And no response from Epic. GG

#removethemech

Would autistic people English speaking countries step in to help? Because nobody know how horrible these things are. I've never seen a single person criticising the organisation. I tried to talk but as i am just me it didn't work.

Even former employees of that organisation doesn't talk about it even though they left their job because of how disgusting they are.

They are this way because they are copying autism speaks.

I don't know what to do about this

Context 1: We know very few about the DaOT anyways, but the few we do know only paint a very scary picture on what the DaOT can be about

From my previous post, here, that aimed to clarify what the Men of Gold and Stone were, as well as describing a potential Man of Stone, we now have an idea on what the populations of man were like in the original empire of the DaOT. However, the reality was that it was actually a pretty shitty time for a lot of people involved.

As a reminder, the DaOT's population consisted of 3 separate transhuman races of man, these races consist of the Men of Gold, a genetically engineered master race that arose due to certain levels of selective breedinng, the Men of Stone, a race of cybog intelligences specifically called "organic intelligence, created artificially", and the Men of Iron referred to the Abominable Intelligence so infamously known in the setting. But among these 3 baseline humans are assumed to still exist, and they weren't placed at the top of the totem pole. Instead, they were likely at the bottom, alongside the Men of Gold and Men of Iron, with the Men of Stone at the top. This was because of the fact that during the course of human history, the Men of Stone played the most important role in helping man spread across the galaxy and forming the Interstellar empire of the DaOT:

>JOURNAL OF KEEPER CRIPIAS
>
>Dated in the year of our Emperor 993.M41
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>For seventy long years I have laboured as Master Finnias laboured before me, and Master Shadiel before him, through eight hundred and thirty six generations of Keepers of the Library Sanctus of Terra. It has been our endeavour, our life-long aim, to compile a history of the majesty of the Human Race from the archives which are our worship*. In his benevolent wisdom, the Emperor has granted me the singular and great honour and pleasure of completing this sacred task in my own lifespan.*
>
>Through copious notes and periods of cogitation I have pieced together the history and pre-history of Mankind into the greatest antiquities of time. *Here I have revealed my findings for the first time, for as it was in the time of the First Keeper, Solomon, our knowledge has passed by oratory and not written word. However, in thes

Hi everyone,

Selling all of the items I no longer want or need on my journey towards my dream inventory. All of my items for sale are listed and priced in keys or PCCs (I accept all normal rates as alternatives (pccs, ncvrs, ncrs, cc4s).

When you make a purchase, I will join your lobby with your item(s) equipped for a cool looking design idea. :)

With the free items, I'm limiting it to 5 per item bought.

Upvotes for visibility are always appreciated and returned.

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I’ve seen posts recently about liking my channel better before, that I’ve changed and people don’t like the newer stuff. Posts were:

“Unpopular opinion”

https://www.reddit.com/r/F1NN5TER/comments/ruf1x2/unpopular_opinion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

“F1NN, actually do something”

https://www.reddit.com/r/F1NN5TER/comments/ru402l/f1nn_actually_do_something/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Both have some good points and looking at the replies, they’re mostly agreed with so I figured I would address them both.

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Yeah that’s just what happens, channels have a discovery period where everything’s new and stuffs escalating, channels hit their peaks and then stuff settles down for a while.

I can’t recreate how it was a year ago, I always worried what would happen at this stage of my YouTube/twitch and I’m thankful people are sticking around for me less so the spectacle of how new what I’m doing is.

You have to understand where content creators heads are at with this stuff, I can’t talk about personal problems, fears, or worries publicly because I don’t have all the answers, even understanding them is something I find hard personally, and more relevant; people don’t care, I know you might think you do while you’re reading this but really you’re part of 0.1% of people who watch me and not the majority.

Me offloading every shortcoming I have onto the internet won’t make anything better, it changes your view of me inaccurately and I don’t want my life judged that closely.

I’m pretty happy with the content I make, 100% there’s stuff I want to get better at but there’s very few perfect people. I’m not the best version of me yet and I’m not the best streamer or youtuber ever, I doubt I ever will be.

Also worth noting, this is a lot of stuff I’ve gotta deal with. People expect me to be organising events for discord, promoting the Reddit (something I didn’t create), running 3 minecraft servers and 2 full time youtube channels (post more on the

I wouldn't say it's my favourite show out of all the ones I've watched, but it sure hits me a lot more differently than the others.

Whereas I may lose myself watching Twin Peaks falling in love with Lynch's creativity and uniqueness, or Lost, trying to hypotize what the hell is going on, or Dark, admiring how every little piece falls one with another in the smoothest way, Sense8 is the only show that purely gets me for its characters.

I'm not even that interested in the plot itself, the whole secret organisation thing is one of the oldest tv and film tropes, and the show can lose itself a little in the intricacies of its core concepts such as the visiting thing or the whole science added behind it, I don't care, it's not what appeals to me in this show. It's not what I watch it for.

What I live for, while I'm watching it, are those small moments where the plot just stops, where the character make full use of their ability and just have fun, enjoy one another and life itself, such as the moment where they sing What's Up by 4 Non Blondes, the beautiful birthday party scene, or in the finale, where they take a moment to listen to music and just be happy, or even that final wedding with the fireworks.

The characters are so brilliantly portrayed and written, the actors put all so much passion in it and they have all and incredible chemistry that makes everything so perfect and seemingly effortless, and it's incredible how at the end of the day, in this coral casted story, I end up caring for each of the eight protagonists and their stories, the difficulties they go through and how they help one another when they need to. It's just so great and heartwarming like no other show I've watched.

The love that's portrayed here, especially by the Lito-Hernando and Wolfgang-Kala couples, it's just so real, so raw, so honest, and the show also gets a praise for the unhinged way it showcases the erotism and sensuality that the characters feel and share. Some people may not be into it, some may find it out of place or even offensive, whereas I find it a beautiful way to show the strenght of this telepathic and empathic bond that ties these eight strangers around the world together.

It's a travesty that Netflix found itself not being able to afford this show's continuation,

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This is one of a series of posts where I will apply my fast and dirty historical fundamental analysis to some of the biggest dogshit stocks of the ASX. If you are interested in the process I use below to evaluate a stock, check out How Do I Buy A Stonk???

The Business

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Zip Co Limited is an Australian financial technology (fintech) company based in Sydney. They were founded in 2013 and since then have grown to operate across several countries, including Australia, the USA, and the United Kingdom. As a “Buy Now Pay Later” service, they work with tens of thousands of retailers and millions of customers to provide a flexible payment service that is interest free.

The Checklist

• Net Profit: no year w/ positive net profit. Bad ❌
• Outstanding Shares: a capital raise practically every year L5Y. Bad ❌
• Revenue, Profit, & Equity: R&E growing rapidly, NP consistently neg. L5Y. Neutral ⚪
• Insider Ownership: 20% w/ $66m+ worth of shares sold down L2Y. Bad ❌
• Debt / Equity: 182% w/ Current Ratio of 15x. Neutral ⚪
• ROE: -(57.1)% Avg L5Y w/ -(25.7)% FY21. Bad ❌
• Dividend: no dividend yet paid. Neutral ⚪
• BPS $2.08 (2.0x P/B) w/ NTA 31cents (13.5x P/NTA). Bad ❌
• 10Y Avg: SPS 25cents (16.8x P/S), EPS -(12.9)cents (#N/A P/E). Bad ❌
• Growth: +123.2% Avg Revenue Growth L5Y w/ 151.8% FY21. Good ✅

Fair Value*: $1.69

Target Buy: #N/A

^(*I’ve used a modified formulation to determine fair value, given that this is a tech stock focused on growth. As such, I’ve incorporated a weighting for cashflow based on gross profits per share, rather than including a dividend valuation.)

The Knife

marketindex.com.au

Z1P had quite the year last year. Prior to the Mar ‘20 crash, it fetched a price in the $4 range, and after a pretty brutal fall relative to the market (reaching $1), it recovered… and then some. On the first trading day of June, the stock gapped up 33% from $3.75 to $5.01 at the open. It was on the basis of an announcement that it would conduct a capital raise to acquire Qua

Full video here breaking down the story - STENDEC - The World’s Most Mysterious Morse Code

[Transcript From Video Below]

On Saturday 2nd August 1947, at around 1:45pm, an Avro Lancastrian Mk.III passenger plane known as ‘Stardust’ departed from Buenos Aires, Argentina to make a roughly 3 hour 45 minute trip to Santiago, Chile. On board the British South American Airways flight were five crew members and six passengers, including the Captain, Commander Reginald J. Cook, an experienced and former RAF pilot during World War II. The flight itself was the last leg of a journey which originated from London, with the trip across the Atlantic taking place in a York aircraft, transferring to the Stardust for the crossing of the Andes Mountains.

At around 5:41pm, after transmitting routine communications to the plane as usual, the control tower at Los Cerrillos Airport in Santiago received this morse code message from Stardust:

‘ETA Santiago 17:45 hrs STENDEC’

Perplexed by the final word in the telegram, the Chilean operator requested Stardust’s radio officer, Dennis Harmer, to relay the message back to him, only to hear the same word, STENDEC, repeated loud and clearly twice in succession. After the third time, communications ceased, and the aircraft disappeared, never reaching its final destination. With the plane supposedly minutes away from the airport, the final word from the Lancastrian became shrouded in mystery when the plane, along with everyone on board, vanished into thin air.

Presumed to have crash landed somewhere along the route, a five day effort began by both Chilean and Argentine search teams, including fellow BSAA pilots, yet no trace of the aircraft or it’s passengers were found. The official 1947 report into Stardust’s disappearance highlighted a number of possibilities as to what likely happened to the ill-fated flight, with multiple factors potentially playing a role in its demise.

It was firstly noted that the Trans-Andean journey from Buenos Aires to Santiago can be taken via three routes: The Central (and most direct) via Mendoza, The Southern via Planchon and The Northern via San Juan. The central route via Mendoza was considered to be the quickest of the three, yet potentially the most dangerous depending on weather conditions. Both in London and in Buenos Aires, the pilot, Reginald Cook, had been briefed not to take this option if bad weather prevailed, but despite this advice, C

Most be really nice to never have to use public transport and get free parking on your street.

The nerve of us public transport peasant trying to get around the city. They most protect their right to park their enormous SUV so no road users can enjoy the road safely.

Sandymount residents will next try and ban pedestrians from their streets.

https://preview.redd.it/bwahqfs3ow281.png?width=620&format=png&auto=webp&s=942ebea7bb25f8bfefb50b66eb17c1aede036e34

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/sandymount-residents-seek-change-to-busconnects-route-1.4741141

A group of Sandymount residents is appealing to the National Transport Authority (NTA) to urgently alter the new BusConnects C-Spine route which only came into service on Sunday.

The C-Spine is the second of the redesigned Dublin bus network routes to begin operating, with buses running from Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip, and Lucan, through the city to Ringsend and Sandymount. It follows the introduction last June of the H-Spine from Howth and Malahide.

While the C-Spine routes from west Dublin remain largely as published by the NTA in 2020, the Sandymount end of the route has been altered to remove buses from Strand Road.

The change has been introduced to facilitate Dublin City Council’s plans to begin a one-way system on Strand Road to make space for a cycle path. The High Court in July ruled the cyclepath required planning permission.

Hi all,

This is my first post so I feel like I need to specify some things. I've been become a 49ers fan around 2012 as I started to get interested in the NFL. I'm European and a big soccer fan, I love the tactical and strategic/analytics sides of all sports. I didn't know much about American Football when I started watching, I fell in love with the Niners thanks to Kaepernick, he was very fun to watch and very charismatic I thought (funny anecdote, I thought all QBs would do what he did, scramble and run for a 50 yards TD!).

One of the interesting differences between soccer and the NFL is the lack of a salary cap in soccer. It has made the sport very opaque in recent years when it comes to squad building, title winning windows and so on. However, moneyball and advanced analytics, as well as shifting economics of the sport, some of the NFL principles of sports strategy have started to become popular in soccer. Brentford in the Premier League apply analytics to every department: wage management, contract extensions, selling/recruitment/play style and so on. FSG with Liverpool has basically introduced the Winning Window to soccer: Liverpool have built a very, very good core of players and they're basically in a situation where their wage bill is exploding because their talent recruited very smartly have turned into superstars, so now their best player is in this contract dispute as their stars are aging and will need replacing very soon and they need new funds to reinvest and rebuild the squad.

So I'm very interested in those principles : "All In" like the Rams, "Blow it up and Rebuild" like what Patriots/Belichik did post 2019.

Where do you think the 49ers stand?

This is my opinion, but with the recent loss to the Titans and the looming possibility of not making the playoffs, it hit me how contradictory the building of the roster has been. I am confused with the strategy of the franchise right now.

I was and still am very excited by the drafting of Trey Lance. I read up on the scout reports, I liked that the Niners went with the QB that offers them what they don't have: a guy who opens up the playbook, who can make game-changing big plays, with a very high ceiling (as opposite to a safe choice like M. Jones), who's praised for his processing (as opposed to Justin Fields). I liked the pick, and I'm still hoping there are solid plans to develop the less polished aspects of his game (accuracy on shorts/medium throws/release/throwing motion and so on).

Do your worst!

Well last night, i had discussion about archon's ideals when some users were claiming Venti's way of overseeing to be the best compared to others

I kinda disagree on this, so i wanted to present my argument why i didn't like his way of doing things and how Mondstadt is still not free.

Venti's concept was of total freedom and he left his people so that they can decide on their own about what's the best for them. This alone irked me a lot, since his ideology of totally freedom kinda messed unlike liyue where Zhongli at least let liyue be fully dependent on itself he even didn't gave any kind of guidance, he could have suggested or at least laid bare minimum administration to grow upon but nope. Due to there being no administration in beginning aristocracy soon rose to peak and Mondstadt had to suffer for hundreds of years of aristocrat dominance.

Now he decided to overthrow aristocracy with helping people going against his ideology of letting people decide their own. Afterall aristocracy also grew due to people's decision, and those people were from Mondstadt too. That's going against his own policy of letting people decide on their own. Basically isn't this in a way telling that he can overthrow government if that's not to his liking even if it is chosen by peoples. I know that i am being a bit harsh here after it was people who were suffering but it was him who left them in first place to do whatever they want. If he didn't want to see these situations he should have first laid out a basic way of administration in which representatives are chosen by people instead of leaving a new born country without any rules/constitution on it's own.

We have first to discuss what is even concept of freedom and how flawed is concept of total freedom? A society/nation needs to have rules to work without those rules there will be chaos. Powerful will use their freedom to crush weak. That's why we have constitution and government. Total freedom without any limitations also means freedom to hooligans, crooks, villains, rapist, robbers etc. That's why freedom can't be given totally so idea of full freedom is always flawed to begin with.

Mondstadt recovered from aristocracy and finally there came knights of favonius. But is this the freedom? Isn't it same as being under military authoritarian government? Basically it's KOF who decides what is right and what is wrong, who must be punished and who to be rewarded, what are the rules to be followed etc. They are lucky that

I've been contacted by members asking about reports of Labour's membership figures and financial situation. The specific figure changes all the time for a variety of reasons, but I've written a response explaining the context that I hope members will find useful and informative.

For most of the period 2004-2015 paid-up membership, evidenced by the numbers voting in internal elections, was below 200,000. In 2015 and 2016 numbers surged during Jeremy Corbyn's two leadership campaigns and then the 2017 general election, peaking at around 538,606.

This was followed by a steady decline through to November 2019, with 430,359 ballots issued for the NEC by-elections. A new surge during the 2020 leadership election saw 120,000 members joining or rejoining, taking the total ballots issued to a new record of 552,835 in Jan 2020.

Since then membership again declined, and the last figure reported to the NEC in July 2021 was 430,926 with an additional 35,200 in arrears.

More recent figures are hard to obtain with the cyber-incident resulting in loss of access to membership data. National totals shown on Organise between December 2021 and January 2022 varied around the 437,000 mark, but that will include several tens of thousands in arrears.

My best guess is that paid-up membership is currently still around 400,000, more than double that during most of the Blair-Brown era, and relatively stable. That is supported by numbers in my local party, though every constituency will be different.

Having said that, clearly we could all do more to capitalise on Boris Johnson's self-destructive urges, and build up again towards the next election.

https://twitter.com/AnnBlackLabour/status/1481977637643821056

Hey all,

Long post incoming!

So I want to tell a little about our first DnD (and my first DM) experience ever! Nobody of our 6 people crew ever had played the game (although we are nerds in other games like MtG, 40k and so on) and we wanted to try it out for a long time, as we wanted to create our own interactive world together.

So for starters, I’ve chosen to be DM and pick the „Dragon of Icespire Peak“ essentials edition to get us into the flow. I think it was a good decision as it has plenty of material, but you literally need to make everything up in-between for it to make sense and keep players guessing for the right things, which was the hardest part actually.

So for everyone who tries to start that, too, I’d like to give some basic perspective and some hints as how things could turn out - Also I’d really appreciate some comments from you guys on how you handle some things! Thanks in advance :)

**The setup:**

5 PCs

- Human Paladin (Veteran Soldier; The meditative charismatic „leader“)

- Halfl-ing Bard (Hermit Entertainer; He made the whole group laugh with his actual bad luck and think creatively the most)

- Half-elf Ranger (Hermit Outcast; Not interested in anything society, always having the wrong etiquette in the right time)

- Dwarven Cleric (Grumpy sailor, fights prejudice of his race by teaching values)

- Firbolg Druid (Hermit Sage, Dogmatic on nature and the balance of things)

We had an 8 hour session, directly combining session 0 and session 1 (As the first round of play and first quest) - We wanted to see how it works, right.

You can already guess the complexity I’d tried to control here. I had a lot of notes, but I realized the art of bullet points and refactoring information for other situations along their path, as the game required to flow and I couldn’t look up much information anyways…**For everyone new: Do not try to control the path. Embrace the randomness, this is the only way to a) have fun and b) create a story**

**Starting out in Phandalin**

Given that everyone starts in Phandalin and encounters a job board with 3 quests, I wanted to spice things up and make them a little more linear, and only offered two quests directly via the town master, which ended in one being taken: Umbrage Hill.

This is where the fun begins. We wanted to inject early RP, so obviously they went to the tavern first to see actually meet as a group. I wanted to keep it simple and just had the Tavern owner tell a lit

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

The above is a quote from 'Skinwalker at the Pentagon', on page 174 on the amazon kindle version.

It is taken from--in my opinion--one of the most important pages in the entire book, and subsequently, is one of the most pivotal data points in our attempt to sneak just a tiny peak at those who possess the most incredible secrets. Here is a fuller quote from pages 174 & 175.

"Sacha Mover and Jim Bell (probably pseudonyms) began knocking on doors beyond DHS to connect with the “keepers of the secrets” in at least two other agencies. In these meetings, which took place in June-July 2011, Sacha, Jim, and colleagues were treated rudely and harshly. Bell and Mover were repeatedly told “no, and hell no.” This left Mover and Bell convinced that advanced technology was sequestered under government supervision at aerospace contractors’ facilities. As a result, the DHS officials became very hesitant and even fearful of moving forward. Perhaps Mover and Bell only belatedly realized the unique, game changing, and earth-shattering nature of the biggest secret ever kept by the United States. The vast implications of this secret may simply have paralyzed them.

It’s possible that because DHS was a “new kid in town” and low on the traditional pecking order among long-established intelligence agencies that their requests were viewed as not worthy of serious consideration. After all, with the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002 in response to devastatingly poor coordination between intelligence and law enforcement organizations seen in the wake of the September 2001 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts, opening its doors on March 1, 2003. Therefore, when Bell and Mover began knocking on doors to obtain additional evidence on sequestered advanced technology, the rudeness and hostility shown to them was not just an attempt to protect the greatest secret of all, but a marking of the territory for a young organization less than ten years old that dared to request access to something that had been successfully buried within the bowels of the United States Government for more than 60 years.

Nevertheless Bell, Mover, and colleagues emerged from the June 2011 inter-agency meetings newly convinced that sequestered advanced technology was real and that they had a tiger by the tail i

My day job has started settling down over the last few months which has given me more time to make some much needed, and much overdue, improvements to altHUB. When I first sat down to crush some bugs that had acculumated, I also decided to look at my NZBHydra stats - which I'm sure as you are all aware - look pretty bleak for altHUB.

After a lot of hacking away, I'm happy to release these changes to the public and give everyone a sneak peak to more things that are coming up next year. Feel free to share your feedback here - it would be awesome if a few members set us as their only indexer to see if there are any gaps still lurking (I'm sure there are) and just see what breaks on the site.

• Finally - actual releases, and quick ones at that too! Nice seeing some on time and valid relases on the site again. We're slowly backilling on things we've missed out on over the years, but new releases are there and waiting to be downloaded.
• Dark theme by default
• Some small visual overhauls. No more janky tabs, just info that's important on one screen.
• Sortable results
• Better laid out categories for browsing and search
• Better API response times
• And last but not least, an overhaul on accounts
  • When signing up on the site we have a 14 day trial of a Premium account
  • After those 14 days, if users haven't upgraded, users moved to a Free account, which is free for life
  • Premium accounts see unlimited downloads and API calls
  • Users who were early adopters of the site still have Lifetime accounts and will do so for life
  • As you can see above there are some name changes to accounts try keep things simple:
    • altUNLIMITED is now Lifetime
    • altUNLIMITED Yearly is now Premium
    • altTRIAL is now Trial
    • Expired is now Free
  • Procesing upgrades should also be more streamlined with correct expiry dates
  • We'll also mail you a reminder when your account is about to expire if you're previously had a Premium account

While this isn't a huge list, the point on releases has been a work in progress for the last 3 months so it's a huge achievement for us.

Here's what you can look forward to during 2022:

• Requests
• User NZB uploads
• User set themes
• Even better API and site response times
• Add a report feature
• Better content curation and organisation

Hope everyone has a great break!

Our governments, banks, corporations and any number of organisations that think they're progressive will almost all invariably go through the cycle of doubt and distaste, followed by intrigue and FOMO.

Having worked in a number of organisations large and small, traditional and "cutting edge", and listened to CEO types talk about "innovation" and adoption, I think it is not difficult to predict that, despite all the doubts they sow today about cryptocurrency, they will eventually adopt it.

They are quite easy to predict because they are invariably like this:

• Initially, they're risk-averse. They are fond of reading up on innovation and developments in the industry, opportunities and scholarly analyses (on LinkedIn, probably). They will first encounter and regurgitate many negative reviews on cryptocurrency, for the simple reason that it is a burgeoning technology and therefore unproven. At this stage, CEO types like to speak loudly and authoritatively about how it is bad for you and the establishment.
• They rarely pioneer, preferring to adopt the established. They cannot afford risk. By dint of this, it is rare for most govts, corporations to actually pioneer new things. They may dip their toes in it early, but ultimately, despite all their talk about innovation, they will only adopt what becomes established. This is usually X years down the road after the technology has seen many successes by actual pioneers (e.g. what NFT providers are pioneering now).
• Your CEO/boss will ask you, belatedly, to look into this "new technology". Two years or 3 (maybe more) after the tech is established, your boss or company will quip to you, "Let's look into how we can integrate cryptocurrency into our business" as if it's the latest thing on the market. Boss is FOMOing now. Smile and pray you're not too late.

Examples of past cycles of this phenomenon include ecommerce and social media. Initially frowned upon for being unsecure or uncontrollable (respectively), big organisations and governments eventually adopted them with enthusiasm. I still remember vividly the amount of resistance that social media met from C-suite types, a decade ago.

(All this relates to the well-known Gartner Hype Cycle. Though with regards to cryptocurrency, I am not sure if we are in a Peak of Inflated Expectations or dare I say, are we now in the Slope of Enlightenment...?)

If this post sounds familiar to you, you may remember that this was a topic previously on /r/HobbyDrama in the sweet Summers of 2020. I specifically remember reading this while on vacation. However, the original author seems to have either deleted their account or taken the post down, so I decided to revive the post. Back when Removeedit worked for Reddit posts I could link to the text itself but that unfortunately seems to have shut down.

Anyway, let's get into this:

> What's Critical Role?

Beginning in early 2015, Critical Role is a live-streamed game of Dungeons and Dragons helmed by several popular voice actors such as Matthew Mercer (Jotaro Kujo, Leon Kennedy, Maximus from Leo the Lion), Travis Willingham (Thor, Roy Mustang, this store owner in Nip/Tuck) and Laura Bailey (Rise from Persona 4, the Female Boss in Saints Row 3/4, Kaine in Nier). If you were an anime fan watching dubs from the mid 2000s to the mid 2010s or you just played a video game, I guarantee you heard at least one of these actors in something. It's a veritable who's-who of big name voice actors.

While recording for Resident Evil 6, Mercer decided to give a birthday present to Liam O'Brien, specifically a one-shot D&D game. This was run in the... controversial... 4th edition version of the game, and presumably after Mercer took a visit to his local exorcist, realized the error of his ways. When O'Brien expressed interest in continuing the game, Mercer agreed and they shifted to Pathfinder. The crew share some stories as they go, with it becoming a frequent thing that gets brought up during convention panels as a fun aside. Back before Vine died it was very common to see the actors making Vines of tabletop moments, and some of the original campaign was preserved through Youtube. The team go by the name Vox Machina- latin for Voice Machine, but initially they operated under the name Super High Intensity Team, or... The SHITS.

I will actually be shocked if they refernece that old name in the cartoon. The party for Campaign 1 consisted of:

• Matt Mercer as DM.

• Marisha Ray as Keyleth, Half-Elf Dru

TOP 10 BEST NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR HOPELESS MODDED MINECRAFT MEME ADDICTS (CAN YOU GUESS NUMBER ONE!??)

With a brand New Year arriving tonight, I'm sure many of you are looking back at your empty lives and asking yourselves, "god i'm so sad and empty i wish i could be better..."

WELL, AREN'T YOU LUCKY THAT I'VE GOT THE ARTICLE FOR YOU!!!

With these TOP 10 FULFILLING AND ATTAINABLE NEW YEAR'S TIPS AND TRICKS you can become happier, healthier, funnier (we all need help with that oh my god none of us are funny), better memers and better modded players! It's all so easy that even you can do it!!! 😄😱😄😱😄

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TOP 10 HOT TIPS FOR MAKING YOUR LIFE NOT SHIT FOR MODDED PLAYERS:

#10 : Avoid repetitive and boring meme formats

Are you tired of the same meme formats appearing over and over again? All online activity suffers from a lack of originality, whether that be downloading the sixteenth copper ore mod or posting the sixhundredth virgin vs chad meme, it eventually gets tiring.

Admittedly you lot are actually kind of alright at this, with the exception of the occasional recursive "WE ARE NOT THE SAME" trend, but even that wasn't that bad. But despite that, you are all actually terrible and need to improve your comedy. Before posting something, decide if it's actually original. Of course, for originality you will need a list of predefined meme formats...

That's why you need is our TOP 10 HOT AND NEW ORIGINAL MEME FORMATS:

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• 9. The drake meme but with some random modded boss! - funny the first time!
• 8. Random Image with a caption - Arguably a format!
• 7. The expanding brain meme but each brain is replaced with a stage of Mekanism ore processing - this actually sounds mildly humorous
• 6. Random GIF with a caption - Like 8 but animated!
• 5. XKCD Edits - Allow for lots of creativity!
• 4. Virgin Vs Chad - A classic!!!
• 3. The drake meme but with some random modded mob! - funny the second time!
• 2. Cover yourself in oil - It was funny the first time, it was funny the second time, I'm sure if we do it another fifty times it will still be funny!
• 1. A black square with text on it - Infinite possiblities!!!

If some those actually sounded kind of decent, don't worry, I was surprised too! Anyway be sure to use these (and properly credit me or else i will autocraft lawsuits) and ONLY these, if you use anything beyond these 10 formats you are bad and unoriginal!!!

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Many of you are probably at least vaguely familiar with Neopets.com, one of the biggest browser games of its era and the most popular virtual pet site ever made. Users can adopt, raise and customise their very own virtual pets, choosing from over 50 unique species. At its peak the game had over 35 million users, and over 4 billion page views a month. Odds are you either had a neopets account of your own, or knew someone that did - especially if you're part of its peak audience of 90's kids. It's had its ups and downs over the last 20 years, with many users feeling the site has long been in a slow decline. However, the most recent drama has caused an absolutely unprecedented explosion of outrage and disappointment within the remaining userbase.

Why?

Because Neopets has broken a multi-month long near silence with its playerbase to announce its releasing NFTs.

EDIT:

**What the fuck is an NFT?**NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. It is a form of digital collectible that exists on a blockchain, similar to those the famous Bitcoin uses. The technology of blockchains means that each NFT is verifiably unique. They are bought and sold using a variety of cryptocurrencies. However, it is important to note that while many NFTs are tied to digital artwork, what you are buying is not the artwork. You gain no rights to it whatsoever, nor any exclusivity outside of the NFT world. What you buy is essentially a digital receipt with the artwork on it. NFTs by themselves serve no other function.

The Neopets NFTS will be 20.0k randomly generated pet images to be used as profile pictures.

This on its own would have been a pretty unpopular move, but the way the userbase found out that they were making NFTs wasn't from Neopets themselves - no, the userbase found out when a tiny, dodgy-as-all-fuck shell company and a random child company of neopets' parent company, NetDragon, announced that neopets were releasing a special collection of "metaverse" NFTs.

The company in question immediately raised red flags within the community as the website seemed to lack even basic understanding of the game, using generic gaming terms instead of terms specific to Neopets (such as "skins" instead of "paintbrush colours", "character" instead of "species" etc) and using [generic fantasy stock art

They’re on standbi

I want to suffer.

Of course I want some 'normal' difficulty modes. Easy 'medium' 'hard' etc. But I also want something insane for me and my friends to do battle against.

I want some kind challenge that is hard enough to actually challenge 4 co-op people with Red Talon gear, vetted 'survivor pool' starting communities, with Legacy Cards too, using all of the tools available to survive and win.

Shit that you have to prepare for to win. Like finishing other communities campaigns and playing daybreak to get prestige just to prepare for the run.

Bring on the Pain.

Even for the non-harcore players, should make for an amusing spectacle watching the really skilled Streamers/Youtubers try to 4-man it.
It will be really interesting just to watch the SOD fanbase theory craft and try different bases, builds, strategies, communities to try to crack it.

Buenosdillas

The above is a quote from 'Skinwalker at the Pentagon', on page 174 on the amazon kindle version.

It is taken from--in my opinion--one of the most important pages in the entire book, and subsequently, is one of the most pivotal data points in our attempt to sneak just a tiny peak at those who possess the most incredible secrets. Here is a fuller quote from pages 174 & 175.

"Sacha Mover and Jim Bell (probably pseudonyms) began knocking on doors beyond DHS to connect with the “keepers of the secrets” in at least two other agencies. In these meetings, which took place in June-July 2011, Sacha, Jim, and colleagues were treated rudely and harshly. Bell and Mover were repeatedly told “no, and hell no.” This left Mover and Bell convinced that advanced technology was sequestered under government supervision at aerospace contractors’ facilities. As a result, the DHS officials became very hesitant and even fearful of moving forward. Perhaps Mover and Bell only belatedly realized the unique, game changing, and earth-shattering nature of the biggest secret ever kept by the United States. The vast implications of this secret may simply have paralyzed them.

It’s possible that because DHS was a “new kid in town” and low on the traditional pecking order among long-established intelligence agencies that their requests were viewed as not worthy of serious consideration. After all, with the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002 in response to devastatingly poor coordination between intelligence and law enforcement organizations seen in the wake of the September 2001 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts, opening its doors on March 1, 2003. Therefore, when Bell and Mover began knocking on doors to obtain additional evidence on sequestered advanced technology, the rudeness and hostility shown to them was not just an attempt to protect the greatest secret of all, but a marking of the territory for a young organization less than ten years old that dared to request access to something that had been successfully buried within the bowels of the United States Government for more than 60 years.

Nevertheless Bell, Mover, and colleagues emerged from the June 2011 inter-agency meetings newly convinced that sequestered advanced technology was real and that they had a tiger by the tail in