Why is it being removed? Was it causing bugs or were killers raging over it?

I never saw anything wrong with it. Saved my ass a few times as a survivor, but as a killer I was never really affected by it.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies, hopefully we will see it return! I thought it was a super fun item.

Everyone (it seems) who has lit firecrackers at some point in the past have stories to tell about accidents, injuries and "just missed" incidents that happened to them.

Here are a few that happened to me. Our family doesn't light firecrackers any more, and some of these incidents are partly the reason.

• You know those rockets that you keep in bottles to point them upwards before lighting them? I lit one, and just as it started sizzling, the bottle toppled over, pointing the rocket straight towards me. The rocket took off in a horizontal direction, straight towards me. It missed me, but it did hiss around crazily for its entire duration, hitting several obstacles, and narrowly missing a bunch of kids nearby.

• When I was a kid, my mother lit a vishnu chakra (example). It behaved well until the very end, when instead of just dying it exploded with a bang. My mother's hand was burnt till the elbow. Luckily burns were superficial.

• Teens have this game where they keep a "bomb" inside a metal tin (a Milkmaid tin, for example) - when the cracker explodes, the tin goes up in the air, sometimes about 15-20 feet to everyone's delight. Except one time when the tin, instead of flying up in the air, simply got ripped to pieces and the shards went flying everywhere. It was a miracle no one lost their eye that day.

In Italy, a kid wanted to work with the OC so he threw some firecrackers at the boss. World class stupidity, but a learning moment nonetheless. If Tony had taken inventory of any stunads around his crew Matthew Bevilacqua and Sean would have immediately stood out as two youths who could be put to good use and guided, opposed to their own ‘throwing of firecrackers’ moment in shooting Christopher.

Any other learning moments in the show Tony missed?

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#Exciting changes!

• Cenobite voice lines are back, now featuring Doug Bradley

• New voices for Lisa and Cybil

• Adjustments to visual feedback from rejected hits (Dead Hard/Pallet Validation)

• New Toggle Feature for interactions

• Beta features are LIVE (Even for console.) This time around, you can optionally replace the wiggle prompt with skillchecks. Simply turning on the beta will net you 20,000 bloodpoints per match up to 10 matches.

• Add-On updates to Twins/Clown/Huntress/Oni/Blight/Pig/Nemesis/Cannibal

• Survivor masks are removed for Cannibal face customization

• Player's that completed at least one trial as The Cannibal prior to this patch will be awarded 6,000 Iridescent shards.

#Perk Updates!

Survivor

• Boil Over strafe intensity is now 100%. Hooks obscured for 16 meters. Falling from a height earns 25% wiggle progression.

• Distortion now has 4 tokens

• Power Struggle now activates at 15% wiggle

• Buckle Up now reveals the killers aura when picking up a survivor for 10 seconds

• Wake Up powers exit gates 25% faster

• Circle of Healing decreased healing speed bonus to 75%

Killer

• Gearhead activates whenever a survivor is injured by any means. The first great skillcheck now reveals the aura of a survivor for 10 seconds.

• Remember Me no longer requires basic attacks

• Coup De Grace now increases lunge distance by 80%

• Furtive Chase now allows stacks to be kept when Obsession is killed

• Dead Man's Switch no longer requires the Obsession

#Quality of Life

• Nurses code was rewritten; fixing multiple bugs.

#Killswitch

• The Haddonfield map and the Strode Realty Key offering have been disabled.

• The Coldwind Farm - Fractured Cowshed map has been disabled.

• The Crotus Prenn Asylum - Father Campbell's Chapel has been disabled.

#Reinstall the whole game!

• Optomization for patches. Will require a full game reinstall to accommodate new code, and future patches will be significantly smaller!

#Lunar Event has begun!

• Earnable cosmetic rewards for David King, Jane Romero, Kate Denson, The Trapper, The Clown, The Nurse, and The Artist.

• Red Envelopes, Lunar Toolboxes, and Firecrackers will be available in bloodwebs. Toolboxes and crackers will also spawn in chests or myst

And then I went through and compared how many skins champions have relative to their release date; to see how much the memes about champions like Ahri and Lux are true or not.

The results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mGctS7z70fF7a_xK0GXL5V-0a26d__0W_VeDyNTQfuQ/edit?usp=sharing

Quick points:

• The champion everyone should be complaining about isn't Lux/Ahri/Ezreal. It's not even Kai'Sa. It's not even a female champion. It's Sett. With the release of Firecracker Sett; that would be Sett's 5th skin in just over 2 years. The memes about the 6-monthly Kai'Sa skins [which slowed down] are being outpaced by Sett skins.

• Despite this; Ahri/Lux/Ezreal memes are justified.

• More people should be complaining about Thresh and Miss Fortune skins.

• More people should be complaining about the lack of Sion; Zilean and Viktor skins. You see the likes of Skarner; Urgot and Taric brought up a lot, but these three you don't see mentioned much. Zilean is the overall loser; with the least skins of the OG20. To put it into perspective; despite Zilean being released for a literal decade longer than Sett; next patch Sett will have more skins than Zilean.

• If you were released between late 2014 to the end of 2016 and your name is not Jhin or Ekko; Riot has forgotten you.

• With the release of her upcoming Skin+Prestige; Lux takes the title for herself of most skins in the game.

My message to Riot:

As I said, I'm missing 4 RP for a Jinx skin that's in my "Your Shop". I'm going to be a teacher one day, in like 2 years, so it's kind of expected from me to be creative, but I'm really not. So i apologize in advance because the drawing won't be good at all. It's Firecracker Jinx. Thanks!

P.S. Drawing in paint is pain in the ***, my drawing skills usually aren't that bad!

And picture

Response from the awesome guy Epic Lasagna!: Hello there, Summoner~

Epic Lasagna here ^_^

As the Epic Lasagna that I am, I wish to inform you I added 4 RP x 10, since I liked your drawing and I know how tedious using Paint is (ugh).

I hope you and your soon-to-be purchase will wreak havoc on the Rift and look awesome while you're at it!

As an off-topic, good luck on being a teacher and since you're already a passionate gamer, you will bond more with the younger generations ^_^

I just want to say that Epic Lasagna is an awesome dude!

EDIT bad word

I dislike a lot of cards in this game, most of them are just unfun to play against. Like balloon for instance, I don't like balloon because it requires very specific cards to couter. It's a flying tank that deals alot of damage. Not fun, but it is fair. Most cards in this game are fair to play against. Except one card

The firecracker is an unpredictable glitchy mess that never does what the opponent or what you want it to. It's a loose cannon.

A firecracker placed in the middle is about the most frustrating thing i have seen in this game. It has an absurdly long range and even longer if you account for the fireworks after it has shot. This causes seemingly random movement for the card.

One moment the firecracker goes one lane, so you put some pressure on the other lane. As the firecracker is walking, it might randomly see your push on the other lane and decide to target it. Alright, fireball it. But no, the your troop is as good as dead so the firecracker stops targeting that direction, I anticipate it walking forward because it looks like it gave up it's shot. Then it randomly shoots anyway. At nothing. Things like this happen regularly.

It also has a broken fire rate, you can't see if it has retargeted or not. Sometimes it looks like it's about to shoot and then randomly stop and walk forward again. Sometimes it shoots at nothing. Sometimes it retargets forever.

And then I haven't even talked about it erraticly changing lanes. It might stand on one lane, shoot, pushed to a different lane, and STILL walk to the original lane it was placed on!

Please fix the firecracker.

I suggest fixing it's weirdly slow and unpredictable fire rate and make it faster, fix the animations so it's clearer wether it's about to shoot or not and decrease the fucking range, this will prevent it from randomly seeing cards placed on a different lane.

Thanks and have fun

Overview

This doc is a quick highlight of what I view as resources in B4B. I have more than 300 hours in B4B, most of that in Nightmare, and decades of experience in the full gamut of resource management games.

L4D and L4D2 were run-n-gun zombie shooters. They were a blast. B4B is an in depth, resource management game in a zombie shooter shell. You can play B4B however you want, but if your interest lies resource management, this is the guide for you.

My goal is to teach you how to view the game to spend as few resources as possible to complete maps. This in turn will allow you more opportunities to acquire resources to continue winning. The more you can do this, the better you will fare.

Cleaners

Your team consists of four out of eight Cleaners. 70 Combinations of teams. nCr = n!/(r!(n-r)!) = 8!/(8!*(8-4)!).

Each Cleaner has multiple abilities. While you do not have to limit yourself based on your character's abilities, you would do well to pay attention to them. Back4Blood definitely favors the, "The sum is greater than the parts," philosophy in every aspect.

Health

Cleaner Health

Every Cleaner has a Maximum Health, Capped Maximum Health, Current Health, and Trauma Damage. Players may also have Temporary Health. You only need one Cleaner in the Safe Room with 1 Health to complete a map. Everything after that is a bonus.

When your Current health decreases to 20%, you will suffer a Slow debuff to each of your character's Speeds (move, sprint, reload, attack speed).

Trauma Damage

Trauma Damage limits your Cleaner's Capped Maximum Health. Every time you take a hit from a Mutation, they apply Damage and Trauma Damage. Every time you go down, you take Trauma Damage.

Trauma Damage is indicated by the dark red on the player health.

Temporary Health

Temporary Health, shown in blue, will exceed your Capped Maximum Health (Maximum Health - Trauma Damage) but not exceed Maximum Health. It will not prevent you from taking further Trauma Damage*.

You cannot receive Temporary Health while downed, but you can heal while downed.

* Note: In the original version of the game, the Temporary Health prevented all Trauma damage. They patched this, then reverted it because it wasn't working as intended. Currently, it prevents all Trauma Damage, but expect this to change in the future.

Downed Players

• Downed Players get significant damage reduct

The Goal

Acquire, consolidate, and consume resources judiciously so you and your teammates can purchase The Upgrades and resources as necessary.

It is reasonable to generate 6,000+ Copper per map. It is reasonable for players to have 8+ slot Inventories.

The Deck

1. Money Grubbers
2. Share the Wealth
3. Cross Trainers
4. Energy Bar
5. Copper Scavenger
6. Offensive Scavenger
7. Fresh Bandage
8. Saferoom Recovery
9. Compound Interest
10. Bounty Hunter
11. Grenade Pouch
12. Fanny Pack
13. Belt Clip
14. Mandatory PT
15. Cold Brew Coffee

The Deck V2.0

1. Money Grubbers
2. Share the Wealth
3. Utility Scavenger
4. Bomb Squad
5. Copper Scavenger
6. Compound Interest
7. Offensive Scavenger
8. Fresh Bandage
9. Saferoom Recovery
10. Cross Trainers
11. Bounty Hunter
12. Grenade Pouch
13. Fanny Pack
14. Belt Clip
15. Mandatory PT

V2.0 Choices

Bomb Squad is nuts. Moved a few things around to re-prioritize. Math checks out on Utility Scavenger. Getting one free Tool Kit per map is amazing.

The Choices

Money Grubbers is an easy first pick. Once the team picks up 25 stacks of copper, you're getting an extra +75c/stack, and you've netted an additional 975c along the way. On the early levels, which are generally easier, you should be maxing the copper, as long as you don't have a Speed Run timer. If you have a Speed Run timer, check to see which is worth more - Copper for each player of the team or the team's total Money Grubbers.

IE, if you get 500c/player for completing a speed run, that's 2,000c for all 4 players completing the map. But if you have two or players with Money Grubbers and hit 26 copper stacks, that's 1050 additional copper for those players. Two players is 2100, three is 3150, etc.

Share the Wealth is second pick to provide you the option to purchase a Tool Kit on first map no matter which Cleaner you pick, and allows Karlee to purchase a second Kit solo. You don't have to pick this card on your first pick, but I recommend it.

Using Tool Kits on Safe Rooms nets you at least +$50 because a Tool Kit costs $350 and a Cabinet Heal costs $400. Generally, you will also get some combination of 10-12 items: A total of 4 Quick, Support, and/or Offensive Items, a Weapons Case (2 items), 2-3 stacks of Copper (without Scavenger), an Inventory Card (purchasable or freebie), an Ammo Stash, and sometimes a Weapons Parts. Sometimes it throws in loose Offensive Items, too.

Any time you can get more Grenades, you ca

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Team comp
3. Saferoom preparation
4. Walk-through
   1. Section 1 (Up to the swamp)
   2. Section 2 (Swamp)
   3. Bosses
   4. Section 3 (Gravel dump, infinite horde)
   5. Section 4 (Run, Jump, Stairs, Saferoom)
5. Closing

Introduction

One consistent sentiment I see when browsing the sub is players having difficulties clearing Act 1 pain train. It is definitely a challenging level, between clearing the swamp area, dealing with bosses, and the infinite horde at the end of the level. However, I feel like with the right strategy and communication this level can be cleared relatively consistently.

I wanted to share some tips and tricks from my play throughs that made the level easier for me, in hopes that it may help other cleaners when clearing this level.

Some of the details here may only apply to nightmare (I am not sure if the horde is still infinite on Vet/Recruit after jumping over the gravel) but most of this guide should help with all difficulties.

Team comp

The team comp I found to be the easiest for this level is to have:

• Melee: common clearing
• Sniper: for ranged mutations
• Shotgun: debuff, mutations

This can be done with or without a melee (4 guns). However Having a sniper is very cruicial for holding at the end (more on this below).

Saferoom preparation

This is an important phase, as you will need to prepare your inventory for the act, depending on what corruption cards you get, what upgrades you have, current economy, team composition etc.

Inventory

Ideally you have 2 offensive slots, if this purchase is an option during any prior point in the act I would prioritize it as this will come in very handy towards the end. Some important items:

• Flashbang: If you have a boss card, a flashbang is a must, as this will enable you to cancel the horde call and open up a window of opportunity to quickly gun down the boss. Even if you dont have a boss card these can be great for stunning snitchers, tall boys or bruisers in a pinch.

• Firecrackers: These get overlooked a lot, and many players default to pipe bombs. However one of the greatest (and often overlooked) strengths of the firecracker is their ability to block spawns. There are a finite number of spawns on the map, when the number of ridden reaches this cap, no additional ridden will spawn. This is very important for the end (more below).

• Grenade/Molotov: Prioritized after the other two options. They

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Inside a certain L.A. bachelor pad, nothing is happening. That's because Bret Michaels isn't home. He's on tour, terrorizing -- or, as it were, "rocking his way across" -- America. Remember "Hands Across America?" It's like that, but with genitals. Hey! And there's the man himself! Judging by the amount of pancake and eyeliner that Bret is sporting, this season is sponsored by Mary Kay. Bret says that after two seasons of coming up empty-handed in his quest to find his one true rock of love, he started to wonder what the hell he was doing wrong. Oh, Bret. How much time do you have? And then it hit him, like the brass knuckles in the kisser we've all longed for. He spends 300 days of the year on the road rocking, rolling, and partying. You can verify this if you look at the entertainment schedule of a minor casino near you! There's nothing like watching dog races to the tune of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." So, this time, Bret's taking the show on the road. And you know, I remember reading an interview with Bret a while back where he said that he wanted to do a show that depicted what life on tour was really like. VH1 execs obviously replied, "Sold, if we can throw in a score of skanks." And lo, it came to pass. Only one girl can be Bret's rock of love... three.

And wait! This season is replete with a new theme song! "Please let me introduce myself / I'm gonna get you off like there's no one else / Please let me be your flesh and blood / Your dirty secret / Your rock of love / Rock of love." I don't know. It has none of the je ne sais quoi of "Touch my backstage pass."

Without further ado we're in Louisville, Kentucky, at Coyote's Bar. A vaguely southern blonde with a shiny face and giant knockers tells us that if somebody messes with her, they're in for it, and she's going to win Bret's heart. Then there's a pretty girl with dimple piercings who says she's cool and fun and everything a guy would want, and it's okay if she's "a little bit not too smart." Another blonde with giant knockers says that she's been grooving on Bret since the fourth grade, and also is into bondage. A somewhat more mature and normalish looking brunette wonders what the blonde bimbo hell she's walked into. I hope she's up to date on all of her vaccinations. She can smell the tension burning. Um, that's not tension. She says that the whole situation is a pressure cooker waiting to blow. Um, that's not a pressure cooker.

Meanwhile, Bret tells us how

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Hiya kingdomers! It's me again, with another transcript! The first livestream of 2022 occurred, and I can already tell this is going to be an amazing year! Once again, Amanda and Tasha asked me to post this update's livestream transcript on here, as Amanda is still on vacation! All credits go to Mjrod16, Melina, and myself (NittyNitts) on the DMK discord for making this transcript of the livestream.

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Hey Kingdomers! Did you miss me? I’m kidding. My name is Kailey and I’m your temporary Community Manager while Amanda is on vacation. I’m here to help Tasha with Update 56 “Mulan”. And due to technical limitations on both my end and Tasha’s this livestream is pre-recorded but like last time, Tasha is still in the comment section as this video unfolds. So make sure to say hi. If you have any questions, she’s there in the chat to answer whatever you guys have. So without further ado, let’s start!

First up, as always we hope you enjoyed the trivia questions at the start of the stream. Once again, we’re offering 5 Kingdomers one legendary chest and 50 gems for writing the correct answer down in chat. Just a friendly reminder though, please put all your answers together so that our behind the scenes sorcerers can easily vet them and select the winners to be announced at the end of the stream. And make sure to share your thoughts about what you want to see in future livestream sweepstakes. These trivias are really for you guys and we want to know what’s interesting for you. So if there’s a reward you’re really hoping to see in the next livestream, make sure and leave it down in the comments below. We’re gonna go through them and easily adapt to make sure that you guys are having fun with these videos.

Now, time for some mousekeeping. Firstly, even if you aren’t able to tune in today for this video going live, you can still participate in the trivia questions. As mentioned earlier, please make sure you group all of your answers together in one comment to make it easier for our sorcerers to find our 5 lucky winners. We will be picking winners on Monday, January 24th. So you’ll have a few extra days to play some trivia or re-watch the movie if you guys want to.

And finally, from everybody here at Disney Magic Kingdoms: Happy New Year Kingdomers! I know 2022 is still fresh, but I hope

One week ago I had the rug pulled out from under me when my wife suddenly walked out on our family.

#Background

She turned 30 last year and I'm turning 36 in three days. She's very assertive, confident, and short-tempered. A firecracker, as her family would say. In a lot of ways I'm the opposite. I'm quieter, always in my head, and full of all kinds of anxieties. On paper we are a terrible match, but in practice, we compliment each other beautifully: She pushes me out of my comfort zone and I keep her grounded.

We've been together 12 years now, and have been married for 6. We also have an 8-year-old son and a 1-year-old baby with special needs.

I lost my job toward the beginning of the pandemic which allowed me to stay home with the baby and be a stay-at-home dad full time (which by all accounts I'm really, really good at). My wife makes decent money at her job and the arrangement worked out really well. We've been squeaking by, but the whole family seemed pretty happy overall.

#The Breakup

A week ago she got home from work and said she wanted to talk. She sat me down and said she was packing her bags and staying with some friends. This hit me like a ton of bricks, because, as I said, I thought she was happy with our life together.

Her reasons:

• I don't have a job and seem to lack motivation and drive in life
• I'm dumpy when she gets home (because I'm exhausted from parenting all day by myself)
• She wants to experience the independence she never got since she's been with me since 18

She said she doesn't know if it will be permanent, or how long she wants to be apart. She also says there is no other man in her life and she has no plans to start dating yet. She wants us both to work on ourselves, and she is "100% confident in this decision". A few days later she said she's taking off her wedding ring, though I'm not sure why if she's not dating yet. I guess it's a symbol of her independence.

It hurts worse than anything I've ever experienced.

#The Plan

The current plan is for the kids to stay at our house just like normal, but my wife and I will alternate staying with them every week. On the weeks we don't stay at the house, we have to find somewhere else to be. I'm staying with her dad on my off-weeks, funnily enough. I'm not sure exactly where she is staying but I'm sure she has ideas.

On my weeks at the house I will care for the kids like normal, and on her weeks at the house she will care for the kids when she is home and then find b

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The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

The doctor says it terminal.

Just a random crack fic prompt:

During Naruto and Sasuke's first duel at the Valley of the End, Deidara is there, stealthily watching from above. He wants to see the Sharingan in action, since he still wants to surpass Itachi. Let's say he learned from Sasori's spy network that Orochimaru was getting ready to abduct/recruit Sasuke, and so he decided to fly over and spectate.

However, as he watches Naruto get pummeled by Sasuke, he's reminded of his own defeat at Itachi's hands, and he starts to sympathise with Naruto, even judging the chaotic swirling of Naruto's Rasengan to be a passable work of art in the end. As Sasuke leaves Naruto's unconscious body behind, Deidara is overcome by inspiration - what if, instead of simply overcoming Itachi, he were to take on an apprentice, train him to become the world's second greatest ninja artist, and then unleash him on Itachi's little brother, proving once and for all that his art is truly superior to the Sharingan?

And so he swoops in and kidnaps Naruto.

When Naruto wakes up, he doesn't want to cooperate at first, but it doesn't take long to convince him that 1) he needs to get stronger if he wants to beat Sasuke, 2) his teachers in the village haven't been that great at actually teaching him, 3) the guy who's been training for years to overcome the Sharingan might have something to teach him, and 4) explosions are cool. Naruto sends a scribbled note saying "gone on a training trip, be back soon" to Tsunade, who is not amused.

Bonus points if, when he first wakes up and sees Deidara looming over him, Naruto blurts out "Ino?!" Yes, it's an old joke, but come on, you have to use it at least once.

So all this leads to Naruto spending the next two years with Deidara instead of Jiraiya. Which is where the real fun part comes in: Naruto can't learn Deidara's Explosion Release, because bloodlines and stuff, but he is already great at making Shadow Clones, and Explosive Shadow Clones are a thing. So when Naruto comes back to Konoha (casually, not understanding why everyone's making such a huge deal of his training trip with Deidara-sensei - he'd sent a letter after all), his new fighting style revolves mainly around making an army of Shadow Clones and then making them explode in people's faces. He makes Explosive Shuriken Clones, and he throws them with very little regard for accuracy. He blows up stuff in close-range like a maniac, because why not, the fox can heal him anyway. He uses Henge to transform