Two of the most effective "therapeutic crowbars" IKO for love addiction. Watch the videos... then read the lyrics while listening to her sing them.

"Precious Illusions"

"Death of Cinderella"

The Cursed Blade can be obtained from the Yo-kai Cam challenges. Legendary Blade can only be aquired from Jungle Hunter, which involves a lot of grinding for rare bugs in order to make the trade. (Unless anyone knows of a better way of getting it, but I flipped through my quide like a million times, so I'm pretty sure this terrible method is the only way)

At the beginning of every Nepalese month, like today, the image of phagma droma(arya tara) is opened at swaymbu for puja and rituals. This is one of the rarest image of tara in the valley. It's customary to worship tara at the beginning of everything in Kathmandu.

phagma droma (arya tara)

I made a video explaining my thoughts here. But here's the written form if you're not into long-form video reviews. Sorry for reddit text formatting:

I just saw a trashfire the likes of which compare to the tragedy of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and Game of Thrones Season 8. And for this, I must unravel this uninspired dross - thread by thread. This will be filled with spoilers, you have been warned.

For context about me, I’m no stranger to the Wheel of Time and to fantasy literature in general. I first started reading this series when I was in middle school, and stopped in High School after the author died. Admittedly, I did not complete the series and it was half my lifetime ago that I read the Eye of the World. I am no book-purist, I barely remember the plot. What I do remember is the world and the characters.

Any book reader will tell you that Robert Jordan was not concise. He was long-winded, filling thousands of pages with tiny details and with tons of repetition. And while he was a feminist and ahead of his time as far as that goes, this series does show its age in certain areas. No reasonable person is expecting a 1:1 adaptation of his hundreds of named characters and scores of interweaving, and sometimes meandering, plot points.

I don’t care if they keep things the same or change them, so long as the change makes the story better or more interesting. Does it deepen the lore? Does it streamline things that need not be complex? I believe in changing what you need to suit your vision, so long as your vision is compelling. If you have a whole new plot for this series, then great - so long and it’s consistent with itself and is a good story, books be damned.

That is not the case here.

Before I dive into the vast pool of my disappointment, let’s look at some things they did right.

Many characters in the books are explicitly expressionless. Everyone always has their poker face on all the time, never showing emotion. There's the Aes Sedai serenity, a mask of their unflappable nature. They would die before letting you know they are hot or cold, furious or delighted. Then there is Lan’s stoicism. He first appears as an emotional rock, unaffected by anything but his duty. This is fine when you have direct insight into their feelings as a reader does, but that would have been awfully boring to watch.

The channeling is more visual now as well. In the books, you don’t need to move whatsoever to use th

Hello, my name is Blanderson_Snooper, and I am a Superstonk addict.

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My first post to Reddit was what I called a Cultural Due Diligence, an attempt to demystify the tactics of shills and the psychology of financial terrorists in order to help Apes through a rocky period in our history. I was inspired to write that post, along with the original Wargame Theory, by the excellence of Apes, as well as the need to shift Ape consciousness from the manipulations of the OG sub into a diamond-handed cohort that could stand against all the world’s media, shills, scammers, and financial institutions.

Almost a year on and we’re doing pretty good, wouldn’t you say?

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Our community is seven times larger than it was, and Apes have forged their own investment thesis through the dedication of our wrinklebrained DD researchers and authors. If you missed everything and everyone that led us here, check out my guide to the first seven months of DD that forged our diamond hands. We wouldn’t be here without them.

Lately, however, I’ve witnessed events that inspired me to once again offer a Cultural Due Diligence, this time a comprehensive look at the psychology of scams. Back in the spring we discovered COINTELPRO, which gave us a method for recognizing and battling bad actors and their attacks on our community. However, the terms they gave us - shills, FUD, forum sliding, etc. – have become a little long in the tooth and/or corrupted over time. Scammers never stop adapting and co-opting our culture to their criminal ends, and so we must keep evolving and adapting our defenses as well.

By the end of this post, you will have a PhD in scam detection and defense.

🚀

This post is scam-agnostic, meaning it’s not targeted at any of the scams currently being run against Apes. This is a distillation of information fro

The Death of the Dollar

Within this survey of the dollar, I will delve into the value of the dollar both past and present and the significance of its value. This delving will yield an understanding of what main factors influence the value of the dollar and thus the impact of that gain or loss of value on the common man. In attempting to discover these influences on the dollar, other fiat systems will be used as an example so as to better understand our own system and possible predicament. While no two situations will ever play out in the exact same manner, even a basic understanding of statistics and correlation will elucidate the importance of these examples. Moreover, once an adequate understanding of the dollar and its likely path have been discovered, I will then look at what is to be done about this course. While hind sight is 20/20, taking harmless preemptive action against a probable outcome surely can do no harm.

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Let us first look at the purchasing power of the dollar since 1900 in order that we may understand what has happened in the past. Through this past we may possibly gleam some nugget of the future. As demonstrated by the chart on the right, the dollar has lost most of its purchasing power since 1900. The dollar of 2020 is worth 1/26, or 3.8%, of the dollar of 1900, and why is this? There are two main causes that I attribute to the devaluation of the dollar. the first of these reasons is the government. The government prints money in order to solve problems which increases money supply, thus devaluing the currency. The government also took the dollar off of the gold standard which was preventing the Federal Reserve, whom I will call the Fed or in some cases JPOW, from increasing fiscal stimulus to the degree they thought necessary. Secondly, there is the Fed who has two main tools at their disposal in terms of monetary policy. The first tool is to control interest rates, low rate = growth stimulation ... high rate = economic contraction. The second tool the Fed has at their disposal is the issuance of treasury bonds. This allows the Fed to create Treasury Bonds and give them to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department then gives the bonds to the banks who in turn sell them back to the Federal reserve thus creating money and fiscal stimulus. When understanding these two main factors it is very easy to

Howdy! Welcome to Day 25 of the r/indieheads Album of the Year 2021 Write-Up Series, our annual event where we showcase pieces from some of our favorite writers on the subreddit talking about their favorite records of the year! Today, we have u/danitykane on Lingua Ignota's SINNER GET READY.

August 6th, 2021 - Sargent House

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Background by /u/danitykane:

Lingua Ignota is the American singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Kristin Hayter. Her music draws from varied sources, including extreme metal and classical, striking a noisy balance between the harsh and the serene, mostly the former. Her first two albums were self-released in 2017: LET THE EVIL OF HIS OWN LIPS COVER HIM and ALL BITCHES DIE. The waves they made were enough to earn the latter a rerelease on an indie label, making the way for 2019’s CALIGULA. That album truly broke ground, Hayter’s vocals only giving you enough beauty to take a breath before dragging you into the fires of hell. Guttural, grating, and, in Hayter’s own words - “ugly”, the album depicts the cycle of abuse in a way that many might consider gratuitous. They’re wrong, though: in its extreme, it is refreshing and honest. The best thing about her music is that it doesn’t “shine a light” on issues surrounding abuse and violence; it grabs you by the face and forces you to see the stories as they are and how they affect people. It’s not easy music to listen to, and I’ll admit to some of it testing my personal taste level. Even so, it is impossible to not respect the craftsmanship and power on display here.

In 2021, Hayter announced the followup to CALIGULA, the confrontationally-named SINNER GET READY with the release of the self-produced video for “PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE”. Much of the metal influences from her previous work were turned down in favor of an Appalachian folk sound, but the trademark intensity remained. It arrived on August 6 to rave reviews, including a rare perfect 10 from Anthony Fantano, setting off a wave of discourse and introducing Lingua Ignota to n

Greetings fellow apes and thank you for considering!

Troy likes cannabis too.

I have a certified organic CBD company called Bravo Botanicals and we recently started accepting Kinesis tokens KAG and KAU as payment for our products, with many thanks to Citizens for Sound Money for setup help. But I want to see more adoption of this revolutionary system! And so here's my proposition for you American apes with Kinesis accounts. (We only ship within the U.S. at this time, with apologies to international apes.)

TO PARTICIPATE:

• Add a bottle of our 500 mg Organic CBD Drops (SRP $28) to your cart.
• Use code "KAGRICULTURE" to activate $5 off + Free Shipping. This will reduce the price to ~1 KAG.
• Pay using your Kinesis mobile or desktop wallet, following instructions at checkout.
  • *MOBILE NOTE* - you'll have to paste your Transaction ID on Bravo checkout screen.
  • *DESKTOP* - wallet will require the "Order ID" number to be put in Reference field.
  • If copied address shows as "invalid" when you paste it, I've noticed that sometimes a blank character needs to be deleted at the beginning and/or end of pasted address.

OUT OF THE VAULT!!!

• You pull some premium organic CBD oil out of Bravo's "vault" for a special price and you promote the use of sound money as you do so.
• IF 10 people do this:
  • We will convert the 10 KAG proceeds into a ten ounce physical silver round from Silverback Precious Metals (SBPM), as they accept KAG directly! This is amazing because then SBPM will have to pull physical silver out of the vaults for their own inventory. The drain continues.
  • Everyone who participates will be entered in a drawing for the SilverShield 1 ounce Cannabis round shown in picture! I know that few apes want to reduce their silver exposure in any form, so hopefully this sweetens the proposal. And it's better than losing it in a boating mishap, as ya'll are prone to do...

The one-ounce round you could save from sleeping with the fishes.

WHY I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT:

• You get some of our amazing CBD from

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.

Just a heads up - this is my own personal experience, and I do not claim to have any universal answers or truths. I just thought I’d share some of my glitchy story with you all.

I think I should attempt to define what an ultraterrestrial is, in theory, since many people may not have heard the term: Multi-dimensional entity. Similar to the idea of an eternal soul - not bound to space and time or to the physical plain which humans currently inhabit. The extent of ultraterrestrial behaviors and motives are unknown, but they are likely diverse, just as any other intelligent life forms are, so they do not function as a perfect collective.

The first time I believe I encountered an ultraterrestrial was in 2013, when I was extremely sick. I was at home and dealing with a very serious disease that kills 30% of its hosts. At the height of my sickness, I thought for sure I was going to die, and was struggling to come to terms with it. I was in bed, sweating, finding it difficult to breathe and had shooting pains throughout my entire body. My heartbeat felt completely off; going from pounding to fluttering to skipping beats at random times. I was terrified of death.

It was at this point that I witnessed (or hallucinated) a dark shadowy figure step out of my closet. It looked like the grim reaper, the angel of death almost. I pleaded “Please, don’t let me die! I have more to accomplish here, I’m not ready to go yet!” The shadowy figure slowly backed away, into the closet and I uncomfortably began to drift off to sleep. As I fell asleep, I remember thinking “I want to talk to a god! I need answers!”

The next thing I remember is I had the most incredibly vivid dream, which at the time, didn’t seem like a dream at all. It seemed like I had been transported somewhere, because I was completely lucid and fully aware. I was in an infinite space that was the color tan. All around me was tan, like the color of sand. There is a gigantic woman floating in front of me and I was about the size of one of her fingers. She is just floating there, amazingly beautiful. She had a flowing dress and dark reddish hair.

The first thing I said was “Am I going to die? What happens when we die?” She responded: “Death is a construct. Death does not exist. It is a made up, human concept.”

At this point you’re probably thinking, this guy is obviously sick and hallucinating, so this can’t be an ultraterrestrial encounter - and that is a perfectly reasonable thought. I don’t claim that this

Hello apes,

Now time for the serious posts.

I love tinfoil theories. I got one date right, let's see if I’m going to be right about March.

Shoutaht u/Badasstrader. Stole my post name you beautiful bastard. I’m reclaiming my time here, BA.

Regardless if it happens in the next week before the end of the year, you all should be mighty excited.

The company is almost completely rebuilt from the ground up and will have something great coming soon. Almost like how a sports team needs a rebuilding year to catapult it to a championship, I feel that was what 2021 was for GameStop. There was that initial sneeze in January, but thank goodness that that pride doth cometh before the fall and SHF have no sense of restraint when it comes to shorting.

The MOASS will happen, but this company needed some time to effectuate its changes first, apes. That is what great companies do and that is how great investors work; they look at the pieces and team that a company is assembling and make their judgment on whether or not to invest according to what the company is doing to win.

Book your tickets apes. No stowaways on a rocket heading to the 420th dimension. DRS is still da wae.

I love you apes. Merry Christmas, peace and goodwill to all of you!

Disclaimer: yadadada not financial advice, This is also but one apes interpretation of history, Please please if you find it welcome, leave a comment telling me where I can expand on something or maybe you could share your own expertise on a particular subject. Crowdsourcing information is the best.

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Now time to REWIND to move forward.

Welcome to decentralization baby.

Hell what is Centralization?

Here’s some definitions before we get started so there is no confusion.

Decentralization: To distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area.

Centralization: to concentrate by placing power and authority in a center or central organization.

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Christopher Columbus set out for an expedition to find a trade route to China on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria in 1492 and “discovered” the New World by accident. He was sent and financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to find a route overseas to open trade with China. The Spainards also wanted to

This morning I was considering my investments in Precious Metals, and was wondering if I should perhaps invest in some Crypto Currency, BitCoin or Ethereum or another one of the thousands out there.

I have been researching BC and Crypto Currency for a while now and trying to understand it, but I just cannot wrap myself around it or the concept. So I decided to put my thoughts on paper. I look forward to your comments and additions.

Merry Christmas

pyramid scheme

noun

A fraudulent moneymaking scheme in which early participants are paid out of money received from later recruits, with the final recruits putting money in and getting nothing back.

1. An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investorsare paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detrimentof recent (later) investors.
2. a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in

A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[1] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own.

**You pay a fee going in and a fee

I purchased the Final Fantasy VII Remake Materials Ultimania (Kindle Version). I was looking very closely at the notes in the storyboards for the final fight between Cloud & Sephiroth at the so-called "Edge of Creation." These notes actually say some very interesting things regarding the scenes they depict, which I had not seen translated or discussed before!

Note that in certain development sections of the Ultimania that showcase the dev's notes and thought-processes, there is a disclaimer that suggests those sections and development notes are not necessarily canon. However! This section titled "Cutscene Storyboards" does not have that disclaimer, which makes me feel these notes are as close to canon as you can expect.

Interpreting the Edge of Creation per the English Materials Ultimania

Take a look at page 270 and 271 below:

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Here, Sephiroth confidently smiles. This appears to contradict what many imagined was a look of disappointment. This might give more credence to the interpretation that Sephiroth is un-phased.

In board #30, the note states: \"Space shows contrast between the universe of death and the universe of creation.\" The implication here is that the Edge of Creation scene is depicting something cosmic and profound. I reasonably assume this means one of the nebulae represents \"The Universe of Death\" while the other represents \"The Universe of Creation.\"

Does this mean the Edge of Creation scene represents two futures, one where the entire Universe is at stake? The other represents a rebirth? Did Sephiroth [and Aerith?] somehow bring about the rebirth of the entire universe (usually referred to by the community as a new timeline)? Is Remake simply this new Universe? Are the flashbacks and flashfowards simply glimpses of this other universe? Speculation: did Squarenix pull the trigger of showing Meteor early only to show us later, that the new threat Sephiroth will bring about is actually Supernova and the destruction of the cosmic lifestream, not just Gaia's lifestream?

We're not done yet. Board #31 reads: "Cut in (1).

I'm so sick and tired of seeing all the shaming owners trying to rehome their dogs on Facebook. In my local group, everyone gangs up on every unfortunate soul that dares to ask if someone would like their precious doggo. It doesn't matter if the reasons for giving up your "furry baby" are completely valid (not that there are invalid reasons of course) - you have a sick relative, the dog is aggressive with your children or partner, you don't have time for it, etc. And yesterday I saw a vomit inducing rant by someone that stuck with her mutt as a single mother that could barely afford rent and food (and had to pay pet rent on top of all the ridiculous dog expenses). Everyone was praising her about not abandoning her "family member". What about her child that had to go without because of the dog? What about the fact she could have saved money for a potential down-payment for a house her kid could live in instead of wasting money on an animal that only cares about eating poop and will be immediately "loyal" to the next person that feeds it?

I hate stories like this. No one should sacrifice themselves for a dog. And of course, dog owners don't even think about all the animals that have to die for their mutt to be able to eat. They claim they love animals but they really only care about an animal that gives them illusion of loyalty. That's all they care about.

Alright, so

I feel like I owe just another post of mine here, this time shorter don't worry >!(I lied)!<, for I honestly feel like I 'baited' or rather got too many people overly hyped for something so... little?Here are my thoughts off the new cinematic, from a guy who made this post just two days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ornnmains/comments/rx780x/proved_ornn_is_going_to_be_not_only_featured_in/

And the cinematic in talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYqT0_9VR4

Jumping straight to it, I see the community is either split between the "yo wtf is this shit I got hyped for nothin' " and the "he didn't do anything but he's absolutely precious thank you riot" and for to both, I say none. I don't agree with neither of these looks at the situation, for none are justified, and I'm gonna prove you why. (ACTUALLY PROVEN)

I kinda feel like the part of the problem, for I perhaps thought of Riot more,and kinda overreacted there. I feel like I genuinely got people ready for this shit to go down, only for a massive letdown and thus a part guilty, resulting in one of the said grudges. There was no Udyr, not actual fighting between Voli and let alone Ornn, but just the tip of it. Now, I'm going to prove you that this cinematic WILL NOT BE THE LAST WE'LL SEE OF ORNN , and that his,or rather out time will come, 1000%.

Here's why:

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Although Ornn is shown in total, like 10 seconds, doing absolutely nothing but being himself, his appearance is actually crucial not only for the cinematic but for everything that will follow in near future.

Ornn is shown three times during the 4 minute video, at the start, in the middle, and at the end.

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He is the very one who opens the cinematic, and closes it. This is more important than one might think, for this set up gives the illusion of him being the one presenting the story that will take place in the video, the one who's watching this from above and narrating it to us.

[quite literally](https://preview.redd.it/jx51il75fda81.png?width=603&format=png&

- The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning.

Dark is a very interesting logical essay on the concept of time and it explores it with a highly intriguing concept of applying a lot of quantum mechanics principles onto the characters themselves such as the fabrics of time, fate and entanglement. By relying on a geneological tree that is wired in loops due to the possibility of its characters travelling in time, Dark feeds its storyline with the complex branches of this tree. As the nouvelle unfolds, we see some characters travelling back and forth to the past and the future and as a consequence, these time trips become the root cause for other characters and events to exist since said characters are born out of relations between the travellers and other characters of a certain temporal context. Time trips originate certain loops such as a daughter being the mother of her mother.

As a consequence for this theme, I’ve been delving deep in Dark’s intricating drama the past weeks – thinking about how deep the hole goes. Despite the scrutiny of the fabrics of time and space being the evident theme on Dark, as I was watching the series a timid hint at a Jungian psychoanalysis began to surface towards the ending of the show. As I got aware of this detail I grew in awe, bewieldered by the subtle dualism of the split whole that unravels at the endline of Dark and design its terrifying storytelling. On the core of Dark, I found the manifestation of both the feminine and the masculine psyche to be compelling enough for me to make a thesis regarding my perspective on this subject of the show. Henceforth and since I orbit around the vast dimension of psychology metaphysics most of my time, this essay on Dark will be essentially based off my interpretation of the manifestation of the Animus and the Anima archtypes as the story unfolds; Adam and Eve - the main archetypical protagonists in Dark. Henceforth, despite other really interesting things in Dark, I will only focus on the Dynamics of Martha and Jonas; how they develop as characters and as representations of the unconsciousness. I will dissect each of the halfs and try to make myself as clear as I can.

Quantum Entanglement

Aside from scrutinizing things such as fate and how intertwined things are, we see the series holding on to quantum mechanics and applying them to the labours of human consciousness to explain things like fate and so on. If you know the theory of entanglement, it states that wh

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Chapter 91

Morning found Kevin stroking her tail again waiting for her to open her eyes.

Lilith looked at him and smiled relishing in the soft sensation for a moment. Soon she realized her coils went over him a few different times making him her defacto hostage. As the morning sun entered the room she blinked at him clearing the haze from her eyes. ‘So nice to have eye lids again and a fiance with such patience.’ she mused to herself as she stretched her arms. Then remembering that she had a date with a goddess, Lilith began to slowly untangle herself from him. Kevin leaned over and Kissed her as she continued to move more of herself off the bed.

“Morning.” he said softly as their eyes focused on each other

“I want to wake up like this every day.” Lilith said as the last of her reached the floor. “Come on lets go. We have a future to build.” She said raising herself up to start the day.

Lilith got dressed putting on her black skirt and then her arming jacket and armor. Finally she put on her sword and satchel leaving her symbol of Lathander behind. Kevin however, was only able to put on half his clothes as she had changed his size while he was undressing the night before. Holding a miniature collared shirt up like it was a children's garment, Kevin gave her an amused look before Lilith canceled the spell causing him to shrink down to match the size of his remaining clothes.

“So what are we doing first today?” He asked continuing to get dressed.

“I am going to go check on what resources we have here in this palace and I think you need to go visit with Karl and negotiate for that land you want. After that I need to corral some cows and visit Pazunia to sell them and try to deter any further surprise guests.”

“Should we meet up for lunch?” He asked with a hopeful look.

“I don’t know, are you up for lunch in Pazunia with a demon and a Goddess?” Lilith asked giving him a half smile as if it were a challenge.

“You don’t scare me. Call me when its time to meet up.” He said as he fastened his belt.

“Ok, but I may have to cast a spell on you so that you will fit in…..Oh ya, I need to put some spells in that ring of yours.” Lilith remarked before she placed her hand on his and chanted the rune words for several spells storing [Mage Armor], [Misty Step] and [Invisibility]. She then showed him how the surface of the ring was no longer smooth silver. Instead the rune words for one of the spells was written across the top and when he turned the ring anoth

I'm not sure if this is commonplace among us RPers, but surely some know that feeling when you're getting creative, experimenting to hell and back, having fun in the first couple of days, only to realize the build and character don't speak to you as much as you initially thought they would. I've been trying some specialist mage, melee and stealth characters lately, and today I decided to drop the experimenting. Due to some irl related events that happened to me, I struggled to fall asleep last night and in the end I didn't get any shut-eye. With nothing better to do and refusing to dwell on the events that happened, I decided I'd get my brain busy with listening to my heart. I went and created what I consider my main, definitive build, also known as "the go-to" and "what I most enjoy". And here are the details of it:

Race: Imperial (Nibenese to be lore accurate). My first Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion. My first ever non RP character was an Imperial. My first ever RP character was also an Imperial. I know this is as vanilla human as it gets, and they aren't the most optimal for the class I'm going for, but I don't care. I love Imperials, their lore, the Empire, the aesthetic. I also love Cyrodiil, which isn't a jungle like the Pocket Guide suggests it is. From the Gold Coast, to the Colovian Highlands. From the White-Gold Tower to the Niben. Cyrodiil has a charm unmatched, a personality unlike any. With all this in mind, yeah... I'm going with the Imperials.

Birthsign: To start, Mage. After all the levelling is done, Atronach for spell absorption. Uriel Septim said the skies are marked with numberless sparks, each a fire, and every one a sign. This is the way I chart this character's course.

Class: Pure Mage. Forget about swords, hammers, axes, daggers, bows, arrows and other crude instruments. We're practicing a finer craft here. A clever one. A mage uses the arcane and his mental and inner strength to overcome any and all obstacles. The only "weapons" the mage uses are the palms of his hand, the will of his mind and the power held within his staff. This is the way.

Build: Obviously, the focus is magic. Destruction for the death dealing, Alteration for protection, paralysis and some telekinetic fun, Conjuration because Atronachs and Daedra summons, Illusion because sometimes it's fun to just move one domino and enjoy the show, Restoration to kick the undead back into the dirt, and finally Alchemy to brew up potions in case

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 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

I decided to have a nice trip for New Year's Eve while my friends were partying and it was really nice and all.

Right now, I'm on the "downhill" side, the perception effects are slowly fading and OH BOIIII post-nut clarity is just 0.000001% of mid-post-trip clarity. Or is it just trip-clarity ? I'm not sure. [note added later : I totally still tripping, at least my mind is - I just don't have the full physical effects]

I had to go back home after the party and started thinking about a lot of things going around me. It felt like I never took the train in my life and I just realized I'm just a body in a steel box, with steel wheels, rolling on steel, at high speed, in an underground tunnel; I never saw it that way. I always saw it as "me, taking the train on Line A to get to work". Everything is bound to names, functions, roles. That's how our minds work. Everything is classified, all the time. "What is what" is one of the most fundamental function of the brain. As I was thinking about that, it dawned on me for the first time in my existence :

My consciousness, your consciousness, what we call "I", "myself", "self" or just "me", is nothing but a bunch of subordinate function of the brain, which is itself a part of the body.

It felt like I discovered Heliocentrism. For the first time, I didn't put my consciousness at the center of my own existence, of my being, of my reason to live and to be. I put my body, divided in subordinate functions for each organ, including the brain. And being conscious is just a subordinate part of the brain. Nothing more. I always built my existence around myself, my precious consciousness, as if everything was to be obeyed by this supreme "I" because, since my body is controlled by it, the main function of my body would be to make the world obey by materializing my will, through my body. But if you try to live your life thinking that your body is a subordinate function of your consciousness, made to please your mind : you're doing everything wrong. I've been doing everything wrong, all this time. As a consciousness, my job is to take care of the things my body can't automate.

Because while I was tripping, thinking about all those things, my legs just walked me to my house. They know the way. I don't have to think about it. My consciousness is almost completely useless to take me home, it just keeps a bunch of small operations smooth but in reality, my brain knows how to navigate the transit system without me acknowled

Be aware: This is a novel, but I want to explain my opinion the best I can. I'll add a TL;DR to the bottom.

Right now, the game is rough for killers, I think a lot of people would agree. Most of the perks are awful, many of the maps are two football fields wide and filled with safe pallets, survivor meta is huge frustrating to play into (whether you think it's overpowered or not, you cannot tell me that getting hit validated by Dead Hard or BT'd twice in a row because the survivors dove the hook feels good to play against), and this power imbalance is causing a massive disparity in toxicity.

Let me explain. The issue of survivor toxicity reminds me, at least in theory, of a psychological study by Paul Piff. In this study, the chosen participants played a game of Monopoly, possibly the worst board game ever created by man. In this, however, one person was chosen to start with twice as much money as the others, and was allowed to roll two dice instead of one on their turns. In short, one person BEGAN with a sense of advantage. I am well aware that this does not translate 1:1 to a game like Dead By Daylight, but stick with me here, because I think it's applicable.

As the participants played, the "rich" player fairly consistently began to act more forcefully. The study describes aggressively moving their pieces around, loudly eating pretzels, and bragging about their choices. When this rigged game was inevitably won by the rich player, they tended to not act with humility. Rather than blaming with wins on their initial advantage, they instead praised their own ability to act and smart choices that they made. Very rarely (although not never) did the winning player say "of course, I started out in a good spot".

Paul Pliff explains it thusly: (here's the source link because I cannot for the life of me get hypertext to work on reddit: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/295360962)

"PIFF: What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down. And their feelings of entitlement, of deserving this and their ideology of self-interest increases."

Sounds an awful lot like a clicky flashlight, doesn't it?

In this situation, we easily see that someone who views themselves in a power role is definitely more likely to be an ass than someone who perceives themselves otherwi

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At the Beginning

Adventure Arc - Arc 2

Previously on Leveling up the World…

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One week of rest turned out to be painfully slow. Half of the first day Dallion was so anxious that he felt he could jump out of his skin. Laying in the recently created bedroom in his realm, he spent thinking of past events over and over until he tired himself to sleep. The next few days were spent between chunks of sleep and feeling drowsy. It was as if someone had removed all the hidden pressure and anxiety that Dallion had kept within in the background, showing him exactly how exhausted he really was. Then, finally, came boredom.

Minutes stretched to days, hours became years. Several times Dallion tried to leave the room, only to find Nil standing outside, looking at him in a disappointed fashion. Dallion knew full well that a single punch and the echo would cease to exist; maybe precisely for that reason, he returned to his week or resting. Sleep became the only way of passing time. However, the more Dallion tried to resort to it, the more difficult it became. Any attempts at exercising to exhaust himself were quickly discovered and stopped immediately. Gen and July were at fault for that. The two echoes had decided to betray Dallion by siding with Nil.

At least give me something to read, Dallion thought.

Never did Dallion think that he’d be begging to read, but given the degree of boredom he was subjected to, he would prefer even going through the collection of historical poems that Nil kept in the ring library.

Meditation was attempted multiple times, to no avail. For some reason, the moment Dallion tried to stop thinking, his head burst with ideas and questions, restarting the anxiety boredom cycle anew. Finally, on the last day, acceptance seeped in. It wasn’t that Dallion had mastered the art of calm and self-reflection, but rather he had grown accustomed to his predicament. Undoubtedly, this wasn’t the best way to deal with such a situation, but it helped him last until Nil arrived, marking the end of his “rest and relaxation

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Ose cackles maniacally while spinning the ball-and-chain Mjolnir around herself. Unlike Bael, who only ever used Camael's personal weapon as a simple smashing device, Ose wields it with a level of adeptness he could never achieve. She uses her new body's strength and her soul's speed to spin the flail around herself more than fifty times per second. Mjolnir spins so rapidly that it becomes a blur of movement on both her right and left, almost like a wildly oversized nunchaku.

While she might only wield the power of a Duke's body, which also constrains the power of her soul and magic to a Duke's level, that does not limit Ose in the way it would most other demons. Bael's body alone, an invincible war machine that no Demon Emperor would ever want to fight, becomes even more frightening when combined with Ose's lightning powers.

"All of you, stay out of my way!" Ose roars. "This Cherubiim is MINE!"

An instant later, Ose vanishes as she activates her signature Lightning Dash, moving herself in a straight line at the speed of light.

Only Michael, the Archangel with the fastest eyes, possesses the ability to barely follow her movements. He immediately seizes control of the Cherubiim's body, while his brother and sister resume controlling the primordial phantasms.

A battle of epic scale bursts into existence.

While the other Emperors stand and stare in dumbfounded silence, Ose runs laps around the battlefield. Her body appears here and there, flickering in and out of rea

Pennywise and the Little People are with us again this evening. Penny brought her chess set, and challenged me to a game.

Now, chess was Bud’s and my thing. When he was alive, we had an ongoing tournament between the two of us, quite serious. Each time he was home on leave, we would play a single game, winner take all. Until the next time he was home. One single game, all-important.

Often late at night, when all others were asleep. No distractions. The match could go on for quite a while, each stratagem carefully considered before a piece was moved. Careful concentration,trying to gauge the other’s intent and strategy. It could go on for hours. No time limit - too important for such inconsequential considerations.

I always won in the end. Each time his promise of “Next time, Pop!” met with a confident “Sure you will, kid. Sure you will.”

Until I didn’t. The triumphant smile on his face as he leaned back with a big grin I’ll always remember. As I eventually, having no other choice, no way out, slowly and respectfully (but with a Little ill grace, and maybe a curse or two), reached over and laid my King upon his side. The student had surpassed the master at last.

It was the last time we ever played. The last time I ever played the game with anyone, that I remember. I didn’t have the heart for it anymore. The board and the pieces gathered dust upon the shelf where I had put them.

We all know that unexpected phone calls in the dark early-morning hours never portend anything good. His ship’s Master Chief telling me simply for us to “Get here as fast as you can” revealed the seriousness of the situation, with no further conversation needed. Even then it was too late. We’d never speak to Bud again. I would, in dreams. Momma has never dreamt of him. She rarely dreams. Hers a more practical nature. She has told me how she envies me that.

Penny’s Mother says she took an interest in the game several weeks ago, and has been playing ever since. It was news to me.

She was insistent. “Play me, Grandpa.”

And so, for the first time since Bud left, I sat down to a game.

I beat her easily, of course, with few moves. I was rusty, but the pieces still moved the same, and the endless possibilities still remained. Respect your elders, kid! Age and experience over youthful confidence!

She shrugged, and suggested another game. So we set the pieces once again.

She kicked my ass from the opening gambit, with a momentary hesita