It’s not about this game, it’s not about profit, it’s about EA’s and DICE’s reputation now. They have to turn this game around or they will lose a huge part of their community for a foreseeable future. They F'ed up Battlefield V, Battlefront 2, Anthem, and Battlefield 2042. It's enough.

Turning this game free 2 play is not the answer and there will be more backlash.

Abandoning this game is the worst possible thing that they can do right now.

Their only option is to fix this game. It’s easy. It’s not as hard as many of you think it is. What the playerbase wants is very straightforward, but I'm going to repeat it once more.

1. It’s boring to hear this again, but remove specialists. Bring classes back. It’s not that hard. The system is ready, it is working in Portal. You have lots of generic-looking soldier models ready. You can even put a helmet on the specialists’ heads and use them as extra models.

This is a very time-sensitive problem that needs to be fixed asap, because the moment that Season 1 goes live and you start releasing skins and uniforms for the existing Specialists, it’s irreversibly ruined.

Do you want to sell cosmetics and earn money? Do what Modern Warfare 2019 did exceptionally well. There are two different teams of characters in MW2019, and each team has several factions (replace them with classes in Battlefield). These characters don’t have any ability or superpower, but they have different looks and personalities. Sell skins and uniforms for them.

2. Put current specialists’ abilities as gadgets for different classes.

2.1. Add Riot Shield as a secondary weapon.

2.2. Add smart grenades as normal throwables.

2.3. Remove Turrets.

2.4. Remove Armor.

2.5. Remove Wallhack goggles.

2.6. Remove the ability to hack soldiers. Don’t mess with players' UI.

2.7. Remove Drone (preferably) or nerf it and add it as a gadget for the Recon class.

2.8. Add Grapple Hook and Wingsuit as a gadget for the Assault class.

2.9. Add Deployable Shield as a gadget for the Support class.

2.10. Add Falk’s healing pistol as a gadget for the Medic class.

3. Add all existing and future Portal’s weapons to the base game. It’s guerrilla warfare basically. Soldiers are fighting with any weapon they can find. They are not picky. What is the shame in using M1 Garand in the year 2042?

4. Add the Scoreboard. I’m not talking about that abomination you showed us on Twitter. Just copy-paste previous games’ scoreboards, please.

Race Information

Name: Houston Marathon

Date: Jan 16, 2022

Distance: 26.2 miles

Location: Houston Texas

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/6533903433

Goals

Pre-Training

I’m not really sure where to start this one. It’s going to be long though, so clear your schedule for the day.

I ran my last marathon at CIM in 2019. Thinking I had overcooked my training and was dealing with some bilateral quad tendonitis, I had an incredible race despite not being able to feel my quads. I took about 5 weeks off afterwards, and in that time my quads never recovered and I also had developed some back pain. At the time, my wife was in a DPT program 500 miles away, and while she couldn’t directly help me, she did confirm that this was not normal, and so I scheduled an appointment with the PT. I got an appointment at the end of January, and he told me it was just DOMS from the race and I needed to stretch and be patient. While I knew that it had never taken me so long to recover from a marathon before, I had never really dug that deep before in a race, so I took his advice. After a month or so when nothing improved, I went back to him. Still convinced that I was being a typical runner, he told me again to stretch more. He popped my back and I went on my way. Shortly after this, the COVID lockdowns happened and for months all of the non-necessary appointments were canceled. Eventually things opened enough for me to get back in, but I was still hesitant to go. Months had passed, and I still could not feel my quads, and the back pain never ended. I had tried to resume running but it was so painful. I had a hard time standing up from the toilet because my quads were so shot.

Eventually I went back in late July, and the PT did not look happy to see me. I explained to him that what was going on was not normal and I just wanted to exist without pain. I didn’t even care about running anymore. Things just hurt, all the fucking time. At this point, my wife had told me that she was very certain it was a back issue and it was just the nerves going to my quads. I expressed this concern to my PT, and he sat me down, pulled out a model of a spine, and showed me how it couldn’t possibly be that. He said there was

Qtan needed a miracle to stay in power. Outside the great dome of the galactic chambers, billions protested the government she was so desperately trying to prop up. Fiery speeches and clever human subterfuge were wreaking havoc on the entire galaxy's ability to wage war.

She had hoped the destruction of Madrius would galvanize support within the galaxy, giving them one final resolve to destroy the humans. For a time it was like this, and she used emergency powers to retain her position as the high councilor. The assault on the Trappist system was meant to both demoralize the humans and make her populace forget her scheming.

Her plans went horribly wrong the second the first glassing bolt was fired. Trappist's planets were protected by planetary shields, no bombardment could get through. Eventually, scientists figured out how to get slow-moving transport craft through the shield. Thus began the most disastrous ground invasion in all of history.

-Log Update, High Councilor Qtan, 14th day of Impeachment Hearings-

Over 5 billion troops were sent in the first wave, only 2 billion reached the surface. We kept pumping more and more resources into the planetary invasion, but the humans wouldn't give up. For the first few days we had success after success, we secured a landing zone and gained a foothold. Our troops marched through deserted street after street, the expanse of the ecumenopolis seemed overwhelmingly abandoned. After one human week, things changed.

Our troops, now numbering 50 billion began encountering stubborn militia. People decided not to leave their homes but instead to stay and fight. Their weapons vastly overpowered ours, destroying warrior and machine alike in single shots. They struck from everywhere, street corners, the tops of high-rises, in crudely armored vehicles, in the sewers, from stores, and even inside the desecrated hulks of abandoned "cars". Casualties were enormous; over 1 billion each day would perish at the hands of the militia, and yet we pushed on.

This militia got more desperate, deliberately strapping explosives to themselves, buildings, cars, destroying entire legions of infantry in single attacks. They sacrificed their own lives to buy more time for the coming storm.

On the third week, our troops had reached one of the gargantuan industrial rings of the planet-city. There, our troops were greeted with hell. Tanks, airplanes, artillery, bombs, anything you could imagine, they hit us with it, hard. Then came th

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.

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[A/N: this chapter beta-read by Lady Columbine of Mystal.]

Pete was nearly two hours into the burn, just coming up to the point where they’d initiated the turnover, when he caught the edges of the radio chatter from far ahead. He had to sift through the static put out by the sun, but what he could hear was disturbing.

“… escue Golf Niner Niner Whiskey to unidentified ship, this is a restricted through-passage area. Vacate the area immediately, over.”

“… I say again, vacate the area immediately, over.”

“… er Whiskey to Oscar Romeo Five, we have an unidentified vessel encroaching on the grazer’s through-passage line. Failing to respond to hails, no return on IFF, over.”

“… meo Five to Golf Niner Niner Whiskey, you are authorised to close with that ship immediately and remove them from the area of operations, do you copy? Over.”

“… er Whiskey copies, remove unknown ship by force. Moving to comply. Golf Niner Niner Whiskey, out.”

The radio was scratchy at best, but he could still hear the outrage in the pilot’s voice. Orbital Rescue was in the job of keeping people alive, and the last thing they needed was some idiot blundering into the middle of a delicate operation like this one. Worse, they either didn’t have a working radio, weren’t on the correct frequencies, or were choosing not to answer the calls. Keeping their IFF transponder off wouldn’t help them much if G-99-W got close enough to put a searchlight on the hull and read off their registration details that way. And once the Heavy got its clamps onto their hull and dragged them the hell out of the way, they weren’t going anywhere except where Orbital Rescue said they were going.

He hadn’t spoken much with Mik after that first conversation, wanting to conserve her radio battery (and tanked air) as much as possible. Now, he wasn’t sure if she’d heard that exchange. If she asked, he decided, he’d tell her what was going on, but otherwise he wouldn’t worry her.

The minutes crawled by, his engines thundered, and his speed steadily increased. A pair of the aux tanks went empty at the same time—this was deliberate—and used the last gasp of their fuel vapours to kick themselves away from the rescue ship in diametricall

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Race Information

• Name: California International Marathon
• Date: December 5, 2021
• Distance: 26.2 miles
• Location: Sacramento, CA
• Website: https://runsra.org/california-international-marathon/
• Time: 5:34:13
• Average pace: 12:45

Pre-race:

I'm a 37 year old guy who sits at a desk all day (CPA). I'm going to be honest, I have always thought running for the sake of running was stupid. I played soccer through college, I got really into biking and have done a century and some triathlons (in which I despised the running portion), but I haven't run (or done any exercise) consistently for a decade. A marathon is just something that's been on my list and last time a tried training (a decade ago) I found out that I had a partially torn ACL from sometime when I played soccer. When the pandemic hit, the last thing I wanted to do was run. I started running 16 weeks ago with the specific goal of doing a marathon to check the box and be done and go back to biking or swimming. I used the generic plan from runners world and signed up. My first run in training, I lasted 5 minutes before I needed to walk. In preparation, I ran two Halfs and a 30k. Somehow this sport has me addicted and I've had a blast since my first Half in week 8.

One pre-race anecdote that saved my race. I have a friend who is a runner who said his mom used to do marathons. He asked if I wanted to ask her for any advice. I said sure, and while I had learned a good bit of it prior, the big thing she said was make sure to sleep well two nights before the race. I had planned on staying up late two nights before so I would be tired enough to sleep the night before. I'm not above getting good advice from someone who's done it before me, so I slept like a baby two nights before, no big deal. So night before I get in bed at 7:15, have an Epsom salt bath and I take my melatonin and I'm ready for a good night slee

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 😂

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

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Hiya peeps,

I thought I'd write up a little piece about warnings that I look out for in companies – 'red flags' if you will. These are issues I've seen in my few years of investing that make me look a little deeper into the company to assess risk.

Finding a red flag in a company doesn't necessarily render the investment as 'bad'. However, I've often found other governance concerns when digging a little deeper. These red flags are not always waved in your face, some are easier than others to spot – this is our job when diligently following companies to assess risk profile. Although undesirable when they appear in long term investments, these red flags can also land the company in a trading suspension, locking trader's capital away.

I've provided a few examples of companies below that I see displaying red flags.

I'm not recommending you sell (or buy, for that matter autists) any of the companies mentioned. I'm simply suggesting that when you spot a red flag, it can warrant further investigation.

When you see more red flags associated with a company than in a North Korean parade, take your money and run…

Usual disclaimers: NFA, DYOR, IMO, NFI.

So, what are some red flags we should be looking out for?

Red flag 1: A company fails to disclose information in a timely manner (or at all)

The most important requirement of listed companies on the ASX is 'continuous disclosure': timely and accurate release of information to the market that may be expected to have an impact on its share price or value.

Sounds simple right?

ASX publishes a 90-page guidance doc that can help with interpreting disclosure rules.

Quite simply, investors in a company expect (and have a right) to know about information that can (or will) affect the value of their shares. Without full and timely disclosure, the integrity of the whole market suffers (i.e. it becomes an uneven playing field).

If the company doesn't disclose information, how would we even know about it?

Sometimes it gets found out through later announcements, where the timing or sequence of events doesn't quite line up, or the company has twisted it's tales into a knot that can't be undone easily. Information can also be extracted from the company through an ASX query (as in our example below).

*Example

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Ahead of the notes going on our official channels, here's what to expect in terms of fixes and improvements:

• Roll Off is BACK! Fixed players’ jumps failing after 'tripping' over platform edges
• Fixed spectator mode not automatically panning to Party Members
• Fixed players being momentarily pulled back on the Fruit Chute conveyor belt (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Fixed Flippers not flipping multiple players on levels such as Tundra Run and Short Circuit (I find this very exciting)
• Fixed controllers not vibrating during the countdown (!!!!!)
• Fixed Round Over banner’s missing SFX
• Fixed Crown Rank appearing blank for players in the Main Menu after winning a game
• Fixed Main Show loading players into uneven Team Games
• Fixed audio not changing upon player entering a gravity zone
• Fixed VFX not appearing after scoring a point in Basketfall
• Fixed the ‘Ready’ and ‘Not Ready’ colours being inverted for players in a Party
• Fixed Squad mates not being highlighted pink in the Fall Feed for some players
• Fixed the Default Nameplate displaying on players profiles in the Customiser instead of their selected Nameplate
• Fixed the Season Progress bar appearing above gameplay occasionally for players
• Fixed issue where players could ‘play dead’ during tail tag to avoid being grabbed

When the launch is live, these issues will be moved to Fixed from Fixed Pending on our public-facing issue tracker.

For all outstanding issues or anything you wish to report outside of list list, please continue using our Support Page: https://support.fallguys.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

You are still free to post it here still but it is important to use our official Support Channels to ensure bugs can be tracked and quantified for things like repro rates, impact, and beyond. I will endeavour to help - especially if you see something urgent, still feel free to reach out here!

Season 6

You'll be getting an update today at around 13:00 GMT but this does not mean you will see new content immediately as the build changes over time. When you get the update, please don't be alarmed if you see Season 5 content for a short while!

I'll post a megathread a few hours later with a link to these bugfixes again, new content, and we can use that for further S6 chats! This post will be stickied until then - I will swap the stickies around when the time comes.

I'm pumped, we're all really excited to bring you all this seaso

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

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Chapter 102 [Knight Scout Celine]

Flying high above the treetops, Celine could only watch in horror as the Captain was killed. The wind hid her gasp, and if not for her connection to Mimi, she just might have tried to do something about this, to help, but...

“Whatever you do, do not lose sight of White Claw. Do not engage either, keep your distance.”

The telepathic order was clear, and it revolted her. “She’s going to kill them all.”

“And if you engage, you’ll die along with them.”

Cold and loathsome, the order went against everything Celine had ever believed in.

And in her horror at the unfolding massacre, she’d nearly missed the singular other sign of life in the area. It had been because the source had been so weak, so meager, barely invisible in contrast to the thick elemental energy in the air.

A human, one whose aura was no more than a flicker in the darkness.

Celine’s mind surged at this, shifting her position to get a better view from above while making sure to keep White Claw within her line of sight at all times.

The human didn’t just have a weaker aura, he was weakened, greatly. It was hard to discern from up above, but it was a male, and he’d collapsed, either unconscious or close to it. She hadn’t seen any attack going in that direction, had the human been hit by collateral?

“KILL HIM!”

The mental screech rattled Celine’s brain, she’d nearly folded her wings and dove, but held off as she realized how close she was to White Claw’s location. “What?”

“That has to be the human White Claw’s bonded to! Kill him now! The shock should push White Claw into a blind rage! Capturing her would be a far easier task then!”

The glow in her wing’s stuttered as she turned to refocus on the bunker that had been intended to protect the rest of squad two and was now their final place of rest. Could they even stop White Claw anymore? The other squads were weakened, retreat should be-.

“She’s exhausted and pushing her limit, now’s our chance. Quickly! The Baron commands it!”

That locked it, pushing aside her hesitation, the angel shifted her attention towards the human. He was barely alive, finishing him off shouldn’t be hard. She removed her light she’d been beaming down at White

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

It really does, I swear!