership is anointed, they preach, international, no trinity, no hellfire, no Christmas, no birthdays, full water immersion after studying, no infant baptism, and they disfellowship.
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2024.05.19 00:57 TasteslikeChicken12 Does the Wiki Include a Page for Character Background Endings?

I recall long ago that the fandom wiki had the possible endings for the various backgrounds in Battle Brothers. I'm not talking about the "fate of the companies" but rather the fate of individual brothers.
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2024.05.18 23:34 Memespoonerer Covering the (composite) scarlet king.

the scarlet king is an elder god who predates most beings in the omniverse he is said to be greater than his brothers and sisters
As an elder god he has no origin and came out of non-existent itself along with creating the concept of division giving him non-existent existence, conceptual manipulation, and beyond causality.
The scarlet king is also a concept entity.
In the tale the thing at the bottom of my dreams
The scarlet king and the cosmic starfish fought leading to the noosphere to turn inside out
Giving conceptual manipulation and conceptual existence.
The scarlet king is the aspect of the crimson demon who embodies all negative plot points in stories. The scarlet king is also an aspect of 2747 and embodies all villain tropes
The scarlet king also acted as a counter to two narrative forces
H.I pickmins proposal is narrative causality
the patasphere narrative causality as it defines how stories go and is also called the universal narrative
The universal narrative is the infinitely complicated story that reality imitates
this exists in all timelines
Patasphere is the set of all possible narratives in a timeline
Another example of this is the phantom bubble model
the scarlet demon reduced multiple phantom bubbles to ash by just moving
fought unity which embodies all laws in a narrative
These hypercanon structures contain every canon in scp, contains all storylines and cosmological models, and does it to an infinite recursive degree
As an aspect of 2747 it would also have the immunity of one being a hard coded aspect of reality
This gives him plot manipulation, plot immunity, omniscient and omnipresent across all impossible outcomes.
As a god he is above the whole of the multiverses
there are infinite universes With infinite layers of existence and transfinite expansion and transfinite dimensions With reality having infinite universes inside universes with whole universes inside of atoms
The multiverses are then put into clusters that grow in size
There are infinite metaverses which contain infinite multiverses
beyond this resides non reality that is bigger then all of that
Then all of this resides in an infinite chain of multiverses which transcend the last in all ways and has new theories and ideas.
This endless multiverses runs on all theories and philosophy and is stacked in all ways with one final reality at the end of it all that arranges every already said in all ways](https://imgur.com/a/SyIRsq9)
All of this is within the noosphere
which is just yesod
The giants that forged yesod [are nothing to the elder gods which the scarlet king is the strongest of them](thttps://imgur.com/a/AZhEJxQ)
This gives him massive Hyperdimensional size.
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2024.05.18 23:28 Disastrous_Product17 About Delena’s kid(s)

About Delena’s kid(s)?
In legacies, they mention Damon and Elena having atleast one child: Stefanie. The existence of their child viscerally upsets me, here’s why:
Damon and Elena both carry the doppelgänger gene. The only reason Tom Avery exists is because one of the three Salvatore brothers reproduced, Zachariah being the only known brother to have been capable of doing so as he was completely human. This makes Tom related to Damon. Even with Tom dead, he probably still has family members that carried the gene. By giving life to Stefanie, they are creating a situation in which the future doppelgängers would be related, even if distantly. Not to mention the small population of Mystic Falls giving possibilities to Elena and Damon being related themselves. As a southern individual, I’m well versed in the accidental cousin bumping that occurs in small southern American towns.
The simple existence of their child kid raises many concerns in my opinion. They know how dangerous being a doppelgänger is yet they decide to be parents to a kid who could continue the cycle. By doing this, that put their descendants at a great danger.
For those wondering where the name Zachariah is from it’s mentioned in 3x16 of TVD, in which Damon talks about his father’s other son, who Joseph is descended from:
https://vampirediaries.fandom.com/wiki/1912
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2024.05.18 22:30 malcolio DRAFT - NTW in Alphabetical Order. Chapter 1: Alsace-Lorraine

DRAFT - NTW in Alphabetical Order. Chapter 1: Alsace-Lorraine
https://preview.redd.it/urzvrkw9ga1d1.png?width=1904&format=png&auto=webp&s=928b14fee0aa32d4158070e2f84e9bafa5fbd195
(Thumbnail) Seven years ago I started posting a writeup of playing a game of Empire: Total War with the challenge of conquering every region in alphabetical order. This was inspired by someone trying to play Crusader Kings in alphabetical order back in 2006. After 75 chapters, with about 2,600 images and just a silly amount of text, I completed the game and swore off touching another Total War game for some time!
I’m now back, to try and achieve the same goal of conquering every region in alphabetical order but in Napoleon: Total War. I’ve never finished a game of N:TW before, so it will fun to see what this more focused and refined(?) version of E:TW will be like to play. As with my last playthrough, I’m using DarthMod and playing on Normal/Normal difficulty. I have no idea if those settings will make this challenge too easy or impossible, let’s find out!
Napoleon Bonaparte’s stats and the 11 regions I have to sell off before I can start this challenge.
There is a vast quantity of books studying the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, but what none of them will tell you is that he had a passion for the alphabet just like King Louis XIV. So obviously he was forced to sell off every region of the French Empire so that he could conquer the entirety of Europe in alphabetical order.
Unfortunately if I lose France I automatically lose the entire game, so I’ll need to unofficially keep hold of that, but otherwise I first need to trade away Alsace-Lorraine, Aquitaine, Bretagne, Corsica, Hannover, Normandie, Pays d'Oc, Picardie-Champagne, Piedmont-Liguria, Provence, and the Southern Netherlands. At the moment the French Empire’s prosperity is spectacular, its prestige sublime, but that’s going to take a bit of a hit…
The French military units in those region capitals will soon need to vacate, most are just militia and basic cavalry, but Strasbourg has a decent sized force led by Napoleon’s brother-in-law Joachim Murat.
The French Imperial Army, scattered across Alsace-Lorraine, Northern Italy, and Hannover
The rest of the Imperial Army is along the empire’s eastern border. Napoleon himself commands the largest army to the west of Strasbourg, close to two smaller forces led by Marshals Michel Ney and Louis-Nicolas Davout. Over in Northern Italy a detachment led by Marshal Jean-André Masséna guards the border with Austria, and in isolated Hannover a similar-sized group guards the city with Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as its commander.
The two French fleets, one off Portugal and the other near Genoa, and the flagship Scipion.
The French Navy has just two fleets. The Atlantic Squadron is currently stationed near Portugal, Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve commands the immense 122-gun Scipion, two 3rd rates, two 4th rates, and frigate. The Mediterranean Squadron is near French-controlled Genoa, led by Vice-Admiral Victor Durand it consists of just two frigates and a corvette.
Soon the French Empire won’t have any ports that need defending or to repair ships at, and my income is about to nosedive, so I think it’s time to do something reckless…
An outnumbered French fleet is defeated by Britain’s finest, but not without scoring a massive blow against the Royal Navy.
Admiral Villeneuve is told to take his fleet north and engage whatever enemy vessels he can find, to sink as many ships as possible even if it risks wiping out his own. It doesn’t take long: in the Bay of Biscay the Atlantic Squadron bumps into none other than Vice-Admiral Nelson and a huge British fleet. The two commanders had previously fought at the Battle of the Nile as Rear-Admirals, and in reality weren’t due to meet for another 10 months at the Battle of Trafalgar. The British fleet greatly dwarfs the French, with Nelson commanding his own 122-gun Heavy 1st rate, a 1st rate, two 2nd rates, and three 3rd rates!
I auto-resolve the battle, resulting in an expected defeat. Villeneuve survives on board a battered Scipion, with only a 4th rate for company, but somehow his squadron managed to sink every British vessel except for Nelson’s Rose! The Royal Navy has suffered a pyrrhic victory, my navy upkeep costs have gone down by more than 1,000 gold, and what remains of the Atlantic Squadron flees south to join up with the Mediterranean Squadron next turn.
Parts of the French Empire are sold off, ready for them to be retaken in alphabetical order with the rest of Europe.
With those naval manoeuvres finished I start haggling with other nations to remove eleven French regions that are stopping me from starting my alphabetical challenge. I sell each region to a different ruler, to get as much cash from the sale and to stop any one nation becoming too powerful. I try to give territory that is towards the end of the alphabet to my allies, and those towards the start to my enemies, to prevent having to backstab my friends until I’m already forced to destroy them anyway.
While cash is important I also barter for as many technologies as I can: one technology can take 7 turns to research, gaining them now will pay dividends in growing my economy and strengthening my armed forces.
The main achievement of these region swaps, apart from losing all my income and making me only one region away from defeat, is completely changing the United Kingdom’s foreign policy: by letting George III have both a personal and political union with Hannover I convince the British Empire to abandon all of its allies, and instead join the side of its centuries-old nemesis. That recent battle in Biscay didn’t seem to matter! Along with becoming friends with Prussia I now feel less worried that Paris might be immediately marched on, though it’s hard to tell how long these new alliances will last.
The first unedited screenshot of the game. France is exempt from taxes, to help pretend it doesn’t exist, which doesn’t help the Empire’s negative income.
After all those region swaps I now only control France, as mentioned before I can’t remove this territory without automatically losing the game. So to try not to benefit from being forced to keep France I’ve set myself the rule that I cannot build anything there, cannot research there, cannot recruit any troops from Paris, and the region is exempt from taxes. I keep a company of Grenadiers à Cheval and two artillery batteries to defend the capital, together they cost 546 gold a turn in upkeep so Paris is losing me money!
Right, the game is now set up to start my challenge of conquering Europe in alphabetical order (sort of, ignore France). Which region do I need to capture first?
Alsace-Lorraine. Only just traded to the Austrian Empire, it is surrounded by French armies including one teleported from Hannover.
This is Alsace-Lorraine. Two images ago it became Austrian, in exchange for 5,530 gold and two technologies that would have taken me 14 turns to research. Unfortunately for Austria the region is surrounded by the bulk of the French Imperial Army, so the question isn’t how will I immediately conquer Alsace-Lorraine but can I do so without losing a single soldier?
The full might of the Imperial Army is amassed against Strasbourg, defended by a small number of Austrian infantrymen and some armed civilians.
Marshals Ney, Murat, and Bernadotte link up to immediately attack Strasbourg together. The full stack of units is supported by further armies commanded by Napoleon and Marshal Davot. Protecting the city is just five companies of Austrian line infantry, supported by hastily-armed citizens.
Alsace-Lorraine is captured, denting the expected deficit and allowing resources to be spent on improving the French military and economy.
It would be insanity to resist such an attack so the small Austrian infantry detachment wisely surrenders without a fight. Unfortunately, yet again, there is no battle to see here!
I choose to peacefully occupy Strasbourg and immediately start the construction of basic roads, a cannon factory, a musket manufactory, and an iron mine, plus a cantonment to replace the local tax office. Until that’s all built I can’t actually recruit any more soldiers, cavalry, or artillery (as I’m ignoring France existing). So avoiding a battle is boring but the troops I have are priceless!
The people of Alsace-Lorraine are unhappy under French rule, despite being Austrian for less time than it takes to read this sentence. Luckily I need to keep a large garrison here anyway to protect against my enemies to the east, and I also lower taxes a little to keep the region’s population and wealth growing, so the newly conquered population should be content for now.
OK, so far this challenge seems ridiculously easy, I captured my first region immediately without a single casualty. What’s next?
Aquitaine. Until very recently French, traded away to the Russian Empire.
This is Aquitaine. Like Alsace-Lorraine it was part of the French Empire but quickly traded away, this time to Russia, and like Strasbourg an enemy force has magically popped into existence to guard the region’s capital.
Unlike last time though there are no doom stacks waiting, ready to steamroll the city. What I do have is a random collection of units which originally guarded Bordeaux, Rennes, and Toulouse. A force of two companies of Chasseurs à Cheval (light cavalry) and two cohorts of the local National Guard is led by Captain Alexandre de Rosée, who waits for a company of Chevau-légers Lanciers (lancer cavalry) and another cohort of militia to reinforce him from Bretagne. Combined, this ragtag group of misfits should be enough to win against six battalions of Russian infantry squatting in Bordeaux. So attacking the city will need to wait until next turn, but before we move to Late January 1805 I have a few chores to do…
The French Empire is leaps and bounds ahead of every other nation in research, but this has ground to a halt until a college can be acquired.
One task is to think about researching new technologies. Most nations begin with all technologies locked, some are lucky to have already researched one or two when the game starts. France is luckiest of all with three technologies already researched: Army Corps Organisation, Conscription, and Division of Labour). Thanks to those earlier region trades the French now also understand Classical Economics), Fire and Advance), Improved Coppering), National Debt), and Public Schooling.
Those technologies provide various small economic and military bonuses which will take any other nation at least 50 turns to research, so I’m at a significant advantage on turn 1. However with my self-imposed rule of ignoring the existence of France I cannot use Orléans to start researching any new technologies, instead I send my two gentlemen east towards the first region which will provide a college I can use. It will take more than 10 turns for François-René de Chateaubriand and Jean Rapp to reach their destination, in the meantime my enemies will have unlocked a new technology each, and I have to hope the college they’re travelling to will be controlled by the French Empire by the time they arrive! Charles-Louis Schulmeister, French spy extraordinaire, joins them on the journey.
The French Council of State sees the appointment of a Keeper of the Seals, and new trade deals dent an expected deficit.
One other job to do before ending the first turn is to review who is running things. My starting ministers all have decent stats except for 3 star Keeper of the Seals Claude Ambroise Régnier. I replace him with a string of candidates until one, Oliver Molyneux, arrives with the Stallholder trait which give him a total of 4 management stars. That one extra star means the cost of repressing unrest in my regions is 3% cheaper, and that repression now has a +1 bonus. Small benefits like that could make or break my game in the long run!
Selling off all my regions severed all my trade routes. I re-establish all of them except the one with Spain, as I no longer have a sea or land connection with the Iberia Peninsula. Instead I create a trade agreement with the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, worth 300 less gold than the Spanish agreement. Overall my trade income has dropped by 1,100 gold since I started this game, but at least I’m now only going to lose 2,880 in gold per turn!
That's the draft of this first chapter for now, this will be taken down when I start posting chapters on the Total War subreddit.
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2024.05.18 20:30 Wild_Cellist9861 Gamers Break Away [GBA]

My fellow gamers, for too long has our community suffered the indignation of an intolerable culture that has denigrated, besmirched, exploited, and has outright demonized our culture of unique individuals with a genuine love of a hobby that they see as profitable and progressive. They have taken beloved IP’s (Intellectual Properties) and twisted them into their own personal ideological crusade of undermining and humiliating the core aspects of characters they deemed as “Toxic” or “White Supremacy”. Through the guise and protection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) they have used our influence in the entertainment industry to push their narratives and agendas that have stigmatized our culture with numerous anti-consumer practices that they call “being progressive”. But the truth of the matter is they were never really looking to be a part of our community, they simply wanted to use our community as a tool of activism and propaganda in the entertainment industry as it was extremely profitable, and they wanted inclusion in that division. Ever since GamerGate & Female Frequency, we have had to endure the incursion of forced ideologies, xenophobic behaviors and inferior overpriced products that have never been in our best interest and have been flat out disgraceful towards foreign media.
Before Gaming had become a major source of entertainment, we were often categorized as anti-social or societies rejects where because we found more enjoyment in playing fictional characters and not spending as much time out and about, we never fully assimilated in society (which is a good thing if you ask me). From 1998 to 2007, at the height of innovation, creativity and production, Gaming had reached a golden age in which it had revolutionized society. Hollywood Execs who had ruined the movie industry turned their attention to video games as a source of income since video games had outperformed movies in terms of profit. No one was concerned about gaming, much less diversity or inclusivity until it became profitable. This makes people like SBI look extremely disingenuous as they were not interested in gamers as a community with its own culture. They simply wanted to use it as another weapon in identity politics.
Microtransactions; the hidden enemy to gamer progress and inducer to mental laziness of our community. Microtransactions have been around for a long time; however, it has never been more potent and apparent than in recent years. It has aided in the dismantling and segregation of players on the ideology of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and has created another sub-culture of gamers who have no real drive to be better outside of how much money they put into the game. This has degraded our culture as well as we have become “fat” off transactional gaming but at the same time we have been “starved” of purposeful gaming where our achievements were our sustenance. I am not saying that microtransactions are bad, but when they are exploitative and predatorial like they have been and don’t give gamers room to grow, we become lethargic and unwilling to improve ourselves as gamers. Oversaturated microtransactional games are one of the many reasons why we have become complacent and unwilling to fight against the exploitative tactics used by big brand game companies such EA, Ubisoft, ActivisionBlizzard, NaughtyDog and so many other western business model companies. Western style games were not like this in the past, they had much more depth and actual effort put into them with the gamer in mind. This has not been the case for over a decade and our connection to western developers has been whittled down to just being transactional. That is one of the reasons why you see so many remasters and remakes in today’s gamer community. They have lost their willingness to improve as developers of games and simply accept corporate/share holder rules.
Game journalists also do not have any real integrity or purpose outside of being funded for their involvement in promoting IPG (Identity Political Games) in a positive light to the public whether it’s positively received or not. They are not interested in what we have to say, they all support the same agenda and that is why they are a dying breed. Within the next couple of years, they will be out of the job and more than likely they will not be able to stay in the industry giving how they have responded to past articles that have clearly been scripted on the premise of diversity and racism. Not only that, but most of them are also extremely hostile to the community as they stereotype and defame the individuals that are a part of the community they are supposed to serve. We have been mentally liberated from their lies and coercive tactics as we tend to laugh at their obvious attempt at virtue signaling while hiding their misdoings so that they can play the victim.
My gamer brothers & sisters, I would not suggest the following action that we must take now without good cause. I have weighed our options and the best option for us now is this…...CULTURAL SECESSION. Naturally this is a form of segregation where they would more than likely claim they are being segregated by the dominant culture of the gaming community but that is incorrect. For years now we have been the ones who are often marginalized and ostracized for the smaller portion of our community. And when we aren’t, we’re exploited for more funds so that these companies can stay in business only to subject us to low quality products that coincide with the “WOKE Agenda” that are often huge expenses to these big brands i.e. AAA/AAAA games that will eventually flop for its obvious forced diversity and bug infested product which will undoubtedly piss off the consumer to the point of wanting a refund. Losing copious amounts of capital and stock in the process, not to mention their reputation is permanently marred.
We must separate on every cultural level in terms of entertainment and ideology. We must reject everything from the west that promotes toxic western beliefs, practices, and exclusion from other cultures (i.e. Southeastern Countries such as Japan and Korea). Japan & Korea have been the targets of unjust discrimination from Western Developers, Western Journalists, Western Localizers (The Wokelizers) and Western Society Prejudice regarding their sense of aesthetics as Westerners hate the aesthetic sense of these countries. The reason why they resort to such base tactics isn’t just because it weaponizes the ideal female form but it’s also because they have deep-seated insecurities about their own looks so when they see attractive female characters, they use terms such as “unrealistic” or “hypersexualized” to establish the moral high ground. But the truth is, they want to feel superior to that which is ideal, so they insult and dehumanize this figure that portrays natural female beauty because they see it as an insult to their own social superiority in what they believe is a hierarchy of them being at the top of all other women. Because of this and so many contributing factors, their movies flop harder than the Fat Chocobo landing on a group of enemies and their games seismically fail just as much if not more. We must sever our connection to Western Developers, Publishers, and ALL Western-Centric Entertainment for they seek to mentally enslave us to their Xenophobic ideology.
Let’s define Western Culture and its traits. Western Culture/Society is composed of more than several different ideologies that work in unison with one another to facilitate dominance over multiple aspects of society. Business, Social, Political, Technological, and sometimes even Global Affairs are affected by these ideologies that portray a specific mindset of Western beliefs. What are those ideologies you ask?
Official Wiki GamerGate Page)

Asmongold Clips.
https://youtu.be/Iq86DnmX2xY

@GeeksandGamers
https://youtu.be/1HbrTkqQFuM

@MugenLord
https://youtu.be/to5Uciy_yeg
@EndymionTv
https://youtu.be/7TPTR8-qmbk

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#The_end_of_their_relevance

@TheTrentReport
https://youtu.be/bPIPSKruYRo
These traits are so nefarious and unconscionable that I have a hard time believing that anyone could harbor them. However, given the social, political, and economic climate that we are in, those in power who use their influence on controlling society most definitely possess these insidious traits. Everything that they do is all about control and since video games are the biggest market in the world, they want control over it and the communities built around it to accrue more wealth and to use that wealth to subjugate other cultures. Mainstream media is a tool as well as mainstream organizations and sites to help accomplish this goal.
The government recently announced its intentions towards what they believe is “GamerGate 2.0” and now even the ADL has made an official appearance, referring to gamers as “extremist’s”. We know EXACTLY what they are doing, and they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore because they don’t think we are aware of their motives. This is just a pretext for them to exert even more control and we know why, it’s because they want the influence we as a community have to must serve them. So here is what we do my fellow gamers-
“In light of recent events and years of mainstream stigma, we the members of the Global Gaming Community [GGC] must officially renounce ALL TIES to the corporate western video game market. We have been financially exploited through predatorial monetization schemes, pelted with numerous articles of disdain and intentional misrepresentation from game journalists, news outlets regarding us as dangerous individuals and, even subjected to inferior products not only riddled with bugs but also products meant to push political agendas. For the preservation of our community and its unique culture, apart from a few select game development studios we officially sever all connections to western owned video game companies & their mainstream affiliates. From this point onward, we will no longer support western corporate developers, journalists and publishers that do not coincide with the goals of our community.”
Naturally this is completely optional. If you are okay with the state of the gaming community as it is, feel free to ignore this. But if you wish for real change and a break away from oversaturated monetization in the games you play and the push for radical ideological reform, then you are in the right place. Lets sever these rotted miasmic ties once and for all so that our community can be preserved and made better for future gamers. If you agree with this, share it with whoever you think might be interested. The more gamers who get involved, the easier it will be for us to finally break free from mainstream game companies and their associates.
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2024.05.18 15:06 kaleviko [All] Goodbye, Mr DeMille

A brief recap. In the opening episode, the Fireman had a sit-down with a man who at least looked like Cooper. Telling he was "far away", the Fireman made him flicker and disappear. Next, we may have found the man as a remote control in Mitchum brothers' house in P10, in line with "far away" being another kind of "remote", like in a dream where our memories get wildly different meanings and grow into unexpected stories.
After observing Candie's bloody entry to the story in P10, this "remote" character seems to have sought the headless version of Cooper, appearing again as a remote control and guiding him to electrocute himself in P15. In line with hearing, "Get Gordon Cole" in television, the remote would have done just that and got to Cole, once more showing up as a remote control in P3 when Tammy presented Cole and Albert a picture of a blurry figure inside the New York glass box. The figure seems to have been none other than Candie hunting the fly, connecting her seemingly harmless character to the reason why Cole was needed.
This third appearance might have been the remote's last, at least as a remote control. Tammy left it on the conference room table. As usual, there was no special fanfare about that, and Lynch left it for us to figure out what was important to understand his story.
Framed in front of the remote, there was a cup of coffee and a picture of a little boy wearing a uniform. Earlier in the scene, the picture was literally given to us as a clue to the "identity of the killer". Let's treat it as a clue, then, together with the coffee cup right behind it.
This cup with a uniform had once been remote.
The word "cup" sounds the same as "cop". Adding that to a boy in a uniform, we'd get to P9 when Betty shared some details of the past with Twin Peaks deputies the ranks of which now included her son, Bobby.
Betty: "Bobby, when your father told me this, you were a very long way from where you are today."
In other words, Bobby had been in a faraway place. That is to say, he had been remote, now possibly true in more than one meaning of the word. While the scene superficially gave us an emotional moment between the mother and her son, the ever-trolling Lynch would actually have been telling us that it was Bobby who had been the mysterious remote control.
In a possible throwback to the coffee cup next to the remote, the scene wrapped up when Betty turned to his son.
Betty: "Well, fellas, let's have that coffee."
As everyone burst to laughter, that typically indicated we just got some especially absurd twist in the story.
No backstory was offered how Bobby had become a deputy. Everyone at least acted like he indeed was one, but unlike other named characters working at the Sheriff's station, we didn't ever see if he had an office or a desk there. He was always walking in the corridors, entering rooms and hanging around with others.
This was also how we first met Bobby in P4, walking in the corridor. He had just went past the station's conference room - or perhaps he had come out of the room. There was nothing else in the direction he was coming from, and he didn't come from the other end of the corridor that led to the back office where Maggie and others worked.
The remote left the conference room.
Bobby stopped when the Sheriff called him. When the Sheriff walked past the open conference room door, we could see it was dark. No one was there. Yet, Hawk was supposed to be in the conference room looking for "something" that was missing, like seen next when the Sheriff and others joined him.
When glitches like this broke the continuity of the story, that seems to have been done to draw our attention to something important, in this case then to the conference room that was where the remote control was last seen and where Bobby might have come out of when the Sheriff spotted him.
In related developments, Bobby seems to have been the nameless "contact" that Ray told in P2 he had found to help Mr C get some "information" while Ray himself would have appeared as Sheriff Frank Truman, entering this dreamlike Twin Peaks storyline to manipulate Bobby so as to get the coveted information from Betty.
If you are a Ray, you need a remote for contact.
Reflecting these ideas to the remote control, we would get another absurd abstraction. There were repeated shots of people pointing televisions with a remote control - in P3, P10 and P15. This was possibly done to not only draw our attention to the device itself but also to remind us that the contact between the remote and the television happens through an infrared ray, another play with the name of a character, now with that of Ray Monroe.
Due to the infrared ray needing to point directly at the television, a remote control spends a lot of time towards the screen, literally checking every channel that has something to see. This appeared to be what Bobby had been up to when he reported to the Sheriff in P4.
Sheriff Truman: "Anything on your surveillance cameras?" Bobby: "Uh, elk, deer, raccoon, squirrel and a bear. If they're coming down from Canada in our area, I would've seen them."
Whatever we thought that would have been about, the story didn't get back to any of it. Instead, we probably got another complicated throwback to a previous scene with a remote control, again a good tad more suggestive than what we might be looking for.
The list of animals and the lone article "a" used for the bear would produce letters EDRSAB which is an anagram for BREADS. In P15, when Cooper clicked the remote control and froze Sunset Boulevard, there was Cecil B DeMille on screen, playing himself, of which we got some needless dialog.
DeMille: "Good-bye, dear." Norma: "Good-bye, Mr DeMille."
See Mr Miller to get some flour for your breads.
Nothing seems to go waste in Return but everything is in the service of the absurdly rich story. DeMille's last name is French and means a miller, one who makes flour. You need flour first, if you want to make breads next. Thus, after seeing the "miller" on one screen - then as a remote - Bobby would have got BREADS on the next one - now as a deputy.
This would get a further meaning because it was also breads that Bobby's daughter Becky delivered to RR Diner in P5, riding Steven's "another old car", the 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, where both of them snorted another kind of white flour. Ultimately, this probably was all about Bobby keeping an eye on his daughter who used drugs.
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2024.05.18 13:31 geocano Spotted on a British game show!

Spotted on a British game show!
The contestant got it wrong, obviously not a pepino!
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2024.05.18 11:48 admelioremvitam The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Chow Yun Fat

The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Chow Yun Fat
Happy Birthday to Chow Yun Fat!
May 18th is Chow Yun Fat’s birthday. I wanted to share a few gifs and photos here to celebrate his birthday.
For anyone who might be interested, here are some random bits of history and facts about Chow Yun Fat gleaned from the interwebs. (Sources and interviews are listed at the bottom.)
Chow Yun Fat was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong in 1955. Lamma Island is the third largest island of Hong Kong and is located southwest of Hong Kong Island. It is considered a rural area even today.
His father worked on a Shell Company oil tanker while his mother was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer. 1
Chow Yun Fat was called Siu Gau (puppy/little dog) up to the age of 7. He didn't know his own name until he attended school and the teacher did roll call. It was local practice to call young children by nicknames for fear that they would not survive the early years of childhood.
He grew up in a home with no electricity and no flushing toilet (this type of toilet is known as 夜香 yèxiāng in Chinese). They relied on oil lamps at night.
As a child, he woke up at dawn and helped his mom sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea pudding in the morning. In the afternoons, he worked in the fields. 1
His family moved to Kowloon when he was 10. At 17, due to his father's deteriorating health, he dropped out of school to support the family and worked odd jobs, e.g. bell boy, postman, camera shop sales clerk, etc. His first monthly salary was HKD200 (~USD36 in 1972).
In 1973, he saw a newspaper advertisement for an actor-trainee position and went for an audition. During that time, the education required was secondary school completion so he was eligible. He almost did not make the cut during the audition but one of the judges (Chung King Fai) supported him. Chow Yun Fat said he couldn't sing or dance very well. Thus, the other judges didn't think too much of him. After one year of training, he signed a long-term contract with TVB which lasted from 1974 to 1986.
One of his most notable TVB dramas was The Bund 上海灘 with Ray Liu and Angie Chiu. It is praised as “The Godfather of the East” 2 and spawned sequels, remakes and a film adaptation. The theme song by Frances Yip became a memorable Cantopop hit.
Besides TV dramas, Chow Yun Fat also made box office successful movies in the 1970s with Goldig Films which achieved high gross revenues of over HK$1 million. However, his ventures into low-budget films (after the Goldig films) later in the early 1980s were box office disasters. 1
The tides finally turned in 1986 when Chow Yun Fat made A Better Tomorrow with director John Woo. This movie won him his first Best Actor award at the 1987 Hong Kong Film Awards. It was the highest grossing film in Hong Kong cinema history at that time. Thereafter, he stopped making TV dramas and went into films.
Just a little anecdote about his first award:
Prior to winning the Best Actor award for A Better Tomorrow, he had attended three previous Hong Kong Film Awards where he dressed his best thinking he would win but didn't. For his 4th nomination, he was in the middle of filming and asked his director for time off to go to the award show but he was denied due to the hectic filming schedule. About 2 hours before the show, he received a call that said he was going to win that night. He rushed from Macau to Hong Kong by ferry and car in casual clothing and arrived just in time for his name to be called.
Many years later, a host asked him why he didn't have an assistant, manager, etc. deliver a suit for him to change on his way there. Chow replied and said there was no such thing as assistants or managers during those days. Actors were in charge of their own wardrobe. 3 There wasn't even a person to give you some tea. The first person to do that for him was his wife, Jasmine, 4 whom he quietly married in 1986 in a civil ceremony. They later held a wedding ceremony in 1987.
After A Better Tomorrow, Chow Yun Fat went on to make “many more 'gun fu' or 'heroic bloodshed' films, such as A Better Tomorrow II (1987), Prison on Fire (1987), Prison on Fire II (1991), The Killer (1989), A Better Tomorrow 3 (1990), Hard Boiled (1992) and City on Fire (1987), an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.” 1
While Chow Yun Fat was becoming well known for his honorable tough guy roles, he also starred in comedies and romantic blockbusters. In 1989, he brought together all three types of characters for his role as Ko Chun in God of Gamblers with director Wong Jing. The movie broke the Hong Kong box office records and inspired a series of gambling films and a number of comedic sequels.
After making films in Hong Kong for about 10 years, Chow Yun Fat moved into Hollywood films in the mid 1990s. His most notable film during that time was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which did very well at the international box office and the Oscars.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography, receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English-language film at the time,” 5
In 2006, he and Gong Li made Curse of the Golden Flower, a film directed by Zhang Yimou. “In 2007 it received fourteen nominations at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards and won Best Actress for Gong Li, Best Art Direction, Best Costume and Make Up Design and Best Original Film Song for "菊花台" (Chrysanthemum Terrace) by Jay Chou.” 6
In 2014, Chow made From Vegas to Macau with director Wong Jing and reprised his role as Ko Chun, God of Gamblers. In 2015 and 2016, he made two more sequels with the last one being the final installment of the God of Gamblers series.
A few personal fun facts:
Chow Yun Fat is affectionately called by the locals as 發哥 Faat Gor (Brother Fat). His wife, Jasmine, is called 發嫂 Faat Sou (Sister-in-law Fat).
Compared to other celebrities, he dresses and lives very modestly. His monthly expense/pocket money is reportedly HKD800 (~USD103).
He likes to go to the local produce markets to shop for groceries with his wife. He enjoys eating at small food stalls and he takes public transportation in Hong Kong (in other countries as well). He's often seen on Hong Kong’s MTR.
He's also well known for taking selfies with fans and friends. A host called him the “God of Selfies” 自拍神. 😂
Whenever a fan approaches him for a photo (e.g. on the train or when he's out on a run), he is always happy to accept their request and offer to take a selfie/wefie with their phone. His reasoning is two-fold: 1, if fans can spend years watching his films, he can take a few seconds to take a photo with them. 2, he (~183 cm / 6’) is usually taller than they are and it's a better angle for him if he takes the photo. 😂
He developed an interest in fitness after working with Aaron Kwok on the 2014 movie, Monkey King: Havoc in the Heaven’s Palace.
For his role in From Vegas to Macau, he shed 13 kg (from ~80 kg) in 10 months. He ran 10 km daily for 1.5 hours during this time.
In 2023, he ran a half-marathon in less than 2.5 hours. He has a running group which spawned a couple of other running groups. 7 He plans to run a full marathon eventually.
In 2018, Chow Yun Fat said he would donate his entire wealth (reportedly HK$5.6 billion, ~US$715 million in 2018) to charity after he passes. In 2023, he revealed that this idea came from his wife who manages the family’s finances. 8
Happy Birthday, Chow Yun Fat! 發哥, 生日快樂!
Sources/Notes:
  1. Source: Wikipedia on Chow Yun Fat.
  2. Source: Wikipedia on The Bund.)
  3. For The Bund and other early TVB shows, he was in charge of his own wardrobe. It was only later when he became more well-known that clothing brands would start sponsoring him.
  4. Source:《开讲啦》周润发. It's in Mandarin.
  5. Source: Wikipedia on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
  6. Source: Wikipedia on Curse of the Golden Flower.
  7. The Do Show by Carol Cheng. It’s in Cantonese.
  8. Source: 8days article.
There are many other articles and interviews that I have referred to which I haven't been able to list here.
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2024.05.18 06:34 Seolchi Anyone have any clues into the origin of my last name? 노 (Noh)(Sometimes Roh)

So long story short... My dad is kinda a history buff, he majored in it back in the 70s in Korea. When he immigrated to America in the 80s, he spelled our last name as "Noh". It plagued me all my life, Matt Noh it all, Matt Nohs nothing, Do you know if matt noh knows or does he not know. whatever.
He claimed we were the last of the mainline back when I was in highschool (about 10 years ago now) and so I called his bullshit and when I visited Seoul I made sure to go to Yang-Yang and I literally walked around this place full of farms and knocked on doors until I found a Noh-shi who had a Jokbo. Surprisingly amicable people if you're a cute little kid who barely speaks Korean and its like... 2010. And I found my family in this Jokbo, I called my dad, he explained everything and thanked them, they cried for some reason, yada yada. Story of a highschool Korean American trying to find some semblance of meaning, being born into some family in America. (I only have family members on my mom's side who reside in Seoul, my own last name was mysterious to me)
My problem: there is literally nothing online about that part of the kingdom of Korea. There are some Korean wiki pages about this last name that I found ages ago, I can't find them anymore, besides that I don't have all that much information. I'd love to read and hear what the heck my ancestors were up to, I'm sure I'd hate them, but it would at least be interesting. If you have a good handle on the Korean side of the internet, in terms of researching history, I would love to learn more.
With the death of my older brother, I'm the last of this line. Me and my wife don't currently have strong plans for children, and they would be Pakistani-Korean. There will be Noh more full-Korean Nohs lol, and thats probably for the better, the two males in my nuclear family have had so many mental issues. I'm lucky enough to just have depression and be very quiet, but I'm willing to reach out for this out of curiosity. So let me know if you can help!
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2024.05.18 05:50 Horror_Stress9849 In S7 E16 Stan & Francine are engaged in the 90s and Hayley hasn’t been born yet. But yet according to google she was born in ‘87?? Plot hole or poor writing?

In S7 E16 Stan & Francine are engaged in the 90s and Hayley hasn’t been born yet. But yet according to google she was born in ‘87?? Plot hole or poor writing? submitted by Horror_Stress9849 to americandad [link] [comments]


2024.05.17 19:33 SongsOfTheDyingEarth The other side of Azeroth and what Tauren and Arthurian myths might tell us about it.

In dragonflight it was revealed that there is another continent called Avaloren. Odyn sent several exhibitions there to track down "heritics", they failed and eventually gave up. Whoever lives there is apparently poweful enough to fend of the very same forces that defeated the Black Empire.
In the War Within xpac we'll meet members of the Arathi Empire, a vast and powerful empire of Light that inhabits this continent.
So how the hell are they so powerful?
I think there are some hints to be found in both WoWs myths and real world ones.
First let's look at the Tauren creation myth.
You can read more here https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/An%27she#Sorrow_of_the_Earth_Mother_and_An'she's_wounding
To keep it to the point I'll not go into much detail. The Earth Mother created twin children, An'she and Mu'sha (aka Elune). One day the twins were attacked by "shadows". With the aid of the Elements they were able to hold them off for a time but eventually one of the shadows gravely wounded An'she. Mu'sha used her healing powers to help her brother but it would take time for her to heal him completely.
Next let's look at Arthurian myths.
One of the tales about King Arthur tells the story of him being gravely wounded in battle. His sister, Morgan le Fay, takes him to the island of Avalon where she can use her powerful healing magic to help Arthur.
In some myths Avalon is kept very secret with even Merlin being unaware of it's existence.
Morgan is an interesting character. Depending on the myth she's sometimes a human, or Fae, or an Elf Queen, or a full blown goddess. Remind you of anyone?
One myth states that Avalon is said to be located west of Ireland and afterwards hidden in mist by Morgan's enchantment.
Morgan is also said to be the chief of a group of Sisters, one of whom is named Tyronoe.
There are more similarities between Elune and Morgan as well but I think I've made my point.
To bring it back to WoW. My speculation is that Elune took the wounded An'she to Averloren to be healed and then hid the island from outsiders. The Titan keepers never made it there because it's being protected by a Elune and An'she who are members of the pantheons of Life and Light respectively.
The "heritics" are either Elune and An'she or Titan keepers who sided with them.
Anyway, this could all be nonsense but it's interesting to think about and I look forward to finding out more about Averloren and it's history.
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2024.05.17 17:18 CaptainCookers Ayo?

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2024.05.17 13:07 egnards With Jar Jar Released, Where does Egnards go from here!?

With Jar Jar Released, Where does Egnards go from here!?
Justice for Jar Jar is a movement that started sometime around 2-3 years ago. . .I'll be honest, I don't know when I first stated that Jar Jar should be in the game, but it was somewhere in that timeframe that we first uttered the phrase, "Justice for Jar Jar."
And while I wont pretend that I was the first person to suggest he been in SWGOH, I think we can all safely say that I was at the very least one of the most prominent voices.
Lets be clear for a second though, that Justice for Jar Jar did not start as a 'meme' movement as some suggest - I'd really like that on the record - I indeed understand that Jar Jar is a stupid and problematic character, but I also recognized early that his very nature would make a fun kit. . .I've always had a soft spot for unusual kits [looking at you Abathur]
So the question becomes, with Egnards now having completed his goal to make sure 2024 was indeed the Year of Jar Jar Binks. . .Where does he go now
https://preview.redd.it/bqilnzkqxy0d1.png?width=1064&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b8b308eb1202ccb184937bb30d5b591407a7ccc
I've long said that Senator Bail Organa not being in the game is an extreme injustice to his character. He was featured in my "Top Ten Better Than Drogan" post, and I've definitely mentioned him in a post Jar Jar world.
Senator Bail Organa needs to come to the game, and while I see his first characterization as being an Imperial Senator that was clearly working for the Rebellion, his most fleshed out time period is obviously Galactic Republic. . .
I personally see Bail Organa working almost like a hybrid Mon Mothma and Nute Gunnery, utilizing a new Senator tag [no distinction between Galactic and Imperial, I don't think there is personally a need here.
But we're not here to talk about Senator Bail Organa today. . . Because that would make too much sense. . .And that's not what an Egnards does.
An Egnards pick for characters in the game has to meet several criteria:
  • The character itself should be ridiculous [and Teek fans?]
  • The character should be unexpected
  • The character itself should serve an actual combat purpose, and have a chance to make it into the game, no matter how small [sorry Watto fans!]
Ok Egnards, Shutup. . Justice for who now?
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A little Suspense
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https://preview.redd.it/x2saslcpxy0d1.png?width=1064&format=png&auto=webp&s=64513c9bce19bf7d5d254e90778d7399e48dfb99
Wait, Who?
Clone 99!
[There are Clone Wars Spoilers from quite literally 14 years ago below this. . .So uhh, I mean. . . I'm warning you, but really. . .It's been 14 years. . .Did you know Darth Vader was Luke's Father?]
Jake Peralta Clone 99 is a defective clone that appears in two episode of The Clone Wars. Essentially, as a defective clone, he is unfit for actual combat duty and is relegated to janitorial work around the clone training complex.
In his first appearance he inspires Hevy [a member of Domino squad with Echo and 5555s] to not walk away from duty, and teaches him about the importance of Brotherhood, giving Hevy the drive he needs to pass The Citadel Challenge.
In his second and final appearance, Clone 99 is caught up in a Separatist plot to takeover Kamino and helps resupply his brothers with munitions, while leading them through the facilities of TIpoca City. He risks his life, and is unfortunately slain in the field of battle while attempt to retrieve munitions/explosives for Rex and Cody in a dire pinned down situation - If you haven't seen the episode, it becomes very obvious that Clone 99 is well aware that in that moment he is unlikely to make it out alive, and decides to be a hero for his clone brothers.
Clone 99 is further honored by being the inspiration behind the official name of the Bad Batch Squad. . .Clone Force 99.
He is a versatile character that would bring real value to the clone squads, willingly playing the field with any that will have him [Title of his sex tape]
Ok fine whatever, but where does he fit in?
Ninety Nine is a non combat support character designed to fit into a mostly clone squad. He would not have the 501st tag so would not benefit from going into a GAS squad, but would have some synergy with Shaak Ti as well [though be designed to not require her as a leader].
Currently in game he could be used with multiple squads
  • Alternative fifth for Bad Batch [though no Bad Batch tag]
  • Alternative third in a Captain Rex 3v3 team
  • Clone Sgt and Cody ally
  • Shaak Ti 3v3 team
However I see him as being a backdoor to bringing in some of the other popular clones that have been suggested over the years, being able to openly synergize with broad teams.
What does his kit look like?
I don't know the exacts of what I'd like to see from his kit, but I know for one thing Brotherhood should mostly definitely be an "aura" [non combat full battle locked buff] given to all clone allies, inspiring them to fight harder.
I would like to see a sacrifice mechanic similar to 5555s, but fundamentally different. Maybe a Non-Combat tank that pushes you strongly to attack him first [just like his death in Tipoca City], which would increase the strength of the Brotherhood Buff.
Is this a joke?
No Sir, this is not. Clone 99 deserves your love and affection, and unlike Jar Jar Binks there is nothing but inspiration behind his character. So fuck off u/Kahzgul
How the hell did you find an image of Clone 99 holding Jar Jar Binks?
We can all thank u/Moonborn_Nemesis for that. He takes basically every over the top ridiculous image I can concoct in my head and somehow makes it a reality.
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2024.05.17 07:49 Kossamuuuu Y0r.04D43_}/4Lr3}y^^P.1

Dear Michael. Nah man,just kidding. How’s Cali?Got any hot ass girls on her knees yet;) Shit,it’s been what,2 years now?It’s not the same without you man,Ik it’s corny af to say but I miss you. I’m sorry that I didn’t write back to you earlier,but I’ve been busy,I can’t really write letters when a girl is bouncing on ma yk yk;)Jokes aside,my mom’s health got worse..And now,she’s looking up at me..
Anyway,I heard from Luce that you’re coming back in 2 weeks right?So I was thinking if you have time over when you’re here then maybe we could go to that old bunker with the fuckin sacrifice temple shit in it? And just so you know..Elia is..Dead.
You probably knew that already but after what happened to your sister…I just couldn’t allow you back here without knowing that Elia is dead. V3Nghttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis 1137< Well,I hope you get this in time and once again sorry I haven’t answered before..The girls are swooning over me;) //Your fucking friend,Victor:)
Holy fuck,Victor. You finally answered after 3 months?!Man I mean the girls must have been all over you,haha! I’m sorry to hear about your mother..Although I must ask,why the fuck is she looking UP at you? Did she beat yo ass that often?
Anyway I wrote to Lucy that I was coming back first because I knew you wouldn’t answer,so I thought maybe if you hear that I’m coming back you would get your fat ass up from the couch and write back!Seems I was right after all;) I would absolutely fucking love to explore that place again!I will be seeing you the first day I get there alright?I miss Italy so much man,the USA sucks.
But for the LAST FUCKING TIME,it’s not a sacrificial temple altar shit in the bunker,it’s a shrine dedicated to Nemesis for fucks sake! I guess you Germans don’t know that;)Not that I’m definitely not a German too..;)
And..Yes,I knew about Elia..That bitch deserved it to be honest.I know that she and your brother was close but come one,you both hated her! Matt didn’t deserve to get dragged into their drama like that,Elia started it all that day.. Anyway I guess we shouldn’t hold grudges:) I’ll see ya soon though!
P.s what happened to your auto correct?Why you dragging Mythology into this man?;) //Your (definitely not German) friend:)
2003/02/6 Thursday 14:15 Session 6 -Audio Log Translate-
“It’s been..Though..I-I”
“It’s alright Michael,we’re only recording for safety measures okay?”
“Yeah-I-I know..”
“Take a deep breath,like we practiced”
-Inaudible-
“You ready?”
“Yes,I think so..”
“Alright,Michael,for the recording could you just introduce yourself?”
“Yeah-My name is Michael..I’m 18 and I live in -REDACTED-“
“Thank you,Michael.Now..Could you tell me about what happened that day?”
“What-What day?”
“On September 4th,2002?Do you remember that day?”
“Yeah..Yes,I do.”
“Good,now let’s see..What do you feel comfortable talking about,when it comes to the incident?”
“Well…It wasn’t late at night..I had arrived at Rome just 2 days before..”
“Go on,Michael.”
“We went to visit…The place.”
“Do you mean the -REDACTED-https://web.archive.org/web/20161014192447/http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=45.419224&ln=10.302933&z=4&k=2”
“NO-NO DONT SAY-“
“Okay,calm down M-“
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”
“Michael you’ll-“
-Sounds of voices-
“Get off me!Please!She’ll come for us!She knows!FROM HER THERES IS NO ESCAPE!”
“Michael,calm down!”
“NO,YOU DONT-“
“Okay-He needs to rest,take him to his room.”
“No!Please!You fucker!!You don’t know what you’ve done!”
2003/02/6 Thursday 14:34 Session 6 -NOTES- •Patient showed signs of Paranoia/Delusions and extremely violent behaviour. •Patient is unwilling to engage in deep conversation •Hallucinations and anxiety are present in patient •Patient has verbal triggers Comment
•I suggest that we test for schizophrenia,anxiety and I will be continuing to monitor the patient.HES showing obvious signs of PTSD.Based on his experiences this is not something that has taken me by surprise. Trial is still ongoing,patient had a deep relationship with -REDACTED-.
He seems to be having so called “Messiah” delusions,he thinks that a god/goddess/higher power is after him/he is a god or a messiah. Will be under monitoring for now on. //Dr.1van
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