Welcome back to my weekly Dhar Mann video review series. I was bored and decided to do this week's review earlier than usual. The video I will be tackling today is Bratty TEEN RUNS AWAY From Home, What Happens Next Is Shocking. This was last year's Mother's Day special and is one that I've thought would be an interesting review for a little while now. I even posted a clip from this video the other day. Anyways, let's get the review started.
The video begins with the titular bratty teen Chloe(Logan Roe) getting her makeup ready while the doorbell rings, and she yells at her mom to get it. Mom(Katherine Norland) answers the door and a girl(Sara Kamine) is there to give Chloe a spray tan. Mom is confused and goes into Brat's room while she is dying her hair. Mom tells Brat she is too young to be dying her hair, which is kind of silly if you ask me. This girl looks old enough to be making decisions about her hair color. Mom then confronts her about the spray tan she plans on getting while she is texting a rapper named Lil Pop who she is going on a date with. Apparently, Lil Pop also flunked out of high school. I'm pretty sure Lil Pop is supposed to be a parody of Lil Pump. Now I'm starting to think I should make a video titled "Gucci Gang but every time he says Gucci Gang a cringy Dhar Mann clip is played". Mom informs Brat that she is not allowed to go out with Lil Pop and even if she was, it's Mother's Day and they have the whole day planned. Brat and Mom argue a bit more and Brat calls Mom's rules dumb. Mom says they are not dumb but important. I'm not liking where this is going because last time Dhar preached "rules are important" was the video where Regina got Jay kidnapped. Mom then complains to her husband(Chris Ready), who suggests letting her go on the date. Husband suggests to let Brat go on the date and face her own consequences. He's the only reasonable one here so far. Brat comes down saying she is leaving. Okay, now I'm starting to side with the mom a bit, your mom doesn't let you go out one time and you're running away from her right before Mother's Day? I'm as against strict parents as the next guy, but that seems VERY rash. Mom listen's to Dad's suggestion and doesn't even try to stop her from leaving.
The next scene shows Brat at her friend's house complaining about her mom. Friend(Angelina Koerner) says "you don't want to be with your mom for Mother's Day?". Brat says she is done with her mom and asks Friend if she can get a spray tan and dye her hair, wo which Friend reluctantly agrees. We then cue a shitty music montage of Brat getting a spray tan and dying her hair in preparation for her date. Brat wakes up the next morning only to realize her makeover was a disaster and she looks like what she describes as "an old lady carrot". Her and Friend go to get more hair dye. Then we cut to Brat's parent's house, where Mom is all worried about her since she didn't come home. Then we cut back to Brat trying to re-makeover herself. Then Mom is at Dharla's Diner all by herself waiting for Brat hoping she'll arrive, but she doesn't. We cut to Brat and Friend again, and Brat's hair somehow looks even worse after her re-makeover. Her hair looks like Marge Simpson's and only a small amount of spray tan came off. Lil Pop texts brat saying he wants to meet 30 minutes earlier and she is panicking. I'm a dude, so I don't really have a say in this, but this is the point where I would just back out of my date personally. We then cut home, where Mom is still worried about Brat, but dad insists that they can't stop her from going on her date. I know I said the dad was reasonable earlier, but I feel like at this point, they should at least make sure she's okay.
Now we get to the so bad it's good part of the video. Brat is going on her date and we are finally introduced to Lil Pop(Tate Doppler) and he asks her why she's dressed so poorly. Brat shows her her bad hair and spotty spray tan and says it's horrible, and Lil Pop, who speaks in a stupidly funny, hard to understand voice, agrees that it's not good. A waitress comes over with two menus and because Lil Pop is in a rush, he orders his meal. He orders a steak, and wants it so rare he says "like, blood pouring out of it when you cut it". Brat is about to order, but Lil Pop orders the chicken for her and Brat says she is a vegetarian. Lil Pop laughs and says "for real like you only eat plants and stuff". This reminds me of the football video where the bully says "maybe if you ate meat instead of that banana, you wouldn't be so scrawny". Lil Pop orders for Brat what he describes as "that one salad named after that dude". Why am I finding this character hilarious? Waitress asks if he means the Caesar Salad, and he says that's the one. Lil Pop says he is in a rush because he has plans with his mom later. Wow, even this deadbeat rapper is making time for his mom on Mother's Day(or is he?). Chloe really is a brat. At home, Mom finally caves and says she is going to Friend's house to get Brat to come home. Back with Brat and Lil Pop, they get their dinner and Lil Pop tells waitress to bring the check. We then see Lil Pop cutting his blue rare steak saying it's just how he likes it, and they shows closeups of him chewing the steak. Which is pretty gross. Lil Pop says "you got to eat your food Becca". Brat is offended and says her name's not Becca. Now she is starting to regret going on this date. Brat sees a mom and her daughter at another table eating Fettuccine Alfredo, which Brat was supposed to make for her mom, and she is starting to regret running away from her mom. Then a random girl(Alexa Cate) walks in and calls Lil Pop babe and is confused when she sees Brat with him. She informs her that her name is Becca and she is Lil Pop's date. Apparently, Lil Pop didn't have plans with his mom after all. Brat is hurt because of what she had to go through for the date. Lil Pop insults her saying she looks like an Oompa Loompa and she should go back to Wonka's factory. Brat calls Lil Pop a trashy wannabe rapper, throws her "salad named after that dude" at her, and leaves.
We then cut to Friend's house where Friend tells her mom(Maricella Ibarra) that she will do the dishes because it's Mother's Day. Brat's mom is knocking at the door looking for Brat, but Friend's Mom tells her she is on her date with Lil Pop. Friend's mom invites her inside, but she decides to go home. We then cut home where Brat has returned and has made Fettucine Alfredo for her and her mom. Brat tells her she was right about everything and she realizes rules are important. I'll give credit where credit is due, this video sent that message MUCH better than Jay's kidnapping video. Mom tells Brat she will take her to a salon tomorrow to get her Oompa Loompa makeover fixed, but Brat wants to go to school. Mom says that it's a very special case however and she will let her skip school. Dad walks by and is happy to see that Mom and Brat have made up and love each other again. And that's the end.
Conclusion
I didn't like this video when I first saw it and if you asked me even about a month ago, I would've called Lil Pop Tate's worst character. But after rewatching this, I realized Lil Pop is actually kind of hilarious(maybe not intentionally, but still). But Logan's character is bland as always, and she was acting like a real brat even if the mom was being a little strict at first. 5/10 but only because Lil Pop gives it some so bad it's good points. See you next review.
Tropes Used:
Restaurant named Dharla's, pasta dish, message of the video repeated multiple times, vegetarian stigmatized for not eating meat(not really talked about, but this is actually a fairly common trope), typecasting, shitty music montage.

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Just wanted to see if anyone else sees the parallels or if Jerry/Larry have commented on any influence the sitcom 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (1959-1963) might have had on Seinfeld, I love both shows and they have eerily similar tone/ensemble dynamics imo.
The main gang:
Dobie Gillis Very close amalgam of Jerry/George, alternates between bemused mostly reasonable everyman and anxious, conniving schemer and flatterer depending on the situation, constant stream of dates/crushes that end in failure. A high schooler at the start of the show, he goes through college and the army by the last season
Has his own 'Lloyd Braun' in the form of Milton Armitage, played by Warren Beatty.
Maynard G. Krebs Dobie's best friend, bad/good influence, as close to Kramer as I've seen in pop media, an OG 'hipster doofus' complete with killer record collection, allergic to steady work, lives by his own rhythms, with a sort of roundabout wisdom and wholesomeness. Played brilliantly by Bob Denver, wish he was more known for this than playing 'Gilligan' although I love GI too.
Zelda Gilroy The woman, and smartest of the bunch; Not completely like Elaine, for instance more overtly in love with Dobie but (like Elaine) enjoys sitting back and pointing out the ways his latest pursuits are dumb and doomed to fail. She's way too good to him tbh
I could go on, Dobie's mom and dad are more regular characters than Morty and Helen but very similar, alas there's no Frank/Estelle that I can remember but Dobie's teachers and authority figures are pretty funny too and the show overall is as cynical/acerbic as one could probably get away with for that time period.
Very underrated, afaik it never got syndicated widely like many lesser shows from the era, I only ever saw it on Nick and Nite in the late 80's. Just getting all this off my chest feels good lol

Now before you nail me to a cross for the heresy I’ve committed, let me explain my self. Indie Animation is extremely impressive. The fact that people are becoming so confident and passionate that they are able to make full on shows with only the support from fans is definitely impressive, and just shows how much big studios are out of touch. I have nothing but respect for the people who work on Indie Animation Projects, both the animators and creators. That being said, a lot of them aren’t good. I would use Hazbin Hotel as an example, but that isn’t exactly “Indie” anymore, so I’ll use Helluva Boss and an example. Now I started off really liking the show. It was funny, nicely animated, and the voice actors gave it their all. But as the series when on I started to lose what made it appealing. It became a shitty romantic comedy drama. The characters that either become daddy issues incarnate are just cardboard cutouts of what their meant to be (or both), and I lost all of what made it funny for the sack of unnecessary drama. Another one I don’t really like is Murder Drones. It tries to both an episodic show while also trying to tell a consistent story, and it just ends up being confusing. I gave up on watching it around episode 2 or 3 because I didn’t know what the fuck was happening anymore. Now, to end this off with a positive note, there is one that I actually like. The Amazing Digital Circus is by far the best Indie Animated Series so far. There are only two episodes, but in my opinion it’s better then the other two I’ve listed. I really like it, and I pray to the lord above that it doesn’t end up being another Helluva Boss

I'm re-watching all seasons and curious if there is anything to look for. Specific scenes, links between seasons (if any?), certain characters, funny moments, etc. I have adhd and sometimes miss important details or scenes on shows/movies.

After spending more than 200 hours on the beta, i played 4 hours of the release.
My opinion ? Revert ALL GAMEPLAY CHANGES or at least makes the game TWICE AS FAST (and that's the bare minimum)
It's HORRIBLY SLOW and feels so bad to play now. Characters are way too big, stages feels so little.
Why did they change the core mechanics ? Why did they change the thing that made this game incredible and special ?
They COMPLETELY destroyed the speed of the game. The game feels horribly slow and every characters feels like playing as a truck. I mained Arya and Harley and now they are slower than the Superman of the beta. Great.
Because the game is so slow you now cannot react anymore to ennemy mistakes the way you could before which makes you whiff even more hits, than still won't be punished anyway because your opponent also won't be able to react, which makes the neutral game a joke.
But the punish game is even worse because you cannot combo most of the time except if the opponent decides to unplug his controller. And even then good luck.
Edgeguards were probably some of the funniest shenanigans of the game and are now basically the least fun part of the game because it's just way too slow. Ladder combos are the only working ones, and even then it works barely. As i said i played Arya which main gameplay ARE ladder combos, and even then they works like 50% of the time.
The zoom makes 1v1 kinda better but makes 2v2 absolutly horrible, which is bad when the whole point of the game is 2v2.
Every projectile characters are unplayable because of the zoom (Tom and Jerry became litterally unplayable because you cannot see Jerry after throwing it, you cannot see most of Lebron balls bouncing against walls anymore....)
This feels more than a beta than the beta.
For none core mechanics issues :

• The rifts are boring as hell because the mechanics are horrible and a lot of minigames feels incredibly unbalanced (especially the tank one, most of the time picking up an item nerfs you ??? The break the target is not fun cause it's too slow, the canon one is kinda funny but that's about it) The gems are also stupidly overpowered so they made ennemies overpowered at later stages which is the stupidest way to balance a game. Or the other way around, who cares it's bad anyway.
• The new skins are just... bad. Most of them are lazy and uninterestings. A new player would recognize Shaggy skins from the beta and tell them apart from the new ones because they are soooooo bad.
• The new economic system is atrocious. Unlocking a new character takes forever, same goes for the perks (which makes it kinda pay to win btw). The old unlock trees of characters felt way better on the beta, the coin system was also better. Some perks are broken beyond any mean possible (try to play Wonder Woman or Superman against the "every dash attacks ignore armor" perk and you'll see what i mean, and it's not even the worst one, trust me)
• The disappereance of a lot of input settings makes absolutly no sense
• The dash attacks are cool on paper but are for the most part completely unbalanced BECAUSE they are for some characters the only good grounded attacks and are WAY too good
• The menus are a mess to navigate through but since it's day 1 play maybe that's why.
• The game crashes a lot (but since it's day 1 release i can forgive at least this)

The ONLY good thing about this game currently is that new stages are good, and new characters also. But i still just cannot get around those new mechanics and i just feel like those stages and characters would have been even better during the beta.
It's a shame cause this game was fantastic, and i only waited for it's release to be incredibly angry at seeing what they did to what possibly was my favorite platform-fighting game of all time (i found it better and funnier than smash bros even) They should revert every changes gameplay wise. Also the new economic system is a joke and not a funny one.
TLDR : You destroyed your game. I genuinely hope you'll revert it. If you will, i'll probably come back to it and even never leave it. But as it is now, it's not worth it. Would'nt recommend, for veterans and newcomers even.

Most other media either have only one writer or they stay mostly consistent despite their various writers. DC and Marvel in particular have basically no consistency. DC and Marvel comics are an almost unique medium unto themselves in that everything varies so much all the time. Not even adaptations are one-to-one. The most "accurate" adaptations are still barely like the concurrent comics.
Characters are constantly changing personalities, character dynamics, relationships, and even designs. Most of these characters are 40+ years old and only barely resemble what they originally did.
I don't know much about Marvel. But, I am pretty sure a large portion of the DC fandom (especially Batman fans) basically don't read the comics. The few that do pick and choose. A lot of fans nowadays won't touch anything made prior to 2000, or even 2011.
The amount of people taking from other fanworks or from adaptations leads to really wonky misconceptions. I've seen enough Tumblr posts trying to debunk common fanon misconceptions.
I write certain character as a villain/anti-villain as he was years ago but a lot of his fans prefer his newer, softer characterization. Other writers have been told they write him OOC and "too mean" when that was literally his characterization in the past.
Warning for referring to sexual assault.
But I was reading this one fic where a character was assaulted by a villain. A fan of his said it was OOC... but it's basically canon. The text never confirmed it but it's heavily implied there was assault. The character in question has a lot of fans because he's "cool" and "funny", plus the comics have tried really hard to ignore this one scene and has all-but retconnned it, so some of his newer fans don't even remember it. The extra weird thing is that the guy is basically a serial killer. Torturing people is fine but rape is too far?
With my fanfics, I mainly stick to a pre-2010s era. I feel a bit weird not including some of the new characters that people love so much, but then again I don't care for them myself. I always make sure to tag my fic so people know it's based on so-and-so era of comics.

Bunnie Rabbot is the best Sonic character in the old comics. I wish they'd bring her back. She's a good character idea.
Antoine is a boring meme character. He is a wuss unless the writers decide he isn't. Rotor is boring and everything he invents detracts from Tails's role as the inventor. Nobody is impressed with the skunk self insert or guy Sally. None of the other Knothole characters have anything interesting going on. Sally's role as the grounded down to earth one is boring, we have seen this a million times in other cartoons already, Sonic doesn't need someone in his ear telling him to think things through. Sonic doesn't rebel against injustice because he wants to restore some "rightful" heir to the throne with a pool of magic orange juice, Sonic rebels against injustice because he is a hero and that's what heroes do.
Look at these Archie comics. They're a mess. I loved going through the Sonic Mega Collection Plus covers as a kid and wondering what stories might hide within them. Turns out they're bad fanfiction. Even when you ignore all the ken penders stuff. They had so long to invent new villains after Eggman died. And they couldn't do it. This franchise is more obsessed with Eggman than the Batman franchise is obsessed with Joker. It can only invent memorable villains when they're evil Sonics or evil Eggmans or evil Eggman minions. Or rarely, evil Echidnas. The IDW staff deserve praise for not repeating this comic's mistakes. I wish they waited a few more years to do the Zombot story. Was a bit too early for something so big.
Bunnie Rabbot is so cool. She has a unique way of talking. This helps her stand out. Her cool mechanical limbs also stand out. Her cool mechanical limbs also stand. Haha, comedy. She works for action stories. She works for emotional moments. She can be written to be fearless and invincible or vulnerable and emotional and it works. She can have a nightmare about her robot limbs. She can talk to someone about it afterwards. She can help the story explore dark concepts without drifting into self parody like Shadow the Edgehog who watched the ATF gun down his sickly adopted little sister with AIDS on the Eggman family's first Death Star of THREE. Seriously, Eggman, watch another scifi film, have you considered Terminators or Sandworms? Bunnie Rabbot is the coolest. She can punch someone from really really far away. I am not attracted to characters with the proportions of looney toons characters but her personality is very appealing. She's awesome, man. They should bring her back. They probably can't but they should do it anyway. What is sega going to do, sue itself?
They should also bring back that little round Eggman fangirl on the grounds that she's funny. What was she, a Chinchilla?

DAY: May 27 2024
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THE CASE FOR OMEGA-3 SUPPLEMENTATION TO LOWER AGGRESSION

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WHAT ARE ALTERNATIVES TO OZEMPIC AND WEGOVY AND ARE THEY SAFE?

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RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION AS A POSSIBLE ASPECT OF POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME PATHOLOGY

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RESEARCH IDENTIFIES BRAIN NETWORK LINK TO STUTTERING

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THYROID DISEASE ISN’T THE END FOR YOUR CAREER PROSPECTS, REPORT FINDS

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STUDY FINDS HIGH-INCOME EARNERS AT LOWER RISK OF DYING FROM STROKE

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD ALLEVIATE LONELINESS, SAYS EXPERT

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ALZHEIMER’S REPORT HIGHLIGHTS IMMENSE CAREGIVER BURDEN—AND POTENTIAL WAYS FORWARD

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US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION APPROVES ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS SYSTEM

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RESEARCH SAYS POMEGRANATES COULD OFFER A SOLUTION TO FATTY LIVER DISEASE

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MAGIC MUSHROOMS MAY ONE DAY TREAT ANOREXIA, BUT NOT JUST YET

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STUDY FINDS FEEDING INFANTS PEANUT PRODUCTS PROTECTS AGAINST ALLERGY INTO ADOLESCENCE

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EATING MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MAY LEAD TO OPTIMAL SLEEP DURATION

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MONITORING THE H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA, BIRD FLU, OUTBREAK

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INTERNATIONAL STUDY REVEALS SURPRISING TWIST IN HOW DIABETES DRUGS HELP THE HEART

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FIRST SEIZURE CLINICS REDUCE THE NEED FOR FUTURE HEALTH CARE, RESEARCHERS FIND

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CELL-TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CAN ISOLATE NEURONAL SUBPOPULATIONS AND LINK THEM TO BEHAVIORAL STATES

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WATCH OUT FOR THESE HIGH HEAT DANGER SIGNS

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STAY SAFE FROM THE SUN AND THAT BACKYARD GRILL THIS MEMORIAL DAY

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HAD A JOINT REPLACED? STUDY SUGGESTS INFECTION RISK MAY RISE AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY

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ANTIHYPERTENSIVES LINKED TO ECZEMATOUS DERMATITIS IN SENIORS, STUDY FINDS

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5-27-2024

RESEARCH INDICATES KIDNEYS FROM DECEASED DONORS WHO WERE ON DIALYSIS ARE SUBOPTIMAL

Receipt of a kidney from a deceased donor who underwent dialysis is associated with an increased incidence of delayed graft function, compared outcomes of transplant recipients who received kidneys from deceased donors who underwent dialysis prior to kidney donation versus recipients of kidneys from deceased donors who did not undergo dialysis in a retrospective cohort study using data from 58 U.S. organ procurement organizations. Among the donors with
5-27-2024

NEW THERAPY PROVEN EFFECTIVE AGAINST REJECTION IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the most common causes of kidney transplant failure. To date, however, no treatment has proven effective in combating this complication in the long term. As part of an international and multidisciplinary clinical study led by Georg Böhmig and Katharina Mayer, Clinical Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Medicine III at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna, a new therapeutic principle in transplant medicine has been found to be both safe and highly effective. The results were recently published in the New England Journal
5-27-2024

SHARJAH UNIVERSITY PATENTS APPLICATION FOR DISTANCE COVID-19 DIAGNOSIS

Smart Identification of Health Status based on QR Code and User Health Data. Credit: author’s own creation The University of Sharjah has been granted a patent for inventing a smart gadget with the ability to filter user information that will allow doctors to diagnose COVID-19 and other ailments from a distance. The patent, granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office on 1 August 2023, comprises “a display unit, a color code detection unit, an image filter, an optical character recognition unit, a code detection unit and an elimination unit,”
5-27-2024

STUDY REVEALS WHERE DELAYS ARE WORST

When it comes to responding to a stroke, speed is a crucial factor; the longer it takes for someone experiencing a stroke to get to a hospital, the worse the outcome will be. Yet across the United States, delays to treatment can be significant. A Yale study uncovers new insights into factors associated with treatment delays and where in the United States patients are more likely to experience slower responses. The findings, which were published May 24 in the journal Stroke, highlight where interventions should

NEW STUDY SHOWS HEAT WAVES INCREASE RISK OF PRETERM, EARLY-TERM BIRTH

The increased frequency and intensity of heat waves due to climate change puts women at a higher risk of experiencing preterm and early-term labor—jeopardizing the health and well-being of their babies. An analysis of 53 million births that occurred in the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas during the 25-year period 1993–2017, showed
5-27-2024

NOISE-CANCELLING HEADPHONES, EARPLUGS AND EARMUFFS—DO THEY REALLY HELP NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE?

Noise can make it hard to concentrate, especially for people who are extra sensitive to it. Neurodivergent people (such as those who are autistic or have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder—ADHD) can experience different sensory sensitivities. Their nervous system may process information differently when they are exposed to sensory experiences such as bright lights, loud noise, strong smells or busy environments. Decreased sound tolerance is estimated to affect up to 70% of autistic people and is described in three ways: hyperacusis (perceiving everyday sounds as loud or painful), misophonia (an aversion to
5-27-2024

MASSACHUSETTS SHELLS OUT NEARLY $400,000 FOR VACCINE RECORD CHECKS IN STATE-RUN SHELTERS

State officials have pumped nearly $400,000 into a program to review the vaccine records of families entering the emergency shelter system, including migrants from other countries who may have foreign documentation, according to the Healey administration. Officials at Boston-based John Snow, Inc., which has long worked with the state, have been contracted to review immunization documents. Since January, more than 1,200 children in state-run shelters have had their records checked, according to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, or HHS. Vaccine record checks have occurred since September 2023
5-27-2024

LAWSUIT ACCUSES FLORIDA’S PALM BEACH COUNTY HOSPITAL NETWORK OF SHARING PATIENTS’ PRIVATE DATA

The Palm Beach Health Network has become the latest health provider accused of illegally sharing identities and private health information of its patients with the social media company Meta, owner of Facebook. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach says the health network’s websites share code with Meta that enables patients to be targeted with advertising on Facebook based on “highly sensitive personal information” they share. It names as defendants the Palm Beach Health Network Physicians Group, doing business as Palm Beach Health Network, and
5-27-2024

CAN THE PLACEMENT OF DENTAL IMPLANTS IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS BE DONE BEFORE RADIATION THERAPY?

Globally, head and neck cancer accounts for 5% of all cancer types, with a mortality rate of 50%. However, in the Nordic countries, head and neck cancer accounts for only 2.6% of all cancers, with a mortality rate of just 30%. But more survivors mean that many must live with extensive damage and side effects
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS CLIMATE CHANGE INCREASES RISK OF CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS OUTBREAKS IN NEW ZEALAND

More cryptosporidiosis outbreaks could be on the cards for Aotearoa New Zealand as extreme rainfall events become more frequent, causing higher levels of the diarrhea-causing parasite to be washed into waterways, public health researchers warn. The researchers studied clusters of cryptosporidium outbreaks around the country between 1997 and 2015 and found 13 coincided with severe weather events. Their research is published in the journal Epidemiology & Infection. It is the first study to compare clusters of outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis to severe weather events in Aotearoa.
5-27-2024

RESEARCHERS EVALUATE IMPACT OF NEW FILM’S MESSAGE ON CHILDREN’S AND ADULTS’ BODY IMAGE, SELF-COMPASSION

Unrealistic expectations about what our bodies should look like—whether from the media, friends or family—make adults and children of all ages more vulnerable to body dissatisfaction, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. In a new study published in Body Image, Flinders University experts assessing the program’s usefulness in classrooms highlight the potential for the film “Embrace Kids,” directed by 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt, to achieve large-scale improvements in body image
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS INCREASED SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS EXPOSED TO EARLY PHASE OF WAR IN UKRAINE

Data Collection in the War-Affected Donetsk Region and Non-War Kirovograd Region. A new study carried out by a multinational research group showed high levels of suicidal thoughts and attempts in adolescents, which were strongly associated with wartime traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Dr. Sanju Silwal from the Research Center for Child Psychiatry in the University of Turku, Finland, one of the lead authors, says that the study was conducted in two regions that
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS SIGNIFICANT DISPARITIES IN THE DELIVERY OF CANCER-RELATED CARE

It’s important to ensure that care provided at US hospitals that predominantly serve Black and Hispanic populations is as high-quality as the care provided at other US hospitals. New research reveals significant disparities in the delivery of cancer-related care at minority serving hospitals (MSHs) compared with non-MSHs, however. The findings are published in Cancer. For the study, investigators analyzed information from the National Cancer Database (which accrues approximately 70% of US cancer diagnoses) to identify patients eligible for definitive treatment for breast, prostate, non-small cell lung, and colon cancers between
5-27-2024

WHO SEEKS $7 BN WITH FUND-RAISING REVAMP

The World Health Organization launched Sunday a new financing mechanism that aims to raise $7 billion of funds that can be deployed more quickly and flexibly. The UN agency has traditionally relied on commitments from its 194 member states, but often these are apportioned to specific projects with several conditions attached, including deadlines that can prove too short. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said commitment increases would contribute $4 billion to the agency’s budget of $11.1 billion over the four years through 2028. “The Investment Round aims to mobilize the
5-27-2024

SECOND PERSON DIES OF CHOLERA ON FRENCH ISLAND OF MAYOTTE

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia A 62-year-old woman has died of cholera in Mayotte, bringing to two the death toll from the epidemic on the French island in the Indian Ocean, health authorities said on Sunday. The woman died on Saturday at her home in Mamoudzou, the capital, the ARS health authority said in a statement. “Response teams went to the scene to disinfect the home and take care of the deceased’s family and friends”, the statement added. In May, the disease claimed its first life
5-27-2024

ALTERING CELLULAR INTERACTIONS AROUND AMYLOID PLAQUES MAY OFFER NOVEL ALZHEIMER’S TREATMENT STRATEGIES

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research by identifying a novel way to potentially slow down or even halt disease progression. The study, which focuses on the role of reactive astrocytes and the plexin-B1 protein in Alzheimer’s pathophysiology, provides crucial insights into brain
5-27-2024

BRAIN DAMAGE STUDY REVEALS PART OF THE BRAIN NECESSARY FOR HELPING OTHERS

Our willingness to help others is governed by a specific brain region pinpointed by researchers in a study of patients with brain damage to that region. Learning about where in the brain “helping” decisions are made is important for understanding how people might be motivated to tackle large global challenges, such as climate change, infectious disease and international conflict. It is also essential for finding new approaches to treating disorders of social interactions. The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, was carried out by researchers at the University of Birmingham
5-27-2024

IMPROVING AI LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS HELPS THEM BETTER ALIGN WITH HUMAN BRAIN ACTIVITY

NSP as a computational account of discourse comprehension. (A) Humans integrate words and sentences to achieve a full understanding of discourse. In LLMs, the NSP task proposed by BERT can serve as a computational account of human discourse comprehension. (B) Illustration of the MLM task. (C) Illustration of the NSP task and its relevance to the Mason and Just model. (D) Illustration of Mason and Just’s neurocognitive model of discourse processing. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn7744 With generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforming the social interaction landscape in recent years,
5-27-2024

STUDY EXAMINES METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING OF BREAST CANCER TUMORS DURING NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists have made significant strides in understanding the complex interplay between the immune system and cancer metabolism in breast cancer treatment. The research
5-27-2024

RESEARCHERS EXAMINE EVIDENCE FOR A NOVEL NEURONAL MECHANISM DRIVING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

An international team of clinicians and neuroscientists have published a new perspective on the process of neurodegeneration. Their findings review evidence for a mechanism upstream of amyloid including the key neurochemical driving this process. The paper, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, focuses on a selective group of neurons (“the isodendritic core”). These cells have a different provenance from neurons in the rest of the brain and have previously been identified as primarily
The research, by a team from Finland’s University of Helsinki, National Institute for Health and Welfare, and Turku University of Applied Sciences, is published in
5-27-2024

WHO CHIEF URGES COUNTRIES TO QUICKLY SEAL PANDEMIC DEAL

WHO countries have spent two years seeking an agreement on tackling pandemics. The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. Scarred by COVID-19—which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems—nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week’s World Health Assembly—the annual gathering of WHO’s 194 member states—the deadline for concluding the talks.
5-27-2024

STUDY DEMONSTRATES HOW GUT MICROBES PROCESS STEROIDS—USING FLATULENCE

It turns out flatulence can serve a purpose beyond being uncomfortable or funny: Gas released by some gut bacteria stimulates other gut bacteria to produce a hormone involved in pregnancy and in an FDA-approved treatment for postpartum depression, according to new research led by Harvard Medical School scientists. The work shows how gut bacteria can produce new hormones from steroids in bile and, in doing so, act like an endocrine organ. This research adds to the growing list of ways gut microbiota may influence human
5-27-2024

PHYSICAL FRAILTY MAY PUT PEOPLE AT GREATER RISK OF DEPRESSION, STUDY FINDS

Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings—which also include insights into the specific inflammatory molecules and changes in brain structure that could underlie this association between frailty and depression—point to a need for routine assessment of physical frailty in clinical practice, researchers said. The study was published May 23 in Nature Communications. In clinical settings, physical
5-27-2024

RESEARCH TEAM RESOLVES STRUCTURE OF CRUCIAL ENZYME FOR THE FIRST TIME

For the first time, a team co-led by CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, Alexey Pshezhetsky has succeeded in resolving the unique structure of the HGSNAT enzyme, a deficiency of which causes Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare pediatric disease affecting the central nervous system. Through collaboration with a team from Shanghai University, the structure of this enzyme and the mechanism of its function were revealed using high-performance

I’m so down bad for the characters that aren’t even in the series like Theo and enzo literally have me in a chokehold it isn’t funny.

I've noticed since a few days in that my keyboards wasd keys when pressing on key to another causes a delay. for example if im pressing D and i press A and back to D it will not process the press of the third button. for some reason going from one key to another causes the keyboard to "stutter" . i thought it was my mouse not working properly but i recently changed out my mouse and I'm getting the same weird issue where im aiming and trying to strife left and right and its not moving in the correct direction. sometimes pressing forward then pressing reverse to still moves forward for .6 to 1.2 ms then backwards ( not literal times , just for reference) it is almost as if I'm lagging but not. I get times where I'm pressing wasd keys and it will play them for multiple seconds at a time after ive pulled my hands away. at times i can press keys in succession and pause as if i lagged it will reply all keys until completion no matter the combo. Just delayed Can't quite record it but believe me when I say it's like it's glitching or lagging. it's almost as if a ghosts typing for me seconds later at time. I've tried 3 keyboards same issue, I've reset drivers, reinstalled... I've held the power button on pc to reset ...ive reset pc a few times and i still come across this issue. the video bellow is unlisted, but it shows me quickly pressing a and then d key over and over video shows character taking multiple steps instead of just one
ive also switched usb ports.. i see no increase in my cpu or gpu latency, no visual stutter. Just keyboard seems to cut out from time to time and my character moves around like im losing internet connection (confirmed in 5 games , and 3 keyboards)
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Sorry, this might be a little silly but I’m trying to remember what the full quote to what a cartoon character said.
It was in a cartoon and one of the characters, at the end of the episode, said something along the line of “ although the memories of this will fade, the mental scars will live forever “.
Im just trying to remember who said it and what the full quote was but I can’t quite remember. All I know is that it happened in a funny cartoon, like regular show or adventure time, the character was a guy, and was short
I would appreciate any sort of help

Im looking for this book!! It's definitely this old graphic novelish chapter book. The main character is named Funny or Funnypants, he wears blue striped pjs and a groucho mask/disguise mask. The cover of the book has these people shaving his head down the middle in a funny style. The plot of the book had the main character looking at the stars and seeing an alien space ship, then he was told to go to bed or something like that. The antagonists are the Space Girls (play on Spice Girls) and they were aliens from space. I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure the Space Girls were actually men that were dentists or barbershop workers. The main character goes and fights the Space Girls/Barbershop men and they tie him up and shave his head down the middle. I hope you can help!! I've searched for it and can't find the book. I also think I've lost the book for it.

Every time you write do it to be a better writer than you were the last time.
Every time you write a story, write an ending and know how the main conflict will get resolved.
Your idea or the basic synopsis of an outline or pitch is not the story.
I often see folks asking about the quality of their general story idea.
When people ask others if their idea is good they do it like a trailer... but there is no product beyond the trailer.
Or, worse, they'll share their basic notes and ask if they are worth pursuing, as though character attributes is what makes a good story.
Does it matter if others like or dislike the basic idea that hasn't even been outlined or plotted?
No, it does not.
Lord of the Rings can basically be reduced to: a small guy has to throw away a piece of trash and it is really difficult.
Would you want to read that if somebody asked you if that was a good idea for a story?
Luckily JRR Tolkein did write it despite the almost ridiculous simplicity of the idea it is built from.
The film The Gods Must Be Crazy also builds a great adventure out of that basic plot.
Whatever you want to write about that interests you is probably the best thing you can write about.
If it truly moves you, it will probably move others.
If it surprises you, it will probably surprise others.
If it scares you, it will probably scare others.
If you genuinely find it funny others probably will, too.
But don't just write something about some subject that intetests others unless it actually interests you, too.
If you like vampires, write your vampire story.
If you like the uncertainty and weirdness of first dates, write a first date adventure.
If you like cruise ship mysteries, write a cruise ship mystery.
Write what you know, and enjoy writing it.
If you don't know the subject and/or find the researching and writing joyless or even pointless, then (unless it's for school or some necessary report or blog or whatever for work) it probably isn't worth your time to write it.
But it's NOT what the story is about that makes it good, it is the way it is written.
So I love this idea because it is very ingenious, it is not mine:

Scientists on Earth are developing a new weapon which would explode light and that scares Aliens and they come to warn us and threaten us and stop us.
If we would explode light, that could cause a chain reaction that would effect all light, everywhere in the Universe, at the rate of quantum tunneling, and that would destroy the Universe.
Humans ignore the warnings and continue with scientific progress toward the Solaranite Bomb, and so the Aliens use electromagnetic manipulation to reanimate the recently deceased to attack Humans, instead of direct confrontation from the Aliens.
This almost leads to a worldwide zombie panic.

It just ends there; this is the basic breakdown of Edward D Wood, jr.'s Plan Nine From Outer Space long and wide considered by many to be the worst movie they have ever seen.
The final bit that I left out is:

Instead of a worldwide panic, an alien spaceship catches fire and blows up... but it is just one of the many alien ships... and then it just ends.

Ed Wood was long considered the worst director and screenwriter who ever lived, though, nowadays thanks to direct comparison with movies like "The Room" and "Vampire Men Of The Lost Planet" readily available at the touch of a finger, we can see that he wasn't all that bad--but was bad--but also had a few glimmers of obvious genius in his work.
What to do with your idea:
A story goes: situation leads to conflict leads to resolution which becomes a new situation or resolves the entire story.
When the primary conflict is resolved, the story ends.
Scene is long and drawn out like a setup and sequel is abrupt like a punchline and it either leads into a new scene or concludes a chapter or ends the whole story.
Your primary conflict and what it leads to could be anything at all but I want to illustrate with this classic exercise:
Get a man up a tree and have him realize he is afraid of heights. Now get him down.
Situation: Man climbs tree. Primary Conflict: Man is scared of heights and cannot get down. Resolution to Primary Conflict: Man gets down.
When the primary conflict is resolved, the story is over
Scene is his climb and sequel is the realization he is afraid to climb down which leads to scene he ponders a way down leads to sequel it won't work OR sequel he gets down.
If it's sequel it won't work and he is still up the tree then that leads to scene he must try something else. Perhaps a stranger will come by and he can ask them to help him down which leads to sequel the stranger climbs up the tree to help or runs away to get help or throws a rock at the man causing him to fall and he is down.
If it is sequel the person climbs up the tree to help, that leads to scene you now have two people stuck up a tree tying to figure out how to get down.
If it is sequel the person runs away to get help then that leads to scene the man wonders what kind of help will come which leads to sequel the person returns with a tool to help the man get down or the person returns with more people.
If it is sequel the person returns with a tool that leads to scene setting it up and sequel the man gets down.
If it is sequel the person returns with an axe and/or a saw that leads to scene cutting down tree or cutting limb from tree which leads to sequel man is down.
If it is sequel person returns with another person that can lead to scene two people help each other climb up the tree and sequel all three are stuck.
Or that can lead to throwing rocks at the man or forming a human ladder or getting the fire department or stopping traffic to get a ladder off a work truck or confusion about the nature of the emergency bringing a poison control unit out to the tree and they park their truck next to the branch so the man can climb down and just before he reaches the ground they grab him and strap him to a gurney and then they go through all standard poisoning emergency activities like feeding him ipecac and pumping his stomach or maybe the army gets called in and there's a miscommunication about troop movements leading to a huge war or maybe a portal to parallel universe opens and the man walks through it and he becomes the tree and then he finds another portal and it comes out two feet above the branch he was already stuck on so he goes back through and no portals open again anywhere ever or maybe anything you can imagine.
But when the primary conflict is resolved, when the man gets down, however he gets down, the story is over.
The hero may get the girl (or guy) and the gold (or fame or power) but as soon as the primary conflict is resolved--as soon as the plans are transported, delivered, and acted on, the story is over.
Consider the plans from Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the recovery of which were Darth Vader's initial reason for overtaking Princess Leia Organa's Corellian Corvette The Tantive IV, those were the plans which she input into Artoodeetoo that "he" has to get to Obi-Wan, plans that Obi-Wan Kenobi has to get to The Rebels, and it is in an attempt to deliver the plans to the Rebels that, along with Han, Luke, Chewie, Artoodeetoo, and Ceethripio, He discovers the remains of Alderaan as an asteroid field, and when Han Solo decides to pilot The Millennium Falcon over to a small moon, to recalibrate the obviously malfunctioning--or is it?--hyperdrive, they all together discover that it's not a moon, it's a space station, but that's impossible because it is over 2,000 km across, and then they have the opportunity to rescue Princess Leia, who they do rescue and who knows how to extract the data from Artoodeetoo and she knows the way to the secret Rebel stronghold hideout where they need to deliver the plans to, Yavin IV, making Obi-Wan redundant, so Darth Vader kills him, which raises the stakes for Luke, who saw Obi-Wan fall, and to whom the stakes are now as high as they already were for Leia, who saw her home planet destroyed; and so, she told Han how to pilot The Millennium Falcon to the Rebel stronghold hideout where Luke would become a Rebel pilot, and, there, she implemented the plans for their initially intended ends which culminates in Luke's destroying The Death Star, which was the space station they had already been aboard, you'll recall, where Luke had seen Obi-Wan fall; and so, Luke got his revenge; and so, Princess Leia got her revenge, since that was the space station that destroyed her world; and so, Darth Vader's dreams were dashed because Han showed himself to brave enough to go into battle and good enough a pilot to shoot him down; and so, the plans, from the very start of the movie, no longer matter because they were Death Star destroying plans and they had been used to destroy The Death Star, in a way that tied-off a bunch of loose-ends at once in a satisfying climax, and the story is over; and the medal-giving scene seems to just be there because John William wrote a heroes' march and they had a bunch of extras standing around, and unused dressier costumes as opposed to the uniforms and casual-wear costumes worn elsewhere throughout the movie, and so, George Lucas opted to include the medal-giving scene, but the story really ended when The Death Star blew up.
The preceding story description will only really make sense to someone who has both watched Star Wars and read the official novelisation.
Your writing will only get anywhere if you rewrite your story so that it can make sense to someone who doesn't have your personal frame-of-reference and cannot imagine through your mind.
A sentence is a noun and a verb: a thing and an action.
A story is a series of statements about characters and/or things doing things with other characters and/or things with other characters and/or things and/or for other characters and/or things and/or to other characters and or things and/or against other characters and/or things generally for the benefit of themselves or to aid or injure some other character and/or thing, or for some greater ideal than themselves in heroic self-sacrifice for faith that this act will help others survive.
Do this for every character in every new scene:
Who? Do this for every character and every action and every perspective.
What? Do this for every character and for every object mentioned and for every specialized location.
When? Do this with every sentence. Maintain a chronology as a fluidly ordered sequence-of-events and actions, and make sure the reader knows the time of day.
Where? Do this for every location, every character, and every object.
How? Do this for every action and for every sequel and for every situation and for every conflict and for every resolution.
Why? This is unimportant unless you really want to spend the time psychoanalyzing your idea of your character and maybe plotting an entire life history, and perhaps even going so far as inventing a whole history and prehistory for your entire world.
Some do.
Consider the chronology of these examples:
The shot that made [EXAMPLE VILLAIN]'s head explode like a snowball thrown hard at a brick wall was fired after [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] picked up the explodiola gun from the table. [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] had leaned forward to grab it by extending their arm across to it, and then they cocked the hammer back whlie they were turning around. [EXAMPLE VILLAIN] called [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] a weenie and, then [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] said "Hasta mañanas, Poopsie!" and finally put their finger to the trigger and then squeezed it back. [EXAMPLE VILLAIN] had been performing [STOCK "EVIL ACT"] and wouldn't stop.
Versus:
[CHARACTER EXAMPLE] leaned forward and extended their arm as they reached their hand across the table and then grabbed the explodiola gun. Then they spun around, cocking back the hammer, and then faced [EXAMPLE VILLAIN] performing [STOCK "EVIL ACT"], and they wouldn't stop, they had, in fact, called [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] a weenie; so [CHARACTER EXAMPLE] said, "Hasta mañanas, Poopsie!", stuck their finger to the trigger and squeezed it back. [EXAMPLE VILLAIN]'s head exploded like a snowball thrown hard at a brick wall.

I've played a few dozen games, and I'm just heartbroken. :(

• Standing A can't combo anymore and it lost its ability to be canceled during charge. So, Arya can no longer use it as a bait. Arya also doesn't step back as far. Right now, this move is simply usable because people don't know how to counter it. In the coming days, it's going to be near useless. It's easy to counter. It has a great hitbox, but it cancels so late that if you hit, you get nothing, and if you miss, you're... well probably dead haha
  
• Nair also lost so much usability. Since approaching is so much slower, she can't navigate through busy fields to find the right angle; even when she can, the move no longer can be canceled effectively, and as such isn't usable as a proper combo starter. Previously, it was one of two combo starters that allowed her to pressure. Now, it's usecases are limited, and if you hit a baited player on the ground (which is not an easy task), it no longer results in a combo being started.
  
• Utilt still has no combo factor, and is a pointless anti air since quickjump upair will cover more space and comes out more quickly. It can be used as a kill move in very specific circumstances, though. (For instance, hitting jab1 on a platform facing the center of the stage when they're at high percent)
  
• Dtilt actually received a small buff, allowing her to choose which direction she attacks in. But still can't combo at all. (Been this way since beta 1!)
  
• While Face Steal has a lot more combo potential, it's not making her any more viable. Sure, she could add one small hit in the beginning, and replace the uair or fair at the end with a possibly strong hit! There's definitely some hidden tech that will be matchup dependent, but it's important to note that she lost her single strongest edgeguard tool with the stun being gone. Not to mention, every application of the face is different. It used to be whatever the Nair was. Now, she has a grounded neutral B, and an aerial neutral B. Problem being is that it's not always those moves. Most of the time, in the air, it's the UpB. Like Bugs' Hammer. But it's also Taz's tornado, and... Diana's Upair??? There was just random moves assigned. AND, it's a special activation now, meaning you can no longer juggle effectively with these, as you lose your specials just but doing upB into the stolen ability.
  
• Her knife is so bad. They drastically increased the start up of the throw, making its value as a whiff punish nonexistent. They also reduced her ability to dash around obstacles? She just hits walls now. I can't imagine why they would do this.
  
• UpB? They reduced the hitbox size. Or maybe, they kept it exactly the same, but didn't account for the character models being wildly increased?
  

The game's new speed also plays much better to characters with projectiles, or who aren't forced to engage. Characters like Superman and Jason who also have armor or large hitboxes are given more leeway. Finn is generating waaay more money; Diana's whip is usable at all lengths; You can't dodge into Jab anymore, so Jake's Punch has no natural way to out play him; Batman's hitboxes are still an affront to god.
Arya received no new direct perks, and her moves from the previous iterations of the game that had fewer usecases than the rest of the cast's (standA, utilt, dtilt) all got demonstrably less usable.
Oh, and don't forget her dash attack. Great kill move, it they don't fall out of it! I can't fathom how they can create this character who has received the most complaints about people falling out of her attacks, and were just like "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if we did it again ahahaha"
It doesn't feel like her moveset was considered at all during these changes, and that the moves themselves are just pasted over without giving time to establish an understand of how she would be impacted. With three of her attacks generally being worse, and her Jab1 no longer as accessible (due to the addition of the Dash Attack), she's in a significantly worse position for neutral, and a worse position for her 50/50 game off of her non-true strings, and a slightly worse position for comboing.
Nothing in melee flows well, and her only projectile is horrid. The fact is, to me, she's no longer fun to play. I am Jack's incredible sorrow.
And what's weird, is that Arya was fairly ever-present during all iterations of the game's lifespan in competition. She was popular enough that you wouldn't wait long before running into her. And yet, even after all this time, she's an afterthought. She has the fewest (I think) collectables in the game. That being avatars, skins, emotes, etc. She has received the fewest amount of direct changes coming into this game, and there's no evidence to support a furtherance of inclusion from GoT/HotD from the trailer, recent marketing, or even (tmk) the datamining.
In fact, recent skins listed show she's not getting a thing:

• DC Bombshell Wonder Woman
• Earth-0 Harley Quinn
• Ex-I.C.O.N. Agent Morty
• Golfer Marvin the Martian
• Anti-Life Superman
• Historical Friction Steven
• I.C.O.N. Director Sanchez
• Knights Must Fall Bugs Bunny

As well as multiple skins for pride month, which didn't include Arya. In fact, Arya hasn't received a skin since... well, ever? She came with two extra costumes in beta, one got removed, and was replaced with... a Christmas sweater tacked onto her base avatar lol For reference, Banana Guard launched with 1, Jason launched with an "Uber Skin", Joker received 2, and Marvin has 3 (with another on the way)! There's not even any voice lines in the datamining that suggests any GoT characters. The pipeline is empty, tmk. And with HOTD Season 2 coming next, month, there's little chance there will be a better opportunity to drop it. Maybe towards the season finale in August?
Still, Arya feels like relic. A character lost to a time that's past. It's hard to not take offense to the state of the character, when she was the sole reason I wanted to play the game... The game is just so awkward and slow now, and Arya's place in it seems to be so drastically limited that I can't imagine I'll be playing for much longer.
PS: They even took out Arya's ability to change form to taunt at the end of the game. Hardest nerf of all.

God, she reminds me of myself. Studying psychology, but never quite getting it. Able to relate to really logical characters like Sheldon, while also doing her best to be socially aware. I just watched an episode where she wasn't invited with two other characters to go bridal dress shopping and she was extremely hurt and basically thought they were shunning her like people have done to her her whole life. It was so sad and hit a nerve with me but there was like a laugh track for it being a funny TV show. It just hurt to see.... Anyone else relate to her?

So I'm playing my first Fire Emblem game, the Blazing Blade on Switch Online and I named my character Brendan, since it's my name. Then later in the game I heard that a guy named Brendan was the leader of the Black Fang so I kept expecting a reveal where your PC was secretly their leader. Obviously didn't happen, I thought it was funny and wanted to share how the game bamboozled me haha

Several random questions have popped into my head while watching Bridgerton over the years. They are ridiculously unimportant, but if anyone knows, I'd love if you'd take a crack at it:

• I noticed Lady Whistledown (as narrated by Julie Andrews) rolls her "r's". Is this just a character choice you think Julie Andrews made? Why? I am American and thus very unfamiliar with the nuances of various English accents, but I don't think I've ever known an English person to roll their "r's". Please enlighten me...
• I just have general questions about titles. Is Anthony the viscount of a certain province? If so, what is it? I also want to know about Lady Danbury's title per her deceased husband. What was Herman's title?
• I've noticed a couple scenes over the years where the audio and visuals do not sync. In the first season when Daphne gets out of the carriage to prepare for her presentation at court, Anthony walks up and says something. At the very end of his line, it cuts to a different angle of him, and he's still talking, but his mouth is shut. Hahahaha... I also noticed something similar in season 2 when the Sheffields come over for dinner. Lady Sheffield says something, then it cuts to another angle where she's in the background. When it cuts, she is finishing a line, but her character is taking a huge bite of food, so the audio is just... Weird. Lol. I believe the last word she says is "care," and it's totally drawn out in a weird way, I think to reflect that she is taking a bite. Idk if anyone else has ever noticed this, but every time I hear it (because I have watched each season probably more than 50 times... heh), it makes me chuckle.
• On that note, I've also noticed some repeated/fumbled cuts. In the first season when Daphne is at Will's boxing match with the Prince, she notices Simon rolling up his sleeves (like, weirdly high, by the way) and is distracted by it. I noticed that when the camera pans out to show more of the boxing match, it shows this very scene again of Simon pushing up his sleeves, even though it already happened. Additionally, in season 2 during the gazebo scene between Kate and Anthony, there is a shot of them lunging at each other, then it quickly cuts to a slightly different angle and shows the end of that same lunge - like it repeats that last same little part but from a different view. When I first saw it, I was like, "Oh, it's just an editing choice to emphasize the explosion of this moment," but since seeing it several more times and considering the way Bridgerton is typically editing, I feel it's inconsistent and, perhaps, a mistake?
• Even though it's been mentioned in the podcast before and is thus well-known to this community, I must give an honorable mention to Lord Fife being on two sides of the ballroom at once in that Featherington ballroom scene in season 2. So funny.

Can't wait to hear your answers! Does anyone else have anything like this? Please share if so. I don't know why, but I get joy out of these silly little things.