Later this week, I'll be interviewing BattleBots Head Referee and Executive Vice President, John Remar. John has been arena-side since the very first BattleBots in 1999.
So I thought I'd see if anyone here has any interesting questions that I may not have thought of.
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Dave notes they have been continuing to do what they have done since December 2019 when Tony Khan took over more control of the show and no one has lost any additional power recently. All of the EVPs and the other top guys like Jericho, Moxley, Danielson and Punk are given their booking by Tony Khan who decides who wins the matches they are involved in. They all have input into their angles and are told the matches to go on PPV and the matches which will take place to get there. As far as their promos, they are asked to hit certain points but otherwise what they do is up to them.
The same goes for their matches. The only instruction given to Bryan Danielson and Nick Jackson was to put together a 15 minute match.
Dave also said the Smackdown rating was up largely due to a lot more women tuning in. WWE will stay ahead of Dynamite in the ratings for the foreseeable future as they have a big lead in 35 to 49 women which AEW is trying to figure out how to reduce.
Dave also said the thinking behind putting Rampage on at 10pm on Friday was that the 2m plus Smackdown viewers would switch over to TNT at 10pm but there is not much evidence that is happening. The audiences for both shows are very different. The heavy male skew for Rampage is similar to the male skew for Dynamite despite it not having the competition from female viewers from the Challenge and Real Housewives in its timeslot.
Does anyone have any good ways to clean up EVPs? Iโve caught several interesting voices and words but donโt have enough experience with audio editing software to clean them up and I donโt want to take a course if thereโs just a couple of things to do to make them easier to understand lol. How do you clean yours?
Because prime number patterns do not occur naturally in our known world.
And, because doing so would prove that you have an intelligence and not a case of auditory paradolia
This is what SETI does when searching for aliens, so stop asking non-math based questions
Edit: Of course, we would need to set up a protocol to ensure integrity in the experiment, so no one can say its a hoax.
So I managed to watch 38 episodes over the course of 2 weeks and I cant but help but be slightly underwhelmed by the disconnect of evidence that often takes place on Amy and Adam's investigations. The episode that was surprising to me while also underwhelming was Amy and Adam's investigation at Hell House, S4E2 - Conjuring House. I was deeply confused of how active the house was said to have been but lacked very to no evidence while they were there. The new owners literally had their kids frightened and said things were pretty active and yet there was no evidence that it was as active as it once was compared to when the Perron family lived there. I was excited to see the Perron family back inside the house but it the activity was not present. As I kept watching episodes, I noticed the descriptions of the activity didn't quite always match with what happened in the timeframe that Amy and Adam had. Like, when Amy or Adam says they feel the bed is shaking, why is it their producer with the camera isn't standing still and watching the bed? Like, I just want to see what their feeling. How can a bed shake but not have any movement on camera? If shadow people are said to be seen, how come they're not caught on camera as distinctly as they should. Mind you, I am coming from watching investigations done by amateurs and other skeptical YouTube channel creators who actually have substantial evidence, that includes dark shadow figures. Even social media posts have better evidence of shadow figures. Why is the evidence so tame coming from Kindred Spirits?
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With Alric awake, they were able to pick up the pace a bit. Nidra didnโt bolt and force them into a sprint, but they were able to set a much better pace. Hirrus guessed they would arrive outside Shemil within the hour.
Unfortunately, it also meant that Alric was awake.
It took the man a bit to ramp back up. He started with relatively quiet complaints about his sore back, and then started talking about his poor diet. It was a terribly one-sided conversation, as neither Hirrus nor Nidra made any response, but that didnโt slow him down. For Hirrusโs part, it was because he could barely understand what Alric was talking about.
Nidraโs behavior was slightly alarming, though. Hirrus didnโt believe that she was likely to just turn and kill Alric unprovoked, but the way she reacted to him was a little odd. She didnโt flinch every time he spoke, but whenever he fell silent for a few seconds, Hirrus could see the sudden tension twinge her shoulders the next time he spoke.
They were moving just shy of a sprint, and even though she could clearly hear Alric, she still glanced back every few moments to confirm that Hirrus was still there. Hirrus noticed the strange mixture of contempt and discomfort in her eyes when she glanced at Alric.
As long as she didnโt lash out unexpectedly, her discomfort was lower on his list of priorities. His focus would remain on the battle to come. Nidraโs dislike for adventurers was nowhere near as important as killing Rumi and saving them both from oblivion.
After a time, they emerged from the wilderness into a sudden open corridor. Four steps from the trees, and they were standing on a road. The Hari Path.
โWhat happened?โ Hirrus asked as the trio drew to a stop. โWhere are we?โ
โShemil is around the next bend,โ Nidra said, pointing ahead of them. The trees closed in close around the Hari Path here, and when the road went around a corner, it was immediately obscured. โWeโre nearly there.โ
โHm,โ Hirrus tried to figure ou
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After some time, Hirrus began to suspect that Nidraโs breakneck pace had been purely for the purposes of antagonizing Alric. While keeping ahead of him, she matched his pace perfectly so that he could keep up, even while carrying the other manโs body. She may have been trying to push Hirrus to his top speed, but if that was the case, she should have been doing the same again now. But she was pacing herself instead of vanishing into the distance.
To a degree, heโd thrown his lot in with her when heโd chosen to follow. But now he found himself lingering on Alricโs warning that she may betray him.
Heโd dismissed the concern out of hand before. He hadnโt been afraid of her having some loyalty to Rumi.
But now he saw that there were other ways she could betray him. As much as their goals may align, they might have dramatically different viewpoints on how to achieve them, especially with respect to Alricโs presence.
He had to be wary of her, even if it wasnโt for his own sake.
Despite his concerns, Hirrus found himself enjoying Nidraโs company. With Alric asleep, they were able to travel in proper silence. Hirrus still had nothing to say and she didnโt feel the need to fill every moment with pointless noise. They made good time, and Hirrus was finally able to push the chorus of that song about the bounty hunter out of his mind.
Night fell within a few more minutes, though the moonlight leaking through the forest canopy was enough to see by. The call-and-answer of hunting beasts had gone silent, but that did little to reassure him. He could feel eyes on him. He wasnโt sure if he hoped it was or was not the baying monsters heโd heard.
They came from the side of him.
As soon as the flash of teeth appeared in the darkness, he knew he should have expected it. For some foolish reason, heโd expected any attack to come from behind, their pace putting them in the mind of fleeing prey to be pursued. Pack predators were smarter than that, though. It was
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The draconic tide rushed in at Hirrus. It seemed that the time for whittling his enemies down and thinning their numbers had passed.
Now was the true fight.
Icy greataxe and hooked blade against an army of Merciless foes.
Both his weapons lashed out at the first foe. The sword ripped across a scaled midriff in a critical hit for nearly eight thousand damage.
When the icy greataxe caught the same enemy in the center of their chest, it activated a double strike, hitting once immediately for five thousand damage, and then again for three thousand five hundred. The two blows together would have felled any mere adventurer, even as both strikes applied a burn effect that kept chipping away at their hit points. But as a Merciless, this foe barely staggered.
Claws lashed out at Hirrus, and he danced back, but another enemy was coming in from his left with an ornate - almost decorative - warhammer. And another on his right with a comically oversized greataxe, with a blade almost too notched to be usable. His icy greataxe was heavy enough to catch the hammer haft-to-haft and parry it away, but he was forced to accept the axe to his shoulder, suffering three thousand damage and nearly being thrown to the ground.
His sword lashed out, cutting up under the armpit of the axe-wielding Merciless. It was another critical hit, and a double strike at the same time, dealing eight thousand six hundred damage on the first strike, and six thousand on the follow-up. The Ravening Burn seared the wound closed after a single gout of blood and the axe-wielding Merciless scrambled back and away with a howl of pain.
Even though another foe was already ready to step up and replace them, their reaction surprised Hirrus, and gave him a moment of hope. The process that freed them of their decision tree - and the Merciless form as well - were best for amplifying the power they already had. A guard, a captain, or a general were made immense threats by the process. But normal civilians? People like Barin and Dahlia and Julissa would only be a half-step above an adventurer even
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That was it then. Hirrus could have one-hundred-twenty-seven active Arcana at one time. He was unsure of why it was that many, and not more or less. There was no additional information to be had. But the discovery that there was a cap was information in itself. He suspected that his cap was higher than what other adventurers had access to, based on what heโd seen. He hadnโt thought about it too much, but with this new insight, it suddenly made a little bit more sense that the adventurers heโd fought hadnโt had the same breadth of options he enjoyed.
Heโd only acquired another weak charge attack from the pack of four-legged shark monsters. He almost let it lie in his new Inactive Arcana list. But he had over two dozen random magic damage Arcana that he would never use. He might not use the Selachii Pounce ability, but passively equipping it gave him a moderate increase to BUR, which was much more impactful than the negligible ATT of one of the beam Arcana. A favorable trade.
He took a moment to consider his Arcana list. One-hundred-twenty-seven proved an overwhelming number of options. He had many more weaker beam Arcana that he could swap out as needed, before he needed to touch any of the slightly less mediocre magic damage options, like Flamesplash or TK Bullets. But even with those discounted, he still had an obscene number of options. Even if he wanted to strictly eschew Arcana for damage dealing and rely on his martial skill, he had nearly a dozen options to boost his stats in that arena.
As he managed this and examined his options, they continued through the dark woods. The night was bleeding away faster than Hirrus would have liked, but he couldnโt pick up the pace any further without abandoning Alric, and he wouldnโt do that. Not even when Nidra made her chagrin known.
โI hope he proves worth it in the end,โ she said, slowing her pace to move alongside Hirrus rather than ahead. โIf Rumiโs process remains consistent, heโll add three
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What came first from the smoke enveloping the town was not a huge monster. It wasnโt even an organized group of adventurers coming to approach him like they would an RM.
Those came after.
But first, it was just one person, armored from head-to-toe in metal and bone.
They carried themselves differently from the adventurers Hirrus had come up against thus far. Their stance was reserved and controlled rather than brashly aggressive. They moved with obvious caution, clearly respecting the threat Hirrus represented, but there wasnโt a trace of fear in them.
Despite that lack of fear, it wasnโt borne of overconfidence. They clearly recognized that Hirrus was a threat, but they believed that he could be overcome if approached properly.
On sight, Hirrus realized what they were. Despite the mismatched equipment of an adventurer, they were one of Rumiโs successful experiments. A normal person now freed of their decision tree, armed and armored for battle to defend Rumiโs destruction of the countryside.
They would have access to the Merciless transformation, too.
One-for-one, it was unlikely that they were a match for Hirrus. He believed it was impossible for any others like him to have amassed such a hoard of Arcana and gear that he had. But the stat boost from the Merciless transformation could make up the difference. If Hirrus didnโt match it with his own transformation, he could be overwhelmed if the fight was anywhere near a challenge. And if he did, it would be unavailable for two hours. It was a huge risk to commit that power to a fight, and not one he was eager to make.
As more emerged from the smoke, he knew he wasnโt going to have a choice in the matter.
Some of the fleeing masked adventurers returned. Instead of weapons, though, they were maneuvering some kind of wood-and-metal apparatus. It was like a large pillory on wheels, at least twelve feet wide and five feet tall.
Hirrus recognized the creature it contained instantly. Heโd
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The sun had been up for a few hours before Alric stirred, despite anything Hirrus attempted. The man had slept through the conversation with GM Dave, slept through a seemingly benign katydid the size of a housecat that climbed across his chest right before dawn, and had continued to sleep through Hirrus giving him a few firm shakes and a slap across the face.
Hirrus was about to heft Alric over his shoulder and start carrying him when he finally sat up.
โAlright,โ Alric said, clapping his hands together as if he hadnโt just slept for over twelve hours. โWhat did I miss?โ
โWhatโs wrong with you?โ Hirrus demanded. โDo you know how much time Iโve wasted waiting here?โ
โUh,โ Alric blinked a few times. โFrom your perspective? A lot?โ
โYouโve cost me half a day,โ Hirrus said, trying to keep his irritation in check.
โYeah, but for me it wasnโt even a proper nightโs sleep,โ Alric said, stretching and struggling to his feet. โI only got like six hours of sleep and barely got food in my face.โ
โWhat?โ Hirrus asked, confused.
โGame time runs faster than real time,โ Alric said, reaching down to touch his toes. โIโve only been gone for like eight hours in real time. But thatโs almost doubled here.โ
โThatโs small comfort, since the reset that will put an end to my freedom will be coming in two more days,โ Hirrus said.
โNo, not two days,โ Alric said quickly, โthe week is real-time weeks, not in-game weeks. Er, your weeks. Whatever. You have like five-ish days, not two. The conversion factor isnโt a nice round number. Something about wanting to give people who play at the same time every day a chance to see the world at different times of day and week in-game.โ
Hirrus was confused. If Alric was speaking the truth, heโd been handed a gift of time. More than double what he thought remained. Of course, it would only be relevant if Rumiโs monstrous acts didnโt get him permanently deleted first. But he might have time to enjoy his freedom from the dec
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